For the third year in a row, Erin Potter, TCM practitioner, and Melissa Hemphill, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, will be presenting their free Boost Your Immunity Workshop – foods, herbs and habits from a natural perspective.
A statement from Hemphill said this free community event will take place on Tuesday, December 10, at 7 pm in the Macpherson Room of the Community Centre.
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The Fifth Annual Revelstoke Snowflake Wine Fest at RMR’s Sutton Place Lodge on Saturday, November 30, is fast approaching!
Twenty-five BC wineries and Begbie Brewery will be offering tastings of their best products. The Wine Fest includes a live auction with packages appealing to skiers, wine lovers and water lovers. Music will be provided by two local bands and there will be works of art for sale by local and regional artists.
The annual Wine Fest is a major fund-raiser for the Revelstoke Ski Club and has sold out for the last two years.
Tickets are $50. Click here to purchase them online. You can also purchase them from Suzanne Riegel at 250-200-1000 or Sally Carmichael at 250-200-0066.
Click here to view the poster.
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It’s a glorious day in Revelstoke and residents are being encouraged to vote for our city in the annual Ski Town Throw Down as we go head-to-head with the Alaskan resort of Eaglecrest!
We can vote Wednesday, November 20, and Thursday, November 21.
Click here to vote! And be sure to get your friends to vote for Revelstoke, too.
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A national speaker’s tour on genetically engineered foods and human health is coming to Revelstoke on November 29.
The tour will feature a 7 pm presentation by Dr. Thierry Vrain, a retired soil biologist and genetic engineer who, after a 30-year career with Agriculture Canada, no longer supports GE technology. Alarmed by the avalanche of scientific studies out of Europe raising many concerns about the long-term safety of GE foods, including the allergenic potential of GE plants containing rogue proteins and organ damage in rats fed GE foods over a few months, Dr. Vrain is intent on increasing public awareness about this growing issue and having the federal agencies in the US and Canada take notice.
Do you have questions or concerns regarding genetically engineered (GE) foods and human health? If so, this fall and winter, the Society for a GE Free BC and Greenpeace Vancouver Local Group are excited to announce a national speaker’s tour addressing this issue.
Scheduled to run from November 2013 to February 2014, the GE Foods and Human Health: A Canadian Speaker’s Tour seeks to provide the Canadian public with an opportunity to discuss their concerns around GE foods from a scientific and regulatory perspective. The tour is coming to Revelstoke on Friday, November 29th at 7pm at the Senior’s Centre (attached to the Rec Centre). Admission is free, but there will be great prizes to be won when you donate to the tour.
The tour will feature a 7 pm presentation by Dr. Thierry Vrain, a retired soil biologist and genetic engineer who, after a 30-year career with Agriculture Canada, no longer supports GE technology. Alarmed by the avalanche of scientific studies out of Europe raising many concerns about the long-term safety of GE foods, including the allergenic potential of GE plants containing rogue proteins and organ damage in rats fed GE foods over a few months, Vrain is intent on increasing public awareness about this growing issue and having the federal agencies in the US and Canada take notice.
Vrain’s presentation, entitled The Gene Revolution will:
- explain what genetic engineering is, how it began, and how it has progressed. This will be facilitated through a slide presentation, citing the latest scientific studies;
- define the documented effects of GE foods and how that relates to human health; and
- discuss what the future holds for us if GE foods are not stopped.
