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JUNE 20TH 10:30am 4:30pm OPPENHEIMER PARK

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Elder Sam George - welcome Coast Salish Drummers

Craft Tables

Michael Nardachioni

Gladys - dreaming tree

Urban Haida - Noel Abrahams Nisga'a dancers

Eunice - buttons

Harmony of Nations

Dream catchers - Kelvin Bee

Hobemma School of Rock Traditional

Grandmothers

lorelie - spirit drawing

Evelyne Sailer - recruit volunteers and Mothers

Dalannah Gail Bowen

VPL Carnegie Learning Group

Pow Wow Drum exhibition style dancing (jingle/traditional/grass/fancy)

4pm

Elder Sam George - closing

a rainy day #2 rain comes announced by thunder and lightning like a dragon weary of sporting • i fly above the clouds how pleasant my thoughts in my refuge my belly at fullest god and me are pleased how content my heart like a phoenix .rising in moments you entice me to a heaven the worldly man sighs unrequited longing to savour our joined solitudes how full my soul like the carp defeating the currents i leap the falls in triumph come rainy touch me again Sid ChowTan

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B'e-,~'I';{'eW(~ ~E-{~cl'e R'ill~tfuoodt~ ({OOS:6 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Wednesday, June 24, 2015 5: 15-5 :45pm Membership Renewal 5:45-6pm "Right to Food" Rap Performed by our member

Janice Jacinto aka Jujube 6:00pm AGM At 573 East Hastings Street Full details at dtesnhouse.ca

15th

Father's Day Gift-MaRing WorRshop 'hur •• June 18th, 10am-12pm )

OTES Small Arts Grant's

Learn how to transform an old tie into a case for glasses!

Bring one of dad's (or your own) old ties and our imtructor, MhlQ[j Voshlscwo, will show you the rest.

Great gift for dad (or yourself)!

No experience neceua.,,!

1eet in 3rd floor classroom. Contact Gloria with inquiries.

Group Show

News From Oppenheimer Park

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Kids Soccer Program

From the Library We are pleased to announce that Cease Wyss is re-' turning to the Camegie Theatre on Wednesday June 17th from 7pm - 8 :30pm for an evening of storytelling, tea and bannock as part of our celebrating Aboriginal culture! The library is also looking forward to participating

in the Oppenheimer

Park

Aboriginal Day eVent on Saturday June 20th.

Look out for our table, make some cool buttons, and pick-up a few books from our special giveaway.

The next time you visit, check out the "Pollinator Zone Marker" as we are part of a project on Hastings street that highlights where supporters of bees can be found. This includes Oppenheimer, Hastings Urban Farm, Hastings Folk Garden, Bee Space, etc. Carnegie Library was included since we house the DTES Seed Library and an excellent selection of books on caring for bees.

'On the theme of tea, honey, seeds, caring for the earth and First Nations heritage, enjoy these books: The Seed Garden: The art and practice of seed saving

by Micaela Colley (2015). Colley reviews the whole process of cultivating plants to acquire seeds, harvesting, storing and sharing.

Drink in the Wild: Teas, cordials, jams and more by Hilary Steward (2002). Stewart is known for books on Northwest Coast First Nations, and lives on Quadra Island. In this book she shares advice on collecting wild plants for brewing tea, as well as making natural treats.

Honey: Nature's golden healer (2011) by Gloria Havenhand. A beautifully illustrated book that showcases the beneficial properties of honey and products like propolis, pollen, royal jelly and beeswax.

Where Happiness Dwells: A history of the Dane-zaa First Nations (2013) by Robin Ridington. Through the oral story-telling of Elders this book features the history of the Dane-zaa people of the Peace River and how they thrive in the modern world.

Your librarian, Natalie

Every Monday lOam - 12 noon; July 6 - August 24 Ages 5-12 boys and girls FREE Call 604-253-8830 or drop by at the Oppenheimer Park Office to register

Hand in Hand We Journey Together Make and decorate a plaster cast of your hand and write about what gives you hope.

Thursdays 2:30-4:30pm; June 25; July 2,9,16,23 A project of the Vancouver Foundation Neighbourhood Small Grants

Mr. SmoOthie is back, serving his delicious Smoothies on Fridays @ 1pm Oppen-Arts Workshop & Studio Thursdays in the Fieldhouse or outside 10:30-1 :00 Workshop; 2:30-4:30 Open Studio Bring Your Own Projects or come make art with us!

