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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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  Get ready to take the streets back, Roanoke, with the City’s first Ciclovia on August 1st! Organized by the Roanoke Chapter of BikeWalk Virginia, Ciclovia closes down sections of downtown roads and opens them up to pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders, artists, and anyone else who wants to make the space people-centric rather than car-centric. 
The Donahues [...]

(pictures when they are available)
The Donahues hit the road to Deltaville, Virginia last week.  It was a slow and bumpy trip, thanks to a faulty engine part, but small miracles carried us there.  One such miracle was that moments before pulling out of the driveway to go, Ashley asked if we should take the bikes [...]

 
Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing Family Weekend
Jul 25 10:00am - Jul 25 5:00pm
Adventure Race, expo, and family fun weekend
Don’t miss one of the biggest events in Wilderness Adventure history!
Wilderness Adventure and Odyssey Adventure Racing are coming together for their first adventure race, expo, and family fun weekend. There will be a 24 hour race [...]

This is not a KIVA event, but it sounds great!
Blue Ridge Parkway Naturefest 2009:

Visit the Blue Ridge Parkway to enjoy and experience the wonder of nature at NatureFest 2009 at the Peaks of Otter (milepost 86).
On Saturday, August 15, National Park Service staff and volunteers, along with professional naturalists and presenters, will conduct a series [...]

One year ago, today, Ashley and I waited patiently to watch a segment concerning Nature Deficit Disorder on NBC’s Today Show.  We were going to be on national TV!  The film crews had come out, the interviews were completed, the final product had been announced.  Somehow the NBC crew had whittled through twelve hours of video (two months of [...]

21 best friends, a kickball (donated by Dick’s Sporting Goods), phantom crane flies, packed picnic lunches, a wonderful park filled with adventurous amenities (Washington Park in Roanoke), a reading of one of our favorite books, lovely sunshine, a game or two of “What Time is it, Mr. Skunk?”, and the promise of free Slurpees (July 11) if you [...]

One of our favorite days of the year - free Slurpee day at 7-11 on July 11th!

Come out and burn off the extra sugar at our KIVA Kick-nic at Booker T. Washington Park in Roanoke.
We will play a few rounds of kickball (with a ball donated by Roanoke’s Dick’s Sporting Goods) from 9:30-11:00, then head [...]

July 14th sees the release of Let’s Go Outside by Jennifer Ward.  Ms. Ward got the award for our favorite book last year with I Love Dirt.  Some readers will remember that Ashley bought this book for me fo Valentine’s Day this year.  Thanks Honey, you are so thoughtful!

We will be anxiously waiting for this [...]

  Last weekend, we had a water blast with some people we do know and a whole lot of people who we do not know!  Ah, Roanoke!  We thought you might like to see a bit of the fun that goes on in this crazy city!  Our kids loved this!  To our out of town [...]