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Date(s) - 30/04/2018 - 31/12/2018
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It’s March!
Here are a few items of interest happening this month.
Do you, or someone you know, need help with taxes? The Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) is a collaboration between community organizations and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Various community organizations host free tax preparation clinics and arrange for volunteers to complete tax returns for eligible individuals who have a modest income and simple tax situation.
For more information or to book an appointment please contact:
Volunteer Centre of Charlotte County
199 Union Street, St. Stephen
or
Karen Ouellette
Grant Opportunity
Canada Service Corps- Projects for youth-serving organizations has extended their deadline for applications until April 3rd 2018. They are encouraging organizations from rural New Brunswick to apply. For more information click Here.
Free Community Easter Dinner, Saint Andrews
In Partnership with the Saint Andrews Open Door Program
Open to the whole Community. Everyone is Welcome!
Monday, April 2nd at 3:00pm
Anglican Parish Hall, 75 King Street, Saint Andrews
Please RSVP The Anglican Parish Office
Telephone: 529-8662 Email: allsaints@nb.aibn.com
Southwest New Brunswick Smart Communities Workshop
Thursday, March 22, 2018
St. Andrews, NB
Municipal staff, elected officials, LSD representatives, business and non- profit leaders from around Southwest New Brunswick are invited to work together to learn about the New Brunswick Smart Communities Project and work together to identify local and regional opportunities where technology may play a role in assisting progress.
To register click Here.
Assisting Paturel Employees
TO ALL OUR COMMUNITIES IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY:
We have a long list of employees from Paturel registering for financial help urgently. Most of whom we hope will find new positions very shortly with other local companies. However, as always, there are processes that have to be followed, and this takes time. If you are able to provide a financial donation, please make a cheque payable to “St. George Food Bank” and mark ‘Paturel help’ on the memo line – it can be mailed to (or dropped off at) 124 Main Street, Suite 401, St. George, NB, EC5 3S3 (access through the back of the building).
This is an Urgent Request, as many have no income right now. Thank you.
Thank you for all you do to make Charlotte County Vibrant!
–Joy–
One point of clarification in our March Update.
It is the Multicultural Association of Charlotte County partnered with St. George Food Bank who have initiative a plan to help the Paturel Employees. They are asking for community support at this time. As noted before if you would like to make a financial donation please make a cheque payable to “St. George Food Bank” and mark ‘Paturel help’ on the memo line – it can be mailed to (or dropped off at) 124 Main Street, Suite 401, St. George, NB, EC5 3S3 (access through the back of the building).
If you have any questions or to find out more, please contact the Multicultural Association of Charlotte County at (506) 755-9295.
Thank you,
Joy
St. Stephen and Area Community Blood Drive is being held on April 2, 2018 at the St. Stephen Legion from 4:30 – 8:30pm. Walk-ins and new donors are needed. Go to blood.ca for more information and to book an appointment.
For more information or to book an appointment please contact:
Volunteer Centre of Charlotte County
199 Union Street, St. Stephen
or
Karen Ouellette
Startup St. Stephen
Co-Working Space
St. Stephen entrepreneurs and business folks: what has been your experience with finding good office space? We’ve developed a survey to gauge people’s interest and needs in a co-working space, and we’d love it if you could fill it out.
Co-working spaces are places that provide you with flexible work space, professional meeting rooms, high quality office equipment (and connectivity) as well as professional networks. Examples in NB are Planet Hatch in Fredericton, Connexion Works and the Enterprise Hub in Saint John, and the Sackville Commons.
Please share with your networks!
https://goo.gl/forms/Vw5M5AC2AiwUmCio2
BGCCC has partnered with Milltown Elementary School to offer a Preschool program at MES. Spaces are still available for 3 or 4 year olds. The preschool is open daily from 7:30am to 5:30pm, year round (with the exception of holidays and snow days). Contact BGCCC for more details or to register. (506) 466-4300
Thanks Everyone! Have a great rest of Winter!
