Friday April 20, 2012
Main Street, Summerland between Kelly and Henry Avenues
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Come on your bikes, trikes, skateboards or unicycles to this fun Street Party. Prizes for best decorated bicycles. Featuring races, street entertainers, music, a scavenger
hunt, face painting and food stalls!
Come join us in a discussion of food security in our local community led by Andrea Gunner, P.Ag. who has over twenty-five years’ experience in business planning, agricultural marketing and agricultural economics. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and post-graduate studies in economics and marketing from U.B.C.
Andrea will speak of approaches to community food security in three different communities: the Island Good Food Initiative, a community based co-operative project addressing local food access on Vancouver Island; Heartland Foods and Farm Tours Co-operative, a grower based project which started by addressing year round local food distribution in the Thompson/Okanagan and Hartwig, Vermont, a small rural community which has integrated food producers with processing and the food service industry and has been an inspiration for small, rural communities all over North America.
Summerland Arts Centre, 9533 Main Street
Doors open at 6:30pm
Discussion begins at 7:00pm
Saturday April 21st at 1:00 pm.
Summerland Library
Admission by donation
The Summerland Museum and Heritage Society is pleased to announce a recent addition to the Earth Week events: a presentation by Ellen Simmons. Ellen works at the En’owkin Centre as an Aboriginal Forestry and Indigenous Knowledge specialist. The title of her presentation is “Ecosystem Restoration and Traditional Knowledge”. Her presentation will describe how today’s ecologists are adopting approaches of First Nation’s traditional ecological knowledge.
She will provide as an example the “ECOmmunity Place” lands in Penticton. This site is a 100-hectare site located on the north west side of Okanagan River. One of the goals of ECOmmunity Place is to preserve the cottonwood/water birch/dogwood riparian ecosystem; identified as one of the most endangered ecosystems in the province.
Discover Our Ecological Reserves with special guests presenter: Wardens Don Gilles, Laurie Rockwell, Eva Durance and others.
Friday, April 13 at 7:00pm
Centre Stage Theatre, Summerland
Everyone is welcome, Refreshments will be served
Your donations are welcome.
