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Wellington Water Watchers Annual General Meeting
SAVE THE DATE:
Wednesday October 12th, 2011, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location – The newly renovated Van Gogh’s Ear – main floor
CALL TO ALL WELLINGTON WATER WATCHERS AND CITIZENS INTERESTED IN WATER PROTECTION:
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!
Do you have ideas of where our organization should be heading? Do you have concerns about water protection in our County? Do you want to be heard???
Come to this year’s Wellington Water Watchers’ Annual General Meeting (AGM).
The focus of this AGM will be to hear from you, our membership and citizens of this community. Instead of… Read the rest
Walk For Water 102km
Join Shane Philips and friends who will “Walk for Water” on Saturday Oct. 1 and Sunday Oct. 2, 2011, from Guelph to Queen’s Park to deliver the message that water is not a commodity. Walkers will depart at 8:00 am from Planet Bean south (1467 Gordon – Planet Bean is generously offering a free drink to all walkers!) Water Walkers will follow highway 6 south (passing the Nestle Waters Canada bottling plant just south of Aberfoyle) to Clappison’s Corners and will head East on Hwy #5, stopping at St. John’s Anglican Church (2464 Dundas St., Burlington, ON) for a camp-out… Read the rest
FOODSTOCK VOLUNTEERS
FOODSTOCK: Save the land that feeds us
FOODSTOCK: Save the land that feeds us
Star-studded musical line-up to accompany 80 of Canada’s best chefs to help Stop The Mega Quarry
September 22nd, 2011
Honeywood, ON – On Sunday, October 16th a host of celebrity musicians will set the score as more than 80 of Canada’s top chefs cook up a storm for 20,000 hungry people to save precious farmland from a proposed mega-quarry.
Jim Cuddy will be entertaining the crowd, as will be Sarah Harmer and other Canadian music scene celebs: “Happy to lend a hand to people who are… Read the rest
GUFF Newsletter September 2011
Canada’s first Tree Day is Wednesday September 21st.
It will always be on the Wednesday in the middle of Forestry Week . This year, in honour of the occasion we have a photo contest that we told you about in June. There are only three weeks left as it ends on Oct 8th. Then the winners will be announced in November and we will have a celebration for them as we finish our participation in the International Year of the Forest.
Details of the contest are on our website but we enclose them here to inspire you to participate. … Read the rest
Walk For Water 102km
Hey Friends.
Most of us know how precious this resource is and have been waiting for the opportunity to make a difference in our own lives and the lives of others. As children and families in struggling countries walk for water everyday just to meet the minimal requirements of life, I along side friends, family and other passionate individuals will walk from Guelph Ontario to Queens Park in Toronto to deliver a message to the MOE. Stop the commodification of water. Reduce bottled water consumption by tapping into
350.org Moving Planet Community Critical Mass in Guelph!
UNITY RIDE QUARRY AWARENESS
When: Depart Saturday Sept 17th at 10:30 a.m
Where: Peace Valley Ranch
638135 Prince of Wales Rd.
People can join the Unity Ride by car, or on foot, from the intersection of 2nd Line West Mulmur Township and 20th sideroad. It is a public rd.; please give care, and space, to the horses and their riders. Contact: Grey Eagle
Cell: 647-522-2754
Unity Ride to Stop the Second Largest Quarry in Canada
When: Depart Saturday Sept 17th at 10:30 a.m… Read the rest
80 of Canada’s best chefs cook up a storm to help Stop The Mega Quarry
FOODSTOCK: Save the land that feeds us
80 of Canada’s best chefs cook up a storm to help Stop The Mega Quarry.
September 12th, 2011
Honeywood, ON – On Sunday, October 16th 80 chefs from Nunavut to
Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia will descend on a small Ontario farming
community south of Collingwood, ON to help put a stop to a proposed mega
quarry project that would obliterate thousands of acres of high yield, Class
1 farmland. The prospect of turning so much prime cropland close to the GTA
into stone has got food… Read the rest
Would you like to see more bottled water bans in Canada?
- August 24, 2011 5:27 PM | Read 56 comments56
- By Community Team
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/08/would-you-like-to-see-more-bottled-water-bans-in-canada.html
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