Colleen (she/her)

Camp Director - Camp Menesetung
Youth Minister - Dublin Street United
Candidate for ministry in the United Church of Canada
Loves cats, drag, hiking & play

[Deb Lefebvre @DebraLefebvre]

So hard to tweet this. A medical floor has 2 nurses for 31 patients. This is unsafe & impossible to meet all patient care needs. Care will be compromised. People will wait. Med errors may happen. Patients may fall. The nurses are stressed beyond measure. This is Ontario #onhealth

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

Given this, all those who can must walk the line for (with) them.

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

BREAKING: Ford is going to fine CUPE for exercising their legal right to strike by charging those who make #39kIsNotEnough 10% of their yearly salary per day if they walk! @sflecce made $165,851.04 back in 2020. SHAME

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

@MikeSchreiner Thank you for standing up for students and workers and being the voice of so many of us who are very concerned about the Ford government's abuse of power.

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

@TheBailzasaurus Oh that sounds really nice!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

This is amazing! I have been in spaces where people can bring their own "baby buddy" for free but never one that provides the buddy! I would absolutely volunteer for this!

[Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess]

I just learned that my church’s women’s retreat has the option for women bringing babies to request a “baby buddy” to help them and so they need volunteer baby buddies and I have never signed up for anything so quickly.

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

@genna_buck Summer Camp goal 2023: run into Ryan Malcolm on a weekend in town! (he was the first celebrity I ever met, he signed my shirt at a Mix 97 event at the Ramada at like 7am)

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

But also, if you are in Saskatchewan please find somewhere secure to be and don't open doors to people you don't know and don't share police locations.

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

In moments like these I am left unsure of what to do except to pray for the communities, the families, the friends, the injured, the healthcare workers and the loved people who were murdered. Pray for healing, for strength, for comfort.
https://t.co/lLaF3OWSPl

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

@kurtzmckinnon I do have a massage therapist I should book with and intended to but forgot, thank you for the needed reminder! I went back to a yoga practice today and discovered just how tight everything is right now and honestly, noticing that helped me give myself a break!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

Struggling with post-camp rest this year. Last year that was the only option, I literally couldn't do any more. This year I'm feeling pretty good coming off camp and it is easier to ignore the exhaustion. Struggling with how to rest anyway.

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

Thrilled to see that the @NiagaraParks powerstation washroom is an all-gender washroom! Awesome!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

@thiskatetaylor I feel this SO HARD! Our teen camp did a karaoke night this year and all our CDs are the stuff I listened to as teens and they kept calling it "old" and "retro", so I got them back by CRUSHING THEM at a Destiny's Child song :P

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

It's Wednesday and it's hard and I'm exhausted and I need any of my #campdirector friends to cheer me on a little because I'm running low on just about everything right now (sleep, showers, time, patience, energy, creativity, problem-solving capacity, the list goes on)

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

What was it that finally got our chaos cabin to sleep tonight? 6 rounds of the song Mosquitos and the Bed bugs getting progressively slower and quieter. Is this song a lullaby? Nope! Did it work? Turns out yes

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

Day one with campers!!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

I can't say much in details (yet) but tonight was one of my best nights as a Camp Director!!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

Leadership Team training this weekend! Excited!!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

@thiskatetaylor @kurtzmckinnon Very smart! You got this! I hope that in all the chaos that is staff training you get opportunities to just enjoy how awesome your staff are and have fun!!

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

But they are young, they didn't come up with themselves. All I (we) can do is hope, teach and pray, and remember the many who hope, teach and pray alongside us.

[Colleen (she/her) @Colleen2233]

Yesterday was hard, had a group of students where some were just not interested in the health of the planet and only saw it in mechanistic ways of service to humans. So many young people I work with care so deeply about our planet it was a jolt to come up against this.