Dear friends
When we started the Regina Streets Magazine, we had no idea how successful the magazine would be (or how hard the struggle to publish it would be). Thanks to each of you, our magazine was incredibly successful.
When our magazine started, the City of Regina had something silly called The Tag Day Bylaw on its books. Thanks to the efforts of amazing activists, some wonderful people within the City of Regina, and each of you, that bylaw no longer exists.
Regina has problems and we could argue that the scale and scope of these is grander than ever before. Rents have increased dramatically over the last few years and the condo-ification of our city dropped supply to dangerous levels. These factors have created the largest homeless population either of us have ever seen and taxed food security programs to their limit.
If there is one lesson we would like to impart, it is that each and every one of you can create change. Don't be bound by self doubt or convention - practice (and celebrate) your freedom.
We would also like to make very clear that we are in no way affiliated with reginastreets.com, nor their @streetsregina Twitter account.
On personal notes, neither of us have lost our passion. Stacey is parlaying her activist fervor into freelance writing (and Greg is bugging her to start a blog). Greg has planted himself in the non-profit sector and is launching two new publications.
Be peaceful and safe - thank you for joining us on our ride. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Stacey Lolacher
Greg Hluska