There is nothing glamorous about sorting through thousands of bottles year-round.  It isn’t a pretty sight.  However, that is exactly what one CLB volunteer does every week.

For the past two years, Norm Spooner has been diligently picking up bottles from around Whitecourt from various businesses on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  To get a better understanding of the grueling work that he does, I went for a ride along with him in the Community Lunch Box bottle pick up truck.   

“It’s not as bad as it used to be,” Spooner shared with me, “It’s made a world of difference, ever since the c...

I have always had a vivid imagination, I can still remember as a child reading exciting, vast, sweeping tales of adventure that captured my young mind and made me wonder what stories myself could tell. 

This affinity never went away growing up, after graduating from high school I took a young children's literacy course aimed at getting written pieces published.   The first newspaper article I wrote locally was in 2013, it was an advertorial promoting my piano teaching and general awareness on Asperger’s Syndrome.  

Throughout this time I was actively volunteering in our community, bein...