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[ Program ] [ Pre-Conference Sessions ] [ Concurrent Sessions ]
** Sessions are in English, unless otherwise noted.**
| program streams | Session codes | |||||||
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| creating a socially inclusive community | A3 | B1 | C3 | D2 | E6 | F7 | ||
| addressing environmental issues | A1 | B3 | C2 | D3 | E7 | F6 | ||
| creating community pride through park design | A7 | B2 | C5 | D7 | E4 | F1 | ||
| quality infrastructure and facilities | A4 | A8 | C1 | D4 | E5 | F2 | ||
| increasing physical activity | A2 | B6 | C7 | D6 | E3 | F5 | ||
| community development and partnerships | A6 | B5 | B7 | C6 | D1 | D5 | E1 | F4 |
| personal and professional development | A5 | B4 | C4 | E2 | F3 | |||
Thursday, October 19
Program Sessions “A” (10:30 am – 12:00 pm)
A1 - The Future of Successful Cities
Presenter: Owen Rose
French with simultaneous translation
The future success of cities will depend on how well they adapt their
existing conditions to healthier ecological and democratic practices. The
Green Roof Residential Demonstration Project is a concrete example of
adapting the existing conditions of Montréal to the realities of global
warming, pollution, and urban quality of life issues. This is a multiyear
project of demonstrations and public education aimed at homeowners, building
professionals, city administrators, and government officials. Since January
2003, the Urban Ecology Centre has developed a project in which a green roof
on a flat-roofed row house is being used to encourage surrounding homeowners
to do the same. In collaboration with the National Research Council of
Canada, this example is documenting the effects on the surrounding air
quality, the retention of water run-off, and the interior temperature of the
project’s row house. Recreational facilities often have large roofs and
consume a lot of energy, so this technology will be of interest to facility
managers with environmental concerns.
A2 - Key Learnings of a Physical Activity Strategy in
Motion
Presenter: Cathie Kryzanowski
English with simultaneous translation
A panel of in motion experts will share inspirational stories, research,
and key learnings. Panellists will describe the process and impact of
mobilization strategies that have engaged schools, communities, and
workplaces around physical activity throughout Saskatchewan. Examples from
urban, rural, and remote locations will be provided. The session will
describe the experiences, challenges, and unexpected outcomes of one of the
country’s most comprehensive physical activity strategies. Session
participants will gain practical tips, recommendations, and best practices
in quality research.
A3 - Getting Services Right for People with Disabilities
Presenter: Lorene Bodiam
Who in our community has a disability? What specifically can we do to improve the delivery of parks and recreation services in order to reach the goal of a 1000% increase in participation rates by 2020? These are the questions that were answered in a groundbreaking 2005 initiative to build the demographic profile of Toronto residents with disabilities. The Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation and its community partners worked together to conduct two surveys and 14 focus groups. The results of this research will be shared.
A4 - Adequately Staffing Today’s Recreation Facilities
Presenters: Terry Piché and Mike Bryson
At times, our industry sees the construction of a multimillion dollar recreation complex, which is then inadequately staffed in order to save money. Each province and territory offers comprehensive training opportunities to help owners develop training objectives and set specific operational skills. These training events help to ensure that all levels of recreation facility staff remain current with known industry best practices and set legislative responsibilities. The Canadian Recreation Facilities Council (CRFC) is a national network of recreation professionals who gather each year to share new operational concepts, challenges, and objectives. This forum will describe the current professional designations, certifications, and recognitions that exist throughout Canada, and how each is recognized from one region to another.
A5 - Follow Me: The Bold Call of Leadership
Presenter: James Robbins
Our success as leaders lies in our ability to keep talented people engaged and fulfilled. In this session we look at what employees want from their jobs today, and why it’s crucial that we, as leaders, provide it. We also look at what qualities and habits a manager must possess in order to keep their work force fully engaged. Leaders who exemplify these practices inspire greater productivity by increasing morale, reducing employee turnover, and creating an atmosphere of trust, while bringing out the best in their people.
A6 - Community Engagement Through Neighbourhood Teams
Presenter: Lucy Stern
Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation’s organizational review, ReActivate TO!, identified community engagement and development as top priorities. As a result, a newly created Community Engagement Unit now oversees a city-wide approach to training, monitoring, and measuring the successes of community engagement initiatives. Forty-four ward-based neighbourhood staff teams work to build strong communities and neighbourhoods through the stewardship of parks, forestry, and recreation programs and services.
