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- Networks Datebook
- NALD's Software Evaluation Project launched
- Brigid Hayes receives NALD Award
- Adult Numeracy Frameworks
- The Literacy Bookshelf
- CABS Online
- Training for the Enhancement of Online Educational Resources
- Teaching Tips
- Regional Tidbits
- Calling all SARAW Programs
- Learner's Corner
- Learner's Story
- And, Among the Winners Were...
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| NALD Networks | Volume 9 • Issue 1 |
The battle for world literacy is too often a story of unsung heroes. That’s one reason the NALD newsletter will bring to you on a regular basis a list of those individuals, programs and organisations honoured with international, national and provincial recognition for outstanding work in the global literacy initiative.
National
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC) Awards of Excellence - Recipients 2003:
- Beat The Odds Youth Award: Joel Miller, NS; Sam Lindsey, YK; Trevor Sanders, SK; Becky Reimer, MB
- National Volunteer Award: Frederick MacGillivray, President and CEO and Trade Centre Limited Staff, Halifax, NS; Diane McPhee, Whitehorse, YK; Lorrie Goegen, Calgary, AB; Christiane Brisson, Ville Saint Laurent, QC; Randeah Moore, Saskatoon, SK; Nancy Mercury, Winnipeg, MB
- National Education Award: Jamie Lynne Filllion, Bedford, NS; Patrice Berrel, Whitehorse, YK; Greg Bishop / Catherine Walker, Edmonton AB; Foothills Academy Society, Calgary, AB; Edith Mélançon, Ste Thérèse, QC; Regina Public School Board, Regina, SK; Bob Spencler, Winnipeg, MB
NALD Award for Contributions to Literacy - 2003 Recipients:
- Her Honour, Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, (former) Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick;
- Brigid Hayes, former Program Consultant with the National Literacy Secretariat
The Co-operators’ Learner Achievement Awards - 2003 Recipients:
- Alberta – Jodi Wood, Calgary
- BC: Vancouver PGI - Omer Cormier, Nanaimo; Victoria PGI - Angie Piraino, Victoria
- Manitoba: Flora Harper, Winnipeg
- New Brunswick: Anglophone winner - Lorenzo Hébert, Kent County; Francophone winner: Roseline Haché, Moncton
- Newfoundland and Labrador: Larry Mosher, Meadows
- Nova Scotia: Harold Wilson - Dartmouth
- Nunavut: Malaiya Oshoweetok, Cape Dorset
- Ontario - Ottawa PGI : Sandra McMillan, Ottawa; PGI Tournament - The Briars’: Bridget Sweet, Toronto
- PEI: Olive Gallant, Summerside
- Quebec: Marcel Henry, Montreal
- Saskatchewan: Anita Huang, Regina
- Yukon: Candace O’Brien, Champagn/Aishihik First Nations
Honourable Joyce Fairbairn, P.C. Literacy Public Awareness Award - 2003 Recipient:
- Coca-Cola Ltd., for the Share the stories program
Provincial
Alberta
Literacy Alberta Awards of Excellence - 2003 Recipients:
Organisation: Prison Literacy Team, Pincher Creek
Student Award: Molly Cunningham, Flagstaff Literacy Program, Killam
Practitioner Award: Janet Robertson, Canmore
Manitoba
Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Literacy - 2004 Recipient:
Margaret
de Kock, Flin Flon
Ontario
Literacy Promotion Awards - Tri-County Literacy Network (TCLN)
: Recipients 2003:
Trish Daubs, Lambton Kent District School
Board;
Alan Boam,
Organization for Literacy in Lambton;
Walt Stechyshyn, St. Clair
College’s
Thames Campus
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board Training For Excellence
Awards
- 2003 Recipients :
Promotion of Aboriginal Participation - Treaty Four Education
Centre
Educational Partnerships - SaskTel and Scott Collegiate
Human Resource Planning: Career Enhancement - SIAST, Weyerhaeuser
Hudson Bay & Carrot River Operations and the Industrial
Wood and Allied
Workers Local 1-184
Human Resource Planning: Succession Planning - SaskTel
Recognition of Prior Learning - SIAST
Workplace Essential Skills Development - Agriculture Institute
of Management in Saskatchewan (AIMS)