Am getting ready for Christmas. Looking forward to getting together with friends and having Bram and Sarah over for dinner.  This week I started a new job as a Dietary Aide at Beacon Hill Villa, a long term care facility a couple of blocks away from my home.  My intention is to work on an "on call" basis, preferably just for a couple of days a week. That will help me pay off some bills, and start a new travel fund.  This week I have already worked two training shifts - noon to 8 pm. It is hard work!  We are busy making sandwiches and setting up the snack carts, making coffee and tea, sanitizing surfaces, helping the cook 'plate' the meals (taking the elevator to the 4 residential floors), helping the dishwasher, bringing up the snack carts, and doing a final floor mop. Next week I will do 2 training shifts as a dishwasher, and I volunteered to work on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.  So that is a month's worth of work in two weeks!

I am also still busy as Secretary of the James Bay Neighbourhood Association - switching our email system over to "yahoogroups", and have just called a meeting of the Harbourside Rotary Club's World Community Service Committee.  Next month I will be coordinating the Club's "Kids' Kits" campaign, where we will be distributing plastic bins to members who will fill them with school supplies, personal supplies and toys for distribution to children in Africa.  Am looking forward to social events over the next couple of weeks, getting together with friends and having my son Bram and his girlfriend Sarah over for dinner.

 


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    I retired from the British Columbia public service in 2005, following a 28 year career. During this time I was a Senior Policy Analyst and at various times held responsibility for employment and labour relations policy, women's programs, child care policy, prepared reports to the International Labour Office, and managed domestic and international human rights, including preparing status reports on UN Conventions. I managed a $124 million child care subsidy program, and was the lead for British Columbia during Canada's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  I also provided input to draft UN conventions on persons with disabilities, and the Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Persons. One of my favorite roles was representing British Columbia on the Provincial/Federal/Territorial Committee of Officials on Human Rights. From 1987 to 1990 Iheld the position of Alderman (as it was then) Victoria's City Council, with primarily responsibility for Parks and Heritage. Currently I hold the position of Chair of the World Community Service Committee of Victoria's Harbourside Rotary Club, and am busy drafting an application for funding for a clean water project in Honduras.   I volunteer with seniors at Beacon Hill Villa, taking residents on outings, and have a blast volunteering in the soup kitchen at Our Place.  I enjoy sewing, and have been an avid dragonboater.  I have not paddled regularly the past couple of years, but I did sit in with the MS  Warriors for a race in Nanaimo this summer.  This is a team made up of people who have multiple sclerosis, and they are a very fun, inspiring group of people.

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