Ms. Dawn M. Nevills B.A. - DIP Psych-P.I.-Pol. Sci.
Lambton, Ontario, Canada
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About
Past: Associate Prof., Lambton College- Core II Security/Commissionaires/Great Lakes Region - HMCS Prevost, Battalion 22, Naval Reservist/F.A.C. firearms training- Special Needs In - class Support, Lambton County Board of Education - SEAC Board Member, Special Needs Students - 3 yrs.- Late night radio host, CFBU Radio Brock University - C.A.A. published author Member, Global Alliance for Arts in Healthcare - Citizenship and Immigration - St. Clair - Acting Chief of Admin/Sarnia,Detroit,WindsorBridge/Tunnel.- Int'l Symphony Orchestra - Sarnia/Port Huron - Guest Vocalist - C.E.E. Hospital - volunteer - guest vocalist- Canada Employment Center - clerk - I.O.D.E. - volunteer - "virtual member" - Dundurn Jazz Society/The Colonial Hotel/Coco's, Grand Bend/Ups 'N Downs Parlour/Ruby's Night Club/ Greystoke Blues Fest - guest vocalist - London Community Players - arts, theatre volunteer- Int'l Women's Day Committee - nonprofit, social services volunteer - Brock Center for the Arts - volunteer, usher- Petrolia Association - past volunteer - Sarnia-Lambton Arts Council - Volunteer- Inwood/Watford/Sarnia Public Libraries - nonprofit volunteer - Canada Trust - banking and investments - Saga Foods, Brock University - Food Services, catering, hospitality- The Body Shop, Additionelle, Walmart, W.H. Smith, - retail specialist - Watford Action Committee for Youth (WACY) - Founding member, volunteer - T.G. Bright and Co. - management, sales, travel and food and wine expos of commerce food and wine tasting/event coordinator - Past board member, Director, "Player", volunteer (in many capacities)THEATRE SARNIA - The Brookston News - contributing volunteer - The Whigoah - contributing author, columnist, - volunteer - Petrolia Little Theatre - nonprofit volunteer - industrial security specialist - specialty training in chemical, fire, (Texas) and explosive environments, R.F.T. Scott Air Pack, V.C.M. and practical accident investigation certification. (Honours) I also like sewing,
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Older Women- a poem by D.M. Nevills
Older Women- a poem by D.M. Nevills
By Ms. Dawn M. Nevills B.A. - DIP Psych-P.I.-Pol. Sci.
Contributions
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Here's how you can maintain motivation during a career transition in Community Outreach.
Belief in the Life, Goodness and Love in this world - and look for it, find it, and encourage it in Everyone you meet. In this way, Light and Possibility will triumph over Darkness, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
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How can you use symbolism to add meaning to a poem?
To a constricted and repressed society, or its members, understood symbols open a door to freedom - by means of poetic expression - where none exist, and provide needed venues for expressions of anguish, loss, longing, anger and outreach. Visual symbols, in slave days, sewn into quilts and "hung on the line", represented actual pathways to free society for escapees, and understood symbolism in language does the same thing for those daring to express feelings of anguish, bewilderment, political anguish, and anguish at imposed victimization as a glimmering mental light, unextinguished, beyond present darkness...even in an imposed prison of the mind, in a closed and intellectually brutalizing society.
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Glasses a poem by Dawn M. Nevills I want to write a poem, and I want for it to say, That the time I used to write it…
Glasses a poem by Dawn M. Nevills I want to write a poem, and I want for it to say, That the time I used to write it…
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I simply could not be more honoured to accept this appointment! I am thrilled to have the opportunity to further work with the outstanding CEO, Team…
I simply could not be more honoured to accept this appointment! I am thrilled to have the opportunity to further work with the outstanding CEO, Team…
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Experience
Education
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Activities and Societies: CFBU Radio Brock LATE NIGHT RADIO HOST FOR CAMPUS RADIO, Columnist, Brock student newspaper - via CFBU (new music and jazz/r&B live events)
Late night disc jockey, CFBU Radio Brock
Writer/Reviewer- Brock student newspaper, via CFBU - new music, entertainment reviews, live event reviews, etc.
Employee, Saga Foods, Brock University - from line server to Head/Shift supervisor/Subshop-in-residence on weekends, alone.
Employee, Brock Center for the Arts - usher, events assistant
Assistant, early morning delivery of Globe and Mail newspaper in DecewRez.
Employee, part-time, Alphie's Trough (local onsite pub)
Research…Late night disc jockey, CFBU Radio Brock
Writer/Reviewer- Brock student newspaper, via CFBU - new music, entertainment reviews, live event reviews, etc.
