“This has been a good summer for fruit and vegs and Lorna Reid would like to remind all the Grannies who are making jams, pickles, chutneys, relishes etc that we need your contributions to the “Preserves Table” at the Christmas Extravaganza. Customers often ask for the old traditional goodies that their mothers and grandmothers used to make so if you have mustard pickles, dill pickles or traditional jams and jellies please put some aside for us. We sold 3 dozen jars of pickled beets and 30 jars of strawberry jam last year! We don’t need a huge amount but anything you can spare will be most welcome and of course you can reclaim anything unsold after the Fair.

We have a very talented Granny – Jan Korvemaker who designs and prints the labels for our jars. If you would like her to make some for your contributions please let her know the name of your product, the ingredients and how many labels you need (jankorvemaker@shaw.ca). Lorna will be away from Sept.24-Nov 6th so she’s really busy right now preserving madly!”

Thank you Lorna Reid

Submitted by,

Carol Lundine

Communications

News Flash from the Bottle Brigade: Carolyn Dodd

We’re excited. Thought you’d like to know. The mid-year cheques from the Return-It Bottle Depot arrived.

Here are Results:

We’ve just deposited into the g2g bank account, $1,829.95 from the g2g Return-It Depot accounts . So year-to-date in 2016, which includes the earlier bottle drive, we have deposited $3,113.50.

During 2016 in that total, the Lefty’s collections by the Bottle Brigade, raised $603. Both Lefty’s in Qualicum Beach and Parksville have been wonderful supporters. In 2008 we started the accounts at the Return-It Depots. Just from the Return-It program, we have raised $26,900.31.

Awareness is growing in the Oceanside community about our g2g Return-it Depot accounts. Spread the word with your neighbours. Those nickels and dimes make a difference.

Bottle Grannie Carolyn

Note:

Congratulations to everyone involved in this effort and a special heartfelt thank you to Carolyn Dodd who started this amazing project in 2008.

Sincerely,

Carol Lundine

Communications

It wasn’t as busy a St Marks as we’ve seen over the years however we are pleased to say we have $766.00 to add to the enormous amount of money we have raised for the Stephen Lewis Foundation and grandmothers and children in Africa.

I would like to thank all those that helped out today and of course to all those wonderful people who make it possible for us to have beautiful products to sell.

My heartfelt thanks to Ann Tardiff, Pam Vest,  Rhoda Perron, Kate, Mitchell, Lorna Reid, Judi Sherin, Cindy Winkle,  Moira Beauchesne  and grandother  Dan Lundine.

To anyone else who may have been there today to help in small and large ways, thank you. It was great to see many members come and visit the booth and of course buy “stuff”!

SIncerely,

Carol Lundine

Communications

Thanks very much to those that responded to my email.

We are in need of helpers for Saturday July 23rd. We need one person for the 10:30-1:30 shift. We need one person  on that shift who can do cash.

We need one more person for the 1:30-4:30 shift. We have someone on that shift  who can do cash.

Please, if you can spare 3 hours to help out let me know as soon as possible,

lundine.carol@gmail.com

250-752-1553

Thank you,

Carol Lundine

Communications

Good Afternoon everyone,

St Marks Fair is this weekend as as I have been away for 6 weeks, I would be very grateful if those of you who have signed up for a shift, would send me a quick email to verify that you are in fact still willing to work a shift and what time you will be there.

Thanks so much,

Carol Lundine

Communications

Please note the following correction to the meeting minutes from June 21, 2016 

Marg Hill and Moira Beauchesne volunteered to be responsible for the Linden Singers event, scheduled for March 12, 2017.  Further volunteer opportunities will be posted as needed.

Thank you

Pamela Vest

The minutes of June 21, 2016 as well as the updated Directory are now posted to the website.  You will find them and be able to download them in the password protected area of the website.

Bonnie Porat

Dear Friend of Kazuri

You are receiving this final Annual Report for Kazuri Jewellery: The Grandmother Connection (KJGC) as a supporter of KJGC.  Because of generous grandmothers and grand-others like yourself, KJGC was able to donate almost $800, 000 to the Stephen Lewis Foundation over the nine-year lifetime of our not-for-profit business.  It has been a great ride. We three managing partners, along with our Direction of Operations, Lori Blinn, have thoroughly enjoyed working with all of you to raise these funds for our sister grandmothers in Africa and their orphaned grandchildren. So many memories, so many new friendships forged over sorting and selling the beautiful Kazuri jewellery.

Please feel free to share this short report with other group members if you belong to a grandmother group. A large number of you were also friends who volunteered to host a sale for us. Thank you one and all.

We wish you a wonderful summer and hope that you, too, have fond memories of our work together.

Mary Jane Sterne, Peggy Edwards, Gay Coates

 Managing Partners: Kazuri Jewellery: The Grandmother Connection (KJGC)

 KJGC Annual Report 2015

Welcome: Ann

New Members: Louise

New Member Tags: Ann

Finance : Pam

Bottle Drive: Lorna

Communications/ Changes: Pam

Help Wanted & Sign Up sheets

Ann

• July 1 Parade
• July 23 St Mark’s Fair
• Art Display—‘Who Will Wash the Clothes’
• October 15—QB Wellness and Volunteer Fair

Jacquie:

• Catering Committee
• Event Committee
• Angel Making
• Catering for Bicycle Tour in Sept

Morganne:  Posters

Marg: Sewers

Pam:  Sunshine Lady

March 12  – Linden Singers

Dear Campaign GRLs and Main Contacts,

As you may have seen in our most recent Granny Bulletin, we’re hosting the first in a series of Telephone Town Halls for Grandmothers Campaign members! We would really appreciate if you could forward along this email to your group members, inviting them to join us on the call and to RSVP sometime this week.

What: Telephone Town Hall on the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (adopted by the United Nations on June 8, 2016)
When: June 21, 1:00pm Eastern Time
Where: Conference call information will be sent by email to those who RSVP
Who: Campaign members and Lee Waldorf, the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Director of Policy and former human rights advisor to the United Nations
How: RSVP to campaign@stephenlewisfoundation.org and we’ll send you the call details- it’s that easy 🙂
Please RSVP individually so we have a sense of how many people are joining us. However, if you know that a few members of your group want to call in, we encourage you to consider getting together and calling in from one phone on speaker to help reduce costs.
10 years into the Campaign, we have heard from many members about their desire to learn more about the HIV and AIDS pandemic and ‘where we are at’. This call will answer some of those questions for you, as the intention of the town hall is to give deeper insight into HIV and AIDS in Africa and the international response for all members of the Grandmothers Campaign!
On the call, Lee will give us an overview, including the role of governments and funders in response to the declaration and how it’s most likely to impact African community-based organizations. Lee is such a wealth of information, and we know you will love hearing from her. There will be an opportunity to ask questions, although you certainly don’t have to speak in order to participate!
You can read a press release from UNAIDS about the Political Declaration here: http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2016/june/20160610_PR_HLM_closer
And you can read the full Political Declaration here (although you certainly don’t have to read it to participate; it’s very dense!): http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2016/2016-political-declaration-HIV-AIDS

As always, please be in touch if you have any questions. We hope you can join us!

Thanks!
The Grandmothers Campaign team