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EVENTS CALENDAR
MONTHLY EVENTS Make sure to stay up to date by visiting FernieFix.com/events. Send your events to krista@clarismedia.com for inclusion!
Tuesday 1.2.2022
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Love for the Trails Challenge Begins @ Fernie Mountain Bike Club, bikefernie.ca
Tuesday 1.2.2022 – Sunday 6.2.2022
Reel Canadian Film Fest @ fernielovesfilm.ca. Continuing virtually.
Wednesday 2.2.2022
Fernie Art Streak Meet Up @ The Arts Station Pottery Wine and Wheel @ The Arts Station
Friday 4.2.202 2
Fernie Ghostriders Hockey @ Fernie Memorial Arena Live Music: SheVa @ Loaf Ghostrider Hockey Night @ The Pub Pre-Game Beer & Ticket Special Hockey Ticket and Pint Deal @ Kodiak Lounge
Saturday 5.2.2022
Canadian Fat Bike Day @ Fernie Mountain Bike Club, bikefernie.ca Cody Hall Live @ Kodiak Lounge
Tuesday, 8.2.2022
Born This Way Parent/Caregiver Group @ ferniepride.ca, 7pm
Wednesday 9.2.2022
Intro to Animation @ The Arts Station
Friday 11.2.2022
Fernie Ghostriders Hockey @ Fernie Memorial Arena Live Music: Lani Folkfard @ Loaf Ghostrider Hockey Night @ The Pub Pre-Game Beer & Ticket Special Hockey Ticket and Pint Deal @ Kodiak Lounge
Friday 11.2.2022 – Sunday 13.2.2022
Junior Freeski Tournament @ Fernie Alpine Resort
Sunday 13.2.2022
Superbowl Sunday @ The Pub
Monday 14.2.2022
Council Meeting @ City of Fernie
Tuesday 15.2.2022
Full Moon Ski @ Elk Valley Nordic Centre Fernie Ghostriders Hockey @ Fernie Memorial Arena Ghostrider Hockey Night @ The Pub Pre-Game Beer & Ticket Special Hockey Ticket and Pint Deal @ Kodiak Lounge
Wednesday 16.2.2022
Full Moon Ski @ Elk Valley Nordic Centre
Thursday 17.2.2022
Full Moon Ski @ Elk Valley Nordic Centre
Friday 18.2.2022
Club Cr8 – No School Friday @ The Arts Station Climbing Wall – No School Day @ Uplift Association Fernie Ghostrders Hockey @ Fernie Memorial Arena Live Music: Gary and Barbara Horne @ Loaf
Ghostrider Hockey Night @ The Pub Pre-Game Beer & Ticket Special Hockey Ticket and Pint Deal @ Kodiak Lounge
Saturday 19.2.2022
Corbin Vintage Snowmobile Poker Derby @ Fernie Snowmobile Association Raging Elk Silk Slide Virtual Nordic Event Begins @ Fernie Alpine Resort Fernie Ghostriders Hockey @ Fernie Memorial Arena Ghostrider Hockey Night @ The Pub Pre-Game Beer & Ticket Special Hockey Ticket and Pint Deal @ Kodiak Lounge
Saturday 19.2.2022 - Monday 21.2.2022
Family Weekend Activities @ Fernie Alpine Resort
Sunday 20.2.2022
Fernie Sled Drag Races @ 1800 Railway Ave, Fernie Snowmobile Association
Tuesday 22.2.2022
Committee of the Whole Meeting @ City of Fernie
Friday 25.2.2022
Live Music @ Loaf Exhibit Opening: Get Outside by Tyra Collombin @ The Arts Station
Friday 25.2.2022 – Saturday 25.2.2022
Fernie Mountain Film Festival @ Fernie Community Centre
Sunday 27.2.2022
Virtual Kinky Rail Jam Series #2 @ Fernie Alpine Resort, video submission deadline
Monday 28.2.2022
Council Meeting @ City of Fernie
WEEKLY EVENTS
Mondays
Parent-tot Funtimes @ Facebook Page
Les Tiguidous French activities for toddlers (0-5yo)
10:30am @ the Cokato Park playground Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Le Club Baguette Junior @ Rotary Park, outdoor activities and games in French ages 7-12, 3:30pm After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Jam Night @ Kodiak Lounge, 9pm Poutine & Pool Tourney Night @ The Pub
Tuesdays
Storytime (ages 3-5) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook Seniors Walking Program @ Fernie Community Centre, 11:15am After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open League @ Fernie Curling Club, 6:30pm Seniors Only League @ Fernie Curling Club, afternoons Fernie Options for Sexual Health Clinic Open @ Elk Valley Hospital, 6:30-8:30pm by appointment Parent-tot Funtimes @ Facebook Page Burger and Beer Night @ The Northern Wing Night @ The Pub Fernie Options Clinic @ Elk Valley Hospital, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesdays
Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Seniors Walking Program @ Fernie Community Centre, 11:15am Curbside Craft @ Fernie Heritage Library, Pickup is from 10am each Wednesday Toddlertime (Ages 0-2 years) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Fernie Youth Art Collective @ The Arts Station Open League @ Fernie Curling Club, 6:30pm
Inclusive Kids and Teen Mindfulness Yoga Classes
@ Branch Out Learning Trivia @ Fernie Hotel Pub
Thursdays
Seniors Walking Program @ Fernie Community Centre, 11:15am Bellies to Babies @ Zoom, 2pm
Club Baguette Junior French tutoring and activities
3pm @ Isabella Dickens library
Club Baguette Adults learn and converse in French
for adults 7pm @ Zoom Pub Team Trivia @ The Pub After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open Mic Night @ Fernie Distillers, 7pm
Fridays
Club All Play – Fernie Pickeleball @ Max Turyk Courts, 8:30-10:30am Storytime (ages 0-5) @ Fernie Heritage Library Live Instagram and Facebook Fish and Chips @ The Pub Fish and Chips Take Away @ Fernie Hotel, 4pm Meat Draw @ The Fernie Club Cre8 @ The Arts Station After School Adventures @ Branch Out Learning, 3-6pm Open Mic Night @ Fernie Distillers, 7pm Equine Assisted Learning Life @ Fernie Therapeutic Horse and Pony Club through Branch Out Learning
