Playing For Change - Chanda Mama

Music video by Playing For Change performing Chanda Mama. (C) 2009 Concord Music Group, Inc.

Bike Donation Day scheduled in Vacaville

If you have unwanted bicycles in your garage, you can give them a new home on April 20, the city's Bicycle Donation Day.
Between 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the drop-off sites will be the parking lots at Vacaville High School, 100 W. Monte Vista Ave., and Will C. Wood High, 998 Marshall Road.

All bike sizes are accepted, including those with training wheels, and donations may be bicycles, tricycles, scooters and pushbikes, even if they need repair.

Organizers -- including Vacaville Unified, Vacaville REACH Youth Coalition, California Medical Facility, The Father's House and Ray's Cycle, among others -- also seek cash donations to buy helmets and bike pumps.

The day is an offshoot of the school district's Summer Community Feeding Program, which delivers lunch meals to low-income children throughout Vacaville.

"This year our program hopes to once again promote fitness by providing bicycles to kinds in those areas who need one," said Judith Franco, a REACH program coordinator.

For more information about bike donations, contact Franco, call 449-1859.

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_22994468/bike-donation-day-scheduled-vacaville

The Inside Scoop: Yippie Yogurt's Ribbon Cutting Celebration Event

 

RIBBON CUTTING CELEBRATION!

 

YOU ARE INVITED 

to the Yippie Yogurt® Job Training Center's

Ribbon Cutting Celebration

on Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12noon - 2pm
with Ribbon Cutting at 1:00pm

 

There will be FREE small Yummy Yippie Yogurt

for the first 50 customers

Books and Stuffed Animals for the kids;

Face Painting, Cupcake walk, Balloons and More!

 

Yippie Yogurt® is a true community resource helping our most

disadvantaged youth gain employment skills and work experience.

  

"We hope you will come!"

 

Yippie Yogurt® is located at 1955 West Texas Street, #4 in Fairfield (Park in FoodMaxx parking lot).  Yippie Yogurt® is a program of the Yippie Foundation and is a true community resource helping our most disadvantaged youth gain employment skills and work experience.  Hope you will come!  Sponsored in part by Travis Credit Union and Dannon’s YoCream Yogurt.

 

 

 

3rd Annual Earth Day Solano Event Slates Garbage Art Projects and Much More

Public welcomed to participate in Saturday, April 20th

experience with Solano County leaders

Suisun City, CA - Mission SOLANO, local artists from the Fairfield Visual Arts Association and the Lawler House Gallery, along with Earth Day Solano volunteers, will create six pieces of unique “garbage art”, created from the trash collected throughout Suisun City on Earth Day Solano, Saturday, April 20th from 10 am – 2 pm.

Three years ago the Earth Day Solano vision, inspired by the gorgeous downtown waterfront in Suisun City, blossomed:

You allowed us to clean up your discarded, thrown away,

trampled-on refuse; we recycled it and now present you with

a piece of art, more beautiful than you thought you could imagine.

This year’s Earth Day Solano art project – six pieces of original art created on the spot on Earth Day April 20th using trash collected from Suisun City targeted cleanup zones – glows as a tangible expression of the Mission SOLANO vision for recycling people. Inspired by the documentary “Waste Land” by artist Vik Muniz, artists came together under the leadership of artist, Aria Zuloaga to plan the art project. “

After watching the movie Waste Land, a group of us from Lawler House Gallery and the Fairfield Visual Arts Association collaborated to create the concept and images for six temporary live art installations on April 20th,” Zuloaga reflects. “We believed in this project from the beginning and after weeks of preparation we’re anxious to see the images and the art unfold. It is a labor of love for our community and for our planet.”

Art became a central part of Earth Day Solano in 2012, when Gilbert Rangel, local esteemed recycled materials artist, created a piece of recycled metals art now on permanent display in the city chambers of Suisun City (see below).

 

For additional details on the Earth Day Solano April 20th event, including trash cleanup, Kayaks 4 Kare sprint races, tree planting, Earth Day oratorical competition, 30 participating vendor booths and more, visit www.earthdaysolano.org

To learn more about Mission SOLANO programs, please visit www.missionsolano.org or call 707-425-FOOD (3663). Lawler House Gallery information can be found at http://www.lawlerhousegallery.org/.

The hidden power of smiling - Ron Gutman

Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live -- and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.

Salvation Army Today - April 04, 2013

Art therapy in Australia, breaking ground in Texas, and more on this week's Salvation Army Today.

Want to be happier? Stay in the moment - Matt Killingsworth

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/want-to-be-happier-stay-in-the-moment-matt-killingsworth

When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. (Filmed at TEDxCambridge.)