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Not even two months of straight rain could keep Vancouver from getting into the holiday spirit, as thousands packed the streets of Gastown on Dec 1st to hear the very best choirs in the Lower Mainland Carol for a Cause!
Thanks to these fantastic choirs, their supporters, and the Bloom Group sponsors, they were able to raise a total of $55, 229! That’s over $10,000 more than last year! These donations will allow May’s Place to provide over 1,600 days of compassionate end-of-life care to vulnerable people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
As of June 2013, the powers that be at St. James Social Services Society have decided after 52 years of service to change the name to “The Bloom Group“. There is no reason given on their new website. Some of us who worked at St. James in the old days are feeling sad and confused about this.
St. James Community Service Society kindly shared this great drawing of the old St. James Social Services offices and the Gastown Workshop, drawn by Fritz Jacobsen in 1982. The original Powell Place was on the second storey above the Gastown Workshop when it opened in 1977. It relocated in the early 80s.
I’m told that Fritz Jacobsen was a talented parishioner at St. James Church who also did the first St. James Social Service Sign.
An artistic record of the creation of the St. James Community Service Society 50th anniversary mural. Painted by Joey Mallett and Rita Buchwitz in July 2011. Videographer: David Martin of Hyphen Communications Click on the link to watch the video.
A moving look at the work of the St. James Community Service Society, on the occasion of its 50th year of helping the most vulnerable citizens of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and beyond. Click on the link to watch a video.
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New mural by Joey Mallett and Rita Buchwitz celebrates the history of the Downtown Eastside
The St. James Community Services Society has celebrated its 50th birthday by unveiling a huge mural commemorating the history of the Downtown Eastside.
On May 12, 2011, Jenny Kwan, the MLA for the downtown eastside, read a tribute to May Gutteridge in the BC legislature. Here is a copy of the excerpt from the Hansard.
Taken from the video by Global TV
Recently Global TV ran a story about May Gutteridge and St. James Social Services.
