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Tenant fighting eviction notice at 666 Alexander St. Danny Lye has an eviction notice for his room at 666 Alexander St. The building has a new owner. If the owner can get rid of the tenants, he can renovate a little bit & raise rents a lot. Danny pays $470 a month for a room with a bathroom. His eviction notice says his dog was blocking access to the fire escape. When landlords use excuses like these to evict people, you can usually fight the eviction notice & hopefully win.

Danny explained what is happening in his building and in others in the DTES: "They take over the building. They kick out 1 or 2 people on one floor & they renovate it. Then they move to the next floor & pretty soon it's all new people. It's upper class people who come in, not downtown people. Then they buy another hotel & do the same thing." New people might be paying $900 or $1000 a month instead of$470.

If this is is happening in your hotel, come to the Carnegie Community Action Project office on the second floor of Carnegie, or call Jean at 604 729 2380. We might be able to help you and others in your __ b ildingkeep from getting evicted.

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By Jean Swanson

On the Road with Dog My dog goes everywhere with me -- even to the depths of hell. I am homeless now -- have been for several months, and there's always hugs for him and food specially delivered for his needs. I'd be fine if I ate dog food, and sometimes I do. It doesn't taste too bad -- a little dry and crunchy sometimes. I don't drink his water -- that's where I draw the line.

You won't see my face, though. I keep my visor down as I troll for change. I could be anyone -- your brother, ex-boyfriend, father, son. But to my dog, I am everything. I know you don't really care, as you walk by giving change -- you are gone in 2 minutes, back to your life of luxury. I'm still here, stuck on the sidewalk.

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Carnegie Community Centre June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016 Director's Annual Report - Ethel Whitty Many areas of the work of the Carnegie Association Board and staff have been outlined beautifully in this year's committee reports. In this report I'll focus on a few areas that otherwise would not be recognized for their meaningful support. In 2015, Carnegie Community Centre provided social, cultural, educational and recreational programs for 5100 patrons who purchased their $1 annual membership and to other patrons who freely access the Centre at no cost. There are approximately 2000 visits to the Centre each day by patrons accessing programs, services, low cost meals or simply enjoying the Centre as the "living room of the DTES" The Carnegie Community Centre Association, consisting of community members, provides advice and financial support to the Centre's various programs and activities. It is always enlightening to be reminded ofthe broad array of activities and programs facilitated by the wonderful relationship between the City of Vancouver and the CCCA. The Kitchen is the heart of the Carnegie Centre and could not offer its huge contribution without the support of the volunteer base. The kitchen served a total of256,320 customers, approximately 720 people per day and catered hundreds of programs and events. Volunteers working in the kitchen learn valuable skills while contributing to the production of nutritious low cost meals for the DTES community. The kitchen is staffed by skilled cooks with culturally diverse backgrounds and recipe repertoires enabling the kitchen to create a limitless variety of global peasant foods. The kitchen continues to support the many people in the neighborhood who have struggled with mental health &/or addiction and have found that volunteering in the kitchen has been a dynamic part of their recovery and belonging to the DTES community.

The Volunteer Program, This year 450 active volunteers at Carnegie. In 2015 they contributed approximately 65,000+ hours of program support, including 25,000 hours of kitchen work. Other areas enjoying significant volunteer support included the Learning Centre, Seniors Lounge, the Pool Room, Computer Lab, Weightlifting Room, Oppenheimer Park, as well as other programs and special events.

The Carnegie Outreach Team continues to play a pivotal role in finding housing, primarily in SRO or social housing accommodation, for individuals who are without a home. In 2015 they served 2620 people by providing income and housing support. Of those served, 1689 were new to their service. The team secured 927 housing units in 2015. This is up from 423 housing units secured in 2013. Of those units, 791 were.for people who were absolutely homeless and the remainder for people who were at risk of homelessness.

Security and Information The Security and Information Desk Team is the face of our service to the public and provides patrons and staff with a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment by being a supportive, helpful presi ence, and addressing behavior that is disruptive to the enjoyment of the Centre. The team also serves the community by providing an information and community resource referral service, mail and message services, administering First Aid and providing audio and visual technology support in the building as needed.

