Dog Guides -- last chance to give your money to a good cause

The Dog Guide walk is this coming Sunday. We are walking again this year and hope to raise $1500. We are almost there and need only a little more. Please help.

My page is at http://www.purinawalkfordogguides.com/personalPage.cfm?ID=5281

AJ’s graduation

We were invited to AJ’s graduation ceremony. He was renamed Thompson and she calls him Tommy. Strange, but the name goes to the sponsor.

He is a Canine Vision dog now and lives in Barrie. Goodbye AJ. Good luck with your new job.

Carolyne’s New Job

May 10, 2010, I started a new job as Manager, Library Resource Centre, ArcelorMittal Dofasco.

After 22 years at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada, on February 1, 2010, the management decided they did not need a professional librarian in their materials research library and I was walked out. I got a fairly good severance.

Dofasco
Originally uploaded by Sean_Marshall

I now work in R&D just around the corner from where this picture was taken at Dofasco.

The people are great. It is a fairly small lab and I hope it will not take me too long to learn everyone’s name. So far I have my badge (we don’t have to wear them around our necks), my gas card (discounted gas), my parking pass (an assigned spot 30 paces from the entrance), my benefits forms, my office (about 50 feet from the ladies washroom), desk, phone, business cards on-order, etc. I’m still waiting for my hard hat, the keys to the building, and remote access to my accounts.  I also interviewed a candidate for the library assistant position. All in all, very good progress for a first week.

I’ll see about taking some photos around myself next week. It reminds me a lot of chemical valley in Sarnia :)

 

Battle of the Bands

Andrew's school had a "Battle of the Bands" with every grade 8 student participating. They were in bands of four students each. They had to write a song, perform it live, create a poster and a CD case. Andrew, Adam, Tomas and Esteban were "Control, Amp, Delete"

They practiced for weeks and when the competition came, they were ready. They placed FIRST!

Congratulations Boys.