Strathroy Rockets Game This Saturday!

Libro Strathroy Presents
Strathroy Rockets Vs. Lambton Shores Predators

When: Saturday, February 25 @ 7:30pm
Where: West Middlesex Memorial Centre (Strathroy Arena)

Come on out for an exciting hockey game as the Lambton Shores Predators showdown against the Rockets at home! 

The Strathroy Libro Y&F Team and I will be there handing out tons of giveaways!

Also, Libro will be handing out prizes through the night, so come on out for some fun and free stuff!

And, if you have questions about Libro or the GO FREE BUNDLE, you can ask the experts who will be at the game!

COME OUT TO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TEAM AND HAVE SOME FUN AT THE LAST ROCKETS REGULAR SEASON HOME GAME!

Kaylie

Essex Farms to Food Banks

Today's Farms to Food Banks event was a success in Essex! Thanks to United Communities Credit Union, families in Windsor and Essex County have healthy meals to last a little while.

WHAT WE CONTRIBUTED

Over 26 000 pounds of produce was donated to 20 local Food Banks. Produce included:
Beef
Eggs
Apples
Potatoes
Misc Other Food & Household Items 

FILL MY CAR CONTEST

I'm proud to announce that on the Young & Free donation side of things, our Facebook photo canned good contest made for over 300 item contributions today! Woo hoo! In just over a week, people posted photos of food items on our Y&F Facebook page and United Communities Credit Union matched the pictured number of items in donations for the food banks! Yeeeeah! Thanks again to everyone who posted! 

The Huron/Perth County Farms to Food Banks is next Wednesday, so the contributions on our wall from yesterday onward will be brought there! We've got over 100 already so let's match our donations from today!

THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS

I'd like to send thanks to our farmer and staff volunteers.
Also, a very special thankyou to Essex District High School's Mr. Amicarelli and his boys phys ed class that lent their time and did all of the heavy lifting today. They really made things go smoothly and quickly!

MEDIA ATTENTION

Watch for articles in the local newspapers on today's event and keep an eye for myself and our other volunteers to see if there's anyone YOU know that was donating their time today for the cause.

CLINTON NEXT WEEK

Next week's Huron/Perth Counties event is next Wednesday morning (Feb 29) at the Clinton United Communities Credit Union Branch (48 Ontario St). I'll be there so come out and help us out!

Kaylie

Mardi Gras Quiz

Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! 

I hope everyone has enjoyed themselves a yummy pączki ("poonchki") or two today! There was a pączki-eating contest in Windsor, Ontario and the winner wolfed down 8 1/2 pastries in only 5 minutes! I can't imagine how his stomach was feeling later today.

I found a fun little quiz on Mardi Gras on the Washington Post website and thought I would share below. (Answers on the bottom of the blog.)

How much do YOU know about Mardi Gras?

1: Carnival season begins on:
(a) February 21, 2012
(b) February 17, 2012
(c) January 6, 2012
(d) January 1, 2012

2: The first Mardi Gras in America took place in:
(a) Galveston, Texas
(b) New Orleans, Louisiana
(c) Mobile, Alabama
(d) New Iberia, Louisiana
(e) Baton Rouge, Louisiana

3: The three colours of Mardi Gras, green and gold, represent:
(a) justice, faith & power
(b) family, god and country
(c) truth, justice and forgiveness
(d) love, peace and happiness

4: By law, Mardi Gras float riders must always wear a mask:
True
False

5: Hidden inside each king cake, the traditional cake of Mardi Gras, there is a:
(a) candle
(b) raisin
(c) crown
(d) plastic baby figurine

6: Which one of these items is traditionally thrown at Mardi Gras spectators?
(a) beads
(b) coconuts
(c) cups
(d) doubloons
(e) all of the above

7: "Super Sunday" in New Orleans is:
(a) The Sunday of parades before Fat Tuesday.
(b) The Sunday closest to St. Joseph's Day, significant to the Mardi Gras Indians.
(c) The Sunday before Easter.
(d) The Sunday when masked Mardi Gras Krewes host masked balls.

8: Mardi Gras is a legal holiday:
(a) Across the US.
(b) In Louisiana, Texas and Alabama.
(c) Only in Louisiana.
(d) Nowhere in the US.

Kaylie

Answers: 1c, 2c, 3a, 4T, 5d, 6e, 7b, 8c

Living Young & Free Show Episode 056: Cheap De-stressing, Conscious Spending & Gone Phishing

Lee in Alabama shares how to de-stress without spending money, Jenn from St. Louis looks at ways to be more conscious about your spending and Matt from Indiana covers the warning signs of phishing scams.

You can also download all of the episodes as a podcast from iTunes and you can watch all previous shows!

The Y&F Ontario Team

Happy Family Day!

Happy 5th Anniversary of Family Day in Ontario! 

I don't know about you guys, but I didn't realize that Family Day isn't celebrated by all of Canada. It's a holiday that started in Alberta in 1990 to reflect the values of the pioneers who founded Alberta. In 2007, Saskatchewan named Family Day an official holiday and the following year, we did too!

We should consider ourselves lucky that we have a nice holiday to break up the stretch between Christmas and Easter!

I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday and doing something fun with your family (or friends, or whoever)! If you're inside and bored, check out my blog post about things to do today around Ontario!

Kaylie