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Metal Thursday!

Laurie, who is Umbrella's favourite Costco cashier, and Sharlene both wore their concert shirts on the same day, again. We capture these great phenomenons once a year, with last year's shirts being Guns N' Roses. They year Sharlene rocked her Metallica shirt and Laurie ...
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SOSJ Event

Today was the Sovereign Order of St John's community event at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre. The results of their environmental scan were presented and both SOSJ and Times Colonist folks spoke about the scan and the social profits that are doing the work. There were ove...
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Halloween at our houses

The residents at our houses were busy carving up some pumpkins in preparation for trick or treating tonight. This is one of our favourite activities each year, the residents really get creative and have a lot of fun. Candy is stocked, pumpkins are carved - we are ready ...
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Recovery Communities

Yesterday, Evan was asked to join a panel on recovery communities that took place during a Community Safety and Wellbeing conference. Moderated by Janine Theobald, Evan joined fellow panelist Cheryl Diebel from New Roads and Corrine Antrobus from Moms Stop the Harm. The...
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Community Safety & Wellbeing

Umbrella was thrilled to be invited to be a panelist at the Reimagining Inclusive Community Safety and Wellbeing conference that took place at the Victoria Conference Centre on October 28. Evan was joined by the mediator Mayor Marianne Alto and fellow panelists Dr Ashley...
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Angels Lunch

Yesterday, Sharlene and Stefanie joined the Angels for a lunch and update on the programs they support at Umbrella. We are grateful that the Women's Group and one of our Parents Groups are funded by these amazing angels, in addition to supporting the men in our two third ...
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Podcast Season 3/E1 – Darryl

In the season 3 opener, Blake sits down with Darryl, a member of this year's Recovery Campaign. Darryl shares his story of how addiction took hold of himself and his wife and threatened the survival of their family. In his courageous recovery journey, Darryl speaks to th...
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Stelly’s Secondary

On October 10 Evan and Rebecca did their first school presentation of the year at Stellys Secondary School for their comprehensive health and wellness days initiative. There is a total of 18 presentation for the students through the year from various organizations ...
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Project Reconnect

Today is the annual Project Reconnect event in Victoria. Every year, community partners come together to showcase the services they offer and how they can help our community. This year Jeff and Sarena manned the Umbrella table and fielded the questions and chatted with ...
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Youth In Service

Jarret and Rebecca had a great time mingling with the students and other community partners at St. Michaels University School on Monday. The event was called "Youth in service, volunteer" which students and organizations shared different ways youth can engage in the comm...