28 Feb 12 What To Do
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – 08:00
•How to do‘what to do’What To do is a free listing of special events in the city and region. Priority will be given to community groups, non-profit organizations and family activities. It is not intended as a free listing for businesses which have other promotional options within the newspaper. Submissions must include date, time, place and admission charge and should be dropped off, faxed or mailed to the Chronicle-Journal by noon Monday. Our address is 75 S. Cumberland St., Thunder Bay, P7B 1A3 or fax us at (807) 343-9409 c/o what To do.special eventsThunder Bay Community Auditorium, 1 Paul Shaffer Drive, 684-4444. Toll free 1-800-463-8817 or order online tbca.com.• Masters if Illusion, Mon., Feb. 20, 8 p.m.• Ron James, Fri., Feb. 24, 8 p.m.• Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe Tour, March 1, 7:30 p.m.Fort William Historical Park, 473-2344 or 473-2333. Explore life in the Canadian fur trade. Visit: fwhp.ca, or e-mail: .• Voyageur Winter Carnival, Sunday to Monday. Fun for the entire family with tubing, giant snow maze, skating & curling on the Kam, outdoor games & family contests, children’s sliding hill, sugar shack, musicians & magicians. Visit the fur trade characters on the historic site, crafts, Wii games & more.• Artisans Workshops, Feb. & March. Learn how to make weathervanes, wall sconces, applique beadwork, Ojibwa snowshoes, cedar buckets, tin storm lanterns, dream catcher earrings, moccasins, birch bark baskets & quillwork.• March break Day Camps: Junior Camp (ages 7-9) & Senior Camp (ages 10-12); spend five fun-filled days enjoying exciting games, activities, unique crafts & experiences that demonstrate how people dealt with life in March of 1815. Animal tracking, snowshoeing treks, crafts & voyageur games, Native legends among the activities. Camps run weekdays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost is $135 for 5 days.• Bookings available for group reservations, conferences, banquets, education, and community programs.Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, 474-2280 or email: • Tbaytel Masterworks Series: Hometown Diva! Thursday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m. at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium. Regular appearances with major opera houses and orchestras such as the Toronto Symphony are the hallmark of Thunder Bay native Monica Whicher’s exciting career. General $45; balcony $20; student $15. Info: 474-2284 or visit: tbso.ca. Tickets at the TBCA Box Office.Evergreen a United Neighbourhood Annual Winter Carnival, today, 4-8 p.m. BBQ, popcorn, skating, games, crafts & more. everyone welcome to this free event. Donations gladly accepted. Info: Linda 626-0090.Oliver Road Annual Winter Carnival, Friday-Sunday. Skate night, spaghetti supper (Sat., 4-5 p.m. for take out, $5; sit down, 5-6:30 p.m. $6), fun Monte-Carlo Night (Sat., 7 p.m. – $5 admission), contests, penny auction (Sunday only), Family Day. Info: 345-9531.Teachings & Empowerments, hosted by the Potala Meditation Centre, Friday-Sunday at Hospice Northwest, St. Joseph’s Heritage, 63 Carrie St. Lam Rim Teachings, Friday, 7 p.m. Lam Rim refers to the Buddha’s teachings of spiritual progression that lead us to liberation from suffering & attainment of enlightenment. $10 members/$15 nonmembers; Medicine Buddha Initiation, Saturday, 2 p.m. Medicine Buddha initiation & practice empowers participants to activate their healing energies to heal themselves & others. $25 members/$35 nonmembers; White Mahakala Initiation, Sunday, 2 p.m. White Mahakala is a wrathful aspect of Buddha of Compassion and a Dharma Protector. White Mahakala