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We are calling on all bakers for donations please! Bring a lawn chair and an appetite and enjoy the talent show.  Email This Post
(Thanks Joanne!) Major Brand Pet Foods Recalled Due To Salmonella
On May 4, 2012, Diamond Pet Foods expanded a pet food recall due to possible salmonella contamination. More than a dozen people in several states may have been infected due to contact with contaminated pet food. Affected foods include specific lots of dry dog and cat food branded as: Diamond Pet Food These foods were widely distributed in the U.S. and Canada. You can check your pet food to see if it has been recalled. Affected bags of food have best-before dates between December 9, 2012, and April 7, 2013. Recalled foods include: · Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul Salmonella is a bacterial infection that can affect both animals and humans. Symptoms may include decreased appetite, diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Pets and people who carry the disease can infect others, so if you or your pet are experiencing symptoms and you have purchased and used the affected dog food, take all due precaution and see a doctor and/or veterinarian. You can prevent spread of the disease by washing your hands thoroughly and following physician instructions. If you have purchased one of the recalled pet foods, you should immediately stop feeding it to your animals, and contact the place you purchased the pet food from – refunds may be available. For complete information, visit the Diamond Pet Foods recall page, the Costco pet product recall pages, the Natural Balance recall page, the Wellness recall page, the Canidae recall page, the Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc. recall page, or the FDA’s recall page, which has information on multiple brands in the Animal Health section. The CDC also has information on documented salmonella contamination. Email This Post
VOLUNTEERS needed for Gold River Days:
Please contact Sheila B at 283-2910. Please consider giving a little bit of your time to help out with this wonderful weekend! Email This Post
FOOD SAFE Level 1 CourseJune 9, 2012Gold River Secondary School9:00 am to 3:00 pmHome Ec RoomYou need to register at the school by June 4. The cost for the course is $10 for the book and $5 for the certificate. Lunch is not provided. Email This Post
Please note that this service is available for Gold River residents as well!
We are pleased to announce that the Advocacy Services Centre will be opening Tuesday, May 8th at 9 am. The new centre will provide free confidential legal advocacy for men and women on issues relating to:
The phone number is 250-914-0272 Fax number: 250-914-1272 1261 Ironwood Street, Campbell River. We are pleased to have Brenda Kobzey as our Legal Advocate and Heather Brownhill as our Advocacy Assistant Coordinator Hours of operation will be Tuesday – Friday from 9 – 4:30 (closed for lunch from 12-12:30 daily). You may also reach the Homelessness Outreach Worker Paul Mason at this address and phone number. Thank you to the Law Foundation of BC for funding the Legal Advocacy program.
GOLD RIVER MIXED SLO-PITCH CANADA DAY TOURNAMENT JUNE 29th 30th TO JULY 1st 2nd 2012
$375 ENTRY FEE PLUS ONE NEW MENS BALL AND ONE NEW LADIES BALL 40 TEAMS MAXIMUM – 4 GAMES GUARANTEED SIX AND FOUR – BIG BALL, SMALL BALL 24 TEAMS ADVANCE TO SINGLE KNOCK OUT MONEY ROUND 2 TEAMS ADVANCE TO TOILET BOWL DIV A DIV B DIV C 1ST $700 $500 $440 2ND $500 $400 $350 3RD $375 $375 $275 4TH $250 $225 $225 5TH $100 $100 $100 6TH $100 $100 $100
TOILET BOWL $100 – MOST SPORTMANLIKE TEAM $100 HOMERUN DERBY (3 BALLS FOR $5 WINNER TAKE 80%) AND SKILLS COMPETITION TBA ON LOWER FIELDS TOURNAMENT PACKAGES WILL BE HANDED OUT PRIOR TO FIRST GAME. RULES, NSA LEGAL BAT LIST, ROSTER AND SCORE SHEETS WILL BE INCLUDED IN PACKAGE. TEAM CAMPING FEES ARE TO BE INCLUDED WITH TOURNAMENT FEES AND MUST BE RECEIVED BY JUNE 13TH CHEQUES ONLY MAKES CHEQUES OUT TO “GOLD RIVER SLO-PITCH” AND MAIL TO D. ERICKSON P.O. BOX 583 GOLD RIVER, B.C. V0P 1G0 ROSTER MUST BE PLACED IN ENVELOPE AT THE CONCESSION AFTER FIRST GAME BEER GARDENS - ? DANCE – SATURDAY NIGHT ($10 PER PERSON) IF YOU ARE CAMPING AT THE FIELD THERE IS A $10 PER NIGHT FEE CHARGED FOR EACH UNIT PLEASE INDICATE ON THE ENCLOSED FORM THE NUMBER OF UNITS FROM YOUR TEAM THAT WILL BE CAMPING NO CAMPING AT BALL FIELD PRIOR TO JUNE 27th (Alternative camping available at the Lions Campground) ABSOLUTELY NO DRINKING PERMITTED IN DUG-OUTS NO OPEN CAMPFIRES AT THE BALL FIELDS VIOLATIONS WILL RESULT IN EXPULSION FOR MORE INFO CALL: DEBBIE 250-283-7448 or rderickson@cablerocket.com Wendy Coyne, formally of Shear Heaven in the Gold River Plaza, has moved her hairstyling business into her home on Dogwood Street.
