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  • KIVA National Day of Service event on Mill Mountain
    Sep 11 9:30am - Sep 11 9:30am
    

    Join the KIVA families as we give back to our community by helping out with general trash clean up and a few various projects on Mill Mountain. Wear gloves and bring plenty of water!
  • Second Annual Get Outside Expo and Radical Reels Film Fest
    Sep 15 5:00pm - Sep 15 9:00pm
    

    The region's outdoor related businesses will showcase the area's outdoor assets. Then comes the film expo - Radical Reels. Expo is free: Film Fest is $13 per person. More info at www.roanokeoutside.com
  • KIVA Goes Orange for Hunger
    Sep 19 2:00pm - Sep 19 4:00pm
    

    Orange ya glad there are such great parks in Roanoke? Orange ya glad Feeding America is there for families in need? Wear your orange (color for hunger) and come out for a exciting game of KIVA Kickball at the wonderful Washington Park in Roanoke (on Orange Avenue).
    
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    Oct 2 9:30am - Oct 2 11:30am
    

    Join KIVA families as we continue to help keep the Roanoke River an amazing place to play. We will join the Clean Valley Council and our pals from around the area to clean up around our favorite creekdipping spot at Green Hill Park. At 11:30, we will head to Wasena Park for a free picnic celebration. More info at www.cleanvalley.org.
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    Oct 9 10:00am - Oct 9 12:00pm
    

    Date subject to change, but this is the plan at this point!
    KIVA road trip, here we come!
    Bring a picnic lunch and join us for a tour of the lovely farm surrounding the Booker T. Washington Monument. Take a short hike on the Jack-O-Lantern Trail.

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This was our last weekend, school-free, with the kids for a while.  I wanted to capture the moment and really make the most of it.  I planned a nice road trip to Pandapas Pond and then a run over and up to Mountain Lake.  A whole day’s worth of adventure waits for you in this [...]

I learned about the Pandora website where you can create a radio station based on your choices.  I have often thought about finding a way to add a KIVA radio to kidsadventuring.org.  Well, this as close as I can get at this point.  You have to set up an account to listen, but that was [...]

  A KIVA parent shared with us a fun and incredible way to make a little change make a BIG change. The McCormick family is hosting a charity lemonade stand to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. Help the McCormick’s make a difference, “one cup at a time.”
What: Lemonade stand to Benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand
Where: 2037 [...]

Today, when someone asks these kids what they did at the KIVA meeting at Lakewood Park for National Eat Outside Day, what will they remember?
Will it be the beautiful scenery?

Will it be exploring the retention wall pond and the sights and smells that go along with it?

Will it be playing and having fun on the [...]

Tuesday, August 31st is National Eat Outside Day.  Get out there on the porch for breakfast or find an outdoor cafe for lunch.  But for dinner, plan to join other KIVA families from around the area for a picnic in own of our favorite spots: Lakewood Park.
 
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Bring a picnic for your family and [...]

 
Here’s a little gem we found on a search this week.  The Donahue kids have grown up listening to Pete Seeger’s Children’s Concert at Town Hall.  We listen to it before bed, as the kids are drifting off to sleep.  They always perk up though when Abi Yoyo comes along on the disc.  What a [...]

Steve Gosden has written an excellent short biography available on the web at http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/pete-seeger/
This week, I would like to focus kidsadventuring.org to share the life and times of the iconic Mr. Pete Seeger, still changing the world, to this day.
His quote for our Monday Quote of the week blog is simple:
“Participation:  That is what’s going [...]

  I hope you had or will have a good laugh when you see this picture.  It’s a picture from this summer.  School starts for Mr. Donahue and my students tomorrow.  Summer break has come to an end and as usual, I am revisiting the summer, considering the highs and lows. 
An absolute highlight for me was [...]

I just wanted to share this note I received from Walkin’ Jim Stoltz.  I was introduced to his music through the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and I started up some communication with him.  I had planned on putting together some KIVA type stuff using his music and we even thought about trying to get him to [...]

Sometimes you just feel the rhythm.
And it takes over.  Wish I had a video camera to capture our youngest
really experiencing the music.  Here you can see him “drumming” along with a lovely Thelonious Monk
tune at the dinner table.  The song was “Well, You Needn’t” from the album Monk’s Music.

 
I wonder if Art Blakey (simply amazing [...]