Live from the Park" IN and OUT EASTSIDE" Oppenheimer Park Radio Program Recorded bi-weekly on Saturdays, aired occasionally found online (using Chrome only) http://livefromoppenheimerpark.tumblr,com/

Deadbeat on Pender Street Killing time ain't no kinda crime When all ya got is one fat dime!

Ghosts stroll nonchalantly by Just to be civil say a fond goodbye -people you knew or didn't -dogs you walked or couldn't.

Rainbows congregate high above As assorted deities must be in love To produce such a miraculous planet So don't try to understand or plan it Only enjoy tired feet on the sidewalk Knees giving away 'Anchors Away!' or endless random streetwise talk So: broke, dead-tired or not It is one damned finer poetic plot! to my late Uncle Jack John Alan Douglas

Secret Tactics and Strategy The Canadian residential school system was nothing but a continuation of what began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus set foot on the island of San Salvador. In less than a decade the gift-giving, friendly & honourable Tainos indigenous people were wiped out as were hundreds of thousands of other peoples.

Those that were not killed -men, women & children were sold as slaves in Europe. And this was only the beginning of a 523 year-old horror story of what Justice Murray Sinc1air, head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, termed "cultural genocide."

It has been recently and honestly established that, at the time of first contact with Europeans, somewhere between 9 & 18 million indigenous people lived north of Mexico. And because of the cultivation of corn another 20-30 million people lived from Mexico to the southern tip of South America. Taken together, 30-50 million people lived in the Americas. Four hundred or so years later, in 1890, there were 250,000 indigenous people in the United States & an unrecorded number in Canada. Nowadays there are 2.9 million indigenous people in the U.S. and a million or more in Canada. From this the following is derived: A) USA: 8.7m (Bef.Con) - 2.9m today Canada: 333K (B.Con) - 1m today B) USA: 8.7m/250,000 [1890] = 35 USA: 17m1250,000 [1890] = 68 C) 2.9m(today) I 250,000[1890] = 12 What is being revealed is in what became known as the United States there most likely lived 8.7 million indigenous people before contact with Europeans and that, by 1890, there were only 250,000. The indigenous populatio was reduced by a factor of35 times.

In other words I in 35 indigenous people survived 400 years of massacre, war & broken treaties. Today there are approximately 2.9 million indigenous people living in the US; increase by a factor of 12 since 1890 If9 million indigenous people lived north of Mexico, 333,000 lived in what became known as Canada.

And since there are now approx 1 million Aboriginals in Canada, the population has increased 3 times since first contact. This begs the question: Why was the Residential School system established in 1831 and functioning until 1998?

Essentially the residential system was used by the Federal government, United + Catholic + Anglican +

Presbyterian churches to "get the Indian out" of the 416 year-old children; forcibly taking them from their parents and placing them in a foreign world of fear, loneliness & lack of affection; forbidding them from speaking their own language. Physical and sexual abuse was meted out by teachers & supervisors. Hunger was a constant threat which resulted in thousands dying of malnutrition, disease, suicide or exposure to the elements as they tried to escape. [The spectre of children being murdered & being buried in unmarked graves ran throughout the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.] Why were Aboriginal children in Canada exposed to these hardships?

It would appear that the Canadian government and Churches were more tolerant & less aggressive than the US gov't & Army, which reduced the indigenous population from 8.7 million to 250,000 in 400 years.

In truth, what became the Canadian government & its churches in 1867 were not-too-distant witnesses to the ongoing slaughter occurring in the south. Indeed, instead of eradicating (killing) every Aboriginal man, woman & child as the U.S. did, the so-called Canadians chose a more civilised approach to take the land & resources - they simply took the children to assimilate them through 'education', an act which would gradually 'civilize' the Indian.

Since there were only 300,000 or so natives in Canada at first contact and a relatively small number of French & English people, it was much more practical to slowly take the children rather than have an all-out war to conquer the indigenous people. In fact, taking the 150,000 children over 100 years removed the possibility of future resistance. And because the children were taken piece-meal and not en masse, parental or community resistance was kept to a minimum. This tactic & strategy were just as good as the foreign purchasing of huge tracts of land - conquering a territory . without firing a shot. The dollar value of natural resources such as energy, timber & minerals not owned. operated & controlled by Canadian Aboriginals in 2007 was $1300 billion. As compensation the indigenous people received alcohol, drugs, venereal disease & free housing in the form of prisons in which inmates are 16% native while being only 3% of the population of Canada. This has become just another way to prevent natives defending land which was once theirs and which is now considered stolen.

