Hi everyone. I thought I'd start a new post here so that all the links we share are visible. You can just click on "edit posts" under "Posting" to add any links you'd like to in this post (or leave them in the comments and I'll add them up into the post).
Here is the school on Cortez Island I (Juris) mentioned.
Click HERE for the one on idle parenting, that gave some of us such a laugh.
Click HERE for the you-tube video on the outdoor kindergarten in Norway.
And HERE is the MSNBC article on raising passionate kids (by leaving them alone).
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Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Thursday, March 5, 2009
So, What are You doing On Monday at 1:30?
Edited to add: Council meetings are in the Council Chambers at City Hall, just to the left inside the main doors. You can bring your letter along and drop it at the reception desk, to the attention of Patti Bridal, the city clerk.
There are several opportunities here:
Sam Zaharia (fellow homeschooler) has been very active in our community around food security and has started lobbying the city of Vernon to change the bylaws so that we'd be able to keep a few chickens in our backyards, like the cities of Victoria, Seattle, New Westminster, Burnaby and Nanaimo. On Monday, March 9, at 1:30 pm Sam appears before council to give her 5 minute summation of her case. HERE'S A GREAT CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE by showing up and showing your support for a fellow homeschooler and ultimately for food security in our fair city. As cities around the world face drought and food scarcity, it's time for us to take a stand for the right to raise as much food as we can in our own backyards. Chickens are an excellent educational way to turn food scraps into compost, eliminate pest problems in the garden (cherry fly and slugs disappear when chickens are present -- they even help keep mice populations down!) and provide fresh eggs all at the same time! We're allowed to have rabbits, which can cause all kinds of environmental problems, dogs which we all know can be noisy (and their excrement can be a real environmental problem), cats which are difficult to contain and are a very real threat to bird populations, but not chickens, the most helpful pet around! Studies show that chickens raised free-range have virtually no risk of spreading avian flu (as opposed to chickens raised industrially) yet many industrial chicken lobbyists are using that inaccurate fear to keep us from having the right to raise our own eggs and meat.
ALSO, Sam is looking for a good, loving home for two breeding pairs of Auracana chickens. This means you'll get eggs and the possibility of watching while your pair raises a flock of babies! What an educational treat! Here are her details:
BREEDING PAIR (possibly two pairs) of Auracana cross. The hens lays nice blue-green eggs. The roosters are gorgeous, show all the standard traits of the breed, show very well, have won ribbons at the IPE. We love these birds and are forced by the city to give them up so they must go to a good home, not on the dinner table!!! Must go soon. Email Sam at mumpy5@shaw.ca if you're interested.
ALSO, writing a letter to council stating your own concerns about food security and how you see having backyard chickens could be a partial solution to that would be EXTRA helpful.
HOPE TO SEE YOU ON MONDAY!
There are several opportunities here:
Sam Zaharia (fellow homeschooler) has been very active in our community around food security and has started lobbying the city of Vernon to change the bylaws so that we'd be able to keep a few chickens in our backyards, like the cities of Victoria, Seattle, New Westminster, Burnaby and Nanaimo. On Monday, March 9, at 1:30 pm Sam appears before council to give her 5 minute summation of her case. HERE'S A GREAT CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE by showing up and showing your support for a fellow homeschooler and ultimately for food security in our fair city. As cities around the world face drought and food scarcity, it's time for us to take a stand for the right to raise as much food as we can in our own backyards. Chickens are an excellent educational way to turn food scraps into compost, eliminate pest problems in the garden (cherry fly and slugs disappear when chickens are present -- they even help keep mice populations down!) and provide fresh eggs all at the same time! We're allowed to have rabbits, which can cause all kinds of environmental problems, dogs which we all know can be noisy (and their excrement can be a real environmental problem), cats which are difficult to contain and are a very real threat to bird populations, but not chickens, the most helpful pet around! Studies show that chickens raised free-range have virtually no risk of spreading avian flu (as opposed to chickens raised industrially) yet many industrial chicken lobbyists are using that inaccurate fear to keep us from having the right to raise our own eggs and meat.
