posted Apr 10, 2012 6:10 PM by Ronald Buckingham
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Blood Drive:
We need to start advertising soon so that potential donors
have time to consider and prepare themselves for it! People who volunteered to
help are:
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Alexander Rey *E
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Kate Houghton E
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Azra Alagic
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Melissa Martin
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Dakota Copping
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Ron Buckingham
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Monica Pierce E
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Zak Varao
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Micaela Hadley *E
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Chantal Duchesne E
(* =
leaders, E = coming in early)
30 Hour Famine:
We need to ask Mr. O’Connor about how many community service
hours are awarded for the famine
Our volunteers are:
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Stephanie Johnston *
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Monica Pierce *
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Jasmin Vanderheyden
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Christine Watt *
Other:
-Bring in books!!
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posted Feb 27, 2012 9:37 AM by Ronald Buckingham
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updated Apr 10, 2012 6:09 PM
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Christine Watt
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Activism Meeting Minutes: Valentines Day (February 14, 2012)
T-shirts:
-once all of the designs are in we can post them on Facebook and vote for them
DOC Night:
Need to...
-find list & check with McGregor (figure out final list of documentaries)
-book spaces/dates -> TU
Reuse-a-shoe:
-still need to figure out storage, dates and boxes
Blood Drive (May 3rd):
Volunteers...
-Kate H.
-Alexander R.
-Mike H.
-Ally H.
-Melissa M.
-Azra A.
-class visits?
-blood typing?
Write 4 Rights:
-if you have finished letters bring them in when you can!
Chartering Ceremony:
-the ceremony is on February 24th!
-here is the list of projects/events that Activism has organized in the past, currently and will in the future:
Past:
-Tree, Recycling, Green Wednesday, 30-hour famine, Stop-The-Bop, Annual Food Drive, SOS Children’s, Haiti Fundraiser/Awareness, Fair Trade Chocolate, National Sweater Day, Oil Sands development, Owls, Christmas Baskets, Community Clean-ups, Invisible Children
This Year:
-Movember, Free the Children/Halloween for Hunger, Stop the Bop, Blood Drive, Enviro (Recycling), Doc night, Write 4 Rights, Book Drive
Future:
-In-school Earth Hour, Nike Reuse-a-shoe |
posted Feb 27, 2012 9:34 AM by Ronald Buckingham
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updated Feb 27, 2012 10:00 AM
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Meeting Minutes (February 7th 2012) Nike Reuse-a-Shoe: -for this campaign all you have to do is bring in your unwanted shoes to the school and they will be given to Nike in order to create new athletic flooring out of them! -we still need to pick a date and get some advertising done for this -for more info, the website is http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/ National Sweater Day (in partner with WWF): -this Thursday, February 9th students are asked to wear a sweater because they will be turning down the thermostat to conserve energy -there is a Facebook event, please attend! -for more info, visit http://www.sweaterday.ca/ Doc Night: -once we find out from Goks when the aud is available we can choose a date! -there is a working list of Docs for this event in the making Write 4 Rights: -this Friday at lunch is Write 4 Rights! -please attend and bring a friend, pizza is provided! T-Shirts: -we need to follow guidelines but the designs are slowly coming in! Chartering Ceremony: -Our Rotary Chartering Ceremony is on February 24th from 12-1:30 -Lunch will be provided so we hope that all members will attend, and dress nicely Other: -poss. have a “Bring-A-Friend-to-Activism” day?
Recycle your shoes with Reuse-A-Shoe at Nike stores, Converse stores and other locations and help us...
