indie artist in residence

currently in residence:
Ryan Ringer

Ryan Ringer is a multidisciplinary artist and social convener. He spearheaded his first art collective at age 10. Over the span of three years, when he and his highly creative group of friends weren’t ghost-hunting, they published and distro’d manifold volumes of zines and comics, riffing on MAD Magazine; performed elaborate heavy metal hairband spectacles at grade school assemblies (for which they crafted razor-sharp skull-guitar props out of masonite and paint); and recorded countless hours of silly "radio" skits, inspired by Dr. Demento, the Frantics, Monty Python and Frank Zappa.

During his teen years he discovered punk rock, skateboarding, Jack Kerouac, fun with FIMO and the weariness of hitchhiking. Ringer eventually dropped out of high school to travel, hustle pool and concentrate on creative writing. He spent the subsequent few years jumping between Canada and the US, making special homes in Vancouver, Ottawa and New Orleans (where he lived in a trailer park with an old friend).

Today he enjoys wearing fake moustaches, conducting immersive fictions, building funny Flintstone cars out of cardboard and leading busloads of artists into the cultural chaos of New York City and other urban destinations. Ringer is perhaps best known as director and chief curator of Methinks and Project 165. Methinks is a social art arena founded in 2003 and Project 165, which serves as Methinks’ headquarters, is a young artist-run space comprised of art studios, a modest kitchen, a little library and storefront exhibition/event site in Toronto’s Kensington Market. The two co-exist to support the social, professional and creative development of emerging artists (aka cultural workers); to challenge the ways in which culture is made, perceived, supported and consumed; and to make radical advancements at the confluence of art, politics, play and daily life.

Ringer also lays claim to an impressive repertoire of alter egos. These characters include: Stirling Ebanflow, founder of the Department of Interrelational Fabrication at the Psychogeographic Institute of Toronto; Brent Bushmill, head Intake Officer at the Urban Action Art Agency; Graham Nash, an intrepid librarian and long-time member of the North American Independent Librarian Association; and "Uncle" Ronnie Graham, a reclusive curiosity collector and hoarder of rare junk. Hopefully a few of these characters pop up as he writes for Broken Pencil in the capacity of indie artist in residence. Email him at indierez@brokenpencil.com.

* Big City Friends * by Serena McCarroll

Aitor completes an unflattering portrait at All Citizens

Tyler and I first met Becky Johnson (of The Sweetie Pie Press) and the Reverend Aitor (of The Misanthrope Specialty Co.) in June 2008 when they showed up at our door during one of their epic North American tours. They had a bottle of bourbon and very quickly became two of our favourite people. The crafty pair have been orchestrating such tours for the past 4 years. Their monumental trips vary both in length (1 to 6 months) and distance (they claim to have driven from Toronto to the west coast and back 3 times) and include activities such as participating in craft fairs, making various in-store appearances as well as Becky hitting improv festivals as one half of the comedy duo Iron Cobra. Becky first found out about All Citizens through her friend Jen Anisef who runs the Toronto Craft Alert. With Jen's encouragement she read my blog and contacted me about selling her 1" buttons and neck warmers in our teeny tiny art shop in the middle of nowhere.

Serena: I heard the first time you visited All Citizens it was a "highlight" of your North American tour. Can you confirm or deny this?

Becky: I can confirm these rumours. On our six-month tour of North America, it was a toss up between Bruno and Bisbee, Arizona. There was something so beautiful about the landscape around Bruno, and a surprising amount of wonderful stuff to do.

Rev. Aitor: Yes, I hereby confirm my first visit with you and Tyler falls snugly into the "highlights" category of that tour. All Citizens is a special place I was not exactly prepared for, in that I didn't know what to expect...

Serena: I heard you thought the tourist attractions in and around Bruno were "amazing". Confirm or deny?

Becky: I would also like to confirm this allegation. Here are some things we have done in and around Bruno: went to a ghost town, went to a buffalo ranch/radar base, got a tour of a local shopkeeper's house, pointed orgonite at our foreheads during a trip to the nearby hamlet of Dana, visited an overpass over nothing and connecting to nothing, saw a shrine and went to a Christmas-themed town. I can't think of that much non-shopping non-event stuff to do in Toronto.