A7 - Riverbank Conservation, Development, and Education
Presenters: Doug Porteous
Meewasin is a conservation organization dedicated to conserving the cultural and natural resources of the South Saskatchewan River Valley. Meewasin was created in 1979 by an Act of the Province of Saskatchewan, and the participants include the City of Saskatoon, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the University of Saskatchewan. They felt they could better manage their riverbank lands through one agency, Meewasin. Doug Porteous will tell the Meewasin story focusing on its three mandates: conservation, development, and education.
A8 - Guidelines for an Energy Efficient
and Environmentally Friendly Ice Rink
Presenter: Natural Resources Canada * Full-day session: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
There are roughly 2,500 hockey arenas in Canada. Refrigeration represents over 50% of the energy bill in most of these facilities; thermal requirements (e.g., space heating, hot water) typically represent another 20–30%. New refrigeration practices and technologies are focusing on improving the efficiency of these sources of energy consumption. The introduction of these new concepts and designs can help reduce the whole energy bill by 40%. This one-day workshop will provide an overview of new practices, innovative technologies, and information on how to build your own systems to help arena owners, managers, and operators reduce their utility costs, enhance facility operations, reuse waste heat energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All this can be done using technologies currently available in the market from a variety of manufacturers. One of the main focuses of this workshop will be how to convince decision-makers that ef?cient technology offers a better return for the community.
Program Sessions “B” (2:00 pm – 3:15 pm)
B1 - Interculturalism and Leisure: An Innovative Approach
Presenter: Serge Lamontagne
French with simultaneous translation
In 2001, the Montréal borough of Saint-Laurent adopted an intercultural
policy with the principal objective of supporting harmony and diversity by
implementing innovative methods (training, translation services, adopting
rules of reasonable accommodation, and developing partnerships in culture
and leisure services). The session will describe guiding principles of the
intercultural policy, the consultation process that led to its adoption, the
communication policy that was developed, and the resulting cultural leisure
and social development program.
B2 - The Town of Richmond Hill Natural Heritage Strategy
Presenter: Tracey Steele
English with simultaneous translation
Richmond Hill is blessed with kettle lakes, significant forests and
wetlands, the headwaters of three river systems, over 120 local species, and
a portion of the Oak Ridges Moraine. The 500-hectare open space system
protects many of these natural features and forms the backbone of Richmond
Hill’s natural heritage system. In order to effectively manage its open
space lands, Richmond Hill has developed a Natural Heritage Strategy (NHS).
The NHS is a resource management plan which prioritizes conservation and
restoration projects, recommends natural heritage policy updates, and sets
out plans for community stewardship, operations, and maintenance. One of the
main goals of the NHS is to balance the preservation of ecological health
and diversity, while providing accessible, safe recreational and
environmental education opportunities.
B3 - Showcasing Sustainability through Parks Design and
Management
Presenter: Jeff Robbins
The diversity of parks showcase landforms as diverse as mountains, deserts, wetlands, forests, and coastal marine parks. When the public visit our parks, do they get a sense of sustainability as well as peace? Does visiting a park instil in the visitor an awakening to conservation management issues, and the interconnectedness of the land to the visitor? This session will describe how we can design and manage parks to raise public awareness about increasingly important conservation issues in our parks.
B4 - Mastering Mindfulness: A Program for Eliminating
Stress and Creating Success and Wellbeing in Your Life – Part A
Presenter: Maureen McIntosh
Life, with all of its challenges, can be demanding and stressful. You are not alone if you find yourself agonizing over the past or worrying about the future. As a result of these stress-inducing thought patterns, we lose our ability to be focused, relaxed, and our ability to deal effectively with our lives. Not only does this frenzied thinking inhibit our success at work, it affects our home life and takes a serious toll on our emotional and physical wellbeing. In this session you will learn how to gradually and fundamentally transform your everyday life through the practice of mindfulness. * (NOTE: this is a double session and you must register for Part A and B).
B5 - “HOP (Healthy Opportunities for Preschoolers) 2 It”
on the Saanich Peninsula
Presenter: Joan Wharf Higgins
HOP 2 It is a community-centred partnership (made up of a municipal recreation, a not-for-pro?t social services agency, an Aboriginal sport association, and academia) designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of local recreation and social services staff to deliver training workshops for childcare providers in their community. The HOP 2 It initiative, which originated in Australia, was tailored in British Columbia to a Canadian context for Aboriginal and low-income populations. This presentation will describe the Saanich Peninsula experience of training local leaders to teach childcare providers how to integrate physical activity into a child’s day.