By Harry Schorneck (Squamish Ntn)

Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP): That is the kind of approach we need in Canada. It is 7路 Mr. Speaker, the first thing I want to say is that the report something the government has politically decided it wants to we are debating is unfortunately completely biased. The reject. It simply wants to play a little political game. All it talks name of the report is "Marijuana's Health Risks & Harms". . about is youth. I have not heard anyone in this House or any We can see from its title that in looking at the subject of ' witness who c~me forward say that they think marijuana marijuana, the majority of the members of the committee, ; should be available to youth. In fact, that is precisely the the government members, were only interested in building a : reason we need a regulatory approach; it is so we can set political case for themselves to show what they believe to be . clear rules as to where use can take place, and it should be risks & harms. From day one, the study and the report were adults who look at issues of commercialization. We need to very suspect, because they were actually not based on evi- look at issues of distribution, just as they have done in some dence and a scientific approach in terms of how we should of the states south of the border. be conducting studies by standing committees of Parliament.

The government's sort of political mantra on this focuses We heard from many witnesses. It's regrettable that the on youth. There are issues around the use of any substance, government members tried to prevent witnesses from com- I wh~ther it is alcohol, marijuana, or any other substance, but ing forward who hold evidence-based views on marijuana 'that is only part of the question we are looking at. A regulabased on a health approach. It was very difficult to get that tory approach, a public health approach, would enable us to point of view across in the committee. However, we were . have much better coordination and an overview of what we able to get some witnesses who gave us a very balanced need to do in terms of ensuring that youth do not have acpicture of what is taking place in terms of public policy. I cess to substances, whether it is marijuana or anything else, would say that the approach that was put forward is one that that are harmful. Everything we see before us is telling us focuses on health promotion, public education and safety.' that criminalization. of drug use, whether it is marijuana or We need to have an approach to marijuana that is more other substances, ISactually producing more harm. balanced. That is something that did 't result from this report. .1 find it astounding that, still today, the Conservatives are We produced what is called a dissenting or minority report uSing.thl~ r~po~ as a political hammer. I want to say that I ~o for this study. Our number one recommendation to the Gov- not think It ISgOingto work. It is a failure. .,' ernment of Canada was that it is essential to pursue a public Can~dians actually understand what this debateis about. health approach to marijuana that is focused on education, Cana~lan~ un~er!)tand that criminalization is something that and where necessary, treatment and harm reduction. This is has failed In this country. The so-called war on drugs, just as something we heard from witnesses. It is something that is we saw.with Proh!bition in the 1930s, actually produces sensible. more crime and violence. That is what we are facing in CanWe understand that there is a broad consensus now in ada today. We can look at what has been happening in Surthis country that the Conservatives' approach of a war on r~y or Vancouver. We can see the gang violence and the drugs and prohibition has been a catastrophic failure ecoviolence that comes about as a result of prohibition. nomically, socially, & through courts giving people criminal The Conservatives can rant all they want and try to create records, a black and white situation in which people are either with I think most Canadians understand that criminalization is them or against them, as we have heard so often in the not the answer. In fact, criminalization produces a huge House, but Canadians are not fooled. Canadians know that amount of harm in and of itself. The reality is that whether these laws need to be modernized. the Conservatives can see it or not, they know that it is To conclude, I will again reiterate that, one, we think it there. It is very clear that they politically choose to deny it. sh~uld be pursued as a public health approach; two, we Our marijuana laws need to be modernized. They need to be ~elieve t~at we need to fund research to examine the potenbased on evidence & public health principles. tlal.effectlveness of medical marijuana; and three, we call for This is something that is taking place throughout the a.nInde.pendent commission with a broad mandate to proworld. We only have to look south of the border to see that Vide gUidance to Parliament on the institution of an different states, whether it is Colorado or Washington, are appropriate regulatory regime for such use. taking a more realistic public h~alth ap~roach to marijua.na based on a ?alance of pr~ventlon, public health, well-being, harm reduction, community safety, and public education.

