Wednesday, January 15, 2014

BC Housing presentation to RLAC


Not Riverview; asylum in New Jersey before and after photos. Hopefully the buildings at Riverview hospital will never look like that one; but wait a minute we have West Lawn, which was better built actually than the one in New Jersey, and that has been allowed to fall apart through neglect.

Open houses on R'view future start soon.  But after they destroy the transport services buildings, and a panoramic picture of the soon to be destroyed buildings.

        A day or two ago, the Coquitlam City, Riverview Lands Advisory Committee,(RLAC) met at City hall, and were given the presentation below, gleaned from a pdf of what looks like  dreaded powerpoint files; can you say boring ?

Housing Matters BC

City of Coquitlam – RLAC Presentation
January 14, 2014

  •  Update to RLAC since October 9th, 2013
  •  BC Housing’s mandate – self sustaining development model
  •  Overview of public consultation plan for 2014
  •  Incorporate City of Coquitlam thoughts into the engagement plan
PUBLIC CONSULTATION PLAN

Public Consultation Strategy

  • Mindful of previous processes and consultation
  • Look to engage a broader range of stakeholders
  • First Nations
Objectives

  • Outreach at a local, regional and provincial scale
  •  Ideas and feedback
  •  Social, economic and environmental aspects
  • Report outcomes of public meetings and open houses
  • Establish consensus
  • Council Endorsement of Visioning Process
  3 Key Strategies
  • Advisory Groups
  • Public Open Houses
  • Online and Social Media Presence
Stakeholders
  • Engage stakeholder groups and agencies through Open House Events and follow-up meetings
ADVISORY GROUPS

Advisory Roles
 Advisory Groups
  • Provincial: Government Agencies and Project Partners
  • City of Coquitlam: Council, RLAC, and City Staff
  • Social / Housing: Tri Cities Housing and Homelessness Task Force
  • Economic: Tri Cities Chambers of Commerce
  • Other Municipalities: Tri Cities, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, and others to be determined
 Stakeholder Groups & Agencies
  • Engagement through Open House events
  •  Follow-up meetings as required
OPEN HOUSE #1

  Collection of Ideas
  •  Introduction of the Riverview visioning process
  •  Overview of BC Housing’s role in the Vision Process
  •  Summary of past reports, research and inventories
  •  Statement of current commitments being considered by BC Housing & the Province
  •  Summary of current maintenance costs, revenues and business models
  •  Communicate the comments and feedback received to date
  •  Indicate how the region has changed over the past decade
  •  Collection of ideas from the general public and stakeholders
  •  Outline next steps and public consultation plan for 2014

OPEN HOUSES

 Collection of Ideas
  •  Introduction of the Riverview visioning process
  •  Overview of BC Housing’s role in the Vision Process
  •  Summary of past reports, research and inventories
  •  Statement of current commitments being considered by BC Housing & the Province
  •  Summary of current maintenance costs, revenues and business models
  •  Communicate the comments and feedback received to date
  •  Indicate how the region has changed over the past decade
  •  Collection of ideas from the general public and stakeholders
  •  Outline next steps and public consultation plan for 2014

OPEN HOUSES

Open House #2
  •  “Creating Goals”
  •  Prioritize and group ideas based on Open House #1
  • Confirmation of priorities and goals

Open House #3
  •  “Ideas for a Vision”
  •  Present preliminary ideas
  •  Confirmation of ideas

Open House #4
  •  “Envisioning Riverview”
  •  Present the Vision for Riverview
  •  Confirmation of Vision 
CONSULTATION TIMELINE

December 2013 – January 2014
  •  Preliminary meetings
  •  Council update
  • RLAC update
February – March 2014
  •  Open House #1
  •  Website and online consultation launch
  •  Advisory meetings
  •  Council and RLAC update

May - June 2014
  •  Open House #2
  •  Advisory meetings
  •  Council and RLAC update

September 2014
  •  Open House #3
  •  Advisory meetings
  •  Council and RLAC update

December 2014

  •  Open House #4
  •  Deliver a report to Council on the Vision


Thursday, January 9, 2014

They Must Sleep in the Center of the Bed

Would you take a mentally-ill stranger into your home to live with you like family, possibly for the rest of his life? What if your town had been doing it successfully for 700 years?

Gleaned from Metafilter; interesting

Mary Steinhauser Legacy fundraiser

The Mary Steinhauser Legacy fundraiser—An Evening of Story, Song & Dance, Sat., March 29, 2014 at 7:30pm, Terry Fox Theatre, Port Coquitlam, BC, which celebrates the inspired life, work, and legacy of SFU alumna Mary Steinhauser (BA’71), nurse, social worker, and prisoner rights advocate. Mary died tragically in a blaze of gunfire in a 41-hour hostage-taking at the BC Penitentiary, New Westminster in June 1975. Her heroism and compassion in offering herself as principal hostage at this time is the stuff of legend. Proceeds to the Mary Steinhauser Memorial Bursary for SFU Aboriginal Students in Arts & Social Sciences. Tickets at the new  MarySteinhauser  website  Info     margaretfranz01(at)gmail.com
Mary did some of her training at Riverview



Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Missing, now found

If I remember correctly this fellow has done this before.

Missing man found
UPDATED: Riverview patient found
A good outcome anyway; still wondering about the other patients still missing.

Save the Riverview Hospital lands

The Riverview Hospital lands, are under pressure to be developed into market housing. Help to save the lands as a healing sanctuary for the mentally ill of OUR Province.



Please join the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society,( RHCS ) Facebook page. Twitter too!

Please sign the On-line petition or download a Word document petition ,which is a more official type of petition.
Blogs, about the hospital grounds
Mike Farnworth,MLA; Facebook forum " Protect the Riverview Lands"
And another Facebook group: Riverview Preservation Society
this group also has a petition to sign.

Click-able Map of the Riverview site

BISCO -- Brookside-Leeside-Roadside -- Centre Lawn -- Colony Farm
Crease Clinic -- East Lawn -- Essondale Hospital
Finnie's Garden -- Henry Esson Young -- Hillside unit
Home for the Aged-Valleyview -- North Lawn
Nurses homes -- Pennington Hall -- TreeFest -- West Lawn
John Davidson; "Botany John" blog. He was the first Provincial Botanist, who created British Columbia's first Botanical Garden at Riverview.
Other groups involved Riverview Horticultural Centre Society
Who also have a media NEWS Blog
You can also download a 42 page report titled, For the future of Riverview created by the Riverview Task Force.
Or Burke Mountain Naturalists, report: The Riverview Hospital Site, Respecting its Past,Realizing its Future
Coquitlam has designated the buildings and grounds, as a heritage site.
Download the Statement of Significance; SoS report PDF

Tour through the grounds


Paul Buikema, of Progress Landscaping, created this video.

Treefest 2011 slideshow


A slideshow of images from the Tree festival of 2011. Created in HD. Enjoy.

Riverview trees

Finnie's Garden -- slideshow

Finnie's Garden -- Pond restoration slideshow

TreeFest -- slideshow