Vicki Dutton, Board Member

I spent 25 years working for daily newspapers, first at The Globe and Mail while a journalism student at Ryerson University. Upon graduation, I moved from my birthplace in rural Quebec to work at The Regina Leader-Post. Then came a move to The Edmonton Sun before settling in the Sooke area to work at The Times Colonist (TC) in Victoria. Ian and I married in 1981 and we welcomed two baby girls in 1985. 

After a leave in 2004, which we spent at our Pender cottage on Pender, a house we floated over in 2001 to replace a rickety structure we had used for 10 years as weekenders, we moved permanently. We chose Pender Island because it had two things: a health-care facility and a golf course. On our first weekend here, I was up at 6 a.m., loading up kids, dog, and husband to go to the clinic to deal with Ian’s sudden kidney stone.

I am on the board of The Pender Post and Ptarmigan Arts, enjoy my book club and play in PIJazz. In my other life, I served on the board of Threshold Housing Society in Victoria, helping establish its first housing for troubled youth.