FEATURE
DVERTISING ALUMNA Lorri-Ann Champagne was born with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. In spite of these obstacles, LORRI-ANN CHAMPAGNE EC Magazine gets the chance to talk with Lorri-Ann Champagne and sharing an article from georgiancollege.ca about her being an advertising alumna and author of a series of sweeping epic tales. A
she returned to school as a mature student and graduated from Georgian with honours at the age of 34. Lorri-Ann later became a mother and grandmother and for five years was the volunteer head of the public relations auxiliary at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre until she was no longer able to perform her job due to her illness. It was during this time that Lorri-Ann thought about writing a novel – a long-held dream of hers. She had so many ideas swimming in her head, she decided instead to write a sweeping epic story. Lorri-Ann started writing the Common Threads trilogy nine years ago. The story takes place in Africa, Scotland and on Southern Ontario farmland in the 1850s and focuses on one family’s tale of overcoming challenges, obstacles and slavery to become the owners of one of the largest potato farms in Canada. The story spans multiple generations. Lorri-Ann says she was inspired to pen the tale after facing difficulties in her own life, and her parent’s insistence that she could do anything an able-bodied person could
THIS PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT During Lorri-Ann’s long- term care years in 1985. They had no pandemic but had a tornado. Thankfully, no deaths; Lorri-Ann at age five, taken 1967. Her only photo with Santa; Beverlee’s graduation picture from 1999. Now, a mom and a grandma.
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