practice overcomes spiritual & material poverty. $25 members/$35 nonmembers. Bring a cushion. Visit: potala.ca.Nordic Ski Day: Women on Skis, Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Lappe Nordic Ski Centre. a day of outdoor fun and fitness: ski technique and waxing lessons, snowshoeing, healthy & hearty lunch, hot sauna and great draw prizes. no previous experience necessary. All women ages 13 & up are welcome. Fees: $45 full day ($30 half day – includes lunch); $5 discount for Lappe Nordic Ski Club members. Ski rentals $10/set, babysitting $25 for one child, additional children $15 each. Registration forms & more information at lappenordic.ca or call Susanna at 285-0948.Giant Digital Photography Workshops, at Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park’s visitor centre:• You and Your Digital Camera – Buttons and Knobs, Saturday, 12-4 p.m.• Winter Photography, March 17, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.* Learn the features of operating your camera as well as tips & techniques for outdoor winter photography. Instruction by professional photographer Barry Wojciechowski on topics including camera controls, aperture, shutter speed and the basics of good photo composition. for more information, pricing and advance online registration visit: superiorvisits.com or call 344-9208 (1-866-688-9990).14th Annual Scrabble Fundraising Tournament, Sat., Feb. 25 at Intercity Promotion Court, hosted by the Thunder Bay Literacy Group. You don’t have to be an expert player to win. Many prize categories & draws. one lucky fundraiser will win a trip for two from Porter Airlines. Visit the website at tblg.org to enter online or call 475-7211. Regular play at 9:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. or represent your business in the Corporate Challenge at 12:30 p.m. help support literacy in your community.Slightly Off Broadway Proudly Presents: Thunder Bay’s original triple-threat studio, where students can study music, dance & drama all under one roof. the Musical Theatre Revue event gives the students the opportunity to work on a professional level show where they can not only showcase their individual talents but also work on group numbers. There’s no Biz like Show Biz, will be presented Sat., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. & Sun., Feb. 26, 2 p.m. at the Bora Laskin Auditorium – L.U. enjoy a romp through the world of musicals, including songs from the classic shows like the Secret Garden, the Wizard of Oz and my Fair Lady to numbers from new musicals like Hairspray and Mama Mia. this show appeals to all audiences, including children. Net proceeds donated to the Canadian Red Cross, Thunder Bay Branch. Tickets available at the Canadian Red Cross, the Bean Fiend, Calico Coffee House, Colosimo’s Music Store, Slightly Off Broadway Studio and all cast members. Info: 622-4500.Nolalu Market, every Friday, 4-7 p.m. at the Nolalu Community Centre parking lot, Hwy 588 (bottom of the hill in downtown Nolalu). Pies, plants, photos, willow baskets, crafts, collectibles & more. Stop by for a chat, check out what is happening in Nolalu and bring home a loaf of bread, a pie, a veggie plant or an artistic photograph of beautiful Northern lights country and books about Nolalu. Info: nolalu.ca.Thunder Bay Country Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the CLE Dove Building. Meet with two storeys full of local farmers, food vendors, crafters & more. ‘We make it, bake it, grow it.’ Visit: wwwthunderbaycountrymarket.com.Hillcrest Marketplace, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Thunder Bay Centre of Change (formerly Hillcrest HIgh School). Produce, baking, jewelry, home businesses & more. Free admission.
