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On October 26, 2016, SARC pre- sented the Volunteer of Distinction Award to Ethos Salon Spa & Barber for their commitment to providing their time and services on a monthly basis to participants at Cosmopolitan Industries. Ethos Salon Spa & Barber and Cosmopolitan Industries have established a partnership over the last seven years that positively impacts participants at Cosmopolitan Indus- tries through providing haircuts, hair- styles, and manicures. Crystal Dahl-Wildemen, owner of Ethos Salon Spa & Barber, comes to Cosmopolitan Industries every month with her staff to volunteer salon ser- vices and build friendships with the individuals at Cosmopolitan Indus- tries. Many individuals at Cosmo look forward to their arrival each month. “The impact that Crystal and her staff have made for individuals on a monthly basis for the past seven years is a great example of how both indi- viduals and businesses can contribute to their community to make a lasting impact,” SARC Executive Director Amy McNeil said, adding “We are thrilled to present this award to Ethos Salon Spa & Barber for this extraordi- nary partnership and ongoing commit- ment to Cosmopolitan Industries.” SARC values the dedication and sup- port from volunteers at its Member Agencies throughout the province. The Volunteer of Distinction Award is presented annually at SARC’s Fall Conference, alongside the Al McGuire and Employer of Excellence Awardsfor videos of all 2016 award recipients, and past Volunteer of Dis- tinction awards, please visit www.sarcsarcan.ca/celebrate_success . (article from SARC website) From Left: Jayla Mortenson, Crystal Dahl-Wildermen, Tracey Janzen, Randine Graf Crystal Dahl-Wildermen From Left: Brian Haswell, Crystal Dahl-Wildeman, Amy McNeil

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On October 26, 2016, SARC pre-sented the Volunteer of Distinction Award to Ethos Salon Spa & Barber for their commitment to providing their time and services on a monthly basis to participants at Cosmopolitan Industries. Ethos Salon Spa & Barber and Cosmopolitan Industries have established a partnership over the last seven years that positively impacts participants at Cosmopolitan Indus-tries through providing haircuts, hair-styles, and manicures. Crystal Dahl-Wildemen, owner of Ethos Salon Spa & Barber, comes to Cosmopolitan Industries every month with her staff to volunteer salon ser-vices and build friendships with the individuals at Cosmopolitan Indus-tries. Many individuals at Cosmo look forward to their arrival each month. “The impact that Crystal and her staff have made for individuals on a monthly basis for the past seven years

is a great example of how both indi-viduals and businesses can contribute to their community to make a lasting impact,” SARC Executive Director Amy McNeil said, adding “We are thrilled to present this award to Ethos Salon Spa & Barber for this extraordi-nary partnership and ongoing commit-ment to Cosmopolitan Industries.” SARC values the dedication and sup-port from volunteers at its Member Agencies throughout the province. The Volunteer of Distinction Award is presented annually at SARC’s Fall Conference, alongside the Al McGuire and Employer of Excellence Awards—for videos of all 2016 award recipients, and past Volunteer of Dis-tinction awards, please visit www.sarcsarcan.ca/celebrate_success.

(article from SARC website)

From Left: Jayla Mortenson, Crystal Dahl-Wildermen, Tracey Janzen, Randine Graf

Crystal Dahl-Wildermen

From Left: Brian Haswell, Crystal Dahl-Wildeman, Amy McNeil

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GROWING FRIENDSHIP

Cosmo Market Mall Satellite partici-pants had the opportunity to host mini golf on October 25th, 2016 with Prince Phillip Grade 6 students. After a fun filled morning of mini golfing, the students returned to the Cosmo Market Mall location where the participants hosted the students and socialized over cookies and iced tea before they had to go back to school. The participants and staff at Cosmo Market Mall would like to pass on a huge THANK YOU to Market Mall for allowing us to host this event. We are looking forward to the next time we can get together with our friends from Prince Phillip School.

Are you thinking of some original

Christmas gifts this year?

The Contracts Division at Cosmo has some lovely ideas for you. We have original paintings for sale and art cards of these paintings. These are all reasonably priced and done

by our talented participants. We are still continuing to sell our fleece knotted blankets. We also have

some wheelchair blankets available. Come and check this out in the Con-

tracts Division!

