Grannies To Receive Vancouver Peace Award

The Vancouver Raging Grannies have won the Vancouver Citizens' Peace Award "which recognizes outstanding contributions to world peace [through] leadership, commitment and dedication to the promotion of peace and disarmament."

The Vancouver Citizens Peace Award was established in 1990 to recognize the contributions of individual Vancouver citizens actively working on peace issues.

The Award Ceremony will take place in the Council Chamber at Vancouver City Hall on APRIL 26, 2005 at 3:45 pm. We would like to invite any and all current and former Lower Mainland Raging Grannies to join us for this presentation.

Upcoming Election

The BC election will be on May 17, 2005 - giving us a number of opportunities to be heard with all our various concerns.

This coming Wednesday (April 6), we have been asked to sing at the NDP nomination meeting for the West Vancouver - Capilano riding, having previously appeared at the Vancouver Point Grey meeting last month.

On April 3, the 52% Coalition organized a gathering of women's groups with different concerns, specifically in terms of the upcoming election. We set up a table displaying hats, shawls, songs, and, naturally, we were asked to sing, which we happily did, adding our own particular concerns in our own particular and familiar manner to the afternoon session.