Month: May 2017

Des Kennedy, an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author and environmental activist, has written to MLHS with a letter of support for saving Shakesides. Kennedy is the author of four books of essays including a memoir, “The Passionate Gardener”, and three novels including “Climbing Patrick’s Mountain”. DesKennedyLetterMay2017 -30-

Artist Robert Bateman has sent a strong message of censure to the Town of Comox, which has now sent a petition to the BC Superme Court to overturn the Mack Laing Trust and demolish Shakesides, the house naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing built in 1950. Bateman, who has been aware of the campaigns by the Mack…