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Thank you EVERYONE and happy Earth Day!!

Posted in Vendors on April 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Happy Earth Day everyone!!

Earth Day Chilliwack 2012 was a hit, we had so much fun. I love love love our valley! I want to thank EVERYONE!!

We had so much fun yesterday and I am so glad Mr. Sunshine showed up for all of us! After all I did write him a letter;) I checked the almanack back 6months ago and it did say that by the near end or April we were going to have sunshine so thank you for coming!!…. and now I have a bright ‘glow’ to both arms, nose and a small chest patch oh and the back of my knees are a little bright…. thank you;)!

I am so happy to be part of the community gardens and so lucky to be working with friends Jason and Rachel, our garden coordinators, these two are truly inspirational and I hope you had a chance to meet them both!! Thank you for all your volunteering in the gardens you are awesome!

I want to thank the River Spirit drum group for the opening ceremonies and Helena for the garden blessing, our gardens and SOL farm will have a great bounty and yield this year!

Thank you to our incredible volunteers, vendors, performers, presenters, magicians and entertainers, gardeners, yogi’s.

I want to thank Chilliwack Society for Community Living for all the support with the event. I could not have had a better support team! They are a large support system within our community, thank you for your incredible support and help with organizing the event!

My friends and family who helped me through every step of the way and for traveling all the way from Calgary!

Our music team was fantastic and a big shout out goes to Anya for organizing and teaching such wonderful music to students, of course Janice for bringing the sound stage and such phenomenal talent. Jared Fowler and Ryan Smith for the performances too!

Thank you Paul Stephany and Mbuya for the amazing presentation on Tanzania and the garden gifts from Maude and Paul Stephany.

Thank you Sharon Gaetz for unveiling the garden and joining us.

Thank you Prime signs for the signs, stickers and hard work and Kimberley from Local Grain for our gorgeous Sunshine Community Garden sign.

Thank you Praetorian Security for the security.

Thank you Raptors Ridge for sharing your wonderful raptors with us.

Thank you Kimberley from Local Grain for making a beautiful Sunshine Community Garden sign

Thank you Starbucks for the coffee.

Thank you Decades coffee for the coffee, Chilliwack water store for the water.

Save On Foods for all the bags and food for the vendors and volunteers.

Thank you RBC for keeping an eye on the recycling bins

Thank you Darlene from the Yoga Tree for the Yoga and Laura Delisle for the Bumble Bee circle fun.

Thank you Lions club for cooking all our lunch and volunteering and the church for helping with the parking.

Thank you to the the diaper girls great job! (I still want those;) 70 cloth diapers changed inside the CSCL Mathieson centre at 9:30am! Fantastic job ladies!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!! This was a true community effort thank you!

Dayna

live.love.inspire

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Happy Earth Day!

Posted in Vendors on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Happy Earth Day everyone!! 

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Pinch & Pound buy a pinch or a pound!

Posted in Vendors, tagged on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Well many of you know about pinch + pound the bulk natural products that you can buy either a little or a lot! I was brought up eating what we thought was some sort of “bird food” and always thought what my friends were eating some sort magical of ‘o’s. I just love pinch + pound and all the organic and body products this venture for me is a lot of fun and I am so excited to have it be part of Earth Day Chiliwack this year. I am excited that this is starting to catch on and hopefully you will stop by and have a visit with my mom, who drove all the way out from Calgary for me! and to celebrate Earth Day Chilliwack with our very special valley!!

I am so so so excited for tomorrow and can’t wait to visit and chat with each and everyone of you!

See you all in the morning and lets have fun and enjoy the sunshine!! Speaking of which don’t forget your sunscreen, cash, dancing shoes and empty bellies!!