artMeet & Greet, today, 5-7 p.m. at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium. See the visual art created in Artists in the 5th. Support Arts Education in Thunder Bay; Thursday is Arts Fiesta at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, 9:45-11:30 a.m. Celebrate the performance and visual arts work of Artist in the 5th. $5 at the door; Saturday at Mary J.L. Black Library – create a found Object Character All about me – Marcel the Shell by Jenny Stone. the story of a mixed media shell living in our human world. make you own character and create a story with Rachel Vandenssen. for ages 6-12. Preregister. Free.2nd Annual Northern Fibers Retreat, Grand Marais, MN, today to Monday at North Folk School and the Grand Marais Art Colony. Over 25 inspiring courses including weaving, bead embroidery, origami, felting & more. call 218-387-2737 or 218-387-2737 for more information and a complete course listing and event program or visit: northhouse.org or grandmaraisartcolony.org.call for Entries – the Rain Barrel Art Project. EcoSuperior is bringing back the popular Rain Barrel Art Project. Paint an original design on a rain barrel to be a part of the silent auction fund raiser at the CLE Home & Garden Show. EcoSuperior provides the rain barrel – you provide the creativity. Open to anyone – artists, school classes, community groups, or individuals. Cash prize for top-selling rain barrel. All proceeds to to support EcoSuperior’s demonstration house. call 624-2140 or look for the Rain Barrel Art Project at ecosuperior.org. Deadline is Friday.Art by Marilyn Morton. Landscapes, still lifes, abstracts & collages in oil, watercolour & ink. There are local scenes and scenes from distant places. Most are framed and ready to hang. Come by and enjoy. by appointment. call 1-807-577-7347.Biljana’s Art Gallery, 454 Ryerson Crescent. Come visit Biljana at her studio and see original watercolour paintings, reproductions, note cards, calendars and more. call 577-7077 for your personal appointment.Chenier Fine Arts, the purple gallery at 8 S. Court St., located in the Waterfront District. Info: Debra 346-0409. Visit: chenierfinearts.ca. Open Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Open by appointment. Free admission.• enjoy viewing the Chenier Window Galerie displaying new stone bowls by local Jason Nelson; and new Castonguay oversize oil and pastel paintings.• New painter, D. Couturier – organic multi media abstracts.• New printmaker, Petru Voichescu – miniature abstracts, new mixed media abstracts on paper by Sylvie Cloutier.• New – Shane Norrie ceramics that appeared in the Globe and Mail feature article, the top 10 Fall Design Trends. also displayed are paintings that are shown in Norrie’s new book, Shane Norrie – Pre 2012.• New paintings by a. Zerbe – city night life, and G. Castonguay – surreal landscapes.definitely Superior Art Gallery, lower level of former Eatons Bldg., 250 Park Ave., 344-3814. Visit: definitelysuperior.com. Tues.-Sat., 12-6 p.m. Admission by donation.• Urban Infill-Art in the Core: 15 projects/350+artists at 15 downtown North Core venues. Until April 30. Visit: definitelysuperior.com for updates on individual projects.• Gallery 1: the Circulation of Fluids – Catherine Bechard & Sabin Hudon-Montreal-Interactive Sound Installation-International.• Gallery 2: along the Way – Julie Cosgrove-Regional-Painting/Multi-media.• Gallery 3: Bull’s Eye, a Painter on the Watch – Marc Seguin – Award winning film documentary-Montreal-International.• All exhibitions run until March 10.Lake Superior Art Gallery and Studio, 605 E. Victoria Ave. in Victoriaville Centre. Open 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday to Friday. call 622-7573 or visit: LakeSuperiorArtGallery.com.• Classical Methods of Drawing and Oil Painting with John Ferris, Saturdays, 1 p.m. call to register.Local Colour Art Gallery, 33 S. Cumberland St. Mon.-Fri, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat., 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission. Info: localcolourartgallery.ca or call 768-3232.• take in the ‘Local Colour’ of over 75 local & regional artists displaying a wide variety of the diverse work available here in our region.• Visit the Gallery today and observe artist Mac Squires at work creating his drawings on birch bark.• Central Canada Outdoor Show, Feb. 24-26.the Mystique of the North Gallery, features the art work of Evelyn Konrad. Visit the gallery to access a variety of original watercolour paintings, as well as prints and note cards. Visit: konradwatercolours.com. Visit the gallery anytime by appointment. call 577-2155 or e-mail: Painted Turtle Art Studio Gallery, 33 S. Cumberland St. Open 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays & 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Visit: paintedturtleart.com or call 344-4636 for more information.• Stop by the Studio to see a small exhibition of five different bookbinding styles by Laurie Wright of BookWrights Bindery, until March 19.