Rev. Aitor: Indeed. I have a soft spot for the big skies and vastness of the Canadian prairies. The town's diminutive size and absence of any building taller than three stories only amplified its surroundings. Meeting you and Tyler was also a big part of my fondness for Bruno. I think being so readily taken in by virtual strangers, becoming fast friends, and being shown around the place does a lot to influence my opinion of said place. There is a special place in my heart for Bruno, but I don't think that would be the case had it just been another motel stop on our way from one place to another.

Serena: Was visiting Bruno novel for you?

Becky: Yes. It was amazing and a highlight of our tour. It also looks like the set of a film.

Rev. Aitor: I still tell people about the Totsky overpass, and often employ "amazing" among the adjectives in the relaying of my experience. Truly amazing is the sheer number of semi-secret attractions in so small a place.

Serena: How did your 2nd visit compare to the 1st?

Becky: On our second trip to Bruno, I discovered how much there wasn't to do in Bruno. This was just as exciting as everything that one can do there. We got to spend almost a week at All Citizens recharging our batteries, making things, shipping things, writing things and clearing our heads. Also we got to see a band rock out there for the first time.

Rev. Aitor: Though the "novelty" has not yet worn off, the second visit was definitely a return to a familiar place, visiting familiar people. It was something I looked forward to; knowing I was in for a relaxing stay with our friend Tyler. We were there nearly a week, so there was definitely time to make ourselves comfortable. Of course, a few things had changed. All Citizens was now a music venue. That was a new thing. It was great seeing a band of young Toronto musicians roll in, still starry-eyed, on their first cross-country tour, and watch them experience Bruno and All Citizens for the first time.

(It's worth noting here that during their second visit to All Citizens Becky & Aitor were bestowed a "Cross Canada Tour Award" for their work in-house which included Rev. Aitor offering unflattering portraits to the Bruno public and Becky creating a shop installation out of plastic shopping bags. Also she made amazing 3" buttons.)

THE END

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Read about Becky's first online encounter with All Citizens here.

Read her account of her first visit here and here.

Read The Misanthrope Specialty Company's account of their second visit to Bruno here.

(Photo credits: Rev. Aitor works on an unflattering portrait during his residency at All Citizens - Photo by Becky Johnson. Becky photographs local skateboarder John Dunbar - Photo by Serena McCarroll.)

*Reader take note: Tyler's currently in Vancouver working on this.

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So brings to a close All Citizens' residency with Broken Pencil. Thanks BP. Not that this is going to be the last you'll hear from Tyler and I. The roundtable discussion on small music venues I mentioned in my previous post will be appearing in BP's regular blog. Stay tuned.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

posted: January 29th, 2010

* From the Archives * by Serena McCarroll

Hello! I'm currently in the process of transcribing a roundtable discussion for my next post. Transcribing is hard! Why didn't I learn to type in highschool? Here's another look back at awkward rural acclimatization (via Going Rural).

February 5th, 2007

[The scene: A taxidermied fox stares down at a shelf of toilet paper. Birds stand-by, pretending nothing is out of the ordinary...I bet you'll never see this at your local supermarket.]

Both of my parents are from California and because of this, while growing up, mexican dishes were always in regular rotation. For me, quesadillas/burritos are a dinner staple as much as pasta and I'll whip one up for lunch quicker than I would a sandwich. Where am I going with this?

Living in a small rural town has taken a lot of adjustment. One of the biggest adjustments revolves around grocery shopping. I've never been much of a cook, but in Vancouver it didn't matter since Amy's Kitchen was always there to save me. We used to live blocks from a large health food store. Organic fruits and vegetables were always plentiful and when I felt lazy there was always Annie's Mac and Cheese! No more! Imagine my horror when I discovered that I couldn't even buy refried beans locally. Tyler works in Saskatoon where one can easily find a large grocery store but after a ten hour shift with over an hour commute each way the last thing he's doing is grocery shopping. We make do with what's available in Bruno. I knew my days of snacking on Barbara's Jalapeno Cheese Puffs were over, but refried beans I could not live without. When the owner of one of the local grocery stores asked if I needed help finding anything I said I needed refried beans. After asking me what on earth I would use them for he went ahead and ordered some! I purchased my first can the other day.

