Community Mural at the BMX Motoshed
We partnered with a young local artist Melody, a grade 12 student at VSS. Melody designed two unique art pieces for the Motoshed window covers to commemorate Vernon BMX’s 40th...
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One Night Stand – Bike maintenance and repair workshop for women
Though we had hoped to do it earlier in the bike season, June is typically a very busy month with many year-end activities and it felt like there were only...
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Uplands Block Party
Pre-COVID, our neighbourhood would have had a pot-luck get-togethers twice a year. Like most neighbours, we were just seeing each other in chance encounters. This made the need to plan...
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Clowning for You
The Kalamalka Caring Klowns are therapeutic clowns who visit in the hospital, long term care facilities, take part in non-profit fundraisers, plus have fun in various parades. “Therapeutic clowns do...
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The Value of Seniors in Our Community – Hearing Their Stories
It has been such a pleasure to be involved in the 2022 Small Neighbourhood Grant program. It was fun to plan, but more fun to host. Although everyone in the...
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Connecting Parents of Children with Disabilities
With great thanks to the Neighbourhood Small Grants North Okanagan and the Community Foundation North Okanagan, parents of children with disabilities had the opportunity to meet and connect in two...
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Fitness in the Okanagan: Running, Group Workouts, Yoga, and Wellness Workshops
Fitness in the Okanagan: Running, Group Workouts, Yoga, and Wellness Workshops For this project, my vision was to empower a community through connectiveness and activity and growing the community while...
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Friendship Planting
Our goal with this project was to teach young families with kids how to create a sustainable food source, while learning about the benefits of companion planting (nature’s best friends!)....
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Emergency Fire Preparedness
Our objective in applying for funding for this project was to bring awareness and training for fire preparedness to our community complex of 200 suites. The training included raising awareness...
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