Canuck February 2012

First things first: a hello from your new Eh Team!

The National Junior Board team has been working super hard the last two

months to get acquainted with our new positions and pass all important info

on to you!

Here are some updates on the Eh Team life:

We’re going to start with a lil

personal update, then move on to

the business!

Dow here, writing to you all the

way from Australia! I was

just in New Zealand where I wrote

this, so rather than change it all, y’all

can just read when I’ve got: I’m just

about to head down to Queenstown For some more amazing site seeing and potentially some more bungee jumping! I’ve just

finished my seminar camp and have met some truly amazing people! The weather is

phenomenal down here, which is a nice change from the bitter cold that is a Canadian

winter. I’m headed to Christchurch for a quick visit this weekend; they’ve just finished a

summer Camp where Maia from Halifax was a participant! Shout out to the Canadian

delegation! So I’ll pop in and check out the quake damage and see what sort of

community service I can help with. Lots of love from the Bottom of the world! Talk to you all very soon I hope! - Dow

j.shelds here – writing all the way from Toronto. Not nearly as

exciting… The NJRs have been BUSY! We’ve registered for IJBC & AIM, two really important international meetings

happening in Paris in July/August, and have been attending

as many local JB events as possible.

Coming up: Feb 7 = JB North Summit

meeting with the 7 NJRs from JB North!

March 1 – 5 = NJR mid-way meeting in

Calgary, April 1 = IJR

nominations due!

Once upon a time, on opposite sides of a land called Canada, there lived two

wonderful CISV people. They were called Travis (Fredericton), and

Amy(Victoria). Now Travis and Amy were pretty dedicated CISV people, both

participate regularly in CISV programs, and both planning on naming their

first born child Doris, regardless of gender. Because of this love and

dedication they were elected into the co-position of (JB)DCC (Junior

Branch)Development Committee Coordinators. Their job being; the

coordination of the development committee, which is made up of other

wonderful and dedicated CISVers across this beautiful and diverse place

called Canada.

In the year of 2012 Travis and Amy were excited to be coordination a great

number of (JB)DCC projects! The first project, the one closest to Travis' heart

was the Song Book, which is a compilation of CISV-like songs, decorated by all

the chapters and bound into a beautiful book for JBers to enjoy.

(Emails have gone out to the [Jr] Chapter Chairs informing them of the song titles their

chapter is responsible for, please get your songs to us ASAP!!)

A new idea for a bedtime story book is in the works, from the creative brain of Mitch D

(London), more info coming soon!

The second project is brand new, it is a CISV movie club entitled CISV

filmreviewsforpeace. It was created and run by Sarah A and Sierra P (Victoria) The first

film is Prom Night in Mississippi, please go to their Facebook page for more details.

Another Facebook initiative is the CISV Canada Challenges group which was made for all

the Chapters in Canada to participate and/or compete in fun challenges. So far there are 2

challenges, #1 by London, and #2 by Victoria/Vancouver, check out the Facebook page for

more details. It is currently being run by Amy, and Samantha H

(If you don't have facebook, but would still like to participate, let us know and

arrangements will be made to support you) In order to support the (JB)DCCs each chapter

has been asked to have a position on their board of a L(JB)DCC (Local JBDCC), their job

is to communicate between their chapter and Travis&Amy. Talk to your chairs about who

is in this role in your chapter!

If you would like to be involved in any ongoing project, or if you have an idea for a project

that you would like help on please let us know!!! We would love your help/ would love to

help you!

Travis and Amy love talking with you, so keep in touch!! Friend us on Facebook (Jbdcubed

Cisvcanada) AND follow us on twitter (@JuniorBrancDCC)

Hello hello JB Canada!

