The Vancouver Coastal Health Caregiver Support Program is hosting three, FREE workshops for family caregivers in October!

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These workshops are open to individuals providing unpaid care or support to an adult friend or family member. Your help distributing this information with those who might be interested is appreciated. Please see attached posters and details below for registration information. COPING WITH ON-GOING LOSS & GRIEF Sat., Oct. 5, 2013 10 am – 12:30…

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Caring Circle Needs Your Support at BIRD!

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Caring Circle will receive the proceeds from BIRD recycling for part of Oct/ Nov. and we need your support! We need a few more people to cover some of the dates. So if you can help even one day, we would be thrilled. So the dates are Oct. 17-21 / Oct. 24th – 28th /…

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Caring Circle to Provide Relief

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Bowen Island Undercurrent Published: September 19, 2013 3:00 PM Dear Editor: Thank you for your full report on the Caring Circle and their efforts to provide interim support to people in need of medical care or social services. However effective their resource guide and other printed material may be, it is the human element the…

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Caring Circle Seeks Funding

Caring Circle New Home

Caring Circle’s new home at the cottage behind the library By Susanne Martin – Bowen Island Undercurrent Published: September 13, 2013 2:00 PM Last week, the Caring Circle Resource Centre’s office moved from Village Square into the heritage cottage next to the library. Since it opened in its previous location in February, about 180 people…

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Diane and Don Marshall named Citizens of the Year

Don and Diane Marshall are Bowen Island’s Citizens of the Year for 2013 By Susanne Martin – Bowen Island Undercurrent Published: August 16, 2013 9:00 AM Community engagement and volunteering are alive and well on Bowen Island, as was evident from the many substantial Citizen of the Year nominations. The list of submissions included four…

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