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Award-Winning Songwriter Terra Spencer & Parksville's Volunteer Firefighter Recruitment
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(19:00 ) Terra Spencer, 2025 Music Nova Scotia Entertainer of the Year, shares her remarkable journey from funeral director to folk musician. The singer-songwriter discusses her album Sunset, which explores love's arc from beginning to end, and her collaborations with Canadian folk legends David Francey and Stephen Fearing. Spencer reveals how working with grieving families in Nova Scotia influenced her intimate songwriting style. The Interview contains the song “East to West”with Stephen Fearing of Victoria. Spencer is playing Parksville & Quadra Island: https://terraspencer.ca
(07:30) Assistant Fire Chief Cam Cruikshank discusses Parksville Fire Department's volunteer firefighter recruitment program. The department has 42 dedicated on-call members serving the Parksville area. Cruikshank explains the comprehensive six-month training process for volunteer firefighters and reveals how local mid-Vancouver Island businesses support their employees who balance emergency response with regular employment. More at: https://www.parksvillefirerescue.ca
Episode Quotes:
"I didn't expect to be a funeral director either. Got recruited because I was hired on as the organist a long while back... If you want to learn about human relationships and the gamut of emotions, that's one fast way to do it." --- Terra Spencer
"One thing that we always hear from our members is that they don't realize how rewarding it is, especially when you work in your community as a volunteer firefighter. You get to know a lot of people, your friends and neighbours, and then a chance to give back." --- Cam Cruikshank, Parksville Fire Department
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