The Administration Team plays a central role for the Association by keeping the Association accounts, preparing the Charity Return, preparing the Gaming Grant application and keeping minutes of meetings and other documents up to date. They offer patron support in a professional, friendly and respectful manner by providing member services such as booking rooms, photo coping personal documents and assisting with DTES agency locations. Payroll and accounting for all Centre expenditures is a large part of the team's responsibility.

The Carnegie Community Centre Association has dedicated volunteers in two programs; the Carnegie Newsletter is produced twice a month (except for the briefest concession to holiday at New Year's) and put together by volunteers who faithfully contribute 2575 hours to collation & production. The newsletter has an annual subscription list and is read by residents all over the community due to the distribution efforts of Paul and others. The newsletter is funded in part by gaming funding and Paul Taylor works with the support of Lis a David and the CCCA to --fundraise as---.~---. needed. .,.... ...

- ~ The Carnegie Community Action Project, coordinated by Maria Wallstam, organizes and offers opportunities and education so residents can speak out on neighbourhood issues that are important to them, especially housing. In 2015 volunteers contributed thousands of hours to CCAP. While funding has been low in 2015, CCAP continues its work. The Community Vision for Change that was undertaken several years ago was taught as part of a University of Toronto course this year and it was thought that CCAP's methodology could be used in low-income communities in Winnipeg and other areas across Canada.

My thanks go to the Carnegie Association Board for volunteering your time to make sure that the business of the ;,"'~.

Association is carried on in a timely and meaningful way and for the support you provide to me by offering advice on relevant community issues and concerns. It is an honour to serve this community.

At the Annual General Meeting, the Volunteer Committee Report was read by Sharon Kravitz; the Oppenheimer Park Committee Report was read by Priscillia Tait; the Education/Library Committee Report was read by Adrienne Macallum; the Senior's Support Group Report was read by Mike Tapp; the Community Relations Committee Report was read by Fraser Stuart; the Program Committee Report was read by Phoenix Winter and the Finance Committee Report was read by Pat McSherry. The ANNUAL REPORT booklet is available in the Association Office.

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Pat McSherry (Treasurer)

Adrienne Macallum (Secretary)

Debra KcNaught . (Member-a t-Large)

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Phoenix Winter (President)

Priscillia Tait (Vice- President)

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Remembering Our DTES Women: Stories Behind the Women's Memorial Quilt A collaboration between the Women's Memorial March Committee, including Diane Wood and Rosemary Georgson, and the Vancouver.

Public Library has begun to create an online gallery of the quilt panels, including the names of the women this community has lost. The project team is seeking permission first from family members to insure a respectful process.

Our hope is that the friends & family members who loved the women will be willing to share their memories, whether it is through writing, drawing, artwork or even a recorded story that could be linked to each panel. Staff from the "Inspiration Lab" in the Central Library are available to help with scanning images or recording stories, & are also willing to accommodate anyone to help make the process easier.

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By sharing memories, we hope to bring to light how each woman was a friend, mother, sister, aunt or daughter, and part of this community.

While the quilt is a reminder of heartache and injustice, it also represents hope, perseverance and strength .

If interested in seeing the panels and learning more about how you can contribute to this public website or if you ~ have any questions, please connect with Natalie the Librarian in the Carnegie Library (604-665-3559). • Thank you - All my relations.

Celebrate

From the Library June is an action packed month. VPL is hosting a mini "film festival" called First Peoples, First Screens on Saturday June 18th at 2pm in the Theatre. Films lined-up include Tracing Blood by Lisa Jodoin, described as an experimental film about one woman's search for family, and Balmoral Hotel by Wayne Wapeemukwa. Balmoral Hotel is a dance that pow~rfully features the life of a First Nations sex worker 111 the DTES. A discussion will follow with lead performer Angel Gates and producer Matt Drake. The library staff will also be at Oppenheimer Park for Aboriginal Day celebrations on Saturday June 25th with the button-maker and giveaways.

