Autumn is sliding away quickly.  The leaves are mostly on the ground and the air has a bite to it and the twinkle of frost is everywhere in the morning. Mother Earth needs this cycle to replenish and nurture our collective lives.

But the chill war has brought to our world is not needed by anyone, for it is ‘we the people’, especially children, and the environment that suffer while politicians send bombs and guns to kill and destroy us.  For war is the one of the biggest contributors to climate change, through fossil fuel use but also all that pollution that goes up from all the destruction wrought by explosions. 

So, while this issue of the BPI Newsletter does share information on the blood being spilt and the pain of war, we also share information about the White Poppy of Peace. 

You will find the Newsletter on our website at: www.boundarypeaceinitiative.org to read and share either by sending out a link or printing a copy of two.    

Also, articles on the current situation in Gaza will be in the Information tab as a link or the full article.  This is forthcoming and will be added to as information comes in. 

Autumn has arrived and the leaves are in the process of turning from green to bright colours that sometimes compete with the sunshine to light the day.
On September 30th we honoured our First Nations, Métis and Inuit family and shared their pain arising out of Residential Schools, systemic racism and general disregard for these first peoples on the land that white people call Canada.
Our October Newsletter is ready for you in many businesses throughout the Boundary and on line at http://www.boundarypeaceinitiative.org. We thank you for your ongoing support.
I urge all to take note of a request from a group of Doukhobor survivors of survivors of the Residential School in New Denver, B.C. during the 1950s. For information go the Face Book Page Doukhobors in Canada by typing in New Denver Doukhobor Residential School or email lostvoicesofnewdenver.gmail or contact Laura at l4peace@telus.net or by phone at 250-444-0524 or 250-442-0434. This is an issue of many layers and just like our First Nations, Métis and Inuit the children suffered and their children suffer and our community suffers. They need your help to ensure that empty words of apology are not all that happens from Government.