Free and Low-cost Things to Do in Windsor and Essex County

What	Cost	How do I get there?	Details
Ojibway Nature Centre	free admission, free parking	South Windsor 7 bus goes there.	Watch this movie
Windsor Folk Music and Arts Society	donation appreciated	Transway 1C, Crosstown 2	First Friday of every month at MacKenzie Hall (Sandwich)
Lee Lee Hats	free	Library	Help make hats for hospitalized babies.
Knit Night at Levigator Press	free - tea and snacks	Crosstown 2
Riverside Chess Club	free	Riverside Library, bus 2
DWCC Bike Clinics	free	Wigle Park, Bruce Park (downtown)
Community Gardens	free	Wigle, Bruce, Glengarry (downtown)
Women's Drop-in Coffee and Social (Games, etc.)	free	Downtown Windsor Community Collaborative
English Practice	free	Central Library, 1A	Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m.
Life After Fifty (Seniors Centre)	Yearly membership + class fees	Transway 1C, Dominion 5 bus	Variety of activities, many of them free after membership
City of Windsor Activity Guide	cost varies	locations vary	See catalog.
Windsor Summer Festivals	Some free, some free for seniors
Windsor PublicLibrary	free	downtown, 1A	books, DVDs, periodicals, audiobooks, etc.
YMCA classes	subsidized memberships available	downtown, bus 2	See schedule.

Remember to check the bulletin board at the library for lots more free stuff happening every month!

NAYDO Conference

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Please try again to watch the NAYDO Philanthropy Live video starring YMCA students!

CLICK HERE.

Stewards of the Earth

It's Earth Month! April 22 is Earth Day. Not only that, but YOU told me that you want to learn more about Canadian culture. You want to fit in here and you want to know what is polite and what is rude in Canadian society.

So this week we talked about cultural norms in our first countries versus Canada with regard to waste disposal. Where can we put our gum? Where can we spit? Can we put a wet tea bag in the blue bin?

We shared answers to these and other discussion questions in small groups. The next day, we tackled these guidelines.  We made sentences:

_________ go/goes in the red box.
_________ go/goes in the blue box.
You can't recycle _____________.
You have to take ____________ to the drop-off depot.

Someone asked what the drop-off depot is. We looked at it on the map and watched this video explaining how to drop stuff off. We also learned that you can get FREE paint at the depot--but you can't be very picky about what colour you get!

Here is an easy conversation about recycling.
Here is an easy conversation about Earth Day.

Friday we read about Dan Phillips, a Texas man who helps build affordable houses from reclaimed materials. This is a great example of RE-USING. Here is his TED Talk. You can choose subtitles in your language to help follow along.