A staunch voice for the people and the communities of Vancouver Island has gone quiet.
JR Rardon, the editor of the Parksville Qualicum Beach NEWS and a longtime Vancouver Island journalist, died in his Alberni Valley home in the early hours of May 22 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 61.
NEWS publisher Peter McCully, who promoted him from reporter to editor in 2017, remembers a bottomless camera bag, and a bottomless well of love for people and communities and the chance to tell their stories.
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