Employee, Saga Foods, Brock University - from line server to Head/Shift supervisor/Subshop-in-residence on weekends, alone.
Employee, Brock Center for the Arts - usher, events assistant
Assistant, early morning delivery of Globe and Mail newspaper in DecewRez.
Employee, part-time, Alphie's Trough (local onsite pub)
Research Assistant, Prof. Mary Jane Miller(Cdn. Radio/TV drama/theatre)
Part-time employee, T.G.Bright and Co. winery, Pen Center, St. Catharines.(Winery industry/event research coordination and assistance)
Gov. researcher for PALS. (Preservation of Agricultural Land Society)
Musician, Singer - band S.T.I.R.R.(S.o T.his I.s R.ock and R.oll...)
Co-Created the 1st phone-in teachers' aid resource catalogue for the Lincoln County Board of Education MEDIA dept. -
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Activities and Societies: My interests?Nontraditional, tribal, independent socioscientific investigative research; liaison activities supportive of pilot projects; youth/cultural development;volunteer links to ethical groups like tribal societies, martialarts councils, education boards, medical/holistic/traditional healing and rehabilitation, and includes my own interests in expressive drama/dance, music therapy, art, sculpture/pottery, gardening, fashion/design work specific to cultural and traditional skills sets.
While working fulltime, completed 3 separate 2 - year college diplomas, in 3 different areas of interest:psychology, police sciences, and private investigations (with an emphasis on medical and forensic specialty in support of food and community illness source-based causative factors.)
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Activities and Societies: Achieved via night school while working fulltime.
Three two-year degree/diplomas:
Dip. Adult Psychology - Highest Honours
Dip. P.I. - Highest Honours - completed in one year while working fulltime
Dip. Pol. Sci. - completed while working two jobs, in response to community situation involving social workers, illegal drugs, and allegations of fraud and abuse, among other things. I care about my community. -
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Activities and Societies: Obtained to assist in medical, scientific, literary, military, environmental, and sociopolitical research necessary in support of both legal and academic examinations and inquiries. I augmented this with an industrial explosives course from Texas, while working within the Industrial and chemical sector in Chemical Valley, and assisted in administering "on-site" safety specifics site training to contractors entering industrial sites.
Obtained via night school while working fulltime.
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Activities and Societies: President of Student Council, Spirit Committee, Basketball, Volleyball, Drama, Stage, Field Hockey, Tennis, Badminton, Social Committee, Student Council Grade Rep, Fashion Show,
Organized many activities and functions in conjunction with various groups and societies within the school for fundraising and social activities, including both the Optimist and the Kinsmen Service Clubs, from whom I won awards. Won Drama awards and Volleyball most valuable player awards, as well as a real "Miss Congeniality" award...(Sandra Bullock would be proud.) Laughter. Had a wonderful time, and enjoyed my high school days very much - still keep in touch with classmates though it's been…
Organized many activities and functions in conjunction with various groups and societies within the school for fundraising and social activities, including both the Optimist and the Kinsmen Service Clubs, from whom I won awards. Won Drama awards and Volleyball most valuable player awards, as well as a real "Miss Congeniality" award...(Sandra Bullock would be proud.) Laughter. Had a wonderful time, and enjoyed my high school days very much - still keep in touch with classmates though it's been (gasp!) over 30 YEARS since we were there together....hard to believe that much time has passed.
Volunteer Experience
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Board of Directors
Sarnia Little Theatre
Children
Volunteered on Saturday mornings for the youth group.
Volunteered as a member of the playreading committee, deciding upon new plays for upcoming production years for the community.
Volunteered as a 1)Director - i.e."Brave Men, Cowardly Men" - a play about apartheid, among others 2)lighting operator 2)set decor - (once slipped in real sardines during a production of 'Noises off' at Sarnia Library which will be remembered in history, I hope...grin 3)sound assistant 4)set construction 5)cast…Volunteered on Saturday mornings for the youth group.
Volunteered as a member of the playreading committee, deciding upon new plays for upcoming production years for the community.
