Volunteers needed to help our Food Bank Drive

Hi everyone, I just received this email from Heather Stacey Communications and Events Office SHARE Famly Services and I thought I would get the word out about the help we need. So if you can help, please think about giving Heather a call.

SHARE‘s Fund Development Summer Event schedule is quickly heating up and we would really like your help to make the most out of these events.　 The first event is this Sunday July 10.　Vancity is celebrating their 65^th anniversary with a

Fresh Air Movie at Rocky Point Park. We would love to have two people join us – one to escort Philup, our Food Bank Mascot on his debut and one to help in our tent.　 We’ll be promoting the SHARE Food Bank Fillup on July 21.

We need 11 volunteers for the 5^th Annual Boulevard 500 Show n Shine on Sunday July 17^th, 2011.　 Last year, 6,000 people from the Tri-cities and Lower Mainland attended this fun-filled family day. 　This year’s activities will include over 300 vehicles on display, the opportunity to meet Gene Simmons, Silent Auction, 50/50 raffle, trade show, pancake breakfast and sizzling BBQ lunch, a Harley-Davidson Fashion Show, Kids Play Zone and prizes awarded throughout the day.

　

SHARE has been chosen to run and receive the proceeds from the Silent Auction, 50/50 Raffle, and Kids Play Zone. Will you help? I’m looking for 8 energetic volunteers who enjoy selling 50/50 Raffle tickets, as well as one outgoing volunteer to wear be

Philup, our mascot, and 2 volunteers for the Kids Play Zone.　 All volunteers will receive a free pancake breakfast or BBQ Lunch provide by the Boulevard Casino. Please come out and enjoy this wonderful event!

　

On July 21 the

SHARE Food Bank Fill Up will take place at Coquitlam Centre from 9-9 in the parking lot at the corner of Barnet &Johnson.　 Help us set a provincial record for the most food raised in 12 hours!　 Save on Foods will be onsite selling hotdogs and they’re bringing a massive semi truck that the Tri-city community is going to fill with food.　 Steve Darling, Global TV and Virgin Radio will be at this event throughout the day!　 Starbucks will be serving coffee in the morning and Mr. Mikes will be on the BBQ flipping burgers in the afternoon. Come on down to this fun filled family day and meet Philup SHARE’s new mascot!

　

Will you help SHARE Food Bank set a provincial record?　 I’m looking for enthusiastic volunteers to participate at the weigh in station, the semi truck station, the shopping cart station, and to information station.　 　Come on down, volunteer, help us meet our goal and enjoy a hotdog or burger. Please join me at this fun-filled event!　 　

　

If yoou can help, we’d love to have you or if you have any questions please contact me at 604.529.5107 or heather.stacey@sharesociety.ca.

　

　

You cannot make this stuff up

Summer is just started and you hear I'm Bored

Some thoughts on getting through the summer from Granparents.com for harried parents as well as grandparents

1. Play silly charades, says Penny Warner, author of Kids’ Party Games & Activities (Meadowbrook, 1993). Fill out cards with offbeat suggestions, such as Santa Claus on a tropical vacation or a monkey trick-or-treating. Take turns writing or drawing a card and acting out the phrase.

2. Put on a play. Kids can make up their own dramas or reenact favorite movies and TV shows. Use old cast-off clothes to make costumes.

3. Hold a talent show. All the kids can show off their skills, whether it’s doing a cartwheel, telling a joke, or singing a song. This also can be an opportunity to get to know your grandchildren better

4. Turn your names into a game. Warner suggests drawing a grid of five boxes down and five across; put the first five letters of the child’s name across in the top five boxes and one category down the five side boxes. Set a timer and have the kids write down an object in each category that starts with the letter at the top of the column. For example, if the child’s name is Rebecca, and the category is “Animals,” she could write "Rhino" and then "Elephant." The winner is the person with the most boxes filled when time expires.

5. Make papier mache figures. Dip paper strips in a mix of white glue and water (or make your own paste from flour and water) and layer them to cover a balloon. "Any balloon with newspaper, flour and water can become a pig, butterfly, or family bust!" says San Francisco educator Lonna Corder

6. Make soap sculptures. Mix powdered Ivory laundry soap and water until it takes on a clay-like consistency. Mold it into fun shapes. The best part: Any spills clean up easily.

7. Make gross goo and slippery slime. Warner’s slime recipe is simple: one cup cornstarch mixed with one cup water. To make goo, mix one cup cold water and eight ounces of white glue in one bowl. Also mix one tablespoon liquid starch and one-half cup hot water in another bowl. Add a few drops of your favorite food coloring to the starch and combine the two mixtures. The fun thing about goo and slime is that they are messy! Save yourself from a big cleanup and play outside.

8. Turn your kitchen into a sculpture studio. Make your own clay: Mix four cups flour, one cup salt, and one-and-one-half cups water. Mold figures and bake them in a 250-degree oven for two to three hours until firm. Even easier, use a can of ready-to-bake rolls from the fridge, says Lisa Kothari, a party planner and author of Dear Peppers and Pollywogs ... What Parents Want To Know About Planning Their Kids' Parties (Peppers and Pollywogs, 2007).

9. Have a scavenger hunt. Sue Johnson, coauthor of Grandloving: Making Memories With Your Grandchildren (Heartstrings, 2007), suggests looking around the house for objects in different categories, such as something squishy or something green. Or hide wrapped candies for a treasure hunt, says Kothari.

