Volunteers are ensuring Copenhagen’s Christmas tree stays lit up by using bikes to generate power, one week before the city hosts the UN climate summit…. From BBC News. Full story

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By Jennifer Browning

Can you tie a bow like nobody’s business? Got some savvy skills with gift wrap?

This Thursday, December 3, alley’s house is in desperate need for volunteer gift wrappers! We need volunteers anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

For more information, contact Sierra Ford at sierra.ford@alleyshouse.org. or call 214.915.9945.

Two staff meetings ago, it was suggested that I put together a database of our volunteers. I have made a folder “Library Volunteers” on the O drive. So far, on sheet one are the library volunteers. These are our shelvers, the pull-list people, our gardeners, etc. On sheet two are the names of the people who come from ARC’s Prep for Life program. On sheet three, I’m going to put our Board of Trustees and the Friends of the Library Board of Directors. I’ve also discussed this with Cathie and in January we’re planning to add the SAGE Board and all the SAGE volunteers.

If you look through it and see that I’ve missed someone, please let me know. After I thought I was done, I was proof reading and realized I had left Betty Neth off the list. Betty’s such a part of the library fabric, I don’t always remember she’s really a volunteer.

Carol ran into a question she wasn’t sure about this morning with Pinky Osborn, and I thought it would be a good thing to share with everyone. Pinky came in and asked if she should start shelving with the media or the books. Although she usually starts with media, she thought there were more books to be done. Carol wasn’t sure if there was any particular order the volunteers were supposed to do things in. The answer is no. I think that the volunteers tend to start with the media because there is so often multiple carts, but they can start wherever there is the greatest need.

Also, if a volunteer comes in to shelve and there’s no carts in the back room, have them take any partial cart(s) from the desk. We don’t want to have our volunteers think that there’s nothing to do and get out of the habit of coming. There’s always something that can go back on the shelves.

Thanks.

Paula

I’ve been getting requests from some of you eager beavers for this year’s volunteer training schedule… and I am so happy to finally be able to tell you our volunteer tax preparer training schedule is now up! Thanks to VISTA Matt Lewis, who worked late into the night a few nights punching it all in, every single training date – weekends, weekdays, at sites all across Boston from now until early 2010 – are online, for your singing up convenience.

The Coalition is using a new volunteer management website this year. For those of you that were used to VolunteerHub, we promise this will be worth your time to create a new account – this new site is going to make your (and our) lives a lot easier. (Well, that, and, you don’t really have a choice. But this site is cooler. So, there’s that.)

So, go, visit our new MTAC website, create an account, and voila! All our training dates are at your disposal. Sign up at will!

Leave enough empty space in the garden and interesting things start to show up. I have refrained from completely filling up my parking strip once it was cleared of St. John’s Wort, partly due to cheapness and also just to see what would come to grow here. Allowing nature to fill in the empty spots has been an exercise in patience and restraint – I tend not to yank things out until they have proven to be either totally invasive or just things I intensely dislike.

Blog buddies have helped me ID a few plants that were new here, including Mexican feather grass. It is a spreader for sure, but not so vigorously that I can’t keep on top of it, and I have enjoyed its fluffy tendrils – they are fun to pet (although apparently not fun FOR pets – someone I know spent several hundred dollars having its seedheads removed from the inside of her dog’s nose!). So maybe some of you will clue me in on what this one is, and whether I should stop it in its tracks while I still can.

It’s a pretty sizable grass, and it grew to a couple of feet high over the past two years. I just had an awful thought that it might be Pampas grass, in which case I need to dig it out before it takes over and becomes immovable, but if it’s something more well-behaved I might still need to move it further away from the edge of the bed.

It’s friendly with its next-door neighbor, the feather grass:

In this shot, you can see how I have let another volunteer, violets, colonize unwisely large swaths of ground:

Need to get on that one of these days, before it takes over completely!

So, anyone got a guess about my latest mystery plant?

Take a look at the information about the Children’s Music on Dec. 13!

