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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).
    
  • KIVA's Fall Waterways Clean Up 2010
    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.
  • KIVA Field Trip to Booker T. Washington National Monument
    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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Without a doubt, my favorite book to read to kids, besides James and the Giant Peach and The Quikpick Adventure Society has got to be…
 
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and Other Stories You’re Sure to Like, Because They’re About Monsters, and Some of them are also About Food.  You Like Food, Don’t You? Well, All Right [...]

On a short run in the rain this morning (Yes, I was that guy…), I started thinking about all the times I have seen the elation on our children’s faces when we have allowed them to have an adventure.  So many times, I have had to say no about something.  However, in that moment when they [...]

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday for the October KIVA meeting atop beautiful Mill Mountain. It was an absolutely gorgeous fall day featuring all the best Roanoke has to offer. Trees were showing off their change of season in brilliant reds and golds. Squirrels were extremely busy. And Paul Chapman at the Discovery Center was speaking [...]

Kids In the Valley, Adventuring! returns to the home of its first meeting in January 2008.  We will meet at the Mill Mountain Discovery Center to visit the center and hear from Mr. Paul Chapman.  He will discuss all the great programs which are offered at the Discovery Center.  We will then take a hike along [...]

  The Donahues are very pleased to announce our part in the Family Fun Magazine/Disney Volunteer Families Contest.  In March, we applied for the contest by listing our volunteer efforts as a family in the last year.  We felt that these opportunities allowed us to prepare for creating Kids In the Valley, Adventuring! and certainly showed us [...]

Thanks so much to the wonderful families and to the fantastic Team Starbucks that came out to play and clean with us today for Fall Waterways Clean Up.  We were so proud to be a part of the wonderful work that Clean Valley Council is doing for Roanoke.  You must check out the beautiful photographs [...]

We are very excited about our upcoming event for Fall Waterways Clean up at Green Hill Park - Saturday morning from 9 AM - 11 AM!  We will be teaming up with a special team of Starbucks employees (17 of them!!!!) to work together to clean up the area by the picnic shelter along the [...]