Here is the latest in our series of learner stories. Jack is the reason why I need to colour my hair!! He comes in to the office at least once a month with a fundraising idea. But he doesn’t expect me to do the fundraising idea alone, he works right...
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What a great way to procrastinate…write a blog. There are a ton of things I should be doing but as every toddler has said once in his/her life, “I don’t wanna do that.” We are one day away from a starting a new tradition here at Li...
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It has been many months since our last blog post. Is that a good or a bad thing? Maybe we can say that we have been too busy to write or maybe nothing has happened so we have nothing to report. I am hoping that it is the first suggestion. And as I...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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