Veronika Betakova

Veronika Betakova, the Czech Republic – October 5, 2009

Every day here is like an adventure and full of marvelous surprises. I love countries, in which I must use my brain, where I need to use usual things by unusual way. A southern life, a more careless life . In this country the time doesn’t play any role, nothing is in time, but the people are very friendly, willing and you must love their simple life, because it will be also your simple life .

My first feeling, when I came to Mahavilachchiya, was ooouu, unbelievable, like land of nobody, small cottage, nothing, nothing, small cottage, nothing, nothing… After three months here I still cant understand one thing… in the land, in which people going to sleep with the darkness and wake up with the first sun beam (very practical by the insects), has all the village Wi-Fi connection, ok, its slowly and with many power cuts, but still its like a miracle .

I live in a 5-members family and they know only a few English words, so my Sinhala is becoming better and better day by day . It’s interesting to have 2 small brothers and one sister, the best contraception for next years . But no, they are very nice, I have all one room only for me and with mosquito net, what more to wish???? My new mom still spends some time by me, usually only smiled and tried to turn away all insects, so lovely . Even they try to cook no spicy food for me and I can take a spoon and also I can stay in flip-flops, because I never before tried earth floor . Who doesn’t love them??? Amma (my hostess) never forgets me , when I go on a trip, she adds me some food. Usually in newspaper, if my Sinhala or Tamil will be better I can use it also other way .  She has my big admiration, from September started school also here, so Amma wakes up every morning around 4am, irons school uniforms and prepares food for children, of course rice and something. I spend every week 2 long hours by hand-washing, but she needs to wash clothes for all family. She still persecutes me, tried to putting up my skirts and shorts and putting down my T-shirts, I have to look like a good girl .Last times I was on something like acceptance of new house and she ran to me with fork and reboiled water, dear Amma . I felt so special like never in my life, can u imagine around many people, just sitting, praying and then eating on the floor only with hands and for me prepared table .

I start to be really nature girl in a good words meaning… wake up with the birds, in worse case with ants and mosquitoes. In the toilet find frogs, in the garden dogs, cats, turtles, squirrel and sometimes also scorpions, but don’t worry, usually they have antitoxin at home and you still have 1-2 hours of live (if it will be my last words, remember, 2 hours are NOT enough ). Be or not to be??? No, no, the question is little other: Take a shower in “bathroom” or in river??? They still use for the cooking…fire, normal, open fire in the kitchen . In my might is still one of our folk’s songs: she was putting clothes in the water and a frog jumped there…. ye, ye, ye, they don’t have washing machines, but you can find here a washing powder and also iron, jajaj, luxury . By every washing I feel like in a TV-spot for washing powder,  just put dirty clothes in the water, add washing powder, wait around 10-15 minutes, then wash every piece in hand around 10 minutes and your clothes have never been so clean and white like now . I saw here only one really big rain and as u suppose it was when I finished with hanging clothes .

I have new nick name, I try to teach them to pronounce  Veronika or Nika, but no, I’m Miss or Teacher, haha. I have only Basic English from travelling, movies, books and I have never been a teacher, so I was little (maybe more than only little) scared of teaching English. But now I see the teaching is nothing difficult, you must be just careful, hear them, make  fun and make compliment for every improvement . And they love controlling of notebooks and don’t want to go home without homework . On my first lesson I made fun with my Sinhala knowledge and then played with small game draw and describe and they liked it . Also I didn’t know, that I can describe so many words only with my body without using words.

With the small children we only teach ABC, also how to write ABC and numbers till 10, then some songs and small sentences about name, age, family… Drawing is still very popular and we start with singing, poor children by my music antitalent .

In second group are children around 9 and they are very clever. They know only a few words, so is very hard to explain their grammar, but it’s not a problem, step by step and now we know how to introduce myself, use “to be”, possessive pronouns, buy a chocolate in shop (because this I know also in Sinhala), some new verbs, animals, things and they want also singing, ajajaj, why, why with me???? One day I used a DVD and till they were watching a movie, I repaired swings; for sure I had to test it like first . We play football, volleyball and also they teach me cricket . The popular game is “hide and seek” and “karam” (kind of table games).
Every class we start with a repetition, I’m going to sleep and waking up with ABC and numbers till 20 . I teach them how to play “hop” and also I prepared for them small Olympic Games.