Heather Reis Contracts Division

STAFF LEAVING

Stephanie Hildebrand

STAFF CHANGES

Brittani Fox — Maternity Leave

PARTICIPANT HIGHLIGHT:

TYRELL SANDFLY-WESTFIELD

Tyrell has had the pleasure of playing the piano at two different locations since April. He goes to Christ Church on Wednesdays and Elmwood Gym Mondays and Thursdays. The participants and staff enjoy having Tyrell play the piano and everyone joins in by singing or playing tambourines. One of our long time volunteers Sarah Vetter, has been coming to play the piano with Tyrell every Tuesday. They perform for the participants in Life Skills. Sarah and Tyrell have become a dynamic duo, not only are they sharing music, but also stories about music and about themselves. It’s been a real gift to our participants and we look forward to the continuation of Sarah's involvement. Thank you Sarah! Tyrell’s goal this year was to have the opportunity to play a Grand Piano. With help from the staff this goal was accomplished. They visited Yamaha Piano Centre on Broadway where Tyrell got to sample the piano and even play a song. Thank you Tyrell for all you do!

NOTICE TO PARENTS & CAREGIVERS

Our Annual Christmas Party will be

Friday, December 2nd. This year par-ticipants who take the bus will be

picked up and dropped off at regular times.

DEAR PARENTS &

CAREGIVERS

As the holiday season nears, we would like to ask parents and caregivers to notify Cosmo about any time off our participants are planning so we may plan our transportation accordingly.

Thank you – Helen

THANK YOU to all the Grade 9 stu-dents who chose to come and volunteer

at Cosmo for “Bring Your Child to Work Day” on November 2, 2016.

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CHRIST CHURCH—We celebrated Halloween with costumes, Halloween Bingo, a craft and lots of laughs. Leah came to provide us with our Monday afternoon exercise group where we had music and danced around. We had a great Halloween mural painted by our staff and participants that our friends at Christ Church used on Halloween night when they handed out hot chocolate. We had a great day!

CONTRACTS—This year’s Halloween party was hosted by SpongeBob and his friends from Contracts. Everyone helped to make the “under the sea” decor and games, transforming the area into a spectacular Halloween adventure. SpongeBob and his friend Patrick served up snacks “crabby patty style” and everyone enjoyed their treats of “fish and chips”. The activities for the day included Pineapple bowling, Chumbucket sponge toss and pin the tie on SpongeBob. In the afternoon, some participants watched a SpongeBob Movie, while others played games for prizes. As well, Con-tracts hosted a Halloween dance in the afternoon. Everyone enjoyed their day and the party was a huge success.

LIFE SKILLS— On Monday, October 31, LSTD had our annual Halloween Party. The area was decorated with a delightfully ghoulish air. We had witches, ghosts, bats, and even Frankenstein’s monster. Many of our participants and staff wore a costume or dressed in orange and black. In the morning we carved pumpkins to start the day’s festivities. We then had a sensory activity where we touched intestines (spaghetti), blood (jello), eyeballs (peeled grapes), a cold dead hand (glove filled with ice), and green slime. Following this, everyone went to Tracey’s office where Tracey handed out treat bags to everyone. After lunch, participants helped to cut out cookies and bake them. Soon after, Stanley, Lucy and Karl from Sunnyside and Allen from Porteous Lodge joined us. Participants then got to decorate and eat their cookies. This was followed by a dance which everyone seemed to enjoy. Many participants were clapping and dancing. It was great to share our day with our visitors!

COSMO @ SHERBROOKE—The weeks leading up to Oct 31, 2016 were filled with discus-sions and planning for the perfect costume. When Monday rolled around boy were we ready! During the morning there was an endless parade of daycare kids in costume as they trick or treated in the building and proudly showed off their costumes. During the afternoon we joined our Sherbrooke community in the Tawaw center for a Big Halloween Masquerade Ball. We danced to spooky tunes with the grade 6 iGen Students, Daycare kids and Elders. There were door prizes, witty Halloween jokes and riddles as well as creepy cupcakes. It was a very busy place with lots of incredible costumes. Some of us got tired so we went back to our program room for Ice Scream sundaes. Harley the cat even stopped by for a treat! A little Halloween fun was enjoyed by everyone.

ELMWOOD DAY PROGRAM—We started out our day with spooky music to get us in the mood and then made candy corn pud-ding cups for later in the day. We carved 7 pumpkins earlier to decorate our room, which were donated from Jim McClements gar-den. Delores loved carving the pumpkins. We made cute q-tip skeletons for our craft. After lunch we dressed up in costumes and took lots of pictures. We had a vampire, Cleopatra, a sailor, an Elton John, and many more interesting costumes. We played Hallow-een bingo, told Halloween jokes and had a blast. We can't wait to do it all again next year!

COSMO ARLINGTON— On Monday October 31st, Cosmo Arlington threw a Halloween party! Participants made and bought decorations which they hung up around the area. Along with dressing up in Halloween costumes, the Halloween party consisted of pumpkin carving, bingo, charades and a dance at Elmwood. The gym at Elmwood was filled with participants and staff from all of the Cosmo locations which made for a great reunion!

