All posts by Preston Pouteaux
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Party People
About five years ago a group of near-strangers in my neighbourhood did something unusual. They blocked off a road, hauled out a barbecue, inflated a...
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Why We Need Bugs
My parents drove a big Chrysler Cordoba while I was growing up. I remember after road trips gathering around the front of our car with...
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Gift Culture
I love the phrase, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We can strategize to make amazing businesses, neighbourhoods and thriving community, but it will only take...
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Remembering Jean Vanier
Creating a thriving community requires good people-focused policies, sustainable budgets, and good governance. These are all important and essential. However, what our imaginations need are...
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Allowed
If you could change something about your spouse, what would you change? That’s a dangerous question, isn’t it? Often in the early days of romance...
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Not Your Grandmother’s Library
Libraries are a neighbourhood hub of activity where we meet others in our community, find resources, and connect over shared interests and passions. Libraries are...
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Spent
Doing good, loving others, sharing your life, and caring deeply is costly work. Sometimes we do not realize how much we’ve expended on others until...
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Getting Out and Building Up
We have everything we need to build something amazing here in Chestermere. You were born with curiosity and the ability to create, to mend, to...
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Plogging
We can thank the Swedish for Ikea, a culture of afternoon coffee and sweets, and a new neighbourhood movement called, ‘plogging.’ Plogging is a combo...
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The Big Back Yard
Before we lived in Chestermere, we came from a community where we had a much larger yard than we do now. When we first moved...
Preston Pouteaux - Into the Neighbourhood
Preston is a pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere and experiments mostly in the intersection of faith and neighbourhood. Into the Neighbourhood explores how we all contribute to creating a healthy and vibrant community. Preston is also a beekeeper; a reminder that small things make a big difference.
email: preston@lakeridgecommunity.com