We find the best way how to teach and learn. For example, I explained them ordinal numeral on the winners and “want” with a game with ball. The explaining of preposition I started with drawing and then we played a game with chairs. Smaller ones are also very clever, they remembered very quickly words fly and plane, yes, yes, yes I showed them this game and from this moment, also because of cricket, start to be my biceps and triceps nice well developed .

They are very nice, also give me chocolate and sugar, jajaj, corruption in so small age and I give them support in this, jajaj, where is this world moving towards????  From they found, that I can be happy from everything, they start to take me flowers, fruit, shells and also feathers, for which I find nice places in my hair, so sometimes I’m teacher Winnetou.  By presented shells is good to check if their owner are not more inside and peacocks feather is very danger for eyes .

The second part of my work was to create a strategy analysis with the business plan for HLF. It was great; I prefer, when I can organize work by myself and with Wanni I was only in online contact.
I like cycling, so sometimes I make a trip around, where you can find nice lakes with lotus flowers or rice fields. At the start was for me difficult became on left riding or crazy drivers, but now it is for me funny, you have a occasion to try a way by bus, train, “toc toc”, tractor, motorbike.

The food its very, very, very spicy, so when I ask for not spicy and have enough water I can pass it and if not, here are many poor animals, that like also spicy food . Did u remember the part of movie Forrest Gump, when Bubba want to say all the ways how to prepare shrimps??? I can do the same ….with a coconut, when u think u can imagine all taste, try coconut with chilly or with onion, hmmmm delicious . Rice on the lunch, rice on the dinner, rice between its ok, but really not rice on the breakfast , in this time I prefer their bread, they have only one kind of white bread, so easy choice Interesting, that when u ask them, which is their favorite food, usually is answer rice with curry. For salty juices I was prepared from Taiwan, but pineapple with pepper?!?! Amma starts to know, that more than various mashes and spicy masses I like salad from fresh vegetables, Cinderella has competition, I can find every peace of chilly . And I don’t spurn of fresh fruit, but I prefer only fruit, without salt, chilly or other spice. I made also special dinner for my family. The Ceylon is famous by the tea and it’s true, it’s so delicate. They have many kind of tea, but the most popular is black. I saw nobody with coffee, but says is terrible. Because of English colonization drinks tea with milk and sugar, sugar, sugar, jejejej, it’s sweet and sweeter.  My family has special way, they have in one hand small tea cup and in the second sugar and the proportion is almost the same.

From any times I start to call these people “hummingbirds nation”. And do you know why??? Any idea? No??? Because when they agree usually make with the head a symbol of infinite, u know like horizontal 8, the same like hummingbird with the wings. At the same time say ou, ou, ou (yes, yes, yes), so at the start I was really lost, I didn’t know if it means yes or no.

I still don’t understand school uniformity; it’s not only the same clothes and shoes, but also the same look. Girls only long hair in 2 rolls with black bow at the end and with hair path really in the middle and boys very short or slick on the side. No exceptions!!! It’s like effort to wipe out the property difference, but how to wipe out something so manifest?????

I learned how to make classroom, better small hut, only from wood and palm trees and also how to make a floor. It’s a very good smelling cubby . Even I helped also in kitchen, jajajaj, from Verca start to be cooker , ok, my “papadam” was a little bit black, but pancakes with imagines or short messages were famous .  As u know by cooking we use fire, but u don’t have fire so easy. One nice day I visited with my new family their plantation and we prepared some logs.

I visited also many nice places around and we were with the staff also on a few motorbike trips in the most famous places.

