Elect Jennifer Sweeney for Vancity Director Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:59:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Sunday, June 14, we enjoyed another car-free day on Main Street.  The weather was perfect -- not too hot.  This year there was a lot more food available and it extended from 12th Avenue up to King Edward (25th) Avenue. My favourite table was Drawings by Quinn.  He told me ... /2009/06/17/car-free-day/ I have spent the last month totally immersed in the Space Shuttle mission to Hubble. One of my classmates in graduate school married the man she was dating at the time. He was accepted into the astronaut program in 2000 and we've remained in contact through e-mail, family and mutual ... /2009/05/28/atlantis-space-shuttle-mission-sts-125/ The Honourable Louise Arbour was the speaker at last night's Hycroft Lecture, sponsored by the University Women's Club of Vancouver.  It was a great privilege to hear her as she is warm, funny, and has a great mind.  Madame Arbour has been named President and CEO of the International Crisis Group and ... /2009/04/28/louise-arbour/ Daniel and I attended the Vancity AGM Tuesday night. We had a chance to sit with 5 members from surrounding communities (Tsawassen and the Fraser Valley) who came to the AGM on the buses. The woman sitting on my left told me that she didn't vote for me because she ... /2009/04/23/vancity-agm-2/ Eve Ensler, creator of "Vagina Monologues", talks about the learnings in her life and the path she found herself on by doing this work. "When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us." Wow. /2009/04/18/eve-ensler-on-happiness/ I received a phone call on Thursday morning and was informed that I was not elected this year.  This was my third attempt -- in the last two elections, I have been the top independent.  I ran my campaigns in the way I hoped that our board members would be ... /2009/04/15/vancity-results/ I spent the day in Surrey yesterday at two Vancity branches.  I had the great pleasure of meeting two other candidates, Harry Deo and current director Kim Griffith.  While I was alone at one branch yesterday morning, an older Indo-Canadian man stopped to talk with me.  He went in and voted and told ... /2009/04/04/last-day-of-the-campaign/ photo of False Creek and Sweeney Cooperage mill (at left) in the early 1960s from City of Vancouver archives   I spent the day yesterday campaigning at two branches.  I started downtown at Pender and Hornby from 11:00 to 1:45.  Then I walked over to the Cambie Bridge to the 10th and Cambie ... /2009/04/01/vancity-campaigning/ The Women's Campaign School was a great success this year.  Thirty women benefited by hearing the voices of experience from our instructors who volunteer to teach at the school.  The overwhelming highlight for the participants was the Sunday session with Chief Lisa Shaver of the Penelakut Tribe on Kuper Island.  A sample comment ... /2009/03/31/womens-campaign-school-2009/ I was interviewed yesterday in my role a president of the Canadian Women Voters Congress by a journalist at the North Shore News, Jessica Barrett.  She did a really nice job of interviewing several women, including Women's Campaign School graduates from the North Shore.  The number of MLAs in BC who are ... /2009/03/25/north-shore-news/