Joy
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Joy Benson Green
Community Coordinator/Coordonnatrice Communautaire
Vibrant Communities Charlotte County/Comté de Charlotte
Tel: (506) 660-0805
Email: joy@vibrantcc.ca
Working Together to Reduce Poverty/
La réduction de la pauvreté, c’est l’affaire de tous!
To: All Local Churches
We are in searching for volunteer drivers in ALL areas of Charlotte County. The ride requests are increasing every day, so we require additional volunteers to fill these requests.
How can you help? Any suggestions you have on spreading the word to the community would be much appreciated. If you are able to include information on Charlotte Dial a Ride (see below) during church service, church meetings, or in the church bulletin, it would be greatly appreciated. We have brochures that we can provide to you to display. If you would like our Executive Director, Dana Planetta, to come speak about Charlotte Dial a Ride, we can arrange a time convenient for you.
We drive members to dialysis, oncology, school, daycare, doctor and specialist appointments, and for so many other reasons. Some patients who would need to stay in hostel if we couldn’t drive them to treatment and back home. This would be impossible for one of our members who has a young child in school; she needs to be home after treatments. She told us it takes a lot of worry off her shoulders, especially under such frightening circumstances. Many people have specialist apts. in Saint John, and they can’t get there because of cost or no transportation. Before our service began 12 years ago, these individuals had to cancel because they had no access to affordable transportation.
We provide transportation to a lady from one community in Charlotte County to another to visit her family once a month. Without this ability to travel, she would be isolated from her family. It’s wonderful for persons to be able to get out to shop or socialize, especially during holiday seasons.
Another type of a drive is to travel to work. An autistic young man is driven from St. Stephen to the Algonquin four days a week from the spring until fall. He has worked at his job for several years and has never missed a day. Circumstances have changed and his parents are not able drive him to work. He really enjoys his job, and his father says it would be devastating to him, if he could not get to work.
So you see, volunteers make such a difference in people’s lives. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without them!
General information about Charlotte Dial A Ride
Charlotte Dial a Ride is a charitable non-profit organization offering transportation services throughout Charlotte County to individuals without access to transportation due to affordability or remote location and those who need help due to a disability. We drive for medical apts. education, social, shopping, etc. Hours of operation are Mon.–Fri. 8:30 am–5pm. We do not operate on week-ends or holidays. Our drivers are volunteers from the community. The volunteers use their own cars and are reimbursed 35 cents/km for mileage from their home and return. They decide if they are available to do a drive when asked. No schedule to keep; drives are by appointment only.
If you would like more information please call Dianne at 466-4444, drop by at 73 Milltown Blvd, St. Stephen or contact us by email – dispatcherdialaride@nb.aibn.com and we will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
Sincerely,
Dianne Young, Administrative Assistant/Dispatcher
Charlotte Dial a Ride
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Rural Lynx Public Transit for Charlotte County A Service Operated by Maritime Bus
Get Your Tickets!
I had the privilege of interviewing our very own Jeremy Barham for Vibrant Communities Canada. Jeremy and I talk about the ins-and-outs of Business Bootcamp as a replicable, scalable model of collaborative poverty reduction and local economic development. Check it out here.
Joy Benson Green
Community Coordinator/Coordonnatrice Communautaire
Vibrant Communities Charlotte County/Comté de Charlotte
Tel: (506) 660-0805
Email: joy@vibrantcc.ca
Working Together to Reduce Poverty/
La réduction de la pauvreté, c’est l’affaire de tous!
Ministers Island Heritage Park is looking for an Executive Director.
The Van Horne Estate on Ministers Island Inc. (VHEMI) is a non-profit corporation working in partnership with the Province of New Brunswick in the protection and development of the Ministers Island Heritage Park, its physical assets and the delivery of programming reflecting the Island’s diverse history, celebrating the life and achievements of Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, as well as the Passamaquoddy heritage and other eras of settlement and development.
Click here for more information.