Thank you to all PALS and Community Partners and Volunteers! You Really DO Make a Difference! Volunteers and partners matter! You make a difference! You give selflessly to help our children and this action From the moment children enter school in the morning • supporting families throughout the year, and in You have a profound and lasting impact on the lives of speaks to the strength and the quality of your character. to the wonderful smells of breakfast; the special one- September with school supplies the children in our community. When you volunteer, you are making a commitment to on-one time with a Big Brothers Big Sisters In-School • or providing enrichment for the children inside and Your willingness to share both your time and your share one of your most precious resources, your time! Mentor, a reading buddy or Grade 2 Elf literacy tutor; outside of the school environment talent by volunteering says so much about each of you. And we thank you! enjoying a nutritious lunch being provided by volunteers; . we are so glad to have you as part of our school the experience of a work placement; the opportunity communities, as part of our school families and as an to play a sport, or engage in an after-school club; the important part of our children’s lives. school day is enriched because you care. The Anglophone South School District is a crucial Partnering from With your support working as a team with the schools to partner and stakeholder. Our initiatives that complement enhance student learning: the curriculum are made possible by the dedication of Kindergarten to Grade 12 • Children meet new role models and mentors the educators and support staff at the district and each • Schools and children are offered many new of our partner schools. Without this support our efforts and Beyond opportunities as partners would not be as positive or successful. • Students are further empowered to feel good, take The school empowers the students with their most risks, and develop positive values essential tool, a quality education. And you, our partners • Partnerships • Families benefit as the children share their and volunteers, are there providing the extra support experiences they need to help make this happen! • Volunteering • Children are motivated to succeed. They love to • Mentoring share their successes with each of you. Your smiles We do not work in isolation. From the Business • Role Models and encouragement mean the world to them, the Community Anti-Poverty Initiative (BCAPI) to Living • Coaching staff and their parents. Saint John, Achieve Literacy Greater Saint John, the • Focus on Literacy Promise Partnership and so many more, Greater Saint John has mobilized to change the future not only for our • Having Fun Whether . most vulnerable citizens, but for us all. • Tutoring • working directly with the children and the schools in Volunteers are truly the backbone of PALS. We hear • Breakfast/Lunch Programs the areas of literacy, numeracy, etc. Deborah Fisher a lot of talk about random acts of kindness. The acts • New Opportunities • helping behind the scenes [email protected] of kindness performed by you, our volunteers are • After School Programs • fundraising to support our children not random. They are deliberate, intentional and well • providing new opportunities for children and their • Career Exploration Susan Tipper thought out . the ultimate gifts to the children in our parents before they reach school age • Making a Difference [email protected] community. • supporting the high school level with career guidance and more Thank you all for going above and beyond for the We ALL have something to offer! • assisting with tutoring at all levels students we serve! Thank you to the schools and partners of the Saint John Education Centre for “Making a Difference” in the lives of the children of Greater Saint John! Achieve Literacy Greater Saint John Evergreen Creations Lake Utopia Paper Salvation Army Advantage Auto Glass Exit Realty Lawson & Creamer Saputo Advocate Printing The Learning Partnership Scotiabank Branches Al Gagnon Photo Fero Lions Clubs Greater Saint John Select Printing Amalgamated Transit Union Fluor Living SJ Shimpokai Judo Anglophone South School District Friendly’s and Pizza Shack North Loch Lomond Villa Shining Horizons Therapeutic Riding Association