October 2018 Village Vibe

October 2018

villagevibe News and views from the heart of Fernwood

Give where you live Think local, act local

›› Ruben Anderson

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ernwood has become a destination.

People and families are choosing to move to Fernwood, drawn by the personality and character of our neighbourhood and our vibrant village. This is a big change from the rough times we saw here fifteen years ago and is a direct result of the love, attention, time and money that neighbours, businesses and organizations have poured in over the years.

Nobody cares about Fernwood like the people who live and work right here in our neighbourhood. As a recent example of this love and hard work, in 2013 Fernwood NRG bought a small office building on Fernwood Road and a tiny house on Gladstone Avenue. Neither of the buildings contributed much to a lively village, and the house was in disrepair.

After considerable neighbourhood consultation, research and discussions with the City, Fernwood NRG developed the new building at 1310 Gladstone, and sold the office building to the owners of the Fernwood Inn, who opened Fernwood Pizza along with residential units and some renovated office space.

This is exactly what the neighbourhood asked for in visioning sessions in 2004 and 2011. In 2004 the main concern was overcoming the dysfunction in the village core—derelict buildings and struggling businesses. In 2011, our neighbours reiterated the need for more housing and commercial space, and asked for a focus on food security to be added. We acted in 2013 by buying two properties in Fernwood Village before they were put on the market. The redevelopment has taken more than five years, but now we have the results; the Village has changed for the better—and all the better because it was done sensitively by people who care about this place.

So now there are six new apartments, an active restaurant, office space, community space—and a beautiful commercial space that was just right to allow an established neighbourhood business, The

#FacesofFernwood. Photos: (top left) Angela Hemming, (top right) Mila Czemerys, (bottom left) Liz Rubincam, (bottom right) Webmeister Bud

Yoga Den, to expand. This was all made in Fernwood—championed by Fernwoodians and funded with dollars controlled by Fernwood. Most of the people who have moved in either already lived in Fernwood and were looking for a different situation, or were working in the neighbourhood and now have a shorter commute. This is how a neighbourhood economy can work when it is stewarded by people who care.

We could have done even more but we were limited by our resources. Fernwood NRG also had an option to purchase two adjacent houses and hoped to develop more affordable housing, but after exploring options with the City Planning Department and engaging with neighbours, we decided to let the option lapse in 2015.

Both houses were eventually sold. One was refreshed and repainted while the other was redeveloped as a duplex, adding one further housing unit to the village.

Canadians are generous givers. According to a recent report by CanadaHelps.

org (an online charitable giving platform), the average per capita donation is $259.

This means that if Fernwoodians give the same average amount as other Canadians, collectively the neighbourhood is donating roughly $2.5 million to charity each year.

These donations support critical work in communities across Canada.

And there is lots of critical work happening right here in our neighbourhood.

Fernwood NRG has well-used programs supporting children and families, as well as neighbourhood projects that strengthen our local area. The Fernwood Community Association hosts theatre and arts programs, the Compost Education Centre is a neighbourhood gardening resource, and the Belfry Theatre is a premiere arts organization in the city. There are so many great projects running in our neighbourhood and all of them would appreciate your help.

But we know ourselves best, so let’s talk about a couple of Fernwood NRG examples.

In 2011, one of the directions from the

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Neighbourhood Visioning Session was to increase food security in Fernwood. Since then Fernwood NRG has managed a City grant to maintain Spring Ridge Common, has planted a community orchard in Stevenson Park, and has planted gardens in three separate areas around the Community Centre. In addition to these—ahem— grassroots actions, Fernwood NRG is the distribution hub for the Coalition of Neighbourhood Houses’ food rescue program. Food is donated from a logistics company, ColdStar Solutions Inc., and is shared among participating centres.

This rescued food, along with weekly produce donations from the Food Share Network, is a very important part of our Family Dinner, which has been served at the Centre almost every Monday night for the past five years and has provided nearly 20,000 meals so far.

