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		<title>Fall on the Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Two birthdays, two lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lidia Lagarde]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was moved to another foster home. And then another. And another—too many to count.
Sexual abuse and confusion about her identity—the result of being shuffled around like lost airline baggage—was the result. <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/two-birthdays-two-lives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=16&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brunette River coming back to life</title>
		<link>http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/brunette-river-coming-back-to-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Burnaby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WALTER WALKER, a mentor for many in the Sapperton Fish and Game Club, spent most of his 85-year life living beside the Brunette River. Now deceased, Walker told other members about the thousands of salmon that once filled the creek &#8230; <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/brunette-river-coming-back-to-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=228&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are the Qayqayt</title>
		<link>http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/we-are-the-qayqayt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Nations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhonda Larrabee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first 24 years of her life, she didn’t even know she was First Nations &#160; Rhonda Larrabee was researching at the New Westminster Public Library when she came across a book describing the history of New Westminster. Published &#8230; <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/we-are-the-qayqayt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=27&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost creeks seeing the light</title>
		<link>http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/lost-creeks-seeing-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BCIT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old waterways are still there. You just have to listen for them Even in 1936 the oldtimers recall Guichon Creek being culverted. The Burnaby waterway was diverted beneath new roads and homes, but popped out near where Moscrop secondary &#8230; <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/lost-creeks-seeing-the-light/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=36&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Share the earth</title>
		<link>http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/share-the-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janet Moore’s backyard once revealed that an active gardener lived in the south Burnaby home.
Beautiful mature perennial plants made the yard into a sanctuary while the packed vegetable garden produced a bounty for the dinner table with the surplus going to thankful friends and family. <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/share-the-earth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=263&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seed (bombs) of subversion</title>
		<link>http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/seed-bombs-of-subversion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flowers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To anyone observing, it’s just a woman and a man out for a walk with a dog.
But secretly, one of them is a terrorist and the other a reporter tagging along for a story.
The dog, a feisty black Labrador puppy, is just there for the exercise. <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/seed-bombs-of-subversion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=46&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loss of that personal touch</title>
		<link>http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/loss-of-that-personal-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s noon and Mike Hirata should be closing the doors of his photography store for the last time. But customers on this day—Dec. 30—keep walking into his long-serving New Westminster business. It&#8217;s like they don&#8217;t want FotoFun on Sixth Street &#8230; <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/loss-of-that-personal-touch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=210&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Each student is unique</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a lifetime of teaching, retiring principal Barb Keating will miss two simple things the most. First: hearing her students sing. And the second is the magic that happens when she reaches a child through her teaching, that moment when &#8230; <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/180/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=180&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving &#039;cause it feels good</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McQuillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask Ron Kolody why he gives up part of his Christmas Day to volunteer at Burnaby Hospital each year and he’ll give you 500 reasons. That’s about the number of patients and staff he visits each Dec. 25 as the &#8230; <a href="http://michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/giving-cause-it-feels-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelmcquillan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21350197&amp;post=170&amp;subd=michaelmcquillan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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