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KCCS Annual Report to the Membership for 2016

February 14, 2017 No Comments

Without question, the major issue facing the Kerrisdale Community Centre Society this past year has been seeking agreement with Park Board on a new Joint Operating Agreement (JOA). Our community centre is jointly managed by the Kerrisdale Community Centre Society (KCCS) and the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation under the terms of a contract (the JOA) signed in 1979. It lays out the rights and responsibilities of the Park Board and the local community

Kevin Wong: Community through Language Exchange

February 2, 2017 No Comments

Read the full Kerrisdale PlayBook article here Arriving in Vancouver from Hong Kong in 1980, Kevin Wong understands the difficulty of learning a new language in a foreign place. As we sit in the Kerrisdale Community Centre, his hand holding a book that will foreshadow the content of our conversation, he tells me about his first encounters with the English language in Hong Kong and in Vancouver. “When we were in Hong Kong we had