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Rainbow Community Centre
Invites you to their Grand re-opening
Monday November 13, 2006

Rainbow Community Centre
808 20th Street West, Saskatoon

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Guest Speakers
Ribbon cutting ceremony
Entertainment & Tours
Door Prizes & Refreshments

View our newly renovated spaces available for rent

R.S.V.P by November 8

Call 664-8724 or email:
rainbowresourceroom@sasktel.net

SPR Rethinking Productivity Speaker Series
presents Avi Lewis and the showing of The Take

Thursday November 9, 2006
Education Auditorium
University of Regina
6:00 pm - showing of The Take
8:00 pm - presentation by Avi Lewis

Free admission
Free parking Lots 14 and 15

Avi Lewis is one of Canada's most outspoken journalists, a
controversial and eloquent media personality, and an acclaimed
filmmaker.  Avi Lewis is host and producer of The Big Picture on
CBC Newsworld, and host and producer of Counterspin on CBC
Newsworld.

As host of City TV's landmark music journalism show The New Music,
Avi Lewis interviewed hundreds of celebrities from David Bowie and
Leonard Cohen to The Rolling Stones and the Spice Girls.  At the
same time, in the 1990s, he was MuchMusic's Political Specialist,
pioneering political "uncoverage" for a youth audience and winning
a Gemini Award for best Special Event Coverage.

Avi Lewis recently directed his first feature-length film, The Take.

The Take is an emotional story of hope and resistance in the
global economy.  In the wake of Argentina's economic collapse of
2001, groups of frustrated workers started seizing the country's
bankrupt workplaces and running them without bosses. Director Avi
Lewis and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international
bestseller No Logo, take viewers inside the lives of ordinary
visionaries as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their
democracy.

The New York Times called The Take "a stirring, idealistic
documentary" (September 22, 2004), and according to Maclean's
magazine, it is a "revealing documentary which
plays like a time-lapse portrait of history-in-the-making" (May 10, 2004).

"If these films are as correct as they are persuasive,
international monetary policy is essentially a scheme to
bankrupt smaller nations and cast their populations into
poverty, while multinational corporations loot their assets and
whisk the money away to safe havens and the pockets of rich
corporations and their friends..."  Roger Ebert, February 17, 2005.

For further information please go to www.uregina.ca/spr

Hello - If you are interested in being a part of The Working Group to Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children; come out to our next meeting on November 22, 2006. We are meeting from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the Community Service Village (YWCA) in room 206.

Wannetta

Greetings all,

Please accept our invitation to breakfast on October 23rd. We're very excited about our visit this day with Lynell Anderson from the Child Care Advocasy Association of Canada (CCAAC) Making the Connections Project. Our breakfast will be an opportunity to chat about child care programs and services in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. Check out the CCAAC website (Google CCAAC) for more information about this project.

I would like to express my deep appreciation to all those who have made an ongoing contributuion to the SuccessBy6 Saskatoon "model of collective brilliance". It is truly and honour to work with such an inspiring group of folk. Our regular meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month from 10:00 to noon at the Community Service Village. Add your voice to making Saskatoon a truly supportive and incusive place for our youngest citizens and their families!!


I am also very excited about our plans to celebrate National Child Day on November 20th. With nudges and nods from all over Saskatoon, we are making arrangements for a variety of events to celebrate children and youth on this day...please stay posted for more information.

Poverty Awarness Week is fast approaching! I hope you will join us a City Hall on Monday at Noon for our media kick off!


Also remember:

Community Supper - a free supper for community members!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Doors Open: 5:30 P.M. for Social
6:00 P.M. Supper
Location: Mayfair United Church
902 33rd Street West- Saskatoon

Guest Speaker: Carolyn Rogers
“Building A Movement-Where Our True Selves Can Flourish”

Please call to reserve your seat, transportation or child care: Sydney @ 956-0348

Subject: Inclusive Cities Canada releases new policy and practice papers

Friday, October 13, 2006 - Inclusive Cities Canada (ICC) releases two new policy and practice papers to advance social inclusion in cities and communities across Canada. These papers build on the recommendations of the 2005 social inclusion audit reports and can be downloaded from the ICC website at http://www.inclusivecities.ca/

C4C is a planning council for issues facing children and youth in Saskatoon. We will use this space to post news and notes of interest. Check out our website at: www.communitiesforchildren.net

Let us know what you think!