1111 Elgin Street West, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, K9A 5H7
Phone: (905) 372-8913 or 1-800-396-6626 Fax: (905) 372-2711 Email: northumberland@fourinfo.com
1111 Elgin Street West,
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, K9A 5H7
Phone: (905)
372-8913 or 1-800-396-6626 Fax: (905) 372-2711 Email: northumberland@fourinfo.com
AUGUST 2001
NEWSLETTER
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"From
Research into Practice" Learning Disabilities Conference
Business
Technology 2001
Ontario
Conference on Mental Health and Addiction-Reclaiming Our Roots
Northumberland
United Way Campaign Chairs are Announced for 2001
Herbal
and Traditional Healing Workshops and Events
Blood
Donor Clinic
The
Easter Seals Society Open Meeting
New
at CERC Casual Labour Exchange
Showcase
of Sound Music in
the Square
AIDS
Walk 2001
Come
Register For A Course And Enjoy A BBQ And Sweets
Have
A Splash!
Distress
Centre Yardsale
Distress
Centre Looking For Volunteers
Free
Government Of Ontario Service
Celebrate
History Weekend at Presqu'ile
All
The Best To Wendy Brown
Spare
Time? Like Driving? Enjoy Seniors?
info
Northumberland has moved
Tips for Protecting Your Computer
Northumberland
Health Care Receives Donations
"From
Research into Practice" Learning Disabilities Conference
On November 1st and 2nd 2001, a conference will be held on learning disabilities for the first time in five years in Ontario. The conference will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The conference features more than 60 outstanding Canadian speakers who share a passion for increasing our understanding of issues in the field of learning disabilities and for advocacy on behalf of individuals with learning disabilities. Registration prices include:
Two Day Package $350
One Day Package $200
Student Package $176.55
Group Discount- For every 10 registrations the 11th is free!
All registrations received prior to August 31, 2001 are eligible for the Early Bird prize of a two-day conference package and a one night's hotel accommodation at the Crowne Plaza.
Lunch and refreshments are included in your conference registration.
For more information, call the conference manager Mary-Gayle Goebel at 416-226-9756 or email her at mggoebel@interlog.com. You can also visit the conference website at ldconference.topcities.com.
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This trade show is the interactive technology trade show for today's businesses. The event will be held on November 2nd and 3rd, 2001. This two day event features 40 exhibitors from the latest in software, hardware, e-commerce, internet technology, web site design, programming, networking and more. For more information contact the Cobourg or the Port Hope Chamber of Commerce at 905-372-5831 or 905-885-5519 or the Business Self-Help Office at 905-372-9279. |
Ontario
Conference on Mental Health and Addiction-Reclaiming Our Roots
This conference is an opportunity for people in mental health and addiction fields to examine leading edge research, programs and services, and translating the latest breakthroughs and knowledge into improved services. The conference is being held at the Toronto Airport Marriott Hotel at 901Dixon Road, Toronto, on October 22 through to the 23. The Key speaker is Roy Bonisteel.
For more information contact Allen Flaming at (416) 977-5580 ext. 4121
Fax (416) 977-2264
Email aflaming@ontario.cmha.ca.
This conference is sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Northumberland United Way Campaign Chairs are Announced for 2001
The Northumberland United Way is excited to announce that Rene and Laura Roberge are the co-chairs for the 2001 fall campaign. The annual showcase of delectables will kick-off the Northumberland campaign on Wednesday, September 12th, 2001. Call the Northumberland United Way office at 905-372-6955 for more information.
Herbal and Traditional Healing Workshops and Events in Port Hope
Claiming Yourself with Susan McDonald is a weekend of discovery with meditation, writing and connecting with yourself. Held on Saturday August 11th from 12:00 noon to dusk, and Sunday August 12 from 12:00 noon until dinner (which is a pot-luck). The fee is $50.00 plus food for the pot-luck.
Wild Food Dinner with Susan McDonald is a dinner using at least ten wild ingredients one of which you will be asked to bring. The dinner is being held from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on August 1st with a fee of $20.00. This dinner is limited to 20 people and participants may also bring wine if they so choose.
For registration please call Herbal and Traditional Healing 24 Ontario Street Port Hope at 905-885-3745. People whom are interested are asked to register and provide payment two weeks in advance.
Workshops coming this fall include
"Yoga, Yoga, Yoga" starting the third week of September
Journaling
Mark Webber and Karma Chime visiting Buddhist meditation
Handwriting Analysis
Open House in October which is an opportunity to visit with our practitioners
Make sure you drop by and pick up the Fall Newsletter!