[Bill C-2 makes the harm reduction model for injection of drugs almost impossible to replicate To quote Bud Osb . ."Fuck them [drug users] around 'til their livers burst." Ed~m.

GALLERY GACHET IN JUNE

88 E. Cordova Street

Gallery Gachet is pleased to present three distinct exhibitions: Mad Pride: Develop Madness, Street Sign and the Salon Shop exhibition, Demolishing Grief: Phase One. These exhibitions ask the viewer to consider the social, psychological, and cultural effects of encounters with urban development. *Mad Pride:

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Mad Pride is an international movement created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, folks labeled "mentally ill" - all who proudly reclaim the words mad & crazy, and those who stand in solidarity with us. Gallery Gachet's 2015 Mad Pride exhibition, Develop Madness, signifies, among other things, the transformation of anarchic, organic, and historicized urban space into commodity.

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Saturday, July 11th, 7 - 1O:30pm*

Amidst the backdrop of the Mad Pride: Develop Madness art show. This multifaceted, will feature an evening of dancing and performers who are proud to be called crazy! *Street

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Quin Martins constructs a curated urban setting in our gallery. Using reconstructed street signs $ photography he sets the stage for the viewer to consider the design of urban space as a series of curated choices made in collaboration, albeit perhaps unwittingly, by such disparate groups as city developers, small business owners and community members. Martins' display challenges the viewer to consider their role in the construction of urban space.

Andrew McPhail's Watch Your Step demonstrates a negotiation of urban space with a carpet assembled from discarded garments. Layered upon Martins' condensed representation of public space, McPhail's textile piece stakes out the boundaries of personal and private space in the public realm where issues of social status and identity, affluence, and poverty play out daily .. *Artist Talk and Sewing Bee on June 21 st, 1-3pm* Please join Andrew McPhail for an informal artist talk and sewing bee where gallery goers will be invited to participate by adding garments to WATCH YOUR STEP and to hear about the development of this project. No formal sewing skills required. *Salon Shop Exhibition*

*Demolishing

Grief: Phase One I Featuring the work of Gunargie

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An immersive multimedia video installation entitled Demolishing Grief: Phase One uses video footage of St. Michael's Residential School demolition to unearth a history of emotional, physical, mental & spiritual abuse.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

power, this misguided empire denies meditation .

Misunderstandings of modern religion in regard to simply because it does empower those who prac~lce other faiths and their practices it, radically altering their character and conduct for I was quite surprised to read about how the Vatican the better onee the tenets are truly grasped, bringing declared Yoga to be both anti-Christian as well as a joy, love, peace & quiet vitality to all who discover psychic gateway for demonic possession. If one . this gem of existence. . . wishes to be metaphysical in this respect. the Vatican Mindfulness is a commonly accepted practice m is certainly one to talk with its enduring history of Western medicine which was a prominent practice in murder and corruption, justified in the name of a dethe philosophy of Buddhism. It teaches us how to ity. Christ, whose character cannot be discerned in exit the often chaotic realm of our troubled thoughts either their history or present behavior. and embrace the present moment through feeling and Yoga is an Eastern Indian practice to synchronize sense-perception, giving us a far richer quality of mind, body and spirit that has been a life-giving second to second life, a lifestyle towards a far more power to humanity for thousands of years, easily preappropriate society than the mess we have before dating organized Christianity. It has even been specuus today. lated in recent years that the biblical Christ journeyed It is a shame that organized religion is so narrow to Eastern regions, learning these practices during the minded, paranoid and truly absurd. for the Scriptures 12 year period of his life unaccounted for in Scripture. and belief-system they claim to represent are founIf one truly reads Scripture thoughtfully, one can tains of wisdom, understanding and peace for those discover many Mesopotamian adaptations ofthis lucky enough to discover them, non-offensive to othEastern concept throughout. Psalm 46: 10 says "Be ers for those who truly grasp their esoteric essence. still and know that I am God", a passage whose Yet they have been layered with distortions and erroreference to stillness is quite deliberate. It didn't say neous matter for nearly as long as they have been as"Be quiet" or "Be patient" but "Still". one of the sembled, studied and sometimes understood. main foundations of an Eastern meditations.

