by Michael McCarthy • September 12, 2013 • Comments Off on Vancouver Sun endorses W2R in editorial pages W2R kidYou can now call metropolitan daily newspaper the Vancouver Sun yet another major business supporter of the Write to Read project. On September 13th the Sun published a 1,500-word article on the Sun’s OpEd pages about …
by Michael McCarthy • July 24, 2014 • Comments Off on Dentist explains connection to Write to Read Dr NeilsonDentist and Rotarian Dr. Doug Neilson (click here) attending a dental clinic at the Malahat First Nation, explains the history between Rotary, Write to Read, UBC School of Dentistry and participating First Nations communities. For many …
by Michael McCarthy • July 16, 2014 • Comments Off on New library donation explained by the builder When John McFarlane, president of Western Camera Buildings (camera means small room in latin) saw a program about the Write to Read Project profiled on CBC TV, he realized that his company might be in a position to help. Western Camera makes tiny …
by Michael McCarthy • January 13, 2015 • Comments Off on Year End Update WRITE TO READ PROJECT UPDATE – JANUARY 1, 2015 Library already installed On the Radar – to be visited before the end of 2015 Sponsors & Partners First Nations communities benefited from Dental Clinics Planned Dental Clinics for 2015 Clinics are …
by Michael McCarthy • October 2, 2012 • Comments Off on Write to Read project detailed in major Vancouver Sun column The Write to Read Project finally went “public” on Tuesday October 2nd when highly acclaimed Vancouver Sun columnist Stephen Hume wrote a detailed explanation of the project on the editorial pages of the Vancouver …
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by Michael McCarthy • December 15, 2015 • Comments Off The editorial page of the Vancouver Sun contains an OpEd article about W2R on Tuesday, Dec 15. Written by Write to Read publicist Michael McCarthy, his opinion piece suggests that monies possibly directed by the federal government towards yet another study of Missing Aboriginal Women …
by Michael McCarthy • March 23, 2017 • Comments Off Where the heck is Quatsino, you ask? According to Wikipedia, it’s “a small hamlet of 91 people located on Quatsino Sound in Northern Vancouver Island, only accessible by boat or float plane.” Well, that’s not entirely correct. It’s a village, not a hamlet, about 15 …
by Michael McCarthy • September 12, 2013 • Comments Off on Write to Read featured on CKNW CKNW in Vancouver is one of Canada’s highest rated radio stations, so it was an honour for me (representing W2R as the website editor/publicist) to be invited to talk to highly regarded morning show host Bill Good about …
by Michael McCarthy • March 7, 2014 • Comments Off on Write to Read appears again in Vancouver Sun travel section Reecntly I started to publish a travel column about micro-philanthropy in the Vancouver Sun. I am pleased to report that my “Generous Journeys” column about the great work that Bob Blacker and former Lt …
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by Michael McCarthy • July 9, 2014 • Comments Off on Western Camera Buildings donates a library Thanks to the publicity created by a documentary about Write to Read broadcast on CBC TV recently, a Vancouver-area builder has offered to donate a library to our project. John McFarlane watched the TV program and thought perhaps …