I have a lot to learn here. The local grocery stores don't have a lot of produce to choose from. At first glance this might seem backwards to the casual observer but the reason behind it and the lack of a farmer's market in a farming community is that everyone in town has their own garden. From what I've heard people here usually have more vegetables than they know what to do with. After canning and/or freezing everyone's set for the winter. Tyler and I have our very own yard for the first time and this summer we'll be able to plant our first garden. Learning the art of canning might be next. I see a deep freeze in our future...

Refried beans - a prairie obscurity. Who knew?

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posted: Jan. 20, 2010

* Janet Manderscheid *

Janet Manderscheid is a self-taught doll maker and master of the art of transforming recycled materials and "metal from the local junk pile" into garden sculpture. This past November I had the opportunity to meet up with Janet at her home in Bruno where she gave me a tour of her outdoor art and landscaping projects. During our visit I also learned a little about her extraordinary doll making expertise and toured the ground floor of a doll house that she'll be building over the winter. Please follow the link below to see photos of her work and read text excerpts from her biography, "Endless Dreams".

Warmest Regards, Tyler

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posted: January 12, 2010

* Happy New Year Marcel Prefontaine! * by Tyler Brett

With all the LED and compact florescent high tech that usually illuminates my night life it was a real treat to ring in 2010 with friends in their backyard work shed under the glow of gas lamps and candlelight. The December 31st minus forty degree wind chills and Mr. Bobby Bendig's burst water pipes were no match for the well stoked wood stove and good company. Over the past few years we've discovered that Bruno Saskatchewan is not only home to some of Canada's finest broomball players but to many talented crafters, artists, poets, musicians and writers. Part of the All Citizens agenda is to provide space for local creative types to display, exhibit and sell whatever it is they do and make. Marcel Prefontaine has had carvings, drawings, and paintings in our shop from the very beginning so he'll be the first, among many fine Bruno citizens, that we proudly introduce to you.

AC: When did you start making art?

MP: Since the definition and perception of art is quite subjective, I would have to say that I made my debut as an artist at the age of two. I am told that I had drawn a picture of a fish, my parents bedroom wall being my canvas. When I found myself busted, I blamed it on my aunt who was living with us at the time. I have been interested in and doing art for as long as I can remember.

AC: How did you learn?

MP: I quess it was a talent which was "my gift" at birth. I was never unable to draw, and I don't remember anyone ever teaching me. My father did taxidermy as a hobby and I was his elected critic at a very young age. He would usually make the recommended changes when I wasn't watching!

AC: What types of materials do you like to use?

MP: I do my art using a wide variety of media including pencil, colored pencil, acrylic paint and wood. Combining drawing and wood carving fulfills an inherited interest in wood working by adding an element of artistic creativity.

AC: What subjects interest you?

MP: Wildlife has always been my main subject of choice but I like to diversify my subject matter as well as media. I find that any subject I choose has an almost human-like character. Drawing people, especially children seems to help in giving all my drawings a personality, such as the stories that an abandoned old house may appear to tell.

AC: What are you working on now?

MP: I am currently working on a Mallard duck relief carving and a full body Snow Goose, both painted with acrylic. Working on more than one piece at a time gives me a regrouping break when one subject is not going well or when I am obsessing with perfection! I also like to cast some of my relief carvings with plaster of paris or plastic resin and applying a unique finish to each such as full color or glazed antique white on a wooden plaque. This satisfies my insatiable appetite for new challenges.

All Citizens
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posted: January 1, 2010

* From The Archives * by Serena McCarroll

Excerpt from Going Rural by Serena McCarroll

Another look back at the humble (and humbling) genesis of All Citizens. Originally posted in Going Rural. Happy Holidays Everyone!

July 22. 2006.

