School Bus Schedules: Greater Sudbury and Area Time in the morning is tight especially if you have kids that need to get to the bus on time.   Click here to see if any busses from the Sudbury Student Services Consortium are running late.

The MS Walk is the Society’s largest event fundraiser. It involves over 60,000 participants and volunteers and takes place in communities from coast-to-coast in the spring and early fall.
The Walk is a critical part of the Society’s fundraising efforts and is a significant program in funding research towards a cure for MS.
Make your step the one that ends multiple sclerosis. Register today! Click below.

On January 12th, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, collapsing buildings and affecting thousands. It was the strongest earthquake ever to hit the region.

Here are a few ways to donate and help out:

• Hope for Haiti Telethon:  CBC, CTV and Global will host a one-hour, commercial-free, cross-network special event on Friday Jan 22nd.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean are scheduled to deliver messages to Canadians, while the Tragically Hip and K'naan will perform live.

• Prominent Canadians from music, film, television and sport to appear on the special include:

      Musical acts Nelly Furtado, Measha Brueggergosman, Justin Bieber, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked  Ladies, David Foster, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and Simple Plan.
Directors James Cameron, Jason Reitman and Norman Jewison.
Actors William Shatner, Joshua Jackson, Pamela Anderson, Eugene Levy, Sandra Oh, Tom Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Michael J. Fox, Rachelle Lefevre, Will Arnett, Hugh Dillon and Brent Butt.
TV personalities Mike Holmes, Rick Mercer and Alex Trebek.
Sports stars Gretzky and Steve Nash.
Humanitarian Craig Kielburger.
The money raised during the telethon will be distributed equally amongst a coalition of 10 large Canadian non-governmental organizations — including World Vision Canada, Canadian Red Cross Society, UNICEF Canada, Oxfam Canada and Save the Children Canada — with the funds exclusively earmarked for Haiti.

• Rogers Wireless and Fido customers are encouraged to help those in Haiti by donating to Partners In Health: Haiti and other Haitian relief organizations. By sending the text message “HELP” to shortcode 1291.  Customers can donate $5.00 CDN to the Haitian relief efforts.  Rogers is working with The ONEXONE Foundation to facilitate 100 per cent of donations in funds and goods to Partners In Health. For more information, please visit www.rogers.com. For details on Partners In Health, please visit http://www.pih.org.
  Click here to watch a "How to" video to show you how to send via text message to Haiti. 

• Salvation Army Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief Fund - If you’re a Rogers subscriber you can text ‘Haiti’ to 45678 from your mobile phone to donate 5 dollars to the Salvation Army Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief Fund. Visit www.salvationarmy.ca for more details.
• The Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Fund - www.redcross.ca or by calling toll-free 1-800-418-1111 or by contacting their local Red Cross office or by visiting the Sudbury Branch of the Canadian Red Cross at 1460 Fairburn Street in Sudbury from 8:30am to 4:40pm Monday to Friday - 674-0737. 
• Donate with World Vision - www.worldvision.ca World Vision has been working to overcome poverty in Haiti for over 30 years.  Now more than ever World Vision is asking for your help. 

Keep updated on Buddy Greens journey to the Olympics and what he's doing to get there. Visit his blog HERE!

GAMES

St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt

What You Need:
Paper
Marker
Black pot
Chocolate gold coins
Scissors
Green construction paper

Instructions
Hide a pot filled with gold chocolate coins either inside or out, depending on the weather.

Cut out several four leaf clovers from green construction paper. Cut one clover larger than the others.

Write clues leading up to the pot on the smaller clovers.

On the large clover, write the first clue and place it under your child's breakfast dish.

Can You Let Go of the Leprechaun's Gold?
 
Legend says a leprechaun can't lie, but he can be very tricky -- just like this St. Patrick's Day challenge. Can you let his gold slip through your fingers?

What You Need 
Coin

Instructions 
The Setup: Put your hands together, palms facing. Bend your middle fingers as shown, then ask someone to slip a coin between the tips of your ring fingers.

The Setup: Put your hands together, palms facing. Bend your middle fingers as shown, then ask someone to slip a coin between the tips of your ring fingers.

The Challenge: Try to release the coin by pulling apart your ring fingers. Letting go of money is usually easy, so how come here it's so hard?

What's Going On: Because it lacks certain tendons that your other fingers have, your ring finger is at the mercy of its next-door neighbor, the middle finger. The two are connected by a piece of cordlike tissue, and when your middle fingers are bent as they are here, it tightens, drawing together your ring fingers. Until you unfold your middle fingers, the coin is all but impossible to release.

RECIPES

Shamrock Cupcakes

 
Ingredients 
Cooled cupcakes (baked from your favorite recipe)
White icing
Green gum drops or spearmint leaves
Heart-shaped cookie cutter
Rolling pin

Instructions
Frost a cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing.

For the shamrock, flatten 3 green gumdrops or spearmint leaves with a rolling pin (sprinkle on a little sugar, if necessary, to keep the candies from sticking).

Use a small heart-shaped cookie cutter (ours was 1 1/2 inches across) to cut a heart from each flattened leaf.

Place the hearts together on the cupcake to form a shamrock.

Cut a stem from the excess of one of the flattened candies and set it in place below the 3 hearts.

For more ideas visit http://familyfun.go.com

Share your own ideas and suggestions by emailing them to paula.read@rci.rogers.com