1) Next Social Planning Council Meeting - Monday Apr
27th at the Central Cariboo Arts & Culture Society
2) "Making Peace" 2nd Annual Women's
Spirituality Circle - Apr 17 - 18th
3) April is BOOK DRIVE month
- CCPL
4) Communities that Care's -
Positive Action Word of the Week
5) Seniors Games -
participation encouraged
6) Accessibility Awards -
taking nominations
7) Poster Contest - Accessibility
8) Connect Parent Program -
begins Apr 14th
9) Grant Opportunities -
Mental Health Services
10) Culture Days - Call for BC Artists
& Cultural Workers
11) Boys & Girls Club
fundraiser - Race for Kids (Amazing race style)
12) Advance notice - Williams
Lake Cultural Round Table - May 14th from 4:30 - 7:30 pm
13) Cariboo Piecemakers Quilt
Club - Show Apr 18 - 19th
1) Next
Social Planning Council Meeting - Monday Apr 27th at the City
Next Social Planning Council Meeting - Monday Apr 27th
at 11:30 am at the Central Cariboo Arts & Culture Society (the Old Fire
hall). This will be a cafe style strategic planning session where as
individuals we will provide input on action items for the next year. Light lunch will be provided (donations are
appreciated but never required!). Hope to see you there!
To make things more efficient and allow people
who are unable to attend participate in advance and have their responses to be
shared (anonymous or not). Next week's
email will be the preparation for the meeting. A survey will be sent out,
related to the OCP sections, and the current strategic pillars of the SPC -
please participate and encourage others to do so.
2) "Making
Peace" 2nd Annual Women's Spirituality Circle - Apr 17 - 18th
Where do you find peace in your life? How do we make
peace - within ourselves our families our communities amidst the challenges of
our world?
Join with women of the Cariboo and beyond to explore
the topic of peace from many different spiritual viewpoints. This is a safe and
open space for all women, whether they have a strong faith in an organized
religion, are spiritual but not religious, or have no spiritual path.
Fri 17th evening - 5pm dinner, multi-faith panel &
entertainment - $15 (times are tough? $5)
Sat 18th daytime - Informational and creative
workshops - $35 (times are tough? $10)
Location - Williams Lake Secondary School
Tickets are available at Dollar Dollar and Smashin'
Smoothies. For more information please call the CMHA office or 250-398-8220
3) April is BOOK DRIVE month - CCPL
Cariboo Chilcotin Partners
for Literacy (CCPL) April Book Drive (and Books for Babies) runs all month long.
Please donate used children's books for the Bright Red Bookshelves at local
elementary schools, the Salt Jar, the Public Library, Heartland Toyota or
bookshelves around the City. For more information please visit
www.caribooliteracy.com or call Melody Newcombe at 250-791-5720, Janette Moller
at 250-392-8161, or Bruce Mack at 250-392-6867.
4) Communities that Care's - Positive Action Word of
the Week
The Positive Action word of
the week of Apr 13, 2015 is: Cooperation: To work with
others for a common purpose.
If you would like more background
information about Positive Action please contact Carla Bullinger at
250-267-8249 or email comthatcares@sd27.bc.ca
5) Seniors Games - participation encouraged
Seniors are encouraged to compete
or volunteer in the upcoming 2015 BC Seniors Games taking place in North Vancouver
Aug 25-29th. The games include everything from bocce, cycling, table tennis,
archery, bridge, crib and five pin bowling. Or volunteer - contact Ellen Wiege
at 250-392-3537. Local fundraising efforts to offset the costs of travel for
the Games is a pork roast dinner on Apr 12th at the Seniors Activity Centre. Get
tickets at the Centre for $15 per (no tickets will be sold at the door).
6) Accessibility Awards - taking nominations
The Williams Lake
Accessibility Advisory Committee would like to encourage community members to
nominate individuals, organizations and businesses that have made a significant
contribution to improve accessibility within the City for the prestigious
Annual Accessibility Award of Merit. Application deadline is Apr 24th, with
awards being announced during Access Awareness Day in June. For more
information please visit www.williamslake.ca/267/Accessibility-Award
7) Poster Contest - Accessibility
Can you draw? Paint?
Scribble? Want to help people who have a disability? Enter the contest to
celebrate Access Awareness Day in June to raise public awareness about people
with disabilities.
Draw a poster about something
to do with disability: and experience you have had with someone who is disabled,
a family member or friend with a disability, something you have observed, what
a person with a disability has done, a difficulty they have encountered or
something or some change needed in the world. Deadline for submissions is May
4th with prizes of $100 first place, $75 for second place and $25 for third
place in each age category: Children to age 12, people aged 13 - 19, and Adults
(19+).
