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Join us for another delicious homemade Sunday Brunch on March 28th from 10:30 am to 1pm.  Our next Brunch will feature local chef John, cooking ham, eggs and biscuits with your choice of coffee, tea or juice.  Enjoy excellent service by our smiling youth program participants and the company of your friends and neighbors at this unique community event.  Your donations will be used to sponsor the youth servers on a field trip to the Mendocino coast in June.

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments »

Our next Sunday Brunch will be entirely homemade!  Our wonderful resident chef Gloria Kay will be making homemade biscuits, gravy & sausage.  Youth servers Shanae, Michael, Jill, Cybelle, Samantha, Estella, James, Lakeeta, Nicole, Kayla, Lorrie & Colton will be on duty and ready to create an enjoyable day out in West Point. As always, all donations benefit our free, weekly family-style dinners.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Filed under: Uncategorized on February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »

The BMCYF will begin hosting Sunday Brunches again this month.  We are excited to announce our first community brunch on Sunday January 24th from 11am to 1pm at the Blue Mountain Coalition’s Main Street Center.  A donation of $5 per person is suggested; all proceeds go directly back into our youth programs.

The Youth Server Program was such a hit with the kids last year that everyone wants to do it again.  This year youth will help in the kitchen preparing food, in addition to waiting on tables.  Kayla and Colton will help Gloria make pancakes with a variety of toppings and side dishes.  Estella, Samantha, Shanae, Lorrie, Nicole, Jillian, and James cannot wait to get service started.  Juanita, Program Coordinator, is in the process of gathering contributions from local grocers.  Please put our Sunday Brunch on your calendar and bring your friends and family to enjoy a community meal at the BMCYF.

Filed under: Uncategorized on January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »

Despite cool weather and  storm clouds in the sky, the BMCYF Family Fun Day was well attended and everyone had a good time. Families painted clay tiles to be fired and used in our community garden. Many awards were given to parents, kids and volunteers. But the highlight of the day were the performances given on our outdoor stage. First, several youngsters gave the first showing of a play they wrote, inspired by the MiWuk myth of the mermaid. The kids created their own masks during a two day workshop with resident artist Sharon Strong; then, with staff person Juanita Gearhart’s expert help, they made costumes . Finally they put together a script, narrated by staff person Gloria Rousseau. The play was a big hit. Next, students of Nedra Russ, a community volunteer who teaches voice lessons at the center on Monday afternoons, sang their own songs. Their stage presence and powerful voices were impressive. The evening ended with some great dancing music by local band Alma Melodiosa, while people enjoyed the wonderful food prepared by Gloria.

Filed under: Uncategorized on June 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

Come and join us at the BMCYF Center for an afternoon of fun, music, family activities and great food! Kids from the Writers’Workshop will read some of their writings, others from the Monday Afternoon Voice Lesson Class will sing their original compositions,  the mask makers of Sharon Strong’s latest workshop at BMCYF will enact “The Mermaid Story” on our outdoor stage, and Terra and Juanita will hold a graduation ceremony for all the successful participants of our Youth Program…There will be a fun clay workshop with Liz, lots of gardening both at our Center and at the Green House Community Garden on Spink Road, storytelling by Catherine,  awards galore, and great food prepared as always by Gloria…Music will be provided by local band Alma Melodiosa, so bring your dancing shoes!!Let us celebrate our wonderful children and families. The event is alcohol and tobacco free. Saturday June ,1 to 7PM, at the BMCYF Center, 364 Main Street West Point. For more info please call 293-4500.

Filed under: Uncategorized on June 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

On April 23, 24 and 25, BMCYF hosted the 2009 Peace Storming of the Living Compassion Zen Monastery of Murphys. What is a Peace Storming ? To quote from the Living Compassion website (livingcompassion.org ): “it is a concentrated version of the experience we know so well through life at the monastery; that working together, being of service, meeting needs in ways that are beautiful and useful, creates peace and deep connection within us and among us”.So the folks at Living Compassion connect with a community or an organisation that identifies something they would like to accomplish, but could use help with. This year, we at BMCYF were fortunate enough to be the chosen organisation ! So for three wonderful days, sixteen monks and ” monks in training”  as well as BMCYF board members and staff, community members ,kids and families, came together joyfully to tackle with a variety of tasks. Eight raised beds were built and filled with soil and manure in our new community garden on Spink Road, our existing garden at the Center was weeded, cleaned, fertilized and planted, the steps to our garden were rebuilt, our land was cleared and brush was dragged away and stacked, the front of our building was repainted, building materials were sorted and organized neatly, the treacherous steps to our office on Spink Road were rebuilt…Staff member Kay Rousseau and cook extraordinaire kept everybody going with her fabulous lunches and dinners, served in our Center. We shared information about what we do, the monks learnt about the many activities of BMCYF and we got inspired by the amazing work Living Compassion does in Africa…Ideas of possible future collaborations were exchanged, friendships developed, it was a very fruitful and energizing time for all present.Some of our families involved in a garden project with staff person Liz Bonner participated in the work, and got to plant their first garden as a family…We are very thankful for this uplifting and productive experience, we are planning to visit the monastery very soon and are looking forward to further partnership with our new friends…

Filed under: Community, Events, Projects on May 5th, 2009 | No Comments »

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Come and enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by volunteer guest chefs Maryann and Marilyn! The menu is :

Hearty Minestrone Soup or Roasted Winter Squash Soup

Garden Salad and Garlic Bread

Ice Cream with Wild Blackberry Topping.

The cost of the lunch is 8 dollars per person. Weather permitting, lunch will be served outside on our patio as well as in our comfortable center by our team of Youth Servers. They have been practicing their serving skills at our Sunday Brunch for the past four months, and this is the final showcase of their youth service project. Thank you for supporting them, they have done an outstanding job. For more info, please call Terra or Juanita at 293-4500.

Filed under: Events, Kids, Projects on April 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

For more information about Cheri, please visit http://www.cherihuber.com.

Filed under: Community, Events on March 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »