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Did you know?B.C. has the highest average of hours volunteered in Canada (199 hours) versus the Canadian average of 168 hours.
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Walking Map of the Foreshore |
 Visitors and residents to Salmon Arm Bay can learn more about the local wildlife thanks to an updated brochure with a Walking Map of the Foreshore produced by the Salmon Arm Bay Nature Enhancement Society (SABNES).
The brochure contains information on the Interpretive Centre plus new additions to the trails and promenade.
Production of the brochure was made possible through a $1,200 grant from the Gertrude and Ludwig Klein Memorial Fund and the General Fund.
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Kitchen Update for Seniors’ Meals The Eagle Valley Senior Citizens Housing Society updated kitchen appliances for their "Wheels to Meals" program in Sicamous through a $4,000 grant from the Norman Barber Fund and the Seniors Project Fund.
A wall-oven, chest freezer, upright freezer, electric range and refrigerator have been installed at the Eagle Valley Haven. (It was noted both Sears and Crown Furniture waived delivery fees for this project). Old appliances were presented to people in need.
The balance of funds remaining went to the purchase of smaller kitchen items.
The "Wheels to Meals" program operates twice a week.
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Baby Food Kitchen A grant from the Shuswap Community Foundation allowed the Shuswap Family Resource and Referral Society to host baby food kitchens with participants of the Healthiest Babies Program. They purchased ingredients such as: produce, oats, rice and beans plus a blender and other items necessary to make and store healthy baby food. The Society also had the opportunity to give direction in the shopping for, and the preparation of: vegetables, fruits and different cereals.
Mothers, fathers, and other relatives participated with the children close by and received support in learning how to prepare meals and look after their children. Organizers say the feedback has been positive with several participants continuing to make baby food at home. They add that the program supports and assists high risk, low income, young and new mothers in achieving affordable food security. They found new participants eager to be involved in the program. The program was supported by a $2,000 grant from the Jennifer Phillips Memorial Fund and the General Fund.
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Playgroup Serves Outlying Communities A Playgroup now serves over 60 families in the Sorrento/Blind Bay area. Families in this fast growing community often find themselves at risk, due to geographic isolation and the program provides a meeting place for parents, grandparents and caregivers with children ages 0 – 6 years.
The Playgroup is also an outreach destination for social service agencies such as Infant Development, Child Care Resource and Referral and Health Nurses. The Children have access to varied educational, social and emotional experiences that are appropriate to their age and development.
A grant of $2,500 from the Wainwright-Mobley Memorial Fund helped to provide a facilitator, supplies and rent for this child and parent play group.
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Toilets Replaced...Lake Protected A humble but important part of everyday life, toilet facilities in the North Shuswap’s Pioneer Park and Community Hall have been upgraded from pit to vault.
A $2,500 grant from the Derkaz/Derby Family Endowment Fund and the General Fund assisted the North Shuswap Community Association towards the installation of new toilets. They are the only public facilities open year round in the North Shuswap.
The new vault toilets cost a total of $23,530. The NSCA wanted to replace the old pit toilets, be environmentally friendly and protect the lake.
The NSCA is pleased these toilets have been successfully installed prior to their 75th Hall Celebration and North Shuswap-ers Reunion which will be taking place this summer on July 31, Aug 1st-2nd.
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Rescue Airboat For All Seasons Shuswap Volunteer Search and Rescue received grants totalling $2,500 from the Sorrento Lions-Catherine Dilworth Memorial Endowment Fund and the Wayne Williamson Memorial Fund towards the purchase of a Rescue AirBoat.
This Twin Up airboat has the ability to travel on ice. It is powered by a 502 Ramjet fuel injected gasoline engine with a belt drive three blade 83" composite Senenich Prop. The dry weight is 3590 lbs.
Search and Rescue volunteers say, "This boat has higher sides and back than found on a more conventional Florida styled airboat because of use on deeper rougher waters. The main advantage to this type of boat is that it is usable in all four seasons. It excels in low level water or muck and skims effortlessly on ice covered snow. It takes about 3 inches of solid ice to support its weight. It can travel over/through ice that is breaking allowing a rescue to take place where someone may have fallen through ice without fear of the rescuer falling though and/or receiving and injury."
