1) Do you have questions for
the Mayoral Candidates?
2) Is your organization
experiencing a rise facility fee charges? Community feedback is being sought.
3) Calculating the Living Wage: webinar for local communities coming
September 9th
4) Big Brothers Big Sister's
Annual "Tour de Cariboo" - Sept 6th
5) Boitanio
Mall - Club Days - Fall Sign-up are underway
6) Free Library Event - Evening with Author & Xat'sull Chief Bev
Sellars
7) Williams Lake Harvest Fair
- Sept 6 & 7th
8) Literacy & Math
Tutoring - available for students grades 1 - 7
9) Chickadee Early Childhood
& Learning Centre - open house on Saturday Aug 30th
10) Suicide Awareness &
Prevention Workshop - Sept 4th
11) Cariboo Chilcotin
Partners for Literacy - free programs & services
12) RCMP Regiment Ball - Sept
20th - ticket are going fast
13) Annual General Meeting - Williams
Lake Hospice Society - Sept 10th
14) Annual Pool Shut Down -
closed from Aug 18th - Sept 7th
15) Reminder - The 2014 Art Walk and Sale - ends Sept 6th
1) Do you have questions for the Mayoral Candidates?
City Council Elections for
the City of Williams Lake are coming up. Do you have questions you want to ask
the candidates? As always, you can have your voice heard via the Social
Planning Council. We are going to prepare a set of questions, forward them to
the candidates for their response, and then publish their answers. You can
submit your questions completely anonymously via https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KKZN6NC.
At the next Social Planning Council monthly lunch meeting on Monday Sept 22nd,
we will be discussing this further. Everyone is welcome.
2) Is your organization experiencing a rise facility fee
charges? Community feedback is being sought.
We want to hear from you. Are
you experiencing changes in facility usage fees for your service club? Either
way we would like to hear from you. Send us an email with your observations,
personal experience &/or anecdotal comments. Please include the name of the
organization experiencing changes, and please know that your personal
information will be kept anonymous. Send your comments to
spc-coordinator@xplornet.com.
3) Calculating the Living
Wage: webinar for local communities coming September 9th
Save
the date! Tuesday, September 9th from noon to 1 pm (PDT) by
webinar – please share this announcement.
The Living Wage for Families Campaign has received more than three dozen
requests from communities around BC (and across western Canada) asking how the
local living wage can be calculated. To help the living wage movement
grow, you are invited to join us for a free one-hour webinar on how
the Living Wage for Families calculates the annual living wage, and to learn
how you can adopt this methodology to use in your own community.
Iglika Ivanova of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC Office)
will walk through the data required to develop a local table of family expenses
and show how to use the living wage calculation spreadsheet to calculate the
living wage in your community; Iglika does the annual calculation for the Metro
Vancouver living wage.
Adrienne Montani of First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
and Catherine Ludgate of the Living Wage for Families Campaign (employer
recognition) will provide a history of the Campaign and some suggestions for
how to find a local host to make the annual calculations; First Call is
the host for the Living Wage for Families Campaign.
To register for the webinar, please send an email to info@livingwageforfamilies.ca,
with "webinar" in the subject line. We'll send information on
how to connect to the webinar, closer to the dates.
4) Big Brothers Big Sister's Annual "Tour de
Cariboo" - Sept 6th
Are you ready? Set your next
fitness challenge on the Tour de Cariboo, a 76 km bike ride from Williams Lake
to Gavin Lake. 76km a bit much for you? Split it up with friends and family and
form a relay team. There are absolutely no rules for the team. Make up your own
with as few or many riders as you like. Ride a little ride alot - challenge
yourself.
To learn more visit
www.bbswlake.com or call 250-398-8391
5) Boitanio Mall - Club
Days - Fall Sign-up are underway
On
September 6th from 10 am - 2 pm is Clubs Day. To book your organizations free
space, call Jeanette at 250-392-4169
Registration
for service clubs are now underway. Some of them include:
Shogun
Martial Arts - 250-392-2280
Williams
Lake Swim Club - 250-303-1199
Williams
Lake Skating Club - 250-392-4312
Cariboo
Bowling clubs - www.cariboobowl.com
Boys
& Girls Club "KidZone" after school child care - 250-392-5730
Gymnastics
Club - 250-398-7331
Williams
Lake Curling - 250-392-4636
6) Free Library Event - Evening with Author & Xat'sull Chief Bev
Sellars
Xat'sull Chief Bev Sellars will be at the Williams Lake
Branch to present and speak about her book, They Called Me Number One:
Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School. It is the first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph's Mission at
Williams Lake, BC, and tells of three generations of women who attended the
school, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother
with her own. Sellars candidly documents the emotional and physical trauma
she experienced, and gives insight on her own journey toward healing.
