 ***VERY IMPORTANT*** Car Pride Parade Rules and regulations: If you are watching our Spruce Grove GSA Pride Parade, please make sure you maintain ALL Social Distancing Guidelines. Space yourselves apart by 6 feet. No Public gatherings of more than 50 people.
When decorating your vehicle please come with your decorations pre-assembled, balloons inflated and tied, signs painted. Minimize the amount of assembly in the parking lot. We will be leaving at 1:00pm!
Everyone else is to PLEASE REMAIN in THEIR CARS.
Sincerely Jody Tucker (she/her) sprucegrovegsasociety.org facebook.com/sprucegrovegsa instagram.com/sprucegrovegsa The Spruce Grove GSA Society respectfully acknowledges that we are situated in Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis people. June 2020, Spruce Grove What’s Happening!
The Spruce Grove GSA Society respectfully acknowledges that we are situated in Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis people. What’s Happening! Currently our regular GSA is temporarily postponed, due to the outbreak of Covid 19, and the recommendations of all levels of our governments. We do not take the decision to postpone even one meeting of a Safe Space lightly, and we are working hard to try and find safe ways for everyone to connect while maintaining all levels of health and safety standards. Pop up GSAs! - These dates change weekly! “Pop up GSAs” will run weekly during the days & evenings in 1-2 hours! (weather permitting) We will be going for walks and meeting outside. Everyone including the Adults in our GSA will need to ensure we are healthy! We absolutely still have to do physical distancing & hand sanitizing. But this is a way for us to begin to reconnect! We had to say goodbye to pieces of our float on Saturday. It was a sad day for me, and my own kids and I know that this is going to be hard on our GSA kiddos as well... Earlier this month we were faced with the difficult decision of having to pay for storage for the pieces of our float. We are 100% volunteer run non-profit organization and we rely on donations or bottle drives. We don’t have sponsors, we are not funded by a City or other organization. Paying the additional cost of storage each month, for a float we use once a year would be extremely difficult ... We were generously approached by two parties offering free storage space for our float pieces. One person locally and one person an hour’s commute. In the end it came down to what happens when we have to physically move the float again each year. We would have to find a truck and trailer, in addition to decorations, equipment for music, and candy. These are costs I just cannot afford right now. I have kept our rainbow with the clouds. Our kids painted it and I would like to find a place to have it situated locally! I am so proud of what our kids have accomplished together so far! Events Spruce Grove GSA Car Pride Parade2020!!! One of our younger GSA kiddos had the idea of holding a car Pride Parade in Spruce Grove! We are requesting folks to “dress their cars” in balloons, ribbons, Pride flags, rainbows, signs of love, support, diversity, and equality. *Everything should be tied on, not taped so as to lessen any clean up and keep our environmental impact down. There will also be nothing thrown from the vehicle windows (ie candy, balloons or prizes), due to health & safety restrictions. I invite you to enter a vehicle in our Pride Parade. This will show our community and our youth how inclusive Spruce Grove is. Please confirm your registration by the Facebook event or confirm with Spruce Grove GSA!https://www.facebook.com/events/270674410975792/?active_tab=about The Pride Parade will be leaving SGCHS June 13 at 1:00pm – You are welcome to show up early and decorate.
Please Donate your bottles to the Spruce Grove GSA Society! We will gladly arrange to pick up bottles once a month. This will greatly help out with our fundraising goals! Thank you to the folks who are currently donating to our GSA! Important Phone Numbers Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 Text CONNECT 686868 kidshelpphone.ca/what-is-kids-help-phone 24-hour, anonymous phone counseling for children and youth, 100% confidential they do not trace calls, they do not have call display, you do not have to tell them your name. You can connect by phone or mobile app, or through the website. RCMP Translifeline http://www.translifeline.org The Hotline: US: 1-877-565-8860 Canada: 1-877-330-6366 Need to talk? Call! Our peer support hotline is run by and for trans people. 211 Alberta Canadian Mental Health Association-Edmonton https://www.ab.211.ca https://edmonton.cmha.ca 211 (phone) 211(text) 24 hour distress line Resources for Albertans daily needs. MyHealth.Alberta.ca https://myhealth.alberta.ca Health Information and Tools Spruce Grove GSA Website sprucegrovegsasociety.org On our website you can find all of our information such as dates of our GSA, tips on Safe Spaces, health, recognizing abuse and Resources. Find us on Facebook and Instagram
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |