The members of the Carnegie Centre elected me to give them a voice to their concerns. I have found that to be really difficult.Many times members have told me that they feel there is a lack of accountability in...
created by Rachel Davis | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 284 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This is a letter I recently wrote a fellow Director of the Board at the Carnegie Centre. He had written to the board asking for information about the barring of another Board Member, William Simpson, from the...
created by Rachel Davis | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 550 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
The Carnegie Centre is owned and staffed by the City of Vancouver. Ethel Whitty is the Director, and she manages the Carnegie as a community centre for the residents of the Downtown Eastside, taking...
created by alawisious | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 415 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This morning CBC's The Early Edition aired some of the messages they received on their Talkback line regarding the interviews they held with William Simpson, Rachel Davis and Ethel Whitty. Click on the...
created by alawisious | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 365 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
Wednesday, Rachel Davis spoke up on behalf of homeless man William Simpson, who is barred from the Carnegie Community Centre where they are both members of the Board of Directors. They were being interviewed...
created by alawisious | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 307 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Carnegie Director Ethel Whitty declined an invitation by CBC's Early
Edition to be interviewed yesterday along with William "Bill" Simpson,
the homeless man barred from Carnegie Board meetings two weeks after
being elected to the Board. But Whitty turned up on the show...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 620 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The mainstream media, first the Vancouver Sun and then CBC Radio, have picked up a story that the DTES Enquirer blog has been publishing for a year. The DTES Enquirer had also posted the story on internet news sites, first NowPublic and later Blogger News Network. ...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 823 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments