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My new gig

Jan 22nd, 2012
by Jordon Cooper.
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Most of you know I am working at The Lighthouse Supported Living now but I haven’t gotten into much more than that.  Partially because when they offered me the job, they didn’t know what to do with me (so many of you feel can sympathize).  I was given (half) an office, a computer with a [...]

Resolutions

Dec 31st, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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Wendy posted her New Year’s Resolutions so I thought I would post mine. Take the stairs to the top of The Lighthouse at least daily.  This seems like a really good idea now that building is only four stories but when the new tower is nine stories this summer, it could be a really bad [...]

The Bank of Starbucks

Oct 20th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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I loved this entire article, from idea to even how he came up with the idea. Starbucks is going to create a mechanism that will allow us citizens to do what the government and the banks won’t: lend money to small businesses. This mechanism is scheduled to be rolled out on Nov. 1. This time, [...]

Concentration of Poverty in Riversdale

Oct 4th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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This is the second post in a series on poverty in the core neighbourhoods of Saskatoon.  You can find the first post here. A lot of you have asking why my blog series on Riversdale stopped.  The quick answer is that I found a question that I had no answer to.  Of course the long [...]

Review of the renovated Credit Union Centre

Jan 2nd, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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I was in (the then Saskatchewan Place) for it’s first game in 1988.  It was a horseshoe configuration with the one end open on top and bottom while the other end was open in the upper bowl only.  Over the years the top bowl was completed on one end and for the World Junior Hockey [...]

Christmas Gift Guide for the Homeless

Dec 1st, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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This one is pretty close to my heart.  At work I get to buy the Christmas gifts for the guys at the Salvation Army Community Centre and I have a lot of fun doing it. Last year I got them nice duffle bags and a watch/wallet gift set.  We also got a big donation of [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas: For the Accountant Across the Hallway

Nov 3rd, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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Well this is my most difficult Christmas gift guide yet.  My “friend” Jackie works across the hallway from me and she has been criticizing my Christmas Gift Guides all year long.  Monday she asked me to come up with a list of things she wants for Christmas which is a) getting as lazy as it [...]

Seizure

Oct 14th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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Today’s events started innocently enough yesterday.  I was planning to stock up some office supplies at the Front Desk at the Centre and was going through the Staples/Corporate Express catalog.  I made my notes and realized that instead of making our Exec Assistant’s life miserable, I would just run to Office Depot and get them [...]

The Future of Coffee

Aug 7th, 2008
by Jordon.
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Architect Online asked five architects what it saw as the future of the coffee shop.  It gives a good idea of how architects see as the future of the third space as well.