Shae and Tianna, are both kinesiology students in their last year at VIU. They are busy girls. Besides being full time students, they also run their own fitness company, Vera Fitness in Parksville. Shae also works at a Physiotherapy clinic in Parksville. Even though they are...
By Deb Crosby, ICCS Volunteer Writer I admire people with certain qualities; honesty, kindness, compassion, generosity, strength, intelligence, perseverance, resilience, resourcefulness and a zest for life and learning. Recently, I was privileged to interview a young woman named Bev, who embodied them all! Despite a busy schedule,...
Andrew, our volunteer of the month, has been helping out with grocery deliveries to Crescent House, since fall last year. As retired Director of Planning for the City of Nanaimo he saw the issues around homelessness from a professional perspective. Now that Covid has ended,...
Meet Heather, our Island Crisis Care Society “Volunteer of the Month.” Heather grew up in the Edson and Hinton areas of Alberta. The daughter of two teachers who were “amateur naturalists,” she spent much of her childhood outdoors. Her parents’ Christian faith was also modeled...
By Sheila Backman, ICCS Volunteer Writer Sometimes there is a stereotype about the people who populate ICCS programs. One of the realities we see every day, though, is that stereotypes are rarely realities. Each of the clients in our programs is a unique individual, with their...