When we moved here there were two things that stood in the way of us staying: finding work and finding a place to live. Pretty essential stuff and it has not come easily. I am currently on Employment Insurance and received a nasty call from a government employee three weeks after we got here. We were dealing with the horror that is our septic pump and hadn't determined if we could actually stay, and if we did stay where we would live and thus where we would look for work. The fellow who called me was not impressed and made me feel like we had made a mistake moving here. We decided to look for work in and around Humboldt and hope that we could also find a home in the same area. We both have BFA degrees, which are worthless as far as gainful employment is concerned (a situation that wasn't much better in Vancouver). We also only have one vehicle and Tyler is the only one who knows how to drive. This means we must find work with similar hours in the same location. Not easy. We first tried a beekeepers, a job not nearly as romantic as it sounds. Next we both applied to a company that manufactures highway trailers. It took us almost an hour to drive to the factory location. We were pretty much out of gas when we arrived and there wasn't a gas station in sight. We were both taken on separate tours. The factory was huge and noisy and one of the first things I noticed was a sign that read "28 days since the last accident". I was told I would be working in the metal fabrication department. Upon inspection all I saw were burly men stationed at huge frightening machines that would "take your finger right off". After the tour I had to complete a test and an interview. During the interview I was told that they were concerned about the heavy lifting involved in metal fabrication. They felt the paint department might be better, "you aren't sensitive to toxins are you?" Hell no, I love toxins! Tyler went through the same routine as I did. He was told he would be placed in the finishing department, which included tasks like putting on decals and mud flaps. It appeared to be the most laid-back department in the factory. I was jealous. I left determined to find another solution (oh, and we made it to a gas station two towns away). And that solution was...self employment! Yeah, that's it! Tyler and I had noticed a storefront for sale on Main Street in Bruno. We had a look inside, the building includes living quarters behind the store, all of it on the market for $6500. We're currently looking into buying it and I have been accepted into a self-employment program through Employment Insurance. This was NOT what we were expecting...we wanted to live in the country. However Bruno is a pleasant little town and if all goes well we can move to the country later on. What business am I going to employ myself in? Stay tuned. Tyler accepted the factory job and he actually doesn't mind it, except he has to get up at 4am in order to get there on time (they also offered him a job in the paint dept. for a higher wage but he turned it down, the finishing dept. is definitely a better place to work in). So that's that. The photo above is of one of the trailers Tyler helps to build.

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posted: Dec. 21st, 2009

* Home & Away (& In-Between) * by Tyler Brett

wood slices from trees. Serena McCarroll.

All Citizens is very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute a photo-based installation to the Home & Away (& In-Between) show curated by Tara Bursey in conjunction with City of Craft 2009. The work on display includes a large photo of the All Citizens/Senior Citizens facades set alongside a grid of twenty-one 8"x10" photos showcasing things sold on consignment in the shop. Items range from Bruno-made tatting by retired school teacher & cowboy poet Bernadette Greuel to Toronto-made photocopied drawing zines by Jason McLean. The photos (all shot against black velvet and framed in shadow boxes) represent a wide range of approaches and attitudes towards art and craft. We originally produced this installation, along with a time lapse DVD projection and a book based on Serena's blog Going Rural, for the exhibit IN ESSENCE... curated by Amber Andersen in March for The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Home & Away (& In-Between) includes work by artists Lizz Aston, Fiona Bailey, Amy Borkwood, Leah Buckareff, Marta Chudolinska, Heather Fagan, Meags Fitzgerald, Sara Guindon, Genevieve Jodouin, Laurie McGregor, The Misanthrope Specialty Co., Jen Spinner, Shanell Papp, Gillian Wilson and more. It takes place at the Theatre Centre Gallery/Cream Tangerine Cafe, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto ON, December 3 - 13, 2009. City of Craft runs Dec 12 & 13, 2009. Hope you can make it!