Volunteered as a 1)Director - i.e."Brave Men, Cowardly Men" - a play about apartheid, among others 2)lighting operator 2)set decor - (once slipped in real sardines during a production of 'Noises off' at Sarnia Library which will be remembered in history, I hope...grin 3)sound assistant 4)set construction 5)cast member in various productions, including a last-minute emergency sub-in for a murder mystery at Hiawatha which got pretty ad lib wild, and included some hastily acquired Russian spies gleaned from the audience, as the night progressed, as I recall (got a decent writeup from the London Free Press for a slightly wordy piece where I played a mentally challenged adult)
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Contributor, coach
Kiva.org
Economic Empowerment
Became part of a "force for possible" at the grass roots level, funding "no funding available" groups with a dream. Causes have made possible: a library and bookstore in a remote village; a dance school in a bario, where desperate artists strove to save talented kids' from the drug trade, needles and prostitution; a traditional artists' handmade cloth co-op to create fabric for traditional dress and a resurgence of that same within a self-created fashion industry in a place where it did not…
Became part of a "force for possible" at the grass roots level, funding "no funding available" groups with a dream. Causes have made possible: a library and bookstore in a remote village; a dance school in a bario, where desperate artists strove to save talented kids' from the drug trade, needles and prostitution; a traditional artists' handmade cloth co-op to create fabric for traditional dress and a resurgence of that same within a self-created fashion industry in a place where it did not exist due to poverty and loss of self. Just some of the wonderful successes!
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Linking Arts to Healthcare in many tangible, applied, and helpful ways for creative minds
Butterscotch Cottage - Creations of Art and Love - Arts in Healthcare Consultant
Arts and Culture
In very special instances, as a consultant, I help people discover creative venues and new directions where their interests in the arts - painting, singing, weaving, designing, constructing, dancing, sewing, playing an instrument, reading, writing, acting - lead to new paths towards health and healing for them, and for others in their lives.
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Arts in Healthcare Consultant
Butterscotch Cottage Creations
Health
I like to think that time I have spent helping people explore their creativity - in order to move beyond grief, and loss, and anger, and setback, and sadness - has been a shared journey of Joy and Renewed Belief in a gentle embrace of Spirit working in us, for us, and through us. Bravery through dark moments has created a strength of Friendship and Fierce mutual support that is unshakeable, and sustaining. Love always finds a way through the Impossible.
Publications
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Poems from Butterscotch Cottage
iUniverse
Original poetry illustrated with original artwork.
Also available in e-book format, for under $5.00, for those on an extreme budget, or for those not "tactile-imperative", but anxious to procure....xo. ...here:
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Rock Woman at Rest
New York, Lincoln, Shanghai
My first book of poetry, illustrated with pen and ink sketches.
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The Whigoah - community online newspaper, Lambton County, guest columnist
Alvinston, Ontario, Canada
Shared thoughts on community, world, local, and personal happenings...or just musing on the world, in general.
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http://amomentofyourtime-phaseii.blogspot.ca - blog
Butterscotch Cottage
Ongoing literary/arts/thoughts shared blog of shared discoveries, reminiscences, humour, kindness, and wonderment at life, in general. Please stop by!
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MacQueen Publishing and Printing, Alvinston, Ontario, Canada
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Contributed a weekly column, and periodic articles to this community publication. One of a few efforts I consider among my most valuable, and truly earnestly undertaken for community concerns.
Courses
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Police Sciences
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Test Scores
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Dawn Marie Nevills
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F.A.C. (Firearms Acquisition Certification)
Score: 97 % - specs free
...currently awaiting renewal, as they appear to have lost it again....strangely.....although I prefer to simply carry the license, on principle, frankly........
Languages
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Basic French, rusty German, greeting basics in Spanish, Japanese, Russian
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English
Full professional proficiency
Organizations
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UNICEF
Global Parent
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As a global parent, my donation goes to whatever child is most in need, worldwide, as a response to crisis, war, famine, earthquake, flood, typhoon, or geopolitical unrest. I love getting periodic progress reports of hunger alleviated, orphanages built, response efforts involving temporary shelter and medical responses, new school kits in places where education has never before been possible, and how an art kit has helped a child victim of war smile and speak again. All this, for less than a case of beer a month.....amazing. This Christmas.....buy a goat for someone you love!
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The Empire Club of Toronto
Member - not currently active
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An advocate of the oral tradition, the ridiculously "wild, wooly and philanthropic" nature of The Empire Club appealed to me, most particularly, during my tenure at Lambton College as an Associate Professor, but also, through the years, has proven to be a wonderful, possibility-making link between sociopolitical groups, and those for whom the oral tradition, the opportunity and desire to speak and share insights and visions for a better, more hopeful society, and the idea of "Possible Betterment" are made real by, and through interaction with, each other and the greater world, every day. Membership crosses all cultures and religions, and my humble inclusion within its ranks is one of the affiliations of which I am most grateful, and most proud.
