EARTH DAY FAMILY FESTIVAL- The Comox Valley is invited to a FREE day-long celebration focused on learning to live and play lightly on the planet! The 2010 Earth Day Family Festival will be Saturday, April 24th at Simms Park from 10 am till 4 pm. Click for more
This creative co-presentation with Vancouver Island MusicFest, Our Big Earth Media Co.and World Community will offer live music, kids and family activities and exhibits and demonstrations from over 40 community organizations and businesses. to volunteer please contact ecarswell@shaw.ca
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WORLD COMMUNITY Centre - Friday Sales - 11am -1pm
Come to the World Community Centre in Tintown
(2440 -#3 Rosewall Crescent, near Freakiin' Coffee Shop)
on Fridays to purchase fairly traded World Community Coffee & Tea, Cocoa Camino Chocolate, Zatoun Olive Oil, and gift cards (in support of the Health Promotion Project in Nicaragua).
Come see where our volunteers bag coffee every week!
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New THRIFTY FOODS SMILE CARDS! By shopping at Thrifty Foods, here is an easy way to support World Community :
- Phone Don Munroe at 338-0187, or e-mail:dpmunroe@telus.net and ask for a Thrifty Foods Fundraising Smile Card.
- Take the Smile Card with you to Thrifty Foods when you go grocery shopping. Ask the cashier to load any amount you wish onto the card before paying for your grocery order. Pay for the card load with cash, debit card or credit card.*
- Pay for your grocery order with the Smile Card.
- It’s that simple!
*Thrifty Foods will donate 5% of the amount loaded on your Smile Card to World Community. There is absolutely no cost to you. When the card is running low, load it again to continue to support your group every time you shop!
All proceeds to World Comunity will be used to purchase equipment for our on-going local film series.
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World Community has joined Community Way, the local currency project in the Comox Valley
Through the generosity of several local businesses, World Community has received donations of significant Community Way dollars which we can sell to anyone wanting to use this local currency. - To see how the system works and what businesses are participating, check out http://www.communityway.ca
