A Homeless Vet’s Journey: The Saga Continues…
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- Dec 13, 2017
A Homeless Vet’s Journey: Week 8
To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey – Week 8, click on the play button below: The letter with updated information...
- Feb 10, 2017
Imagine A World With More HOPE
This is George Frederic Watts 1886 painting, “Hope.” Hope is sitting on a globe, blindfolded, clutching a wooden lyre with only one...
- Mar 3, 2014
It was there all the time.
It was right before my eyes all the time, just waiting for me to wake up and see it! Typical of many smaller organizations, our needs...
- Jan 27, 2014
The Small Things
Someone gave me a gift of money and instructed to help someone. Nothing came to mind immediately so I tucked it away- and took it out...
- Jan 20, 2014
A Place of Second Chances
I remember very clearly the day when Vern spoke up to support another guy who messed up. The guy stole something from our office, and we...
- Dec 18, 2013
“Tessa’s Home” Episode 7: A Real Home for Christmas
Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th. To listen to the audio backgrounder from family radio CHRI, click below....
- Dec 2, 2013
“Tessa’s Home” Episode 2: More About ‘Home’
Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th. To listen to the audio backgrounder from CHRI , click below. Miss previous...
- Nov 28, 2013
“Tessa’s Home”, Episode 1: My First ‘Home’
Tessa’s Home is an 8 part series running until December 27th. To listen to the audio backgrounder from family radio CHRI, click below....
- Nov 25, 2013
Social Structures and the Up-coming Passion 4 Youth Art Show
For the past three months I have had the absolute pleasure of working with the young artists involved in OIM’s Passion 4 Youth art...
- Aug 12, 2013
A System Built for Some
The Ottawa Police have had a heavy presence this summer. I see them patrolling the streets, walking down Bank or Elgin in pairs, or...
- Jul 25, 2011
Eddy turns himself in!
Our youth outreach worker recounted this story of last Monday’s events, and I thought you would be interested. Eddy was one of the first...
- Jun 24, 2011
Just ‘doing their job’? You decide…
A few weeks ago, one of our street youth was found drowned in the Ottawa River. I can tell you he came from a broken home, with all the...
- Mar 10, 2011
What? Weather?
March winds blow, or it pours rain, minus 30 with the wind chill – or any combination thereof. Only in Canada, eh? We can look forward...
- Mar 3, 2011
Deaf and Dumb, but WHO?
Big transition of our drop in this past week from Salvation Army Gladstone Street to Dominion Chalmers U/C on Lisgar. For those who...
- Jan 27, 2011
No Where to Go
We were eating lunch when about twelve taps at the door came, softly, rhythmically and then stopped. We looked at each other and guessed...
- Jan 20, 2011
Gladness and Sadness
Our Christmas Dinner was held this past Tuesday, January 18. Three weeks after Christmas and people who received their cheques before...
- Oct 21, 2010
Moved with Compassion
Returning to the office in the early evening to gather some materials I had forgotten, I discovered the first of the evening outreach...
- Oct 8, 2010
Auction 2010 Report
Our second (which might become an ‘annual’) auction happened this past Monday, October 4. Here is a brief report about our evening: Over...
- Aug 26, 2010
Life on the Streets 2: Invisibility
I can become invisible in three seconds. In the time it takes for me to move to a standing position on the sidewalk to sit on the curb...