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With the help of their molo foldable portable tables, neal and melinda michael’s Popluck meal events can pop up in unexpected places. invitees to their Popluck breakfast on Sunday won’t know where to go until they get an email notification just before the event.
Food and new friends in odd places PopLuck events show off city, build community
luck dinner in July. It’s the latter they’re hoping the events will become as they prepare Mario Bartel photo@newwestnewsleader.com to host their second, a pot luck brunch, on Sunday. Imagine throwing a dinner Inspired by similar Al Fresco party where the invited guests are dinners in Vancouver, and the strangers who don’t know what’s famous White Dinners in Paris, on the menu, or even where they’re where guests wear their finest dinner going until the very last minute; a whites and show up with folding social disaster waiting to happen or chairs, tables, white tablecloth, an exercise in building community? china and candle to a secret outdoor It’s the former Neal and Melinda location revealed by organizers Michael were dreading when they only hours earlier, the Michaels saw hit the send button to notify people an opportunity to create a unique 4x1.25_small_appliances_ad_final.pdf 1 12-03-05 1:20 PM via email of their first PopLuck pot happening that would bring people
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James Crosty’s stroll down Sixth Street Tuesday afternoon with a tall stack of forms had a pied piper spirit to it. However, the parade came up a couple of thousand followers short of what was needed. The unofficial preliminary count of forms submitted to city hall calling for a referendum on council’s authorization to borrow up to $59 million turned out to be 2,098. That was less than half of the 4,528 required by Tuesday’s deadline for the “alternative approval process” to be successful. As he left his office, Crosty, a former candidate for mayor, was accompanied by several supporters of his campaign to force the city to hold a referendum on its decision to borrow money ostensibly to fund construction of an office tower above the new Downtown civic centre. Please see Just, A3