In a blog posted online, Melissa Jameson has now finished her thesis on homelessness in Revelstoke. The chapters can be viewed at the following links, or by navigating straight to her blog. Introduction Research Method Multiple Text Analysis Defining the Homeless Power Play: The struggle to survive Creating Spaces:Stories of Rural Homeless Trevor/Alex LIsa /Sarah [...]
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Melissa Jameson’s “Invisible:Narratives on Homelessness in Revelstoke, BC” Thesis Now Online
Hunger Count Release for 2011
Please find in this post, Hunger Count information from Food Banks Canada. You can also read it in pdf form on their website. Below is the British Columbia information. BRITISH COLUMBIA – HUNGER REPORT 2011 Prepared by Food Banks British Columbia, Member of Food Banks Canada Key Findings In March 2011: – Food bank use [...]
Thank you Jackie and the Arts Council
The Individualized Community Inclusion Program wishes to extend a huge thank you to the Revelstoke Arts Council for their very generous donation of art supplies! With these donations, all the individuals at the ICIP were able to make a beautiful silk scarf to send to a loved one for Christmas…and they all turned out amazing! [...]
Thank you Revelstoke!
Thank you Revelstoke! Once again, Revelstoke, you have shown your overwhelming care and support for those in need in our community! We would like to extend our sincere appreciation for the generous donations of toys, food, gifts and financial aid. Your generosity allowed us to provide more than 190 hampers to individuals and families in [...]
Holiday Train yields $4,000-plus for the Food Bank
The annual CP Rail Holiday Train rolled into Revelstoke a little late on Wednesday but to the heart-warming cheers of a nonetheless enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of Revelstokians young and old. The train rolled into the yard about 30 minutes later than planned bearing performers Tracey Brown, Valdy and a $4,000 cheque for the Community [...]
DECORATE & DONATE- HOLIDAY TRAIN 2011 CHILDREN ACTIVITIES
This is the 13th year that Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train has been raising food, money and awareness for food banks in communities across Canada and the U.S. To date, we’ve helped raise $5.6 million and 2.45 million pounds of food with our Holiday Train program. In December 1999, CP began running a freight train decorated [...]
Now THAT’S some kind of grocery shopping! In Pictures at the Food Bank
Every year the Food Bank orders in a massive shipment of food from Cooper’s just before Christmas and this year was no different. “It’s an awful lot of food but I can’t tell you how all of those pallets weighed but it cost a lot of money,” said Patty Larson, Community Connections outreach manager and [...]
What are YOU giving this year?
What are you giving this year? Oh, there’s no need to spill the beans on that necklace for the wife or the toys and electronics you’re giving the kids. No. I’m not interested in that. But I am curious to learn if you feel compassion for those in need at this time of year [...]
The Spirit of Giving- Snowmobiler Generosity
Patti Larson, Community Connections’ outreach services manager, was all smiles Thursday afternoon when Snowmobile Club Vice-president Kathy Burke and President Greg Byman dropped by the Christmas Hamper Depot in the basement of the Royal Canadian Legion to drop off a cheque for $1,765 the club raised at its fourth annual Season Starter event at River [...]
Canadian Pacific Holiday Train
The Holiday Train will be in Revelstoke on Wednesday, December 14 at 2:45, CP Yard, Victoria Road adjacent to CP parking lot. Come and enjoy great music by Valdy and Tracey Brown. Hot dogs and hot chocolate will be available by donation to Community Connections Food Bank! The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train hits the [...]