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posted Dec 21, 2011 8:47 AM by Ronald Buckingham
Activism Meeting Minutes: December 13th 2011Stop the Bop-the song is going to be played before school and during lunch in the cafeteria, atrium and there will be some people that walk around -our goal is to buy a sheep or goat! -our song is either going to be Mistletoe by Justin Bieber or the Christmas Squirrel song -Emma, Natalie, Mike, Micaela and Cara have speakers -there is a schedule to sign up for days to help play music and collect donations on the new BCI Activism 2011/2012 facebook page...so please sign up! Write for Rights-the new Write for Rights event will take place in the New Year! |
posted Dec 21, 2011 8:42 AM by Ronald Buckingham
Activism Meeting Minutes: December 6th 2011Recycling-still trying to work everything out, but continue to encourage others to recycle! Movember-total amount raised = $168.85!-trying to put amount made on fb page Stop the Bop-can not play the song on the PA system, but maybe get it played on stereo system and on atrium tvs? -Thursday @ lunch: Stop the Bop planning meeting -money going towards Free the Children & Invisible Children Reminder-Write 4 Rights is this Friday at lunch in room 305! |
posted Dec 21, 2011 8:39 AM by Ronald Buckingham
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updated Dec 21, 2011 8:46 AM
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Activism Minutes for November 29th
1) Vow of Silence-Monica is to do Break of Silence Posters -Stephanie is to do posters for Vow of Silence -It’s tomorrow! So we will just raise awareness -All participants are to come to Mr. Utting’s room tomorrow morning to get a nametag that says they are participating in the Vow of Silence -Yelda will make an announcement in the morning 2) Recycling-want to finish distributing by this THURSDAY -Mr. Utting will fix the problem of black bags in the main atrium bins and talk to custodians about putting the rollaway bins out for Mr. Brown’s class -Need Ron, Dakota, Kaitin, Cara, Nicoletta, Kirsten to finish and tell Danielle when all bins are distributed -Danielle will then tell Stephanie to make announcements up -Stephanie’s announcements: -enforce rules, tell classrooms to contact Activism if they are missing any bins, include the daily tips Katie sent us (once in a while) -Mr. Utting will get Rayelle’s posters photocopied and we will have to start posting them throughout the school to raise awareness -People are still not recycling properly so we need to REALLY enforce the seriousness of this issue 3) Movember- ends tomorrow! -Emma will go to the dollar store to get cheesy prizes to give to Mr and Mrs Movember and possibly the other contestants -Tomorrow morning Allie will put in an announcement telling participants to come to the main atrium at 12pm to get a group picture taken and to do voting and award prizes 4) Lead Now- article Mr. Utting brought in that Activism could possibly get involved with the Lead now campaign - go to leadnow.ca -Alex White- founder of BCI activism wants to come speak to us as well at some point. Chantal and Mr. Utting will converse with him about dates 5) Blood Services- Need 5-6 grade 12/13 students to donate blood on December 6th -Must be 17 years old and over 115 pounds and be healthy -Transportation will be given -Need to let Ms. Mathews know by tomorrow -Tell other senior students! 6) Amnesty International-write for rights campaign -December 10th is the international day but we will do it December 9th at lunchtime in room 305 -Get pizza? -Spread the word |
posted Dec 6, 2011 6:49 AM by Ronald Buckingham
Activism Meeting Minutes: November 22nd 2011
Vow of Silence
- during Vow of Silence you must stay silent for the entire day (no texting, emailing, etc. as well)
- for every hour of $1 is pledged
- all donations go to Free the Children-
- need to get this organized ASAP as the “official” day is next week
Red Cross Fundraiser
- bring ideas about shirts to next week’s meeting!
Movember Progress
- fundraising has been going ok, but we need to find ways to increase awareness
- spread the word!
Recycling
- bins have been put in classrooms, also spread the word!
Stop the Bop
- can not use P.A. system for stop the bop this year-could blast music through atrium or cafeter
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posted Oct 20, 2011 8:07 AM by Ronald Buckingham
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updated Oct 20, 2011 8:14 AM
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Activism Meeting Minutes: October 18th, 2011
Recycling (Environmental committee)
· Mr. Brown’s class is willing to empty recycling bins
· want to have bins for more than just paper
· need signs and announcements indicating what goes into each bin
· could get receptacles specifically for paper (i.e. slit in top of a lid) ->these can be purchased from Home Depot or could get tech class to make us some
Movember
· going to have 3 week Movemeber (senior guys can shave for grad photos if they want to and still be eligible to participate)
· should be getting promo material this week
Movember “To Do List”
ü TV (Lovett or Umbach) -> used for promo and to show progress of moustaches
ü Order posters/promotional materials
ü Announcement (once promo materials arrive)
ü Go class to class (date and teacher notice) -> volunteers
Monetary prize?