Fearful of their ever-slipping grip on 2000 years of

By TYLER DUNLOP

If the Moon If the moon is a pearl then shyness is a cal to art, childhood is an existentialism. ecology is a socialism and God is the randomness that keeps cropping up despite my absent faith.

So if the moon ~ a pearl- metaphorically speaking _ it only remains to call out the swine.

Stephen Belkin

Shake Hands with the Man in the Moon Like Disneyland having a Top Ten Most Wanted it used to be so peaceful but dreams die like the ink in my pens these days I wait for gOD to light the next match, the Abandoned Refrigerator Playground Escort Service are predicting huge sales hate & misery will always be on sale 'half-off if your human trafficking is the best catch. contrary to popular belief our hell will make us move to the moon as it will be a hit Broadway play I'd like to move there faster than soon I've always adored his articulate & knowledgeable face, the Air Force Landscaping Company became an obsession with some not caring about harmful actions that have mutated this planet now progress can obliterate leaving the harmful rays of the Sun & still there are those who maintain we are a master race, destroying the Earth became as easy as dropping bombs &

watching people die the Man in the Moon has to accept the fact we will not even notice when he begins to cry as we use this fucked-up planet to create the Solar System's largest grave, At night which I am guessing will be exactly the same as the day we can watch our Earth being siphoned for water as it all begins to turn black & grey like childcare cancer variety events being postponed 'til there are no little ones to save, like a war hero with th most confirmed kills coming home if the backslapping doesn't kill him I'm sure his rivals will be sending 'im Fist drones the dark days I feared have begun to arrive Our pathetic judicial system will leave space on Earth for a death-inducing ultra-bright Sun induced prison (now how much evil can our kind conceive) we always find a way to combine brutality & rhythym will gOD forsake the ones who chose death over the ones who remained alive, like cryogenic planets you can save for some radioactively overcast day soon we will be able to split the atom 8 billion or even more individual ways how wonderful we can part the Black Sea in our own children's lifetime that light of day is now, The Man in the Moon has seen events & colours that would blow us away he never tires of watching us being born live then death takes us away we are his favourite show & it is him whose morality urges him to gather every soul he can corral, he takes care of each & every one knowing full well we shall be moving to his illustrious place he knows about sacrifice love hate & how we all make extremely idiotic mistakes but he knows we have nowhere else to go for now & oh sweet jesus he is so right please try to keep in mind the fact he could simply put up a No Vacancy sign but he has far too much class for selfishist acts It's just in his nature to observe day by day the attention his somewhat loneliness may attract my next high will be in his honour so here's to you, you are simply out of sight.

By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y

"The Moon, like a flower, in heaven's high bower with silent delight sits and smiles on the night." - William Blake

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Join us to make papier mache salmon props for the Vancouver Taiko Society's Salmon Project, Against the Current (a.k.a. FishStix).

do you get the feeling soon your adagio will soon end with an infused bundled newspaper of karma to hurriedly splatter your guts

Create colourful coho and other artworks to display or carry alongside drumming and song

by Chibi, Katari, Sansho and Sawagi taiko groups at the 39th Powell Street Festival!!!

my violently stained ceiling a reminder to your kin and friends that though your species will outlive mine today is not a good time to dance on my ceiling Sid Chow Tan

Workshops at the Carnegie: • Tue, June 16, z-apm (papier mache) • Tue, June 30, z-apm (painting)

Workshops at Oppenheimer Park: • Sat, June 27, z-apm (papier mache) • Sat, July 11, z-aprn (painting) Also at National Aboriginal Day • Sat, June 20, nam - apm Project by

Vancouver TaikoSociety

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Editor's note: This event has already happened. Circumstance brought the information / poster to my attention after the last issue was printed, but awareness of the ongoing fight to get safe working conditions for those engaged in this dangerous trade needs constant hope. If you know, help spread the word. If you've known one of the missing or murdered women, honour their travail and support those fighting this battle.

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RED UMBRELLA MARCH FOR SEX WORK SOLIDARITY Sex Workers, Allies, Family & Friends Stand Together Join the fight against Harper's unjust prostitution laws!

Saturday, June 13, 201 ~ 2:30 p.m. Vancouver Art Gallery (South Entrance, Robson St. at Hornby) "You must bring sex workers to the table in a meaningful way"

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Carnegie Newsletter:

Donations & Funding

Donations from 2-Jan-15 to 27-Apr-I5: $1750 Revenues from January fundraiser: $3746 Invoiced payments (ad, subs): $ 515 Gaming Commission largesse $4000 TOTAL $10011 1000 (Neighbourhood Small Grant for Help in the Downtown Eastside)

$11011 Virtually all copies of the last edition of HIDE, #47 JUNE 2014, have been gone for 4 months.