Sure it’s the next unforgettable traineeship, which give me better writing (it’s terrible to spell every word), a feeling that the children are not a small monsters, teaches me a simple life and change my looking at the world. Thanks, thanks for this great chance. I have still a few days here, but I’m sure to say good bye will be one of the hardest things in my life.

(Miss Veronika Betakova, an AIESEC intern from the Czech Republic worked at Horizon Lanka, Mahavilachchiya from August 2009 to October 2009.)

Access original page with pictures at http://www.horizonlanka.net/volunteer/veronika/index.html

Hey everybody!  Here’s an update about what’s going on in my life these days.  I have the house to myself all weekend, and it’s pretty lonely I guess.  Chris, Eric, and Jennifer went home last night – they were all here for two months, so it’s weird to have them gone.  Megan, Shelley, and Kate are travelling in Huaraz, in the mountains.  Ginene is volunteering in Cusco.  Hyo is a girl who has been staying with us for about three weeks (not volunteering), and she’s visiting Santiago, Chile until Wednesday.  So here I am, all alone in the big house.  (That means I get to play music loud!)

I am coming home for Christmas!  Hopefully I’ll be able to see all my friends and family, but my mom is quickly calling dibs on when she wants me around!  Hopefully I’ll be able to make it up to Kingston as well.

Also, I’ve been working hard on grad school applications the past few weeks.  I want to go into urban planning, and I’m hoping that if I get in my application early then I’ll have a better shot.  If anyone has any grad school tips I would love to hear them!

I’ve been house hunting for the past several weeks as well, and found a very small number of houses that were appropriate.  After submitting my findings to my boss, they’ve decided that unless I can find something this upcoming week, we’re going to talk our landlady into letting us stay for a while longer.  Kind of an anti-climactic finish to my expeditions, but oh well.  Other than the cockroaches this place is pretty good!

So that’s my life at the moment; it’s kinda boring.  I would love to do something like go out to the movies but there’s nothing available!  Anyone curious as to what is showing?  2012 (on 3 screens), A Christmas Carol (on 2 screens, both dubbed), Whiteout, “El Delphin” (a Peruvian movie), “Coco Avant Chanel” (a French movie, subtitled in Spanish), Planet 51 (on 2 screens, both dubbed), New in Town, Inglorious Basterds, “Le Silence de Lorna” (French), and Twilight – New Moon (on 4 screens)

I saw the article in Niagara this Week on Thursday Nov 26, 2009 called Artists Strutt their stuff by Michael Speck.

Quote: “Fashion Designers created wearable art for the 10th Annual Strutt Wearable Art Show for 2009 “a celebration of the absurd…part homage and part send-up of the worlds of art and fashion.” as Niagara Artists Centre Director Stephen Remus describe it in the event’s program description.”

The event raised $15,000 for NAC and many came from Toronto to see it.

Many volunteers were from The Suitcase in Point theatre company, students from Brock University’s department of Dramatic Arts all came out to be models for the wearable art show.

The winners are posted in the newspaper article and on the Nac – Niagara Artists Centre website.

Michael Speck – article on Niagara This Week – Click here to Read.

ArtworkbyAnnaKraevska nac strutt 2009 the idea girl says st catharines ontario canada

Stu leads a group of students and mentors during the second Design4Kids workshop June 2009.

Isn’t it amazing, the feeling of experiencing new places, new cultures and new people, and the way it stimulates new ways of thinking and opens the mind to new possibilities? By engaging and developing our creativity, we grow our abilities to approach all aspects of life with creative thinking. And for me, photography is the way to create!

I’m committed to helping develop creativity and possibility thinking in people everywhere, young and old. When we travel and work with people from different cultures, we all get to share the insights of our unique cultural perspectives, and see possibilities that we weren’t aware of from within our own experiences and influences.
We begin to see ourselves in new ways, and gain a fuller, richer understanding of both ourselves and the world we’re a part of.

Being invited to participate in the Design4Kids workshop is a tremendous opportunity. I’m excited to be able to share my knowledge and insights with the students, and am looking forward to learning as much from them as they do from me. Que oportunidad tan increible!

