Battery Collectors and Nice People!

Natalie and Rick from RPR Environmental are our special Tuesday visitors. They are the hazard material handlers who take the batteries collected here for recycling and safe disposal. They have a wicked sense of humour, which makes it easy to deal with the OPIRG staff.

Thanks you two, for helping keep the world cleaner and safer through battery recycling! And to the McMaster Community - keep those batteries coming!

litter clean up

plastic purses

From plastic bread bag to small money purse

Diane Paquette is a highly skilled artisan and textile artist. She will be running a workshop on making a change purse out of plastic bags (bread bags) on Thursday May 19th from 7pm to 9pm at the Environment Hamilton office at 22 Wilson St in Hamilton.

Diane will talk about how she got started weaving plastics. She will talk about the different types of plastic bags.

She will provide participants with a cardboard loom for to work on.  

FEE: $10; Environment Hamilton members are FREE.
Contact Beatrice at 905 549 0900
Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
Volunteer & Membership Coordinator
Environment Hamilton
22 Wilson St, Suite 8
Hamilton, ON
L8R 1C5 

 

EH office: 905  549-0900

Environment Hamilton is turning 10 this year!   We are looking for members to support the work we do.
Members are invited to special events, are updated through our newsletter and learn about green opportunities across the City.
$15 for seniors / students /fixed income
$25 for adults and others
Free for youth 18 an under.
Click here to join us!

For more information:
www.environmenthamilton.org

Library – I’m lovin’ it

Randal De Souza will be spending his summer at OPIRG McMaster as its new Library/Office Assistant. He will be in charge of organizing and cataloguing the library materials, new or old, retrieving borrowed books and DVDs and working towards obtaining suggested material to add to the OPIRG library. He can often be seen at a desk with a pile of books, busily typing away, as he sifts through the many diverse volumes that comprise the library. He will also be contributing to the biannual OPIRG newsletter and intends to make a tasty contribution to the occasional office potlucks. Come in and say hi, he won’t bite! He loves discussing various topics and is entering his fourth year of Psychology at McMaster. Fellow Psychos are most welcome, especially the cashew or almond variety...

Volunteer Appreciation Smiles

Janie Ginsberg (Centre) receives her volunteer gift from (L) Kojo Damptey (OPIRG Board)
and (R) Randy Kay, OPIRG Coordinator of Volunteers

Kristina Mangligot

Preeti Nayak

 Every so often OPIRG McMaster is able to recognize the dedication of some of our volunteers who have contributed to our work for social and environmental justice - this year we chose four people based on their various volunteer tasks which encompass things like: poster designing, table-sitting, policy writing, newsletter writing and editing, and putting up posters (and various combinations of the above).

Mike Borrelli

These people are like many others at OPIRG in that they are self-motivated, highly competent, and make time to help with required tasks in their busy schedules.

The gift they are seen holding is the recently published "where the concrete desert blooms" graphic novella by former OPIRG student-staffer Tings Chak.

Thank you all (and those yet to be recognized in the years to come) from OPIRG McMaster!

(photos by Randal De Souza and Randy Kay)

women press

May-June issue of the Women's Press, published by the Immigrant Women's Centre, has an article about OPIRG's Hamilton Womyns Bike Collective working group. Thanks to Jessica of the OPIRG Board for pointing it out!

game volunteers

Why are these people smiling? Hint: one of these people is receiving a gift from OPIRG McMaster's volunteer coordinator and an OPIRG McMaster Board member for volunteer service rendered this year.
The prize: it's a secret until the other recipients receive theirs. Stay tuned for details.