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- Title
- Community Gardens - A Resource for Food Security - Interview with Art Bomke:
- Contributor(s)
- Bomke, Art (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-17
- Language
- English
- Description
- Art talks about the issues around poverty and food insecurity and how the Little Mountain Riley Park Community Garden may help to alleviate these problems.
- Extent
- 00:00:50
- Subject(s)
- American Canadians, Community gardens, Food supply, Parks - Public use
- Location(s)
- Riley Park
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- Community Recommendations for Riley Park Redevelopment - Interview with Art Bomke:
- Contributor(s)
- Bomke, Art (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-17
- Language
- English
- Description
- Art explains the how the Riley Park redevelopment process included community involvement after the Riley Park Community Centre, Ice Rink, and Percy Norman Pool were demolished and moved to the new Hillcrest Community Centre development. Two requests from the community engagement process were for the park to have a community garden and space for farmer's markets.
- Extent
- 00:00:48
- Subject(s)
- American Canadians, Community gardens, Farmers' markets, Food supply, Parks - Public use
- Location(s)
- Riley Park
- Time Period
- 2000s, 2010s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- Impacts of WWII - Interview with Ann Frost
- Contributor(s)
- Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- In the traumatic time of WWII; rationing, blackouts, and wartime propaganda impacted young lives. We had the rationing, we had food shortages; you couldn't get a new tube of toothpaste unless you turned in an old tube of toothpaste.
- Extent
- 00:04:02
- Subject(s)
- World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Food supply, Blackouts in war
- Location(s)
- West End
- Time Period
- 1940s
- Collection
- West End Stories
- Title
- Neighbourhood Benefits of Community Gardens - Interview with Art Bomke:
- Contributor(s)
- Bomke, Art (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-17
- Language
- English
- Description
- Art talks about the process of setting up the Little Mountain Riley Park Community Garden in Vancouver and about the benefits of community gardens to a neighbourhood.
- Extent
- 00:02:16
- Subject(s)
- American Canadians, Community gardens, Food supply, Parks - Public use, Social interaction, Volunteers
- Location(s)
- Riley Park
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- Story City