by potential | Aug 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
10 days ago we gathered around a large steaming pot in a backyard. The power was out from a fast moving thunderstorm an hour or so ago. Armed with thermometers, hydrometers, copper coils, vinyl tubing and a handful of books guiding us through the next few hours we...
by potential | Aug 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Editors Note: This is the second of our “Blast from the Past” series where we feature top Gumboot posts of years past. This story was first posted May 6, 2010. It is among our most popular and quite timely posts. Earlier this year, a friend of mine who is getting...
by potential | Aug 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last Saturday night, I had the pleasure of attending a Vancouver Canadians game with a group of family and friends. Having spent the last year focused on learning the basic rules of soccer so that I could muster my way through a Vancouver Whitecaps game without...
by potential | Aug 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Disc golf makes me happy. So much so that a game at Little Mountain, our local course, is always a first stop for guests visiting Vancouver. When we’ve got friends coming into town, my partner and I meet them at the airport, head to Queen Elizabeth Park, crack beers...
by potential | Aug 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
About 12 months ago, the City of Melbourne introduced a new bike share program for the Melbourne community. Based on similar highly successful programs in places like London, Montreal and San Francisco, the program provides easy access to 100 bikes at 10 stations...
