<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><span style="color: green;"><span style="line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 14pt;">We are looking for volunteers that would like to help with outreach throughout the month of March - a</span></span></strong><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><span style="color: green;"><span style="line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 14pt;">t Westfield Heritage Village. </span></span></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">The dates are: All Sundays's in March and the first Sunday of April, the Wednesday & Thursday of March Break, and Good Friday, specifically: </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><li>Sundays - <span dir="ltr">March 5</span>, 12, 19, 26 and <span dir="ltr">April 2</span></li><li>March Break - <span dir="ltr">March 15</span> and 16</li><li>Good <span dir="ltr">Friday - April 7</span></li></ul><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><b>We need to let them know the days we can support very soon as they have to print material, i</b></span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">deally by the latest <span dir="ltr">Wednesday Feb 22. We\u2019re aiming to have most of the days filled with at least 2 volunteers to cover breaks and for safety. If we don\u2019t cover Good Friday that\u2019s acceptable, but we should be able to cover all or most of the remaining days. </span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><b><br></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><b>What are you signing up for? </b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">To fire up the relationship with Westfield again, we're looking to partake in a multi-day event during the month of March - it is Westfiled's </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: beige;"><strong><span style="color: brown;">Maple Syrup</span></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"> event. They'll have a number of buildings open and several stations where the public can learn about various elements of pioneer life. We would be one of those stations. The exact details are still being worked out, but the events are during the daytime and we would likely have one of the historic scopes set up and perhaps a modern scope so people can look at the sun. This would mesh nicely with our efforts to prepare for solar eclipse outreach coming in 2024. We would also be permitted to have a table with printed material and perhaps our new banner.</span><br><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">Westfield Heritage Village Conservation Area is both a living history museum and a conservation area. It boasts a stunning collection of over 35 historical buildings that have been restored to capture early Canadian culture. Westfield also houses 3 historic scopes belonging to our Centre (see this post for pictures of the scopes: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><span style="line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1549.0" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(168, 182, 207);">http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1549.0</a></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">).</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">I've created a signup sheet in Google Sheets </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="color: green;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q0x4iL8SFT9yVjhanoFeYRXTzho8a9eiw91A0dmIrV8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(168, 182, 207);">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q0x4iL8SFT9yVjhanoFeYRXTzho8a9eiw91A0dmIrV8/edit?usp=sharing</a> </span></strong></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="color: green;"><br></span></strong></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="color: green;">Please go in and sign up for as many dates as you are able to support. This is a great opportunity to support 2 main objectives for our Centre. to grow our membership and to create awareness about solar viewing safety and the solar eclipse in 2024. </span></strong></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px; background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239);">Please message me if you have any thoughts or questions: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"><a href="mailto:victor.abraham77@gmail.com" target="_blank">victor.abraham77@gmail.com</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><span style="background-color: rgb(231, 234, 239); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.48px;">Cheers,</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(191, 90, 242); color: rgb(191, 90, 242);"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="s1"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="s1">Victor Abraham</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="s1">Director of Outreach & Observatory Curator</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="s1">Hamilton Centre Royal Astronomical Society of Canada </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="s1">(905)928-2982</span></p></div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div></body></html>