Anne Davis

Volunteer Since: September 1998

Anne Davis is a partner, mom, farmer and physician. Anne’s passion is the environment, healthy people and a healthy planet.

Her very special place is her farm, this place of gratitude. Especially the native prairie - where Anne really feels the earth under her feet; and the wind ....in her hair!. And the trees that her grandfather and then her mom planted - where she really feels sheltered and sees the abundance! Anne’s farm is her only nucleus, only the inner part of her special place! For beyond, is the land of southwest Saskatchewan ...this place that Anne loves and appreciates more and more as time goes on.

Anne enjoys when the EAC sit at a meeting and everyone gets brainstorming together and wonderful ideas are born! She enjoys the annual Stegner Dinner/Celebration events - so satisfying to have a fun successful evening, but perhaps best of all is when its all done and everything is put away and the floors swept and then we stand around drink more wine and eat left over home-baked bread and butter!

Laurie Laird

Volunteer Since: October 2010

Laurie Laird lives in Eastend and is a school librarian at Eastend School, which she loves as she works with kids, computers, and gets to read books at work. Laurie enjoys working in her yard and spending time with her children in Calgary. She loves her backyard as the river runs by and it is a peaceful place.

Laurie was invited to a EAC meeting and decided this was work she was interested in doing. She wanted to facilitate artistic events. She enjoys the art shows we’ve had and likes the other people on the Arts Council. It is important to host events for the community to experience different cultural events. Covid has curtailed our events, but EAC will definitely hold more in the future! 

Laurie thinks a lot of people have enjoyed the variety of artists we have brought into the community.  The Missoula Children's Theatre has provided many children with the opportunity to act in a play and continue on a yearly basis, some from kindergarten to grade 12.

Shelley Morvik

Volunteer Since: October 1987

Shelley Morvik is a retired high school teacher. She enjoys substitute teaching which allows her to stay somewhat connected to one of her passions, education. Shelley is passionate about her life on the ranch, raising quality beef cattle, and doing yard work. She really enjoys both her vegetable gardens and her flower beds. The best times for Shelley are the ones spent enjoying time with my family. She loves the history and beauty of the land that is part of her family ranch, Riversbend Farm. The Frenchmen River curls around the flats where Shelley lives and winters her cattle. The NWMP Trail marker that sits at the corner of our lane is a reminder of Canadian history post English and French contact, while the tipi rings topping the hills just above that marker preserve the history of the First Peoples of our land.

Shelley joined the EAC when she was the “new ELA teacher” in town. She believed that by taking part in this community group she could continue her own education and in so doing benefit her students. This certainly turned out to be the case. She also knew that this group ran a program that brought the arts to children in the community and she saw great value in that. Today, Shelley continues with her work on the arts council because she has seen the positive impact the EAC has had on our amazing community.

The Wallace Stegner House plays such an important role for the community. It brings new people and new ideas to our town. So many of the residents of the house have given so much back to our town. The residents volunteer to host art events, they often give workshops in the school, they make lifelong friends in our community and they help to put Eastend on the map.

Linda Wig

Volunteer Since: October 2001

As Linda walks in this beautiful world she’s on the lookout for joy. Linda Wig a fisherman's daughter married to a man of the land. After retiring from a variety of off-farm employment, she enjoys her support staff position as gopher, chauffeur & chef on our farm 16 km SE of town.

About 20 years ago Linda first volunteered on the committee responsible for bringing Missoula Children's Theatre to town. She looks forward to each successive Children's Theatre production, to facilitating performances by visiting artists and to continuing to work together with her valued friends on EAC.

What is a favourite experience being on EAC? Being witness to children growing up onstage, discovering gifts they and their families didn't know existed, and the treat of having a Gr. 12 student decide to accompany instead of participate onstage their final year of Missoula Children's Theatre in Eastend.

Ethel Wills

Volunteer Since: 1992

Ethel and Ken have been looking after greeting residents at the Stegner House for many years.