ALSO, Sam is looking for a good, loving home for two breeding pairs of Auracana chickens. This means you'll get eggs and the possibility of watching while your pair raises a flock of babies! What an educational treat! Here are her details:
BREEDING PAIR (possibly two pairs) of Auracana cross. The hens lays nice blue-green eggs. The roosters are gorgeous, show all the standard traits of the breed, show very well, have won ribbons at the IPE. We love these birds and are forced by the city to give them up so they must go to a good home, not on the dinner table!!! Must go soon. Email Sam at mumpy5@shaw.ca if you're interested.
ALSO, writing a letter to council stating your own concerns about food security and how you see having backyard chickens could be a partial solution to that would be EXTRA helpful.
HOPE TO SEE YOU ON MONDAY!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Any interested Junior Aviators???
Vernon youth can go flying for free
by Castanet Staff - Story: 45228
Feb 22, 2009 / 2:30 pm
Vernon youth will have a chance to celebrate the first powered, controlled air flight in Canada nearly a century after it occurred.
On February 23, 1909, on a frozen lake near the town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, a team of aviation pioneers led by Alexander Graham Bell made the first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air flight in Canada in a craft called the "Silver Dart." The Vernon Flying Club members will celebrate the centennial occasion by volunteering their time, aircraft and fuel, to introduce young people from 7- 17 years of age to experience the thrill and excitement of flying in a light aircraft from the Vernon Airport on April 18. This event is free for "Junior Aviators," a new program launched this year by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association. Any interested Junior Aviators should be preregistered with the Vernon Flying Club prior to April 18. It will all start with several short and informative aviation ground briefings delivered by the "Junior Aviators" coordinator and VFC member/Instructor Randy Rauck on April 18. The VFC volunteer pilots will give a pre flight briefing at the plane and will explain how their plane operates. If the weather is not suitable for flying on the 18th, the flights will be rescheduled for the 19th.
Link: COPA website
by Castanet Staff - Story: 45228
Feb 22, 2009 / 2:30 pm
Vernon youth will have a chance to celebrate the first powered, controlled air flight in Canada nearly a century after it occurred.
On February 23, 1909, on a frozen lake near the town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, a team of aviation pioneers led by Alexander Graham Bell made the first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air flight in Canada in a craft called the "Silver Dart." The Vernon Flying Club members will celebrate the centennial occasion by volunteering their time, aircraft and fuel, to introduce young people from 7- 17 years of age to experience the thrill and excitement of flying in a light aircraft from the Vernon Airport on April 18. This event is free for "Junior Aviators," a new program launched this year by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association. Any interested Junior Aviators should be preregistered with the Vernon Flying Club prior to April 18. It will all start with several short and informative aviation ground briefings delivered by the "Junior Aviators" coordinator and VFC member/Instructor Randy Rauck on April 18. The VFC volunteer pilots will give a pre flight briefing at the plane and will explain how their plane operates. If the weather is not suitable for flying on the 18th, the flights will be rescheduled for the 19th.
Link: COPA website
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Garage Sale to support Kaetlyn
So Saturday, April 28, is our first garage sale for Kaetlyn's insulin pump fund. It will be at Lynn's house (3001 - 22nd Street on East Hill just up Suicide Hill). We'll be there from 10:30 AM on FRIDAY to clean, sort and price stuff. If anyone has stuff to donate and can drop it off on Friday, it would be greatly appreciated. Or be sure to come by on Saturday for some great shopping (yes, that IS Monique encouraging people to shop SECOND HAND........hee hee ha!). The sale is from 8 to 3 and we can use all the help we can get to make this event a huge success. This is a chance to rally around a member of our community, and renew your faith in our power to make things happen. Next time you're in need you'll feel the power of this event extend to you, too...
[Edited by Mary-Sue]
[Edited by Mary-Sue]
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