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 …
by Michael McCarthy • January 13, 2015 • Comments Off on Westcoast Outbuildings joins the W2R team With major sponsor Britco Structures having fulfilled its promises of supplying Write to Read with 10 modular buildings (a $250,000 donation) to be used as libraries in remote First Nations communities around the province, the challenge becomes finding …
by Michael McCarthy • August 13, 2013 • Comments Off on W2R to deliver library to Bella Bella after fire The small First Nations town of Bella Bella on the BC coast was devastated by a fire this summer that burned down the general store, including the library. Thanks to a generous offer from main …
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by Michael McCarthy • October 8, 2014 • Comments Off on W2R on the road; Moving the Hobbit House to Metlakatla The next delivery of a library is now in the planning stages. Project Coordinator Bob Blacker reports that the “hobbit house,” the “office on wheels” kindly donated by recently Western Camera Buildings, will be …
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