Like many Vancouverites, Amy Dauer has felt helpless watching the plight of Syrian refugees on the news. But the 24 year old theatre graduate was struck with an idea recently: She could use her gifts for acting and playwriting to…
Dr. Susanna Kokkonen, director of Christian Friends of Yad Vashem (the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem), spoke at Westwood Community Church in Coquitlam in November. Kokonnen received her PhD in Holocaust studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and now travels…
City in Focus will give out over $40,000 to four individuals in honour of their exceptional work in Vancouver’s urban communities, next Monday (November 30) during an awards ceremony at the Vancouver Club. “Part of caring for the soul of…
Renfrew-Collingwood is on the eastern border of Vancouver. Three major thoroughfares bring the bulk of the traffic into town from points east: the Lougheed Highway feeds into Broadway, the Trans-Canada Highway becomes Grandview Highway and Kingsway runs through the southern…
An intrepid contingent of carollers braved the rain to serenade passers-by at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Wednesday evening (December 23). Most were members of St. Peter’s Fireside, which meets right next to the Art Gallery at UBC Robson Square.…
“This place saved my life, literally,” says Jeff Parsons. “I look back sometimes and wonder, ‘Where would I be today?’ Possibly dead . . . Union Gospel Mission (UGM) gave me an opportunity to look at life differently. It gave…
Refugees are all around me here at this seniors’ campus of care. They walk through the café with their coffees and bundles of bananas from our campus grocery. They push their spouse in a wheelchair around the fountain gardens and…