Support the Clothing Drive at CCV Winooski

A box for the clothing will be placed in the Community Lounge this week. Please consider bringing in clothes, shoes, and books!

About the Drive, by Kylee Heingartner:

A refugee is a person who is forced to leave his or her home and seek refuge elsewhere.

Refugees have experienced a great deal of struggle, uncertainty and loss. I am running a clothing drive to help support the refugees who have come to Burlington to seek shelter and a place of safety. This clothing drive is directed at the people of our community. I want to provide the refugees who do not have the means of providing for themselves with clothes for all sorts of weather, shoes for mobility, and books for the younger and older generations.

This clothing drive is designed to ensure that each individual in our community is healthy and comfortable, which in turn will have a positive impact on society when each individual is living a more nourished lifestyle.

Unfortunately, many would-be donors throw away perfectly good used clothes rather than offer them to a supportive cause. Through this project I intend to inspire hope and self-confidence for people all walks of life, to assist them in feeling successful, valuable and dignified. By recycling clothing, shoes and books we are reusing resources that are limited on our planet. This is an environmentally sound way of consuming less and providing more!

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You're Invited: Release Party - A Journal of Poetry & Fiction

April is coming.... & it's poetry month!

Two of Sharon Webster's poems were published in The Salon's upcoming issue - and there's a party at the Firehouse Gallery (Burlington City Arts) to celebrate!

A Journal of Poetry & Fiction
Thursday, April 7th
7:30-9:30pm

Hope you can come!

Join the Winooski Football Club!

When: Tuesday, March 29th 7:30pm
Where: Donny's NY Pizza, Winooski (Just off the Winooski Bridge)
What: Free Pizza & Meeting for Start-up of a Winooski Community Futball Club Who: Male Futball Players ages 17 to 25 from the Winooski Community

Come discuss the formation of a men's amateur futball team to compete in the Vermont Amateur Soccer League this summer 2011. Check out the website for VASL details: http://www.hotstat.com/72943/index.html This is a very competitive league that plays all matches at the Tree Farm fields in Essex, May thru August.

Manager Bob DiMasi and Coach Odysseus Manzi welcome you and encourage you to invite other players connected to the Winooski area. This is a great opportunity to engage in community building and to sustain the healthy development of body, mind and spirit of it's youth.

The legacy of futball is an international activity of local and regional identities in the effort to engage in the passion for athletic and communal dignity. Winooski, VT represents a growing American populace of diversity and strengths to join this wider movement. It is our sincere conviction to foster the ideals and promise of the area’s youth in dynamic teamwork to engage in fair play, competition and unity.

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You're Invited: Champlain College Spring Job Fair!

The CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE 2011 SPRING JOB FAIR is less than two weeks away, and you're all invited!

Thankfully the job market appears to be improving as 100+ diverse employers will be recruiting for a wide range of full-time, part-time and summer employment opportunities and internships. The Fair logistics are as follows:

• DATE: Monday, March 28, 2011
• TIME: 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
• PLACE: Champlain College Gymnasium and Fireside Lounge within the IDX Student Life Center, 262 South Willard Street, Burlington (building #21 on campus map)
  

Specific information on the Fair is available on the Career Services website at: http://www.champlain.edu/Career-Services/Job-Fair-2011.html including:

• A list of participating employers
• Tips for preparing for a job fair
  

Individuals may park in Champlain College parking lots or neighboring streets if there is space available, except the Main Street Suites lot. There will be no ticketing on the day of the Fair. However avoid “resident only” parking areas, as the City is strict about ticketing and towing. The College also has a satellite lot with shuttle service, which runs a continuous loop to the center of campus from 7:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Gilbane Lot/Lakeside Shuttle.

Questions should be directed to (802) 860-2720 or careerservices@champlain.edu. There’s nothing we’d like better than to have our Gym bursting at the seams with enthusiastic job seekers and we hope to welcome your students and alumni to the Fair.