Date: Tuesday Sept 9th
Time: 7pm
Location: Williams Lake Branch, Cariboo Regional District Library
Contact person: Caroline Derksen
Contact email/phone number: 250-392-3630
7) Williams Lake Harvest Fair - Sept 6 & 7th
The 38th Annual Williams Lake
Harvest Fair is next Saturday & Sunday, Sept 6 - 7th at the Stampede Park. The Harvest Fair
is not in the business of profit. The sole purpose of the fair is to encourage
the development of arts & crafts, home arts, gardening, livestock etc. The
Harvest Fair Board consists of volunteers who work year round for no gain other
than the personal satisfaction of staging a community fair. Your participation
and attendance to make this fair a success is greatly appreciated.
Want to enter your submission?
Want to enter the Pet Parade,
Cut Flower, Floral Art, Potted Plants, Vegetables, Farm, Field & Orchard Produce,
Canning & Preserves, Home Baking Needlework & Sewing, Quilting, Knitting
& Crochet, Little Britches Rodeo Finals, Senior Citizens, Arts &
Crafts, Children, Homemade Beer & Wine, Photography, Rabbits & Guinea
Pigs, Poultry, Harvest Ranch Rodeo, Livestock, Sheep, 4H Competition, Goats,
Gymkhana, Spinning & Weaving, and
other Special Prize Classes. Submit your entry in person to the Reception desk
at City Hall or at the Tribune Office.
Entry deadlines (vary by
category) is Sept 3 & 4th. Visit wlharvestfair.ca or pick up brochures
available around town for more entry and category details. Brochures are
available at Save On Foods, Beaver Valley Feeds, Tourist Info Ctr, Seniors
Centre, WL Vet Clinic, Animal Care Hospital, Fabricland, Total Pet, The
Tribune, City Hall, Safeway and at Cariboo GM.
8) Literacy & Math Tutoring - available for
students grades 1 - 7
The Williams Lake Learning
Disabilities Association in partnership with the Child Deelopment Centr offers
tutoring for students (grades 1 - 7) in literacy and math. If your child needs
help please contact Sydney Wolstenholme at 250-392-4481 or the CDC at 690
Second Ave. N.
9) Chickadee Early Childhood & Learning Centre -
open house on Saturday Aug 30th
The Chickadee Early Childhood
& Learning Centre is hosting an open house an registration this Saturday
Aug 30th from 1 - 4 pm at the Miocene Hall, Horsefly Road. For more info call
Claire at 250-296-3265. Imaginative play based learning - Inspired by Waldorf
Education.
10) Suicide Awareness & Prevention Workshop - Sept
4th
The Canadian Mental Health Association
presents a suicide Awareness & Prevention Workshop on September 4th. Did
you know approximately 11 people will die by suicide in Canada today and for
each death by suicide it has been estimated that the lives of 7 - 10 bereaved
survivors are profoundly affected.
What: Be part of the
Conversation. Learn Myths, Warning Signs and ways you can help.
Location: Central CAriboo
Arts & Culture Society (former Fire Hall)
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Cost: Free
For more information contact
the CMHA - Cariboo Chilcotin Branch at 51 Fourth Ave S., 250-398-8220 ext 2020
or 2040 or visit www.cariboo.cmha.bc.ca
Crisis Line - 1-888-353-2273
11) Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy - free
programs & services
There are many free programs
& services available through the Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for Literacy.
Promoting lifelong learning for all ages, they offer help with reading,
writing, math, free computer classes and more. Become a Life Long Learner - visit www.caribooliteracy.com or
contact Melody Newcombe at 250-945-4199 or mel@caribooliteracy.com, or Janette
Moller at 250-392-8161.
12) RCMP Regiment Ball - Sept 20th - ticket are going
fast
The Williams Lake RCMP would
like to invite the public to attend the 2014 Regiment Ball on Saturday Sept
20th. There will be a formal dinner, live auction, and dance floor with music
from March Hare. Tickets are $80 each and there is limited seats available.
Contact Crystal at 250-392-8695 or stop by the detachment to get your tickets.
All proceeds from the ball will go to the Moncton Fallen Members Fund.
13) Annual General Meeting - Williams Lake Hospice
Society - Sept 10th
All members and prospective
members are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting for the WL Hospice
Society on Wednesday Sept 10th at 6pm in the Education room of the Deni House.
14) Annual Pool Shut Down - closed from Aug 18th -
Sept 7th
The annual pool shutdown ends
September 7th. On another note, the new Active Living Guide is now available.
Hardcopies are being sent out, and are always available at the Recreation Complex
at 525 Proctor Street, or online at www.activewilliamslake.com. Call 250-398-7665
for more information.
15) Reminder - The 2014 Art
Walk and Sale - ends Sept 6th
Until Sept 6th
view great art, prizes, entertainment and exercise. The art walk runs Aug. 7 to Sept. 6 and features the
work of 52 artists paired with local businesses for display. All types of art is represented on the walk
including oils, water colours, pencil drawings, pottery, acrylics, weaving,
photography, airbrush art, quilting, carving, jewellery, doll making and more.
Visit locations downtown to learn more.
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