HS No. 15 / 2005
Voice of the North No.15
City partnership in projects
Don't forget to exchange your ID cards
Rybička Kindergarten Centre
Cakes for Uncle Poláček
Supporting disabled children
Beware the pitfalls of summer
City partnership in projects
At the March meeting of the City Council, our school (SOŠ, SOU, OU and PrŠ Varnsdorf) asked for the involvement of the City of Varnsdorf in the form of a partnership in a project that we submitted to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
Since there will most likely be more and more organisations based in the town that will want to receive funding in the form of project activities, and from the questions that were raised during the discussion of our application, it is not entirely clear what good it is to partner the town in projects. I will therefore try to give some information.
At this time in the Czech Republic there are a large number of grant schemes (programmes in which it is possible to apply for subsidies) worth many billions of crowns. Grants are provided by the EU or by a number of institutions, ministries, etc. The amount of funds coming to the Czech Republic for this purpose will increase significantly in the coming years.
Already today it is possible to obtain a large amount of funds in the form of projects, which the town of Varnsdorf, its institutions and even the education system need.
In order for these funds to come to the town, it is necessary to prepare a project (which is often quite complicated), or to secure funds for co-financing, and then, of course, the project must be of such quality that it will be selected for subsidies. If the project is to be successful in the evaluation, i.e. to get the highest possible score, it must meet certain criteria.
One of the areas that are highly scored is the involvement of other partners in the project, who may participate in various ways (perhaps financially), guarantee the quality or simply declare the seriousness they attach to the project. For example, the involvement of the City in the project is highly rated. Therefore, the City's partnership in projects (if no property or other participation is required) does not burden the City with anything, on the contrary, it helps the flow of funds into our city and its improvement.
Therefore, I believe that the town councillors will be as accommodating in approving possible partnerships in projects of other organisations based in the town as they were in approving the partnership in the project of the Secondary School, Secondary School of Economics, Secondary School of Economics, Secondary School of Economics and Secondary School of Economics Varnsdorf entitled - "Preparation of an entrepreneurial project - establishment of small and medium-sized enterprises" and will support this partnership. This will benefit our town.
Ing. Petr Jakubec, member of the City Council
Don't forget to exchange your ID cards
ID cards issued before 31 December 1994 expire on 31 December 2005. These are booklet-type ID cards with the validity marked 'unlimited' or 'extended without limit', and card-type ID cards issued from 1 May 1993 to 31 December 1994, which also have the validity marked 'unlimited'. In view of production deadlines, applications for identity cards must be submitted by 30 November 2005 at the latest.
Kindergarten centre RYBIČKA
Dear moms, and not only moms, we would like to share with you some news from our Center. The Rybička Nursery Centre is now in its third year and is open four times a week for you and your children. You may be asking, "What is this center anyway?" The Kindergarten Center is an open place for mothers on MD (but also for dads, grandmothers, grandfathers,...) and their children, it is a place of first peer contacts for children and a "transfer station" to preschool, it is a place of new friendly meetings with people who have similar life "joys and worries", and last but not least, it is also a place where everyone is welcome. For everyone's well-being we have new opening hours according to the age of the children:
- MONDAYS - Mondays 9.30 - 11.00 a.m. for mums with children from birth to 1.5 years.
- FISH - Wednesday and Friday 9.00 - 12.00 for mums with children from 1.5 to 3 years
- SCHOOL REQUIRED CHILDREN - Tuesdays 4.00 - 6.00 p.m. for mothers with children aged 3 years and over
- INFANT MASSAGE - Mondays 8.45 - 9.30am.
- CHILDREN'S MASSAGE - every even Thursday from 3.30 p.m.
A new outdoor children's play area is now being built within the MC Rybička, which will be open to all mothers and children of the MC when the MC opens. The following donors contributed to the construction of this children's corner: Euronisa Foundation with the proceeds of the "Lift the Weak" collection in the amount of CZK 6,500, the proceeds from the 2004 Button Market in the amount of CZK 1,200 and the Parish of the Old Catholic Church in Varnsdorf with the amount of CZK 10,000. Thank you very much and we ask all other possible sponsors for a financial contribution for the retrofitting of the children's corner.
And where can you find us?
Communio, 1232 Tyršova Street (by the church near the theatre),
phone: 412 370 764, e-mail: communio@varnsdorf.cz,
www.communio.tk, contact person: Martina Solloch
CAKES FOR UNCLE POLÁČEK
The quotation from the speech given by the head of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Municipal Office at the opening of the exhibition in the Municipal Theatre on 3 June 2005 probably best describes the meaning of the whole event and the quality of the exhibited works. We therefore present it in full.