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Remembering Vic Horvath

Lee Herrin Kathryn Juricic

About a year ago, a

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very beautiful thing

Published by Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group Matt Takach Mila Czemerys Founding Editor Lisa Helps Ruben Anderson Allan Gallupe Tasha Peterson Mila Czemerys Laurie Rubin

Graeme Bousada Kathryn Juricic Lee Herrin Kirsty Sewell

happened to me. I met

Mila Czemerys Webmeister Bud Ruben Anderson

I met Vic through my dear friend Zoubi Arros, and we instantly hit it off. We hacked a dart together and we chatted about the ethereal nature of laughter. Needless to say, the conversation was filled with lots of laughter. The conversation was playful and so easy, the way that conversations with your closest friends are. The difference was that we had just met a few minutes prior.

Immediately, I knew I had a good friend in Vic. From that moment on, I felt connected to Vic, for their sense of humour, for their thoughtful perspective on life and for their calm nature. Fortunately for me, Vic and I shared a wide community of lovely humans and I ran into them constantly.

Alongside Vic’s easy going personality

Vic Horvath

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declaration of principles & values ››

We are committed to creating a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable neighbourhood;

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We are committed to ensuring neighbourhood control or ownership of neighbourhood

Vic Horvath performing at FernFest 2017. You are missed. Photo: Webmeister Bud

and good humour, was their excellent musicianship. Vic was an extraordinary artist who was paving the way for inclusion in the music scene. They embodied community, a truly beautiful and genuine spirit. Vic’s humble and kind soul will never be forgotten.

Vic remains a pillar in our community.

Vinyl Envy record shop was a local hangout for Vic. In the words of owner Michael Cline, Vic was “sublimely talented with the ability to appeal to all walks of life, Vic will be missed greatly by all who had the pleasure of sitting in their warm glow.”

neighbourhood lives:

Gary Conn—A Fernwood friend travels on

institutions and assets;

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›› Allan Gallupe

We are committed to using our resources prudently and to becoming financially self-reliant;

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We are committed to the creation and support of neighbourhood employment;

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We are committed to engaging the dreams, resources, and talents of our neighbours and to fostering new links between them;

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We are committed to taking action in response to neighbourhood issues, ideas, and initiatives;

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We are committed to governing our organization and serving our neighbourhood democratically

Gary lived at the corner of Fernwood and Vining for 28 years. He was a good friend and neighbour to all. You’d often find him on his front porch greeting passersby, always ready for a chat. Maybe there’d be a few bikes for sale on the front lawn, picked up on the garage sale hunt and retrofitted in his basement workshop. All those many years he would buy and sell all kinds of eclectic treasures, spotted with his astute eye for quality and impeccable taste— nothing “schmenky” as he would say.

In earlier years, in the cold months he’d be off to some exotic warm locale on travels to Mexico, Central America, South East

Asia—around the world. One winter was spent in Finland, just to be different. Many stories—and many photos—flowed from those wanderlust days.

More recently, Gary spent most of his time closer to home. You’d still find him out on the porch, the white GMC van out front with the yellow boat—the Snark—on top, ready to sale/sail when the time was right.

As his health declined, Gary’s door was still open and friends from near and far would stop by to visit. Sadly, he died August 28 from complications of COPD. Friends and family sent him off in style on September 8th at the FCA Paul Philips Hall.

Travel on, Gary! We’ll still remember you at the corner of Fernwood and Vining.

Gary Conn in 2009. Photo courtesy of Allan Gallupe.

with a maximum of openness, inclusivity and kindness;

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We are committed to developing the skills, capacity, self-worth, and excellence of our neighbours and ourselves;

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We are committed to focusing on the future while preserving our neighbourhood’s heritage and diversity;

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We are committed to creating neighbourhood places that are vibrant, beautiful, healthy, and alive;

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and, most of all, We are committed to having fun!

