I’m washing smoke from my kids’ summer clothes after our holiday travels. I sink raincoats into a soapy bucket and watch the water swirl and turn grey with the charcoal smoke of family barbeques and campfires. It makes me smile at the memories, but of course there has been worse smoke in the air, too,…
When 19-year-old B.C. wildfire fighter Devyn Gale died on the job in July 2023, it hit Ella Ringma, Sarah Phangura and Lucy Roseboom, all members of Terrace Christian Reformed Church (CRC), especially hard. Their kids are also wildfire fighters. “It made it real for our kids too, because this girl was their age. She was…
“How was your summer?” is a common enough autumnal question. For the residents of Kelowna, B.C. or Yellowknife, N.W.T the answer might well be “Horrific!” People as far afield as northern Quebec, Greece, Spain, Hawaii or the southern parts of the United States could be expected to reply in similar ways. Wildfires appear to be…
For the past few months, fires have ravaged my home province of Alberta. For weeks, all we could smell was smoke. For weeks, we wondered if we would be the next ones to evacuate our homes. And now, the rain is finally falling. Heavy, heavy rain, days of rain, washing away the fire, the smoke,…
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