10. Have a spa day at home with your granddaughters. Kothari says bring out all your nail polishes and give one another manicures and pedicures.

11. Cook happy-face pancakes together. Have the kids use blueberries or raisins for eyes, melon for mouths, and bananas for hats, says Johnson.

12. Let the kids make outrageous cookie creations. Start with a plain cookie dough and help the little ones mix in condiments and decorations found in your cupboards, says Kothari. Some of the cookies may not taste great, but that is all part of the fun. You may discover a future chef in your family.

13. Make a time capsule. Use any old plastic container with a lid. Put in a copy of the day’s front page and notes or drawings from the kids. Bury it and dig it up together for their next birthday or school graduation.

14. Introduce your grandchildren to old-school games. Find a piece of chalk and teach them hopscotch or use cocktail stirrers and show them how to play pickup sticks.

15. Entertain younger kids by blowing bubbles yourself. Mix one cup of water, two tablespoons of glycerin, and 4 tablespoons of dishwashing liquid for hours of playtime fun. Use a drinking straw as a blower, or twist a paper clip into a loop or even loop some florist wire into a hoop.

16. Make memory movies, says Johnson. Let the kids use a video camera to interview you and other members of the older generation about your lives. Turn the camera around and let them tell you stories about their often funny lives.

17. Create a superhero. Use paper, pencils, crayons, and markers to help kids make their own comic books.

18. Have make-your-own story time. Start a story and pass it on to one of the grandchildren to continue. That grandchild passes it on to someone else and so on. You never know where the stories will go.

19. Decorate pickle and mason jars. Make designs out of scraps of colored tissue paper to decorate the jars. The transparency of the tissue paper makes a nice effect. Paint on your creations with white glue to finish off this crafty keepsake

Why do we lie?

My thanks to Mark for his thoughts on this idea

We lie to proctect ourself.

We lie to justify our beliefs.
We lie to protect others.

 When we lack faith in ourselves, we lie to project who we want to be. We think that this proves to ourselves that we are a good person. The truth is that we then believe in a lie and that reinforces our lack of faith in ourselves.

So many hidden lies are inside us. We bend the truth or exaggerate a story to get our point of view across. Or we leave out information that reinforces a view that we disbelieve in. Sometimes we have a strong view on a subject but then manipulate our view to suit our own needs.

Say we see a documentary on how badly chickens are treated. Mass-produced, fed on hormones, cramped in cages, mistreated etc. etc... The documentary affects us and we are disgusted at how bad life is for the chicken. Next time we are at the shops we go to buy eggs and we remember the documentary so we look for the carton that displays, “free roaming chickens laid these eggs.” These eggs a bit more expensive,  but worth it to us because we believe we are doing the right thing. Then we go to the butcher and there is chicken in the window with nothing to say where it’s from or how it lived but curried chicken is the spouses favourite dish and it’s their birthday. We end up buying the chicken. We justify it by convincing ourselves that we have done our bit for the better lifestyle of the chicken because we bought the more expensive eggs in the carton that displays a picture of a happy smiling chicken.

That is one example of how we lie to ourselves. We have a perception of how we want the world to see us but when that very perception does not suit us, we invent a lie to make ourselves believe that we are a good person. The core fact is that we eat those very chickens.

 We lie because we are afraid of the consequence of our actions. If we do something wrong we do not want to admit it. There is the fear that people will think badly of us. Deep down we think this because we think badly of ourselves. We are guilty and ashamed that we are not the person we want to be. When we lie we are reinforcing this guilt and become even more ashamed of ourselves but a lot of the time we supress this guilt and rely on our ego to be our spokesperson. We see someone in the shop buying the cheap eggs and we shake our head at them in disgust to enhance the fact that we are a better person than they are, to invigorate our ego. When we run people down it has nothing to do with them it is about us. We are seeing our flaws in them and we don’t like what we see so to make ourselves feel good, better, wiser and so on... We knock them. We are lying to ourselves.

Lies do have their place. If a mad man with a gun asks you which direction did your brother just run off in, you are going to lie. That is not a damaging lie and you will not feel any guilt at all.

It is when you lie to yourself that damage occurs to you. The manifestation of guilt and deception turns to feelings of worthlessness and issues of low self-esteem.

It is hard to bust through your ego and get to your own truth. So often, what we believe to be the truth is hidden or buried beneath an array of beliefs. It is these very beliefs that you need to start to question to start peeling away the layers.

You do get to the core and you will know it when you get to it. Once you have, re question every answer that you have arrived at and come up with another answer that is closer to the truth, something that is closer what you really believe.

You cannot fix something if you do not know where it is broken or you cannot change something if you do not know what needs changing.

To believe in yourself and get through life with balanced confidence, self-esteem, and love you need to be truly honest with yourself to the core.

Realization comes from questioning Recognising your beliefs is, I believe, all that was needed to start undoing them. This is not easy because as we age we find that our belief system works for us most of the time. However is their not value and  true balance of life in knowing who we really are?

 An example of balance can be seen by looking at the problem of weight control On one end of the scale is obesity on the other end of the scale is anorexia. Both are tied to the emotional struggles of the mind. The centre of the scale, the perfect weight so to speak, is the balance where the mind is free of all issues that hide the belief in yourself.