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THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009 14 Come join is for the best breakfast deal in town! Rockwood & District Lions Clubs 30th Annual PanCake Breakfast sunday, april 19/09 9am-1pm At Rockmosa Community Centre Rockwood, Ontario Adults - $7 Children 12 & under -$3 Preschoolers - Free Tickets available at the door Breakfast Includes: Sausage, Scrambled Eggs, Fruit cocktail, Orange Juice, Coffee, Tea or Hot chocolate & All yOu CAn eAt PAnCAkes Proceeds to Community Betterment Projects Pre-registration now accepted for Upper Ridge Child Care Opening June 1st, 2009. At the Upper Ridge Child Care, we offer a loving, structured Early Childhood program for children ages 1 - 5. Our goal is to provide a high quality child care program by creating a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment that promotes the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of your child and responds to the needs of your family. To pre-register or for more information contact: Andrea at 519-856-1668 or Kelly at 905-593-2321 IMP LAN T DEN TUR ES R o c k w o o d B u s i n e s s . c a Off the beaten path ... on the way to everywhere people ? places ? events ? businesses ? history ? links ? Discover Rockwood EWCS NEWS Seniors Program: For more information on all EWCS Seniors pro- grams and services, please contact Sherri Plourde at 519-833-0087. Day trip to Casa Loma -Tues. April 21. $35 per person. (buy your own lunch). Free computer help for seniors in Erin/Hillsburgh offered by THE SNERDS (Senior Nerds) volun- teers. Line dancing Fri. 10am- 12pm, Cen t re 2000 , EWCS Seniors room. Bridge -Fri. 1-4pm, Centre 2000, Centre 2000, EWCS Seniors room. Volunteers Needed: For all information on volunteering, call Kelly Stockdale at 519-833-9696 ext 222 M e a l s o n W h e e l s volunteers in Erin/Hills- burgh needed to deliver hot meals and assist in the kitchen. Call VON at 1-800-506-6353. Volunteer with truck ur- gently needed to help with various tasks. Drivers needed in Rock- wood to drive residents to medical appointments. Mileage paid. Volunteer Bus Assistant to help Seniors attending the day program. Free childrens pro- grams: Free childrens pro- grams a satellite of the Ontario Early Years pro- gram, we offer lots of stimulating programs for newborns to pre-schoolers and their parents includ- ing Pandas Place, Toddler Power Hour, My Baby & Me, Tot Time, Time Together, Kids Korner and more. Call Marlene MacNevin at 519-833- 9696 ext 223 or visit www.eastwellingtoncom- munityservices.com Improvements to Employment Insurance While Canada continues to weather the global eco- nomic downturn better than most other countries, we are not immune to its effects. Thats why our government introduced an Economic Action Plan to help us out of this down- turn and to assist those citizens who have been negatively affected. Our Economic Action Plan is making unpreced- ented investments to protect vulnerable Can- adians and to help them get the support they need, when they need it. These investments are designed to create jobs, help work- ers affected by the global economic downturn and create better opportun- ities for Canadian workers through skills training. Some people have been recently affected by job losses, so Id like to high- light some of the recent improvements weve made to Employment In- surance (EI) benefits. Were extending EI benefits by increasing the maximum duration of these benefits by five weeks, raising it from 45 to 50 weeks. We r e e n h a n c i n g amounts to the province for skills training pro- grams, to increase the number of people eli- gible for skills training programs, whether or not those people qualify for EI benefits. Weve introduced an enhanced work-sharing program, to help Can- adians stay in their jobs and he lp companies avoid layoffs. This pro- Michael Chong from Parliament Hill gram helps employees keep their jobs by supple- menting their wages with EI benefits for those days that they are not work- ing. Under this program, the employer shortens the work week by one to three days and pays re- duced wages accordingly. For the days or shifts not worked, the employee will collect EI benefits to offset their reduction in pay. The employee must be permanent core staff and be eligible to receive regular EI benefits. The employer must have been in Canada for at least two years and show that there has been a decrease in sales/orders of at least 10%. These work-shar- ing agreements have a minimum duration of six weeks and a maximum duration of 52 weeks. This program will help Can- adian businesses weather this temporary downturn. Weve also improved the Wage Earner Pro- tection Program. This program reimburses eli- gible workers for unpaid wages, vacation pay, severance pay and ter- mination pay they are owed when their employ- er declares bankruptcy or becomes subject to a re- ceivership. This program will pay up to four weeks of EI benefits. In addition, our gov- e r n m e n t a n n o u n c e d over $60M in additional funding to speed up the processing of EI claims. The funding will help us more rapidly process applications by hiring hundreds of new staff, by increasing automation, by temporarily recalling recently retired civil ser- vants and by extending the hours of operations of our call centres. Weve made all these changes to Employment Insurance to help Can- adians and their families better weather this global economic slowdown. If you wish to find out more about these enhance- ments to Employment Insurance, please contact me at chongm@parl.gc.ca or at (866) 878 5556. READ-A-THON CHAMPS: Rockwood Centennial Schools 2009 Read-a-thon was a huge success, doubling the funds raised last year to $9359. Ms. Bensteads grade one class raised the most money at $665. Top individual earners were Cooper Gidge and Scoti Brown. Funds will go to erect a sign board in front of the school and to purchase technological equipment for the classrooms. - Submitted Photo Corrections There were some factual errors in last weeks article entitled The fluoride story for the layperson The cutlines under George Elliots photos in the lab should have read All fluoride work was done in the mid 50s at the Department of Food Chemistry, University of Toronto, the fluoride in nutrition. Correct Sentence: Fortunately, fluorine is not found free in na- ture. Fluorine gas is very reactive with almost anything, seizing an electron to become fluoride which can be free in nature. The gas can only be produced under carefully controlled conditions in a laboratory. The DMF value in fluoridated and non-fluoridated commun- ities was 1.5 in 2005. This number was unfortunately left out of the article.