Come enjoy a spectacular evening of entertainment to kick off the Christmas season with the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train. This is a free event that will please the whole family held in support of Feed the Need in Durham. Just come with a donation of food and/or cash and help feed the need.
When: Monday November 28, 2011
Where: Behind the Walmart store at 450 Stevenson Rd. S.
Time: 7:15 pm
Musicians Against Hunger Benefit Concert
for Feed the Need in Durham
| When: | October 1, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. |
| Where: | Arts Resource Centre 45 Queen Street, Oshawa |
| Tickets: | $25 |
All Proceeds will be donated to FTND
Tickets available at Wilson and Lee Music Store
Hours/week: 32+
Flexible: days, evenings, weekends
1 hour unpaid lunch
Term: 6 weeks commencing June 27th
Rate of Pay: $10.25
Responsibilities:
Supervisor: Fund Development Manager
Updated: June 12, 2011
This is a wonderful opportunity for several summer students to put their PR skills to work for six weeks. Working in teams of two, students will attend orientation June 27 July 1st (working the first event on Canada Day). Two students will stay on for 5 weeks following Canada Day. The other two students will have a three-week break and join the Feed the Need the end of July and work until Labour Day weekend. If funding is available the six weeks will be extended.
Join the fund development and communication team at Feed the Need in Durham and help make a difference in the fight to alleviate hunger here in Durham Region.
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Deadline for applications: June 20, 2011
Apply in confidence at info@ftnd.ca.
We appreciate all applications, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
No phone calls or visits please.
Join us at Melanie Pringle’s on February 13th for our Valentines fundraising Dinner and Dance. Starting at 5:00 pm Melanie will be putting on the Ritz with a mouth-watering array of food on her buffet. A live DJ will play musical selections of your choosing to put you in the mood to dance. Come celebrate your love and support a local charity at the same time.
Tickets are only $20.00 per person and 100% of the proceeds go to Feed the Need in Durham. Please call 905-571-3863 for tickets.
Look for volunteers from Feed the Need in Durham at the GO Transit stations in Whitby and Ajax on February 14th and 15th in the morning.
Volunteers will be in the Walmart store in Whitby selling paper hearts for a Toonie on every Saturday and Sunday during the month of February.
Come enjoy a spectacular evening of entertainment to kick off the Christmas season with the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train. This is a free event that will please the whole family held in support of area food banks. Just come with a donation of food and/or cash and help feed the need.
When: Sunday, November 28, 2010
Where: Bloor and Grandview Crossing (just east of Harmony)
Time: 7:15 pm
I am finished the 5 Day Challenge and there was a Town Hall Meeting in Oshawa last night discussing the outcome of the ” Do the Math Challenge” Sadly I could not attend due to other commitments.
However, today I consumed a bowl of guacamole and two blackened season breast topped with the ever yummy goat’s cheese!!!
Hence the the stomach ache!!
I firmly believe, everyone is entitled to healthy eating and it shouldn’t be more expensive than manufactured food. Some things in life are not fair and I am ok with that but i am not ok with Canadians having different qualities of food or education. In order to do well in life, ideally we want to treat our bodies like a Ferrari. If anyone of us has the good fortune to own a Ferrari I can guarantee you would put high octane fuel in it. You wouldn’t put regular leaded gas in the car. You would never choose to undermine this fine automobile’s performance, would you? I think not!
Then why would anyone choose to decrease the optimal health of the human body. Innately our bodies are a higher performing machine over a Ferrari. Some people choose to eat whatever they want healthier or not. They are not fooling their bodies but they are fooling their minds. But for those people who don’t have an option, they have no choice but to ignore the poor quality of food because they are not choosing.
Today’s economy anyone of us could be needing the service of a food bank.
In the future, donate Quaker Oatmeal, Bob’s Red Mill pancakes, whole wheat bread, natural peanut butter, dry peas and beans, long grain brown rice, eggs and butter. You can always drop off these items to your local food bank, they will never turn it away. Donations from consumers is only one part of the solution. There is a wonderful service called the Good Food Box that provides fresh produce on a weekly basis for a very nominal cost. ( under 30.00). The 100.00 increase to social service cheques’s could include the Good Food box for all families requiring the need of a Food Bank including the working poor.
If you love food like I do, imagine not having an option to enjoy it but merely eating anything so you can survive the day!
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5 days are almost done. Tonight myself and the other participants from across Durham will come together at the Oshawa Community Health Centre to share our experiences and have a final dinner together. Following that, at 7 p.m. there will be a public town hall meeting. I hope that as many media come out as possible.
Today I followed yesterday’s morning start and stuck to just powdered milk to drink all morning. I woke up as usual with a headache and stomach pains. The milk helped ease the feeling (as did the Tylenol) but I was saying “TGIF!” with more enthusiasm than ever.
Lunch was a tuna salad sandwich for myself and Maddy with “milk” to drink. I had saved the tuna for last because I had a notion from the beginning that I’d need this last bit of protein to keep me going.
Final thoughts before I head out to the Town Hall are this: we have to do more. Good is not enough… in fact we aren’t even at good. Not having the nutrition you need to think well, live well and be well means that too many end up stuck in the revolving door of poverty. A lack of proper nutrition causes a myriad of symptoms including lethargy, irritability, inability to concentrate, memory loss, depression…the list goes on and on. With those symptoms how much harder is it to get a good job or harder still, take a course to upgrade your skills to get a job?