Stu Estler

Ed: Returning for his second Design4Kids experience Stu brings a wealth of photographic knowledge and a heart of gold. See his commercial work at StuEstler.com, and/or connect with him via has blog at ThePhotoMentor.com.

The next Design4Kids workshop runs December 5-13, 2009. During that time we will post students artwork, theirs’ and their mentors impressions of the workshop, and photos of the action. If you have ideas for other material you’s like to see please leave a reply below. We’d like to make this an interactive experience. Thanks for reading.

Thank you to Girl Scout Troop 2151 of Upper Sandusky, Ohio for some of the most colorful cards with heartfelt messages ever! What a pleasure it will be to take them to seniors! What thoughtful and generous girls!

I have just learned about a national issue that shocked me:  animal shelters’ /animal controls’ volunteers being threatened and rescuers being banned, because they felt compelled to speak publically about deplorable conditions inside.

Luckily, there is a law on the side of the volunteers,  rescuers, and ultimately , the animals. It is known as: ‘Section 1983.’

You can read about it by opening the PDF file below:

http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/pdf/Sec1983_000.pdf

If you have experienced such a situation, you need to tell someone.

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As most of us sat down yesterday to enjoy a big turkey dinner with our family and friends, some people are left with no one to share the day with.  Every year thousands of volunteers sacrifice their Thanksgiving Day that could be spent with family, to serve food and spend time with people who would otherwise be alone.  I think we can all look to these volunteers as heroes.  They dedicate their day to providing food and company to widows, homeless people, and people who just have nowhere else to go.   Although a lot people think the greatest thing about doing this is what they give to the less fortunate a lot of volunteers say the biggest gift is how they feel when they are able to give to someone else. 

As Christmas fast approaches us I would encourage you to help out any way you can in your community.  Whether it be ringing the bell at the Salvation Army Pot or simply bringing food to someone who might be alone for the holidays.  We can each make a difference in small ways.

For more information on where you can help here are a few websites…..

Salvation Army

Volunteer Opportunities

A few weeks go, I received an email from a local photographer asking me if I would like to participate in an upcoming project called “Help Portrait.” The email didn’t give a huge amount of detail, but a quick GOOGLE search led me to the official site and some YOUTUBE videos that told me everything I needed to know. I then responded back and accepted the invitation to be a part of this wonderful opportunity.

Here is a link to the official promo video which offers a basic overview:

And here is an example of the project in action:

I am posting this call upon anyone and everyone who can assist. Please take time to make contact with your local Help Portrait project, or start one of your own. This project is going on in locations all over the world and will need assistance and volunteers for many aspects including photography, hair, makeup, food preparation, printing, errand runners, and more. It can be as small and simple or a community effort with all the extras. Trust me when I say there is something you can do to help…no matter how big or small it may seem. Even donating time, supplies or transportation is needed and appreciated. Please GOOGLE “Help Portrait” and your city name to find the closest event near you. You can also find FACEBOOK and TWITTER updates on the HELP PORTRAIT Projects for the latest info.

This Holiday, I am thankful for my family and the opportunity to be a part of HELP PORTRAIT. Check out the official site here:

OFFICIAL SITE OF HELP PORTRAIT

I urge you to call upon your friends, family and colleagues and make a difference this Holiday season. For those in the Hampton Roads area who would like to participate, please see our community discussion and planning here:

VA BEACH GROUP DISCUSSION

Have a happy, safe and blessed Holiday Season,

KristineMarie

The underground Cyberspace Dictatorship

The human biological phenomena of advertising is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and its cumulative cultural effects, unless quickly checked, will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it.

It has taught us how to live, what to be afraid of, what to be proud of, how to be beautiful, how to be loved, how to be envied, how to be successful.. Is it any wonder that the American population tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms of this jabberwocky? That the stimuli of art, science, religion are progressively expelled to the periphery of American life to become marginal values, cultivated by marginal people on marginal time?”

