Easter Monday, beautiful rays of sunshine, open patios, coffee bars, people, beer, wine, and great food: This was Commercial Drive the way it was experienced just yesterday. After a good stint at the office in the morning, my late morning meeting with Steven R. Duncan, the creator and contributor to TheDriveIsAlive blog, resulted in us heading out take in some lunch up on The Drive.
After a stroll back and forth we settled upon Panevero Bakery and enjoyed a delightful soup and sandwich meal. The homemade style Turkey soup was very substantial and after filling ourselves we stepped over to Grandview Park to enjoy conversation, new company, and the beautiful rays of sunshine.
In the park, the families were out with their children playing, young people sat around the trees talking, and we parked ourselves on some large boulders to continue our creative brainstorming. Steven R. Duncan, a poet himself, also works directly with the Vancouver Arts & Culture community part-time, and continues his involvement and activities related to Arts & Culture with a strong focus on his current Commercial Drive neighbourhood. Our brainstorming will continue int he coming week(s) as we look to further the reach and positive impact of the LiveIn community sites, how it relates to other Bloggers and sites in the Community (we are after all a Community Portal website).
Creative City, creative people, and creative community describe Vancouver and The Drive very well. The City of Vancouver has a Creative City initiative, alongside many other current initiatives to make the city a better place to live. LiveIn is looking at how to maximize our impact and involvement alongside these initiatives to further promote and empower communities, their citizens and businesses. With a little luck and some hard work, we anticipate being able to secure some funding to deliver more to you!
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I Like to Eat
Food and drink are the basic staples of life that offer more in richness than just their nourishing value. Food and drink also offer us plentiful opportunity to sit with friends, company, and strangers to do the most natural thing for humans to do: Share. Yes, I like to eat.
Happy Easter! Another reason just to be together regardless of your faith.
Happy Easter! Another reason just to be together regardless of your faith.
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