April 2009
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Our Local Community Center
Hello All,
First, I would like to greatly thank Kyle Johan for teaching the kiddo’s cooking last Thursday. He did terrific! Also to all the mentors and help that I had-you guys are the bomb! Thanks to Scot for hooking us up at the Center for this to happen.
It has been suggested to us by Susan, [...]
March Activity a Great Success – April Activity Coming Up Soon!
A huge thank you to Salida Super Bowl for hosing our March bowling activity.
Our April activity is a Tour and Picnic at Weathervane Farm and Cottonwood Creek Dairy. With the support of Farmhands Education we’ll get to meet the farmers and the animals and find out how a farm works. Mentors and mentees are invited [...]
Mentoring as Nurturing – a discussion with Dr. Steven Bavolek
On Thursday, April 9th, Dr. Steven Bavolek, founder of the Nurturing Parenting Program, will host an open discussion at Bongo Billy’s Salida Cafe Community Room from 1:30pm to 2:30pm. The focus of the discussion will be how to enrich the lives of youth through nurturing.
Dictionary.com defines the verb, to nurture, as “to support and encourage, [...]
African Dance at Youth In Action
In March, Youth In Action learned a story from West Africa called, “The Blind Man and the Hunter.” To celebrate West Africa, Jane Whitmer and Colleen Kunkel (dancer and drummer with River Tribe) joined us to teach us the essence of rhythms and movements from that region. Although hesitant at first, pre-schoolers and middle schoolers [...]
“There’s nothing better than acceptance!”
Tuesday night was our third monthly Mentor Coffee Talk. After some mingling, yummy, hot beverages and a great mentoring discussion, Miki Hodge, Chaffee County Mentors founder, joined us for the last fifteen minutes of the talk. She shared her powerful experience of being mentored as a youth. Within just a few minutes, she gave us [...]