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"Life on Gabriola: Reflections on Health and Well-being," Episodes 9 & 10: "Kingcome Inlet to Gabriola" and "Cooking Up Community"
In Episode 9 of People for a Healthy Community's "Life on Gabriola: Reflections on Health and Well-being," we meet Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw elder and carver David Robertson, who recalls the remote community he grew up in and the lessons in living he learned there. "Anybody needs salt, we were there. Anybody needs food, we were there for them."
Food brings people together in the final episode of the series as well. In "Cooking Up Community," PHC's Community Cooking Clubs get together to create both meals and connection.
Project coordinator Dinah Dee explains that while the clubs were originally intended for people living alone, it turned out "that not everybody that lives alone is lonely." So instead they were broadened to include those who "recognize that they belong in a cooking club not necessarily because they're lonely or alone but they just want community."
A group for women was followed by another for men, and made for some interesting differences in dynamics -- as evidenced in the video!
Life on Gabriola TV has been delighted to bring further attention to this fun and thoughtful series, which was first released by People for a Healthy Community in August. Special thanks to PHC executive director Brenda Fowler for suggesting the idea, and to series producer Sharon Kravitz and all the videographers and editors.
To learn more about PHC's many programs, visit https://www.phcgabriola.org/ or its Facebook page at
or on its Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/peopleforahealthycommunity.
Life on Gabriola TV is generously sponsored by:
The Gabriola Arts Council https://artsgabriola.ca/
The Haven, Gabriola Island https://haven.ca/
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