“We’re In This Together” BC People First Society Conference and AGM May 4 and 5th 2016 at the Coast Westerly Convention Centre Courtenay, BC, Vancouver Island -So what happened at Conference? – BCPF Board of Directors present at Conference (front back left to right) Michelle Goos, Michael Mclellan, Jerry Laidlaw, Dave Sherritt, […]
Let’s talk about friends, and I mean best friends. I mean the kind of friends you can count on. Most people have known them forever, or for at least 5-10 years, and they will do almost anything together. You can talk to them when you’re having a bad day, or just to chill out, but […]
In my early years I had so many difficulties making friends. I was such a loner when I went to school. I was called so many names in the book and my self esteem was low to the ground. In these early years I was going through many surgeries for my ears and also doing […]
Author’s Note This particular column is a little different than my others. It was originally my entry into the 2015 Canada Writes contest, but I didn’t win. However, my test readers thought it was pretty good so I decided not to let good writing go to waste and publish it. Originally this essay was my […]
My name is Laura Clement and I was so happy to have a job. I used to work at Bruce’s Groceries a long time ago and I had transit back then because there was a bus. Where I live now there is bad bus service and I cannot always get to and from work on […]
Well for starters I really lucked out on getting the Reception job at CLBC! I was on leave for a while and not working at the time; I was with a job group called Polaris. One day the Director of Polaris mentioned the BOE Program to me. It was a course at Douglas College in […]
Disability Awareness Week starts May 29th to June 4th. This year will be very exciting for me. In Kamloops, we have an event every year called FunFest to kick off the summer, hosted by Options and Opportunities, a day program that helps adults with physical and developmental disabilities. This year FunFest will be held during Disability Awareness Week on June 3rd. I am very […]
The Kamloops Self-Advocates is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. May 2016 edition KSA Newsletter 2016 contains This month’s theme Welcome to May everyone! May is wonderful because it will be summer soon! It’s also a special month in honour of Mother’s Day. We would love […]
“Happy New Year! I hope you all feel inspired by my goals for this year and choose to face some big challenges of your own to conquer during year 2016. So far I have been faced with much larger health struggles than I ever anticipated and my biggest challenge is to stay positive during such […]
May is my busiest month of the year. I take the Hell’s Gate tour, up in the Fraser Valley one day. All the museums and gardens out in UBC another. The aquarium in Stanley Park along with the harbour tour, on a Third. In Squamish I visit both the train and mining museums then take […]
