Smurf toys
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Reading by: Jessica Heafey
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Subway opens 400th restaurant in B.C.
Manager Angela Alvano shows a Subway sandwich.
Photo by Ric Ernst, The Vancouver Sun
Adapted from The Vancouver Sun and www.wikipedia.org
Level 2
Subway restaurants are successful in B.C.
Recently, the 400th Subway store opened in Vancouver.
The restaurant is near Rogers Arena.
An arena is an indoor sports place.
The Vancouver Canucks hockey team plays there.
It is a good place to put a Subway restaurant.
Many hockey fans are hungry before or after hockey games.
Subway stores are in 104 communities in B.C.
Subway hires about 4,000 people.
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Tracing fish
A teacher in Kenya eats fish for his lunch. The fish was caught in the ocean
next to a nearby city. Do you know where your fish comes from?
Photo by Nancy Carson
Adapted from The Vancouver Sun
Level 3
People want to know where their meat comes from.
Some also want to know where chickens are raised.
Now you can find out where your fish comes from.
“This Fish”
A small Canadian website called This Fish can help.
Ecotrust Canada started a fish tracing tool in 2010.
This Fish is in 29 Thrifty Foods stores in B.C.
It is also used in Bruce’s Country Market in Coquitlam.
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A cooking program opens doors for First Nations
Local chef Andrew George, top center, and aboriginal students Eugene Crain, left, and Lawrence George show off their new dishes at the cooking school in North Vancouver.
Photo by Mark van Manen, The Vancouver Sun
Adapted from The Vancouver Sun
Level 2
Vancouver loves local food.
But there is little First Nations food in the city.
Chef Andrew George Jr. hopes to change this.
In early November, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (slay-wa-tuth)
in North Vancouver celebrated.
The first class graduated from its own professional chef’s program.
And local chef George is the lead teacher in the program.
This first class had 12 First Nations students, ages 20 to 53.
Six were Tsleil-Wastuth and six were from outside B.C.
For the first time in years and years, people ate elk at the ceremony.
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A Beanpod from Fernie goes to London
Cacao pods ripening on a tree
Photo: Public domain
Adapted from The Vancouver Courier
Level 3
Fernie is famous for skiing.
The city calls itself a mountain town.
In the winter there is plenty of snow.
The Rocky Mountains are on all sides of Fernie.
Fernie is in southeastern B.C.
Beanpod Chocolate makes its home in Fernie.
Maybe now, Fernie will be famous for chocolate.
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Solly’s cinnamon buns go around the world – Audio
Cinnamon sticks and orange slices
Photo: Petr Kratochvil (public domain)
Reading by: Victoria Carter
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Solly’s cinnamon buns go around the world
Solly’s cinnamon buns, Vancouver
Photo courtesy of Jenn Chic, WE Vancouver
Adapted from WEVancouver
Level 2
Leah Markovitch owns Solly’s in Vancouver.
Solly’s is a bakery and deli.
The bakery makes Jewish baking.
They serve soup and sandwiches, too.
You can sit down. You can have a snack.
Or you can eat a nice lunch.
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A bouquet you can eat
Leane Ma holds one of the edible bouquets she made in her store.
Photo by Doug Shanks, WE Vancouver
Adapted from WE Vancouver
Level 2
We often visit friends or family for a meal.
Sometimes we take flowers as a gift for the host.
Flowers are nice but they last about a week.
Sometimes we take chocolates.
However, some people do not want to eat candy.
They don’t want their children to have candy, either.
These gifts can be expensive, as well.
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Mary makes chapatis in Kenya
Photo by Nancy Carson
Mary Oluko in Kenya with one of her daughters.
Level 1
Mary lives in Kenya. Kenya is in east Africa.
She has a son and two daughters.
Mary has many friends. She likes them to visit her.
I live in a small apartment in Mary’s yard.
I am in Kenya for a few months to help teachers.
I like to watch Mary cook.
Sometimes I take pictures.
Mary invites friends
Today is Sunday. On Sundays Mary goes to church.
But today she will not go. She is very busy.
She invited seven friends to her home.
Mary needs help to make lunch.
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Buy better meat, spend less money – Audio
Cattle at North Valley Farm in Abbotsford, B.C.
Photo credit: Lori Bartsch
Reading by: Nila Gopaul
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