Community Updates (10) – Apr 12, 2013
1)
Free Lunch & Documentary Screening Apr 19 - Chiwid Transition House
In Honor of Prevention of Violence
Against Women Week, Chiwid Transition House and the Children Who Witness Abuse
Program is hosting a screening of the documentary film MISS REPRESENTATION
Miss Representation is a documentary film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The film explores how the media’s
misrepresenatations of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in
positions of power and influence. View the trailer at missrepresentation.org (Please note: This film is not rated and may contain
offensive language) .
PLACE: Longhouse
DATE: Friday, April 19, 2013
TIME: 11:30 am
FREE event
Screening begins at noon - Lunch will be provided by Chiwid
Transition House.
2) Attachment and Attunement: Strengthening the
Bond between Children and Caregivers
Child and
Youth Mental Health is offering four information sessions for parents,
caregivers and service providers in the community:
These
sessions are aimed at providing information about parenting and attachment
styles, attunement, attachment-based strategies for strengthening the
child-caregiver relationship and troubleshooting around attachment injuries and
challenging behaviors.
Session One:
Introduction and Definition of Attachment
Session Two:
Insecure Attachment Styles Across Development
Session
Three: The Effects of Parenting on Attachment
Session Four:
Attachment-Focussed Parenting and Attunement
Dates: April
8, 15, 22 and 29 2013
Mondays 12:00
noon-1:00pm
Bring your
lunch and drop in for some information and discussion on attachment! Hope to
see you thereJ
For more
information please contact: Cherrie Carr or Carmen Mutschele at 250-398-4963
3) Cowboy Carnival – Friday Apr 19 from 9 – 11 am
at the Recreation Complex’s Rodeo Arena – free admission
The Williams
Lake Stampede Royalty and the Williams Lake Indoor Rodeo proudly present Cowboy
Carnival. There will be barrels, horse shoes, face painting, stick horse barrel
racing and more.
Open to all
kids to come and experience what it is like to be a cowboy or cowgirl.
4) Canadian
Mental Health Association Cariboo Chilcotin Branch Multiculturalism Program is
proud to present...
Official Book Launch & Open
House: Spicing Up the Cariboo
provides a glimpse into the rich ethnic diversity of both the Cariboo Chilcotin
and the connection between community and kitchen.
Date: Saturday April 27th
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Location: Senior Citizens
Centre
176 N 4th Avenue Williams
Lake
5) Dig into the Dirt this
Earth Day – Apr 21 at SINC
Plant a tree for the Earth April 21st 10am-Noon.
Junior Archaeologist Day Camp April 21st 12-3pm
Scout Island’s Family Explorers and Young
Naturalists’ Club invite you to join them the Sunday before Earth Day at Scout
Island Nature Centre. Starting at 10am dig into the earth to enhance habitat
for wildlife. This annual event is always popular so come early to be sure you
get a chance to plant. Please wear sensible shoes and gardening gloves.
At noon come to the Nature House and meet
special guest Beth Bedard, professor of Archaeology at Thompson Rivers
University, who will share her lifetime of adventures from around the world.
Make an archaeology sandwich with Young Naturalist Club leader Mary Forbes to
see how archaeologists learn about people from the past by studying what they
have left behind in the ground. Practice making stone tools using an ancient
skill called “flint knapping” and get your hands dirty excavating for
artifacts in our special junior archaeologist day camp.
Call Scout Island Nature House if you have
questions about this
6)
United Way’s Day of Caring 2013
I wanted to let you know that our
applications for a Day of Caring in 2013 are now available at http://www.unitedwaytnc.ca/2013/02/apply-for-a-2013-day-of-caring-today/
If you would like to take part in a Day
of Caring in 2013 please complete the online application.
7) National Film Board Documentary - Who
Cares: All it Takes is One Bad Date
In our final Winter screening for 2013,
this cinema vérité documentary by director Rosie Dransfeld captures the gritty
and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex trade workers where, in a post-Pickton
era, women now voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future
postmortem identification.
April 17th, 7:00pm
Library Program Room
FREE
8)
Seedy Saturday & celebration of Cariboo Growers and Community Corner
Partnership’s 3rd Birthday!!!
Saturday, May 4th 10am -2pm @ the
Community Corner parking lot (corner of 3rd and Oliver)
Join us on May 4th to start your gardening season off right! Get your local seeds and seedlings and gardening advice from local producers. Enjoy coffee by donation to the Food Policy Council, Free Birthday Cake, live music, kids activities-including seed planting.
Join us on May 4th to start your gardening season off right! Get your local seeds and seedlings and gardening advice from local producers. Enjoy coffee by donation to the Food Policy Council, Free Birthday Cake, live music, kids activities-including seed planting.
Attention Vendors: Anyone wanting a booth will need to supply
their own table/tent and any other needed supplies. Call or email Cody for
further details and to register your booth contact Cody Slinn at 250-392-0294 or codyslinn@hotmail.com
9) The next SPC meeting is on Apr 22
at 11:30 am – Community Collaboration:
Tatjana Bates
from the Williams Lake Food Policy Council will be presenting. The meeting will
be held at the Fellowship Hall at 267 Borland Street (next door to the Thrift
Store). We will also be offering a short tour of the Salvation Army’s
facilities.
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