Lasalle High School food drive pics!
The street we collected food on...
Check out a play-by-play of the night on Twitter: @VigilantFutures
My trunk is full. The people of Lasalle are generous!
Snowy streets can’t stop Lasalle High School students!
Every year LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School holds a canned food drive around the holidays to benefit those facing a tough holiday season.
This year’s canned food drive happens to be today, with our city streets filled with snow, several more cm continuing to fall, with city crews out trying to clear the existing snow from the roads, and with the sidewalks and walkways still icy and bumpy in many neighborhood homes! I’ll be driving some of the kids around and it’ll be interesting to see them fight the elements in their quest to collect food for the needy.
Snowy Montreal streets
The plan is to get as many volunteers as possible to chauffeur the LaSalle High students from door-to-door in the neighborhood to collect non-perishable food items. They then bring everything back to the school gym and an “all-hands on deck” sorting of the collected goods takes place.
Neighbors know what to expect. The kids do this every year. And a few weeks ago, as always, the LaSalle High students mailed out flyers to everyone in the borough to advise them of the date and time they could expect a ring at the door by smiling students eagerly anticipating donations!
I’ll be tweeting about what I see tonight, so follow me @VigilantFutures!
Visit the LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School website and learn about their events: http://lcchs.lbpsb.qc.ca/
What is BOMA Best certification?
Walking in the main lobby of our building one day I noticed some new signage on my way to the elevators. Our building was BOMA Best certified.
The BOMA Best (Building Environmental Standards) initiative is Canada’s leading environmental certification program for commercial buildings and Vigilant Futures’ is fortunate enough to have its headquarters in a BOMA Best certified building. (http://www.bomabest.com/)
Our building was certified in June this past year after several vigorous steps and tests. Vigilant retro-fitted its office space in 2009 to not only make the space more contemporary, but to include as many green design elements as possible.
The BOMA Best website lists many buildings in the Montreal area as being certified and Yahoo took note a few weeks ago naming Montreal the greenest city in Canada thanks to our many open-air markets that sell local produce and more notably, the BIXI system Vigilant Futures so proudly sponsors.
Check out Yahoo’s top 10 greenest cities list: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/yahoocanada/101110/canada/the_world_s_greenest_cities
