The Food Policy Council encourages our members to complete the short, online survey that can be found here.
It’s important that KFPC members help shape the future of this sizeable public land mass that has considerable agricultural potential. For background information visit here.
What do you think about the expansion plans for the Tournament Capital Ranch? Since some of the land is part of the ALR, there are ideas about supporting sustainable farming on the ranch, including incubator farm for new farmers and an agriculture trade show and events center. We like those ideas!
Talk to the city at the farmers’ market booths on August 6 and 9, at an open house on August 14, or through their online survey. Go to the city’s website for more information.
Changes to the bylaws of the Kamloops Food Policy Council will be considered by the membership at the Annual General Meeting to be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at Mt. Paul United Church commencing at 5:00 PM. The current bylaws, together with the Certificate of Incorporation under the Societies Act and the constitution of the Kamloops Food Policy Council are found in the following document.
KFPC society registration, constitution and bylaws
The proposed changes are to the bylaws only. These changes result from a series of meetings of the Kamloops Food Policy Council led by Glenn Hilke and by Mike Simpson. The intent of the changes to the proposed bylaws is to provide a structure for the governance of the organization that meets current needs. Please review the following document prior to the AGM.
Corporations in Our HeadsNo actors. No play. No script.
Theatre without a net – just you, the audience!
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Performance 7:30
Potluck 6:30
Investigate how conflicting corporate, media, government and NGO messages impact our lives and polarize our community into ‘us’ and ‘them’
This theatre experience explores how strategic messages influence the community at large and investigates the informed or misinformed choices we make as a result. The fundamental goal of this type of theatre is to make the event relevant, at a grassroots level, using the momentum to move forward as a cohesive healthy community. You the audience choose the stories and decide how to dramatize them… YOU ARE THE EXPERTS OF YOUR OWN LIVES !
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Phone 250.879.0465 | Email glennhilke(at)yahoo.com
About Theatre For Living
http://www.headlinestheatre.com and https://www.facebook.com/TheatreForLiving on Facebook.
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You are invited to the Kamloops Affordable Housing Development Forum 2013, taking place on Thursday November 14th at the Coast Hotel and Conference Centre, and brought to you by the City of Kamloops, in partnership with the Kamloops Housing Board and the Kamloops Working Group on Homelessness. Read more
The Open House dates are as follows:October 3 – Bert Edwards Elementary
October 21 – Tournament Capital Ranch
October 23 – Interior Savings Center: Parkside Lounge
October 24 – Barnhartvale Community Hall
All Open Houses are drop-in events. Light refreshments will be served.
For those not able to attend an open house all documents available at the events are also online at www.kamloops.ca/environment/land-publicparticipation.shtml
Please join Malcolm Allen, Member of Parliament for Welland and NDP Agriculture Critic as he tours the country with his “Farm to Fork” tour.
RSVP – crawfordndp@gmail.com
Because Canadians deserve practical policies that grow our rural economies, produce nutritious local food and protect our land.
Canada is without a comprehensive food policy—lagging behind other industrial countries in the OECD, like England and Australia.
Now the United Nations has raised serious concerns about food security in Aboriginal communities and a lack of a coordinated food strategy in Canada.
That’s why Canada’s New Democrats are calling on the Government of Canada to implement a pan-Canadian Food Strategy to:
The Kamloops Food Policy Council has put into action several initiatives in order to bring a discussion about food policy into the forefront of the upcoming provincial election.
Our campaign included the following:
The Agricultural Sciences class at TRU is holding a poster session this coming Monday, April 8 from 2:30 to 4:20 pm in room S337 (Science building at TRU Kamloops Campus). This year the students have worked in partnership with the City of Kamloops to develop posters related to Kamloops Agriculture Area Plan. Drop by anytime between 2:30 and 4:20 pm to learn more about the plan and some of the priority issues that have been identified. See the attached poster for more details.
We’d like to encourage everyone to take a look at the Public Produce Strategic Report that some of our members were instrumental in developing. If you’re wondering about how the Kamloops Public Produce Project came to be, or where it’s going, many answers may be found in here! There are many wild and wonderful things that could happen with the public produce movement in our city (and province, and country), with support in the right places.
We are currently working on the next phase of the project, which we’re calling Phase III: Public Produce in Your Own Backyard. This next step will lend support and guidance to other organizations and communities who hope to start their own public produce project. If this is something that you or your group is interested in pursuing, get in touch with us at the Public Produce Project and we’ll keep you updated on the next exciting developments! (publicproduceproject@gmail.com)
Without further adieu.. the Public Produce Strategy Report Sept2012 !