A
blood donor clinic will be held
at Northumberland Mall, 1111 Elgin Street West, Cobourg on Friday July 27 from
2:00pm to 6:00pm in the Former Pine Ridge Room. Please call 1-888-935-1666
to book an appointment to donate!
The Easter Seals Society Open Meeting
The District Coordinator of Southern Ontario invites anyone interested in the organization to an open meeting to be held on Wednesday July 18th at 7:00pm at the Columbus Community Centre, 232 Spencer Street (at Darcy Blvd) Cobourg. The focus of the meeting will be delivering information about Easter Seal District Councils and the many volunteer opportunities available. For more information call 1-888-335-1275.
New
at CERC Casual Labour Exchange 
Employees: do you have skills in woodworking, specialized driving, mechanics, sales, maintenance, heavy equipment, janitorial or food service?
Employers: do you need help with maintenance, carpentry, mechanics, janitorial, driving, renovations, sales or yard work?
Employers
and Job applicants can register with the new Casual Labour Exchange program by telephone,
or at the offices in Cobourg, Port
Hope, Bewdley, Garden Hill and Colborne. The duration of the work must be seven days or less.
Fore more information, call at (905) 372-9372 or (905) 885-2372.
Showcase
of Sound: Music in the Square
Come and enjoy local performers as they showcase their talent in Cobourg. Concerts will be held Thursday nights at 7:00pm until August 30th, at the Victoria Square behind the old Firehall Theatre. Admission is free! People are asked to bring their own lawn chair.
July 26- George Lee & Sarah Ormerod (East Coast)
August 9- S.T.A.B. (Folk &Classical Choral)
August 16- The Talkies (Alternative/ Independent)
August 23 Ken & Ann Clarke and Friends (The Moonlight Bay Gang)
August 30- Stone Angel (R&B, Folk-Rock, Blues)
The 10th Annual AIDS Walk is being held on Sunday September 23rd, 2001. The start location is Mark Street United Church, 90 Hunter Street East, Peterborough. Registrations begin at 1:00pm followed with a warm up at 1:45pm led by Peter Adams MP and the walk begins at 2:00pm.
There are three easy steps to participate:
1. Gather pledges
2. Bring your form and money to the start location
3. Walk, run, skip or roller blade through Peterborough.
On
the day of the walk you get
AIDS Walk t-shirt with $50.00 or more pledges collected
Submit $300.00 and receive a AIDS Walk backpack
Refreshments courtesy of Subway Sandwiches and Deli, along with granola bars and juice
Each walker gets tulip bulbs
Satisfaction of raising money to provide HIV/AIDS services in Peterborough, City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton counties.
Fun
Those of us in Ontario who register by September 3rd will be entered in a random draw for a $200 gift certificate for ALDO shoes. Collect and submit the highest total dollar amount in pledges from Ontario and you will win a return ticket to any destination in continental North America courtesy of the Canadian AIDS Society, departing the closest Air Canada gateway. See the PARN website for more details. Learn more about AIDS Walk Canada by visiting www.aidswalkcanada.com.
What's the route?
A complete route map for both the 2k and
5k will be provided on the day of the Walk. Both
routes are fully accessible. PARN
is a United Way member agency.
Peterborough AIDS Resource Network (PARN)
59 King Street, Suite 302
Peterborough, Ontario
K9J 2R8
705-749-9110
705-749-6310 (fax)
1-800-361-2895
Come Register For A Course And Enjoy A BBQ And Sweets
On September 7th, 2001 the Campbellford Community Resource Centre is having a special day for Registration of Loyalist College Courses with a BBQ and a Bake sale. The celebration is being held at the Old Town Hall in Campbellford on September 7th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
For more information call Laura at 705-653-5161
Have a SPLASH!
Family YMCA of Cobourg is offering a "Tim Swim" from 6:00pm to 8:00pm every Thursday between July 5 and August 30. Tim Hortons of Cobourg is sponsoring open family swim time at Centennial Pool, Victoria Park, Cobourg.
Distress Centre Northumberland Yardsale
Distress
Centre Northumberland is hosting a Giant Yardsale on Saturday, August 4 at 68 King Street East,
Cobourg, from 7:30 am until 4:00 pm (behind Dairy Dream).
They are requesting donations for the sale and will pick all items up at your
convenience. Call 905-372-2968 to make arrangements for pick up.
Hope we see you there!
Distress Centre Northumberland Looking For Volunteers
If you can give
nine hours per month... we want you!!! Distress Centre Northumberland is
looking for crisis line volunteers. Full training will be provided.
Please contact Executive Director, Taunya Browne at 905-372-2968 for additional
information.