As well, Norman Nawrocki will be performing his anarchist rants, raps and poems, including some violin solos in the Theatre on Wednesday June 29th at 6pm to celebrate his latest book Agitate! Nawrocki now lives in Montreal, but has a long history with Vancouver's east side.

National Aboriginal Day Festivities will be held on SATURDAY JUNE 25TH in

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By the way, CBC lists these films among the "Top indigenous films of all time", and VPL has them!

Atanarjuat: the fast runner (Canada) Four Sheets to the Wind (U.S.) Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance (Canada) Once Were Warriors (New Zealand) Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada) Samson and Delilah (Australia) Smoke Signals (U.S.) What films make your list?

Your librarian, Natalie

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Spring Awakenings

by Robyn Livingstone Originally published in Jacob's Well community newsletter, Vancouver B.C. May 2106

Community Update: Persons with Disabilities (PWD)/ Persons with Persistent and Multiple Barriers (PPMB) Application and Appeal Guides Dear Community Partner, We have completed a full update of the following application and appeal guides: PWD Application PWD Appeal Part I: The Request for Reconsideration PWD Appeal Part 2: The Appeal Tribunal PPMB Application PPMB Appeal Part 1: The Request for Reconsideration PPMB Appeal Part 2: The Appeal Tribunal They are available on our website at hUp://www.disabilityalliancebc.org/money.htm.

This series of guides is designed for advocates, but can also be used by people applying for or appealing the denial of benefits. They focus on applications, reconsiderations, and tribunals for income supports and medical supplies/services provided by the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation.

If you would like us to mail you this publication, please call Val at 604-875-0188 or email her at feedbacl{@disabilit)'aUianccbc.org

Carnegie Centre's wifi SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!

Someone recently asked about our public Wifi speed, so I inquired and found out the following ....

The speed available for #Van Wifi, for all locations, is 5Mbps download & 5Mbps upload. This speed is comparable to the sort of service seen at coffee places and other free public wifi. The speed is sufficient for viewing videos (Netflix, YouTube, etc), streaming music, surfing the web, and other such applications.

The difference that people may experience at home is in line with for fee packages that the cable/telco companies provide. Hope that makes sense to all of you.

I am still awaiting a response about Wifi access on the main floor / games room.

Sharon Belli (staff)

Spring. Awakenings with the sun slowly splitting the horizon over water and earth, with a breezy warmth that we've been patiently waiting for, for what seems like eon's, dusk has gradually seeped away blissfully into a dewy achingly yearned-for dawning of the refreshing newness, of another blessed spring. With the earth at peace for the most part resting for an instant so sublime a rare warm feeling of absolute contentment, one day hopefully, consistently in perfect tune with humanity, in a magnificent divine intervention, falling upon us like the feather of a dove, descending peacefully from the fearless heavens above us all.

With the feeling deep desolation cast away, like as a snowflake in the wind. With a prevailing collective sense of hope and joy. Surrounding us with birds singing, flowers blooming. Popping up seemingly everywhere we turn to look, to hear, with a sensation as sweetness as wide as can be with fall and winter, gone for a long stretch, as they slumber the month's away, like bears hibernating in a cave, safe and at peace, as we are within our world. A sense of renewal reigning down upon us now, with the beaming rays of the sun gazing down with a deep heat enveloping us all like a strong sincere hug, that glows your absorbing soul. As our world once again heats up, the foggy mist slowly dissipates, vanishing into the ether of time. Rain clouds are evaporating into another unreal world, the heart appears to skip a beat as we view this creation of great, everlasting beauty. Almost beyond our comprehension, almost like a wonderful dream of manifest destiny, unfolding, right before ourvery eyes, seeing and breathing it all in, and gathering all the warmth- and scenery with our collective hungry hearts, and souls, with an additional state of grace, and peace of mind. As we gradually and serenely, start processing, these priceless gifts bestowed and blessed upon us by an extremely forgiving and benevolent Creator, as always in our presence; who is omnipotent and all knowing, as we people, and all of the world's creations, celebrate all seasons, gratefully, and with reverence, forever and ever. .. for all eternity.

