D arcy biography
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D’Arcy Jenish grew up in the grain growing and coal mining country of southeastern Saskatchewan, attended high school in Peterborough, Ontario and graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in English. He began his journalism career at small town newspapers in southwestern Ontario, then returned to the West in 1979 and became a Senior Editor at Alberta Report in Edmonton. He stayed seven years, covering business, politics and sports mitt i a period of political upheaval and economic discord.
Jenish left in the fall of 1985 with a deeper understanding and a renewed attachment to the West and became Alberta Report’s first Ottawa Bureau Chief. His mandate was to cover national affairs from a regional perspective and his work in the capital quickly came to the attention of a larger rival. In November, 1986, he joined Maclean’s, Canada’s National Newsmagazine, as a Senior Writer.
His assignments took him from coast to coast in Canada and to New York, Los Angeles,
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D'arcy Wretzky
American bassist (born 1968)
Musical artist
D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky (born May 1, 1968) is an American musician. She was the original bassist of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and is credited on their first six studio albums. She left the band in 1999. She has also been a member of Catherine and performed with Filter.
Early life
[edit]Wretzky was born and grew up in South Haven, Michigan where her mother, Vikke Anderson, a working musician, encouraged D'arcy and her sisters to perform music. D'Arcy played violin for 9 or 10 years, played oboe, and performed in choirs while growing up.[1] She also was in gymnastics.[2] D'Arcy intended to have a musical career from the time she was 10 years old.[3]
She later referred to her father, Jerry Wretzky, a pipefitter with a love of horseback riding, as "a very strange man".[2][4] D'Arcy was a self-described "tomboy" and had a contentious relationshi
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Bio
Fast forward to 2018 and in that time I’ve given hundreds of Teaspoons of Change presentations and workshops, worked on the ground in development with UNICEF in South Sudan, Uganda, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan and with donor countries; created a project on simplicity and sustainability and built two tiny homes (Happy, simply); initiated a polio program for schools (Polio Points); walked 1000km in Japan; cycled many thousands of kms on advocacy cycling trips and currently I’ve just completed a Master’s in Peace Studies in Japan with the Rotary Peace Fellowship, and wrote my thesis on the concept and initiative of Teaspoons of Peace.
All the work I do is aimed at glob