Table of Contents:
1) Williams
Lake Wanderers
- January 2015
2) Keys to Our Children's
Future: Teach, Guide and Lead Workshops
3) Winter Wellness Family
Gathering - Feb 12th
4) Call For Performers 2015 for Performance in the Park series.
5) CRD's Sub-Regional Budget
Sessions
6) Daybreak Rotary's 24th
Annual Book Sale Feb 15 - 28th
7) Free Family Astronomy at Scout Island - Sat Jan
24th from 6pm-8pm
8) United Way's Community
Investment Funding - applications due Jan 30th
9) Reminder - Potato House AGM &
Potluck afterwards - Jan 19th
10) Reminder - CCACS 2015
Grant Applications due Jan 30th
11) Social
Planning Council's monthly meeting - Jan 26th at 11:30 am
12) Communities that Care's -
Positive Action Word of the Week - "Talent"
13) Community Events Calendar - Green Gazette free Listings
14) TNG's Exploring the Path to Wellness
Project - survey due Jan 20th
1) Williams Lake Wanderers - January 2015
To join this group, come about 10:30 am
to the Cariboo Memorial Complex on a Tues., Wed., or Thursday. We always begin
our outings from there, so you can fill out a membership form and pay your $10
annual fee. We leave at 10:45 am. Once you're a member, you will receive emails
with schedule and schedule changes. Schedules and updates are also on Facebook.
Whether we walk or snowshoe will
depend on the amount of snow at the time, so, perhaps, bring snowshoes along if
in doubt.
Tues. Jan. 20 – Cow Trail
walk/snowshoe( possibly with Ken Day) (Esler)
Wed. Jan. 21 – Bull Mtn. ski under the lights at 5:30 pm. (hot beverages included)
Thurs. Jan. 22 – Pulver Meadow walk/snowshoe ( off airport road)
Tues. Jan.27 - River Valley walk
Wed. Jan. 28 – Bull Mountain snowshoe and potluck ( extended time)
Thurs. Jan. 29 – Williams Lake ski
* Each time we go to Bull Mountain,
there is a $10 charge unless you're already a member of the Cross Country Ski
Club.
All of these
activities are subject to change acording to weather conditions, so keep an eye
on your email/Facebook.
2) Keys to Our Children's Future: Teach, Guide and
Lead Workshops
Williams Lake Indian Band -
at Elizabeth Grouse Gymnasium
Jan 27, 2015 - 8:30 - 3:30 pm
Elder Abuse Presentation -
Provided by Victim Services and Women’s Contact Society
Living your Potential - Provided
by Ciel Patenaude
Financial Elder Abuse -
Provided by Financial Institution
ScamsAwareness - Provided by
RCMP
Feb 11, 2015 - 8:30 - 3:30 pm
Different ways to interact or
play with your child - Provided by Women’s Contact Society
Roll Over Simulator provided
by RCMP
Teddy Bear to Puppet -
Provided by Women’s Contact Society
Feb 12, 2015
Aboriginal Gang Presentation
- Provided by RCMP
Social Media Safety -
Provided by RCMP (Sam Nakatsu)
Emotional Intelligence
provided by Ciel Patenaude
Relationship Boundaries
Workshop - Provided by Women’s Contact Society
Human Trafficking - Provided
by RCMP (Dave Dickson) and Women’s Contact Society
For more information, please
email Roxanne.Stobie@williamslakeband.ca
3) Winter Wellness Family Gathering - Feb 12th
Scheduled
for Feb 12th at Denisiqi Services Society - strengthening the circle of support
around families. Meet your community service providers, entertainment and door
prizes and lunch for everybody.
"Please
note that we are calling all service providers and people who would like to
sell their arts and crafts at the event (no table charge) to come and
participate in our event. We will have an area specifically for service
provider booths and another area for people to sell their arts and crafts.
Anyone interested will have to book their tables ahead to insure a spot for
that day. We will also have entertainment and food, so come and join us."
Marilyn
Charleyboy
Restoring
Balance Program Coordinator
Denisiqi
Services Society
240B North
Mackenzie Avnenue
Williams
Lake BC, V2G 1N6
Phone 250
392-6500 Ext. 239
Have your say and join the
discussion. In Williams Lake on Jan 29th at the Cariboo Regional District Board
room at 5pm. Call 250-392-3351 or visit cariboord.ca for further information.
If you are unable to attend you can pre-register for the webinar by emailing
communications@cariboord.ca
5) Daybreak Rotary's 24th Annual Book Sale Feb 15 -
28th
Giant used book sale in the
upper level of Boitanio Mall. Donations are greatly appreciated with collection
bins at: Safeway, Save-on Foods, Western Financial, Boitanio Mall entrance the
150 Mile House Centre or call 250-392-4498 for pickups.
6) Free
Family Astronomy at Scout Island - Sat Jan 24th from 6pm-8pm
Saturday,
January 24th at 6pm join local community astronomers Steve and Lynn Capling at
the Scout Island Nature House for stories and stargazing until 8pm. There will
have plenty of stellar stuff to gander at with your naked eye, binoculars or
with a telescope. If the weather outside is inappropriate for
stargazing, the event will be moved
indoors with games and activities.