*/Graduation picture time/day changed for next year?/*
Halloween for Hunger
· likely just with Dufferin now
Halloween for Hunger “To Do List”
· Collection location -> secure, visual
· Can we work with ACS?
· Hold meeting Thursday
Other
· October 26th: meeting for Me to We trip (in T.O.) -> for further info speak to Kaitlyn or Ellen
· Nov. 4th: Government grant money due -> ideas for how to use it!? (i.e. recycling, Movember prizes, etc.)
· RESPONSE COMITTEE: Krushangi would like to know whether Friday at lunch is a good time for meetings? |
posted Oct 13, 2011 12:25 PM by Ronald Buckingham
Activism Meeting Minutes: October 4th 2011
Free the Children
-want to start sending Stop the Bop (Intl/Soc. Understanding) money to Free the Children instead of SOS Village
-with Free the Children we can choose to send money to a village (which they choose) for water, schools, health, education, for Haiti relief, etc.
-can donate the money monthly or all at the same time
-we would receive regular updates
-need to first raise the money, and then decide which area to donate to
-start working on this in November
Environmental Committee (Recap of last week)
-last week Katharine Hashimoto came in and talked about recycling @ BCI
-she decided we need an Action Plan (by thanksgiving):
-1. Need to find out if there are recycling bins @ Victoria
-2. Need to do inventory of recycling bins
-3. Katharine Hashimoto will get us more if needed
-recycling committee will need to meet sometime this week to make action plan
Halloween for Hunger
-trick or treating for canned food, not candy
-after voting, unanimous decision is that we want to do a competition with Assumption, while also involving Dufferin
-if the Expositor is informed we could promote BCI activism, as well as help to inform general public to have cans on Halloween
-Stephanie (in charge of Media) - look into getting Expositor to cover the story |
posted Oct 13, 2011 12:22 PM by Ronald Buckingham
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updated Oct 13, 2011 12:24 PM
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Activism Meeting Minutes: September 20th 2011
-better to have facebook event pages for individual events, rather than one facebook page for activism
-meeting minutes will be sent out every Wednesday or Thursday
Committees and Committee Heads
Service/Social Local
-committee head: Allie Humeniuk
-this committee handles the Book Drive, Blood Drive, etc.
International Understanding/Social Intl.
-committee head: Monica Pierce
-handles Movember, Stop the Bop, 30 hour famine, etc.
Environmental
-committee head: Danielle Holder
-handles recycling, composting?, etc.
Response
-committee head: Krushangi Patel
-handles disaster relief efforts, political issues, etc.
Recycling
-recycling at B.C.I. has not been very successful in the past, looking into new ways of separating different types of recyclable items
-want to possibly have a meeting with Activism and the School Board’s head of recycling initiatives
-current recycling bins are being used as garbages
-to fix this, could have recycling bins (like the ones at Tim Horton’s) that have pictures and are separated into paper, plastic, etc. (could have about 5 of these receptacles around the school in atriums and caf)
-problem is that receptacles are expensive
-could team up with tech/woodworking to make recycling bins/design our own
-could have bins in each classroom especially for reusing scrap paper – would need teacher approval
-need to use reusable (NOT plastic) water bottles at Activism events – could use water jug and bring own bottles?
-recycling has not been taken seriously in past – need to educate custodians/some teachers on how to use them
--looking into getting a large recycling bin – could get paid to fill it with paper
-could get group of people together to go and plant trees? – teach others importance of the earth
-Rotary does tree planting in Spring/Summer
Other
Ron’s idea: have Activism go out to elementary schools and educate them about some Activism initiatives; will cause more of the public to get involved in Activism and positive media attention
Food Drive: to be successful need to advertise, make appealing for students to participate (contest?), have a central area to deliver food and make it short enough to hold people’s interests but long enough to give them chance to bring in items
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