APEGNB (Association of Professional Engineers and Fundy Bay 50+ Club Shur Fit Automotive Geoscientists New Brunswick) Saint John Branch Fundy Bay Sand and Gravel Marathon By the Sea Sistema NB Atlantic Superstores Fundy Engineering Mariner Partners Sisters of Charity Master Promotions Atlantic Towing GNB SJ Community Loan Fund McAllister Place SJ Community Newspaper BASE Engineering Golden Gloves Boxing McInnes Cooper Grand Bay Baptist Church Slocum + Ferris Bay Ferries MC Ventilation Sobeys Stores Bayview Credit Union Grand Bay Church of the Resurrection Michaels Grand Bay Guardian Drugs South End Lions Club BCAPI Midland Transport Stantec Beats and Bytes Grand Bay Home Hardware Mitchell McConnell Insurance Grand Bay Medicine Shop Staples Bee Me Kidz Starkey’s Garage BellAliant Grand Bay Sobeys NBCC Grass Roots Bar & Grill St. Ann’s Church Best Buy NB Insurance Board St. Luke’s Church Big Brothers Big Sisters Gulf Operators NB Museum Gunter Business Machines St. Pius X Church Boston Pizza NB Southern Railway Stewart McKelvey Boys & Girls Club Harbour Station Nick Nicolle Community Centre Steve Zaat Music Breakfast Clubs of Canada Hatheway Pavilion at Lily Lake ONE Change Stew’s Cleaning Services Brent Kelly Family HMCS Fredericton Studio Dance School Brunswick Pipeline/ Emera Hickey Brothers Parkland Saint John Hillcrest Baptist Church Pathways to Education T4G CAA T. D. Waterhouse Calvary Temple Church Hooper Studios PC Children’s Charity Horizon Health Network Plasticraft T. S. Simms Retirees Camp Glenburn Tabufile Canadian Military Hughes Surveys Point Lepreau Generating Station Port Saint John Teed Saunders Doyle Canadian Tire Jumpstart Imperial Theatre Teen Resource Centre Canaport LNG Portland United Church Indigo Love of Reading Foundation P.R.O. Kids Telegraph Journal/ Brunswick News Carleton Kirk United Church Industrial Security Limited Thandi’s Restaurant CBCL Promise Partnership INK Graphics PRUDE The Medicine Shoppe, Grand Bay-Westfield CFM Inner City Youth Ministry Thistle Saint Andrews Chandler Sales Innovatia QM Construction Timber & Steel Furniture The Chamber, Saint John Region Inside Out Nature Centre RBC Branches Titus Bakery Chateau de Champlain InterAction School of Performing Arts Tony Battilano Basketball School Cherry Brook Zoo Investors Group RiverCross Church Robertson Construction Town of Grand Bay-Westfield City of Saint John IODE Trinity Church City of Saint John Leisure Services Irving Equipment Rockwood Park Rotary Club Tropical Shipping City of Saint John, Office of the Irving Nature Park Turnbull Home Common Clerk Irving Oil Rothesay Netherwood School Cleves Source for Sports Irving Paper Royal Canadian Legion UNB Saint John Cooke Aquaculture Irving Pulp & Paper Royal Hair Design United Church Ministries Costco Irving Shipbuilding Royal Kennebecasis Yacht Club United Way Courtney Bay Tenants Association Irving Tissue RST Sunbury Universal Truck and Trailer Credit Counselling Services Irving Wallboard Saint John Airport Vito’s DealerMine J. D. Irving, Limited Saint John Astronomy Club The Delta Saint John and Saint John Carpentry Centre WalMart JDI Sussex Woodlands Wengaro McCor Management JTR Saint John City Market DFS Inc. Architecture & Design Saint John Community Centres Westside Anglican Mission Dillon Consulting Keel Construction Saint John Cricket Club West Side Business Association DMK Marine Kelly Services Saint John Energy Wyndham Worldwide Canada Inc. Domino’s Pizza Kennebec Manor Saint John Fire Department Xerox Kent Building Supplies Saint John Milk Fund Downey Ford Key Industries Saint John Neighbourhood Associations YMCA of Greater Saint John Dunham’s Run King’s Church Saint John Police Department Y Service Club Dykeman’s Hardware Kings Way Care Centre Saint John Riptide Youth Enhancement Program Inc. Eastside Food Bank Kiwanis Clubs Saint John Sea Dogs 360 Stand Elections NB Knights of Columbus Saint John Tools Library Elementary Literacy Inc. (Elf) KPMG Saint John Transit If we have omitted any of our valued partners, Emera Kustom Auto Sound & Accessories Saint John Water please accept our sincere apologies and let us know Ernie’s Landscaping Salesforce for future publications. For more information about how to become involved with PALS (Partners Assisting Local Schools), please contact Deborah Fisher at 506-632-6071..