May was a big month for Youth Central, with volunteers pulling in as many as 32 hours of volunteering. We <3 our volunteers! 🙂 1. Kevin Yoo: 32 hours 2. David Hall: 28.5 hours 3. Curtis Chat: 20 hours 4. Jacky Liang: 18.25 hours 5. Andrew Hoang: 17.75 hours 6. Eric Kuan: 16.75 hours 7.…
The Advocacy award finalists, From left to right: Myself, Tori Stosky, Connor Johnson and Loraleigh Kovacik from Rogers I love the Red Cross and all the volunteer work I do for the Red Cross, because volunteering has helped me realized that “the smallest act of kindness is never wasted.” The feeling I get when someone…
We’ve compiled the hours of Youth Central volunteers for the month and come up with 10 outstanding volunteers! Here are the top 10 volunteers for the month of April 2011. 1. Kevin Yoo – 26 hours 2. David Hall – 13.75 hours 3. Curtis Chat – 9.5 hours 4. Derek Choi – 9 hours 5.…
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. – Anonymous In celebration of National Volunteer Week, Youth Central would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to all of our volunteers. Whether you volunteer on a project site, in your school, on committees or give back in any other way to your community…
For the approximate 200,000 years humans have resided on Earth, we’ve accomplished a lot. From agriculture to electricity, humans have experienced rapid developments and huge breakthroughs in various fields. However, in this process, one important thing was forgotten – how these actions impacted our planet. Fortunately, we are starting to take notice now. The Green…
[youtube M4-veeEWHJs] Do you know someone who is making a positive impact in the community? Nominate them for a ConocoPhillips Youth of Distinction Award (YODA)! The ConocoPhillips Youth of Distinction Awards are non-academic and consist of 6 categories and 7 awards: Volunteerism, Advocacy, Environmentalism: Individual and Group, Peer Support, Perseverance and Leadership. Advocate Award (Formerly the…
This is officially the 1,000th blog post on Youth Are Awesome, a milestone we are very excited about reaching here at Youth Central! As the coordinator for the program, I’m so proud of this site and what it has become. We came from 5,000 page views in November 2009 to over 38,000 page views last…
It’s after dark, 5 p.m., and when I walked into the Calgary Zoo, I was greeted by an enlightening path of brightly lit red and gold candy canes. The bridge had been hung with ivy-like vines of blue lights and cute shapes of kangaroos and butterflies lit up the zoo. Quite amazingly, patterns of monkeys…
2010-2011’s Empty Bowls event has officially been launched! On Nov. 18, the first orientation meeting for the making of bowls took place at the Wild Flower Arts Centre. Volunteers and steering committee members were given the opportunity to tap into their artistic talent to make clay bowls with a creative twist. All of these bowls…
These are some of famous sayings about happiness and what do you think about happiness? what is happiness to you guys? Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Aristotle) Man is the artificer of his own happiness. (Henry David Thoreau) No man is happy who does not think himself so. (Publilius Syrus) Seek not happiness too greedily, and be…
Quoting Heidi Klum from her famous line on Project Runway: “One day you’re in, the next you’re out.” Fashion changes so quickly, people don’t even realize it, and you might be wearing last season’s hot finds which have died down this season :O Here are some trends I’ve noticed for you fashion-savvy readers! Military From…
As a member of the team of student volunteers who ran the Bishop Carroll mayoral election on Oct. 18, I can say it was a valuable experience. It was so inspiring to see students take interest in civic responsibility and democracy. Volunteers went around to homerooms and distributed and collected ballots. We counted them at…
5. Market Mall In the heart of Calgary’s Northwest, Market Mall is a modern mall. With 1 level shopping, the is no need to walk up and down! Market Mall features Calgary’s first Apple store and H&M. The mall is also stacked with Safeway, Zellers, Sephora, Little Burgandy and more. It is in good proximity…
About Youth Can Vote: Lester B. Pearson High School was one of a few high schools in Calgary who have participated in the Youth Can Vote program. Youth Can Vote is a youth driven program created by Youth Central that helps educate and promote the election process. The main goal as stated from the Youth Can Vote…
In Youth Central‘s latest program, Youth Can Vote, youth across Calgary are encouraged to participate in and learn about the mayoral race. Mayoral and aldermanic forums serve as extensions to the existing Youth Can Vote project and are hosted by Youth Central and the Mayor’s Youth Council. All of the mayoral candidates are invited to…