Author: Community First Health Co-op
World Health Day and Nelson Celebrates by Taking It To the Streets!
It has been a long time since we blogged but here we go with our latest – the World Health Day Celebration on April 7,2018. The CFHC and Nelson Star have sponsored the Passport to Wellness Health fair for the past 3 years but this year, with an idea to focus on fitness and health...
West Kootenay Community TEETH Clinic Pays It Forward: In Memory of Chrissy
TEETH Pays it Forward, In Memory of ChrissyIn remembrance of Christine Archibald, The West Kootenay Community TEETH Clinic (TEETH) acknowledged the Archibald family’s challenge ‘to honour Chrissy’s life through acts of volunteerism.’ TEETH held a donation dental day in Nelson on Saturday September 23, 2017. TEETH began operations in June 2014 and is a registered...
A Fond Farewell and an Update on AGM 2017
Life is a funny thing...
How Our Community Explored Mental Wellness and Happiness
What a great weekend of exploring mental wellness and happiness. The 3rd annual Passport to Wellness Health fair is a wrap. With two firsts, a focus on one aspect of wellness and a Friday night session, the health fair was a success. On Friday night, an audience of 70, listened to three different perspectives on...
Doug Stoddart, on behalf of The Community First Health Co-op, receives the Professional Services Excellence Award from Chamber Director Karen Bennett (Photo courtesy The Nelson Daily)Community First Health Co-op was pleased to be honoured last night by Nelson's Chamber of Commerce with the Professional Services Excellence award. Doug Stoddart, Board Member, accepted the award before...
Passport to Wellness Health Fair: What’s Happening on Saturday, April 8th in Nelson
Hop to IT! Session Descriptions and Scheduling Saturday, April 8th, 2017 10:30 Flourishing through Mindfulness- Sonya Franke, Certified Mindfulness Educator Join Sonya Franke, certified mindfulness educator to learn simple yet effective techniques to increase present moment awareness, helping to cultivate healthy habits of heart, mind and body. Scientists are calling mindfulness, “Brain Hygiene”. Mindfulness offers us a way to...
Busy Times as We Look Forward to Spring!
Busy times down here at the Community First Co-op. Like all of you, we too have had enough snow on the ground down here, it can all be up on the hill now, where is belongs. We had to cancel a meeting when people could not actually get out of their homes to attend, so...
First Board Meeting of 2017: Lots Happening!
It is cold outside these days but a warming trend is on theway!! Some of the Board were talking about how they do not recall such a long stretch of cold weather. We do enjoy the sun and blue skies and white mountain tops, though we do say, looking out your window, is definitely preferred...