Editor's Note: Odette Auger is an employee of The Watershed Sentinel. 

For over 25 years, The Watershed Sentinel has served its readers in British Columbia. It began as a community newsletter on Cortes Island and grew to be an an award winning environmental magazine. 

CKTZ News spoke with founder Delores Broten about the magazine's story and about her partner in life and work, Don Malcolm. 

Working side by side as co-founders of the magazine, their relationship over the decades ran parallel to the growth of Watershed Sentinel. 

Don Malcolm. Photo courtesy of Delores Broten.

Years ago, Don was diagnosed with dementia. He had this poem printed on business cards that he handed out to everyone he met as his way of contributing to a better world:

"Family of Strangers In this humanity, 

In which we all live, 

We are all A part of each other. 

What a wonderful world We will inherit, 

When we recognize ourselves When we meet. 

Don Malcolm, 2009"

This fall, on Sept. 23, Don passed away in Comox, BC.

Delores and his loved ones pass on gratitude to all the wonderful caregivers along this path he travelled.

Donations in memory may be made to the Tow-Tun Le Lum Society (www.tsowtunlelum.org) or Comox Valley Health Care Foundation for The Views (www.cvhealthcarefoundation.com)

Delores and Don is funded through the Local Journalism Initiative through the Community Radio Fund of Canada. This story aired on CKTZ Cortes Community Radio. 

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