Finding funding for a community service organization is critically important, and highly competitive. Anyone can submit grant applications, but few will be successful, because even though their hearts are in the right place, their minds aren’t. Most often grant application writing is done by an organization’s executive director or manager, folks whose time for any one task is limited, and …
The only thing more frightening in life than knowing that your life’s in imminent danger from a person hellbent of killing others, is not knowing what to do. You may say, “There’s nothing I can do”, but you’re horribly wrong, because there are many things that you can do to save your life, and those of others. The first thing …
To: The board of directors of Sears Holding Corporation Re: Store Closures Thank you for this opportunity to address you, My name is Will, and I’ve been a customer of Sears for my entire life (over six decades). It is was with great sadness that I’ve watched the slow erosion of locations and morale of Sears across North America, and …
The world is swirling with rumors and speculation about Donald Trump, both personally, and over his his suitability as president of the United States. However, nowhere on Earth is there more concern and violent opposition than in his own country. But, I can assure you that public opinions and beliefs have been very intentionally manipulated in traitorous ways, by some …
Nestled in northern British Columbia is an ancient rainforest hidden in plain site. About an hour east of Prince George, BC, (113 kilometers – 70 miles) the Ancient Forest Interpretive Trail has become a popular tourist stop. The canopy of primordial Western Cedars (Thuja plicata) tower like organic skyscrapers in a biological metropolis. These marvelous monstrosities range up to 213 to …
While Canadians have gone about the business of life, the nation is being inundated with ‘foreign investors’ buying up huge tracts of their land, with some parcels larger than some kingdoms. However, instead of Canadians profiting from all this investment, Canada is literally becoming a global community garden, with some new land owners ready to defend their newly purchased land’s …
2014 will go down in history as a pivotal point in human history, as traditions tumbled to dust, and the dawn of machines rose above us, filling the sky with mechanical doom. It marked the growth of green, the plummet of petroleum, and massive shifts in social behaviors around the world. The global economy remained much like a kitten playing …
The dirty white spot was an irregular hexagon or heptagon about an inch-and-a-half in diameter, with jagged edges. It was located on the sidewalk directly in front of the door to my apartment building. I presume it had once been a facial tissue that fell from someone’s pocket as they reached for their keys or a glove. For three months, …
British Columbia’s provincial flag was adopted in 1960. British Columbia’s provincial animal is the Kermode bear, also known as the “Spirit Bear”. British Columbia’s provincial flower is the Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii). It is a tree that grows six to eight metres high, and flowers in April and May. In the autumn, it is conspicuous for its cluster of bright …
Bob and Ellie Tupper are not just beer drinkers, they are beer detectives! They started logging notes of what their work as sleuths revealed in 1979, and have been going hard it now for 35 years. What prompted the unassuming, mild mannered couple from Bethesda, Maryland to delve into darkened taverns, risk clandestine sidewalk cafe consummation, and to be tempted …
How many odds have been defied in that Earth hasn’t been hit by a large asteroid or meteor in several years? To paraphrase what George Orwell wrote in 1984, three other slogans that could be used by the double thinkers are Black is White, Insanity is Sanity, Illness is Health. To me getting intimate with a smoker is like licking …
By Ron Murdock “Churches must find liberation from the old wineskin of ‘church’ and become places of mission. We joyfully lose our lives for the sake of Jesus and the gospel, believing He will truly build his church.” – Michael Ward, head pastor of Central United Church in Calgary, Alberta. The Jesus Movement was a good idea that got started …
