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New South End Celebrities……:)

Posted in Community Member Profiles, tagged on March 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Nanaimo’s enticing weather helped couple make decision to move here

Nanaimo Daily News
Mar 18 2013

On their 25th wedding anniversary, Calgary retailer Catherine Bezooyen and her architect husband, Paul, decided they wanted more out of life. They quit their jobs, sold their home and on a “leap of faith,” moved to Nanaimo. Six years later, the couple…read more…

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Centre Stage will get $160K in Renos

Posted in Community Member Profiles, Neighbourhood Issues, tagged , on March 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Centre Stage will get $160K in renos
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Nanaimo Daily News
12 Mar 2013

Nanaimo Centre Stage will get $160,000 in renovation work to replace stucco wall cladding on the side of the building fronting Nicol Street, as well as other repairs to its brick veneer and chimney, council decided Monday night. The motion passed by a…read more…

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Longtime volunteer MacKay-Ross dies

Posted in Community Member Profiles on February 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Robert Barron, Daily News, Published: Friday, February 01, 2013

Muriel MacKay-Ross, a long-time volunteer dedicated to making Nanaimo a better place to live, died peacefully last week at the age of 90.

Click here to read the whole article.

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Character of the city’s south end proved attractive for consultant

Posted in Community Member Profiles, Neighbourhood Flavour on October 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Character of the city’s south end proved attractive for consultant

David Scott and his wife moved to Nanaimo from Vancouver four years ago

Julie McManus, The Daily News

Published: Saturday, October 06, 2012

The first article in a series featuring people who have chosen to move to Nanaimo features a proud South Ender.  Read the whole story here.

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Farewell, Arlene

Posted in Community Member Profiles, Deverill Park, Neighbourhood Issues, Uncategorized, untagged on July 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Arlene, who started standing on the corner of Milton and Haliburton around 3 years ago, moved from Nanaimo the past week.  She initially played a daring and controversial role in cleaning up that intersection as well as Cinderella Lane (which is looking right now more like one of the ugly step-sisters…:(

Good luck, Arlene, and happy travels in life.

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Peter Presotto

Posted in Community Member Profiles on April 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Peter Presotto December 17,  1935 – April 23, 2012

Sad new to pass along that Peter Presotto, long time SECA member, friend and neighbour passed away on April 23rd at NRGH at the age of 77.  Peter hadn’t been well for the past couple of years and wasn’t able to participate in SECA activities as much as he would have liked.

Peter Presotto was a really lovely man and a wonderful south end citizen.  He was a passionate supporter of our association and dedicated countless hours to supporting the association and participating in our efforts to strengthen and improve the neighborhood.

He was an impeccable SECA Treasurer for many years, fund raised for the Miners Picnic for most of the past 20 years, (we call his list of donating businesses, “Peter’s List”), was instrumental in the development of the Chase River Estuary Park, (we’ll be thinking of Peter tomorrow at our annual Estuary Park Day), turned up for all the meetings and events and generally helped out in any way he could.

If you wanted to describe a model member of a local community association, Peter Presotto would be as good an example as you could find.

Our love and very best wishes to Peter’s wife Vilma.

Peter’s funeral will be held at St Peter’s church, Fitzwilliam Street on Monday, April 30, at 10.30am.

All are welcome.

Douglas Hardie

SECA Chair

 

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Community Beat: Food-furniture combo making life a treat for south-end woman

Posted in Community Member Profiles, Neighbourhood Flavour on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Community Beat: Food-furniture combo making life a treat for south-end woman

Sandy Kosolowsky operates popular Ukrainian kitchen and second-hand shop

Krista Bryce, The Daily News

Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012

The sun seeps through the small windows at Sandy’s Ukrainian Kitchen and Deli on Nicol Street in the late morning, where owner Sandy Kosolowsky and work partner Colleen Vanwicklin sit in their matching black shirts and red aprons.

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Who is this Hidden Hero?

Posted in Community Member Profiles, Neighbourhood Flavour on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The South End is the kind of neighbourhood where folks naturally help out. Often without fanfare, without recognition.

And yup, this is one of them.

Now we’re going to have a little contest here.  The person who can correctly guess the identity of this hidden hero will win a  jar of the highly coveted ginger pear chutney made this fall by Madilynn Rotar (from R-U Computing) and me.

Just post your answer in the comments below (click “comments” and up pops the box).  When we get the right answer, we’ll post it.  If no one gueses correctly, well, then, it will remain one of life’s sweet mysteries…:)

I will give you ONE hint and that’s it.   Given all the talk about art bin garbage dumpers, this hero has access to industrial bin and helps out by taking extra garbage along with him/her, as needed.  As small an action as it may seem, s/he has made a BIG difference!

Barbara Densmore

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