by Kurt Heinrich | Sep 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
For the past few weeks I’ve been deployed to Churchill Secondary School with other VSB exempt staff. We’ve been tasked with supervising school lunch. Each day I arrive at 11:40 and plant myself in front of the lunch line. When the bell rings, the lunch...
by potential | Sep 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
There’s a little place right down the bottom of Australia called Tasmania. It’s the tiny island that everyone always forgets about when they draw a map of Australia, and it’s the state that Australians love to publicly ridicule for being a little bit backwards when it...
by potential | Sep 21, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
“Helmets” and “style” aren’t words that I naturally associate. Until now. The bike helmet has become an extension of personal style. This is good news for our cycling community. With September comes back-to-school and with that, more traffic on the bike routes. In...
by potential | Sep 20, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Demonization. What a word. When I read it first I thought it was some kind of exorcism term. But after perusing the Currency Act of Canada (did you know we had an Act about currency? Bet you didn’t.) and some of its associated literature I became quite familiar...
by John Horn | Sep 19, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
So I just returned from my sister’s wedding on Gabriola Island (thanks for the masthead photo, Yorick_R), which was a gorgeous event and a true celebration of community. Because everybody helped. I’ve been to potluck-style, informal, hippie,...
by potential | Sep 15, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I just came back to Argentina, where I live, after a month and a half trip to Quebec, where I’m from. Every time I have to opportunity to go back home, enjoy friends and family, speak my language and feel my culture, all of this fills me with renew energy. Thus, on a...