Midwifes Day / Women’s Day is January 8th
Celebrate Women’s Self Empowerment Week January 5th-9th
Bubble Bath Day is January 8th
Dear Abby was published for the first time in Jan 9, 1956
Hugging Day is January 21st
Jan 11, 1935 was the start of Amelia Earhart’s two-day solo flight across the Pacific.
Big Sisters
GIRLS ON THE MOVE! is an exciting program offered by Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Bay and District, City Of North Bay, Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS), Northeastern Ontario Recreation Association and the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit for girls and young women age 9-18.
The goal of GIRLS ON THE MOVE is to provide girls with information and support to make informed choices about active living, healthy eating, having fun and feeling good. A group of 15 girls (maximum) will be paired with female staff from Big Brothers Big Sisters and On the Move. The program will consist of eight 2 hour sessions. Each session will be fun-filled, active, and informative.
Running shoes and comfortable clothing will be required.
Orientation: January 12, 2011
Program Start Date and Time: January 19, 2011- April 20, 2011
K’Sah Woodley
Youth Host Coordinator
(705) 474-3041
Habitat for Humanity
GOOD NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT!
Our Affiliate, Habitat for Humanity North Bay and Blue Sky Region,has acquired two properties for the 2011 Build. The location of these properties will be announced as soon as the lawyers transfer the title which will be the first part of January 2011.
Meeting the deadline, we have secured the COAHP granted funds for each of the two families. These funds will be payable from DNSSAB to our Affiliate at the time of title transfer, probably late 2011, into the respective families’ name.
These funds will benefit our abilities to build more homes maintaining sustainability for years to come.
Nipissing Women in Business
Newcomers always welcome!
Mission Statement : The Nipissing Women in Business Club promotes the growth and continued success of business women through shared knowledge, networking and referral opportunities. Supporting each other by providing a venue where female professionals can meet to build relationships, inform and educate each other.
www.nipissingwomeninbusiness.com
Send your event info to
victoriasread@hotmail.com
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
Nellie McClung (1873-1951)
I know I have made them, and likely you have too. Made a New Year’s resolution that is, and not been able to keep it. It seems to be a tradition to make a change for the positive.
Here are some tips that may help you to be successful in this year’s resolution.
Keep it simple. The easiest way to not keep your resolution is to make it unattainable. Make it a resolution that is attainable.
Plan it out. Don’t wait till the last minute on New Year’s Eve to pick the resolution.
Decide what it will be and plan on it. Put substance to it. Write down the plan and decide on how you will deal with distractions and temptations.
Share your resolution. Talk about and share your resolution with friends and family. The more support you have the higher the success will be.
Make progress worthwhile. Decide what rewards you will give yourself for reaching milestones and eventually success. Use them for motivation.
Have compassion. Make sure that if you do momentarily slip, that you don’t beat yourself up for it. Just review your goals, motivators, and plan, and work to the next milestone.
So what do most people resolve for the New Year?
#1 To lose weight. This is the all time winner. Be aware that to be successful, movement has to be part of the plan. Diet changes alone will not do it. In fact for every pound you lose without exercising, will be 30% muscle. Keep the muscle, and lose the fat by getting moving.
#2 To quit a habit. This could be anything that is holding you back on your path to wellness. Some of these habits may even be good in intention, by taken to excess will turn to a negative, “Too much of a good thing.” If to quit a habit is you choice, research what help is out there for it, and what support you can get.
These are the top two based on many lists, and web sites. Whatever your resolution is don’t do it alone. Find a friend to work with, and help each other to stay motivated. Keep in touch and give each other progress reports including any slips. Brain-storm together on ways to succeed, it will pay off.
Regardless of your choice, or even if you stick to it, the one guaranteed element to improve your wellness is movement and exercise. Get out get moving, and you’ll notice a positive change.
Take time to try these tips, and I’m sure you’ll see results. Stay well, stay strong… you deserve it.
If you are interested in these approaches, and ways to help yourself, email info@ohanawellness.ca, or visit us at www.ohanawellness.ca.
©Darren Renaud Natural Health Practitioner
In cold winter temperatures, you need to make sure your car has a fully functional heating system. Your rear defroster grid can be tested by simply watching it work on a cold winter day.
As a step to prevent fuel-line freezing, keep your fuel tank at least half full during the winter.
Be sure to have windshield washer fluid in your trunk and that your windshield wiper are in good operating condition.
