Category: Active & Healthy Lifestyle

  • 5 Tips for Lifelong Learning

    Some very good suggestions from Matt. Consider volunteering in our schools. In doing so, you will become a mentor for students and inspire them to become lifelong learners themselves! Noticed this last night while paging through a magazine Success, August 2009, and thought I’d pass it along. 1 Seek out a mentor – look for…

  • Baggby’s – My favorite view of the Charlottesville Downtown Mall

    My favorite place for enjoying the Charlottesville Downtown Mall is the corner seat in the angled window in Baggby’s Gourmet Sandwiches.  From this seat  in the comfort of air conditioning one can see City Spaces, City Hall, the carousel, the Free Speech Monument, and the Pavilion – “people watching” at its best!  At the same…

  • Often it is the “teacher” leading a project-based learning program who learns the most!

    I learned how to blog as a JABA RSVP FISH volunteer. I had agreed to sponsor an after-school computer club at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville and I wanted to focus on 21st-century skills. Since blogging is receiving high marks as an effective means for teaching reflective writing, I decided that that would be a…

  • Thank You, Farmers!

    Thanks to all of you who are participating this year in the JABA  End-Of-Market-Day Local Produce Donation Program.  What a great way to help the individuals and families served by JABA! Market News

  • Ready to get involved? Serve.gov is the place to start.

    The President has said that the challenges America faces are unprecedented, and that we need to build a new foundation for economic growth in America. The Administration has begun this work with dramatic new investments in education, health care, and clean energy, but we cannot do this alone here in Washington. Economic recovery is as…

  • Looking for a fun place to volunteer?

    Maybe Market Central is just the place for you! If you love the City Market and would like to help it find a permanent home, stop by the Market Central table in the non-profit section of the City Market. Hello, friends of the Charlottesville City Market – As we approach the summer season at the…