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Citizenship Tour for Local Cadets Members of 222 Shuswap (Salmon Arm) Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron travelled to Calgary, Alberta and spent a week visiting and participating in different aviation related venues during Spring Break. Thirty-one cadets, including Members of 223 Red Lion (Vernon), participated in tours of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Aviation and Polytechnic campuses (SAIT), Fort Calgary, the Military Museums, the Calgary Air Museum, and WestJet.
A $2,500 grant through the SASCU Youth Endowment Fund and the Youth Endowment Fund assisted with travel costs. Additional funding came from local sponsor committees, parents and fund raising activities done by the cadets themselves plus the Province of BC, and the City of Salmon Arm. [ full story ]
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Be an Art Family The "Be An Art Family" Membership program began in the fall of 2007. The Shuswap Community Foundation approved a grant to start a series of workshops for families to be creative together. All eight of the workshops were to produce artwork for an exhibition dedicated to families.
The grant was made possible through the Gertrude and Ludwig Klein Memorial Fund and the General Fund.
By March of 2009, the project was completed and unveiled to the public. The exhibition took place at the SAGA Art Gallery in Salmon Arm (March 6 to March 28) and featured the work of our community»s Art Families.
This show was sponsored by Talerico Fine Art Gallery & Artists Studio.
You can view a short video of this exhibition on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SdZyfL_ug8
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MOZART’S REQUIEM The Monashee Chamber Choir and Orchestra performed Mozart’s Requiem in March. The Requiem, one of the great classical works of all time, was commissioned and written in the last few months of Mozart»s life with the Introitus & Kyrie performed at Mozart’s funeral. It is a stunningly beautiful and powerful work.
The choir and orchestra were under the direction of Cees Kooyman, one of those rare conductors equally at home leading both a chamber choir and an orchestra.
The concert also included works by Rachmaninov, W. Byrd, Allegri and A. Gentles.
The Monashee Chamber Choir and Orchestra was sponsored and produced and by Sicamous Visual and Performing Arts Society.
The Shuswap Community Foundation provided the Sicamous Visual and Performing Arts Society with an $800 grant from the Enid Finn Memorial Fund and the General Fund toward this performance.
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Children’s Services Directory Gets a Boost  Thanks to a $1,000 grant from the Jennifer Phillips Fund, parents, grandparents and anyone looking for children’s services in the Shuswap can have the updated Children’s Services Directory at hand to guide their way this fall.
The Directory is the most current Shuswap listing of important programs and services for children 0-6 years and their families/caregivers. Listings range from Healthiest Babies Possible to Child Care, Early Learning, Free Drop-in Playgroups, and Food Banks to Recreation opportunities.
For the first time, a children’s cover art contest was held this year. Six-year old Bethany Riley’s art will grace the cover of the Third Edition of the Children’s Services Directory.
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Colour Copier Assists Arts Groups Arts Council staff Tracey Kutschker shows board member Delores Mori how to operate the new colour copier at the Arts Centre. The ability to produce the Umbrella newsletter in-house has helped the Arts Council office run much more efficiently.
In addition, the Arts Council generates revenue by offering the service to member groups such as SAGA for their posters and catalogues.
The Arts Council received a grant of $5,000 for the purchase of the copier from the General Fund.
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Making it Greener With Energy Efficency Day-to-day operation of the Shuswap Association for Community Living (SACL), just became a little "greener" thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Shuswap Community Foundation’s General Fund.
The grant enabled SACL to purchase and install a new energy efficient furnace and water heater for their Employment Initiatives building.
The Employment Initiatives building houses two of their many programs: Paper, Cardboard and Bottle Recycling Program, and the Confidential Shredding Program. These programs engage an average of 14 individuals per day.
The Shuswap Association for Community Living (SACL) has been providing support to adults with an intellectual disability since 1963.
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New Potters Wheel Salmon Arm Pottery Club member, Jeanne, Hall throws a clay pot on the club’s new electric potters wheel. The club is a member of the Shuswap District Arts Council and currently rents space on the lower floor of the Art Gallery.
With a membership of some 25 people, the club is set up for potters of all abilities and interests. Classes are offered once a year and taught to newcomers by senior club members although new potters are welcomed throughout the year.
The Salmon Arm Pottery Club holds two to three sales a year at a local venue.
A $500 grant from the Shuswap Community Foundation, through the General Fund, was used towards the purchase of this wheel.