She is open Tuesday through Friday 10:00am – 5:00pm, with late night appointments on Thursdays. Contact her for more info. Email This Post
Submitted Dogwood Initiative Petition Against Increased Tanker Traffic To the Coastal Waters of BC As many of you are aware Enbrige inc and Kinder Morgan both have pipeline proposals on the table for British Columbia. This would result in a increase of oil tanker traffic in BC by 585 tankers per year, at least 225 of those being VCLL class supertankers with a carrying capacity of 2 million barrels of bitumen. The proposed departure point at the port of Kitimat for the Northern Gateway project would have at least 225 supertankers per year traveling through some of the most dangerous waters in the northern pacific. All channels in these waterways involve major hazards to navigation for large vessels (a good reminder is the fate of the Queen of the North), all of us know what our waters are like during the winter, let alone what it would be like trying to navigate such a large vessel through these narrow channels in our famous winter seas. A spill from one of these tankers (nearly twice the carrying capacity of the Exxon Valdez) has the potential to impact an area of the coast near 3 times the size of the Exxon spill. Depending on where an accident occurred almost the entirety of the BC coast could experience negative impacts, including the west coast of Vancouver Island. Here in Gold River we have a vibrant community that benefits greatly from the health of our local waters. Our economy benefits through fishing tourism, and our local life is dependent on the bounty the sea provides for us both through sport and food. It is hard to imagine the impact to our communities if we were unable to harvest and eat the fish, and what the impact would be if fishing tourism were no longer part of the local economy. Enbridge claims 560 long-term jobs would be created in B.C. and $36 million a year would be generated through taxes. Compare these jobs and revenue to the jobs and revenue that would be put at risk by Enbridge’s proposal. B.C.’s seafood and ocean recreation sectors alone employ more than 45,000 people and account for more than $5 billion in annual economic output. The issue here is why BC would ever want to take this great risk to Our wild West coast. The plan to run tankers from Kitimat is a train wreck waiting to happen. And it will not result in cheaper gas at the pumps. There are three proposals to bring more and bigger oil supertankers to B.C.’s coast, so that Alberta’s oilsands crude can be shipped to China and Asia. If this is allowed to happen, most British Columbians would benefit little and B.C.’s resplendent coast would be threatened by oil spills. The Alberta and federal governments are pushing for these oil tankers. They’re using a review process that’s rigged in their favour. But B.C. has a history of defending its coast and an epic struggle is underway. Please sign the petition. There’s no need to accept the risk. Far more jobs would be put at risk than created in B.C., and ramping up oilsands production to feed Asian demand is not in the national interest. Petition link http://dogwoodinitiative.org/no-tankers/petition via Kathleen O’Reilly: Hi all, It has been a while but still doing great. Since I last wrote, we spent about five weeks in the country of Paraguay. It was a country filled with kind people and not once did we feel unsafe in what is a very poor country (the second poorest in South America). You travel slowly around the country as when it rains the majority of the roads turn to red mud and are un-usuable. We spent most of our time traveling to nature reserves where the last remains of Atlantic forest has been preserved. Less than 10% of the Atlantic forest remains in this country most cut down for farmland which is unfortunately owned by Brazilian farmers. Still the diversity is incredible in both plants and animals and we were lucky enough to see some of the rare animals in the wild including Capuchin monkey and toucan birds. Most of the nature reserves are guarded by armed men who wear bullet-proof vests. If the forests are not guarded, the animals are subjected to illegal hunting and the trees are cut for fuel. For one week we went to a research centre in one of the parks and volunteered with various environmental research projects. One project was building pit traps and the other was setting and checking traps for a type of possum that is endangered. There were people from all over the world doing research as many animals/birds can only be found in Paraguay. I mentioned that Paraguay is quite a poor country and it is hard to find fruits and vegetables. So we are now in Argentina on our way to Bolivia and we are eating every vegetable we can find. The Paraguayans seem to survive on meat, bread, eggs and one root vegetable called madioca. We are currently in Salta, Agrentina soaking up the culture. This area was part of the Inca territory pre-colonization by the Spaniards. So the local museum has on display three bodies of children that were offered to the Inca Gods over 500 years ago. The three children were found in 1999 by an archeological team. As the were buried at 22,000 feet, they were perfectly preserved and give much information about the Inca culture as over a thousand objects were buried with the children. It was quite something to observe and many feel the bodies should have been left where they were instead of put on public display. Hope spring is in the air for all of you! Bye for now, |
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