January 1916, the Manitoba legislature gave unanimous approval to a bill that made Manitoba the first province in Canada to give women the right to vote.
The new Liberal premier, Tobias Norris, had been elected on an ambitious platform of political reform. He was committed not only to granting women the vote, but to banning alcohol, making education compulsory, establishing workers’ compensation, allowing citizens to have more control over politicians through the use of referendums, and reforming the education system.
While a number of the reforms brought in by the Norris government, such as prohibition and binding referendums, were relatively short-lived, others were permanent, reflecting a new role for government in society. The women’s suffrage campaign played a central role in the reform movement that ushered in these changes. Its leaders were often active in other campaigns, calling for prohibition, an end to political corruption, laws that would provide factory workers with safe and clean working conditions, and improved services for rural communities.
Writers such as McClung and Lillian Thomas developed national reputations as social reformers. The suffrage movement, which had been founded and led by women from the outset, could trace it roots back to the 1890s in Manitoba. Its leaders cut their political teeth on the Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement’s campaigns to ban the liquor trade, through their activities in the women’s section of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, and while volunteering in the missionary societies of the Protestant churches.
Their case was strengthened with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 as women were called upon to play a more active role in the paid economy. The fact that Manitoba was the first province to give women the vote was in many ways a tribute to the Political Equality League, which was founded in 1912. Its pamphlets, petitions, and public events succeeded in making suffrage a popular issue in a very short period of time.
Source: http://manitobia.ca
ICED COFFEE
Ingredients:
2 tsps instant coffee granules
1 tsp sugar
3 tbls warm water
6 fluid ounces cold milk
Directions:
In sealable jar, combine instant coffee, sugar and warm water. Cover the jar and shake until it is foamy. Pour into a glass full of ice. Fill the glass with milk. Adjust to taste if necessary.
COFFEE COOKIES
Ingredients:
½ cup shortening
1 egg
2 tbls instant coffee powder
2/3 cup white sugar
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets. In a medium bowl, cream together the shortening, sugar and coffee. Beat in the egg, flour, vanilla and chopped nuts. Mix until well blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven or until edges are golden. Let cool on wire racks.
COFFEE MEATLOAF SAUCE
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon instant coffee
1/4 cup water
½ cup ketchup
1/4 cup worchestershire sauce
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 ounce margarine
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Brown sugar
Directions:
Add instant coffee to the water. Add ketchup then Worcestershire sauce. Vinegar, margarine and lemon juice with some brown sugar complete the mixture.
After the meat has cooked for 30 minutes, add the sauce and bake 45 minutes more at 375F.
Research says women who consume coffee help outwit diabetes, heart disease and even suicide.
From the 19th into the early 20th century the ever increasing number of middle class housewives found that having a “systematic” way with housekeeping details made for more leisure time for the housewife.
Orderly, systematic work is the great time-saver in housekeeping, as is every other vocation in life.
A written programme, of which the following is suggestive, of the order in which the regular daily work is to be done, kept where it will serve as a constant reminder, will aid greatly in the establishment of habits of method in one’s work :
1. Make the fire ; fill the tea-kettle and reservoirs. Polish the stove, when needed.
2. Dust the kitchen, which should have been left clean and in good order the night before. Wash the hands preparatory to getting breakfast, as it is always essential to have the hands and finger nails clean before handling foods and cooking utensils.
3. Get breakfast.
4. Make any preparations for dinner which may require early attention.
5. Wash dishes, including dish towels; clean sinks, hoppers, and garbage receptacles, if any.
6. Extras. Under this division may be arranged different duties for regular days; as, for example, one day each week may be devoted to extra cleaning of cupboards, reservoirs, ovens, etc.; two other days to washing and cleaning the refrigerator, extra scouring of utensils and faucets, cleaning of lights, woodwork, walls, windows, and cellar, all of which require more or less of the housekeeper’s attention, though not always demanding daily care.
7. Put the kitchen to rights. This should be done after every meal before leaving the kitchen. At the close of the day’s work everything should be left in perfect order.
It is desirable to have the housework so planned that work which must be done regularly each week, as baking, washing, and ironing, shall have its own appointed day arranged as best suits the needs and convenience of the household. There is always a best way of performing even the simplest of household details ; seek out this most advantageous method and save time by employing it.—Mrs. E. E. Kellogg in Good Health.”
~Good Housekeeping Magazine 1896
Source: www.vintage-homemaking.info
