Sugar is all hopped up to help Sharon Ryan with her yoga classes. No, that isn't a cute name for the yoga assistant. Actually, it is … but that assistant is of the lagomorphic variety.
Yup, Sugar is a rabbit. The soft and small Holland lop-eared bunny has been a recent addition to Ryan's downtown yoga studio. He is an apt addition to the stretching and serenity, especially since Ryan has been using Lent as a reason to fundraise for the Salvation Army's Feed My Lambs breakfast program for school children.
The program works to provide breakfast packages to children at 14 schools during the regular school year. More than 3,500 breakfast packages were delivered during its inaugural month back in September.
Each breakfast contains a fruit cup and juice along with either a granola bar, oatmeal, or cold cereal. The schools are also provided with gift cards to purchase milk for the cereal, or as an alternative to juice.
In the past, she used proceeds from the class to purchase a special stationary bike for disabled schoolchildren in Morinville to help them concentrate while in class.
Sugar is going to stay hopping too.
"I want to take my bunny to sick children's hospitals to give the children a chance to be with him, do some gentle yoga and feel great for an hour," Ryan said.
She is also preparing an Easter yoga event for children to get to do yoga followed by a chocolate Easter bunny hunt. She promises that at least two bunnies will be present. The fees for the class will also be donated to Feed My Lambs.
Ryan's philanthropic yoga classes run every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to noon and cost $5 to participate. The Sharon Ryan Yoga Studio is located at #9, 44 St. Thomas St.
641.23 is for beer in the Dewey decimal system
The Friends of the St. Albert Public Library are inviting their mature patrons to stay after hours next Friday for a frosty mug or two. A Taste of Beer is a fundraiser with a bitter malt aftertaste that will surely leave taste buds pleased. Guiding the gustatory tour is library director and resident beer expert Peter Bailey.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased from the customer service desk or by calling 780-459-1530. Non-drinkers accompanying a taster can get in for $10. All proceeds go to fund the library's programs and collections.
The event takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 24 in Forsyth Hall. Visit www.sapl.ca for more information.
Firefighters wrap up with $45k
The tallies are in and the St. Albert firefighters completed their annual muscular dystrophy fundraiser with more than $45,000. They accomplished this through their three-day rooftop campout, as well as passing the boot around at the Inglewood Safeway location, selling raffle tickets for a Valentine's Day gift basket, collecting tips while posing as servers at East Side Mario's for an evening, and hosting an online auction. They also received a generous cheque of nearly $10,000 from students and staff at Sturgeon Heights School. Students spent months doing their own collections and fundraising to help out the firefighters with their annual charity drive.
