One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years

Martini, Clem (editor)

ISBN 10: 1550595350 / ISBN 13: 9781550595352

Editore: Brush Education, Edmonton, 2013

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SUBTITLED : ` A History of Wood's Homes as told by the People Who Lived and Worked There '. 164 page `collected memoir' of a home - originally: Woods Christian - to house troubled and orphaned kids. The first `Woods' was in Innisfail (1914), then Olds, then Bowness - on the western outskirts of Calgary, Alberta. Learn about a wide variety of programs teaching such subjects as : ethics, respect, responsibility, and commitment. B/W photos accompany text. Cond : Paper wrapper is black with white lettering. front cover graphic shows a woman and two children being welcomed at the gates of the old Hextall Estate mansion. Light general wear. No names, no marks, no tears. Excellent reading copy ! ! Quote (p. 138) : " This midnight shift seemed unusually dark and cloudy and the Lethbridge shelter was all but full. This night was - to say the least - not your ordinary midnight shift. Usually this would be a time for paperwork, cleaning, and the computer. For some reason this was not to be, as youth were up and down, and staff were running to ._. _._. ." Size: 8vo. Codice articolo 007992

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Titolo: One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years

Casa editrice: Brush Education, Edmonton

Data di pubblicazione: 2013

Legatura: Soft cover

Illustratore: B/W Photographs

Condizione: Very Good ++

Edizione: First Edition.

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For 100 years, Wood’s Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood’s Homes serves communities throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. In honour of the 100th anniversary of Wood’s Homes in 2014, this collection of 100 stories celebrates the deep and lasting impact the organization has had on those who have lived and worked there. The stories — sometimes quirky, sometimes raw, but always coming from the heart — also reveals the dramatic changes in the needs of young people and their communities over the last century.