• Artists in Residence: Kathy & Kirsti Toivonen. this mother & daughter team express their creative personalities in diverse yet similar themes & styles. Stop by to see Kathy at work, Mondays, 1:30-3:30 p.m. and Kirsti, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.• Classes & Workshops: Water colour with Biljana Baker, Feb. 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Raw & compressed charcoal drawing workshop, 6-8 p.m.; March 7 with Kathy Toivonen; March break ‘Pirate School’ March 13-15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Youth Art Club, March 1-April 5; Acrylic painting with Eugene Vandal, March 14-April 4, 6:30-9:30 p.m.the Pictograph Gallery, downstairs in the Voyageur Mall in Atikokan, Tues.,-Sat., 12-3 p.m.• E nat’e me – Acrylic on Canvas, Pam Cain.Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Confederation College campus. Info: 577-6427 or visit the website at tbag.ca. Admission: adults $3, seniors & students $1.50, gallery members & children under 12 years are free. Free admission Wed., sponsored by the John Andrews Foundation. Open Tues.-Thurs., 12-8 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 12-5 p.m.• Sense of Place, organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum, until Feb. 26.• Winter Wilderness Art Auction Eh?, March 2. Tickets on sale now. $70 gallery members; $85 non-members.• Brian Holden: Wilderness, until March 4.• Mood Valleys, Walter Scott, until March 4.Window Light Photo Gallery, 581 Boundary Drive, west off Hwy. 61, Saturdays & Mondays only, or by appointment. a display of photography portraying the beauty of Northern Ontario & Lake Superior. Info: Susan 628-2772 or visit: susandykstra.com.
what To do lineup:
• Wednesdays — special events and art
• Thursdays — theatre, film & museums
• Fridays — music, dance & games
28 Feb 12 Eco Friendly Hospital Cleaning Solutions
Maybe the most essential components that hospitals should follow is always keeping the entire establishment in the most top notch clean and also sanitary condition possible. Sticking with the best requirements of sanitation is essential for the patient’s wellness, safety as well as well being.
A thoroughly clean hospital has an enormous contribution to the overall efficiency of the hospital’s employees – whenever they recognize that they are doing work in a safe and also dirt free environment, they are likely to carry out their jobs well. thus, determining the right hospital cleaning products will be the first big step if you want to keep a health care facility functioning in the best possible way and simultaneously supply the healthiest atmosphere meant for both patients and also personnel.
You can apply just that if you are using eco-friendly cleaning materials and supplies.
There are tons of factors why you ought to utilize environmentally friendly hospital cleaning materials in the hospital. The first one is the fact that, the medical center requires an excellent germ-killing agent without hurting the environment and causing critical diseases to patients or even staff members. You must make certain that all areas of the rooms and flooring surfaces inside the hospital are free from bacteria and also allergens in order to minimize the risk of spreading contagious diseases to the individuals within the hospital.
Keeping basic sanitation within the medical center is additionally important. Eco Friendly cleaning supplies are ideal for this, as well. In addition to ensuring each part within the hospital is germ free, eco-friendly cleaning agents will usually clean the shoe marks that are on hallway flooring and even get rid of soap residue on the sinks and floor tiles in the bathrooms. not just that, these types of cleaning supplies can also be time saving cleaning items, leaving virtually no trace from the product’s residue which would therefore call for more cleaning and rinsing.
What you will love about eco-friendly cleaning products are their green cleaning nature. These kinds of hospital supplies are created to be totally safe for the environment and for people that clean with it. Making use of eco-friendly cleaning products in your medical center is just the same as caring about the wellness of your patients.
Going for eco-friendly hospital cleaning products and services can be a great health conscious decision which you could make. even when the cleaning team has been performing the most thorough cleanup job, you will not be frustrated by harmful fumes or irritants on your skin and eyes. Environmentally friendly cleaning materials are constructed with non-toxic, non-caustic materials, and this means that they’ll not put your own, your patients’, or even your staff’s wellness at risk.
28 Feb 12 Historical group curator keeps hands on the past
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — John M. Harris spends each Tuesday and Wednesday quietly working in a small office surrounded by shelves stacked from floor to ceiling with boxes containing … well, that’s what Harris is finding out.
Outside his office, a much larger room is filled with stacks of boxes, filing cabinets and a conference table for sorting. throughout the Frank Arganbright Genealogy and Research Center, items are in storage — items someone at some point considered historically significant.
