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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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And if you know someone who could help sponsor the event, feel free to forward this on to them.
 
Chip and Ashley W. Donahue
National Public Lands Day – Sponsors Needed
25 08 2009

National Public Lands Day (Sept. 26) is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. In 2008, 120,000 [...]

While we were on vacation a few weeks ago, I had time to catch up on some reading.  At the top of the stack was the wonderful new addition to our favorite books shelf here at the House of Donahue. 
I know we already wrote up a bit about the book a few weeks ago.  [...]

Ours are!
This summer, I was lucky enough to walk every Greenway in the Roanoke Valley!  One of the highlights was the grand finish of the Murray Run Greenway at Fishburn Park Elementary!  What a great school.  Just by walking around, you can tell what a great nature-minded school this is.  They have walking trails, playgrounds, [...]

Just wondering?   and trying to avoid a little important paperwork…
  Remember this show?
Max Ray - ‘Brilliant’ Sea Operations Commander
Jake Rockwell - ‘Rugged’ Land Operations Specialist
Ace McCloud - ‘Daring’ Air Operations Expert
Rex Charger - ‘Expert’ Energy program
John Thunder – ‘Specialist’ Infiltration Commander
Krystal Kane - tactics and equipment specialist
I know we all use our talents to make [...]

Driving home, our 7 year old, known for his big, bold statements came up with this…
“Dad, I know why my room is always a mess.  Just when I get something out and start playing with it, we always have to go somewhere and I never get to finish playing with my toys.” 
This further cemented with a recent [...]