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Summer Career Placement Job Opportunity

ANKORS

is NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

     for an AIDS WALK For Life COORDINATOR

The AIDS WALK For Life Coordinator will coordinate, develop and organize aspects of the 2012 AIDS WALK for Life in Nelson.  The AIDS WALK is the premier fund raising event of the year to support people living with HIV/AIDS in the region.  The AIDS Walk for Life coordination includes the organization of volunteers, events site, media, entertainment, recruitment of walkers, teams and speakers, food and donations for prizes and silent auction.

Experience with events planning, media communications and fundraising are an asset.

32hrs/wk at $14/hr – Start date: As soon as suitable candidate is hired.  End date: August 30^th.

Send in your resume ASAP as this is a popular summer career placement position.

This job opportunity is supported by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

In order to qualify for this job position, you must have been registered as a full-time student this past academic year and you must intend to return to school next year.  Those between the ages of 17 and 30 years are eligible to apply for this position.

Aboriginal students and students with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Please send resumes to:

AIDS Walk

c/o ANKORS

101 Baker St.

Nelson, BC

V1L 4H1

Fax# 505-5507or Email: information@ankors.bc.ca

For more information, please contact Cheryl or Karen @ 505-5506

 If you have volunteered with ANKORS or for an ANKORS event, such as the annual AIDS Walk, you are invited!

Where? At ANKORS. 101 Baker Street, Nelson BC

Who? Volunteers

ANKORS thanks everyone for helping make the 17th annual AIDS Walk such a wonderful success. It would not have been the same without you.

SIGHTS:
a beautiful day, provided by the lovely Kootenays … thank you for not raining, thereby breaking a several year tradition of rain for the walk.

SOUNDS:
Eddy Music for the PA system (Chloe for delivering it to the park and Frank for setting it up), Moving Mosaic Samba Band for getting us to the park with good rhythm and a party atmosphere, White Lightning Blues Band for the great music while we ate such yummy food (getting to that next), AND Amberstar Pyper for the song … it’s always a pleasure to hear you sing.

MORE SOUNDS … OUR WONDERFUL GUEST SPEAKERS:
Alex Atamanenko, MP BC Southern Interior; Michelle Mungall, MLA Nelson-Creston; Cynthia Quinn-Young for the Grans To Grans; Karen Leman, ANKORS Support and Outreach Worker.

TASTES:
Amanda’s restaurant for the burgers, the Kootenay Baker for the buns, Kootenay Co-op for the veggie burgers and dogs, buns and condiments, Oso Negro for the amazingly good coffee and Burl from the IBEW for the coffee urns, Remedy’s Pharmacy for the water to keep us all well hydrated along the way, Save-on Foods for the grocery gift card, Safeway for the grocery gift card, Extra Foods for the grocery gift card and Walmart for the gift card with which we bought the plates, cups and cutlery.

TOUCHED … BY THE GENEROSITY OF THOSE WHO DONATED PRIZES AND SILENT AUCTION ITEMS:
Araya Day Spa, Beyond the Fringe, Community Acupuncture Clinic, Cowan Office Supplies, Deanna McClure RMT, Enso Hair Design, Erik Treijs RMT, Eryn Prospero Pottery (beautiful mug), Global Underground, Love of Shiva, Main Street Diner, Malcolm Elliott RMT, Maplerose, Max & Irma’s Restaurant, Michael Kirby RMT, Mountain Baby, Mountain Waters Spa, NDCC (2 swim passes), Otter Books, Outer Clove Café, Secret Garden, Still Eagle, Thor’s Pizza, Thru the Looking Glass, Vadim Kristopher Hair Salon and Waves Hair Design.

VOLUNTEERS (we couldn’t do it without you!):
Heather, Maxx and all the folks who helped at the registration; Tara for doing the warm-up, David Boyd for saying an opening blessing, all the marshalls who kept us safe along the way: Rob, Joshua, Kirk, Tara, Serge and Carmen; Don Crowe and the cooking crew: Brad, Drew, Glen, Ingrid, Richard, Jason and Malcolm.

OTHERS:
Nelson Fire Department for hanging the AIDS Walk banner, City of Nelson for the street barricades, Nelson & District Community Complex for the use of the Rotary shelter and BBQ at Lakeside Park, Nelson City Police for the escort,

And to anyone whom i have missed: we thank you and appreciate you even if we have somehow neglected to record your name here.

What a marvelous community we are all part of … Thank you, thank you, thank you.

AIDS Walk for Life September 17^th, 2011

Saturday, September 17^th will mark the 17^th annual AIDS Walk for Life held here in Nelson BC.  Stretching back to the Walk’s humble beginnings in 1994 in Nelson with four walkers initially participating, flash forward to this year where we anticipate over 80 people taking part in this event of awareness, tribute and opportunity to raise money to further support those living with this life long and debilitating disease.  This annual event is the single largest fundraiser in support of those living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS in the Kootenay Boundary and throughout Canada as well.

Here in BC we are privileged to have the BC Centre of Excellence on the cutting edge of research and programs in the global fight against the HIV virus.  Dr. Julio Montaner’s Treatment as Prevention strategy has been widely recognized as the leading initiative towards a goal of aggressively limiting new infections and getting immediate treatment for those that are positive.  Unfortunately, these immediate services are not accessible to our rural communities.  The cost of travel and support to visit HIV specialists in Vancouver can be out of reach for people struggling with poverty, illness and other socio-economic factors.  Therefore, the need to continue to raise money and awareness to help support those in our community that are living with these challenges is upon us.  The monies raised help us help people with travel costs, accommodation, food and health supplement needs.

With this in mind we urge the community of Nelson to come out and support the 2011 Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life on Saturday, September 17^th.  Please call for more information, pledge sheets, and/or support: ANKORS (250) 505-5506.

Please rush down to 101 Baker for your very own free SAVE THE DATE  AIDS Walk for Life 2011 fridge magnet!!  Check the ANKORS website for more information on the AIDS Walk.