by mvboronowski | Mar 23, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: for the record, our Wednesday night soccer experience began with five members of the Octopi Vancouver team moving the goal into position – basically setting up the field – as two administrators/supervisors from Urban Rec stood right...
by mvboronowski | Mar 22, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Sitting 20 meters above a steep black diamond run on the back side of Silverstar, I watched in wonder as a tiny soul slowly but surely trooped up the hill (not down it as per usual) with skis slung on her shoulder. She was accompanied by a ski-patrol guy clad brightly...
by mvboronowski | Mar 21, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: people, the Editor-in-Chief of this blog loves basketball, higher education, community, competition, and when they all slam together in a mess of cheers, tears, body-paint, over-achievement, and ridiculously awesome excitingly uncontrollable...
by mvboronowski | Mar 20, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Ben, my husband, is spending the summer working at an intentional community on Vancouver Island, called O.U.R. Ecovillage. We visited O.U.R. for the first time in September, during one of their regular open houses. We joined the residents for a public event about...
by mvboronowski | Mar 19, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
This article was co-written by Robert Bryce and Peter Mackenzie. Grandma used to say, “Some people can fall into a bucket of crap and climb out smelling like a rose”. As we grow older, we start to realize the wisdom behind those words. Why do some people...
