Vancouver: A tip on a boat in high waves last year, trying to make it from Cortez Island to Vancouver Island to fly back and then home, led me to the Sylvia Hotel, a good enough, older house, which becomes fantastic because its location is hard by the beach at English Bay and right next to …
Category: Community Organizing
Pulling Together the Community Leadership Centre
Vancouver Coming down the hill towards the water, trees on each side were bursting in pinks and reds providing fresh color to a typically cool and damp, gray day in beautiful Vancouver. I have been in this city a number of times in the last year since I first visited with David Levi and John …
Community Bakery = Community Institution
Little Rock Zach Polett and I met for breakfast to review ACORN’s political operations and of course we went to the Community Bakery on Main Street right above the Wilbur Mills Expressway as it dips to the east. This was not a new thing for me, but an old habit. For long stretches in the almost …