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News and views from the heart of Fernwood

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Fernwood’s Annual Halloween Bonfire

Owl Designer Fair When: Friday, November 23rd 6-10pm & Saturday, November 24th 10-5pm Where: 1240 Gladstone Avenue The Owl Designer Fair always fills the Fernwood Community Centre with beautiful handmade

Come one, come all! Gather ‘round the annual Halloween Bonfire in Stevenson Park on October 31st. Photo: Mila Czemerys

›› Kathryn Juricic It’s time for Fernwood to get spooky once again. Every year we host hundreds of kiddos and adults alike and this year is no different! Come to Stevenson Park and the Fernwood Community Centre gymnasium to enjoy Halloween with your neighbours.

The bonfire will be burning beginning at sunset in Stevenson Park. Come with your costumes, instruments, chairs, candy and be ready to feel the community vibes.

We’ll be tossin’ wood on the fire until we’re not allowed anymore (10pm).

In the gym, we’ve got activities for kids and families! We’re bringing back every child’s favourite, the Bouncy Castle! Let them jump out their candy high for the evening while you fill up on our delicious homemade hot apple cider. We’re also setting up a Theremin in the gymnasium for all to play. So we will see how that goes!

Don’t miss out on our Costume Contest at 7:00pm.

Lastly, during sunset, we will be visited by a local witch who will lead us in a spiral dance. A spiral dance is a pagan ritual

designed to emphasize community and rebirth. Alongside percussion, we will hold hands and follow each other in a spiral, changing directions and coming face to face with every other dancer throughout.

We hope to see you out for an eventful evening!

›› Tasha Peterson

goods. Photo courtesy of Owl Designer Fair.

The Owl Designer Fair is Victoria’s most creative holiday fair. All items are handmade or upcycled by local artists and designers.

Live music and free craft workshops along with unique gifts make this show a must for anyone looking for some style in their Christmas shopping. You will find handmade soaps, art, local fashion designers, wood toys, fine woodworking, upcycled vintage creations, leather goods, handmade jewelry, home decor, and much much more!!! Featuring live music by local musicians, a food truck, and espresso cart. The event is stroller and wheelchair accessible.

There really is something for everyone at the Owl Designer Fair on November 23rd-24th at the Fernwood Community Centre.

This year, the Little Owl Children’s Fair is taking a year off while the Owl Designer Fair is in transition. Founder Emmy-Lou McMillan started the fair 12 years ago and has grown it into the much recognized and talked about event it is today. Emmy will continue to be involved but she is handing over the fair to Stephanie Vander Steen of the clothing label Dottie. Stephanie has been a vendor at both the Owl Designer Fair and the Little Owl Children’s Fair in past years and is looking forward to being more involved in such an integral event in the community.

For more information and a their facebook event, check out facebook.com/ owldesignerfair.

Halloween Bonefire Schedule Fernwood Community Centre, Wednesday, October 31st Stevenson Park:

5:50pm - Spiral Dance 6-10pm - Bonfire Fernwood Community Centre Gymnasium:

6-9pm - Bouncy Castle 6-9pm - By-Donation Hot Apple Cider 6-9pm - Try the Theremin 7pm - Costume Contest!

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Give where you live

Over the past 23 years, Fernwood NRG’s revenue has grown dramatically, but the proportion coming from grants and contracts has shrunk from 69% in 2003 to 28% in 2017. Donations and fundraising efforts have grown slowly to 9% of revenues in the same period.

Six affordable housing units at the Park Place Apartments on Yukon Street. Photo: Fernwood NRG

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with a good dash of college and university folks thrown in as well. In the last school year we did manage to produce a weekly student dinner, but it almost killed our chef. The Community Centre was built with a rudimentary 1980s kitchen and producing meals in these higher volumes was more than a challenge.

Over the past five years, we have been finding small grants and contributions to allow us to upgrade the kitchen to support the growth in our meal programs, and last year we were finally able to find a grant that allowed us to buy a commercial oven which has made all the difference in our capacity.

For years, lack of equipment limited the services we could provide to people who need them here in Fernwood.

Another example, from housing.

In 2000, Fernwood NRG received a generous donation of a house on Fernwood Road, which hosted our Family Programs for several years. But in 2005, we were able to trade it as the down payment for the purchase of the boarded up Cornerstone Building. We subsequently renovated the Cornerstone to make room for the great businesses there today, and we turned the upper floor into four affordable, familysized, three-bedroom suites.

