What a great few days - Monday night we presented the Overcoming Poverty Together Plan to Bathurst City Council - it was fun and we got to be on TV - so that was also cool.
We headed out to Caraquet in a snow strorm, rolled into the Super 8 around 9:30pm, and went to work on our PowerPoint for the next morning - called it a night around 11.
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| Stéphane, our fearless Leader |
Tuesday started early as we had to be in Shippagan by 7, so we had to leave by 6:30, so we had to eat at 6, so had to get up at 5:30 - besides all that we had a great meeting with the business sector and the municipalities, not to mention another great Breakfast, thanks to UdeM - Shippagan Campus.
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| There is alot of inclusion, innovation (and Snow) in the Acadian Peninsula |
We finished the meeting and then started to work on the PowerPoint for Tuesday Night - it was geared for Non Profit Organizations and Citizens, so our presentation needed some tweeking. we left just in time to get to the Radio Station CKRO , we had to stop on the way and snap a shot of this gentleman who was using his electric wheelchair as plow by attaching a shovel to the arm - there is a ton of snow up north. Stéphane and Christine did a great job on the interview.
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CKRO - In Studio - Big Shout out to Poverty Reduction |
As we left the Radio Station I mentionned that Chu un rocker by Offenbach was one of my Dad's favorite songs, the DJ played it for us as we rocked our way back to Caraquet.
We headed to the Restaurant Orientale, they have a very good buffet - then onto MACS office to work on an progress update on the OPT plan for the website - we got it mostly done, then met with Léo-Paul at the Centre Benevolant - then a quick bite at la Caraquette - and off to our meeting in Inkerman - the meeting was well attended 30 interested people, many familar faces from the morning presentation - which goes a long way in showing the committment and engagement of this region in coming together to combat poverty.
We headed to the Restaurant Orientale, they have a very good buffet - then onto MACS office to work on an progress update on the OPT plan for the website - we got it mostly done, then met with Léo-Paul at the Centre Benevolant - then a quick bite at la Caraquette - and off to our meeting in Inkerman - the meeting was well attended 30 interested people, many familar faces from the morning presentation - which goes a long way in showing the committment and engagement of this region in coming together to combat poverty.
It was a long and awesome day - but many more people are engaged in making New Brunswick a better place by including everybody in it's development and prosperity.
"When we exclude someone's perspective, we lose an opportunity to gain knowledge." - Dr. Andre M. Perry
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