Dayna

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2 Photographers are coming don’t forget to smile;)

Posted in Vendors on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

James Walker,
 
A 35-year veteran of Law Enforcement, James Walker pioneered municipal agency services and the technical development of training manuals and procedures for extreme northern rural law enforcement. Walker helped shape isolated community law enforcement strategy and was a founding member of emergency services (police, fire and ambulance) for 3 communities in northern Alberta, Canada. During the course of his career, Mr. Walker developed a keen photographic eye for crime scenes and advanced his skills in hobby photography by pursuing excellence through courses, self study and experience. He now uses his cameras to record nature, people and social events as a freelance photographer and has an eclectic published blog to display some of his photos at http://photosfromthebearslair-bearboy.blogspot.ca/
 My Photo  Lorna Walker PhotographerLorna is describe as having an eclectic taste in music. She finds enjoyment through photography, walking, watching ‘chick flicks’ and reading. She has raised a family and is a developing artist! If you happen to see this lovely lady at Earth Day Chilliwack she will be capturing special images throughout the day!
My Photography Blog is located at http://msdewberrys.blogspot.ca/Jim’s Photography Blog is located at http://photosfromthebearslair-bearboy.blogspot.ca/

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Musicians!

Posted in Vendors on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Musicians:
1. Barry Eggen, principal trombone, music teacher at Vedder Middle School,
2, Mark Pederson, principal trumpet of Chilliwack Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, Student of Sardis Secondary School.
3. Alix Robertson, Accomplishing Cellist,
4. Anya McRae, Timpanist of CMO, piano, percussion, theory instructor, Facilitator of Canine Assisted Music Learning/therapy
Jack Kopstein is a well regarded senior musician in Chilliwack.  I will ask him to write a short bio for you or mc to announce it.  What do you think?

The opening music for the Earth Day has an exciting news!  Our very own local composer Jack Kopstein wrote a piece uniquely for Chilliwack – Sprit of Chilliwack.  It’s written for trumpet, trombone and piano.  I invited first trombone player from CMO to join us and he is very enthusiastic about it.  Jack, the composer is willing to present at the event and briefing about his composition (multiculturalism and beautiful nature).  I suggested to play “Spirit of Chilliwack” right after the mayor cutting the ribbon then Jack’s introduction about the piece.  Following with trio (piano, trumpet and trombone) playing “Celebration” which is also composed by Canadian composer, Linda Niamath.  What do you think?
Korbitron is bringing a ton of amazing perfumers too for the afternoon!!
Dayna
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The amazing Chilliwack Society for Community Living is a large supporter of Earth Day Chilliwack!

Posted in Vendors, tagged on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This community is so lucky to have The Chilliwack Society for Community Living (CSCL), not just the society but the people who represent it! Working with the many members of this organization has been truly amazing and such a pleasure! They will be in many places on Earth Day Chilliwack and welcome everyone with open arms to their facility at the CSCL community Mathieson centre, inside and out! Inside of course where the presentations and movie are respectively happening at 1pm and 2pm, and outside in their graciously donated garden space for the community gardens.

The Chilliwack Society for Community Living (CSCL) in partnership with community provides quality, individualized supports to enhance the lives of adults with developmental disabilities, children and youth with special needs and their families. CSCL is an accredited, non-profit, charitable organization that has dedicated over 55 years to providing innovative services to children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities and their families. CSCL has been serving the Chilliwack community since 1954.

CSCL Tent is full of fun things to do at Earth Day Chilliwack

So much FUN!!! CSCL Tent – will have Kids’ Recycle-Crafts and Eco-friendly crafts; face painting; info about CSCL and our Green Committee (Committee Mandate: To identify, advance and promote strategies, policies and practices within the Society’s operations aimed at minimizing negative environmental impact and maximizing benefits to the environment.)

Come grow with us challenge!! Big Potato Challenge (this season’s edition of our ongoing Big Green Challenge) – This challenge will see which service/department/business/organization has the greenest thumb by sponsoring a “Potato Bucket”. Phase 1: A representative must show up at Earth Day Chilliwack on Saturday, April 21 and register. Phase 2: Choose your “Potato Bucket” and let the growing begin! Phase 3: Decorate your “Potato Bucket” some time before the Fall for bonus points. Winners will be decided by how much potatoes are produced in the fall and by creativity and overall aesthetics of the bucket.

We will be meeting there tomorrow if any volunteers want to sign up for the day or help us set up tomorrow!

