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Fundraising with a Rummage Sale in Portland, Oregon

Fundraising with a Rummage Sale in Portland, Oregon

Every other summer the Portland branch puts on a two-day rummage sale  This year’s sale was huge and brought equally huge results with sales reaching over $7,000.  It was hard work by many which paid off for the society.  Participants prepared for the event by donating treasures, working for two days pricing donations, making signs […]
All Souls Festival at D’Arcy St

All Souls Festival at D’Arcy St

All Souls Festival is being observed at D’Arcy St Temple in Toronto with Taoist and Confucian chanting.  Volunteers and staff have been working for weeks to support the festival and those who wish to offer paper money and other gifts to the dead. Many members of the local Chinese community come to D’Arcy St over […]
Smiling Faces and Happy Bellies

Smiling Faces and Happy Bellies

The hard-working kitchen team were thanked at CIT Week for their amazing feat of ensuring the hundreds of CIT participants and volunteers were well-fed with meals three times a day plus snacks. The team also provided jai for All Souls at the International Centre last weekend, and food for a reception and luncheon on the […]
Glorious start to final day of CIT

Glorious start to final day of CIT

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest … ” – Charles Tennyson Turner Leroy bet me I couldn’t find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.”  – Rita Mae Brown God’s illumined promise.” […]
Training in the Kitchen — Part Two

Training in the Kitchen — Part Two

This is working together … It’s not a question of ‘What did you do? What did you prepare?’ It’s always a ‘We did it together. We got the time right together.’ My biggest lesson has been that there are always problems, but that there are always five solutions for each problem. You just have to […]
Dancing Dragon Does Double Duty

Dancing Dragon Does Double Duty

On an overcast day in Canada’s most multicultural city participants from the Bathurst location of the Toronto branch, ably abetted by fellow participants from other Toronto locations, came together to parade the nine-person dragon at two events on July 22, 2017.  First we gathered at the Bathurst location and walked to a nearby park, Wychwood […]
Bowling with the Blue Jays for Charity in Dunedin, Florida

Bowling with the Blue Jays for Charity in Dunedin, Florida

Participants from Dunedin joined the Dunedin Blue Jays this past Saturday, in a charity event for Ronald McDonald House. There were two lanes of bowling, lots of fun, toryus, donyus, as well as a delicious Italian buffet!  Ronald McDonald was there with the Ace, the Blue Jays mascot, to round out the fun with the whole […]
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