Archive for the ‘Community’ Category

Corporate Adventure Challenge

Posted on January 2nd, 2012, by Jan

Something BIG is about to happen in the Halton area and I thought I’d tell you all about it. It’s called The Corporate Adventure Challenge.
It is a new charity initiative encompassing Milton, Oakville, Burlington and Halton Hills. This group is doing something no other local charity is doing, which is bringing together all four Halton [...]

Vehicle break-ins

Posted on January 21st, 2010, by Jan

Lock it or lose it! You hear that statement frequently but people continue to leave their vehicles unlocked and are then surprised when they lose their valuables. Opportunists are just waiting for such easy opportunities to relieve owners of their cell phones, cameras and other expensive gear left in unlocked vehicles. No [...]

True story

Posted on November 11th, 2009, by Jan

Back in September 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at an Arkansas High School, did something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her [...]

Shop Canadian

Posted on October 4th, 2009, by Jan

Subject: 1 bulb at a time.
This came across my desk and makes such good sense I’m passing it on here.
A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn’t slow a train very much, a billion of them would.  With that thought in mind, read the [...]