We can talk about feeding a man a fish or teaching a man to fish but it isn’t that simple. This is a complex issue that needs to have a multi-system approach to solving it.
And no system will ever be perfect, that I acknowledge. We must however, do more to help those on assistance and give them that hand up that makes it physically and mentally.
We have a saying in our house “Priorities!!”. It is an ongoing life lesson about determining what is most important – where our priorities are. Our government spends significant dollars on Health and Social Services. But how about societies priorities? Government looks to our behaviour as a society to give it an idea on where to focus it’s only policy priorities.
I was filling up my dogs’ dish the other night and realized that if I was on assistance I would not be able to keep them. And then I thought about priorities again and wondered how society prioritized animal welfare vs. food banks.
So I went onto the Revenue Canada website to look up the annual returns for the two of the largest charities in Toronto – The Toronto Humane Society and The Daily Bread Food Bank.
Annual Revenue Totals for 2009:
THS – $10,175,210
DBFB – $ 7,196,247
Now granted, this isn’t to say that animal welfare isn’t important, it is. I could have pulled up the Symphony ($24,792,667) … the Ballet ($24,745,461) and yes, arts and culture are also vitally important for our society.
At the same time I think we need to have a discussion on what is a priority. I would hope that feeding the hungry would be as important or I dare to suggest, more important. I’d really like to hear your thoughts on priorities and I’m looking forward to tonight and discussing this with other participants. Kim Dowds www.kimdowds.ca
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Day 2
Thankfully today I didnt want up to the smell of eggs. I did however wake up with quite the head ache. Thank goodness I could still make my home brewed coffee. I started the day off with peanut butter and toast once again. There is nothing like a big glass of milk with peanut butter but the powdered milk is very sweet and having not mixed it the night before was kinda lumpy. Just after breakfast I had to pack for a two day trip for work. I am not usually a light packer and this trip was no exception. I had to bring a lot of documents, clothing and this time food. The canned food I picked and a few snacks I figured would allow me to eat my meals while on the road. I took a can of alphegetty some cup of soup a can of salmon, as well as the boc of triskets and fruit loops for snacks. This way when I was sitting in lunch meetings could snack away while others ate. Before I left for the train I treated myself to a cup of soup followed by a big glass of water. On the train my stomach rumbled as I watched people eating their take out lunch all around me. I am usually one of those people when I am working away from my office. After getting on the road and informing my traveling companion for the trip of my special diet plan i got that all familiar craving for coffee. Thankfully I had brought a veritable vat of my own home brewed coffee with me. So as my colleague stopped to grab a coffee I simply requested the restaurant to warm mine up. We arrived at our destination around 5 and after only coffee in the car my stomach was grumbling. I tore through a good portion of my triscuits before heading into the meeting. The meeting provided fresh fruit and pizzas for everyone but I declined wanting to ensure that I got the most out of my challenge experience. Again I turned to my triscuits before the meeting was over. After the meeting we headed out to a pub with the other attendees. I want to start off by saying I love pub fare. Sweet potato fries, chicken wings and all the stuff that you smell the moment you enter. Tonight was no exceptions. All the other attendees treated themselves to a variety of pub delights and I tried to make due on intelligent coversation to stave off my appetite until we were back at my hosts house. When we arrived in for the night I made my alphgetty and got ready for bed. My stomach felt full but continued to rumble. Given my busy schedule I dont usually have the time to make my own meals but when I was challenged to I found that it was extremely hard to fit it into my day. Off to bed once again feeling quite sluggish. Once I got to bed I found it really hard to get to sleep. I had stopped drinking coffee much earlier than usual but I think with my diet being off it may have affected me more than usual. It was a very long night.
Day 3 Thank goodness for free coffee. I refilled my vat from the home brew at our host’s house before we made our way out the door around 7am. We had a morning breakfast meeting and I felt barely awake. That coffee would have to do me until the last speaking event of the trip at my old high school. Once again I resorted to fruit loops for my breakfast. Without the milk it was less fulfilling but not as sweet. I ate the bag that I had brought with me and tried to focus on my notes for the next meeting. My concentration since starting this challenge has definitely been affected. I find it hard to concentrate on one thing at time and often trail off in my thoughts. Never the less I got through my interviews and meetings and just after 12 noon we were on to the last event of the day before the trip home. We spoke to a high school class at my old high school. I was happy that I was able to focus and share the week’s experience with the students. After leaving we stopped to do a few phone meetings and I was able to get a chance to eat some tuna and another cup of soup. I spent the rest of the trip home drinking copious amounts of water. When I got on the Go Train home from Mississauga only to once again be surrounded by people eating take out. Triscuits to the rescue. While on the train I attempted to study for my night school french midterm that night. Again I felt really scattered. I got off the train in Whitby and got a quick ride to my test. Thankfully my husband had made me some coffee at home and brought it with him. I got to class just in time to write the test. I am not sure how I did but I felt rushed from the get go.I tried to focused on what II had studied but I was alll over the place. I am ususally at the mercy of a very tight schedule and I have generally adapted very well. This time however I found it hard to get on track. When I got home I made some pasta and sauce and went to bed early.
