Ride for Africycle 3.0

We intend to ride around Lake Ontario again this year from July 3rd to July 12. Last year we raised $12,600 for Africycle (www.africycle.org) and we hope to raise $30,000 for them this year. Check out the following link to discover how you can donate to Africycle through our ride. http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=3146. Donate!

Canada Day Capture the Flag

In efforts to create the best summer ever (2009 that is), it has been bestowed upon me to organize the best capture the flag game ever. This will be a Canada Day City-wide Capture the Flag game with the river as the dividing line. Please see the attached picture to see the boundaries. It will basically be the Red team (determined by red T-shirts) against the Green team (wearing green shirts). July 1st is on a Wednesday in 2009, so weddings, weekend camping trips, and work in general can be avoided. What I want to hear back from you is whether or not you are interested, and what colour t-shirt you would like to wear. Dave Breukelaar and I will be the team leaders and as you enlist, you will be added to a team. Our hopes is that this is the most intense, larger than life, super competitive, game of capture-the-flag that you have ever experienced. Please reply to this email and express your interest. Also, please invite your friends and have them email me. As teams grow, meetings can be hosted to develop different strategies. To learn more about the Best Summer of 2009 Series, please visit the VanDerHerberg home and see among other things, a visit to the distillery district, a canoe trip from Lakefield to Peterborough, and others. Done.

Michael

August 16th of 2009

The 4th HIV/AIDS Community fundraiser in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation is scheduled for Sunday evening, August 16th of 2009. This years event raised $9525.75 on the evening of, and the rest that trickled in after the event pushed us over the $10,000 mark. Thanks for being part of it and we hope to see you in 2009.

-Michael

Peterborough Careers Dot Com

This is my new employment listings' site:
http://www.peterboroughcareers.com/
Peterborough careers and job listings containing (almost) all of the Internet job link sites in the city.

Little Emanuel Sankar-Vanderherberg

I am on the phone with Steve and Stacy and he has said it has been a stressful first week. This is the gist of the conversation: Thank God for midwives. They supplement. He got better at breastfeeding. Steve hasn't slept too much. Little Emu (my suggestion as a nickname) was up from 1 to 4. He cluster feeds (feeds and then wants to feed again 15 minutes later). Wailing at 3 in the morning. Sometimes he just wants to cry at 5 AM. It's kind of been like that. Steve is trying to work at home and the Internet crashed. They're loving the granola at 3AM in the morning. Stacy wants more granola from Andrea. Steve likes the bike I got him from the B!ke shop below the Third Space and will probably want another one with the rate his get stolen at. They're doing really wall all things considered and want us to visit. This is a bit of a jumbled blog post but that is how the conversation went. Here's the intimate family photo.


and another one with beautiful Aunt Laura and the bundle of joy.

And another with Aunt Andrea.


and one with my bare-chested brother and proud father Stephen.

The dread pirate Roberts never takes prisoners

Just so we are all aware of how I feel, I love my wife Andrea Margaret VanDerHerberg. Unashamedly, unabashedly, loudly and with deepest sincerity, I love my wife. She has eyes like the sea after a storm. She is beautiful and pure. She works hard and loves with a genuine love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and although she, more than anyone, has the power to upset me or make my day, she almost always tries to make my day and almost always succeeds. Forget the stone-cold girls with big sunglasses who act like they are too cool to talk to anyone; anybody can do that. I can do that. But I won’t. Be genuine. Love deeply. Laugh. Cry. Next time you see her, tell her I told you she is beautiful.

Michael

Other blogs of interest...

mine
www.rideforafricycle.com
www.august17th2008.blogspot.com
www.peterboroughcareers.blogspot.com (invite only, but if you're looking for work in Peterborough, just ask)

others
dave breukelaar - http://www.fungineer.blogspot.com/
blondel - http://awesomeinternetsite.com/
--> blondel's movie blog - http://www.awayfromherethemovie.com/blog/
tim coles - http://mymomentum.wordpress.com/
mel bee - http://melbeesbuzz.blogspot.com/
mike vyn's non blog of nothingness - http://www.mikevyn.com/