Saturdays
Meat Draw @ The Legion Pint and Ghostrider Hockey Game Deal @ Kodiak Lounge and Parkplace Pub Ski Under the Lights @ Elk Valley Nordic Centre, 6-8pm
Sundays
Roast Dinner Special (includes Beer Pint or Glass of
Wine) for $20 @ The Pub
Subterranean Connections
by SYLVIA AYERS, Illustrated by SARAH PULLEN
In a forest, large trees act as hubs, or home bases, feeding seedlings and sending out messages to other trees. When you see a mushroom, you are look ing atthe tiny, above ground portion of the massive internet of the soil!
Using a vast interconnected underground web of fungal threads called the network, these large trees supply seedlings with what they need to grow.
Dr. Suzanne Simard of UBC calls these large, nurturing trees ‘Mother Trees.’ The connections between Mother Trees and neighbouring trees act as a supportive part of the forest. We can k eep these relationships intact by maintaining their network of connections, ensuring that forests will be more resilient to change and be productive, healthy, diverse and here for many generations to come.
Plant more trees than you cut down.
Next time you walk in the forest or through a park notice the connection of one tree to another. Imagine the busy network of fungus under your feet sending messages back and forth. Grow a Plant, Start a Garden
Find a tree - any tree - and see if you can identify its ‘mother’ . Look for the bunches with large trees and the seedlings.
Critical Thinking
by FRED GIETZ
crit·i·cal think·ing
noun
1. the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.
Why is it important to be scientifically literate? Well, it allows us to better understand issues that we come across in daily life, in news stories and government debates. Not least of all, it should help us sort out some of those “I heard that …” stories we hear while having coffee with our friends and colleagues.
However, a crucial skill in sorting out the ‘fact or fiction’ stories is critical thinking. This is the process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, analyzing, and evaluating information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or listening to “I heard” stories from our buddies. Easy? No, not really. With everyone able to easily post or re-post stories or pictures, we tend to be inundated with all kinds of information – both fact or fiction – and it is becoming ever more important to apply some critical thinking skills. After all, wouldn’t it be nice to know if that Nigerian prince really wants to share a million dollars with us … or if we should send $5,000 in Bitcoin to the Canadian Revenue Agency before the RCMP comes knocking on our door!?
Now here’s where things may become a bit controversial; critical thinking does not imply that everyone will be in agreement over an issue. Let’s take vaccines (gasp!) as an example. Much to the frustration of some, we have a significant number of people who question our current vaccination program… and some of those questions are legitimate and are examples of some valuable ‘critical thinking.’ Rather than simply follow the herd, these people have forced scientists and politicians to clarify and explain such things as how these vaccines were manufactured so quickly, the possible side effects to those who may have immune issues (cancer treatments, etc.), and many other reasonable questions. I would humbly suggest that questions about genitals falling off due to the vaccine (yes, I’ve heard that) and others like this are not examples of critical thinking.
Good critical thinking and questioning can often ‘spoil the fun’ of many social media posts. The internet picture of a giant great white shark jumping for a helicopter by the Golden Gate Bridge might be amusing but deserves some serious questioning. Again, picking out the fake information is not always easy. Here’s one you can try at home and use your critical thinking skills. A recent YouTube video shows a janitor riding a wheeled mop-bucket by using a leaf blower and umbrella (Google search “Florida Man Brian Mop Bucket, leaf Blower, Umbrella Ride”). Great fun to watch and easy to believe – but is it
Screen capture from YouTube video
accurate or fake? My initial thought was that this was believable, but my engineering buddy suggested we try it because “something doesn’t seem to make sense.” Hmmm… grab a skateboard, a leaf blower and an umbrella and try it! You may want to dust off your old high school physics notes to help try to explain what’s going on!
So, the next time you’re having coffee with your crew and someone tells you the latest sensational news they found on the internet or from neighbour Harry, remember the important traits of critical thinking:
• asking reasonable questions • define the problem • examine the evidence • analyze assumptions and biases • avoid emotional reasoning • avoid oversimplification • consider other interpretations …and that nice Nigerian Prince who wants to share a million dollars with you? Well chances are he doesn’t exist.
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