Even a dollar a day is too much....to keep active....in CNV or anywhere

EI is just about to run out, Christy Clark isn't keeping her promise with Families first in BC, Welfare is next......Christy doesn't want her Welfare numbers to go up while Stephen's EI number go down....that what happens when Employment Insurance runs out ...that's what happened during the May 2009 provincial election....Campbell didn't want to be told by his Deputy Minister that Welfare applications had sky rocketed to 47% in the wake of the 2008 fall recession ... he didn't want to tell voters he had a problem... two actually....then he kicked us while we were down with the second and "gave" us the HST to boot........a year later.....

We need help, just for a short while folks.....and we need to keep in shape, fit for hard work, the children too ..... the NorthVanRec centre in the municipalities of the District of North Vancouver and the City of North Vancouver have the facilities that would help us.... we're willing......all we need is a Fitness membership card, with photo, bar code, date stamped...   Not just the North Shore either, there are municipalities across our Province that .........could help.

You see, there are many among our society that have paid for their membership cards, its good times for them, it will be good times for us again....but .....in the meantime    Here's a suggestion..... its a numbers game that the Commission plays to determine which of the seven RecCentres get more money than others.  That's why the Rec Centre staff does a walk-about doing a blitz on reminding their clients to swipe their membership card, swiped their membership cards past a card reader, that then tells the RecCommissions just how much each Centre is being used which generates reports on how many staff is required, how much equipment is needed, how much maintenance has to be done.....and prepare for future development, if needed, and from where the clients hail from.

Our cards are used three days out of seven.... that's just the way it is for our family right now.  We pay full price, instead of daily use, because we ENDORSE the fine work that the RecCommission of North Shore does for our communities.   We know that there are those among us who don't have our resources ..... limited that they are ... our resources ... and we know that the REC doors are open early, earlier that when we normally rise from our beds, those same doors are left open long after we've gone to bed.  The REC  doors are open on the weekend, Sunday too (not quite as early as other days), AND we can make multiple visits in the same day, all for a full time fitness membership payment.

If we're not using the four day balance of our Fitness Membership Card, because of other commitments, why can't we share it with others, those less fortunate?


For those on Welfare, they have to come up with a $1 a day....seems like peanuts eh, ......but that's $30 a month...that's $30 that could be used for food, for shoes for the children, a meal for breakfast instead of a child going hungry to school, or for a roof over a family's head.

You might be thinking that the "four days" is already being used by North Van RecCommission to assist those who are less fortunate......you might be right..... but we'd like to participate, ParticipACTION in this giving, as well, not with more monies that are limited for us, but to be able to know, that the FOUR days we aren't using, IS being EXERCISED, by someone else.


Give us a document to sign that allows us to SHARE.

The form below, available out of sight, out of mind, at the 7 North Shore REC Centre counters, is for those who may ONLY be able to pay the $30 per month, all you need to do is ASK the receptionist.