Summer Hours
RCCUP’s office will be closed as of Monday, June 28, and will reopen with regular hours Monday, August 30. Computer-based classes will start again the week of September 20. Sue will be in regularly through the summer to pick up mail and messages and to file our required statistics reports.
Tutors and students who are meeting in July and August, please continue to send in your tutor reports right after your last meeting in each month. Sue will need your hours for the statistics reports. Diane will review those sent by email and try to respond to concerns you may have. She will be away July 26 - August 16.
Calendar
July 6 |
Mary Cook reads |
July 13 |
Merilyn Simonds reads |
July 20 |
Helen Humphreys reads |
July 21 |
M.G. Vassanji reads |
Sept. 7 |
Swing for Literacy |
Sept. 8 |
International Literacy Day |
Sept. 20 |
computer-based classes start |
Oct. 8 |
workshops start: Getting & Keeping a Job |
Superior Propane Fundraiser
The Superior Propane Fill-Up for Literacy was held May 1. In spite of the rain that threatened all day, the event raised more than $900. RCCUP offers sincere thanks to the staff at Superior Propane for their continued support of literacy and RCCUP. We are also very grateful to Ron Nelson’s IGA, the Barry’s Bay IGA, Pembroke Foodliner and Super-C for their donations of drinks, hamburgers and hotdogs for the barbecue.
Literary Tuesdays in July
Tickets are now on sale for Literary Tuesdays in July. After playing to capacity crowds last year at Frisco’s restaurant, readings this year will be held in the more spacious hall at St. James Church in Eganville. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Once again, the price of admission will include coffee and dessert. The evening events will start at 7:30 p.m. This year’s wonderful authors are:
July 6 - Mary Cook, well-known CBC contributor, storyteller, and author of many books including Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire and Another Place at the Table
July 13 - Merilyn Simonds, author of The Convict Lover, The Lion in the Room Next Door and the new and highly praised The Holding
July 20 - Helen Humphreys, author of Leaving Earth, Afterimage and The Lost Garden
July 27 - M. G. Vassanji, winner of the Giller Prize in 2003 for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and in 1999 for The Book of Secrets.
Please note that the dates for Mary Cook and Helen Humphreys have changed since the March newsletter.
Advance tickets are available at the Bonnechere Public Library, the Eganville Bakery, the Hummdinger (Golden Lake),the Arnprior Book Shop, the Renfrew Book Shop, the Village Pharmacy (Killaloe), Lorraine’s IDA (Barry’s Bay), and Coles Book Store (Pembroke).
If you are unable to buy tickets at these locations, you may be able to reserve them by phoning Doyne Ahern at 754-2112.