The Literacy Lantern

Once again, it has been a while since I wrote anything in our blog. Why can’t I just make this a regular thing and not wait until we have something vital to say?? Maybe I need to enroll in a course “How to remember to blog.” I might get ...

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Today I am waiting for a very important document to be emailed to me.  I have until 11:59 tonight to get that document to someone or, well, I don’t want to know what will happen. Let me be upfront and tell you right now about a character flaw I hav...

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  Written by Catherine Johnson  Catherine is a community content writer from North Bay.  She approached us about writing articles to bring light to the issues that adult students face in our world.  Catherine is very keen to show the struggles t...

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I remember last year when we were anticipating 2020, many people were coming up with some catchy slogans.  “2020 – the year of clear vision”, “2020 – Looking to the future”.  Some wanted Barbara Walters to announce on the New Year&#...

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It is Friday afternoon, a few hours before we close for a long weekend. Thanksgiving weekend…hard to believe this weekend is here already. It is really quiet in the office this afternoon. I am the only one in here right now and I thought it would be...

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Last week we posted the first part of our “fire experience”. What a day that was!!! I feel I aged about 25 years in one day. So in the words of an old radio host Paul Harvey, here is “the rest of the story”. We all tried to have a ...

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Many of you are asking this same question. Where is Literacy Nipissing and why haven’t we heard from them in a while. Well…..we’ve been busy. I look back at the past blogs and it shocks me that the last time I wrote one was a year ago. A...

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It is July 8th – half way through 2019. Hard to believe. Six months have gone by in a flash. But we have been busy. You may have asked, “where did they go? They are not in their old office.” Our board of directors decided in January that...

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As I was looking through  my computer for a document, I found this “essay” that I wrote for a newsletter almost 5 years ago.  I thought it would be fun to share it here.  I was tutoring a student this morning and we were talking about writi...

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Where were you 40 years ago?  I was starting grade 9 at W.C.Eaket Secondary School.  I was a nervous “minor niner”.  Even the thoughts of my older family members blazing the trail for me at high school, didn’t ease my nerves.  My new...

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