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Blue Water Jazz Society
Member
As a jazz and R&B vocalist, I was once upstaged by a sheep shearing at the Brigden Fair while being interviewed by a CBC reporter (which really was much more interesting, anyway, truth be told), but I have recorded at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, and sung at venues via the Army/Navy Club in London, various Blues Festivals, the Dundurn Jazz Society Festival in Hamilton, Ontario, various PowWows and Inuit traditional gatherings, private Jazz and Blues clubs throughout Southwestern…
As a jazz and R&B vocalist, I was once upstaged by a sheep shearing at the Brigden Fair while being interviewed by a CBC reporter (which really was much more interesting, anyway, truth be told), but I have recorded at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, and sung at venues via the Army/Navy Club in London, various Blues Festivals, the Dundurn Jazz Society Festival in Hamilton, Ontario, various PowWows and Inuit traditional gatherings, private Jazz and Blues clubs throughout Southwestern Ontario, Ottawa, Western Canada, the Southern United States, (the last of which proved very funny, indeed, as they all kept trying to feed me, at one point), the United Kingdom, and Asia, where I returned the favour.....and some hats, new shoes, furniture to a couple of newlyweds, and one hell of a lot of rice......ahem.(I do hope they ate some of it, and didn't just throw it around alot, while singing Van Morrison songs......grin.) All this, and I even managed not to create an international incident - now there's good work. Smile. (Plus, a lot of people now know the words to "I wanna hold your hand...." sigh - if nothing else, in English.)
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Canadian Authors' Association (C.A.A.)
Writer/Author - Member in good standing
Wonderful people, with links worldwide that have made my life better, more educated, and better able to make intelligent assessments in both my professional and personal writing in order to "present a story with purpose and compassion"....for over a decade.
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I.O.D.E.
"Virtual Member" - or "Volunteer not lost in space", (as I like to say...smile.)
I can't begin to tell you all of the ways in which my personal interests as a volunteer have fallen under this particular umbrella, but they have been varied, and numerous, and have involved literally thousands of volunteer hours, since 1987, when I became a member at a meeting in the Pastoral Care House of St. George's Anglican Church, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, after being invited by a member of my church parish. My original chapter members - the Canatara Chapter - most of whom were thirty…
I can't begin to tell you all of the ways in which my personal interests as a volunteer have fallen under this particular umbrella, but they have been varied, and numerous, and have involved literally thousands of volunteer hours, since 1987, when I became a member at a meeting in the Pastoral Care House of St. George's Anglican Church, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, after being invited by a member of my church parish. My original chapter members - the Canatara Chapter - most of whom were thirty years' plus my senior - have either retired or have passed away, but I have retained my "Member in Space" unique affiliation, which has allowed me both flexibility of movement, and the joy of independence - and hilarity - for almost 27 years. One time I went for five years, and after travels to Asia, various industrial and tribal friendships, and some rather scary gun episodes, when I finally "checked in with the desk from space", I had five thousand hours logged....(they were also thrilled I hadn't died.) Go figure! Smile.
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Kiva.org
Member
Have been a member for quite a few years now...Kiva.org makes the impossible dream seem possible again, for "dreamers" all over the world who might otherwise not have access to financial backing to make their visions become reality. My one little $25.00 start has been around the world and back again, and, wonderfully, a part of some wonderful success stories - including a village's first book store for a 200 mile radius...how amazing is THAT???? .....Why not join today?
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O.W.S. (Ontario Wine Society)
Member
After working parttime for Brights Wines beginning in 1984, while attending university at Brock, I moved to London, Ontario, in order to manage what was (pre Vintages) one of the first vintage and varietal stocking wine boutiques in Southwestern Ontario, in Masonville Place, London. While there, I arranged chamber of commerce tastings, wine tours to the Niagara Area, and assisted with various travel/tourism and entertainment venues, as well as retaining many friendships, and meeting many people…
After working parttime for Brights Wines beginning in 1984, while attending university at Brock, I moved to London, Ontario, in order to manage what was (pre Vintages) one of the first vintage and varietal stocking wine boutiques in Southwestern Ontario, in Masonville Place, London. While there, I arranged chamber of commerce tastings, wine tours to the Niagara Area, and assisted with various travel/tourism and entertainment venues, as well as retaining many friendships, and meeting many people from all over the world, in conjunction with my interest in "all things oneological".....I also keep a wine diary, in which some memorable efforts are documented by both Canadian and International Vintners - including our local Alvinston meadery!
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