Dayna

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Our very kind and inspirational Anya McRae is our music director for Earth Day Chilliwack and will be performing too!

Posted in Vendors, tagged on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I was so happy to have found Anya McRae, her enthusiasm is contagious and jumped right into the roll of the music director for Earth Day Chillwiack!

 I don’t know how many times I have to express how lucky we are in this little valley of ours. The saying goes it takes a village to raise a child, and Earth Day Chilliwack is just that! Our community is really coming together to put on a great event, the day should be fun and very entertaining! Anya is so incredible and inspiring, she welcomed me and my daughter into her house fed us with coffee, breakfast and great stories!


Anya McRae is a Registered Music Teacher (RMT) recognized by both British Columbia Registered Music Teacher’s Association and Canadian Federation of Registered Music Teachers.  She has been teaching piano, percussion, theory and performing as a pianist and orchestral musician for over 20 years.  Beside her teaching career and concert tours in various continents, she is also a facilitator of Canine Assisted Music Learning / Therapy and enjoys working with students and clients of all abilities as well as professional musicians.
Her music studio offers a professional environment.  Students can work with a wide variety of musical instruments; including a Kawai grand piano, lap harp, collection of percussion instruments, and an extensive music library.

Canine Assisted Music Learning / Therapy is the most recent endeavor after Anya partnering with a certified Assistance / Therapy Dog - Leahy, a professionally trained Black Labrador Retriever as an integral part of her services.  Leahy participates ”music making” with well trained skills and provides her uttermost specialty – unconditional love!

She offers many services including:

Piano:
From beginner to advance level

Percussion:
Rhythmic percussion, symphonic orchestra and timpani technique

Music theory:
Rudiments, theory and harmony

Peak Performance Workshop:
Maximize public performance outcomes and anxiety management

Canine Assisted Music Learning / Therapy                               Sharing music with all abilities through canine assisted methods

Anya will be performing with her incredible and so gentle 52 trained command service dog Leahy!
 

Anya

www.anyamusicstudio.ca
Registered Music Teacher (RMT)
Timpanist
Instructor of piano, percussion and music theory
Facilitator of Canine Assisted Music Learning/Therapy
604-845-1343
anya.music.studio@hotmail.ca
Dayna
live.love.inspire

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Rootzone Landscaping & Design will help you all season long!

Posted in Vendors on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

 Mary-Anne is such a joy and truly inspiring. She is so talented and has many skills to offer to her clients! She is a certified organic master landscaper and certified horticulturist, who offers many services all year long to both residential, farm and commercial!

She is committed to quality, guaranteed satisfaction, and unique personalized custom landscape design.

Services that she offers seem endless and to list a few: pruning an gardening, ponds and water features, turf installation, landscape upgrades, aeration, lawn care control, Maintenance, Pest Management and Re-design….

We are so lucky to have such a talented company in our valley and I just love going through her before and after pages. Like her on Facebook and stay tuned while her website is being built!

Rootzone Landscaping & Design
1-604-793-2632
flowerpower@telus.net

Dayna

live.love.inspire

Volunteers are meeting tomorrow at the Mathieson centre starting at 10am!!

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Frozen Planet DVD Movie Screening…we might even have some for prizes and raffle!!

Posted in Vendors on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

 

I love watching documentaries and wild life, this set truly captures some of the most incredible sites I have ever seen!! You won’t want to miss the screening of this bad boy at Earth Day Chilliwack! Seriously amazing to watch wildlife and our planet in places that I may not ever travel. One word sums up this series =incredible!

“Frozen Planet…so bravely and cleverly shot, was as shiveringly intense as television gets…” – The Observer

New York – January 18, 2012 – Embark on a trip of a lifetime with BBC Home Entertainment, as the DVD and Blu-ray release of Frozen Planet glides onto shelves April 17, 2012. Following the Discovery Channel premiere in North America on March 18, 2012 and just in time for Earth Day, this astonishing and breathtaking seven part series is narrated by the legendary Sir David Attenborough, hailed by The Telegraph as “the father of natural history television.” Join Emmy® Award winning Executive Producer Alastair Fothergill and the team behind the groundbreaking series Planet Earth as they take you on the ultimate adventure into a breathtaking landscape. This is the Poles as you have never seen them, and may never see them again.

