Author: Mike Jennings

Collaboration is a natural outcome of belonging to a Men’s Shed. For example look at these three Shedders working together. The back story is that someone pointed out that they were all at the Shed on Valentines evening. They put their heads together and came up with a solution. Doug reports that this little heart […]

After about 60 hours of research and development we have completed the prototype of what we hope will be our first product. This spring we hope to complete the pre production prototype with production slated to commence in the third quarter (unless we have a cup of tea). Not Mohammad, he made the thing (I […]

On January the 7th. 2019 we signed the lease with the Red Door Housing society. We now have a great space in a great location in a great community with a great collaborator (although Cooper doesn’t seem impressed).  Some high priority details were attended to. Continuing in the long tradition of Coquitlam Men’s Shed, one […]

Several years ago a First Nations friend used this quote by Albert Camus and it has resonated with me ever since. After about 4 years we are finally at the end of the beginning, Coquitlam Men’s Shed Society has a humble home. It had not occurred to me that organizing something so much needed, costing […]

It is looking seriously like we have found someone who is willing to host our Shed (one wonders if they realize what they are getting into). There is a room that we can use for meetings, lunch and not so messy projects. Including a nice kitchen- Then there is the potential workshop- When we started […]

Inactivity report for November 2018. In an attempt to see if any of our members have any talent whatsoever it was decided to try drawing. The results follow. If there is a psychiatrist out there who can analyze the results Coquitlam RCMP may be interested in your observations. Can was a little high. Pierre was […]

We had been meeting with members of Coquitlam City Council enlisting anyone we could as allies in our mission to develop the best Men’s Shed in the country, right here in Coquitlam. One of the councillors suggested that we might want to meet with the Raincity Housing Society, they run the local transitional housing development. […]

Mike & Doug installing an air filtration unit in Doug’s Garage, where we also worked on Men’s Shed projects.