So, we were able to take action on a pressing need thanks to a generous donation years earlier.

We used that donation to build equity in the Cornerstone, a substantial

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neighbourhood asset. In 2008, we leveraged that to build six more affordable three-bedroom townhouse units on Yukon Street, the Park Place Apartments. Things slowed down considerably after the Global Financial Crisis hit later that year, and we were only able to begin work on the new building at 1310 Gladstone in 2013. Five long years later, it is completed and includes four new apartments. Part of the lag in completing the project was just due to its complexity— but some of it was just because we didn’t have as much financial freedom as in past projects. Real neighbourhood investment dollars would have made a huge difference.

Your Neighbourhood Resource Group is a vehicle to invest in our neighbourhood; your donations reach neighbours who need them, and go to projects that strengthen our village and our community. And again, it is not just us, there are other groups working for the greater good of Fernwood too.

So here is what we are asking. Please go online to Canada Helps at tiny.cc/ canadahelps and set up a monthly donation in whatever amount you can afford, to be automatically deducted from your bank account or charged to your credit card. This is about the best possible way to support any organization you like because more time is spent on delivering programs instead of fundraising.

We urge you to do this for any issue you believe in, but we would especially like you to imagine how you can Give Where You Live, so your dollars go directly to the neighbourhood you live in and that we all love.

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Revenue growth is not evenly distributed

›› Lee Herrin I first started with Fernwood NRG as a Board member in 1998, when we operated solely out of the Community Centre at 1240 Gladstone Avenue. The first financial statements I saw for the organization showed total revenues of $718,000 and assets of $153,827. Back then, we mainly received government grants and contracts, worth $452,478 (63% of revenues). Our donations and fundraising revenues were a modest $6,802 (less than 1% of revenues).

Last year (2017), our financial statements showed revenues of just over $1.9 million and assets of more than $5.0 million. So our neighbourhood operations have grown more than two and half times what they were 20 years ago. And we have been lucky in terms of our real estate investments and projects so our growth in assets has been more impressive—over 30 times.

However, not everything has grown proportionally. We have added new programs and services for the neighbourhood and expanded ongoing programs but the amount we receive from government contracts and foundation grants last year was $528,342, just 28% of revenues. This is up less than 17% from 20 years previous and

has not even kept pace with inflation, which has been 31% over the same 20 year period. So our grants and contracts have actually shrunk in purchasing power, while also shrinking from about two-thirds of our revenues to barely a quarter of our revenues.

Last year, our donations and fundraising revenues were $164,048 (9% of revenues). About half of this is our annual Gift of Good Food Fundraiser and almost all of the money raised goes to deliver Good Food Boxes to families in need all over Greater Victoria—only a very small portion is left to even cover the costs of the fundraiser itself. Most of the rest is raised at the FernFest and Fernwood Bites weekend, which is more fun-raising than fundraising. Although both generate considerable funds, we pour a significant amount of staff and volunteer energy into the FernFest weekend, not to mention all the bands, hot dogs, beer and other good stuff. What’s left over after months of planning and a long weekend of work setting up and tearing down sustains 1.5 critical positions for the rest of the year.

So fundraising comes with a real cost while monthly donations are consistent and sustaining. Looking to the future, we would like to be able to rely more on donations from the people who know about the good work we do every day here in the neighbourhood, and rely less on trying to convince outside funding agencies of the good work we do.

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Support the Gift of Good Food: Fernwoodbased regional food access for families facing poverty

›› Mila Czemerys

The Gift of Good Food launches on November 13th, 2018. You are invited to join our team of Good Food Heros. Let’s hit the ground running this November!

With your help, we CAN reach our goal of raising $80,000 and supporting 160 families! Each family we reach will receive a bag of fresh fruit and veggies bi-weekly for an entire year.

