Originally published in the Bird’s Eye

You know your girl loves a potluck, and every once in a while, this job of mine takes me somewhere delicious, sunny, and full of people I’m delighted to sit beside. Last week’s hard work landed me in a backyard on the Quadra Loop, plate in hand, surrounded by about 45 neighbours for their own Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Program (NEPP) gathering — a tradition this particular hood holds every year, and proof, if any was needed, that reporting on Quadra sometimes means eating well in good company. The reason I’d been invited was to witness the first neighbourhood on Quadra begin
rolling out the Compassionate Neighbourhoods program alongside its existing NEPP network.