2013 NYAC Merit Scholarship Application Form

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April 20th, 2013 8:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

Tickets $10 at the door
Baltimore Community Centre Hall
23 Community Centre Road
Cash Bar
ABI items for sale in the lobby

MUST BE 19 YEARS OLD
ALL proceeds go to the ABI Program.

BANDS PLAYING

Derrick Ballard (of Gentlemen Husbands)

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The Amazing Pickle Brothers

East Coast Music with Banjos/Fiddles

Greg Hannah Band

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Classic Rock, Country

Thrill of Illusion

Rock Band from Peterborough

Urban Angel

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Mike Kelly

Some Neil Young songs

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The Cobourg Police Service hosted a media event on March 19th to introduce the six students the police service has hired under the Youth in Policing Initiative. The Northumberland Youth Advisory Council’s member Bella Derry was one of the successful applicants.

The students, aged 15 – 17 years, are from Cobourg High Schools and are available for work after school and on the weekends.

The police service is paying the students an hourly rate with a nine hour per week limit. Police have reached out into the community securing work environments consistent with the goals of the initiative. Retirement homes, the library and the food bank, to mention a few.

The program is funded by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services and will provide the youths with an opportunity to learn valuable employment experience, exposure to general life skills and seeks to create opportunities for youth and police to build positive mentoring relationships.

Northumberland Youth Advisory Council member Rachel Reed has found a unique way to support an important cause and fulfil a lifelong ambition. On Sunday, March 3 Brighton resident Rachel, along with her father Phil, headed to the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro to join other adventurers in a quest to reach the summit. Kilimanjaro, located in Tanzania, Africa, is the highest free standing mountain in the world and climbing the mountain has been the dream of trekkers for over 100 years. After the climb Rachel and her father plan to continue on a Safari before returning to Brighton around March 19th.

When Rachel decided to pursue her dream she wanted to give it an extra special meaning. She’d heard about the Craig Keilburger Foundation’s “We Create Change” Clean Water Initiative. “What better way to get involved than to help people around the world, including Africa where the mountain is located, to obtain clean water”, says Rachel. She was joined by her close friend, Dina Tourlas, also from Brighton and a Youth Council member in planning a local campaign. Both girls attend CDCI East and a parallel program to raise awareness and funds in the school was also undertaken by the CDCI East Interact Club.

The Kielburger – Free The Children’s mission is to create a world where all young people are free to achieve their fullest potential as agents of change. The organization was founded by Craig Kielburger in 1995 when he gathered 11 school friends to begin fighting child labour. He was 12 at the time. Since then the organization has grown to become a major force in improving conditions around the world through their various programs.

The “We Create Change” initiative came out of the fact that every day, women around the world spend a cumulative total of 200 million hours collecting water for their families. 80 percent of illnesses in developing countries are linked to poor water and sanitation. In recognition of the global water crisis and the effect that events like last year’s East African drought have on developing countries, Free The Children has set a goal of providing 100,000 people with clean water for life. Free The Children’s We Create Change campaign, made possible by RBC, is one of Canada’s largest penny drives. Coinciding with the penny going out of circulation, the campaign challenges Canadians to donate their pennies to an important cause: water. Officially launched in 2012, this campaign shows that pennies can create a lot of change.

Around the world 1,000,000,000 people live without access to fresh drinking water. $25 can provide clean water for one person for live. $500 can provide the same for 20 people in a village somewhere in the third world.

The two friends, along with the help of the Northumberland Youth Advisory Council decided to take the project to their home community of Brighton, which then branched off to other areas across Northumberland. There are a number of locations at local businesses in Brighton, as well as couple of locations in Campbellford and if you’re in the area you can also get rid of those pennies at Rosie’s Restaurant in Brighton, a business owned by Dina’s parents.

In Cobourg is you drop into the Starlight Restaurant for a meal there is a donation jar at the front counter, or you can drop into the Framed View at 14 King Street East in Cobourg where owner Jan Moore would be glad to accept your now out of circulation pennies.

“We were very excited when Rachel and Dina brought up the idea at a Youth Council meeting and the group was onboard from the beginning,” says Northumberland Youth Advisory Council Coordinator, Jamie Simmons. “We are very proud of Rachel and Dina for taking the intiative a planning the initiative to make her climb even more memorable, and can’t wait till she gets back to share stories of her adventures with the rest of the council and the community,” adds Mr. Simmons.

The Northumberland Youth Advisory Council is made possible through the ongoing financial support of the County of Northumberland, the sponsorship of the Northumberland Community Futures Development Corporation, and generous contributions from local individuals and organizations.