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Small Cities Sustainability Studies in Community and Cultural Engagement

Series Editors :

Will Garrett-Petts, Professor of English and Associate Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies, Thompson Rivers University

Nancy Duxbury Carreiro, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Co-coordinator of its Cities, Cultures, and Architecture Research Group

Published with the support of Thompson Rivers University.

ISSN 2561-5351 (Print) ISSN 2561-536X (Online)

This series is interested in discovering and documenting how smaller communities in Canada and elsewhere differ from their larger metropolitan counterparts in terms of their strategies (formal and informal) for developing, maintaining, and enhancing community and cultural vitality, particularly in terms of civic engagement, artistic animation, and creative place-making.

No. 1 No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities
Edited by Terry Kading

No

Straight

Lines

Local Leadership and the
Path from Government to
Governance in Small Cities

Edited by
Terry Kading

Small Cities Sustainability Studies
in Community and Cultural Engagement

ISSN 2561-5351 (Print) ISSN 2561-536X (Online)

2018 Terry Kading

University of Calgary Press

2500 University Drive NW

Calgary, Alberta

Canada T2N 1N4

press.ucalgary.ca

This book is available as an ebook which is licensed under a Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

No straight lines : local leadership and the path from government to governance in small cities / edited by Terry Kading.

(Small cities sustainability studies in community and cultural engagement, ISSN 2561-5351, ISSN 2561-536X ; no. 1)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-55238-944-7 (softcover).ISBN 978-1-55238-945-4

(Open Access PDF).ISBN 978-1-55238-946-1 (PDF).ISBN 978-1-55238-947-8 (EPUB).ISBN 978-1-55238-948-5 (Kindle)

1. Quality of lifeBritish ColumbiaKamloops. 2. Community

leadershipBritish ColumbiaKamloops. 3. Social participationBritish

ColumbiaKamloops. 4. Kamloops (B.C.)Social conditions.

I. Kading, Terrance William, 1962-, editor II. Series: Small cities

sustainability studies in community and cultural engagement no. ; 1

HN110.K36N6 2018 361.610971172 C2018-901695-7

C2018-901696-5

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

This book is published with financial support from Thompson Rivers University.

Cover image: Radomr Ren, June 2011, Graffiti captured on a San Francisco building, photograph. Image courtesy of the artist.

Copyediting by Peter Enman

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

Ebook conversion by Human Powered Design

Contents

Leadership, Learning, and Equality of Quality of Life in the Small City

Terry Kading

Promoting Community Leadership and Learning on Social Challenges: Government of Canada Homelessness Initiatives and the Small City of Kamloops, British Columbia

Terry Kading

What a Difference a Shower Can Make

Lisa Cooke

No Straight Lines: Using Creativity as a Method to Fight Homelessness

Dawn Farough

The Kamloops Public Produce ProjectA Story of Place, Partnerships, and Proximity in an Edible Garden Setting

Robin Reid and Kendra Besanger

The Kamloops Adult Learners Society: Leadership through Organic Partnerships and Knowledge Support in the Small City

Ginny Ratsoy

The Tranquille Oral History Project: Reflections on a Community-Engaged Research Initiative in Kamloops, British Columbia

Tina Block

Leadership Initiatives and Community-Engaged Research: Explorations and Critical Insights on Leadership and Learning in the Small City of Kamloops

Terry Kading, Lisa Cooke, Dawn Farough, Robin Reid, Kendra Besanger, Ginny Ratsoy, and Tina Block

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the community organizations and local leaders identified in this collection for their time and support in providing us with a remarkable education about the diverse challenges and opportunities in the City of Kamloops. Without their openness and patience we would not have been able to understand the complexity of their efforts, and we hope that we have been able to capture the richness of their endeavours through this work. We would also like to acknowledge and thank all the students at Thompson Rivers University who over the years have participated in the various research opportunities that inform many of the important outcomes and insights in our chapters. Through their own interest in our community, they have enhanced our teaching skills and heightened our attentiveness to local opportunities for community-engaged research for more undergraduate researchers. Notable recognition goes to the various anonymous reviewers of this collection who have all provided critical but supportive examinations, and deepened the quality of the insights and evaluations by helping us to better frame and integrate the varied themes and issues in this collection.

Special credit is due to Dr. Will Garrett-Petts for recognizing early on the value of a leadership and local learning perspective as a means to organize quite disparate themes into a cohesive work. His resolute support for this project has kept us engaged and committed to completing this collection, and he has offered, over many years, critical insights and lessons on how a university can be an active supporter of community initiatives and a better community partner. In addition, we would like to thank all the staff of the Office of Research and Graduate Studies for their support and advice in promoting community-engaged research and the early outcomes from this collection. To this end, we would like to acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through the Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) grants that made the outcomes of this collection possible, and continue to generate enduring results in our city. Lastly, we would like to thank all the family and friends who have provided their own observations and insights on life in the small city that have further served to enrich this collection.

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Leadership, Learning, and Equality of Quality of Life in the Small City

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