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Jessica Fellowes loved everything about the hit television show Downton Abbey: the costumes, the characters, the time period. Some may argue that she had to. Her uncle, Julian Fellowes, wrote it. “While he was writing it, I remember him telling me ab...

Pauletta Francis has an uplifting message for her students at Elliot Primary School every day. It’s been her practice to have her primary five class use words such as “smart” and “strong” to describe themselves. She’s so confident about the effect th...

Carla May Bean had big plans for her 40th birthday. She was going to Jamaica, where she’d party the night away with some of her best girlfriends. Instead, when December 3, 2014 rolled around, she was here. Doctors had found a small, but aggressive t...

Sally Perinchief was in her twenties when she started volunteering at Packwood Home. Sixty years later, she’s the same age as many of the residents — and still helping. “I turned 83 last week,” she said. “I can’t believe it.” She was asked to join a ...

Barbara Lambert had always loved children and prayed for a big family. Still, she wasn’t quite expecting to have 13. “When I prayed I didn’t mean that many,” the 90-year-old laughed. As it turned out, however, having a large family was a blessing for...

Christine Whitestone’s biggest thrill about being cast in Back Words, was that she was playing an actual human. She played a parrot in last year’s pantomime, Treasure Island. Although she moved around a lot, her time on stage was brief and she didn’t...

In high school, Kristen Carreiro was teased endlessly about her thinness. The other children called her “Toothpick”. It was only as she grew older and started modelling that she learnt to love her body. “It’s our quirks that make us unique,” said th...

Jacqueline Murray-Hall is really proud to see her artwork hanging on the wall at Masterworks and even prouder to see her son’s artwork hanging next to it. The 80-year-old and her son Miles Murray-Hall are making Masterworks history as the first mothe...

Denise Richardson starts every morning thanking God for another day. The 54-year-old has been battling cancer, on and off, for five years. “Every day I wake up is a good day,” Ms Richardson said. “If I don’t feel well when I wake up, then that is wh...

Martin Brewer has two seismographs in his home. It’s not often that it happens but when the Earth shakes, people call him. “One time I was having lunch in town,” said Dr Brewer. “Journalist Brian Darby turned up. He’d tracked me down. He said I had...