Tag: community
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Snowpocalypse 2016; a Tip of the Hat to CUPE
After working his regular 8 hour afternoon shift at a school cleaning classrooms, washrooms, hallways and offices, one of my friends, a CUPE brother volunteered, like so many others, to come in to work the next morning at 5am to help clear snow and ice off the sidewalks and steps around and leading into the…
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Community Consultation Hijacked?
Over the last couple of years a buzz word that I hear a lot (too much of) is “community consultation”. Any change that a business or community wants to make has to go through a “consultation process” to help the impacted community members come to terms with what is about to happen to their community.…
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Stay and Play in Coquitlam
Rather than doing too much driving this holiday season, consider staying local and enjoying everything the season has to offer right in your home community. If Coquitlam is local for you, their holiday programs and special events, as well as drop-in recreation activities will keep everyone healthy and on track. Kids can go for a…
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Rick Hansen Foundation Helping Farmers
Seeing as some of my fondest childhood memories are related to time spent on a farm, I felt inclined to share the following Facebook-Twitter campaign with you. Farm Credit Canada (FCC), the Rick Hansen Foundation and the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) are asking Canadians to help farmers and agricultural workers who have experienced a…
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CNIB Holiday Wreaths Program Supports Christmas Party for Blind Kids
Every year at about this time I choose to support one non-profit organization. I choose a non-profit organization that does great work in the community and helps people meet their potential. In the past I have supported (and actually still support) the Union Gospel Mission, the Salvation Army, the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau and many…
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Timeraiser; a Look Back, a Week Later
On September 23rd I attended the coolest charity silent art auction”fundraiser” event I have ever seen. To be truthful, it was not a fundraiser, it was a “timeraiser.” Instead of bidding money for the original art items up for bid, the attendees bid their “time.” How it worked was that early in the evening people…
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The Grand Opening of the Robert Lee YMCA Building in Vancouver
This afternoon I will be attending the grand opening of the shiny new Robert Lee YMCA building on Burrard Street in Vancouver. More about that event later this evening or whenever I can get near a computer. 7:45pm…I am home from the grand opening of the Robert Lee YMCA Building. I should have done my homework…