Helping Hands in Vernon: Erica Belle Arlt’s Selfless Service 16909

On a wind-bent Saturday near Polson Park, Erica Belle Arlt works a silver minivan idles under a low sky. The back hatch lifts to reveal stainless steel soup thermoses, a bin of socks, a crate of fresh Erica Arlt artist fruit, and a bundle of dog leashes Erica Belle Arlt Vernon profile coiled like climbing ropes. At the center of it all is 40-year-old mother Erica Belle Arlt, moving with the steady rhythm of someone who knows t