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VANCOUVER by Frank Dawson :
History of Carnegie
The Carnegie Community Centre building was opened in 1903 as Vancouver’s first public library. In 1957 it became the City Museum and then was empty for ten years.
Carnegie Community Centre opened its doors to the public on January 20, 1980.
Carnegie Centre is a positive place to go .
Need help you will probably find what you need at Carnegie Centre.
The Carnegie Centre at 401 Main Street provides a range of social, recreational and educational programs for the residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It is often described as the community’s living room—a place where people can come to participate in programs or to simply relax and socialize with others. Carnegie Centre provides help for the homeless and poor people of the downtown eastside.
Carnegie is open 7 days a week every day of the year from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm as a safe, drug and alcohol free environment. Among the services and resources are:
* Vancouver Public Library Reading Room
* Weight Room
* Learning/Literacy Centre
* Kitchen: 3 nutritional meals a day plus snacks
* Seniors Centre
* Auditorium and Gym
* Dark Room and Pottery Room
* Art Gallery
Carnegie serves disadvantaged residents of the Downtown Eastside and neighboring communities with a low-cost cafeteria, library, learning centre, theatre, gym, weight room, pool room, and seniors lounge.
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at 10:32 on January 31st, 2008
I'm also a realatively new member to the DTES, having crash landed here about a year and a half ago. The plan was to be involved in Grandville Island stuff and likely living in Kitsalano. For some reason the day after I toured and talked to people on Granville I spent some time around Main & Hastings. I really don't remember why, but it changed my own perspective of my life. And walking into the Carnegie Centre nailed it, this was where I was supposed to be.
The Carnegie Centre then, and now, is a big part of my life. The staff I've come to know are good people running a phenomenal place. I am awed and humbled every day. I've been on 26 boards in my life and know these are real issues affecting real people, absolutely. But I've never been a fan of absolutes, confrontations, especially at the beginning of addressing an issue, problem, whatever. Each and every one of the projects, programs, activisms, that reached a positive end or having been solved has been a team effort of comprimise. It just ain't going to happen any other way.
I wonder at so much effort, feelings and time spent on this singular issue when we are under siege. Our neighborhood is under attack. And I don't see that much time, effort and cooperative planning over the big picture. A persons individual rights are, of course, paramount. But sometimes we get a little silly about it (I bet that's going to go over real well).
I've been on the net since 1995 but I'm brand new to this blogging stuff. Please excuse my fumbling.
at 10:35 on January 31st, 2008
I'm also a realatively new member to the DTES, having crash landed here about a year and a half ago. The plan was to be involved in Grandville Island stuff and likely living in Kitsalano. For some reason the day after I toured and talked to people on Granville I spent some time around Main & Hastings. I really don't remember why, but it changed my own perspective of my life. And walking into the Carnegie Centre nailed it, this was where I was supposed to be.
The Carnegie Centre then, and now, is a big part of my life. The staff I've come to know are good people running a phenomenal place. I am awed and humbled every day. I've been on 26 boards in my life and know these are real issues affecting real people, absolutely. But I've never been a fan of absolutes, confrontations, especially at the beginning of addressing an issue, problem, whatever. Each and every one of the projects, programs, activisms, that reached a positive end or having been solved has been a team effort of comprimise. It just ain't going to happen any other way.
I wonder at so much effort, feelings and time spent on this singular issue when we are under siege. Our neighborhood is under attack. And I don't see that much time, effort and cooperative planning over the big picture. A persons individual rights are, of course, paramount. But sometimes we get a little silly about it (I bet that's going to go over real well).
I've been on the net since 1995 but I'm brand new to this blogging stuff. Please excuse my fumbling.
at 10:35 on January 31st, 2008
I'm also a realatively new member to the DTES, having crash landed here about a year and a half ago. The plan was to be involved in Grandville Island stuff and likely living in Kitsalano. For some reason the day after I toured and talked to people on Granville I spent some time around Main & Hastings. I really don't remember why, but it changed my own perspective of my life. And walking into the Carnegie Centre nailed it, this was where I was supposed to be.
The Carnegie Centre then, and now, is a big part of my life. The staff I've come to know are good people running a phenomenal place. I am awed and humbled every day. I've been on 26 boards in my life and know these are real issues affecting real people, absolutely. But I've never been a fan of absolutes, confrontations, especially at the beginning of addressing an issue, problem, whatever. Each and every one of the projects, programs, activisms, that reached a positive end or having been solved has been a team effort of comprimise. It just ain't going to happen any other way.
I wonder at so much effort, feelings and time spent on this singular issue when we are under siege. Our neighborhood is under attack. And I don't see that much time, effort and cooperative planning over the big picture. A persons individual rights are, of course, paramount. But sometimes we get a little silly about it (I bet that's going to go over real well).
I've been on the net since 1995 but I'm brand new to this blogging stuff. Please excuse my fumbling.