Headwaters Communities in ActionHCIA AGM 2021 – We Are Resilient
On November 24, 2021 Headwaters Communities In Action held our Annual General Meeting, a virtual event on Zoom. The theme was: We Are Resilient.
This year we explored how adaptations made by our local representatives in government, economy and community pillars have built resilience into how they operate, for a post-pandemic era.
The business meeting was held at 6pm, with the approval of financial statements and Leadership Council elections.
The waiting room entertainment was a video showcasing winners of the Monologue Competition held by Streams Community Hub.
Starting at 7pm participants heard from HCIA representatives and guest speakers, all with valuable insights to share:
Trish Keachie, outgoing Chair of HCIA – opening remarks and a poem (below)
MPP Sylvia Jones, video greeting
Jennifer Payne, Executive Director of HCIA – Gift unpacking, HCIA year in review and scorecard
Monty Laskin, CEO of Caledon Community Services
Darren White, Warden for the County of Dufferin
Norah Kennedy, Executive Director of Family Transition Place
This was a virtual event on Zoom.
View the slide presentation here: HCIA AGM 2021 Slides
Email action@headwaterscommunities.org to request a link to the recording. It is also hidden here.
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Optimism
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.
– Jane Hirshfield
