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The Community Cabbage
September 25, 2014
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A group of students in 2014 at an environmental roundtable bring forth a radical idea.. Provide free food… leaving students with a full tummies and full mind.
Bus drivers that make a difference
September 24, 2014
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A student from Bangkok’s appreciation for local bus drivers’ taking the time to teach her how to use the bus system.
Game programming in a world-wide classroom
September 24, 2014
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A teacher at Vic High tapped into the boundless energies and commitment of students truly engaged in a curricular topic.
Green Business Certification
September 23, 2014
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It’s an idea that’s been long in coming. Helping small and medium sized businesses show that they are taking steps in being a sustainable business. Their checklist helps businesses see the steps that they need to take in their own
Neighbourhood building
September 16, 2014
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The penny drops — neighbourhood improves!| One of the students renting a house in our neighbourhood who I met last week while updating Block Watch info, sent this very thoughtful email to me and wanted it passed on to their
Community musical production by high school class
September 16, 2014
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A talented English class took on the writing and production of a musical stage play about the coal mining history of their town. Jack wanted to involve teaching, learning and somehow include more people than just the class members. To
Successes with behavioural change in energy reduction
September 15, 2014
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Dramatic and effective communication strategies to allow and encourage commercial tenants to monitor and reduce their energy consumption.
Inviting Alice Munro to an English class
September 11, 2014
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When a young English teacher read about a new writer receiving a Governor General’s Award for literature for her first book, he wrote her to ask if she’d drive two hours to his classroom in Nanaimo and be interviewed by
A son’s leaving home for the first time
September 2, 2014
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A son’s journey after an uncle got him a job with an aviation company that included homelessness but ended with being a sought-after employee. His mother’s counsel was, “Stay with it, you don’t know where it’s going to take you.”
A Boulder Wall… removed
August 25, 2014
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A new neighbour’s move to build a boulder wall on his hill-top property was overturned, and dismantled, graciously. While a city councillor of the village predicted a protracted law suit, it was ended amicably. Before, during and after this ,