Love is in the air this Valentine’s Day, and we can tell you that we are in love with the

cross-Canada CISV awesomeness we get to be part of as the CommSquad. It’s

February and Emily is finally starting to enjoy the Toronto winter while Grace is just so

excited to see snow in Guelph! We both think the snow just makes everything look so

much better! Emily is loving how much nicer it is to look at the window a while well

she’s there working hard (or hardly working, you never know). Grace is loving building

snowmen with her roommates instead of studying!

We hope you’ve been enjoying our little love notes reminding everyone about sending

in Canuck articles and mailing out postcards because we sure enjoy writing them!

Love from the CommSquad

Emily and Grace

Love, The Eh Team

Jokes that was just an awkwardly staged family photo!

This is us in real life:

This is a whole lot of important national news pertaining directly to juniors like you, so read on friends!

This is an awesome chance to explore CISV's most up to date developments, we will share tools and ideas as to how to make your chapter grow, and we will

discuss how all parts of a chapter can cooperate!

More info: http://resources.cisv.org/training

Sound cool but can’t make the trip to Ecuador? Watch for information in the future about a training happening in Vancouver around NBM!

MINI CAMPS! Planning a Mini Camp? Don’t forget to check out all of the CISV Canada forms and resources. Mini Camp registration form? We’ve got you covered! Want some risk management planning tips? Take a look at the check list because risk is everywhere! Need a Mini Camp information form to send out? We have the perfect one for you! Make use of all these awesome new standardized forms at ALL your mini camps! For access to this go to the CISV Canada website (http://www.cisv.ca). From there click on resources, risk management and lastly Mini Camps! Just follow these steps and you can access all of these lovely forms. Or you can just follow this link http://www.cisv.ca/members_only/Risk_Management/minicamps

Sportsss Hey Juniors Super news, the “sports exclusion” from our insurance policy has been removed!! What this means is that we can play sports now. Woooooooooooo. BUT please be aware JB should still avoid organized “league” activities or tournaments and just like before we need to avoid high contact sports like wrestling or rugby. So as long as you it isn’t a league activity, a tournament of a high contact sport play all the sports!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR, IJR,IJR,IJR,IJR!

Know someone super awesome who would make an amazing IJR? Well IJR nominations are now open so NOMINATE THEM! How do you nominate? E-mail our lovely NJRs at njr@ca.cisv.org and they can do the nominating for you. It’s that easy. Nominations are due by April 1at, 2012 so don’t delay!

What’s happening when in international JB!

Now, of course, updates from some Canadian JB!

Hey Hey JB Canada!

When lost in the wonderful world of London, Ontario, one might sing Christmas Carols at the

retirement home, toboggan at the famous Doige park, or find a nice movie to watch. Or, in the case of

our JB, you might just do all three! In December, we hit up the Old Folks home to sing some Carols with

the residents, and what a cheery bunch they were! For the January event, we went tobogganing at

London’s very own Doige park, followed by hot chocolate, pizza and a movie. We made a good effort at

enduring two and a half hours of Chiddy Chiddy Bang Bang, but shut it off halfway through.

Our Exec is currently working on organizing our February event, and, of course, Cookie-A-Thon

in March. We are confident that London will take the cake for this year’s Cookie-A-Thon Challenge.

There will be no margarine for error! We knead to win! (See what I did there?)

Only joking, we doughn’t want to get too competitive.

Much love,

JB London

P.S. Expect a special surprise from JB London in the mail sometime soon!

Hey CISV Canada!

How y'all doing!? Victoria is alright.. rainy as usual. We had a snow day in January after 10 cm of snow! Laugh at us Canada! Anyway, JB Victoria had a wonderful holiday season. In December we had a potluck and food security awareness night, complete with a very successful food and warm clothing drive. Our steering committee also ran an activity with JB Victoria families centred around food security and poverty in our city. It was a fun and educational night that gave everybody some perspective on how fortunate we are. We then went our separate ways for the holidays! We have had one meeting since then and look forward to our big spring minicamp in march! Yay! Much love, CISV Victoria

Happy February Canada!

The Canuck will be back again in a few months, wait for us!