Bully Buster of the Week - Airdrie

Located across from Co-op in the Airdrie, Taco Del Mar offers a delicious choice for you money. Whether it's a mondo burrito, rippin' fish tacos, nachos, enchiladas or any other made-to-order item, Taco Del Mar guarantees the quality, freshness and taste of every item served. Check out this great family run location and look for their Logo on the Local StopBully.com Community Events Trailer. Thanks for your sponsorship guys.

114 Sierra Springs Drive
Building A, Unit 106
Airdrie, AB T3C 0J2
(403)316-0099

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Bully Buster of the Week - Red Deer

The Bully Buster (Sponsor) of the Week for Red Deer this week is Sisson Furs. Frank Sisson, president has been a regular StopBully.com sponsor over the years - so if you need Fur check him out.

StopBully Signs on First Business Partnership

StopBully.com is starting its first business partnership - The Community Key newsletter - in the Calgary area. It is a joint initiative of the UltraKOR Group of Companies, Infinitely Evolve Designs and StopBully.com with the proceeds going to Community Bully Awareness - so look for it, read it and advertise in it. The UltraKOR Group of Companies is supplying the publishing expertise and Infinitely Evolve is responsible for Design and layout - a web site is planned to support the project in the near future.

Infinitely Evolve is also launching a really cool T-Shirt line in the new year with the goal of supporting the "Pearl Alliance" organization as well. Pearl Alliance is a US based organization that is raising awareness to help prevent child trafficking. You can check out their web site at www.pearlalliance.org

Also check out the new video done by 1WordPRo.com for StopBully.com

Cyber Bullying Experienced by 45% of Teens - According to Recent Study

According to a recent study, 45% of teens have experienced Cyber Bullying - either via computer through social networking sites to text messaging on cell phones. This story from the New York News and Tri-State News - 7online.com, is interesting read on the subject - see story.

Red Deer Vehicle Partner - Main Sponsor

We would like to thank Jeff and his staff at Napa AUTOPRO - WrenchMasters in Red Deer and Innisfail AUTOPRO for being the main vehicle sponsor for the 2005 Toyota Echo that is used in Central Alberta. This is the second year for this level of Sponsorship from Jeff and his crew and it is greatly appreciated. Picture here is the staff at Red Deer - WrenchMasters.

FaceBook Bully Jailed - Winnipeg School Division Sued

A couple of interesting stories today on Bullying:

In the UK a girl gets sentenced to jail for three months and gets to become the first person jailed over Bullying on FaceBook - the convicting factor was a FaceBook death threat after 4 years of Bullying the target - see story.

In Canada a mom sues a school division in Winnipeg over injuries sustained from an alleged Bullying attack that left her son seriously injured - see story.

Ride for Bully Awareness - May, 2009 Part 2 - US

The Bulk of the ride was Highway #1 in California, an amazing piece of Highway

The Hondas taking a break. In 2010 we plan another ride for Bully awareness were the Blog will provide daily updates and events were riders can join us for different segments - and of course we will be actively pursuing more corporate sponsors.

Ride for Bully Awareness - May, 2009 - Canada

We are kinda late in getting this up here but in May StopBully.com began a Western Canada, Washington, Oregon and California Motorcycle Ride to raise awareness for the program and web site - it originated and completed in Calgary. For this inaugural event there were only three motorcyclists for the complete trip and one support team member hauling the the trailer and doing photography. The first picture is Day 2 and is a stop in Kelowna, featuing the three riders from left to right Corey Ripley (President - UltraKOR Group), Shawn Fisher (ING/Intact - Insurer for SopBully.com) , and Cory Fish - (Ex - Administrator for the program from the early years).

The event had two main sponsors - TheUltraKOR Group of Companies (Agents for Foundation Capital Corporation) and Don LaingTrailers of Crossfield and Ponoka (Our deepest sympathies go out to Don Laing Trailers, as their Founder and President Don Laing himself passed away a couple of weeks ago in a freak accident. Don and his staff have been extremely supportive of our program and they have been our exclusive supplier of all our event trailers across Western Canada and Don himself was a key factor in making this trip happen - We will miss him)

All fuel expenses and personal expenses were paid out of pocket by the riders themselves. The second picture is a brief stop in Abortsford before going south into Washington and here we were joined by Jared Bargen who helps with sponsorship canvassing in the Lower Mainland - he is on his 2001 Honda CBR600 (A requirement :) as all the bikes used on the trip were Honda CBR600's).

Shake the Lake 2009

Shake the Lake 2009 - we were there passing out info and helping the Sylvan lake Community Partners with their fundraiser as well as doing some Canada Day Parades this summer.

We have also been raising awareness at WalMarts regularly in Red Deer, Regina and Kelowna this summer

Ponoka and Lacombe

StopBully.com has been located at Extra Foods in Ponoka and Lacombe over the summer weekly promoting Bully Awareness and Raising Funds

Consequences of Bullying - Suicide

Many people think that bullying is just an inevitable part of society today that will happen no matter what and that we should just accept it.  However, when you look at the staggering statistics, such as that 34% of children are directly involved as a bully or a victim of bullying at some point.  That is a huge percentage on our population that will live their whole lives with the traumatic consequences of bullying.  However, some of them don’t live very long lives...

Sometimes victims of bullying see suicide as the only escape from the torment and harassment.  Many victims of bullying feel trapped and helpless in their situation and don’t have the knowledge or courage to find a solution to the problem.  A heart-wrenching story that was recently in the news and featured on Oprah comes to mind.  Two eleven year olds, Carl Walker-Hoover and Jaheem Herrera, committed suicide within eleven days in April this year.  Both boys hung themselves because they were overwhelmed with bullying.  These two cases were unrelated and the boys didn’t know each other.  There are hundreds, even thousands, of other stories just like these boys’.

Suicide is a very extreme reaction to bullying, but if some people are willing to go that far to relieve themselves from the anguish caused by bullying, then bullying obviously impacts people’s lives in a monumental way.  We need to do our job to help before anyone goes so far as committing suicide to get away from bullying.  If you see someone getting bullied, stand up for them, tell a trusted adult, do something to break the chain of bullying.  It only takes the courage of one.

For StopBully.com Blog - JR

May 5, 2009

Today I was looking at some news sites online and I found a couple of stories about a “Stop the Bullying” rally in Idaho. A 23 schools got together and raised awareness about bullying in their schools and communities and they also had an art contest themed around bullying. Events like this are really influential in helping more people to understand the consequences of bullying. Dr. Charles Shackett, who is a Superintendent in Idaho, said “We need to bring greater awareness, to the community and the parents, because they're part of stopping it. A school policy isn't going to stop bullying.” This is so true. Just making more rules against bullying isn’t going to solve the problem. We need to teach people that the issue of bullying isn’t just the bully’s problem or just the victim’s problem... It is everyone’s problem and it affects us all. The only way that we can reduce bullying and harassment in schools, communities and online, is to know the signs of bullying, how to deal with a bully and how to stop it from happening in the future.

JR

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