A BBC/Discovery Channel co-production four years in the making, Frozen Planet is ambitious and epic in scale and provides the ultimate portrait of our earth’s Polar Regions,capturing the power of natural elements and the fragile, jaw-dropping beauty of scenery unlike anywhere else in the world. This landmark high definition series brings to the screen the frozen wilderness of the polar region for what could be the last time before they change forever.

Featuring the incredible wildlife cinematography that made Planet Earth a worldwide success, Frozen Planet has taken new technology to the most extreme and remote parts of our planet capturing groundbreaking imagery above and below the ice.

Encounter spectacles that few of us will ever witness first hand. Go deep under the sea-ice into a magical world of giants, plunge into the heart of an erupting polar volcano and fly to the South Pole across the Antarctic icecap – the largest concentration of ice on earth – retracing the steps of the great Polar explorers.

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Get closer than ever before to the lives of our best loved and most charismatic animal characters – polar bears, penguins, wolves and orcas, and witness the most extraordinary examples of survival against the odds that can be found anywhere on our planet.

DVD and Blu-ray Bonus Features

  •   Science at the Ends of the Earth – An examination of the remarkable scientific work being performed at the South Pole
  •   Freeze Frame – A series of 7 10-minute “making of” featurettes, one for each episode.
  •   Production Video Diaries – A set of 47 video shorts made by the Frozen Planet producers, directors,camera crew and more giving personal insights into this remarkable series.
  •   Frozen Planet: The Epic Journey – The best moments from Frozen Planet compiled into one 60-minutehighlights special
  •   Music Only Viewing OptionsTauck Sweepstakes for The Ultimate Polar Bear Adventure

    In support of the DVD/Blu-ray release of Frozen Planet, BBC Home Entertainment is partnering with Tauck, a world leader in premium guided natural history travel, for a Polar Bear Adventure Sweepstakes. Two pairs of winners (one in the U.S. and one in Canada) will receive a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to observe these magnificent, endangered animals up close as well as discover the rich human and natural history of Manitoba, Canada. The six-day grand prize includes round trip airfare to Winnipeg, Manitoba, private charter flights between Manitoba and Churchill, local sightseeing and two full-day excursions deep into polar bear country, plus a private cocktail party and dinner at the Manitoba Museum, a storytelling session with a First Nation resident, a dog sledding demonstration and much more. It will truly be the trip of a lifetime for the winners of the BBC Home Entertainment/Tauck Polar Bear Adventure Sweepstakes.

    Street Date: April 17, 2012
    Suggested Retail Price: DVD $39.98 ($49.98in Canada)

    Blu-ray $54.98 ($62.48 in Canada) Length: Approx. 350 minutes + bonus features/3 disc set

    We have some for raffle and maybe even some for prizes!!!

    Dayna

    live.love.inspire

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It works is coming to Earth Day!

Posted in Vendors on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Well this does sound intriguing and if you are like me maybe this doesn’t like a bad idea at all!!
‘t Works is the Ultimate Body Applicator company! Our body applicator is a wrap infused with a cream made of all natural ingredients that can be applied to any part of your body except your face (we do have Facial Applicators too!) The cream is absorbed through the pores of your skin to detox your fat cells. When fat cells are toxic, they can create extra fat on your body and even cellulite. The wraps are great for inch loss (in as little as 45 minutes!), reducing cellulite and stretch marks, and the all natural ingredients are great for many chronic conditions as well.
We also offer vitamins, supplements, a skincare line and an AMAZING loyal customer program that will get you 45% off your products!
I will attach some pictures of before and after and my logo. Is this enough info for you? Or do you need more?
Erin Palesch
604 791 8955
erinpalesch.myitworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/It-Works-Erin-Palesch/373763462651665
If you want to be a vendor or volunteer contact Dayna at dedadesign1@gmail.com

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