| December 17, 2009 Ken Reddig Joins CMU as Director, Braintree Creation Care Centre Kenneth Reddig has been appointed Director (half-time) of the Braintree Creation Care Centre effective January 1, 2010. Ken is currently Director (half-time) with the Eden Foundation, and has worked as Executive Director of Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, Director of the Mennonite Heritage Centre (Winnipeg), and as Major & Planned Gifts Coordinator for the St. Boniface Hospital and Research Foundation. He possesses a Master of Arts degree in Canadian History from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Divinity from AMBS, Elkhart, Indiana. “Ken has significant project management experience and brings to this position a capacity to develop a vision for BCCC,” says Earl Davey, Vice President Academic, “as well as a range of programming that will enable the CMU community and our various supporting constituencies to engage with the Braintree project in many different ways.” Ken will occupy the BCCC office on the ground floor of CMU’s Founders Hall. |
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The Braintree Creation Care Centre has receive the generous support of a number of Winnipeg businesses. During the first half of 2009 the main lodge at East Braintree has been renovated to bring the facilities up to current building code. In doing these renovation CMU received a donations from:
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| Nature Conservancy, CMU Sign Agreement for Braintree Creation Care Centre An agreement between CMU and the Nature Conservancy of Canada will guarantee that the land at the Braintree Creation Care Centre will be preserved in perpetuity. Read the full story. |
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| On October 21st a group of 13 students from Landmark Highschool Hanover School Division spent the day at Braintree hiking the trails and filming this event. Read the full story in the Newsletter (page 3) of the Hanover School Division. | |
| Walter Loewen looks on as CMU students Jotham Penner and Rachael Wellwood pause after a day of trail clearing at the Braintree Creation Care Centre. The students and others cleared trails leading to cabins and repaired another by laying corduroy in low spots. |  |
| Students from Ruth Moon's Grade 10 Geography class from Landmark Collegiate enjoy a day at the old quarry ruins near the Braintree Creation Care Centre. Science teachers from the Hanover School Division, to which the Landmark Collegiate belongs, are interested in using Braintree for environmental studies courses; this group of students were on a trip to explore best ways to use the Centre. One of the main programs at Braintree will be a Creation Care Education aimed at students in independent and public high schools, church youth groups and universities. |  |
| Ted Barg, front, and Elmer Tokarchuk work on the the breezeway between the house and the garage at the residence at Braintree to ready it for occupancy. Barg and Tokarchuk are just two of a dedicated group of volunteers who are helping prepare the residence for Will and Alvie Martens, the Centre's new Host/Caretakers. Other volunteers have included Vern Janzen, John Sawatzky, Abe Penner, Clifford Brandt, Henry Friesen, Ron Loeppky, Walter Loewen and Glen Klassen. |  Volunteers Help Out At Braintree |
| Walter Loewen (centre, green jacket) and a group of senior high teachers from Steinbach, Niverville, Grunthal, and Landmark at Braintree pose for a photo at Braintree on Sept. 17. The teachers came to the Centre to explore possibilities for ecology, geography, art and other instruction at the site. After walking the trails to see how the Centre could enrich their classes, the group participated in a discussion led by Hanover School Division Assistant Superintendant Randy Dueck, along with Walter Loewen and Braintree Director Glen Klassen. |  Science Teachers Visit Braintree |
| New Staff Appointed At Braintree Will and Alvie Martens (left) have been appointed to a voluntary service position of host/caretakers at the Braintree Creation Care Centre. The couple, who are members of the Steinbach Mennonite Church, are completing a five-year term of service as managers of Camp Moose Lake. They will start their assignment with CMU November 1. Standing with the Martens is Walter Loewen, who donated the Braintree property to CMU. |
 Will and Alvie Martens (left) with Walter Loewen |
| CMU Family Day at Braintree More than 80 people from CMU and the East Braintree community shared a day of worship, learning, hiking and picnicking at the Braintree Creation Care Centre at East Braintree on Sunday, June 22 . Kenton Lobe, an instructor at CMU, spoke on the world food crisis, and Joanne Moyer, author of EarthTrek: Celebrating and Sustaining God's Creation, discussed the life and contribution of Aldo Leopold, the father of ethical ecosystem thinking. Hikes were led by Laura Reeves of the Manitoba Naturalist Society, Harvey Sawatsky, a nature photographer, and Walter Loewen, who donated the property to CMU. |
 CMU Family Day at Braintree |
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Glen Klassen, Director of the Braintree Creation Care Centre, with Luke Gascho, Director of Goshen College’s Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center. Gascho was at CMU May 12-13 to consult with the Braintree Creation Care Centre team; initiatives such as Braintree and Merry Lea are important at this time, he said, when the Christian community is awakening to a new dimension of its mission—creation care. |
 Glen Klassen and Luke Gascho |
Peat Research Station Hoped For Southeastern Manitoba
The Manitoba Cooperator reports on a Braintree Creation Care Centre project that hopes to unlock the secrets of a resource hidden just underfoot throughout southeastern Manitoba—peat. Read the full story... (PDF)
Nature Preserve Donated to Canadian Mennonite University
A spectacular and undisturbed 700 acre nature preserve of forest, fields and peat bogs near East Braintree, Man. has been donated to CMU to create the Braintree Creation Care Centre. Read the full story...
