The Flying Brewer of Hornby Island
Meet Bree Stotts, BC Air Ambulance pilot and founder of Hornby Island Brewing in this in-depth article and the brewery and how it came to be.
“Standby. I think we have a call. Crew coming from Children’s. 45 minutes out.”
I’ve just passed through downtown Vancouver on my way to meet Bree Stotts—a woman who lives two divergent but overlapping lives—when I receive the text. I pull over to check my GPS. “I’m 20 minutes away. Could I watch you lift off?”
I pull up at the Helijet base at Vancouver International Airport’s South Terminal in time to join Stotts as she strides out to the helipad in a reflective safety vest, calmly preparing for her day job as a BC Air Ambulance pilot. Stotts and the infant transport team are en route to Powell River, B.C., to shuttle a baby in distress to BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
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