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Open Letter: Disability Bus Pass Clawback Dear Premier Clark: We are writing in response to your government's budget, tabled on February 16, 2016, which announced a modest increase of $77 to persons with disabilities benefits while also drastically changing important programs that improve access to transportation for many people with disabilities. For the reasons set out in this letter, our organizations strongly oppose the changes to the BC Bus Pass Program and the Special Transportation Subsidy. We call on the government to leave these programs in place, and to provide a meaningful rate increase for all income assistance and disability assistance recipients.

The BC Bus Pass Program currently offers an annual bus pass at a reduced cost of $45 per year for disability assistance recipients in areas where BC Transit and Translink operate. The Special Transportation Subsidy provides a lump sum subsidy to people who reside in an area where the Bus Pass Program operates, but are unable to use public transit because of a disability, to help offset the cost of alternative transportation. Approximately 55,000 of the 100,000 provincial disability assistance recipients rely on one of these two transportation programs. Manyof our organizations work directly with people with disabilities, and all are acutely aware of the importance of these programs to ensure people are able to move about their communities, whether that be to shop for basic necessities, attend medical appointments, go to school, or take part in social gatherings.

As you know, those who rely on these programs will now be charged $52/month for a bus pass, or $66/month for the Special Transportation Subsidy. This means that for those recipients, the rate increase is actually only $25 or $11, respectively. Further, the government has said that it will still charge the $45 per year "administrative fee" on top of that. Promoting the change as a $77 increase to disability rates is misleading and unfair. While the government maintains that its aim is to make the system fairer for people with disabilities who do not currently receive support for transportation, the proposed changes are not the right approach.

It has been almost a decade since the government has increased income assistance and disability rates-and at $906 per month, disability assistance rates in BC are among the lowest in the country. In Alberta, for example, the government increased the comparable disability benefit (Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH)) to $1588 in 2012. The recently announced $77 increase to BC's disability assistance rates would be a welcome (if inadequate) change, if it were truly providing that increase to all.

When the change was announced, the Honourable Minister of Finance Michael de Jong spoke about how it would allow those on disability assistance "the freedom to make their own choice about how to meet their own unique transportation needs". For many living in poverty in BC, this is not a real choice. While the $77 increase will undeniably help those living outside the areas where the Bus Pass Program and Special Transportation Subsidy operate, it creates an impossible choice for those that do rely on these transportation programs. With disability assistance frozen at a paltry $906 per month-an amount clearly inadequate to meet basic needs-it will be difficult not to opt to put the $77 each month toward previously unmet needs like food or rent. The Bus Pass Program and Special Transportation Subsidy allowed vulnerable members of our communities to make a $45 purchase once per year, and then have a reliable method of transportation year-round. The proposed changes to these programs will result in social isolation for those who "choose" not to renew, particularly for those with disabilities that restrict their mobility.

Finally, we are concerned about implementation of the proposed changes, which will inevitably be fraught with practical problems for both disability assistance recipients and Ministry staff. Over the last several years, there has been a radical shift from in-person services at local Minist~ offices to services that are primarily delivered through a centralized phone line and over the internet. Wait times on the phone line are long, and many users of Ministry services lack the reliable phone or computer access required to access the services-and may also lack the capacity to navigate the new systems. It is difficult to reach Ministry staff at all, let alone the appropriate staff for a particular matter. Many that rely on the current transportation programs fear they will be unable to access Ministry staff in a timely way to resolve the issues that arise, and that staff will be ill-equipped to address the problems.

As our provincial government tabled its budget, it celebrated BC's strong financial outlook. Minister de Jong emphasized that BC is in a position to "offer greater support to the most vulnerable among us." It is long past due for the government to make real commitments to do just that - and to share some of this province's wealth with the members of our communities that need it most.

Our organizations collectively urge you to: 1. Bring back the $45 per year bus pass for people with disabilities; 2. Eliminate the new $52/month bus pass fee; 3. Allow everyone receiving PWD benefits to keep the $77/month increase; 4. Bring back the Special Transportation Subsidy, and introduce a rural transportation subsidy for those living outside the areas where the Bus Pass Program and Special Transportation Subsidy operate; and 5. Raise income and disability assistance significantly by October 1, 2016 to reflect the cost of living, & then index to inflation.