There are so many fun ways to get involved: start a fundraising team with

your office, your friends, or your sports team, volunteer to help at special events or with promotions, host a donation box at your shop, put on a fundraising potluck, house concert, bake sale, donate an item as a prize for our top fundraising team, or just straight up donate!

To get involved and learn more, check out thegoodfoodbox.ca/donate or email kathryn@fernwoodnrg.ca to register your fundraising team.

Your support means a fresh apple in a little kid’s lunch box. Your support means a family not having to eat out of cans every day. Your support means fathers and daughters cooking together and passing on family recipes. Your support is invaluable and the Gift of Good Food could not exist without you. Each and every donor and supporter is so important to us.

Please get involved—it’s fun and meaningful.

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Sauerkraut How to make sauerkraut the easiest way possible

›› Ruben Anderson Fermented foods are an effective and delicious traditional way to preserve the harvest, and they contain probiotics that aid digestion and may even have larger benefits for people with various gut conditions. If you like sauerkraut, you will love home-made sauerkraut—but the big ceramic crocks are expensive, heavy, and need daily attention while fermenting.

So, here is an unbelievably easy and inexpensive way to make sauerkraut without weights, airlocks, or maintenance while fermenting.

Buy a two litre Fido jar for $11.99 at Capital Iron. Do not use cheap home décor jars—they may crack as fermentation builds pressure, whereas the jars from Italy or France are designed for food preservation.

You need a little over 2 kilograms of cabbage. Weigh your cabbage at the store when you buy it so you can calculate how much salt to use.

One kilogram of cabbage needs 25 grams of salt, or 2.5% of the cabbage weight in salt. For sauerkraut let’s just use regular table salt—one level teaspoon weighs seven

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Sauerkraut making supplies ready for production. Photo: Ruben Anderson

grams. Once you start fermenting pickles you will want to switch to sea salt or canning salt and then you will need a tiny scale. …

Cut the cabbage into quarters—and please be very careful. The worst knife injury I have ever seen was from slicing a giant block of cheese. The chef ’s hand slid down the back of the knife and over the point, cutting him very, very badly.

Cut the core out of one quarter and slice

the cabbage into ribbons about 1/8” wide.

Grate the core and use it too.

In a large bowl, sprinkle one quarter of your salt evenly on the sliced quarter cabbage. Massage the salted cabbage enthusiastically to begin bringing the juice out.

Stuff the salted cabbage into the Fido jar and tamp it down so it is very, very tightly packed.

I like to thinly slice one garlic clove and scatter it over the surface of the cabbage—

mixing in a few grams of caraway seeds and a few juniper berries is another traditional flavour.

Repeat with the other three quarters— slice, massage with one-quarter of the salt, pack tightly in the jar and sprinkle with a clove of garlic or other spices.

This should take you twenty minutes or so. Then you just seal the Fido jar and clean your knife.

Over the next 24 hours I might tamp the cabbage a couple of times to help it release juices—the jar should be full up to the shoulder. If the brine has not covered the cabbage by the next day, mix a teaspoon of salt in a cup of water and add enough to get an inch or so over your cabbage. This is not strictly necessary when using a Fido jar, but sauerkraut juice is healthful as well.

Once you have tamped the cabbage down and added brine if necessary, put the jar in a warm, dark cupboard so light does not degrade the nutrients. Do not put your kraut in a cool place, the fermentation bacteria need to be warm. In the first week the gas being generated will vent out past the gasket and can bring some brine with it so put your jar in a dish to catch overflow.

In Fernwood’s mild climate, we like to wait six weeks before eating. Once you have opened your jar of delicious sauerkraut, store it in the refrigerator.

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Classes for plant lovers ›› Kirsty Sewell

Food Forestry and Ecological Design

We’ve got it goin’ on! From weekly Community Dinners, the Good Food Box program, Best Babies, Mother Goose, Family Resource Programs, Kindergym, gardening in our Spring Ridge Common, and our upcoming workshops Food + Growing Workshop Series, there’s something for everyone! Call 250-381-1552, ext.100 to register.

