GROW has a number of upcoming events:
May 24: Domino tournament in Vineland
June 8: Jamaican/Canadian Dinner at St. Andrews Church in Niagara Falls. This dinner features Caribbean dishes and is a fundraiser for CWOP. Tickets are $10.
June 22: Cricket match/dinner at Col. John Butler School, across from Bethany church on the corner of East-West Line & Four Mile Creek Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
For more information on these events contact Kate.
How can we turn our back on a valued worker?; Treatment of an offshore worker who is battling cancer is shameful
By Kate Andres-Toal
The St. Catharines Standard
May 13th, 2008
For many people in the world, work is an essential part of life. For those living in privilege, however, work has become something to avoid. The goal is to work as little as possible, living a life of weekend leisure until we can retire. Work is something we pay others to do. We buy "labour-saving" machines and services, because, as a recent dishwasher/nail polish advertisement states, "There's more to life than just doing dishes." Agrarian philosopher Wendell Berry observes, "You may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes."
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