B6 - Go Girl Symposiums – Getting Girls Active!
Presenters: Jody Nouwen and Sydney Millar
The first Go Girl Symposium was held in Calgary in 1999. Since then, this model has spread across Canada. The one-day workshops provide a fun environment for girls and young women to try new physical activities, develop personal skills, and spark an interest in adopting a healthy lifestyle. This session will highlight the Go Girl model through a short video presentation, discuss successes and challenges, and describe programs from across Canada. Copies of the Go Girl Planning Guide will be available. Participants will leave with practical tools to address physical inactivity amongst girls and young women in their communities.
B7 - Sport Tourism: An Economic Engine for Every Community
Presenter: Rick Traer
Sport tourism is the fastest growing grassroots economic development initiative in Canada today. Formed in November, 2000 with 18 founding municipal members, the CSTA now boasts over 150 members, including approximately 100 municipalities, 35 national sport organizations and a variety of public and private sector organizations, agencies and commercial enterprises. The CSTA has developed a series of industry tools to facilitate entry into this industry segment, including the Sport Tourism Planning Template, Events Database and Search Engine, Business Plan Template for Sport Events, the Sport Tourism Economic Assessment Model (STEAM) and the recently launched STEAM-PRO model.
Program Sessions “C” (3:45 pm – 5:00 pm)
C1 - Parks and Recreation Professionals: Getting involved
pays off
Presenter: Léo Morissette
French with simultaneous translation
Too often, the planning, design, and construction or renovation of our
recreation facilities involve only an architect, engineer, or senior
planner. Recreation professionals’ involvement is minimal or omitted
altogether. Recreation professionals are handed over the new and improved
recreation facility to operate. While it will undoubtedly look new and
shiny, will it be as functional as it could have been? This session will
demonstrate how critical the involvement of recreation professionals is in
the planning, design, and construction of recreation facilities. Understand
how you can play a significant role in ensuring your facility will provide
amenities needed to best serve your future customer. Architectural trades
secrets will be revealed.
C2 - Goose Management Programs for Stormwater Management
Facilities
Presenters: Jocelyn Thrasher-Haug and Locke Girvan
English with simultaneous translation
A goose management program was conducted at stormwater management
facilities in Sherwood Park, Alberta because of an artificially inflated
population of Canada geese. The management goal was to provide a safe
habitat for geese, provide a safe park for people, and have a balanced
diversity of wildlife. Direct management focused on egg oiling to control
the goose population. Indirect management focused on shoreline
naturalization to retrofit existing ponds to make them less attractive to
geese. The permitting and planning process, fieldwork, public education, and
population management results will be discussed.
C3 - Team Spirit: Aboriginal Girls in Sport
Presenter: Sydney Millar
Team Spirit: Aboriginal Girls in Sport is a national initiative to increase community sport opportunities for Aboriginal girls and young women. The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) is collaborating with the Aboriginal Sport Circle and nine communities across Canada to generate new knowledge and promising practices to engage this target group. This session will provide an overview of the project, discuss successes and challenges, and share lessons learned. Information about existing Team Spirit programs and how other communities can be involved will also be provided.
C4 - Mastering Mindfulness: A Program for Eliminating
Stress and Creating Success and Wellbeing in Your Life – Part B
Presenter: Maureen McIntosh
Life, with all of its challenges, can be demanding and stressful. You are not alone if you find yourself agonizing over the past or worrying about the future. As a result of these stress-inducing thought patterns, we lose our ability to be focused, relaxed, and our ability to deal effectively with our lives. Not only does this frenzied thinking inhibit our success at work, it affects our home life and takes a serious toll on our emotional and physical wellbeing. In this session you will learn how to gradually and fundamentally transform your everyday life through the practice of mindfulness. (*NOTE: this is a continuation of session B4)
C5 - Development of a Park Specifically Designed for
Seniors
Presenters: Daryl Page and Harry Caine
Follow the process of the design and implementation of Canada’s first park specifically designed for seniors. The park was established in Tsawwassen, British Columbia and is a special place for seniors to improve fitness, enjoy the environment, and socialize. This workshop will focus on the assessment, design, and implementation of the park. There will be a strong focus on how to coordinate with local governments, universities, and community clubs to secure funding and increase awareness and desire for better parks. The presenters will describe in detail the original wellness stations designed for the park, along with activities that enable people to develop strength and improve their health.
C6 - Partners on Ice: The City of Ottawa’s Community-based
Outdoor Rink Program
Presenter: Mark Magee
The City of Ottawa values the strong role the community plays in the provision of its outdoor rink program, which includes 223 sites. The program emphasizes service partnerships with community associations, non-profit organizations, service clubs, volunteer groups, and sports teams. While the municipal government provides the funding and infrastructure, the community is responsible for maintenance and supervising the program. Mark Magee will review various aspects of this community-based approach.
C7 - Gear Up with the Active Living Gear Kit
Presenter: Judy Asker
This active presentation will raise awareness and provide expanded resources to individuals and organizations interested in including people with disabilities in their programs. The Active Living Gear Kit (ALGK) presentation will challenge and empower participants to be inclusive in their programming, ensuring a positive experience for all. The ALGK consists of educational materials and equipment that can be used to promote active living for people of all ages and abilities. The aim is to raise awareness of active living opportunities for people with disabilities and provide access to fun, innovative, and inclusive activity gear.
Friday, October 20
Program Sessions “D” (10:30 am – 12:00 pm)
D1 - Growing up in Cities Canada: Creating Partnerships
with Young People « Cancelled »
Presenter: Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
French with simultaneous translation
The presentation will draw on the experience of Growing up in Cities
Canada, a national initiative that works with youth-led organizations, youth
councils within formal municipal structures, and the Canadian Commission for
UNESCO. It will reflect on how building and strengthening a network,
advocacy, and research have advanced the issue of young people’s civic
engagement across Canada. Practical examples will illustrate how cities and
communities can work with young people to create spaces that meet their
needs and provide healthy and inclusive communities.
D2 - We Feel so Welcome Here – The Whalley Revitalisation
Presenters: Laurie Cavan and Lisa White
English with simultaneous translation
Surrey, one of Canada’s fastest developing cities, is experiencing
challenges that are often associated with more mature urban centres (aging
infrastructure, drug use, crime, slowed business and residential
development, poverty, Aboriginal and cultural diversity, negative community
identity, and barriers to participation in recreation activities). This
session will highlight the Whalley Revitalization Strategy, aimed at
enhancing the area and creating a more inclusive community. Learn how parks,
recreation and culture was positioned as a key player in securing
investments in recreation and parks facilities, leisure programs, and
community development initiatives.
D3 - Craik Sustainable Living Project
Presenter: Rod Haugerud
From its recycled timber posts and beams and straw-bale walls, to its passive solar and geothermal heating system, the Craik Sustainable Living Project Eco-Centre is a model of sustainability. The building features a rain-water capture system, composting toilets, environmentally friendly interior finishing techniques and a host of other environmentally friendly practices. The town and rural municipality have embarked on a joint long-term project in search of ways of living that address the issue of sustainability and rural revitalization by demonstrating physical examples of viable solutions. Rod Haugerud will give a complete history of the Craik Sustainable Living Project and will discuss its present and future.
D4 - A Holistic Approach to the Design Process
Presenter: Conrad Boychuk
This presentation will focus on a holistic design process, recognizing the need to integrate function, environmental stewardship, durability, flexibility, technical performance, safety of movement, and, perhaps most important, relevance. Design criteria are changing at an incredible pace to meet the growing demands of a broader and more diverse user base, while dealing with the realities of fewer dollars for construction and operation. This presentation will identify a number of projects designed by different architectural and engineering firms that attempt to deal with this inherent contradiction.
D5 - Power up the Voluntary Sector for Results
«Full»
Presenter: John Rapp
This session will demonstrate the benefits achieved when municipalities are more proactive in engaging not-for-pro?t and voluntary sector organizations to deliver municipal programs and services. Many municipalities are pursuing partnerships in service delivery with the private sector, citing efficiency and focus as benefits. But do they realize that the same benefits exist, with significant added value, in the voluntary sector? Using real-life examples from his experiences in Canada and Australia, John Rapp will describe how engaging the voluntary sector provides monetary and community development benefits to municipalities.
D6 - Healthy Heart Hockey: Playing Hockey into your
‘Goal-den Years’
Presenter: David Keenan
The City of Ottawa, in partnership with Canadian Adult Recreation Hockey Association (CARHA), established the Healthy Hockey initiative to address the growing number of on-ice heart-related incidents. A new public awareness campaign includes the installation of “Don’t Deny, Don’t Delay” signage, defibrillators in arenas, and a strategy to get teams and leagues trained in CPR and defibrillator use. The program also offers on-ice conditioning while wearing a heart monitor and teaches participants the importance of getting in shape to play hockey, not playing hockey to get in shape. CARHA plans to launch the initiative nationally.
