Our Voice - Newsletter
Issue #13 Spring 1998
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| HIGHLIGHTS | DATES TO WATCH | TECH TALK | RECOGNIZING OUR VOLUNTEERS | COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX PROGRAM | TRENDSPOTTING: THE NEW VOLUNTEER | WORDSPEAK | MET ANNOUNCES | HOW TO WORK WITH AND USE THE MEDIA: (Public service announcements; Other sources of media publicity; News releases) | UPDATE TO THE VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT RESOURCE GUIDE | DID YOU KNOW | REACTION | STATUS REPORT ON CLO PROJECTS | APRIL 1998 CLO's ACTIVITIES | OTHER ACTIVITIES | HOW YOU CAN GET MEDIA ATTENTION FOR NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK | NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK |

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Community Literacy of Ontario
has moved to a new office at
43 Ward Drive
Barrie, Ontario L4N 7P2
tel: 705-733-2312
fax: 705-733-6197
Executive Director: Joanne Kaattari
e-mail: kaattari@bconnex.net


DATES TO WATCH:

April 19 - 25, 1998 is
National Volunteer Week.
For more information, contact
Volunteer Canada at 1-800-670-0401
or visit their web site at http://www.volunteer.ca/

HIGHLIGHTS:

Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) is now incorporated which means that we no longer operate as a committee of the Ontario Literacy Coalition. We thank OLC for all their support in the last several years and look forward to serving and supporting community literacy agencies as an incorporated body.

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You will soon be receiving a membership package inviting you to hold membership and even to consider getting involved on the CLO Board of Directors. We are pleased to have Joanne Kaattari back from maternity leave and working out of her new office location in Barrie. Fiona Huebner finishes her maternity leave replacement and will be moving to Ottawa where she will continue coordinating a Volunteer Management Service Quality Support project for CLO.

TECH TALK:

A handy six-page AlphaCom Guidebook has been produced by Laubach Literacy Ontario (LLO). It teaches users how to register with the AlphaCom web site, subscribe to literacy discussions, read and post messages. If you know people still struggling to get started on AlphaCom, this is available through LLO by calling 519-743-3309. If you are already online but need a refresher on something check the AlphaCom home page at: http://alphacom.gbrownc.on.ca

The Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTeP) has an interesting web site. Try http://www.onstep.on.ca/main.html for general fact sheets on using the Internet, plus an extensive listing of Canada's newspapers and numerous links and listings to further resources.

Charles Ramsey of the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) posted this note on AlphaCom earlier this year. He informs us that everyone in the world can have a copy of a book that has been entered into a computer, according to the philosophy of Project Gutenberg. The goal of the project is to have all public domain literature available freely and simply via the Internet. Already over 1000 titles are available at http://www.promo.net/pg

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