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Brantford news, Meetings

CFUW Brantford General Meeting January 24, 2018

CFUW General Meeting

January 24, 2018

Thorpe Carriage House

Meeting Starts at 7:30 p.m.

Topic: Bringing Horticultural Therapy to Stedman Community Hospice

Speaker: Lynn Leach

Lynn Leach is the Horticultural Therapist at the Stedman Community Hospice and just like many of us, Lynn has a passion for the garden.  She also loves working with people and has found that horticultural therapy is a perfect union of those two passions. The presentation will include before and after pictures of building the therapy garden, as well as information about the horticultural programs that are offered to residents.

Brantford news, Club Projects, Events, uncategorized

Don’t Tell the Enemy book launch a great success!

Our January 16th Book Launch of Don’t Tell the Enemy, written by CFUW member Marsha Skrypuch was a grand success, $444 raised for our Scholarship Fund.

Many thanks to Braemar House School for donating the venue and to the organizing committee: Nora Leung, Joan Hadley, Dian Kuzyk, Tish James, Naomi Krai, Nora O’Leary, Patti Kunaschko, Jenny DeAlwis, Barbara Perry, Lynne Duncombe, Cathy Sawyer and Marsha Skrypuch.

National news

December 6th: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

Today as we commemorate the 28th Anninversary of the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre in Montreal in 1989 let us all remember that many women and  girls continue to suffer violence, even torture and death in Canada and throughout the world just because they are female. As we reflect on this history, let us continue our efforts in helping those who are affected by this violence. Our 8400 CFUW members in over 100 Clubs across Canada join with other concerned citizens, female and male, in recognizing this horror and in searching for preventive ways to eradicate this violence from the lives of women and children.

Issues and Advocacy, National news

CFUW International Committee SDG series: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women

On December 6, 2017, CFUW will commemorate and honour the lives of victims of gender-based violence and stand in solidarity with all women experiencing violence, abuse, and harassment. For this occasion, CFUW continues the series on significant days to facilitate the conversation about the Sustainable Development Goals. “We believe the elimination of violence can only be realized with the understanding that aggression against one woman is abuse against all women. The individual cannot be separated from the community and therefore national epidemics of violence have a global impact” says Cheryl Hayles, V.P. International Relations.

Issues and Advocacy, uncategorized

CFUW and its 100 Clubs Across Canada Mobilize for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

Ottawa, November 25, 2017 – CFUW and its 100 clubs across Canada are marking November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and getting involved in the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence from November 25 to December 10. CFUW clubs will be hosting a series of events and generating actions across Canada such as panel discussions, outreach to women’s shelters, orange wearing days in honour of victims of gun violence, art expositions that highlight issues of gender-based violence, joint letter signings, social media campaigns, and commemorative vigils to raise awareness in their community and call for mobilization to end violence against women and girls.

Brantford news, Meetings

November General Meeting: November 22, 2017

Topic: Be a BIG fish in a small pond: Brian Thompson, photographer

 

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Meeting Starts at 7:30 p.m.

Brian will be sharing with members some of the highlights of his 31 years as a staff photographer at The Expositor and will touch on his personal ethics as they pertain to news photography.  Working at a smaller paper has provided him with some amazing opportunities that may not have come his way had he been working at one of the bigger urban dailies in Toronto or elsewhere.  Since 2006, he has garnered 11 Ontario Newspaper Awards, an achievement which is very personally rewarding to him.  Brian will also share some of his personal photography outside of work for The Expositor, and his involvement with the Brant Camera Club, of which he is the president.

 

Brantford news, Events, Meetings

Jodi-Lynn Waddilove speaks at Oct 25th meeting

October General Meeting

October 25, 2017

Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Topic: Indigenous Education

Speaker: Jodi-Lynn Waddilove

Jodie-Lynn Waddilove will present a First Nations Woman’s Perspective on Indigenous Issues. Jodie-Lynn has served as legal councel for the Ministry of the Attorney General (On) for ten years. She is presently serving as Senior Legal Counsel on the Independent Street Checks Review with Justice Tulloch.