Web Version | Update preferences | Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • February 2017 Newsletter • Pledging #respect and ending the R-word • Get freezin’ for a reason at the Polar Plunge on March 4 • Special Olympics Team Canada set for 2017 World Games • Westminster Savings launches provincial partnership with SOBC • Champions […]
Creston Monday, February 27, 2017 9:00 AM Two Kootenay-based social enterprises are getting a face lift while seven job-seekers are gaining valuable work experience in the process. The Province is providing $240,171 in combined funding for two separate projects that will renovate buildings owned by the Kootenay Region Association for Community Living in Creston and […]
Victoria Monday, February 27, 2017 10:15 AM In accordance with a commitment made in May of 2016, the B.C. government will increase the minimum wage by 50 cents to $11.35 an hour, effective Sept. 15 of this year, to better reflect the province’s overall economic growth and ensure all workers benefit from B.C.’s thriving job […]
Did you wear a pink shirt yesterday? In Canada, yesterday was pink shirt day, a day which is dedicated to the fight against bullying. It’s a day that raises awareness of bullying, is aimed at encouraging to fight against bullying. These are all laudable things. I didn’t wear pink. I have a pink shirt, but I […]
We are heading over to the United Kingdom in a few days and are slowly getting prepared. Joe has pulled out a steamer (to heat ready meals in our room) plug adaptors and our UK cell phone which hasn’t been used in a few years. Me, I’ve been getting myself psyched up to do the […]
Photo Description: Brendan Mason, wearing glasses and a brown tee shirt. He is smiling. A friend of mine from Wales posted an article on Facebook about a man, Brendan Mason, who was beaten to death, while his attackers filmed him being tortured and humiliated. In my friends comments she mentioned the attack as one being […]
I had just found a table and taken my seat waiting for Joe and the kids to come, laden with trays of food, to join me, when the man at the next table caught my eye and then glanced over at two women and two children at the table across from us. I looked and […]
We headed over to the theatre with some real anticipation, we were looking forward to seeing “My Night With Reg” at a theatre just down the street from where we live. We are very familiar with the seating plan and, even though they insisted on taking us to our seats, we found our way easily. The theatre […]
I saw the announcement on Facebook. A woman with Down Syndrome that I met a few years ago is getting married. I was so happy for her and immediately wrote my congratulations. She’s a lovely woman, will make a lovely bride and the groom, a man I do not know, is a very lucky man. […]
On Wednesday I arrived at the venue where I was going to speak and Joe went in to check it out. Sometimes there are better, closer, entrances for us to use. When he got back he told me that we were at the right place, at the right entrance and that he thought I’d like […]
