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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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Ziggy Marley wants to give you a copy of his new cd Family Time for being a KIVA member!  322 members.  one cd. SOUNDS LIKE CONTEST TIME!
Check out our Children’s Music Week special, send us a note at KIVAinfo@gmail.comand tell us who we missed!  We will add the comments.  Tell us who we missed and [...]

 Eenie, meenie, miney, moe?
We used to hear people say, “There’s nothing to do in Roanoke.”
These days, a family of five can get into all kinds of trouble.
Case in point, next Saturday.  Check out the June 6th listing of events on our KIVA calendar.
Tree Planting for the Roanoke Greenways - and a free lunch
 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188319445051
 
Race for Open [...]

Dan Zanes would have to be the catcher and the Black Twig Pickers would have to be playing in between the innings!
Dan Zanes promises on his website that when you listen to his music (collaborations, really) you will sing your heart out and dance your tail off!  This is a great description of a Dan [...]

Best show of the year:
Robbie Schaefer at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia! 
The song we have heard the most this year, “No, No, No.”  Listen to this tune at Robbie’s website, and then come back to this blog.  You see, this is Finnan’s favorite song of all time.  And he wants us to sing [...]

And I say “Hey!”
Up until last week, this was as much as I had ever heard Ziggy Marley sing.  I teach second grade.  Second graders love Arthur on PBS Kids.  And what’s not to love… a talking aardvark, a buzzing little sister, an annoyingly smart best friend… and a dog named Pal.
“Everyone has an original [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Roger Day, was in town!  Not in town to play for hundreds of kids, not in town to record his newest cd, but he just happened to be in town and he needed gas.  Welcome to Salem, the interstate board read.  Salem…Oh yeah, that Chip guy lives in Salem.  [...]

First up, for Children’s Music Week, has got to be the wonderfully talented Mr. Justin Roberts!  Justin Robert’s new cd, Pop Fly, is a perfect start to a summer full of adventure and sing-alongs.  Roberts has released 8 fantastic cds which travel with us everywhere.  Way Out is one of the biggest requests we hear from [...]

This week at kidsadventuring.org, we would like to focus on the importance of a great summer soundtrack for the car trips.  Getting to that green hour doesn’t mean you have to get stuck in the car to get there, but sometimes you will be.  Here’s hoping you have some great music to go along with [...]

A quick note to say thank you to the fine families who spent the morning with us yesterday planting a flowering cherry tree at the wonderful Dan Wright Trailhead of the Murray Run Greenway.  The Grandin/Raleigh Court area has helped to develop this part of the park into something very special.  Saturday’s KIVA event started [...]

Our next KIVA meeting is this Saturday 5-23-09 from 10 AM - 1 PM. 
 
Join us as we plant a lovely tree, donated by the Roanoke Home Depot, in the lovely garden at the Dan Wright Trail Head.  This is where we like to start our walks to the Murray Run Greenway.  This park, located [...]