There is an account with GoFundMe.com and a goal of $3000 set to raise sufficient funds to print a revised & updated edition. Current response is $25.

A Neighbourhood Small Grant for $1000 was awarded to assist in going ahead with publication.

The next edition of Help in the Downtown Eastside will be published for June 2015. The cost last year11,000 English; 1,000 French; 1,000 Spanish - was $3003 . . Expenses are recorded by Administration.

The total revenue to date is $11011. The first 3 weeks ofMaywi be going over all contacts & strategies to raise the .additional $2000. If $2K is not realised publication will gl ahead with the shortfall made up from existing funds.

Respectfully

submitted,

UPDATE: Information above was presented to the Finance Committee on May 6. This was to get permission to proceed with 'borrowing' $2000 from Newsletter funds to pay for printing the revised & months-overdue next edition of Help in the Downtown Eastside. Since then an additional $800 has been given in memory of Harold David. This page has been showing the percentage of money to print all 2015 issues of the Carnegie Newsletter as part of an estimated annual cost of $13,000. Actual funds needed but not shown must include an extra $3000 for HIDE. Funding for the paper is now at 83째(0 of $13,000; it is 74% of total funding required of $16.000. Another $4,000 must be raised to pay for both publications until December 2015. Financial assistance is still needed.

Addendum: More donations have come in but the exact figures aren't known, due to prep for an audit. Current data will be ~ put in the July 1, 2015 edition.

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AIDS POVERTY HOMELESSNESS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ABORIGINAL GENOCIDE ,TOT ALlT ARIAN CAPITALISM IGNORANCE and SUSTAINED FEAR

Terry & Savannah -$150 Michele C.-$100 Or Kevin -$50 Leslie S.-$125 Bob & Muggs -$100 Leslie K -$50 Catherine C.-$100 Glenn B.-$200 Sheila B.$50 Vancouver Moving Theatre -$200 Pat 0.$50 Harold & Sharron 0.-$100 Michael C.-$100 Eleanor B.-$25 Elaine & Oavid -$40 Margaret M.-$50 Ruth McG -$50 Jenny K -$100 Jacqueline L -$75 ) Robert McG.-$110 Christopher R-$100 Penny C.-$50 in memory of Miriam Stuart Skateboarders -$50 Wilhelmina M.-$25 .

Jackie W.-$50 George H.$60 Ruth L.-$100 .

Vancouver's Barry M.-$250 Anonymous -$110 non-commercial, In Memory of Harold David - Will/Sharon C.-$50 listener supported Barbara M.-$200 Gina F.-$100 Lori /Borys -$100 community station.

Catherine B.-$50 Yukiko T.-$50 taylor 5.-$20 --...::....._--"'Ii~ Solidarity Notes Labour Choir -$25 Kevin & Richard 0.-$100 CHIPS -$500 Radiation Therapy Clerks -$40 Jacki S.-$15 Roger C.-$100 Den~e_D.J.2Q..lYdia McK.-$jQQ Laila 8.-$50 Aiden S.-$25 Aideen McK -$10 In memory of Bud Os born -$25

A priceless gift - poems & essays by Sandy Cameron, under the title Justice and Beauty - hand-delivered by 'Jean Swanson, is the source for the following.

Last Poem (Jean's note: Ifound this poem on Sandy's desk afew days after he died. It was in draft form & hard to read but this is what I could make out.)

Do not weep for me when 1 have gone and you are lonely in the quiet night sitting where we used to sit together.

Do not weep for me for 1 am closer to you now than 1 have ever been before.

Wind caresses you -I am the wind 1 am the sun's warmth 1 am the sweetness of the summer flowers.

1 am the smell of gentle rain.

The I of which I talk is not the tiny 1 that is born and dies but the 1 that ever was, the "I" that says "before Abraham was, I am."

The 1 of which I speak is not the I of me but the 1that lives at this exact moment and forever.

Do not weep for me when 1 have gone and you are lonely in the quiet night. for I am closer to you now than I have ever been before.