Deep Cove Crier Archive

Deep Cove is roaring with support from two local Lions clubs. Chartered in 1966, the Mount Seymour Lions Club has given back to many local individuals, families and organizations over the years, dispensing more than $2-million to the community.

The Deep Cove Crier was launched in February 1988 as a fundraiser for the Seycove Secondary band. The idea being, if selling ads to promote the band was successful then it would become a monthly.

I will never forget when Wilf Fawcett told me about Bruce Coney, the dynamic founder and publisher of the Crier. When I first met Bruce for coffee, he mentioned that his mom, while visiting from South Africa, had attended St. Simon’s and enjoyed it.

The Crier is the little newspaper that could! How fortunate are we, in the Seymour area, to have a physical newspaper to call our own. A beacon for the accomplishments of all of us.

Our seniors' columnist, Shelley Harrison Rae, sat down with former Crier travel columnist, Janet Pavlik, for a catch-up in the Cove recently.

Congratulations to the Deep Cove Crier on its 30th anniversary of publication.

The world needs more leaders like Leonard George. George was a visionary and tireless advocate for the advancement of First Nations peoples. We need to pick up where George left off and continue to empower Indigenous youth.

In his new book, Charred Horses , released in December, longtime Deep Cove resident and poet Jon Ferry, a self-described “controversial” former Province newspaper columnist, uses the haunting image of horses burned to death in a B.C.

Curator/director Sarah Cavanaugh (left), who led the Seymour Art Gallery for more than seven years, has taken a new position as a community arts programmer at Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver.

Avid birder and photographer Rob Alexander snapped this photo of a varied thrush male munching on winter berries at Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in December.