About SCPT Family

3 canoe families from the Sunshine Coast participated in 2011 PULLING TOGETHER on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. This annual event involves approximately 20 canoe families, or 300 participants, and community members en route. Pulling Together is a unique opportunity for the RCMP, First Nations People, Youth, and other government agencies to work together and build relations. Thank you for visiting our blog. We hope to update the blog regularly until we meet again in Pulling Together 2012. All my relations.

Monday, 25 July 2011

Tent Buddies

The official photographer
This is Signy
How lucky am I?  This is Signy.  She was my tent buddy, my paddle partner, and my right-hand gal during the 2010 and 2011 Journey on the SD46 Spirit Canoe s-yéwen s-néxwílh.  A couple of years ago we were strangers.  We had only knew of each other in the school district as teachers.  Our paths never crossed until Pulling Together.  We both had one friend in common, Kerry Mahlman, the District Principal of Aboriginal Education & Services.  At first, we did not think that we would have much in common.  To our surprise, we are more like compliments... partners, if you will.  Personally, I would like to consider myself as "Signy's Sidekick" (I think that she likes it that way too).  We have such a good time together.  She tolerates my snoring and I tolerate her need for "good lighting." In such a short time, we evolved from strangers to good friends and I am grateful that we had the opportunity to have something else in common:  Pulling Together.










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