Tag Archive "poverty"

Group puts poverty on the agenda

The Hastings Prince Edward Poverty Roundtable wants to make poverty a part of the conversation this election.

Dealing with multiplication and maximum wage

For the last few months it has grown more difficult to find a social gathering space in North Hastings, and throughout the province, where there is not a heated discussion underway about Ontario’s new minimum wage. Recently, I found myself drawn into one of these conversations, while enjoying a cup of Joe at The Partista Espresso Bar in Bancroft. I overheard a few folks at the table beside me talking about how raising the minimum pay rate from $11.60 an hour to $14 would hurt local businesses. 

Poverty in North Hastings

While slurping up a bowl of delicious homemade, locally grown carrot soup at A Place For The Arts last Tuesday, I had the opportunity to sit down for a chat with the North Hastings Community Trust’s program co-ordinator, Jane Kali.

Group wants to award champions of the community

A county anti-poverty group is providing a new way to champion the members of our communities that strengthen contribute to their resiliency.

Trust shines light on rural poverty

Non-permanent residents are being asked to look behind the scenes of their cottage communities in a new poverty report by local resource groups. 

Take time for our elders

If you’ve been reading This Week with any regularity this past month, you may have guessed that January is Alzheimer’s awareness month.

Climate change the least of our concerns

With all due respect, I have to take issue with K.Richardson’s recent letter(s) to the editor (Bancroft This Week, 11/18/16) and others spreading panic over climate change. I’m not going to debate here and now the validity of man-created climate change, and the benefits (or not) of carbon taxes, or any other government administered system of increased financial burden on the public for little to no actual results. I’m here to ask, K (and others) what do you expect the fine people of Bancroft to do about climate change?

From the garden to Queen’s Park

“We are people of the soil and we have embraced this project,” said Dianne Eastman, also known as Gnome-y Cline from the North Hastings chapter of the Gnomes for Justice and Equality. “People need to eat. We have to get out of the garden.” The Bancroft this Week stopped by the Place for the Arts to meet the gnomes and discover their origins.

Hearing the community’s voice

The North Hastings Community Trust (NHCT) has big ideas. Even their mandate, to provide emergency financial assistance and community referrals to low-income locals is a gigantic undertaking for this community. Looking to provide coverage for rent, heat, hydro, fire damage and groceries to stop anyone on the brink of homelessness is a tiny light for those facing darkness.