FREE
GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO SERVICE
Do you refer to Ontario law in the
course of your business? If so, you
may be interested to know that the Government of
Ontario provides free public access to its statutes
and regulations at www.e-laws.gov.on.ca
and
www.lois-en-ligne.gov.on.ca (French version). The goal
for this new web site is to be current to within 14 days of a change
in the law. You can do basic and
advanced searches, and download entire documents in Microsoft Word. There are also links to
related sites, including
Publications Ontario, which sells hard copies of Ontario legislation and other
publications.
Celebrate
History Weekend at Presqu'ile
The History Weekend celebration takes place between August 3rd and August 6th 2001 throughout the
Presqu'ile Provincial Park. Your family can relive the parks storied past by stepping into the
time of flappers, box lunch picnics, sailing regattas and of course the sinking
of the fabled schooner "Speedy".
Beginning on Friday August 3rd, travel back in time on your bike and participate in the grande opening of the Lighthouse Interpretive Centre. You can also take a deer walk, enjoy silent movies, golf, participate in a real box lunch auction and social, enjoy authentic old fashioned fun and games, meet rumrunners, pirates and squatters, attend an old fashioned fashion show, participate in a boat building bee, a Calthumpian Parade and much more!
On Sunday night you can also see a new play that incorporates the "Speedy" as well Harry Kotter will be visiting.
Pick up your program at the Park Gate for more details. Regular day admission fees apply. For more information please contact Dolf DeJong at 613-475-4324, e-mail dolf.dejong@mnr.gov.on.ca or visit their website at www.friendsofpresquile.on.ca.
All
The Best To Wendy Brown
The Board of Trustees of the Cobourg Public Library announced the
resignation of the Chief Executive Officer, Wendy Brown effective September 30,
2001.
Mrs.
Brown has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Oshawa Public
Library and will be joining that system effective October 1, 2001.
We
want to wish Mrs. Brown all the best.
Spare
Time? Like Driving? Enjoy Seniors?
Cobourg and District Community Care needs
volunteers to provide
transportation for older and disabled adults to medical appointments and
procedures, both local and out of town. Drivers are reimbursed for their
out of pocket expenses. Volunteers are especially needed for dialyses
appointments in Whitby on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from approximately
11 -5. Call Sherry at Cobourg District Community Care
for more information. 905-372-7356.
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NORTHUMBERLAND Moves
Effective June 25th, 2001, the offices of info NORTHUMBERLAND have
moved from the lower level to the upper level of the Northumberland Mall. info
NORTHUMBERLAND is now located beside "Save-a-Centre". Our phone and fax
numbers have remained the same. Feel free to drop into our new location Monday
to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Tips for Protecting your computer
Northumberland
Health Care Receives Donations
Several organizations have recently made generous contributions to the
hospital's "Caring for Generations" campaign, which will help fund the
construction of the new hospital in Cobourg. Among the givers were: Citizens
Coalition for Economic Action, Northumberland Lakeshore Hospice, Andersen
Dynamics Limited, and Bailey, McNichol Wilson & Associates. Along with other
donations, the Rotary Club recently made a donation that will be used to
purchase equipment to create photo ID cards for hospital staff and volunteers.
The hospital also has many upcoming fundraising events which are:
The Country Pumpkin, located at 41 King Street West in Cobourg, will be holding a BBQ fundraiser for the new hospital on Friday, August 17th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
During the annual King Street Sidewalk Sale, The Country Pumpkin will be holding a "Dunktank for Dollars," so stop by and take part in the fun!
Another downtown store, Uniquely Yours on King Street, is holding a raffle for a gift basket worth $300 filled with handcrafted items. Tickets will be on sale from now until August 31st, and cost $2 each or 3 for $5.
On August 4th, Judy's Tea House on Division Street beside the Public Utilities of Cobourg building will be holding a BBQ fundraiser for the new hospital, starting at 11 a.m. All proceeds will be donated to the "Caring for Generations" campaign.
Thomas Pontiac Buick "Test Drive for Your New Hospital". If you've been thinking about test driving a new or used vehicle this summer, here's your chance to do so, and benefit the new hospital. For every new or used vehicle test driven on Tuesday, August 7th, between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thomas Pontiac Buick GMC in Cobourg will make a donation of $10 to the "Caring for Generations" campaign in support of the new hospital. Please contact Kerry Ramsay at 905-372-6811 ext. 4406 for more information.
If you would like to become involved with the "Caring for Generations" campaign in support of the new hospital in west Northumberland, please call 905-372-6811 ext. 4462 or e-mail campaign@norhealth.com.
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