Click Here for Diversity TV Oct. 16, 2020
Diversity TV Community Newscast for October 16, 2020 at the Magnificent Edmonton Downtown Library.
Good evening and welcome to our weekly Diversity Community Newscast.
My name is Rayyah Sempala, your host.
1. Art is such a therapeutic way to deal with the daily stresses and anxieties of life. October 10 was celebrated as World Mental Health Day at the Londonderry Mall in Edmonton. Diversity TV Health and Wellness Commentator, Lola Olorunfemi, went to Londonderry Mall to check out the art works being sold to raise money for the Canadian Mental Health Association.
2. Finding food is a daily challenge for the poor and the underprivileged in our communities. One community organization in Edmonton, Canadian United in Action (CANAVUA) came up with a way of providing food to the homeless and needy through a food truck.Diversity TV stopped by to check it out.
3. Sinkunia Community Organization has moved to a new office in the historic John Bosco Building in the north of Edmonton. Diversity TV stopped by to chat with Executive Director, Issa Kamara.
4. Diversity Small Business Week Special – Calgary based friendly and award winning Desjardins Insurance and Financial Services Agency owned and managed by Neva Perrotte.
5. Edmonton Police Matches Words With Action organizing engagement sessions across Edmonton. The next session is on October 20, from 6:30 to 8:30, at the Clareview Recreation Centre.
6. In August 2020, Edmonton’s warehousing sector expanded when Amazon opened a second warehouse distribution centre, employing more than 600 full-time workers in packaging, sorting, boxing, and other modern warehouse jobs. Amazon and other warehouse distribution centres across Alberta and beyond are looking to hire skilled workers right away. The Alberta Government wants to support newcomers with training for modern warehouses like Amazon. The Key Workplace Essential Skills Training (KWEST) Program offered by Solomon College is offering free training to newcomers eager to find warehouse employment in Edmonton. Solomon College will help trainees learn warehouse technology, provide workplace safety certificates in forklift operation, WHMIS and First Aid, and help them prepare to find a job with companies like Amazon. For more information, please go to www.solomoncollege.ca/
7. Black Canadians are more likely than other Canadians to seek treatment and experience layoffs due to the virus according to a research carried out by the Edmonton-based African Canadian Civic Engagement Council and Innovative Research Group. The group looked at the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 from the perspectives of Black Canadians and those in the broader Canadian population.
8. And now let me leave you with this… A wife of three kids caught her husband getting married in church after telling her that he was going to work out of town. The lady he was getting married to sponsored his wedding with his legitimate wife in the Zambian Capital of Lusaka.
Thank you for watching Diversity TV Community Newscast.
It’s been your host, Rayyah Sempala.
See you next week!