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World’s Best Sugar Cookies

Ingredients 8 ounces unsalted butter ¾ cup granulated sugar ¼ teaspoon salt 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla 1 large egg yolk 2 cups all-purpose flour DIRECTIONS 1. Beat the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla together until smooth and creamy. Mix in the egg yolk until well incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl at least once. Add the flour and mix just until incorporated.

2. Scrape onto a lightly floured board and knead a few times, just until the dough is smooth. Turn onto a sheet of plastic wrap and roll into a log, wrap up and refrigerate for several hours or freeze.

3.Before baking, preheat the oven to 325°F. Line your baking sheets with parchment.

4.Slice the dough into slices about 1/8" thick and place them on the sheets about an inch apart (they won't be spreading very much, but they need air room around each cookie). Bake until JUST beginning to turn golden around the edges, about 16-18 minutes.

Note: you can do many things with these cookies. You could roll the dough out and cut shapes. You could make them and then dip them half into choco-late. You could just make them and eat them, which is my favorite. What-ever you do, they will be delicious. (www.food.com)

GROUNDS KEEPING FINISHED FOR THE SEASON

It was another suc-cessful year of Grounds Keeping. The season wrapped up on October 28th. Even the early snowfall could not dampen the spirits of the crew as once the snow started melting we were back out fin-ishing the properties that were not covered in snow. There were 12 main participants that were part of the regular crew throughout the season and 6 that helped to provide coverage when needed. They are the heart and soul of what we do and the job coaches would just like to say ... Thank You for your hard work and dedication to the job.

UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN

Since their inception in 1959, the United Way of Saskatoon and Area has invested more than $85 mil-lion back into the community. The United Way thrives on bettering communities and many lives by focusing on three areas: “From poverty to possibility,” “Building strong communities,” and “Helping kids be all that they can be.” The United Way builds strong partnerships that engage members of the community to offer resources that are sustainable for those in need. The Campaign is the largest fundraiser for the United Way and last year, the Campaign raised over $6 million to generously give back to the community. Cosmo benefits from this investment as we are one of the many United Way funded agencies. Our volunteer program at Cosmo is exclusively funded by the United Way. On October 24th 2016, we held our kick off to the Campaign on our Professional Development Day . We had Carol Ratcliffe, a loaned representative from the United Way speak to staff about the Campaign. Our guest speaker, Robin Mitchell from Crocus Coopera-tives shared how Crocus Cooperatives is a United Way funded program and the impact the United Way has had on Crocus over the years. The goal this year for Cosmo was to raise $3000.00 and we exceeded our goal by raising $3194.00! Thank you to all donors who made a donation towards this year’s United Way Community Campaign!

TRANSPORTATION FOR

EXTREME WEATHER

With the cold weather fast approaching, this is a re-minder about transportation for extreme weather. When the actual temperatures reaches -30C, or the wind-chill factor reaches -48C, all wheelchair runs will be can-celled. This includes Cosmo wheelchair vans and First Student will not operate the lift on its wheelchair or Combo buses. First Student will operate their ambulatory buses during these temperatures. Cosmo will continue to remain open and participants may choose not to attend if they feel the weather is too cold.

Denise Young

Program Director

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT COSMO

DECEMBER and JANUARY Dear Parents, Family members and Caregivers: The holiday season is quickly approaching, and we reflect upon the interesting year that we have all experienced at Cosmo. The month of DECEMBER will be a busy month with a variety of special happenings:

Friday, December 2nd, all Participants at the various locations will be enjoying a lovely Christmas dinner followed up with an afternoon of entertainment. Transportation will be as usual.

Monday, December 5th, all Participants will be DEPARTING for home by 1:30pm to

allow for a general staff meeting. All Staff will meet at Cosmo Centre at 2:00pm for a general staff meeting. Friday, December 16th, the Board of Directors has approved a Christmas cash gift for

all participants which will be deposited in your bank account this day. We are pleased to advise everyone the status of the rebuild. Construction is progressing nicely, and the painting, flooring and cabinets will be completed in the coming weeks. The date for Participants to return to the Main Cosmo Centre is January 3, 2017. As you are already aware, Cosmo is CLOSED on December 26th and 27th. COSMO HAS A SPECIAL REQUEST OF ALL HOMES: We really need Participants to remain home December 28, 29 and 30th , if at all possible, in order to allow staff to complete the magnitude of work entailed to move everything from its various locations and get set up for the return of participants in January. Please call the Transportation Coordinator to advise us of your plan for your participant(s) during these three days. Many thanks to everyone for your cooperation following the flood. We are all looking forward to our normal routines in the New Year. Best wishes for a joyous holiday season.

Denise Young, Program Director