A very supportive visitor

We had an important supportive visitor to the shed this week, our area MP for Skeen-Buckley Valley, Taylor Bachrach. Taylor has been very supportive of the Mens shed movement in Canada including a speech he gave in the house of commons which you can view here:

https://youtu.be/3UfQ8EkiRwU

Taylor was very attentive and sympathetic with our need to find a more permanent and suitable home for our group here in Smithers. Taylor also shared our information on social media to help us garner interest in the community to help us grow our membership.

Taylor Bachrach meeting with our mens shed gang

Getting some support…

We have been very fortunate to have board member Toby Walsh (yes his is the old man who lives in the Kitseguecla shoe) as our VP in charge of grant applications. Toby has secured us some generous cash donations from a few of our local corporate groups. Many thanks go out to:

Bulkley Valley Credit Union

Regional District of Bulkley Nechako

Helpage Canada

Their financial support is much appreciated as we work hard to create a good working relationship in our community

And so it begins…

Our first home

Kindly donated to us by member Bruce Hobson. This old log building in need of a clean was his fathers original wood shop

May 16th 2024 is a day that may or may not go down in infamy (but probably not) as the day that Smithers Mens shed was officially formed with an elected board. It has taken us 11 weeks to realize that a website is a very important piece in growing our association.