Posts tagged Towa Beer

Why I Use My Powers For #Good

springwise: Online portal for parents focuses on work opportunities during school hours We’ve seen several efforts over the years aimed at helping parents connect — or reconnect — with the working world, including numerous child-friendly work spaces. Similar in many ways to AustralianCareerMums, which we covered back in 2008, UK-based Beyond the School Run is a brand-new portal for parents seeking new career or volunteer opportunities during school hours. READ MORE… *This is something I am going to promote heavily in the coming months!

springwise:

Online portal for parents focuses on work opportunities during school hours

We’ve seen several efforts over the years aimed at helping parents connect — or reconnect — with the working world, including numerous child-friendly work spaces. Similar in many ways to AustralianCareerMums, which we covered back in 2008, UK-based Beyond the School Run is a brand-new portal for parents seeking new career or volunteer opportunities during school hours. READ MORE…

*This is something I am going to promote heavily in the coming months!

“A highlight reel of a few of my favourite events, clients, projects and sponsorships that I have produced over the past ten years. Be sure to visit www.misstowa.com for more information on event sponsorship, cause related marketing and corporate partnerships.”

Thanks to Lascelles Films, Kevin Barton for the amazing production.

Alicia Keys returns for HIV/AIDS Gala

Benefit Concert for Stephen Lewis Foundation May 3 at The Sony Centre with Alicia Keys, Angelique Kidjo, Holly Cole, Gloria Reuben and more Also announced: Roundtable discussion with legendary Harry Belafonte Tickets on sale February 5 at noon

TORONTO, ON – Twelve-time Grammy® Award-winner and world-renowned activist Alicia Keys will headline Hope Rising! A Benefit Concert for the Stephen Lewis Foundation presented by CIBC alongside international recording artists Angelique Kidjo, Holly Cole, Gloria Reuben and more. These celebrated artists will take the stage at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on Monday, May 3 at 8 p.m. With the talents of these and other illustrious artists, Hope Rising! shines a celebratory spotlight on grassroots African communities working to turn the tide of HIV and AIDS in Africa. Tickets go on sale Saturday, February 5 at noon and are available via Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.ca, by phone at 1.855.872.7669, or in person at The Sony Centre box office.

Concert tickets start at $150. A limited number of packages are available for premium Hope Rising!

concert seating and access to the official after party for $1,500.

A Canadian tradition of storybooks after the Thanksgiving turkey is done.  October 2010

A Canadian tradition of storybooks after the Thanksgiving turkey is done.  October 2010

This photo is called “conception”because my life would not have happened had the man at the bottom of the stairs (my grandfather) not let these chaps on the plane! My Dad is leaving for Africa with Guy Arnold (at the top of the stairs) as CUSO co-operants … next stop, MEETING MY MOM…the rest is history. Additional note provided by my Dad’s twin brother, Charles Beer… “Towa, You should know that that particular picture is actually from late June 1960. The third person, David Milne, who was also a Pickering student along with David and Guy were headed to what was then British Guiana. It was this trip that whetted David’s interest in development work and that trip led next to his going to Jamaica in 1963 for one year and then in the fall of 1964 to Zambia. Your point in the story is quite valid even if the picture was at an earlier stage of his journey to the birth of one Towela Beer!!! The actual funding for that trip was supported by your paternal grandfather, Harry, and by Uncle Johnny with a few friends also involved. The following year (1961) cousin Ann Skinner and I went to Jamaica for three months as part of an initial group of five Canadian university students. The trip you Dad took in 1960 and the one Ann and I did was just one of the steps that then led to the official founding of CUSO. There were a number of people involved in that development and Guy Arnold was one of them. You should also know that cousin John Wood went to India in 1962 with another organization that also became part of CUSO. Lots of family were involved in those early years. Uncle Charles”

This photo is called “conception”because my life would not have happened had the man at the bottom of the stairs (my grandfather) not let these chaps on the plane! My Dad is leaving for Africa with Guy Arnold (at the top of the stairs) as CUSO co-operants … next stop, MEETING MY MOM…the rest is history.

Additional note provided by my Dad’s twin brother, Charles Beer…

“Towa,
You should know that that particular picture is actually from late June 1960. The third person, David Milne, who was also a Pickering student along with David and Guy were headed to what was then British Guiana. It was this trip that whetted David’s interest in development work and that trip led next to his going to Jamaica in 1963 for one year and then in the fall of 1964 to Zambia. Your point in the story is quite valid even if the picture was at an earlier stage of his journey to the birth of one Towela Beer!!!
The actual funding for that trip was supported by your paternal grandfather, Harry, and by Uncle Johnny with a few friends also involved. The following year (1961) cousin Ann Skinner and I went to Jamaica for three months as part of an initial group of five Canadian university students. The trip you Dad took in 1960 and the one Ann and I did was just one of the steps that then led to the official founding of CUSO.
There were a number of people involved in that development and Guy Arnold was one of them. You should also know that cousin John Wood went to India in 1962 with another organization that also became part of CUSO.
Lots of family were involved in those early years.
Uncle Charles”