The day started with a Homecoming meeting. Owen Sound is celebrating it's 150th with tons of events planned. The United Way is going to conduct an Amazing Race for teens on August 2nd. Today we added a teen dance that will take place the same day. More on that as the plans come together.
Today we had a film crew in the office. They were working on a documentary on poverty, schools and the links and challenges for students from low income families. They featured local activist and researcher Colleen Purdon who asked me to contribute as a woman who has experienced, and written about, the despair of being poor.
The filming went really well, the documentary will be finished in December. It came about because they had focused on urban poverty not really thinking there was a difference. Then they heard about Colleen's rural women's poverty project and started asking questions about the difference between rural and urban poverty.
What was truly freaky was that they asked me what my son was up to and I said he was tree planting, they asked where and I said "Elk Lake" well they were from Elk Lake!! Totally derailed the filming for 10 minutes as we discussed Elk Lake. By the way Elk Lake is 7 or so hours north of here, 3 hours north west of North Bay. Beautiful little community.
All and all an eventful day, getting support for youth in our community and breaking down stereotypes on poverty.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment