ACYL heading to Gros Morne National Park, NL – May 21, 2009 – May 24, 2009
ACYL Canoe Cove was full. Sign up now for Killdevil!
ACYL launching a new ‘How Co-operative are You’ Challenge! WIN ONE OF 4 Ipod Touch! See details at ACYL.COOP
ACYL launches new blog!!! Blogs.acyl.coop Check out what ACYL are saying about what is important to them!!
Fast Co-op Facts
Is Atlantic Canada ready for this? Car sharing is an alternative to owning your own car. Car sharing is an environmentally responsible and economically sound choice for many people's mobility needs. Car sharing is an environmentally sustainable way to improve air quality, reduce stresses on green space and eliminate many non-point sources of pollution. See www.victoriacarshare.ca
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The media, these days, has created a mold of what women “should be” in this society. It’s sickening. Since when do girls need to be perfect to be loved? When I was 13 I attended a modeling competition. While standing in line to talk to one of the companies for a call back I over heard them talking to one of the girls in front of me. She was a tall and slender girl. One of the skinniest girls I’ve met. I stood horrified as they told this willowy girl that she needed to lose 2 inches off her waist because she was “over weight”. The average height and weight for a model is 5’10” and 110 lbs. and the height and weight for the average women is 5’4” and 145 lbs. That’s a big difference. Because of things like this we have girls who diet at ages as young as 10. Subsequently girls develop eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and other dietary conditions. When I was younger I looked up to Hilary Duff. When she used to be in the show Lizzi McGuire she would say that it was okay to be a little bit bigger. She didn’t let the media bring her down and she didn’t care what other people thought of her. A couple years ago she came to Moncton and I had the chance to meet her. Not only was she thin but she was unhealthy skinny. I felt like giving her a Big Mac. The media has conquered over most of us and it’s time we fight back. Don’t let the media effect how you feel because really those girls in the ads aren’t real. At one point they probably looked just like you or me but the people who created that ad used a really good program called photo shop. Unfortunately for the rest of us, photo shop can’t help us get ready in the morning so I guess we’re just going to have to ignore that brainwashing media and hope he goes away. Inside every girl there’s something beautiful that make-up can never replicate, something that photo shop can’t fake. Let that be what you embrace, not what the media says you should be.
THE WALL
The Silver Wave Film Festival is putting out a call to all classrooms and students in New Brunswick to submit youth videos in French (with English Subtitles) or English 2 minutes in length in any genre, covering any topic. This contest is open to youth between 8 years and 15 years old. Students can do: drama, documentary, music video, animation, claymation, experimental or an actual trailer for Silver Wave! If the videos submitted are accepted, they will be screened in the Silver Wave 09 Youth Screening Showcase and the group of youth filmmakers will get bunch of free stuff and of course the youth screening program at next year's festival as well as any other youth screening events that are appropriate for youth viewing.
It's simple. We give you $100 of real money and challenge you to make as much profit as you can in just one week. Are you up for the challenge?
Produce a masterwork of fiction in three short days. The 3-Day Novel Contest is a thrill, a grind, and an awesome creative experience. It has inspired thousands of first drafts and countless good ideas. How many crazed plotlines, coffee-stained pages, pangs of doubt and moments of genius will this year’s contest bring forth? And what will you think up under pressure?
Explore is a five-week program that lets you discover another region of Canada while improving your knowledge of French.
Credit Unions around the world!
Talent night at ACYL Canoe Cove?
THE ‘GOOD STUFF’
ASCU recognizes that promoting education, through the provision of financial assistance to qualified students, is important. In order to do our part to help you as you prepare to go to university or college, we’ve created a bursary. Each year we will give up to 10 bursaries valued at $500. This bursary is available to ASCU owners, or family members of an owner, who live within the service area of ASCU and have been accepted into a full-time program at a university or community college.
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The Nova Scotia Co-operative Youth Alliance is a provincial youth co-operative designed to promote co-operative values and practices throughout communities in Nova Scotia. Sponsored by the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, NSCYA helps youth and co-operatives in our province develop long lasting relationship to help promote youth involvement and young membership. NSCYA assists youth and co-operatives in building strong business networks through Co-operative Leadership Seminars, Co-operative Internships, monthly meetings, Co-operative Youth Conferences and community events. Benoit, link photo to http://nscya.wetpaint.com
