Park Bowl
4175 Meridian
Bellingham, WA
Sunday, March 16, 2014
12:00PM ~ Lunch Gathering and better pick up shoes and balls before game.
1PM ~ Start games.
3PM ~ Finish games.
We will have tournament and prizes.
We will have four lanes for bowling. Only three lanes for Adults and one lanes for children.
Adult is $3.75 and shoes rental is FREE. We have to reservations four lanes already.
We have to wear green. Yes, we MUST wear green.
AVLIC is currently reviewing its Dispute Resolution Process (DRP). If you are a member of the Deaf community, an interpreter, or a consumer of interpreting services, your input is important to us. Please complete the DRP Review Survey.
All replies are confidential.
Your input will greatly contribute to the effectiveness of a restructured DRP that best meets the needs of our community.
To view full details on this project, visit www.avlic.ca/DRP_Survey or visit the AVLIC Facebook or Twitter accounts.
Please respond no later than Wednesday March 5, 2014
Please forward this e-mail to any groups who would be interested and willing to notify their clubs, groups or lists about this survey.
Thank you for your support!
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Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada – AVLIC
Many people know interpreters Vicki and Rudy Unger. These two long standing members of our community are experiencing loss this week, and my heart goes out to them.
On Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 1:30 pm
At Culloden Church 6060 Culloden St. Vancouver (near 45th Ave and Knight)
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Jonathon Unger Memorial Fund are welcomed.
All donations to the Jonathan Unger Memorial Fund will be used to help the Bridging The Gap ministry of Westside Church.
Bridging The Gap is Westside’s local helps ministry. It includes three sub-ministries: Dinner Of Love, The Melting Pot, and a Donations Program. Westside’s mission is to “Make Jesus Known” in Vancouver by gathering and scattering into the community. Bridging the Gap serves men and women who are either living on the street or in low-income situations by helping feed, clothe, supply, and provide community.
Donations can be made online at www.wchurch.ca (select the “give” tab) or by cash or cheque to: Westside Church 777 Homer St. Vancouver BC V6B 2W1 Please earmark donations as “Jonathan Unger Memorial”. The URL for the Memorial Fund is:https://www.westsidechurchvancouver.com/qry/sr_donate.taf?dsfd=109
With many thanks
~Jessica Siegers~
Deaf Youth Canada is looking for a person who is responsible, trustworthy and a good role model – to accompany a group of children who are between 10-12 years old at the WFDYS Children’s Camp in Washington, DC, USA from August 1-8, 2014.
The Camp leader must be a former CDYLC camper & between the ages of 18-30.
The DEADLINE is March 10, 2014. Send your application to wfdys@deafyouth.ca
Rudy and Vicki have been blessed by the outpouring of support from the community already and while they would ask that a donation be made in lieu of flowers, the wording for that request is still being worked on. I will keep you updated as I know more.
Live webcasting of the Feb. 25th Disability White Paper consultation for the Deaf, hard of hearing and Deaf-blind community on deafcanada.ca.
The webcast will air on Feb 25 from 7-9:30 pm on www.deafcanada.ca
Hello everyone,
We are having a Performance on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 during Deaf-Blind Awareness Week (DBAW).
I am the Chairperson for the Performance event, and John Warren and Vincent Chauvet are managing the performance.
We are looking for volunteers to join a committee to develop a poster, program book and tickets. We also need people to help in other ways.
If you are interested, please contact Karen Ursulak – email kdurs@shaw.ca or
Eddy Morten – email eddy44@shaw.ca
We hope to hear from you very soon.
Thank you,
Karen Ursulak,
Chairperson of Performance event for 2014 DBAW
We have two nights interpreted by Deloris Piper on March 27th and March 29th, both at 8 PM. All shows have both English and Chinese surtitles.
Together we can increase awareness about communication access for people who have communication difficulties. This event is part of a national initiative to support organizations to become communication friendly.
Please join us for the Call to Action of the first national strategy to create awareness of the accessibility requirements of people who have speech and language disabilities.
We welcome everyone, especially people with communication disabilities, their families and advocates.
Learn what businesses and organizations can do to make their services communication accessible.
Date: March 17, 2014
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Place: Creekside Community Centre
1 Athlete’s Way
Vancouver, BC
RSVP: To Lois Turner at lois.turner@gmail.com
Please let us know if you need attendant services or communication assistance.
For more information about CAN: www.communication-access.org
Communication Disabilities Access Canada (CDAC) is a national, non-profit organization that promotes accessibility for people who have speech and language disabilities. www.cdacanada.com
Signing Support Workers needed by July 1, 2014
MSJ Society supports a Deaf individual who lives a life of dignity in Duncan. We are looking for one or two more signing support workers to join our team.
1. Live-In Signing Good Neighbour. The current Good Neighbour is moving after 7 years of raising her family in our comfortable, well-maintained 3 bedroom upper duplex in a nice neighbourhood in Duncan. You may be the perfect new Good Neighbour. The individual you will help support lives independently in the lower duplex. You and your family will live independently in the upper duplex. Your role within the MSJ Society team is to develop a positive neighbourly relationship with the individual you support and to provide one to two hours of support per day by (a) being home most evenings and at night, (b) monitoring health and safety through a neighbourly check-in each evening and morning and (c) occasionally providing organizational and problem-solving support. In exchange MSJ Society will cover your rent, heat, water and hydro and will give you respite-breaks one weekend per month, two weeks in the summer, and a week at Christmas.
2. Signing Home and Community Support Worker: We are looking for someone to provide about 8 to 12 hours of support per week (one or two afternoons per week plus 4 to 6 hours most weekends). Responsibilities are to provide tactful and relaxed background support combined with some practical support focused accomplishing activities of daily living, participating in Deaf and Hearing community events, and participating in gentle leisure, recreation and social adventures with you, your family and your friends. Rate of pay is $12 to $17 per hour depending on your education and experience.
We are looking for people who value communication, supported inter-dependence, mutual respect, caring relationships, and equality and who are already fluent signers.We may hire one person for both positions or two different people. We may consider someone who is a beginning and intermediate level signer if you have all the other skills and qualities we are looking for and if you are excited about the opportunity to dedicate many unpaid hours of your time to taking ASL and Deaf culture courses and tutoring in order to become fluent.
Do you share the values described above? Do you think you could fulfill the responsibilities involved in being a Live-In Good Neighbour or Signing Support Worker or both? Are you already a fluent signer or are you willing to put in the many hours of unpaid time, study and practice required to become fluent? If so the next step is to email us to tell us about yourself and how you might be a good match for our team. We will start our screening, information sharing, and short-listing process with anyone who appears to have the skills and qualities we are looking for. Although these positions do not start until July, we want to interview in March and and bring new team members on board by April so that we can develop a plan for you to get to know everyone at MSJ Society, get oriented and make other preparations.
Email: lindadiana.hill@gmail.com
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