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The 2015 Community Living Bursary Recipient: Jordan Harry

Every year the Parry Sound High School delivers the Community Living Parry Sound (CLPS) Bursary award to a deserving student. This year we are proud to announce that the winner is Jordan Harry. The CLPS Bursary is awarded to a graduating student who has worked to promote community inclusion and remove barriers often faced by […]

How to Live, Not Just Survive, With an Intellectual Disability

Jun 18, 2015 Posted by DANIEL SHARE-STROM, Community Living Ontario There is a clear difference between helping a person with an intellectual disability to stay alive and helping them to live. That mindset has driven the career of Michael Kendrick, a sought-after writer, public speaker, service evaluator, and consultant on the topic of helping people […]

My Courageous Little Man By Carrie Shurr

Reprinted with the permission of CURRENT, The Magazine of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Ontario from their Spring 2015 edition With big brown eyes wise beyond his years, my ten year old son Steven has a positive attitude we could all learn from. You would never know he lives with the challenges of […]

Rori Bears the Torch for Victory

Former Victory School student Rori Brownley was chosen to carry the torch for the spectacular 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto because he is a champion. Rori loves two things in life, sports and helping children at school, and he is great at both. Rori is living his dream. He actively participates in competitive sporting […]

Celebrating Community Living with the story and video of Julian

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Living in Community

Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you had been born with a developmental disability? Not likely, why would you? Families and people who support those with developmental disabilities think about the people they love and support every day; but I never did because I never had to. Not really. […]

Community Living Honoured at Gala

MPP Norm Miller, left, and Dean Teasdale from Norbram Group Insurance, fifth from left, present Community Living representaives Lisa Cook, Angelika Distler, Brad Horne, Jo-Anne Demick, Sharon Shewen, Tricia Bain, and Sheri Cox with the Chamber’s Health and Wellness award, Community Living also collected a second award, the Business Involvement […]

New Community Garden on Booth Street

It is April and the weather has finally taken a turn towards spring-like temperatures. By mid-May the ground will be dry and warm enough for the plants to thrive. It has been a busy off-season and there is a lot of news regarding a new Community Garden at Booth Street, a successful Trillium Grant for […]

Thinking of Community Gardens on Earth Day 2015

April 22 is Earth Day, the day celebrated in almost 200 countries worldwide and known as the largest civic and environmental event in the world. Earth Day Canada, a national environmental charity, will be launching Earth Day Everyday, “a national framework helping Canadians to reduce their carbon footprint 20% by 2020”. How can people who […]

Parry Sound Community Gardens Newsletter

Spring 2015 Well, it looks like Mother Nature is playing another joke on us again this year as the snow and cold weather linger on. The good news is that we still have time to purchase our veggie seeds and get them started early. Hopefully warm weather will arrive in April and by mid-May the […]