BC Street in the Richmond O Zone brings the province’s communities to the world
If you visit BC Street in the Richmond O Zone, you’re going to meet some entertaining characters.
For instance, there’s Mike Puhallo, the cowboy poet from Kamloops who has written six books of poetry and writes a popular Meadow Muffins column for three regional papers.
He said he’s “just a country poet not prone to fancy verse” and his tales are “plain and honest” like the “children of the soil — farmers, ranchers and cowboys — whose work is honest toil.”
Cowboy Mike said his poems aren’t read in “fancy theatres where they shed champagne and wine,” so he’s completely at ease entertaining folk at the little tent village that is BC Street in the parking lot next to Richmond’s city hall on No. 3 Road.
Monk, a collaborative artist, is another personality on the street. Her real name is Penelope Linda Hiebert, from Vancouver Island, and she spends a lot time painting in Cathedral Grove outside Parksville.
Monk loves to let people help her paint pictures. One of her works involved a single-brush stroke contribution from more than 2,000 children.
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