Category: Archive

We did a lot of talking last week. Alice Wong the Member of Parliament for Richmond Centre came to visit us. This was brought about by Doug Mackie who, when he isn’t carving diamond willow walking sticks at the Woodhaven Men’s Shed, carries Men’s Sheds Canada. Doug has been trying to attract some attention in […]

Well my friends it has been quite a month, it started with a BIG cheque curtesy of Vancity Credit Union. The cheque was to update our tools. Wow! Now we had to decide on priorities. As usual everyone came around to my way of thinking in the end. Susan Devlin of Vancity Credit Union presents […]

Sorry that it has taken me so long to get around to this, the problem is that there has been very little inactivity this month so I will have to report all the things that got in our way. Some time ago someone mused about building a small community garden at Sunrise Terrace, the development […]

THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS DAY STUNT. 5 cubic yards of soil being delivered to the homeless shelter, to be moved into the garden by a bunch of Coquitlam Men’s Shed volunteers and an iffy weather forecast. What can possibly go wrong? “You are 9 minutes late” was the first thing I heard as […]

Doug 2 consults with Russel Mitchell of the Okanagan Men’s Shed. Russel came by for a visit on his way through Coquitlam. We learned a lot, thanks Russ, we look forward to more visits. New member Ted checking things out while Doug 2 and Ian try and figure out what this machine is supposed to […]

Now we have done it. Or should I say we haven’t done it yet. Last week Sunrise Rotary Club gave us $600 to purchase materials so we can build a community garden at Sunrise Terrace. What the heck we already have the Shed. However, that means WE are going to have to do the work. […]

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 […]