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Storm Windows Installed in Heritage Building Thanks to the Shuswap Community Foundation, the RJ Haney Heritage House has a new set of storm windows. The existing single paned windows have been given a matching second set and Maggie, Mrs. RJ Haney, would be delighted. Her home will be warmer this winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Haney built their first house one hundred years ago this year. Disaster struck and the house burned down. Wood heat, coal oil lanterns, a lot of fuel, and no formal fire brigade might have been contributing factors. The Haneys were resilient and rebuilt their house on the same foundation. Storm windows were reinstalled, as evident in the metal butterflies on the window frames. When the Salmon Arm Museum took over management of the property in 1988, the windows were missing. The house had been rented out for many years and the owners, absentee landlords.
The Museum Association got busy. Over the next decade it insulated, re-roofed, replaced the foundation, and had the furnace repaired. Each winter the water is shut off and the gas furnace tuned up.
The missing storm windows were a sore point, though. Heat was being lost. As the price of natural gas escalated, the Curator, Deborah Chapman, got to thinking. How could the organization save money and behave responsibly? She likened the heat loss to driving an eight-cylinder vehicle when a Smart Car would do the job.
The Shuswap Community Foundation awarded $3000 in funding this September. The storm windows were made to measure and installed by Construction and Maintenance Manager Ted McTaggart (in photo above) with assistance from Mary McTaggart and Gary Cruikshank.
"RJ Haney had a reputation. He was extremely careful with his money," McTaggart said. "I know he’d be pleased."
Chapman agrees and adds, "Haney Heritage Village is run by an organization with limited resources. This project is a no-brainer. Adding the storm windows is environmentally friendlier and will save us money. The next step will to be to replace the gas furnace, but that’s another story."
Story and picture first appeared in the Lakeshore News at the end of 2008.
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Well Drilled for Malakwa Park A community hall is a vital part of any small community and the hall in Malakwa is no exception for it hosts: weddings, funerals, social teas, Remembrance Day teas, dances and family social occasions. It also acts as the local emergency site as well as a place for educational classes, movie nights, a Christmas bazaar plus musical and drama performances.
However, the Malakwa Community Hall was showing its age and needed to be rebuilt on the Malakwa Ballpark land.
The Malakwa Community Centre Association began last year to make improvements by putting power into the site and this year, thanks to a $3,000 grant through the John and Ingrid Monk Endowment Fund and the General Fund, they were able to have a water well drilled.
Community Association spokesperson Audrey Stremick says they were very fortunate to have Darrell Wangler of Integrity Drilling to drill the well in addition to donating a number of hours to this community project.
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Transition House Holds Grand Opening Executive Director Jane Shirley (left), welcomes Foundation board member Marilyn Brown to view the new Women's Emergency Shelter (Transition House) in Salmon Arm. A Grand Opening was held, October 31/08.
With over 6,000 square feet, the new house has an eight-bed capacity including two ground floor rooms for disabled women. It also provides a play area for children and a rest/quiet area for seniors. The shelter will have 24-hour staffing and residents are allowed to stay for 30 days. Counseling and other services are also offered.
The Shuswap Community Foundation provided a grant of $5,000 to the SAFE (Shuswap Area Family Emergency Society) through the Wainwright-Mobley Memorial Fund and the General Grant. The money will be used to furnish a secure children’s area and a quiet room for seniors.
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Local Day Care Goes Ahead With Expansion Plans
 An exciting time for children, their parents and staff at Shuswap Day Care in Salmon Arm. A $5,000 grant from the Jennifer Phillips Memorial Fund and the General Fund combined with a number of other donations has allowed the Shuswap Day Care Society to go ahead with its plans for expansion. The Day Care serves some 75 to 80 families.
Jennifer’s parents, Bill and Alice Phillips were on hand, June 5th, to view the expansion blueprints along with Society president Kari Wilkinson, staff and many little "hard-hatted" children. For the Phillips it was an afternoon of remembering when both of their children, Jennifer and Matt, attended this very Day Care in 1974/75 just after the current site opened.
President Kari Wilkinson says the Society was, "very fortunate and thankful for support so we can expand without a huge additional debt and we can keep costs affordable for parents."
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September 2008
The Shuswap Day Care
building is now in place!
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