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WebMistress By Laísa Condé, The Merritt Herald Reprinted with permission. Quilchena resident Dara Jan Vink has been awarded the province’s Medal of Good Citizenship for her years of advocacy and leadership in creating safe, welcoming spaces for members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community across British Columbia. Vink said the recognition came as a surprise. “I didn’t even … Read more
To Whom it May Concern. My name is Monica Shannon and I am a Volunteer Assistant with the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, a research center at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing. We are a team of health researchers from the University of British Columbia working in partnership with the … Read more
Because of numerous unsatisfactory experiences at the Pacific Inn on King George Highway in Surrey (the “Pink Palace”) we have decided to stop taking our business there. We’re in the process of seeking another location. Events scheduled for the Pink Palace are now shown as having “no physical location”. While the events are still scheduled, … Read more
This just in – if you’re a trans adult experiencing barriers to being physically active, these researchers from the University of Saskatchewan would like to hear from you. Here’s their post: PDF version: Transgender Announcement-No tabs Text version: If you have trouble opening the PDF, here’s the text from it, including the link to the … Read more
The Cornbury Society’s Annual General Meeting is on Monday 18 April. Please login (members only) and view our calendar to sign up and get location information. Not a member? Use our Contact Us page to request membership.
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Good news – TELUS has completed our line upgrade, resulting in a roughly five-fold increase in page upload speed. We expect you’ll see a somewhat brisker response on the site, particularly on graphics-heavy pages. There was no change to our IP address, so you should have seen only minimal interruptions in service as the upgrade … Read more
UPDATE: our line upgrade is scheduled for Wednesday 2 December between 8:00AM and noon. Because our IP address will be changing, you’ll experience some disruption in service while our new address is propagated across the internet. That process typically takes around 24 hours, but if you still can’t reach our site, or the content appears … Read more
Regulars at the monthly dinner meetings may have done a bit of a double-take when pulling into our favourite ABC Country Restaurant this month. It’s not the ABC Country Restaurant any more. It’s now Fay’s Family Restaurant. The unverified story goes that when ABC’s parent chain, Ricky’s Restaurant Group decided to amalgamate the ABC properties … Read more
The current Canadian election has seen the public subjected to an incredibly long election campaign — eleven weeks, longer than almost any other in our history — and at this writing we still have about three weeks to go. Many of us have already made up our minds — indeed, many of us probably made … Read more