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Many People are working in Carnegie Community Centre With the doors closed due to the pandemic, organisations in the neighbourhod are adapting to continue providing essential services. The Women's Centre, the Evelyne Sailer Centre, First United, Aboriginal Front Door, Union Gospel, Eastside Works, PHS and mort( are as 'open' as health restrictions permit. Inside is reprinted a list of things available, cur-rentto mid-April.
Carnegie kitchen is heroic in providing meals 3 times a day, all for $2. There is movement on opening hundreds of unused hotel rooms for people needing housing and space to self-isolate. This is a temporary appeasement to help the most vulnerable, though not a solution. Homelessness and the chronic shortage of decent housing are ongoing. Parks and sidewalks cannot be seen as 'good enough' for people. Building needed housing has to be a priority.
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REMEMBERING PETER FAIRCHILD Peter died on April 18th. Age 72. Cancer. What a remarkable life. A triple A-driven communications professional working with the highest levels of government in Ottawa, knowing personally two prime ministers. One morning he woke up in the rain-soaked forest of Pacific Spirit Park. No money. No identification. Alcohol had fueled his journey. Deciding he didn't want to die in the rain he talked his way onto a bus, and to the Down- , town Eastside. First a shelter, then an SRO and a spell as a binner. He was introduced to Carnegie. He began as a kitchen volunteer. He joined the board and became treasurer. He became manager of his SRO and then a second. He was hired by Atira to manage some of their non-profit properties. In the Carnegie Learning Centre he tutored Cindy Zhang, newly arrived from China. They married at Carnegie in a great celebration fed by the kitchen. Peter represented the board in planning the very successful Carnegie building 100th anniversary in 2003. Peter and Cindy eventually moved to Victoria (where Cindy was working in a care home). They bought and managed two adjoining homes renting to people living on low incomes. Cindy's magnificent vegetable garden spans both properties. Peter's Carnegie life is told in the book released last fall: "Tales for The Telling As We Lived Them - A Carnegie Community Centre Story: 1995-2005" eo-written with Michael Clague. To get the true measure of Peter read chapter 19 "Christmas at Carnegie." It tells how he mobilized a Christmas stocking project where he collected donations and personally put a stocking on every door of the 45-unit SRO he was managing. You would not believe how the tenants responded, as something like this had never happened for as long as they had been in the DTES. Some of them even cried. But the real truth lay in the spirit of Christmas - not a single resident stole or took anything out of the stocking of another.
Singular or Plural? - Human Limits and Language Flow "There's a wild man wizard inside me..." -Harry Chopin
"The trees are calling me near, I've got to find out why." -The Moody Blues
The roots of the tree(s) inside us forever searching ground ... The banks of the river(s) inside us ever remain unfurrowed. The sk(y)ies inside us ha(s)ve no horizons to reach and the bird(s) inside us ha(s)ve nowhere to fly or reasons to sing, so the pounce ofthe cat(s) inside us remain(s) ever poised, alert... eternal. ("Tiger, tiger...") The howls of the wol(f)ves inside us never leave(s) our throats. The laugh of the chimp(s) inside us never gets the joke. The now of the time(s) inside us is a trick that never fails to fool us - till death steals the 'treat' we thought was there. A C G T - variations on a theme self-written? Ah to decode the missing genome of stone! -The happy caterpillar!! Stephen Belkin
Facing Fears - Alone can be a natural experience that we all have to endure for as like in mother nature we are sometimes left to choose to either sink or swim; for we are all here to learn - from experience. â&#x20AC;˘ Metaphorically I look upon this as like being in a rowboat alone in stormy seas battling that big white shark - so I can remain intact till I can see that glorious beach - in Vancouver that I call home. and some battles we gotta fight alone in order to find our own inner strength, confidence and renewed compassion for others who also want to reach home free of illness, free of fears while realizing: Fearless does not mean operating without fear it means' taking it on '. for we love our country for trying to help us beat what seems to be a never-ending feat! But then all is given a season and a time so this negative too - will pass onto the positive! inga g.
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