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Moving troubles

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Packing before a move Photo by Aberdeen Proving Ground, Flickr

Packing before a move
Photo by Aberdeen Proving Ground, Flickr

by Dorsa Ghiassi

Level 2

Moving has a lot of troubles and difficulties.
I had this experience three times.
Moving for me is one of the hardest things
you could do on earth.
Because you go into an entirely new environment.
The hardest part would be for children
when they change schools.
Especially when they come
to a school in the middle of the year.
Other students already made good friends,
and they don’t want to come and rely on a new person.
They’d rather be with the friend
who they already know about.

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Women in Trades

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B.C. wants more women to take trades training. Photograph courtesy of Thompson Rivers University

B.C. wants more women to take trades training.
Photograph courtesy of Thompson Rivers University

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 3

Members of B.C.’s building trades
have worked on most big projects in B.C.
The skills of these people have made
many dams and pipelines.
These projects give us power and heat our homes.
The bridges and highways take us to work, and home again.
We travel on them when we go on holiday.
The hospitals we use, and the schools
our children attend have been built by skilled workers.
The world of the trades has been a world of men.
But this world is slowly changing.

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Kamloops man has a new guitar design

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Mike Miltimore of Lee’s Music in Kamloops, won first place in a B.C. contest for young people starting a new business. Photo by Monica Miltimore, courtesy of Riversong Guitars

Mike Miltimore of Lee’s Music in Kamloops, won first place in a B.C. contest for young people starting a new business.
Photo by Monica Miltimore, courtesy of Riversong Guitars

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 2

Mike Miltimore, 36, says he “was born
and made to work in the music industry”.
As a child, he took apart guitars for his father.
Miltimore’s father, Lee, was the owner of Lee’s Music in Kamloops.
As a teen, the youth worked in his father’s music store after school.
At night and on weekends, he worked on
sound and lighting for special events.
Mike says his first and only job has been as a sound engineer.
He loves this work.
He is co-owner of Lee’s Music, which is now a family business.


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New lungs, new life

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Colleen Kohse has lived for 23 years with a donated heart and lungs. Photo by Ian Smith, The Vancouver Sun

Colleen Kohse has lived for 23 years with a donated heart and lungs.
Photo by Ian Smith, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 2

Colleen Kohse, 53, lives in Vancouver.
When she was in her 20s she received new lungs.
At that time, Kohse was very ill.
She had cystic fibrosis (CF).
CF is a disease. CF affects the lungs.
People with CF have a hard time breathing.
They also get infections in their lungs.
Kohse lost many of her friends who also had CF.
She had her lung transplant surgery in England.
Doctors in B.C. were not doing the surgery in the 1990s.

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Helping teachers in Kenya

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English teachers in Kenya attend a workshop given by Canadian and U.S. volunteers in 2012. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carson, Tembo-Kenya

English teachers in Kenya attend a workshop
given by Canadian and U.S. volunteers in 2012.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Carson, Tembo-Kenya

Level 3

You are a young child in Kenya.
You speak your tribal language in your early years.
Then you learn a new language. It is Swahili.
Now you can speak to people outside your own area.


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Nelson Tagoona, hip hop artist from Nunavut, Canada

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Inuit throat singers Photo by Ansgar Walk, Wikimedia Commons

Inuit throat singers
Photo by Ansgar Walk, Wikimedia Commons

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 1

Nelson Tagoona is nineteen years old.
He is from Baker Lake, Nunavut.
Baker Lake has less than 2,000 people.
Nelson is a hip hop artist.
But he is a different hip hop artist.
Nelson learned something when he was little.
He learned throat singing.

(Please see the YouTube video of Nelson in the “Links” section below.)


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April in Moravia is not like April in Vancouver

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Crocuses, one of the first spring flowers in B.C. Photo by Saha Mousavi

Crocuses, one of the first spring flowers in B.C.
Photo by Saha Mousavi

Submitted by a reader, Milos Smilnak, and Nancy Carson

One of our readers, Milos Smilnak,
lives in the eastern part of the Czech Republic.
Last year, his son Oliver wrote a story about Christmas
in their home for The Westcoast Reader blog.
Oliver also did an audio to accompany his story.
At one time, the family lived in Vancouver
and Oliver attended Lord Roberts Elementary.


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Injured bird gets a peg leg

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A male sandhill crane has a new leg thanks to a vet at Elizabeth's Wildlife Center in Abbotsford. The four-foot tall bird was injured on a golf course in Richmond. Photograph by Kim Stallknecht, The Vancouver Sun

A male sandhill crane has a new leg thanks to a vet at Elizabeth’s Wildlife Center in Abbotsford. The four-foot tall bird was injured on a golf course in Richmond.
Photograph by Kim Stallknecht, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 1

Rare birds are living near a golf course in Richmond.
The birds are called sandhill cranes.
About 12 are in Richmond, Delta and Pitt Meadows.
Years ago, many cranes lived in those places.
But humans now have homes there.
The cranes are losing their habitat.


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