D. A. Sandy Coverett

Having been raised in a Bap­tist fam­i­ly in Galt, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da, Sandy mar­ried Els­peth (née Drink­wa­ter) of Pres­ton, On­tar­io, in 1963, and has two grown child­ren. Af­ter sev­er­al years in in­dus­try and man­age­ment po­si­tions, San­dy be­gan stu­dies for and train­ing in pas­tor­al min­is­try. Fol­low­ing a ser­ies of health prob­lems that pre­clud­ed con­tin­u­ing to­ward min­is­try as a vo­ca­tion, he felt led to be­come an el­e­ment­a­ry school teach­er, with a spe­cial af­fin­i­ty for "dif­fi­cult" stu­dents, both in se­gre­gat­ed class­rooms, and in the reg­u­lar class­es in the sys­tem. He de­vot­ed much time to Chris­tian camp­ing for child­ren and young peo­ple, as well as other in­volve­ment in church af­fairs. He as had a life-long love af­fair with the Eng­lish lan­guage, par­ti­cu­lar­ly po­e­try and the beau­ti­ful old hymn tunes of the church. As of 2006, he and his wife were liv­ing in Vic­tor­ia, Bri­tish Co­lum­bia. A self-de­scribed "word­smith," he en­joys writ­ing of any kind that serves a pur­pose, and al­so dab­bles with graph­ic arts for non­prof­it pur­pos­es.

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