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posted: December 12th, 2009

* Evening with Family & Friends * by Tyler Brett

November was an exciting month in our little town of Bruno. The Town's program manager for Recreation, Culture and Sport invited local artists (myself included) to take part in "An Evening with Family and Friends" visual art, music and poetry night at the community hall on November 20th. I displayed two large scale (94"x36") digital colour prints that depict architecturally augmented stationary freight trains inhabited by a small group of horticulturists. The prints were pinned to a long wall next to table displays featuring an assortment of drawings and wood carvings by Marcel Prefontaine and pottery by Bergit Pulvermacher (I'll add photos of the work to our flickr page soon). The $5 admission also provided family and friends with all you can eat brownies, black forest cake, muffins & cookies. Oh, and then there was the fresh stawberries and chocolate fountain! If this wasn't enough culture and creativity for one evening, senior citizen, award winning resident cowboy poet Bernadette Gruel read from her book of poetry and was followed by the Krentz brothers guitar driven, old time country sung in sweet two part harmony. The night ended with a clean up crew pizza party and tour of Bruno's secret bowling alley newly equipped with a multi-coloured spinning party light. Bowl'n to the indies night anyone? At the pizza party I was introduced to Ms. Janet Manderscheid a crafter/installation artist extraordinaire. I paid a visit to Janet's house a few days later and was given a tour of her back yard/art work in progress. Janet makes and repairs dolls among other things and has mastered the art of transforming recycled metal and wood scraps into ornamental garden sculpture. She made the roof of her gazebo out of a salvaged satellite dish no less! On November 28th experimental electronic artists greenmist and f.ampism brought a mix of live tape delays, drones, squelches, glitches and voice effects to All Citizens. Bruno's resident synthesizer enthusiast was one of the two audience members in attendance and treated the band to a post-show demonstration of his newly acquired Roland JX super analogue synth that just happened to be stored in my basement. Saskatoon's Mr. Kincaid was also on the bill but caught the flu and sadly was unable to attend; here 's his website. November 15th was a special day for All Citizens as it was the day we hosted our first ever quadrupel bill. Our sandwich board could barely contain the nouns & adjectives needed to describe Vancouver based singer song writer Hilary Grist, the mighty talented art- folk, indie pop, rock, hip hop master minds Language Arts and Toronto's massive electronic synth-pop, hip-hop, soul bent fuzzy logic redording artists Peter Project & Gravity Wave. Maria from fuzzy logic sent us a Peter Project MP3 soap bar that not only freshens and cleans but eventually reveals a download code! L. Arts drove about 13 hours from Golden BC to Bruno SK that day so I was a bit worried that they may resort to violence after hearing that everyone in Bruno would be eating turkey and sausages at the community hall annual church bazaar. To their credit all four acts set up and performed as if we had a full house! Check out the youtube video link, you'll see what I'm talking about. On November 10th self taught accordionist and multi-talented Bruno senior citizen Gilbert Ludwig opened for Toronto's $100. He played a few "oom-pah" style polka's and waltzes on a MIDI accordion that he used to layer accordion and synthesizer sounds. Simply, magic. Gilbert's wife, Mayor Audrey gave the band some Bruno Cherry Festival pins and helped us present $100 with a LASER etched glass All Citizens Cross Canada Tour Award. Six members strong, $100 quickly filled up their 100 SQ FT portion of our 200 SQ FT venue. We had about twenty audience members crammed together in a space big enough for eighteen. Nobody complained, we were all happy to have the opportunity to hear one of Canadaï¿½s best country music outfits. I'll wrap up this extra lengthy post by inviting you to check out the music of Jean-Paul De Roover. Three children were in the audience for De Roover's performance here on November 8th. Jean-Paul spent time after the show giving the kids a crash course in theremin operation and the art and craft of creating looping effects.

Minus 16 and snowing.

Warmest Regards, Tyler

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posted: December 4th, 2009

* From The Archives * by Serena McCarroll

I maintained a diaristic blog during our transition from big city to small town prairie life. I called it Going Rural. Here's a look back:

October 26, 2006

Tyler and I went to another auction yesterday. We didn't enjoy it as much as last time. First of all, we left late and neglected to eat a proper breakfast which would haunt us later. Then we got a flat tire on the way there. By the time we finally arrived we were pretty punchy. We became grumpier as we realized we were in the middle of nowhere and all there was to eat were burgers and junkfood (neither of us eat meat). We filled up on chips, chocolate and pie and drank coffee to keep warm as we waited for the items we were interested in to come up. It took forever. It was very cold. We were standing in mud. Thankfully we didn't leave empty handed. We purchased a coffee table and bookshelf for $2. However, we spent $12 on junkfood. Next time we're packing sandwiches!

