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Announcement

Read and Swap

Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day 2012

April 26 th @ 6pm

Riverlink Shopping Centre

North Ipswich 

For info phone 0421 401 788

"Vance Hyde 1922 – 2012 was the mother of Catherine Ryan Hyde. Catherine wrote the Bestseller “Pay It Forward”. On the 26th April Vance would have celebrated her 90th Birthday, which is also international PAY IT FORWARD DAY! To honour her memory this year we have renamed April 26 VANCE HYDE PAY IT FORWARD DAY. Pay It Forward is simply giving random acts of kindness such as carrying someone’s shopping to the car or buying a stranger a cup of coffee. As members of the Pay It Forward Experience we believe small random acts of kindness everyday can help transform the world. This year when we pay it forward we are doing it in Vance Hyde’s memory." 

We invite you to come have a bite to eat or a coffee while we catch about the books we love and share them with others too.  As a means of Pay It Forward bring a book you'd like to swap with someone or give to a shopper that you loved reading and you could read it again & again.  

Kids of all ages welcome

0 years - 100 years plus! 

 

Pay it forward in memory of Vance Hyde

VANCE HYDE PAY IT FORWARD DAY

April 26 2012

This year when you undertake random acts of kindness on April 26 we ask that you do it in memory of Vance Hyde (1922 0 2012).  On April 26 Vance would of celebrated her 90 th Birthday, however see passed away last month. Vance was a much loved member of the Pay It Forward Community and the daughter of Catherine Ryan Hyde the author of Pay It Forward. Before the bracelet; before the movie and even be Catherine penned the book was her mum Vance, thus it could be said Vance has given birth to the Pay It Forward Movement.  As a movement we are motivated to carrying our random acts of kindness at any time. These acts can range from opening the door for someone, writing to a prisoner or nursing home resident, supporting a postcard to a random person, buying the person in front of you a cup of coffee or paying for someone's fuel while expecting nothing in return.  However sometimes it can be an organise event to help a person, organization or community.  Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day 2012 is a great day to do any of these in memory of Vance.   For more information click here.  Recently we had a global share the book flash mob. Where we shared the books that shaped as lives in the hope it would do the same for someone else and they to would pay it forward to someone.

 In Australia it is National Year of Reading as a writer I do see a better way of Paying It Forward than encouraging people to read, gain knowledge and wisdom, in particular the young.  I admit that our Flash Mob in Ipswich didn't create ad huge flash, but being undertured we want to correct that.  A few of us have been talking and we think its still one of the best ways to Pay It Forward in our community.  So where talking about a bring, reading and swap books event on Vance Hyde Pay It Forward Day!  We're toss about some different venues, times and style if event.  Talking books over coffee or lunch. Reading a good book should be relaxing.  We just want to bring and share the books we love and love to read. The two viable options are coffee somewhere Thursday night or a picnic brunch on the Saturday. If you want to put your two cents in then nows the time to do it. Leave us a comment on out blog or facebook page. 

Event Update - Media Coverage - IPSWICH

Share the Book

Flash mob alert expected to hit Queens Park Cafe in Ipswich, Queensland, today at 4pm | News, events and sport for Ipswich | The Courier-Mail:

Random Acts of Kindness

Book Review

Hunger games by Suzanne Collins, Is the first book in the tioliogy of the Huger Games Series I am finding it an absolute page turner constantly entering my train of thought, not since I read the Power of One by Bryce Country has the injustice society can inflict on others that make up our humanity, gotten under my skin.  Although set in a fictitious country, the brutality we can inflict on those who we rule over is amazing conflicting, the we in a matter of weeks can be reduce to living like animals when forced to fight for our survival.  If you thought Lord of the flyers was an incitement of the human spirit - Hunger Games will set your spirit of fire as to rages agianist what we can be reduced to.  

Each year a lottery is held to selected two constants to compete to a survival game in which only one will win and survive.  The story is told by 16 year old Katniss. Who volunteers to take part in the Hunger Games for District 12. After her younger sister's name was drawn in the lottery the year she turned 12, the first year a person becomes eligible to compete.  It is rare for someone to volunteer from district and only twice has district 12 won the games.  There lives are now dependant on former winner and district drunk as he mentors Katniss and Peetz to compete.  No one expects much from a competitor form district 12, until Katniss steps into the arena and casts her spell. . .