The front page of The Westcoast Reader, May 2013
Watch Stompin’ Tom Sing
Komagata Maru Journey
Voter online registration is now closed. You can still register when you go to vote on May 14.
Cozy Classics
Vote compass
BC SPCA
Carli Traver’s website “Carli’s kids”
Map of Uganda
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Cindy Lee holds a crab at T&T Supermarket.
Photo by Bill Keay, The Vancouver Sun
Adapted from The Vancouver Sun and
T&T Supermarket company website
Level 2
October 2009
Cindy Lee came to Vancouver from Taiwan in 1972.
She just wanted to have a simple life.
Lee shopped in Chinatown in the rain
with her three children.
Shopping in Chinatown
was not convenient (con-vee-nyint).
There were no shopping carts.
There was no parking and there were no washrooms.
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Photo by: Petr Kratochvil (public domain)
Summer is just around the corner, and The Westcoast Reader print edition will be taking its usual break in July and August until September. But, don’t worry, the online version is not closing up shop in the summer!
Our editorial team has decided to revive some of the most popular older articles from the print editions and offer them to you in electronic format. Most of the pdf’s will be accompanied by grammar and vocabulary exercises.
Many thanks to The Vancouver Sun and The Province for giving The Westcoast Reader permission to re-use their photos for our “Reader Favourites” summer series.
Every Monday and Wednesday, we will upload a pdf file of one such article; Fridays will be dedicated to summer announcements and reader submissions.
We are also preparing polls and a contest for you, so keep checking our website regularly!
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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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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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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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“Haft-seen” table at Saha’s house (detail)
Photo by: Saha Mousavi
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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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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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Your income tax package for 2012
Photo by Nila Gopaul
Level 2
Tax forms
Your T1 personal income tax returns
are due on or before April 30, 2013.
Where can you get a tax package?
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