For more information please
phone Barb at 250-398-9373 or Margaret at 250-398-7724. Lear more about Access
Awareness Day at www.sparc.bc.ca/access-awareness-day/
8) Connect Parent Program - begins Apr 14th
There is an upcoming Connect
Parent Program which will be beginning April 14, 2015 and run for 10 weeks. The
Connect program is a partnership between Simon Fraser University, the Maples
Adolescent Treatment Centre and MCFD. It has been developed for parents and
caregivers of youth based on research examining:
Attachment
Child
& Adolescent Development, Mental Health and Social Well-Being
Parenting
and Family Functioning
Prevention
and Intervention Research
Parent’s
Feedback
Short
and Long Term Effectiveness
If you know of someone who
might find this workshop useful, please contact Sheila Cohen at CMHA
250-305-4487 or 250-398-8220 ext 2012 or email sheila.cohen@cmhawl.org
9) Grant Opportunities - Mental Health Services
These grant opportunities
have been shared via the Let's Talk About Mental Health in the Cariboo
initiative network. If your organization will be applying for any of these
grants, you are encouraged to let each other know and provide any assistance
you can to one another. Please reply to this email to join this network or if
you are applying for any of the below.
Canada Post Foundation: Grants of up to $50,000 available for mental health
programs for children and youth. Apply March - April 2015.
RBC Children's Mental Health Project: Applications accepted year-round.
Pacific Blue Cross (Community Connection Health
Foundation): Funds high-impact
initiatives that work with partners to promote healthy lifestyle choices and
positive mental health outcomes across the province. Next application
deadlines: March 19 and May 20.
TELUS Community Investment: Funds social innovation and health/well-being
initiatives with a focus on youth. Up to $20,000 available. Next deadline is
May 2015.
10) Culture Days - Call for BC Artists & Cultural
Workers
Are you an artist or cultural worker
active in promoting arts & culture in your community? If yes, BC Culture
Days invites you to apply to be the next BC Culture Days Ambassador. Deadline
is Apr 13th, and the top finalist will win a trip to the National Congress on Culture
in Edmonton from May 7 - 8th and $2500 towards the production of their culture
days events.
For submission criteria and guidelines,
please visit BC.CultureDays.ca
11) Boys & Girls Club fundraiser - Race for Kids (Amazing race
style)
Looking for teams and volunteers:
The Boys and Girls Club of Williams Lake is thrilled to announce a fun, new
fundraiser to Williams Lake! We are participating in a new fundraising
initiative called "Capital One Race
for Kids". The event will take place on May 23, 2015 and is described
as a combination of Amazing Race and Minute-to-Win-it. All funds raised from
this event will support our after school programs.
After school is a crucial time to
keep children and youth active and engaged. Giving children the opportunity for
after school activities can positively influence individuals and communities in
many ways. Your support of this event would be most appreciated and help to
make our event successful. At this point we are looking for the community’s
support in 2 ways:
a) Looking for Volunteers – we need lots of help with this event. Volunteers can sign-up
right on the website www.raceforkids.ca/williamslake
b) Looking for Teams – the more the merrier! Teams of 4 can register any time on the
website. If your place of business would like to put in a team, then the
business itself can sponsor that team and help them with their fundraising
efforts! The top individual fundraiser in Williams Lake will receive a WestJet
voucher for two to anywhere WestJet flies!
Please visit the event websites
at www.raceforkids.ca and www.raceforkids.ca/williamslake
for more information. Or contact the Boys & Girls Club in Williams Lake at
250-392-5730
12) Advance notice - Williams Lake Cultural Round
Table - May 14th from 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Presented by the Alliance for
Arts, and Culture And Arts BC, and hosted by the Central Cariboo Arts &
Culture Society (CCACS), this is your invitation to join your arts, culture and
heritage community colleagues in a provincial conversation about the
development of a cultural policy framework for BC. This is your opportunity to
bring your personal, local and regional perspectives to this important
provincial initiative.
For further information
please visit www.bccreativeconvergence.ca or reserve your spot today online at:
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/williams-lake-community-cultural-roundtable-registration-15786064544
13) Cariboo Piecemakers Quilt Club - Jean Andersen
Memorial Show Apr 18 - 19th
Being held at
the Williams Lake Curling Rink, on Saturday Apr 18 from 10am - 6pm, and on
Sunday Apr 19th from 10am - 4pm (admission $3). Quilt show with a special
tribute to Jean Andersen. Door prizes, quilt market, concession, raffle
(tickets only available at the show). For more information please contact Rilla
at 250-392-3473 or Yvonne at 250-392-2879.
Please forward or print these updates as you wish. The
next community updates will be sent out in two weeks from today. Send your
updates for inclusion and have a great weekend!
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