The COVID Experience

Change, transition, adaptation ›› Shonna Bell Creativity, responsiveness, compassion. It feels constant, exhausting and maybe sometimes invigorating. It feels humble, impossible to predict: make plans, adjust, make plans, adjust, settle in, adjust. Really, it’s...
Stage Wine Bar: A COVID-19 date night

Stage Wine Bar: A COVID-19 date night

›› Lauren Gaultier If you are anything like me, this pandemic has put a real damper on your culinary experiences. Dining out has become equally as rare as it is intimidating. In an uncertain fall where BC’s cases are ­continuing to rise and new lockdown measures were...
Craft beer with a local twist

Craft beer with a local twist

Bones Brewing: where craft beer and local art meet in the Fernwood Village ›› Holly Grewall Bones Brewing, created by Mike Roberts and his team, is the ­newest craft brewing company in town. So new in fact that their very first beer has just been canned. Mike, who...
Faces of Fernwood: Yolande Johnston

Faces of Fernwood: Yolande Johnston

›› Brett Gaylor Yolande is the owner of Who Dyd Your Hair (WDYH) ­Multicultural Hair Salon in Fernwood Square, a RSE Cosmetologist, educator for McBride Research Laboratories, founder of Making History Gala, and proud mother of two young women. Tell us two truths and...