D7 - Community Gardens: Taking Root in Saskatoon
Presenters: Rebeka Kennedy-Pruehs and Tom Wolf
CHEP Good Food Inc. works with children, families, and communities to improve access to good food for all and to achieve food security. This session will look at CHEP’s role in building community gardens, and focusing on the recent development of the City Park Community Garden. Initiated as a partnership in 2002 between City Park residents, CHEP, and the City of Saskatoon, this community garden has provided opportunities to grow food for 24 families, beautify underused park space, provide a demonstration compost site, and has become a centre of community activity and pride.
Program Sessions “E” (2:15 pm – 3:45 pm)
E1 - Seniors in Action: Francophone Seniors in
Saskatchewan and their Place in the Community
Presenter: Adrienne Sawchuk
French with simultaneous translation
During this session, Adrienne Sawchuk will discuss projects that
Francophone seniors in Saskatchewan are carrying out in cooperation with
partners such as the Société historique de la Saskatchewan, the Association
des parents fransaskois, the Division scolaire francophone no 310, the
Assemblée communautaire fransaskoise, the Saskatchewan Senior Mechanism, and
the Conseil de la coopération de la Saskatchewan.
E2 - Maximizing the Potential of Your Staff (Translation)
«Full»
Presenter: John Rapp
English with simultaneous translation
Choosing strategic opportunities to ensure staff understand the goals and
philosophy of the organization they work for and the leader they report to
is a proven winning strategy for many of the largest and most successful
organizations in the world. In a people- and service-oriented industry like
recreation and parks, why do so few leaders at the municipal level take the
time to get their teams motivated, when the benefits are so clear? John Rapp
will describe examples of leadership from the very successful Dovercourt
Recreation Association, Ottawa’s busiest recreation centre.
E3 - Creating a Collective Voice for Physical Activity
Presenter: Saskatchewan Physical Activity Council
This session will address the benefits and challenges of working in a multisector partnership to address the issue of physical inactivity. The Saskatchewan Physical Activity Council (SPAC) was created as a result of the 2002 Saskatchewan Physical Activity Roundtable regarding the problem of physical inactivity in Saskatchewan. Recognizing that no one sector created the conditions, and no one sector could solve the issue, SPAC enlisted representatives from various sectors, including health, recreation, sport, education, and government departments to address the problem of physical inactivity.
E4 - Saskatoon’s River Landing: A Destination in the
Making
Presenters: Rob Crosby and Chris Dekker
Saskatoon’s south downtown is going through a major transformation as the area from the riverfront and into the historic Riversdale neighbourhood is redeveloped into Saskatchewan’s premier residential and destination centre. Collectively called River Landing, this innovative City of Saskatoon project will be built over a number of years. This session will review the plans for the area, and will take a closer look at the design, technical, and engineering issues surrounding the redevelopment of the riverfront park.
E5 - Risk Management for Sport and Recreational Facilities
Presenters: BF Lorenzetti and Frank Cowan
Mounting claims, increasing insurance premiums, changing legislation, and the ever-present threat of litigation will be discussed. For municipalities, insurance has become an increasingly complex and expensive issue. What is your risk management plan? Did you know that each province and territory has an Occupiers Liability Act? What are your responsibilities under this act? Representatives from Frank Cowan Company and BFL, two of the largest insurers in Canada, will provide answers to these questions about risk management.
E6 - Who are the People in your Neighbourhood?
Presenter: David Redmond
In 2005, the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA) consulted with recreation practitioners, nongovernmental organizations, and representatives from provincial and territorial parks and recreation associations about the barriers they face in engaging Aboriginal people, new Canadians, girls and young women, people with disabilities, and older adults in recreation. CPRA also set out to determine what initiatives are being undertaken to engage the target populations, what resources are available, and how recreation practitioners have dealt with these challenges.
E7 - The Big Dig – The Wascana Lake Revitalization Project
Presenter: S. P. (Van) Isman
More than 100 years have passed since Regina’s Wascana Lake was originally developed from Wascana Creek, and more than 90 years since the provincial capital was established on its shore. Originally developed as a reservoir, the lake has become the focal point of Wascana Centre, one of the largest urban parks in North America. Through natural processes, the lake was becoming a weedy marsh. With a maximum depth of about five feet, it was no longer suitable for most sporting and recreational activities. Thanks to some people of vision, a determined workforce, and $18 million, the lake was drained, 1.4 million cubic metres were excavated from the lakebed, a new shoreline was defined, new islands were created, the lake was refilled, and a major urban park was reborn. This session will focus on what was done, how it was done, and the benefits of the project.
