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

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