Get ready for BBQ season!
Once again, we are partnering with Calgary’s iconic Spolumbo’s to offer you high-quality, locally-made meat products, all ready for your summer BBQs!
Spolumbo’s meat products are gluten free (with one exception: the meatballs are NOT GF), and made with natural ingredients, free of binders, fillers, and preservatives.
If you are interested in supporting our current fundraiser, please click on the order forms below:
Order forms can be sent to: [email protected]
Payments can be accepted through e-transfer using: accounts@ploughsharescalgary.
If you are planning to drop off your order form and payment in-person, our regular office hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:00am-3:30pm and we are located in the basement. If you are unable to make it during our regular office hours, please leave your order form/payment (excluding credit card payments) with Colin at the front desk, or leave your order form/payment in the Church’s mailbox out front addressed to Ploughshares Calgary Society and it will be received during the next in-office day.
We please ask that orders be finalized before April 30th, as orders will be due to arrive on Thursday, May 16th. Orders will be available for pick-up at Parkdale United Church (2919 8th Avenue, NW). Pick-up date is set for Thursday, May 16th, around the hours of 3:30pm to 6:30pm. More details regarding pick-up to come soon.
Please note that you are responsible to pick-up your own orders as we are unable to provide delivery services. Spolumbo’s and Ploughshares Calgary Society are not responsible for late or no-show pick-ups.
If you have any questions or need help placing your order, please email our office at [email protected]
As you know, non-profit societies such as ours depend greatly on donations from generous supporters like you. If you are able, we ask that you please help Ploughshares Calgary Society survive and help us continue with our important and ongoing work.
Even if you are not able to purchase from Spolumbo’s. we would be grateful if you would consider making a donation towards our event. Donations can be made here.
Our recent and ongoing efforts have included:
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Establishing a “Culture of Peace” month for our city in August
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Expanding and enhancing of our annual “Floating Lanterns” commemoration of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Hosting regular educational meetings with expert speakers on pertinent topics. Recent presentations included:
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From Stress to Strategies for Nuclear Abolition (April 10) – Bev Delong
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People Power Peace: How Civil Society Stops War (March 13) – Author/Activist Rivera Sun
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Sexual Violence In Contexts Of Mass Atrocities featuring (February 7) – Attorney Daniela Kravetz
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Hearts And Minds In A Digital Landscape (January 17) – Professor Jean-Christophe Boucher, UofC & Professor Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, UofC
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Publishing a monthly newsletter
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Creating new displays on Conflict Resolution and about Peace Heroes, to add to our existing panels on Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament, to be displayed at the Central Library, and made part of a loanable mobile exhibit
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Ongoing advocacy for confronting the nuclear threat, and seeking solutions to violence
- Working on creating a new interactive peace walk titled “Ploughshares Pathway to Peace” this fall