Dear little painters, dear little painters,
dear teachers, dear parents,
we are gathered today at one of the "sweetest" exhibitions that we may never experience again - an exhibition with a single theme: cake. There are 22 cakes in total, decorated in different ways and with many flavours, this time expressed in colours. They are so nicely drawn that I feel quite like I'm in a cake shop - and some of them I've got a taste for. Perhaps they are so beautiful because they are "cakes for Uncle Poláček", a birthday present from Josef Poláček, the painter and graphic artist who has been walking around this world of ours, smiling at us and helping children and adults for eighty years. It's a very nice present, and a practical one too: a drawn cake will make you happy, but it won't spoil your teeth or make you fat.
It is no coincidence that you - the kindergarten children - have dedicated today's exhibition to Mr. Poláček, together with your teachers. After all, it was he who came up with the beautiful idea of encouraging painting talents from childhood. The children who took part in the first exhibition in 1977, an incredible 29 years ago, are now grown-ups, mothers and fathers. Some have gone on to become real painters, some build houses or design cars, toys and the like, some work in hairdressing salons, some bake and decorate real cakes in cake shops - they all create useful things - and the sense of shape and colour they learnt when drawing in kindergarten often helps them in their work. And they can all certainly give advice on drawing to their children.
I am very happy that you invited me to your exhibition, so that I can see everything with my own eyes. I congratulate you on today's exhibition and I keep my fingers crossed that one day you will become real painters or other skilful people who will create beautiful and useful things for the rest of us. When that happens, don't forget to thank your kindergarten teachers and, of course, your parents.
I wish you much happiness and joy.
Milan Hrabal
SUPPORT HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
It is becoming a tradition that students of the Secondary Vocational School, Secondary Vocational School, Vocational School and Practical School, Bratislavská Street, Varnsdorf, participate in public collections. In the past, for example, these were collections for the benefit of seriously ill children or people with serious health impairments.
Also this year, at the end of May, ten students of the school took part in a public collection called Feast with Emil, which was aimed at supporting disabled children, especially their sports activities. The collection took place in a number of towns and villages across the Czech Republic. The sponsor of the collection was the Czech Paralympic Committee, whose mascot is the disabled bird Emil.
As part of the collection, students offered rubber (school rubber) to citizens for 20 CZK. This time the proceeds of the collection amounted to more than seven thousand crowns, which were contributed by the citizens of the town to the mentioned group of children.
In previous years, the proceeds have been used, for example, to purchase sports equipment for the children of the Jedlička Institute in Prague, to pay for the rental of sports and physical education facilities for the deaf from Hradec Králové, and to provide a contribution to cover accommodation and food costs at sporting events for visually impaired athletes from Ostrava. The proceeds from this year's event will have a similar use.
Our sincere thanks to all the citizens who made a contribution to this group of children.
The organizers of the fundraiser and especially the students of the school - M. Salvetrová, M. Maryško, L. Lehká, M. Uhrová, M. Benáková, H. Homolová, P. Elstnerová, K. Janoušková, A. Pavlousková and J. Vrbková, who actively participated in the fundraiser, deserve thanks.
MH
Beware the pitfalls of summer
Under this headline, we have warned several times in the past in the Voice of the North that the holiday and vacation period, which is inseparably connected with summer, can bring considerable inconvenience and difficult moments in addition to leisure, relaxation and fun. This is when we underestimate the 'pitfalls of summer' and convince ourselves that it cannot happen to us.
So let's recall the advice we have been given by the police, both municipal and state. They are based on experience and should be followed.
It's good to be confident. Healthy self-confident people are usually better at everything, they don't dwell on small things, they perceive the world around them optimistically, they give optimism away.
It is not good to be frivolous and indifferent. This does not pay off during the year, and all the more so during the summer, when pitfalls and risks seem to multiply and take on the most diverse forms.
Especially in summer, it pays to be prudent, perceptive, observant and attentive. To yourself, to other people (and their property) - especially the youngest and oldest, to your surroundings, to what is happening around you.
Let us remember that from time to time other people need our help and from time to time we need other people's help.
The pitfalls and risks of summer are manageable. We have seen this many times. The efforts made to protect our health and property will make up for the time of summer in pleasant experiences many times over.
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