Sincerely,

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Current & Former Drug Users Demand Action on Opioid Overdoses On June 8 members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users CVAN DU) and the BC Association of People On Methadone took to the streets and demonstrated to call for action on the shocking & unacceptable number of opioid overdose deaths in our diverse communities. VANDU members marched down Hastings carrying a coffin symbolizing the unnecessary death of people who use drugs as a consequence of the so-called 'war on drugs'.

BC's Chief Public Health officer Or. Perry Kendall declared a public health crisis in April, calling for more robust data-sharing in regards to overdoses. We demand a further response, and from our experience on the front line of many non-fatal overdoses know that we need more Supervised Consumption Sites across the province.

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"There is an injection site in Vancouver," says Laura Shaver, President of the BC Association of People on Methadone. "It's one of the most researched healthcare facilities in the country, and the research shows that it saves lives. So the question is: why is this model not being followed in other communities and here in the Downtown Eastside where we know that lnsite can't handle the need in the neighbourhood. " Media Contacts: Aiyanas Ormond Community Organizer/ Volunteer Coordinator Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

THE GREAT LEVELER Like a Quinn Martyr Production record temperatures, forest fires & tempers burn out of control, predictions & solutions just like the fires man-made thanx s much as the' allergen nation avoids help or antibiotics this they seem to think is their show, we have been told to move on if death be the link to life our short-lived revolution may be unravelling but will always start up again lsit the policy of our govt to make bad days look good while horrible days are just bad all evil acts or selfish plans can simply be made to disappear in the eternal well that drops blankets of rain, when the hospitals, viaducts & other features of 'our' city are referred to the absentia home office what else have you planned \ for the poor 'survival kits' that only the financiallv sound will be able to afford how clever & festive you pretend to be-! It just so happens there is a collective force that exists within us the misery that echoes from the streets is a very trauma-induced beat shadows are lengthened the Great Levelers have arrived tomorr?w is a day you most definitely want to see, before any more cities become atrocities let alone dust we must stay one step ahead of the Tomorrowists as they try to lay claim to our future will the Statute of Limitations versus Eternity be the trial of this century they could do it for the half-time entertainment segment of the next superbowl as only the uber rich & well-placed terrorists shall be on hand for what their calling the Greatest of great shows... _ Like colouring books in countries where certain colours mean death or worse now if sadness were a business you could run the earth this planet let alone this city is a soap opera the DTES is not even deemed refundable well the levelers beg to differ for god's sake keep those eyes wide open as all of the winds of the world will break no promise then blow, 51 degree Celsius death temps can be turned down but they are not gods' just entities sick & tired of watching the weak the ill the soon-to-be-gone & the new ones to come we can all join them in some small way those who say death is our destiny I never ever bought into that luck or destiny mythology though we all may one day stand for our day in court, like tryin to sell a kilogram of uranium does anyone remember the good days back when all the pretty girls smoked & money wasn't such a big object you could count on the upcoming revolution like its magical storms would seek&find your port, now this is a crazy world with-

out a doubt how many mothers worked not begged for money to support their kids while our PM's wife is publicly whining about help for her 3 children the great leveler in charge of fairness will quickly sort this sob story out, there's a leveler who can put Christy's $200,OOO-a-year where it rightfully belongs as another leveler will try tearing down some of these towers as if it were King Kong protect us from what they want it is as if we were a boxer the other being GoodEndings 'R' Us who constantly wants another bout, The Levelers of which I speak come from inside your own heart you know what's right because of all the times you were picked apart enough is enough do something for a city becoming so incredibly wrong Please Act Now. Entire intersections becoming the next New York are you waiting til only multimillionaires need apply? The Levelers can only do so much react revolt there're over 3 million reasons why the future may be theirs but the present is ours. The time to act is now!

By ROBERT McGILLIVRA Y "And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly and the villages dirty and charging high prices." T.S.ELIOT PS: It's almost as ifMr Eliot were here today.