Kids are among the most sophisticated observers of ads. They can sing the jingles and identify the logos, and they often have strong feelings about products. What they generally don’t understand, however, are the issues that underlie how advertising works. Mass media are used not only to sell goods but also ideas: how we should behave, what rules are important, who we should respect and what we should value.

Read the whole article @ Comfortnetworks.nl

http://gino.comfortnetworks.nl/index.php/2009/11/27/commercial-child-exploitation/

The Valley Mitsubishi Rally car was up at the mountain earlier this week for a safety demo with the Big White Volunteer Fire Department.  Rally driver Craig Ross, organizer Jennifer Daly and safety team members Dave Steeper and Eric Bauld attended the meeting to familiarize the volunteers with rally safety gear, including head and neck devices, which have been required to rally since earlier this year.  The mechanics of extracting crew from a caged car and the stage locations for the rally weekend were also reviewed.  

Thanks to the Big White Fire Department for their time and interest, and for their support during the Big White Rally Weekend!

In no particular order.

Ali: She was the first face we met and is all kinds of awesome. Ali is our site coordinator and resident cat herder. Filled with a bottomless reserve of energy she dances and shimmies her way through the days. Best of all her enthusiasm is contagious.

Ana-Maria: Coordinator/Spanish teacher extraordinaire. Her laughter fills the room and our hearts. She gave us the skills to go out into the treacherous world of Peruvian kids babbling in Spanish!

Maria: Cook, housekeeper and sparkling personality. She has filled our stomachs will delicious Peruvian food and filled our souls with her joie de vivre (Llena de vida) .

Lauren: Independent spirit. She has no qualms about heading into the unknown on her own. We should all be so brave. She’s also a bit of a musician (guitar) and we love her for it.

Megan: Youngest in age but certainly not in spirit. She must have an old soul because she is wise beyond her years… but more importantly fun as -expletive deleted-. Her taste in music is beyond compare so we all cried a little when her mp3 player died. She’ll be volunteering down here until March 19th (speaking of brave). That’s a long f*ing time, but a whole lot of good done thanks to her.

Jennifer: Our Albertan counterpart (from Calgary). Jennifer’s her name, fitness is her game. Her attitude is inspiring and the perfect kick in the arse you need to get up and get going.

Romy: English teacher by day, guide by night. Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of Peru is amazing. She has taught us so much about the culture and heritage of this wonderful country, but, more importantly, she has taught us to love Peru as much as she does (almost-nobody loves Peru more than Romy). She has also taught us to love Pisco. Soooooo good!

Cat: Chris’s British counterpart, she works at a place here called South American Explorers where travellers of all kinds can stop in and get oriented. She has shown us corners of Lima we never would have come across otherwise. Also, we’ve never come across someone quite like Cat. She is by any and all standards unique. A perfect storm of chill and excitement.

Ginene: Although we only got to spend a week with the lovely Ginene she has left an indelible mark on us. B.C spirit through and through.

Shelley: If all nurses were like her this world would be without pain… or at least not for long. High energy and always ready to sing her heart out, I cannot help but believe that she is a karaoke star in the making. Also she walks REALLY F*ING FAST.

Kate: The lone American in the group, she is what makes her country great . She is perhaps the most benevolent of us all. From her work back in Pennsylvania to her work here in Peru she is making a difference beyond imagination. A heart as big as… uh… well… Machu Picchu. Another long term stay, she will be here until March 26th.

Hyo: Although not a volunteer she has been staying with us as a guest and has shown us an interest in the culture and language that is enviable to say the least.

A man spends most of his life searching for a muse, any muse to inspire him to great things. We’ve somehow been fortunate enough to find a dozen down here in Peru. Each one is beautiful inside and out and have filled us with the want… no… I say the NEED to do more. To give more, to live more, to contribute more, to BE more in this world.

We have been irreversibly changed during our experience here thanks in large part to the people we’ve come across in our travels. We thank them from the very bottom of our hearts… maybe in our cockles.. or maybe even in the sub-cockle area… maybe even… in the colon.