I am very proud to announce a family oriented variety show that will be held at the Richelieu Centre In Ottawa on October 23 from 1-4 pm. It will be a fun filled afternoon with a magician, a standup comic, three musicians and a choir. There will be a silent auction, door prizes and refreshments, all for the low price of $30. Children 12 and under are admitted free, but we would ask for a donation towards our new project. All proceeds will go to Plan Canada who will direct every cent to help young women in Africa start small businesses. As if that isn’t good enough, the federal government will contrinute $3 for every $1 we raise to the project.Check out the lineup on the poster: Elliott the Magician, Al Tambay, Peter Voith, Barb Myers, a standup comic to be announced and the

Beyond Redemption Choir. Carly D from DAWG FM has agreed to MC. Come out and join us at this fantastic event!! It will be a lot of fun and I expect tickets to go fast. I am looking forward to seeing you there.

Details and tickets at:educationforafricavarietyshow.blogspot.com

Here is a brief video of the launch of Kilimanjaro and Beyond, which took place on August 25 at Collected Works in Ottawa, Canada.

Book Launch

Thank you to everyone who helped to make our golf tournament a success yesterday.  For the first time in three years of holding the event, it didn’t rain!! We have around $2500 more to help the young women of Tanzania start small businesses.  Final numbers should be posted this week.

Everyone who played, volunteered, bought auction items and participated in various games and especially organizor Debbie Harbridge…YOU ROCK!!

A review has been posted on Salem-News.com.  Check it out on the Book Review tab.

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Kilimanjaro-Beyond-Life-Changing-Journey-Finlay/dp/1457503921/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313424145&sr=8-1

Barnes and Noble

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Kilimanjaro-and-Beyond/Barry-Finlay/e/9781457503924?page=index&prod=univ&choice=allproducts&query=978-145750-392-4&flag=False&pos=-1&box=978-145750-392-4&ugrp=1

Apple

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/kilimanjaro-beyond-a-life/id453560704?mt=11

Finally!! Kilimanjaro and Beyond – A Life-Changing Journey will be launched at Collected Works, 1242 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario tonight at 7 PM. Chris and I will be on hand to talk about the book and chat with everyone who shows up. I hope to see you there.

Canada lost a dedicated and honest politician yesterday. In a day and age when partisanship and getting reelected seem to get in the way of what is good for the people, I was saddened to learn of the New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton’s passing of cancer. Everyone was aware he had it, but no-one thought he would go this quickly.

While I disagree with many of the NDP’s policies, I admired Jack Layton as a charistmatic leader and someone who really loved his country and who tried desperately to do what he thought to be the right thing for the nation.

In his final note to Canadians, he said, “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Words to live by.

R.I.P. Jack Layton!

The final reports are in from Africa and they can be read in their entirety under the Link ‘Funds Raised to Date’ on the right.

For those of you with a NEO reader on your phone, this is a QR code for my Facebook page.