Nestled in his small office on the second floor of the center on 10th Street across from the Moses Fowler House, Harris’ task is to computerize the Tippecanoe County Historical Association’s hard-copy card catalogs and computerize years of donated items that escaped being enumerated or completely slipped through the cracks.
He rhetorically repeated the question to himself as he leaned forward in his chair, reaching for a 10-pound cannonball set on a table in front of him: “What is it that’s fun? being able to handle something like this that probably goes back to the Revolution,” he answered, holding out the solid shot that was found in the area of Fort Ouiatenon.
For Harris, 67, the fun is also bringing order from chaos and the chance to play history detective when he stumbles across undocumented items or some unrecognizable trinkets or artifacts.
Each week is different from the previous — another thing Harris enjoys about his job.
“It takes a lot of attention to detail, and it’s a kind of work that not everybody can do,” Harris said.
The hands-off rule enforced on most visitors to museums doesn’t apply to Harris, who for nearly four years has gone by various titles ranging from collections manager, collection coordinator or curator of collections. call him what you will, Harris sees himself as a simple curator of the association’s accessations that date back to its first gifts, received around 1925. and he’s happy to do it.
A 2008 grant from the Greater Lafayette Community Foundation allowed the association to purchase past Perfect, a computer program used nationally by museums to catalog and cross reference collections. the association then needed someone with museum experience to wade through the collections, the card catalogues and the museum’s undocumented donations. That’s where Harris came in.
“Kathy Atwell (TCHA director) approached me about setting up its software,” Harris said, noting after four years, he’s just scratched the surface of the association’s considerable holdings.
A former director of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, Harris spent 15 years of his career in Tippecanoe County as the association’s director from 1972 to 1987, when he left to go to the Indiana Historical Society, from which he retired after 19 years.
He’s now a partner in his wife’s Indianapolis business, Heritage Photo & Research Services, and he treks back to his old stomping grounds twice a week.
At first, the grant paid him a part-time wage for his work.
“The grant ran out after a year,” Harris said, “but I just kept coming because I was having fun. I always wanted to be a curator.”
The association’s board recently hired Harris again to pay him for his labors. It’s a promising sign for the association, which just finished its third consecutive year in the black — albeit, barely.
Atwell hesitates to label the positive bottom line a turnaround or a sign of better financial days ahead.
Instead, she attributes it to watching expenses, tough fiscal decisions and successful fundraisers, such as the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon, which has escaped being rained out the past few years.
“We have a very small, dedicated staff,” Atwell said. “That helps.”
Colby Bartlett, the association’s board president, gave a few more details about the efforts to revitalize the association.
“It hasn’t been easy,” Bartlett said.
“As a result of that, sales tripled what they’ve been in the past,” Bartlett said of the shop’s revenues.
The association recently learned that a grant to fund needed repairs to the Fowler House from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology was denied, Bartlett said. This leaves the group with a challenge of how to fund the repairs and preserve the 19th century house.
For Harris, his fondness for and familiarity with Greater Lafayette led him back to the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, where he can do what he enjoys without the hassles that Atwell daily faces.
“I think of TCHA as where I grew up,” Harris said.
In many ways, the association came of age under Harris’ tenure as director. the association grew to become the largest county historical association in the state during the 1970s and 1980s; it became accredited — an accomplishment allowed to lapse when renewal came up — and the Feast of the Hunters’ Moon grew and became a richer living-history and educational experience.
“There was definitely an increase in historical awareness that started about that time (of) the bicentennial,” he said when asked if 1976 drew people to the association and its events.
Interest in history continues today, Harris noted, pointing to the popularity of cable’s History Channel.
It’s a point Bartlett and Atwell both made.
While people might have grown disinterested in seeing dusty artifacts under glass at museums, they seem to enjoy the entertaining interactions that have education nuggets embedded in them, Bartlett said, suggesting that the association might develop more interactive programs, such as living-history events with re-enactors.
“I think in five years, we won’t look the same as an organization,” Atwell said.
