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THE LEARNING EXCHANGE/TLE
The third Adult Liter-acy Recognition Awardsis now accepting submis-sions from tutors andlearners. Learners areencouraged to writeabout how literacy haschanged their lives. Itcan be in any form ofwriting: a poem, story,essay, comic strip, etc.Tutors can help thelearner where neces-sary. Awards of $125plus a framed certifi-cate will be presentedto winners by formerworld champion supermiddleweight boxerOtis Grant, spokesper-son for theSemainequébecoise des adultesen formation, on April 7,2008 at the Sheraton
 
Centre Hotel in Mont-real. Two awards in thecommunity sector: Onefor a tutor and One fora learner. Two awards inthe school board sector:One for a teacher andOne for a learner.Applyor nominate someonesoon: Deadline for sub-missions is Midnight,March 10th, 2008!
 
Adult Literacy Recognition Awards
 
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Family literacy eventswill continue this yearthanks to another gen-erous donation from theMerck Frosst Employ-ees’ Charity Trust Fund,free books from Scho-lastic Books and Mr.Jack Hannan of Raffinbookstore who donatedbags to hold all of theliteracy goodies.The Family LiteracyCommittee (FLC) met inNovember to plan this year’s activities. The2007/2008 committeemembers are: S.Jakab,A.Sroka-Fillion, B.Green,D.McMorran, B.BeauvaisD.Adrian, V.Sauriol,D.Richard, andN.Pilato.
Family Literacy News
D. Adrian, B. Beauvais & D. Brown
 
 Ne ws &  V ie ws 
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WINTER EDITION
ISSUE 39
President’s Message 
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NALD@work 
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Family Literacy News
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Volunteers Wanted
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Center News
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On the Horizon
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Dates to Remember 
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From the ED Desk
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Book Club Info
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Karen’s Office News
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FLC volunteers went toSt. Paul’s ElementarySchool and spent themorning of November20th sharing their loveof reading with childrenin Kindergarten tograde three. The schoolwas celebrating I LOVETO READ week, to en-courage the students toenjoy reading.
 
Life is made of millions of moments but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.Trinidad Hunt 
We begin the New Year, with newhopes and dreams for change inour lives. With the move to CDC-Vimont, TLE began to change.Our News & Views newsletters,GOOGLE calendar of Events andour ResourceMate library are nowonline. Our website is open(www.TLEliteracy.com)and pro-vides so many resources for ouruse.Each moment you, as volunteersspend, teaching, and each mo-ment, you, as students, spendlearning, changes your life. Live your life one moment at a time,and thrill to each change.I would like to wish everyone aHappy New Year!!! Our KnowledgeExchange Open Forum will be re-scheduled at a later date. I willkeep you informed. Volunteersdon’t forget to fill out your volun-teer/tutor forms. Spring is com-ing, HAPPY SPRING to everyone!
President’s MessageKaren’s Office News
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NEWS & VIEWS
BOOK CLUB NEWS 
by B. Beauvais 
 
The Book Club met on Tuesday, February 5th at 7:15 p.m.Erica Axani led the discussion of Ami McKay's interesting book The Birth House 
. Our March meeting will be on the 4th with Davy-Belle McMorrananimating
The Memory Keeper's Daughter 
 
by Kim Edwards.
 
TLE Board of Directors
President: Donna AdrianPast President: Mona ArsenaultVice-President: Christiane DabbaghSecretary: Beth GreenTreasurer: Valerie SauriolDirector: Alice Sroka-FillionDirector: Susan Jakab
mother was also a TLE volunteer.She handled our BC subscriptionto The Westcoast Readerby taking care of themonthly post office pick-up andsubsequent packaging & delivery.Not wanting us to lose this pre-cious resource (not available toreaders outside of BC), mymother recruited my father to beour new BC volunteer. I am happyto say he accepted and has al-ready been busy sending off ourrenewal notice and packaging upthe Feb. issue for TLE members.My family and I would like to ex-tend a warm “thank you” to every-one at TLE for their un-derstanding and supportregarding my extendedabsence from the office,after the holidays, to bewith my mother. Sadly, we losther late January to cancer. Manyof you may not know this, but my
From the Executive Director’s Desk
HUGS TO OUR GREATVOLUNTEERS!
 April 27 to May 3 is National Volunteer Week
 
WINTER EDITION
The National Adult Literacy Data-base (NALD) expanded its ser-vices late in 2007 with the launchof NALD@Work, a website thatwill benefit theworkplace liter-acy and essentialskills communityin Canada.NALD@Workwww.naldatwork.ca is an Internet database of infor-mation and resources. It is a one-stop shopping site for programmodels and approaches, teaching,learning and research materials,news, events, contacts, websites,tools and support – all available inone central location.The NALD@Work Library con-tains important resources, manyof which are not available elec-tronically anywhere else. It isavailable to anyone, anywhere, atany time, at no cost, in both Eng-lish and French.NALD’s Chief Executive OfficerKatherine d’Entremont says indi-viduals must have a firm founda-tion of literacy and essentialskills to participate fully in theworkforce.‘‘As the workforce becomes moreknowledge-based, people needhigher literacy levels,” she said.“If people don’t continue to learnor to read or to study, their liter-acy levels are not going to remainconstant; they are going to de-cline. At the same time, the work-place requires higher literacy lev-els, so the gap is widening.”
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New Website to Support Workplace Learning
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News & Views’ New Format D. Brown
the students at Crestview Ele-mentary on February 27th. Thechildren in Kindergarten to gradefour will receive books, book-marks, stickers, etc. They willalso take home a literacy informa-tion package. In addition, a liter-acy night at Jules Verne isplanned for May 5th.Throughout January, a volunteervisited St. Charles Elementary, todistribute free books to luckychildren from all grades, in cele-bration of International FamilyLiteracy Day January 27th. Mem-bers of the FLC will be reading tostudents at John F. KennedySchool on February 20th and to
Family Literacy News cont’d
 
D. Adrian, B. Beauvais & D. Brown
 
Family Literacy Committee preps for school visits 
 
Tel: 450-688-2933 ext. 3126
The Learning Exchange/TLE
Call Karen for information
Volunteer today to changesomeone’s life tomorrow!
Training sessions start April!!
We are looking for general volunteers for TLE and volunteer tutors to workone-on-one or in small groups with adult learners.
www.naldatwork.ca
 
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