Afternoon Classical Concert Cliff Ridley, baritone, Tatiana Khvatova, piano and Alina Khvatova, violin will perform music by Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Varlamov Faure and Piazzolla Carnegie Community Centre Friday, July 1st (Canada Day) at 1PM. The length of the Recital will be approximately 50 minutes & you are warmly invited to attend.

Free Admission.

You Be The Judge If you go around judging Anyone and everything.

Take a good look in the mirror And ask the person who is Looking back at you: "Why do I see these things?"

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Open House and Free letterpress and Bookmaking Workshops Saturday, June 18th, 2016 from 1 to 6 pm at WePress in Vancouver's Chinatown .#202 - 268 Keefer Street (in the mini-mall

beside Hon's on the 2nd floor)

WePressVancouver@gmail.com details at www.wepress.ca â&#x20AC;˘ Join us for a fun afternoon at the WePress Community Makerspace, featuring bookmaking with Karen Ward, your chance to try a letterpress, and the opening of Women's Washroom, an art installation by Cara Seccafien. Snacks and drinks provided. Everyone welcome!

Created by long-time artists and community

organizers, We Press is a new accessible makerspace located

in Vancouver's Chinatown that welcomes diverse populations,

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Karen Ward lives in the Downtown stuff that other people throwaway:

Eastside and is an artist and activist. Her work often incorporates

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it is a grassroots approach to art that feeds her political work, and

of course vice versa. She saw her first letterpress almost twenty years ago, and did academic work on the history of printing and bookmaking. unexpected ways.

Cara Seccafien has contributed designer, and administrator.

Much of Ward's work involves using-old forms in new and

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in Vancouver and Edmonton as an artist,

Most recently she has been involved with Powell Street Festival Society,

Gallery Gachet, and The Other Press in addition to WePress. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Alberta in Edmonton and has since pursued artist residencies at Malaspina Printmaker's

Society in Vancouver and Paul Art Space in Missouri.

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We spent a year thinking and writing about food in conjunction with Vancouver Poet Laureate Rachel Rose's community-broadening mandate. Our project, SUSTAIN AND NOURISH, allowed us to question beliefs about food, notions offood safety and politics, ideas of what constitutes a healthy community, what ingredients contribute to our identities. The year of writings that boiled down into the poems, essays, memoirs and recipes that make up THE MENU create a delicious and intense meal.

Come hear selections from THE MENU read by the DTES residents who wrote them. Rachel Rose will be in attendance and we will have lots of delicious (free) food. Each copy of THE MENU you purchase supports Thursdays Writing Collective's programming for next year.

Thursdays Writing Collective is comprised of 150 activists, academics, slam poets, novelists and storytellers who explore issues of self-determination through creative writing. The Collective, founded in 2008, holds free, drop-in writing sessions in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside at Carnegie Community Centre, has published eight anthologies and performs at festivals, literary events and readings. www.thursdayswritingcollective.ca Everyone is welcome. Washrooms are trans- and gender-diverse-friendly. Accessibility info is coming.

Achieved through the support of our sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, SFU Writing and Publishing, Carnegie Community Centre, East Van Graphics, Community Arts Council of Vancouver Created and carried out on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, Stolo, Tseil- Waututh First Nations. ~ ,

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The donation list is small and people give what you can. Over the years it's been helpful to have money directed at supporting the work. One big plus is how it gets spent - no one is getting paid! Expenses are pretty much what you'd expect with almost all funding paying for the actual printing ($8500); volunteer tickets for submissions & production/distribution ($2000); petty cash for postage, office supplies, soft&hardwAre & mise ($1500). Another big plus is the ability of the Association to issue tax receipts. If you catch yourself about to sign a cheque to some charity, consider splitting the amount between that cause and the life or death struggles involved in putting out the Camegie Newsletter. It'll be 30 years come August 15,2016.

Respectfully submitted, PaulR Taylor, volunteer editor since 1986.

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, THIS NEWSLEITER IS A PUBUCATION OF THE CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOClATION Articles represent the views of individual ' contributors and not of the Associi;llion ..

WANTEO Artwork for the Camegie Newsletter Small illustrations 10 accompany artides and poetry.

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