Volume 33 Issue 8 August 2013 www.cosmoindustries.com

A booth at the Saskatoon Exhibition was pro-vided to Cosmo by Prairieland Park through their Community Partner program. Thousands of people viewed our “Penny For Your Thoughts” display and hundreds stopped to learn more about Cosmo with many making do-nations for our Cosmo Renewal Project. We even sold over 100 Kisik Paper Angel Christmas Ornaments! It was a great week with a number of business owners telling us that they would love to sell the Kisik ornaments at their stores this win-ter. Cosmo’s recreation staff took groups of par-ticipants through the Exhibition on a daily basis and they would occasionally stop by and rest at the booth. They really enjoyed talking to the passersby. We’d like to thank all of the staff and Cosmo’s Board members who volunteered to man the booth for the week. Anyone who would like to purchase a Kisik Pa-per Angel glass ornament can pick one up at the reception desk at Cosmo for $10 each.

KISIK A HIT AT THE EX

MINI-GOLF FOR COSMO The ‘Penny For Your Thoughts’ campaign comes to an end on September 28th and we have reached half of our goal of $50,000. To help reach our objective, Market Mall is holding a fun mini-golf event on September 21st. Make up a team of 4 and show up between 9:30 am and 5 pm. The cost is only $24 per team. Not only will you have a great time, you’ll get a chance to pick up some prizes. If you have some pennies hid-den away, this will be a good time to bring them along.

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Enjoy a

PANCAKE BREAKFAST in support of Cosmo’s renewal

project

Sunday, September 15th from 9 am – 12 noon

Hosted by:

Nutana Legion (#362) 3021 Louise Street

306-374-3292

Only $5.00

Includes pancakes with fresh berry sauces, custard,

syrup, sausage, and coffee

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On Thursday, August 8th, Billy Dyck, Diane Brooks, and Robert Buziak were fortunate to go to the Ex. We enjoyed walking around and looking at all of the rides and games, and ran into some of our friends from Life Skills at the Giant Wheel. Robert was excited to go on the ride with them, as it was one of his goals when he found out he was going to the Ex! We then made our way to the merry-go-round

and rode it four times! Diane, Robert, and Bill all really enjoyed this ride and kept talking about how much fun they were having. They also got the chance to grab a rubber duck and each won a prize! Thank you to Shriners for the opportunity to go to the Ex. Blair Turner Seniors’ Life Enrichment Division

HEY STUDENTS!

We don’t mean to remind you of

school while you’re still on sum-

mer holidays, but...Cosmo is a great way to complete your Chris-

tian Ethics hours.

Here are some fun ways you can

help out:

Help out with recreational out-ings

Lend a hand to our baking

groups Play board games with partici-

pants Shoot some hoops with partici-

pants

Play Wii with participants Read with our participants

Find out what volunteer opportu-nity is right for you!

volunteers@cosmoindustries.com 306-664-3158

Through negotiations with City Administration, Cosmopolitan Industries has crafted a recycling program for Multi Unit Resi-dences. This program was pre-sented to City Council on August 14th, and was unanimously en-dorsed and will now move to the

public consultation phase before returning to City Council for final approval. Cosmo is excited to present our comprehensive package to the residents of the city at these consultations which will likely take place in late Sep-tember or early October.

MULTI UNIT RESIDENTIAL RECYCLING UPDATE

FUN TIME AT THE EX!

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PET PAGEANT CONTEST

In July, the Social Committee held a Pet Pageant Photo Contest as a team build-ing event. Staff submitted their favourite photos of their pets in three different categories. The lucky winners received a Tim Hor-ton’s Gift Card. Watch out this fall for another team building event coming to Cosmo! And the winners are...

Congratulations to new

Parents Brian & Carrie Krawetz

who welcomed a baby girl

Emma Jean

9 lbs, 9 oz

21 ¼ inches long Born on August 7th

A big thank you goes out to

Linda Risling and Mother

Earth Greenhouse for the do-

nation of the beautiful plants

decorating the front of

Cosmo!

Funniest Pet Debbie Chodak

Cutest Pet Nicole Hollingshead

Look a like Melanie Pearson

Above: Shawn Cherpin, Darryl Thompson, Ian Cushon and Craig Peters were all smiles when they had the pleasure of meeting our very own Riders’ quarterback, Darian Durant, during a Top of the Rock outing to Regina earlier this month.

2013 Cosmo Summer Windup

GREY CUP Themed event

Entertainment includes a dance in the gym, rock band in

Life Skills, football movie in Seniors, crafts, games and

bingo in Pathways and a football toss!

Lunch of chili, garlic toast and peanut butter squares

will be served for participants.

Wear your

favourite team’s

jersey!

Friday September 6th

1-3 pm

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We are currently seeking

DONATIONS of supplies to help enhance

volunteer and avocational

programs.

All donations can be

forwarded to Chantal or

Maegen

Unopened beauty

supplies

Books

Board games

Craft supplies

THANKS

This summer, two wonderful vol-unteers from Okami Martial Arts taught a few of our participants basic karate! Sensei Crystal brought many different martial arts weapons for us to practice with! We had a lot of fun learning the techniques and to how to count to ten in Japanese! After our six weeks of training, Sensei Crystal presented each of us with our own karate headband! Thank you again to Crystal and Sarah for your time and training. We can’t wait to start again this September! Maegen Urdal Avocational Fitness and Leisure Programmer Chantal Gosselin Coordinator of Volunteer Services

COSMO KARATE CLUB

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New Staff Edna Da Silva Moreira– Casual

Brittani Olson-Fulltime- Life Skills Alvin Gelliod-Casual Riza Parcasio-Casual

Teesha MacKenzie-Term-Community Enriched Support

Cheryl Skwara-Fulltime-Pathways

Welcome Back D’Arcy Hagglund-Life Skills

Changes

Debbie Popovici-Fulltime-Pathways Lorena Singh-Fulltime-Pathways

Chantal Gosselin-Fulltime-Volunteer Coordinator

Rhenelyn Dela Cruz-Term-Personal Supports

Goodbye

Josh Howie Priyanka Yadav Jennifer Olynyk

Blair Turner Amanda Pfeiffer

Olivia Ecker Jennifer Graefer

Jennie Vessey Destiny Olson

Leanne Matheson Annabelle Diadio

Arentxa Lemus Michelle Lepage

Alaina Jack

On Wednesday August 21, the Life Skills Division celebrated summer with an all day sports theme event! A warm, sunny day brought about great fun with water balloons and outdoor Frisbee. Everyone en-joyed socializing outside in a shaded park area in ideal summer conditions. Other participants en-joyed a sensory glow bowling activ-ity during the morning as well. This led up to the big hit at lunch time with a barbeque in which burgers, fries, ice cream sundaes, and jello

was served! There were lots of smiles during lunch time, since a barbeque is something everyone seems to enjoy during the sum-mer. Many got dressed up in sports inspired attire, making this a color-ful event. The afternoon featured a sports theme movie in the gym on the big screen! Lots of fun! Keith Fisher Life Skills Training Division

LIFE SKILLS SPORTS DAY

Cosmo will be

closed on Monday,

September 2nd

Happy long

weekend!

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COSMO VISITS THE

SASKATOON EX August 6-11 2013