“A lot of people don’t realize how historically significant our area is,” Bartlett said. “There’s a very rich 10,000 years of native history.”
Then there is the French colonial influence, French and Indian War and Revolutionary War events that played out at or near Fort Ouiatenon, leaving its mark on Tippecanoe County. the area witnessed the most significant old Northwest Territory Indian resistance at Prophetstown and the Battle of Tippecanoe, followed by the forced removal of Native Americans.
“We really took a top-to-bottom look at operations and asked, ‘how can we increase revenue and cut costs?’” Bartlett said.
Part of the answer was to partner with like-minded groups such as the Tippecanoe County Area Genealogy Association, Bartlett said.
Atwell pointed to marketing the association’s properties, most notably the Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum and its gift shop, which Bartlett said has an expanded and improved book selection on the Indiana frontier era to rival selections at national museums.
Atwell would like to see a day when the association can display more of its collections in a museum, but she realizes that small, county-run museums are rare.
“History museums are different from art museums,” Harris said. “History museums try to document the lives of everyday people, as well as important people.
“To document the everyday lives, you’re going to deal with the minutiae.”
That means hat pins, broaches and even undergarments that are of no monetary value have significant historical value to document lifestyles that seem foreign to today’s generations.
Of course, the association’s collections also include the invaluable work of George Winter, Harris said. Winter was a frontier artist who sketched and painted Native Americans in Tippecanoe County. Many of his works are on display at the Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum, thanks to Cable and Evelyn Ball, Lafayette residents who collected Winter’s work.
Insulated from the daily juggling act of running the association, managing its properties and watching the bottom lines, Harris creates computer records detailing what is in the associations’ possession.
TCHA opened Fowler House as a museum in 1941. the museum closed in 2005 as revenue declines forced staff cuts.
Should the day come when TCHA reopens its museum, it has sufficient and varied collections to recount the lives of those who lived and toiled here, and Harris’ work to computerize and catalog the collection will become priceless.
If that day never comes, Harris’ work still makes a difference in the lives of historians and the curious looking for clues to the past.
Harris said, “It’s worth it when somebody comes and says, ‘Can you show me a picture of some school house?’ and we can go to the computer and pull it up.”
28 Feb 12 Marketing Consultants – Reasons to Hire a Consultant For Your Marketing Business
Although hiring a marketing consultant would mean more expenses for you, it could be the best decision you can ever make to boost your sales and grow your business.
Here’s why you should hire a marketing consultant:
1. One of the reasons why people hire marketing consultants is because they live and breathe the marketing industry on a day to day basis meaning, they have the expertise and experience that no other people can bring in to your business. Years of experience has taught me that these consultants can help you avoid costly marketing misfire because they have been there and done that. They know how to create and polish your marketing communications so you can send the right message to your target market. as you know, this can help in increasing your sales and revenue in no time.
2. Objective opinion. when you hire a marketing consultant, you’ll most likely to get an objective opinion and fresh point of view. as a business owner, you can easily lose perspective as you are heavily immersed in the day-to-day operation to that point that you can no longer see the big picture. A marketing consultant can help you see even the smallest details as they are detached from your company.
3. They provide additional help. instead of disrupting your day-to-day operation by pulling out some of your managers and subordinates, you can easily hire a marketing consultant who can focus on developing and executing a marketing plan. By doing this, your people can focus on what they do to maintain productivity and efficiency in your company.
4. Flexibility. Marketing consulting firms are immediately ready and available to offer their services at a moment’s notice. that means, you don’t need to spend enormous time putting together great people and wait for them to finish their current projects. If you try to hire new marketing staff to handle your specific marketing needs it may take so much time and energy. Imagine the time you need to spend screening and interviewing these people.
5. Save money. Compare to the cost of bringing in a new marketing team, hiring a consultant who can work on a per need basis is much more cost-effective. You don’t need to offer this person with benefits, training time, insurance, and monthly pay checks as you would for a regular employee. However, you can be assured that you’ll get the best service as you’ll hire somebody who is extremely knowledgeable in the field of marketing.
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