The preparations for our big book sorting event are underway and last week we received a big boost! Our friends at River City Books donated about 2,000 books to help us with the event! We’re so thankful to Bill and the team at RCB, we wanted to make this event really big and this...
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This weekend we got a little bug to clean out a few closets and organize the garage. Now, it may have been the fact that there was not football on but, I’ll take it either way. We were on a rampage, organizing and de-cluttering, all the things you want to do but when both...
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This week we received a delightful surprise, two huge boxes full of books for Court’s Kids! Courtesy of Schoolhouse Supplies here in Portland, OR we have more books for our upcoming book sorting event (I’ll get to that in a minute). Schoolhouse Supplies is a great organization, they really to an amazing job of...
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Join us for a series of introductory workshops exploring awareness & mindfulness with instructor Javad Khansalar, founder of Antarsukha Yoga. This series of workshops will explore the topics of Mindfulness & Meditation through introduction to and participation in various meditation techniques: 1. Breath, Body & Sound Awareness 2. Candlelight Meditation (Trataka) 3. What is...
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So, as we all do, I have been thinking of all of the things I want to do this year, goals, improvements, weight loss, etc. We usually eat pretty healthy but the holidays kind of derail that each year so, my biggest new year goal is to get us back on track food-wise. Exercise...
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Happy New Year everyone! As we look forward to 2012, we of course take a look back at 2011. It was a good year for Court’s Kids, we got our book distribution number up to somewhere around 26,000 as we enter our 3rd year of operation and we’ve developed some great friendships/partnerships with organizations...
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Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by Michael Moore. Moore portrays the regional negative economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith’s summary action of closing several auto plants in Flint, Michigan, costing 30,000 people their jobs at the time (80,000 to date) and economically devastating the city. Monday, January...
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A riveting documentary of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, a polarizing figure in the Muslim world. Following in her father’s footsteps as a pillar for democracy, Bhutto was expected to dominate Pakistan’s 2008 elections but the assassination sent Pakistan politics into turmoil. This major event sent shock waves throughout the world and transformed her...
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Join us for a series of informal workshops to continue the dialogue about developing a culture of peace in Hamilton. Sponsored by Hamilton Centre for Teaching Peace and Culture of Peace Hamilton. All are welcome to attend. Wednesday January 4 7 pm Topic: School Culture of Peace Programs and School Resource Centres for Teaching...
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The holiday season is upon us, we’ve got our tree up and the house decorated. This Christmas seems so much more fun now that Colin is more aware of things. Last year he was just a year and a half old, the tree was “so pretty” and he loved the lights, but he didn’t...
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