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posted: November 25th, 2009

* Main Street, Bruno * by Tyler Brett

My apologies for not blogging sooner but things have been a little busy here in Bruno lately. Last week I started a new job right across the street from All Citizens at Prefontaine's Custom furniture and cabinetry. On my first day, Ron, my boss almost cut his thumb off! I had to race him (no fear of speeding fines as there are no police in Bruno) to the nearest hospital in Humboldt about 35 KMS east of town. I'm happy to say that Ron and his thumb will be fine. In other news around town, the weather has extended the harvest!!! I've been told by people in the know that its extremely unusual for farmers to be combining this late in the year. Last night the local church held its annual Bazaar so almost every living soul in Bruno was at the town hall eating turkey and mashed potatoes. This might explain why last evening's All Citizens concert featuring Vancouver's Language Arts and Emily Grist + Toronto's Gravity Wave & Peter Project was poorly attended. Actually, we had exactly ZERO people show up. Because of the extreme awesomeness of the musicians involved, the concert happened anyways with myself, our dog Terrence, cat Booboo and band members cheering on the very, very excellent performances. Next time around I'll post a few pictures and links to the videos I shot. I'll also be saying something about recent performances by Thunder Bay's Jean-Paul De Roover, Toronto's $100 and a local upcoming art event called, "Evening With Family and Friends".

Until then...

Tyler

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posted: November 17th, 2009

* An Explanation of Sorts * by Serena McCarroll

Whenever I tell people that I co-own a shop in rural Saskatchewan they assume that I'm from there.

I'm not. Neither is Tyler.

In fact, neither of us knew a goddamn soul there when we decided to make it our home.

As I child I had driven through the peculiarly symmetrical province en route from Alberta to Manitoba and vice versa (let's explain this by saying I'm the child of divorce). Tyler, on the other hand, had actually visited. He visited twice: the first time was in 1991 while on tour with the hair-metal cover band Neverland. The second trip was to attend his cousin's wedding. The latter visit made a significant and lasting impression. So much so that it directly led to us moving there 7 years later.

Tyler had a dream. His dream became mine.

We had been living together in Vancouver. We were both graduates of the Emily Carr Institute of Art. We lived hand to mouth in a city steadfastly aligning itself with the rich. We were poor. We were resentful. We were tired of spinning our wheels.

In 1999 Tyler's cousin got married in the hamlet of Dana, Saskatchewan. The marriage ceremony took place in a small orthodox Ukrainian church surrounded by picturesque prairie land. More stunning than the scenery was the fact that the couple didn't rent the church they married in, no, they BOUGHT it. They purchased it for a mere $1700 - yes, a church plus ten lots of land for less than two grand. CRAZY! Even crazier: they bought a small house across the street for roughly a thousand. Tyler was suitably astonished. The amazement never left him.

In 2006 we were at the end of our ropes in Vancouver. I had recently been laid off work. Tyler was employed as a custom framer in an art supply shop and worked out of a basement we were quite certain was toxic. Times were tough. And when times are tough the tough get...you know. We were done. It was time to go.

Tyler's cousin and her husband never moved into their house in Dana, SK. They would visit it from time to time but they made their home in Gibsons, BC. Tyler had an open invitation to stay in the Dana house whenever he wanted. And so, we moved to rural Saskatchewan with an empty house as destination. We had my employment insurance cheques to live on and were sustained by the dream of owning property. Our goal was $10 000 or less. The plan was to take that property and somehow turn it into a livelihood, perhaps an artist's residency? We weren't sure. The building would surely announce it's own destiny and ours along with it, right?

We searched for four months. For four months we lived in a house with no hot water, no heat (it was summer) and sketchy plumbing. We used a solar shower, hot water bottles and sometimes - deep breath - a giant litter box (well, not so much a box as a bucket). It was all very adventurous and experimental.

When summer came to an end, with winter quickly approaching, decisions had to be made. The nearest town to Dana was Bruno. Bruno had two small grocery stores and a pharmacy. We went there often (Dana was too small to have such things). We had noticed a 'for sale' sign in the window of a dilapidated storefront on Main Street but hadn't really thought of calling it. The sign was handwritten, sun-bleached and falling in such a way that the number was difficult to read. The storefront itself looked like it hadn't been functional for years. When we realized our situation was getting desperate Tyler finally called. He asked the price and I heard him say "$65 000?" but then, "oh, $6500. Can we look at it?" It was nicer inside than we expected. Behind the store were living quarters. The building was sandwiched between the town's only restaurant and the Senior Citizens Centre. We went to the local credit union and got a mortgage. Through employment insurance I was able to enter into a free self-employment program. What business were we going to open? We went with our instincts, with what we knew and what we cared about. And the name? Well that part announced itself quite clearly to us.

And this is how All Citizens came to exist.

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posted: Nov. 16th, 2009