uLog #36 - It Really Is All About Community!
When I found out that a "Call to Arms" had been sent throughout @thealliance family I wasn't really sure how to contribute, at first. I mean I knew I could write any post and donate the proceeds to @youareHOPE but I really wanted to focus on something to do with community. The funny thing is I was sitting in Carling Heights Optimist Community center while I was pondering this. LOL!! Finally, while walking down the hall towards the pool I started really looking around. "How could I have missed all this?"
A whiteboard for everyone to enjoy coloring!!
A community painted on the wall!!
The Community built Fairy Gardens!
All photos were taken by @artemisnorth
My husband and I are here once or twice a week yet I've not really noticed the small things that make it a family-focused community center.
A community member built pretty boxes to plant fairy gardens then engaged the Day Camp children to use their imaginations and plant the gardens. Adorable! There are several Rock stickers on the hall floor with fun things to do relating to the fairy gardens.
There are many floor stickers in both the main lobby, where many tables are set up to sit and play cards or whatever while you're waiting for activities, and the hall to the pool. They are so fun! I can imagine bored little ones playing along. There's even a sticker of a log and several activity stickers around it for playing games. It's actually quite ingenious!
I can't believe I haven't thought about sharing this with the Steem Community before this point.
Even the stairs leading up to the pool viewing area have activities to occupy young minds!
The Carling Heights Community Center was originally built as the community center for the Canadian Forces Base locally known as "Wolseley Barracks". The land was sold to the city at some point, possibly during the 80's, but I learned that via word of mouth so I'm not sure. According to my "Army Bratt" friend, who grew up in a military family, the center hasn't changed much over the years.
Off center photo but I realized I didn't have any others...LOL!
The Carling Heights Optimist Community Center has most of the amenities you would ever need but my husband and I only use the pool. I am thinking about taking a Tai Chi class this winter, something I've always wanted to do.
If you are interested in the Community Center here's their website. If you'd like to look a little further here's a good site about the Carling Community and if you are interested in the history of the Canadian Forces Base this site is a good start.
So get out into your Community and start looking around! I bet you'll be surprised what you find!
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Until next time friends....
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This is KILLING my internal OCD...
Are they trying to confuse us?
I took one day of French in college, and it began with the counting. I signed up on registration day because a cutie was in line. I sat behind her and asked her out on the first day of classes. She said no. The geology course I took after dropping French that next day, never came in handy at all. :D
LOL, this bugged me too as soon as I saw it. ;-)
The funny thing is, when I went to Luxembourg, I was already signed up to take German classes, thanks to the German lawyer/banker for whom I was going to do legal research.
It took me roughly a nanosecond to realize that most of what you hear spoken in the street is not German, or even Luxembourgish (which is a German dialect), but French.
C'est la vie.
And did you already speak French?
LOL, I wish, but no, not worth a damn. My French was, and remains, fairly abysmal, though it remains a language that both Marek and I would love to learn.
But the funny thing about the French, despite all I was told about them "hating Americans," is that that's a complete fallacy. They do dislike being treated rudely, and are masters and handing it right back, which in context I find completely understandable. I dislike rude Americans too. ;-)
But the French I met in Europe, whether in France, Luxembourg or elsewhere, were exceptionally nice people, and went out of their way to be nice to me as I attempted to speak their language, just because I tried.
The few words and phrases I speak I can pronounce fairly well, though I have nowhere near enough of a vocabulary to hold even a meager conversation, but managed to communicate at least marginally through a combination of a handy phrase book, charades and pointing.
I have no doubt that, for an onlooker fluent in both languages, it was probably pretty hilarious. ;-)
I've never been to Europe but it sounds wònderful. I've stryggled to learn french but it's never "stuck" so I'm sure they'd have a good giggle...it's nice to know they are good about it. Lol... I sometimes DO need to know where the bathroom is. Lol
That messed with my OCD, too... 😆
LOL!!! It's nice to know I wasn't the only one who saw this! Ahh...community!
lmfaooooo corkyyyy hahahah
LOL!!! I wondered if anyone would notice! You didn't miss much.....French is a bitch! LOL!
Turns out the girl was too! Just kidding, I actually ended up dating her later anyway :)
100% upvote for @youarehope 💚
That looks like a wonderful community center, @artemisnorth, and a great place to hang! Thanks for the tour! 😊
Thank you @thekittygirl! I think I will have to start looking around me more often!
Looks like a great community center, it seems in at least some areas of the states is much more sports focused then anything but the wall painting/coloring idea is my fave idea , oh wait the fairy garden is pretty rad and cute too fo sho!
Hey Battle! It really is a cool place. It's a friendly environment. We usually get there an hour early and play cards....like a mini date and we can watch the karate class. Lol!
What a beautiful initiative. Thank you for sharing this!
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Thanks! Glad you stopped by!
If you mean just the picture, then 4, but if you include individual letters, then ten. And I'm with @sircork and @thekittygirl, that filing system is top notch.
HAHA the stairs.
Seriously, do the Tai Chi class. It's awesome. I've been doing Tai Chi for nearly 20 years, its amazing!!!
Wonderful center...wish we had something like that around here.
Cheers to YouAreHope.com :)
great post artemis! love this!! the whiteboard is great and sweet photos. ty for sharing
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