Everyone and
all ages are welcome - no registration is required. Bring: Warm clothes (and gloves!), Binoculars
(Scout Island have some available to borrow), lawn chairs
or something to lay down on. Please do NOT bring a flashlight or headlamps.
A very large telescope is provided but you are
welcome to bring along your own, more
telescopes make this event even better! Call Scout
Island Nature House if you have questions about this special event call
250.398.8532 or email themaryforbes@gmail.com
7) United Way's Community Investment Funding -
applications due Jan 30th
United Way provides funding to strengthen the
network of services and capacity of non-profits to achieve meaningful,
long-term improvements in quality of life in the community by addressing not
just the symptoms of problems but also the root causes.
Our Community Investment process is open to
receive applications from non-profits with charitable status as of December
1st, 2014 throughout the Thompson Nicola Cariboo region. The deadline for applications will be January 30th, 2015.
The application is available only on-line at www.investingincommunity.ca.
For Youth Initiative Grants,
please visit http://www.investingincommunity.ca/yig/
8)
Potato House Annual General Meeting & Potluck afterwards - Jan 19th
For 2015 we are moving towards
improving access to the Potato House for events and public use. Join us
at the AGM January 19th at 6pm at Scout Island Nature Centre and vote in your
Directors for 2015! We have 6 candidates for directors to fill our board,
if you would like to be considered please reply to this email.
The annual potato house potato dish
potluck/people's choice competition will take place immediately after the AGM. Remember
membership for 2015 is now due. $20 individuals, $10 for Seniors and
Students. If you would like a membership form emailed to you please email
themaryforbes@gmail.com or call 250-855-8443.
9) Reminder - CCACS 2015 Grant Applications due Jan
30th by 4pm
Project
grants are available for non-profit organizations or community groups in
Williams Lake and the Central Cariboo (CRD Areas D, E, and F) to support and
develop arts and culture within this region. The funding for these grants is
courtesy of the City of Williams Lake and the Cariboo Regional District on the
recommendation of the Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society subject to the
availability of funds.
Applicants,
specifically new applicants, are encouraged to contact CCACS before filling out
the application. For further information on this program, contact CCACS Executive
Director Leah Selk at 778-412-9044 or info@centralcaribooarts.com or visit www.centralcaribooarts.com
10) Social Planning Council's
monthly meeting - Jan 26th at 11:30 am
Our next
monthly meeting is being held on Monday January 26th at 11:30 am at the City of
Williams Lake. Lunch and a presentation by Cariboo Chilcotin Partners for
Literacy and the upcoming Literacy Week. We hope to see you there!
11) Communities that Care's - Positive Action Word of
the Week - "Talent"
The Positive Action word of
the week of Jan 19th is Talent: A natural
ability that can be developed.
If you would like more background
information about Positive Action please contact Carla Bullinger at
250-267-8249 or email comthatcares@sd27.bc.ca
12) Community Events Calendar - Green Gazette free Listings
Send in your green events, meetings, and community activities for February & March by Sept 24th to be included in the upcoming issue of TheGreenGazette. Please keep listings to a couple of sentences max per entry and in the following order: Date, event description, where, time of day, contact info.
Contact Lisa Bland (Publisher and Editor in Chief) for further information at lisa@thegreengazette.ca or call 250-620-3419 or visit www.thegreengazette.ca
13)
TNG's Exploring the Path to Wellness Project - survey due Jan 20th
This will help create 10 year
wellness plan for the Chilcotin communities. Each community did a survey and
mental health and substance use was identified as areas to focus on. This
survey is 11 questions and when you finish it please email it back to Tanya
Mores, Mental Health Navigator at TNG by email at tmores@tsilhqotin.ca or call
250-392-3918 for further information.
Key
Wellness Informant Interviews - Partners
and Stakeholders please answer the following and submit your responses by Jan
20th
- What mental health and substance use services do you provide?
- What geographical area do you serve?
- Are you able to provide services directly in the Tsilhqotin communities of Tl’etinqox (Anaham), Xeni Gwet’in ( Nemiah) , Tsi Deldel ( Redstone), Tl’esqox (Toosey), ?Esdilah ( Alexandria) , Yunesitin ( Stone)?
- If you are able to travel to our communities, what services can you provide?
- If not, do you provide services to the rural and remote communities from Williams Lake as a central location?
- Are there any practices you have developed or found helpful to address barriers of travel for our community members that live in remote communities to access your service?
- Do you are your staff receive formal training in trauma informed practice? If so, please share what training your program has adopted.
- Do you or your employer support any form of cultural competency training and if so please share with us the title of the training? Is this training a voluntary or mandatory condition of employment?
- Are there any services or staff support you as a program or agency can provide to contribute to a collaborative response to a rural and remote community following a crisis such as a suicide?
- Would your program or agency like to learn more about the medicine wheel and traditional practices that promote wellness and healing?
- Would your agency be open to a presentation on Tsilhqotinculture, our historical experience and our plans for growth as a nation?
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