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Essential Skills Fact Sheets

Ever wonder how you use Essential Skills in your daily life?

The Northwest Territories Literacy Council has published several Essential Skills fact sheets.  These give wonderful, Plain Language, examples of the Essential Skills we use in our day-to-day lives. Topics include, Community, Families, Health, Justice, and Workplace.

Click here to read these terrific fact sheets.

LPM’s Family Literacy Day Event

The fun happened on January 27, 2010 in the centre court at Kildonan Place Mall.

Volunteer event planners, Carin Crowe (Chair), Pat Franz, and Doris Quinn were pleased with the number of children who participated in LPM’s Family Literacy Day event.

Many of the parents and grandparents in the mall that day stopped by our booth and stayed to see one of the events.

The line-up of entertainment included the Story Fairy - Cindy Robin, Aboriginal Story Teller,Marie Baker, and Munch Puppeteer, Darryl Boguski.

The pre-school children listened to the stories the Story Fairy told with rapt attention. Cindy uses a combination of puppets and picture books to share her stories. The Story Fairy stayed for most of the day and put on three 45 minute performances.

Marie Baker’s traditional story telling entertained several children and their parents from Turtle Island Family Resource Centre. They had come to Kildonan Place by bus to hear her and the Story Fairy.

Several of the parents who had stopped to hear Darryl Boguski, the Transcona Children’s librarian perform, “The Paper Bag Princess”, stayed to say hello to Darryl. He knew their children by name. Apparently, if you are in charge of the children’s section of a library, you develop a following.

Staff member, Jan Graham, was on hand to share information about parents reading to children from the printable handouts in Carol Goossen’s book, Family Literacy for Adults.

Birchwood Honda on Regent dropped off a vehicle for us to display at the mall. Honda Canada is a founding sponsor of ABC Canada’s nationwide Family Literacy Day, held every year on January 27.

PGI Manitoba 2010
Literacy Partners of Manitoba
raising funds for literacy learners in Manitoba

An affiliate of the PGI Golf Tournament for Literacy Founded by Peter Gzowski
A Division of ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation

Date: Monday, June 21, 2010
Time: 11:30 a.m. - Registration and lunch
12:30 p.m. - Texas Scramble Shot Gun start

Place: Elmhurst Golf & Country Club, Garven Road (off Highway 59 North)

Space is limited to the first 128 paid golfers.

Entry deadline is June 11, 2010

• Click HERE for registration form
• Click HERE for sponsorship information

The January 2010 e-bulletin is now online

LPM welcomes our new Volunteer Librarian!

We welcome Susan Hamilton to this crucial role.

Susan will be in from 9:30 to 12:00 on Monday mornings to answer questions and to help members get useful resources. (If you would like to come at other time besides these hours, please call in advance to let us know.)

Thanks Susan!

LPM welcomes a new Executive Director

Wendy Bulloch, the current Board Chair of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, will be taking charge of LPM in January.

Wendy brings with her the understanding that strong literacy skills can improve individual lives, community networks and business potential. She appreciates the effort and passion that practitioners bring to the field and brings new ideas for supporting and promoting their work. Wendy looks forward to meeting with practitioners, learners, agencies and industry to shape the direction of Literacy Partners of Manitoba into the future.

Wendy has a degree in home economics and a Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education from the University of Manitoba, a Certificate in Leadership from the University of Saskatchewan and a Business Retention and Consultant Certificate from the University of Minnesota. She was a participant in the Intercultural Training Program for facilitators with the Department of Labour and Immigration in 2008.