Vancouver: Poverty Olympics to Highlight Broken Promises

Syndicated from Wombles on Thu, 2008-01-31
Vancouver: Poverty Olympics

from mostly water, 31 January 2008: What do Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach and Chewy the Rat have in common with the 2010 Olympics?

They are the mascots of the first annual Poverty Olympics to be held on Feb. 3, 2008, just in time for the two-year countdown to the 2010 Winter Games. The event will take place at the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St. in Vancouver, from 1-4 pm. more