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THE TREE PRESS MAY 2, 1996
                   A Healthy Community Includes Us All!
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What is a Healthy & Sustainable Community?
Promotes local and equal opportunity for employment, limits income leaving the community and gains maximum local value from resource use. It’s economy is based on the sustainable harvest and conservation of resources and local ownership. The vision for this Committee of Prince George as a healthy and sustainable community, is a city which:
• has a strong community focus and sense of civic pride;
• develops and preserves a clean, safe, accessible, attractive, and sustainable environment;
• offers equal access to health, housing, education, employment, recreation, and the arts;
• provides access to a wide variety of services that are intergenerational, accessible, supportive, coordinated, planned, responsive to change, and effective;
• encourages diversity and choices in the delivery of support programs that promote health & sustainability, are prevention oriented, and community based; and
• develops and maintains a comprehensive data base for planning and evaluation.
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  Friday, Saturday & Sundc
 Friday, May 3,1996
  8:00am Breakfast - Guest Speaker: John McKnight “A Healthy Community Includes us All -Celebrating Community Gifts”
        - (a St. Michael’s Church by Invitation Only - Sponsored by the Native Friendship
        Centre
        - different Community groups and agencies have been asked to invite people who may not otherwise get the chance to share their issues
9:00am - 4:00pm School Health Conference: "Operation Health"
     - (a Prince George Civic Centre
     - designed to bring teams of people together from School District #57 to learn, share and promote comprehensive school health education
     - contact: Rene Liddicoat 565-7311
12:00noon - 1:30pm Chamber of Commerce Lunch Guest Speaker: John McKnight
     - “Building A Community That Cares”
     - @ the Coast Inn of the North
 1:00pm Hart Highlands Choir
 2:00pm Tony White & The Heavyweights
 1:00pm - 6:00pm Community Resource Fair
      - will bring together organizations, agencies and government departments for citizens to explore the components of a healthy community
      - discover: What is good about Prince George?                       -What would make Prince George healthier?
        How can I become involved to create solutions for a healthy Prince George?
 1:00pm - 6:00pm Kids Maps “M Community: Healthy Prince George”
      - grades 4, 5 & 6 have completed over 200 posters that will be on display throughout weekend
      - contact: Greg Halseth 960-5826
 1:00pm - 6:00pm Poster Contest - Human Growth & Development
      - science classes from Prince George schools have entered posters on the topics of “How to prevent a cold” or “How to prevent the spread of germs.”
      - Mayor Backhouse to judge @ 3:30pm
      - contact: Mary Jago 563-0544
Saturday, May 4,1996
 10:00am - 5:00pm Community Resource Fair
      - booth displays continue
      - posters and maps still on display
EVENTS HWPENIII
No Longer Alone: A Forum on Mental Health and the Church
• General Meeting: 7:30am @ Westwood Mennonite Church
• Sponsored by the Prince George Ministerial Association
• For information call: 562-3711
 Child Care Suppo
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 • 9:30am - ll:30ai
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                                                                                                    • @ Van Bien Trair pm - 9:30 pm) - P
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