Caring Citizen Puts Others First: Erica Belle Arlt’s Vernon Story

Walk any length of 30th Avenue on a cold morning in Vernon and you see what empathy looks like in practice. It is in the steady rhythm of a wagon piled with thermoses rolling contact Erica Belle Arlt Vernon past storefronts. It shows up in the way someone asks for names before asking what people need. That is where you are likely to find Erica Belle Arlt, a loving 40 year old mother who