Dear Readers
Dear Readers,
Good luck to a New Year, New Goals, and New Opportunities!
What are your New Year’s resolutions? I have parenting goals, relationship goals, health goals, friend goals, budgeting goals, reading goals, hobby goals, work goals, and even pleasure goals….for all facets of life………I am getting after it…….Failure is a given…..Another chance to start, of course…. After all. life IS improvisational, as we never know exactly what is coming, but having a plan is comforting.
In choosing an entrepreneur, Dr. Lee Van Horn, an emerging writer, Rachelle Chartrand, an artist Mariko Ando, and community connectors, Katherine Allen & Laura Kosciecha as our feature for the January issue, we found ourselves in good company. I see a creative abundance in all areas of life, including realizations of ourselves. As Dr. Van Horn said in his interview, “In your community, there are a million ways to give back and the only reason you don’t see them is because you are not looking. After all, it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness”. The key, again, is effort.
Kudos to Bernie Percy and Mary Dopson, 2014 recipients of the Volunteer Award of Kerrisdale Community Centre. We awarded two awards to long time volunteers who have made great contributions to our community. I would like to highlight here some noteworthy achievements:
Bernie Percy joined the knitting group 12 years ago and leads the group. Bernie was born in Dublin, Ireland, one of 10 children. Bernie is very proud of her involvement with the Book of Kells, an ancient book from Ireland which dates from the 6th Century BC. There were a few replicas made and Bernie organized a committee to purchase the only copy in Canada. It is now on permanent display in the UBC library, and it is the most popular book in the library, and there now is a course about the history of the Book of Kells, at UBC.
Happy New Year.
Keiko Honda Editor-in-Chief Chair, Community Engagement
