The Muslim community will be going skating this Friday. Info follows. Don’t forget to support the sponsors by giving them your business  

Please circulate widely, post on bulletin boards and announce at weekly congregations, classes, etc.
 

Villa Madina Sponsors

Muslim Parents Building Healthy

 Communities Through Recreation

Community Family

 Fun Skate

· Children must be accompanied by an adult and

 wearing Helmets

· No Hockey equipment on the Ice

· $2 to Skate

· Limited beginners lessons are available

Place:           Tomken Twin Arena, Rink 2

            4495 Tomken Road, Mississauga ,

(South of Eglinton)

Time:    Fridays 8:00PM to 8:50PM

Dates:  Oct. 10, 24, Nov. 7, 21, Dec. 5, 19,

Jan. 02, 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 13

Dr. Karisly And Associates

Dental Office (for braces and more!)

Tel: 905-270-5020

 ANSAR Financial & Investment Services Inc.

1825 Markham RD,  Suite 105 Scarborough , Ontario M1B 4Z9  

Tel:(416) 609-2642

 One Day Printing

Tel: 905 276-5195

www.onedayprinting.com

Federation of Muslim Women

www.fmw.org

www.abidameen.com

For more info Email: rkhedr@diversityworx.com

My blogging guru and hyper-loyal reader Aaminah has posted info on a neat idea for a charity project: supplying scarves to the homeless in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. You can make or purchase scarves, donate yarn, or send donations so that the brothers and sisters involved in this project can put it towards this effort.

A simple, practical idea that meets a specific goal. You don’t have to live in the area to be a part of it. Scarves and yarn are lightweight and easy to mail if you want to help in that way. Sending cash donations is also easy. The project is for a limited time; the target date for completion in November 22.

Check out Aaminah’s original blog post here, and go to this page for updates.

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This has become a winter staple here in the western end of the GTA. Check it out and support the sponsors too! (Villa Madina make the BEST shwarma in town!)

The only bad news is, once skating season begins, can the s-n-o-w be far behind?!

Anyway, here’s the e-mail I received with all the info…

Please circulate widely, post on bulletin boards and announce at weekly congregations, classes, etc.
 

Villa Madina Sponsors

Muslim Parents Building Healthy

 Communities Through Recreation

Community Family

 Fun Skate

· Children must be accompanied by an adult and

 wearing Helmets

· No Hockey equipment on the Ice

· $2 to Skate

· Limited beginners lessons are available

Place:           Tomken Twin Arena, Rink 2

            4495 Tomken Road, Mississauga ,

(South of Eglinton)

Time:    Fridays 8:00PM to 8:50PM

Dates:  Oct. 10, 24, Nov. 7, 21, Dec. 5, 19,

Jan. 02, 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 13

Dr. Karisly And Associates

Dental Office (for braces and more!)

Tel: 905-270-5020

 ANSAR Financial & Investment Services Inc.

1825 Markham RD,  Suite 105 Scarborough , Ontario M1B 4Z9  

Tel:(416) 609-2642

 One Day Printing

Tel: 905 276-5195

www.onedayprinting.com

Federation of Muslim Women

www.fmw.org

www.abidameen.com

For more info Email: rkhedr@diversityworx.com

Here’s a nifty website for those who are still trying to make up their minds. Anyone but the Conservatives, you say. But what if a split vote will result in the election of You Know Who?

This site offers comprehensive, up-to-date riding by riding information on how to defeat Harper and his anti-environment policies.

Enter your postal code to find out how the numbers add up in your riding. You can sign up for an e-mail newsletter too.

Make your voice count on October 14!

(Thanks to Maryam Dadhaboy for posting the link on FB)

The Toronto Star’s Joe Fiorito is one of my favourite columnists. He find the most incredibly moving, human stories in the big bad city. His latest column is about the “little guy” faced with thoughtless competition by a huge multinational corporation. I know many of the big corporations also give to charities and community causes, but I am a sucker for the underdog. I very rarely go downtown, but if I did I would seek out this guy’s coffee shop and buy something, anything.

There is currently an appeal to find a suitable bone marrow donor for a well-known and well-loved doctor who is suffering from leukemia. His name is Dr. Abhijit Guha. I don’t know him, but people I know speak very highly of him.

A bone marrow transplant may save his life, but the registry for bone marrow donors has too few people of his ethnic background, which is South Asian. This is a case where being of the same ethnicity makes it more likely that the donor will be a good match, and they have too few South Asians on their lists. Some folks in that community are doing a lot of work to raise awareness of this issue and encourage people to join the donor registry.

There is a shortage of other ethnic minorities on the registry too. No matter what your background, please consider taking this step that may save a life.

Here’s some brief info from the Facebook group “Bone Marrow Donor Request for Abhijit Guha (Khoka dada)”:

The procedure for registering as a potential match is very simple and painless. All you have to do is register online at www.onematch.ca!

They will mail you a testing kit. You take a swab (no pain) and mail it back in the included envelope -that’s it! It’s private and free of cost.

Please take the first step and you may help save a life.

Just visit or call here:

http://www.onematch.ca

1-888-2 DONATE (1-888-236-6283)

In the USA see here:
http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Join_the_Donor_Registry/Join_Now/join_now.html

And a link to the blog for the South Asian group: http://appealforsouthasiandonors.blogspot.com/

One of the things I want to do with my blog, in sha Allah, is give readers a “heads-up” for good works and spread the word about great causes. I received this in an e-mail this morning. Please check out this site and help if you can.

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Assalamualaikum everyone,