In the Community

Most people count a lush green lawn as necessary for a complete home, but Powell River resident Teresa Dingwell has other ideas for her property in Westview. Instead, she and her husband Kerry have created a rock garden in their front yard.

For painters, every piece of work starts with a fresh canvas. Gardening, on the other hand, is one art form where we seldom get to start from scratch. We generally stumble into spring with the results of last season’s garden to deal with.

What better way to spring into this season than planting seeds? And what better place than a greenhouse? If you don't have access to one there are many great hacks that can get Powell River area residents growing in no time.

Garden now and reap the rewards later in the year

Wet and chilly winter days have come to an end in beautiful and active Powell River. While we've been hibernating, extra clutter slipped in, making spring cleaning look challenging to deal with.

Here are the events coming up Around Powell River: Thursday, March 28 Sunset Wheelers 4x4 group meets on the last Thursday of every month at 7 pm at Paparazzi Pizza. Saturday, April 6 Powell River Garden Club presents a special speaker Dr.

Dry grad committee delivers toilet lawn ornament to homes and businesses

COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Shoppers Drug Mart staff members [from left] Lindsay Zakkour, Susan Monk, owner Andrew Fong and [from right] Laura Adams, Corinne Franklin and Tracy Kenmuir recently presented Powell River Transition House Society executive directo

Powell River Orphaned Wildlife Society sends poisoned owl to Orphan Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta

To the delight of many, recycling depots across BC started collecting a new category of plastics last June. Overnight, all that packaging we didn’t know what to do with suddenly had a place to go other than a landfill.