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Old East Common - Grand Opening May 27
Garden party to honour contributors
COMMUNITY: Neighbours made the Old East Common what it is today
The thing that catches my eye is the weathered wooden highchair.
Amid the trees, the shed, the garden bed, the benches and the basketball net, the highchair's presence in this tiny park seems curious.
It turns out a local resident used the highchair as an infant. And after his mother died, the man carried it into this little green space and left it here as a memorial. And that prompted a few other neighbours to start bringing in plants and bushes to honour the memory of their late loved ones.
In many ways, that chair is a perfect symbol of this little green space.
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Western Serves
A campus-wide program designed to increase awareness about service-learning, and provide Western students, staff and faculty with an opportunity to spend time together, engaged in active service in the London community. For the past three years LIFE*SPIN has taken part in Wetern Serves and volunteers have helped ready Old East Commons for planting and also planted 20 trees with ReForest London. Here are a few pictures of Western students working hard at LIFE*SPIN. Many hands make light work.
Western Serves: "A (facebook) group for us to remember the best service learning day ever! "
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31608291077#!/group.php?gid=31608291077&v=photos
Christmas Sponsorship Video
This video details a bit about our Christmas Sponsorship program
Christmas Sponsorship Video on YouTube
Imagine Canada
LIFE*SPIN is a member of the Imagine Canada's Ethical Code Program.
Charities that participate in this Program have a made a commitment to an extensive set of standards and accountability measures. MacLeans Magazine featured these charities in the summer 2010 supplement edition.
http://www.imaginecanada.ca/files/www/en/publications/ethical_code_supplement_07152010.pdf
Kimberly Rogers Inquest Alerts
Kimberly Rogers Inquest - Tues. Nov. 26, 2002 - Day 26
Ontario Social Safety NetWork (OSSN) Summary
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CAIC Borrowers - LIFE*SPIN: Margaret's Community Housing Initative
Housing has clearly emerged as one of the most important social issues facing Canadian society. A decade of withdrawal from support of public housing projects by all levels of government has resulted in record levels of homelessness with no solution insight. Exacerbating this problem has been the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients. They have been by in large left to their own devices with little or no support offered.
Recognizing this problem a community group in London, Ontario LIFESPIN (Low-Income Family Empowerment & Sole-Support Parents Information Network) devised a project that if successful would house survivors of psychiatric facilities and offer them support. The project would focus on women. They decided to call the project Margaret's Community Housing Project in memory of one of LIFESPIN's clients whose very real struggle with mental illness had touched everyone in the organization.
Click here to read more of Jacqueline Thompson's speech for CAIC's 2010 AGM.