by Kurt Heinrich | Jun 28, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Today it was announced that striker Long Tan has been traded from the Vancouver Whitecaps to DC United after starting only four games this season. Tan had played a lot more last season (though the scoreboard didn’t particularly reflect it), but it seems this...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jun 21, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Editors’ note: Kurt and John are firm believers that Vancouver can and should be the Canadian epicenter for growing the sport and culture of soccer football soccer. This is a self-described healthy community. We can play outside year-round, as fields are rarely closed...
by Kurt Heinrich | May 31, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Unlike the rest of us, lawyers don’t have to wait four years for the World Cup to come around. A team of Vancouver lawyers is representing Canada at MUNDIAVOCAT – the Football World Cup for Lawyers – a serious tournament for competitive players. The 2012 tournament...
by Kurt Heinrich | May 28, 2012 | Competencies
Last Friday, I got a chance to witness the hefty emotions and cathartic experience that graduation frequently illicits in people. It was a scene that I missed during my own graduation from high school thirteen years ago. When I graduated from Prince of Wales in 1999,...
by Kurt Heinrich | May 23, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
This Monday, intrepid Gumboot illustrator/photographer Phil Skipper and I embarked on a journey to ride from East Vancouver to New Westminister along the vaunted Central Valley Greenway, a bike route that weaves through the “Vancouver specials” of East...