GROW has a number of upcoming events:
May 24: Domino tournament in Vineland
June 8: Jamaican/Canadian Dinner at St. Andrews Church in Niagara Falls. This dinner features Caribbean dishes and is a fundraiser for CWOP. Tickets are $10.
June 22: Cricket match/dinner at Col. John Butler School, across from Bethany church on the corner of East-West Line & Four Mile Creek Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
For more information on these events contact Kate.
How can we turn our back on a valued worker?; Treatment of an offshore worker who is battling cancer is shameful
By Kate Andres-Toal
The St. Catharines Standard
May 13th, 2008
For many people in the world, work is an essential part of life. For those living in privilege, however, work has become something to avoid. The goal is to work as little as possible, living a life of weekend leisure until we can retire. Work is something we pay others to do. We buy "labour-saving" machines and services, because, as a recent dishwasher/nail polish advertisement states, "There's more to life than just doing dishes." Agrarian philosopher Wendell Berry observes, "You may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes."
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
How can we turn our back on a valued worker?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Peggy McKay Award Winners!
Every year working groups from the PIRGs across Ontario can apply for the Peggy McKay Award. This award was established by Paul McKay (journalist, environmental activist, and former OPIRG-Peterborough staff member) in 1988, in memory of his mother, Peggy, who died of cancer in 1987. By encouraging environmental action, the awards will hopefully lead to a decrease in the cause of her death.
Each one of the winners receives $250 for their Working Group which can be used however their group choose.
This years winners are:
- Transportation for Liveable Communities, OPIRG McMaster
- Student Math Action Research Team, OPIRG McMaster (Please note that SMART's video, "The Shocking Truth: Greenhouse Gases and Transportation" is available upon request.)
- Safe and Green Energy, OPIRG Peterborough
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Earth Day Seeding Workshop
Eat Local Niagara’s Mike Smith led a workshop this past Earth Day on seeding vegetables and herbs. About a dozen interested students came out to get their hands dirty and to try and turn some thumbs green. They planted over 325 seedlings of tomatoes, beans, peas, basil, parley and savory. Volunteers also learned the basics of testing seed viability, and planted dozens of rouge sunflowers around the campus. 
Eat Local will be sending a seed order from Johnny Selected Seeds on April 30th. If any one is interested in saving on shipping costs and want to add onto our order please bring order and money to the OPIRG office by April 30th. Terminator Seeds ONFC Buying club will also be making an order in the coming weeks. Stop by the OPIRG office to look at the ONFC catalogue if you are interested.
