The
Best Coast Group
Halifax, Nova Scotia
What's in a name? In our case, more than
a play on words. We could live elsewhere, and probably command higher
fees for our services.
But we want to live here. Atlantic Canada. The Best Coast.
Richard Levangie runs The Best Coast Group, in partnership with Kristina
Robinson. They are now seeking out talented people in a variety of
fields so that The Best Coast Group can be a one-stop shop for all
your new media and promotional needs.
After graduating from Dalhousie University with a science degree in
1981, Levangie spent close to a decade in the hospitality and wine
industries, managing several notable Halifax dining rooms, and running
his own wine importing and consulting agency.
In 1989, Levangie returned to school, graduating from the University
of King's College with a bachelor of journalism degree. He was awarded
the Governor-General's Medal for academic achievement and student leadership.
Over the next four years, he wrote weekly wine and food columns, and
arts and health features for The Halifax Daily News.
Since then, he's worked as a freelance writer based in Halifax. He
is one of a handful of Canadian wine writers who has helped the Department
of External Affairs in Ottawa choose the Canadian wines that are served
in our embassies abroad.
Levangie, 47, has published articles in most major Canadian newspapers,
including The Montréal Gazette, The Vancouver Sun, The
Globe and Mail, The Mail Star, and The Saint John Telegraph-Journal.
He's also taught classes on writing to high school students through
Nova
Scotia's Writers in
the Schools program.
Richard Levangie
In addition
to his newspaper work, he has also reviewed restaurants for enRoute,
Air Canada's in-flight magazine, and written articles
for (Britain's) WINE magazine, Wine Access, The
Crafts Report and Dalhousie-The
Alumni Magazine. He has also sold two travel features and
eight shorter literary essays to Endless Vacation — a
U.S. travel magazine with more than 1.5 million readers — that
have promoted
tourism in Atlantic Canada.
Just one of these travel features was estimated to have boosted
Nova Scotia's tourism business that year by $20 million.
His article, Sickness or Sham, on his personal struggle
to overcome environmental illness, won a national writing award
from the Council
for the Advancement of Education, while about a dozen stories have
been nominated for national and international writing awards by
various editors.
Richard can usually be found in a karate dojo when he's not in
front of his computer. He is president of the university-based
Halifax-JKA,
one of eastern Canada's largest martial arts organizations. He
runs the club's youth program, and hopes to expand this year's
program to
include classes on solving conflict peacefully.
He lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
At 23 years of age, Kristina Robinson should be figuring out what
she wants to do in life. Instead, this talented woman is good
at about
everything she tries! Amazingly, her short-story publishing career
began at age 9. A self-described grammar freak, Robinson is already
a skilled
writer and editor, and an accomplished web designer. She has
also been charged with designing PowerPoint slide shows for our clients
and DVD tributes, as well
as more traditional corporate identity projects, which includes
designing logos, business cards, and promotional brochures.
When she's not chained to her Apple computer, Kristina proves to
be a skilled chef and baker. She is also currently working on her
first novel, and a series of children's picture books.
Kristina
lives and works in Portland, Maine.
The Best Coast Group
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
902.640.2358
levangie@thebestcoast.ca
fruitcocktail@thebestcoast.ca
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