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edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook Paperback
category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Dec 2013
ISBN:9781550595475
publisher: Brush Education

One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years

A History of Wood’s Homes as Told by the People Who Lived and Worked There

edited by Clem Martini

tagged: personal memoirs, post-confederation (1867-)
Description

For 100 years, Wood’s Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood’s Homes serves communities throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. In honour of the 100th anniversary of Wood’s Homes in 2014, this collection of 100 stories celebrates the deep and lasting impact the organization has had on those who have lived and worked there. The stories—sometimes quirky, sometimes raw, but always coming from the heart—also reveal the dramatic changes in the needs of young people and their communities over the last century.

About the Author
Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, an associate professor of drama at the University of Calgary, and a past president of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. He is a three-time winner of the Alberta Writers Guild Drama Prize, was a nominee of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Drama for A Three Martini Lunch, and the author of several novels for young adults, including the trilogy Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles.
Editorial Review

Collectively [these stories] paint a vivid picture of an organization that has lived up to its mandate of never giving up on children abandoned elsewhere.

— <i>Alberta Views</i>

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