Here are our upcoming workshops: How to Grow and Use Medicinal Plants

Saturday, October 13th, 2018 1-4pm, $60, at the Fernwood Community Center and Spring Ridge Commons Learn the basics of herbal medicine and ecological gardening as we explore a variety of easy to grow medicinal plants. You will learn about these plant’s ecological function and growing preferences, folklore, practical medicinal uses, and how to make a medicinal tincture—a take home a tincture too.

Saturday, October 27th, 2018 10am-1pm, $50, at the Fernwood Community Center and Spring Ridge Commons Planting a Food Forest, described as an “ecosystem” approach to gardening, is a design style that builds on the relationships plants have with one another to create perfect microclimates, soils, weed, and pest fighting capabilities for a thriving site. In this workshop, you will get an introduction to ecology and nutrient cycling, design considerations, the layers of the food forest, and plant functions.

Introduction to Permaculture

Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 1-3pm, $20, at the Fernwood Community Center We will explore permaculture as a design theory based in whole-systems thinking. In this workshop, you will learn the basics of permaculture, permaculture ethics, key characteristics, principles, techniques, and food forestry.

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›› Laurie Rubin For 10 years, Vining St PARTY on the PLAZA (VS PoP) entertained Fernwoodians every second Sunday in September. Children and parents alike loved dancing and singing to live entertainment, indulging in fun and games, a community BBQ, browsing the market, and, of course, bidding on 400 auction items.

Thanks to our dedicated volunteers, participants, donors, and sponsors, VS PoP raised $70,000 for a variety of community organizations. We salute our organizers!

We couldn’t have done it without you!

Last year, VS PoP donated $10,000 to the LDABC Learning Curve in support of children and families so that their diverse

learning needs can be met.

This year, Vining St PARTY (VSP) is changing direction. Vining St PARTY on the PLAZA will be on sabbatical. VSP instead will focus on advocating and spearheading community improvement projects. If you or your group want to be part of this please contact Laurie or Mary Jane at vspop15@gmail.com.

Following the success of lighting on the exterior and storefronts of the Fernwood Community Association building at 1923 Fernwood Rd. Future projects may involve the revitalization of Fernwood Square, Child’s Play—a portable marine themed 16’ x 24’ playground. It is up to you. We would love to hear from you at vspop15@ gmail.com.

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Youth Food Programs A safe space for youth to learn food skills, and healthy eating

›› Kathryn Juricic Student Dinner

Student Dinner is a place for youth to hang out – Fernwood Community Centre’s weekly youth program, which offers a warm meal and safe space to chill.

Every week there is a different activity or theme, so far in September, we’ve had an amazing youth art show, youth musical performances. In October, we’re offering resources for mental health support, a zine making and collage night, and a youth poetry evening. We’ll take a break for the Halloween Bonfire (hosted at the Centre on a Wednesday evening) and start back up with delicious eats in November, every Wednesday from 5:30-7:30pm (we’re in the gym).

Student Dinner is for students in middle school, high school, and postsecondary. The meal is by-donation but no one is turned away. Meals are made with good food that has been rescued from the waste stream through the Food Rescue Project on behalf of the Food

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Parents, let your kid’s know about this awesome event. The food is nutritious and there are youth volunteering throughout the evening. It’s a great space for youth to connect with each other outside the social networks of the school environment!

Check us out on Facebook or Fernwood NRG’s website for updates on weekly activities or to find out more: facebook.com/ fernwoodnrg/events & fernwoodnrg.ca/ fernwood-nrg-programs/recreation/ youth.

Youth Food Skills Program

We’re offering a free 5-week food skills program at the Fernwood Community Centre for youth. The small 5-person group will have the opportunity to learn food skills in the Fernwood Community Centre Kitchen on Tuesdays after school with the Chef of the Centre. The youth group will focus on knife skills, one-pan meals, soups, sauces, and of course, desert.

Other than learning great skills, this has always been a place with lots of laughter, friendship, and understanding how much love we put into our meals! The program starts October 9th.

To sign-up or learn more email kathryn@fernwoodnrg.ca.

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