Saturday, October 21
Program Sessions “F” (8:30 am – 10:30 am)
F1 - Integration and Construction of a Skate Park within a Municipal Park
System
Presenter: Kristopher Parent
French with simultaneous translation
The
popularity of skateboarding and in-line skating has steadily increased over
the years. As a result, cities have identified the development of skate
parks as a priority. This presentation will address a variety of issues
associated with building a successful skate park, such as what type of skate
park is appropriate for the population (size, budget, type of ramps, etc.).
Many other aspects will be discussed, including location, integration with
existing parks, partners, design, and construction methods for northern
climates.
F2 - Thinking Green! Innovative Canadian Recreational Facilities
Presenter: Darryl Condon
English with simultaneous translation
The increase
of operating and maintenance costs and the deterioration of recreation
facilities have created a unique opportunity for Canadian municipalities to
adopt visionary sustainable building strategies for future renovations and
construction. This presentation will offer leading green knowledge, trends,
and technology specific to the rigorous demands of sport, recreation, and
community buildings. Adaptive re-use, natural ventilation, innovative day
lighting, geothermal energy, and energy efficiency will be discussed. Using
case studies of recreation buildings designed with environmental sustainability in mind, Darryl Condon will address the
changing context of recreational facilities in Canada and provide a better
understanding of the benefits and challenges related to utilizing a more
environmentally sustainable approach to recreational facility design.
F3 -
Facilitation: The Leadership Management Style of the 21st Century
«Full»
Presenter:
Alf Grigg
The typical boss of the early 1900s liked to see fear in employees’ faces. By the mid-1900s, the boss focused on building a power base. The most recent management survey by the careers Website monster.ca indicated that “Canadian bosses are halfway to perfection”. What leadership style would achieve the other half of perfection? This session will introduce the concept of facilitation—the missing link. The facilitator’s role, facilitation skills, and how to become a certified professional facilitator will be discussed.
F4 - It Takes a Village: Mobilizing
Communities to be Active through Partnership – The Saskatoon in motion
Journey
Presenters: Linda Martin, Karen Chad, and Catherine Gryba
Representatives from Saskatoon in motion founding organizations will describe and analyze aspects of a university-community partnership focused on physical activity promotion. How partners function as active collaborators in a health promotion initiative and how that can be translated to other initiatives will be explored. This session will identify the challenges of integrating research into a partnership milieu and how to develop strategies to overcome these challenges. Participants will leave with a thorough understanding of a case study in community mobilization for physical activity that combines academic and community partners.
F5 -
Physical Activity: Getting and Keeping Schools in motion
Presenter: Brent Rioux
Over 100 elementary and high schools in the Saskatoon Health Region are in motion. These schools value and actively promote the health benefits of physical activity and support opportunities for students and staff to be physically active on a regular basis. In motion provides resources, training, and consultation to these schools and their champions year after year, along with research and evaluation. This presentation will focus on Saskatoon in motion’s experience in the development, implementation, and sustainability of a strategy to increase physical activity in children and youth.
F6 - Lac La Biche Watershed Project
Presenter: Barry Kolenosky
The Lac La Biche Watershed Project began in 2002 in response to local concerns for the health of the watershed, not only because it is a primary drinking water supply but also for recreational, commercial, environmental, and aesthetic purposes. Before 2002, few ecological studies had been done for this lake and there were no long-term water quality data. All work being done is the result of an initiative by the municipality. This presentation will summarize the research and public outreach activities undertaken as Lakeland County works to ensure the sustainable future of the Lac La Biche watershed.
F7 - The Anne Frank Project
Presenters: Monica Goulet, Donna
Scott, Michael Gertler, and Bevin Bradley
The City of Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, the Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Program (SCYAP), the University of Saskatchewan, and other key partners worked together to bring the ‘Anne Frank in the World 1929–1945’ exhibit from New York to Saskatoon. The Diefenbaker Canada Centre hosted this world-class exhibit during the summer of 2005. One of the goals of hosting this exhibit was to present a catalyst to address racism in our community. What resulted was a very unique partnership and increased harmony. New relationships were forged and the exhibit was visited by over 18,000 people, including many schoolchildren.
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