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CAROL SWEEZEY (LAFRANCE) Agente D’imm / Sales Rep inside 360-8123 pager BI-MONTHLY MARCH 2011 Your Neighbourhood Realtor REALTY LTD. 264-5364 Brokerage business www.crworks.com/carolsweezey A TIMMINS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PUBLICATION Timmins celebrates inaugural Young Professional Awards Four individuals and one local For Marriott, it’s all just part business received top honours at of the bigger picture: attracting the first ever Young and retaining qualified youth Professionals Awards, which and young professionals to took place on Thursday, Feb. 17 Timmins. “The Chamber recog - at Cedar Meadows Resort & Spa. nizes that young professionals The awards gala, organized by today can easily choose where the Timmins Chamber of they want to work and live. We Commerce Young Professional want to ensure that we are rec - Committee, celebrates the con - ognizing the best and brightest tributions that young profes - we have here, because they are sionals make to the business the community and business community and the community leaders of tomorrow.” at large. The Young Professionals Demand for the event sur - Awards would not have been passed organizers’ expectations. successful without the leader - “We thought we would be ship of the organizing commit - happy with 20 nominations. We tee, the support of the commu - received 45. The event sold out nity and the contributions of two weeks in advance. We sim - the sponsors, The Venture ply did not expect this over - Centre/Le Centre de développe - whelming response. However, it ment, Ontario Power shows us that an event like this Generation, Timmins Business is long overdue for our commu - Enterprise Centre, La caisse pop - nity,” said Kurt Bigeau, Chair of ulaire de Timmins and Far the Young Professionals Northeast Training Board. Committee and Timmins See page 3 Chamber of Commerce board Recipients of the first ever Young Professionals Awards are (left-right): Christopher McKay, Stéphane Gallant, for more event details. member. Tracey Potvin, Janna Cook and Bill Belanger, representing J.L. Richards & Associates Ltd. The organizing committee’s aim was to create an event by that features some of the ameni - Timmins to prospective for young professionals and young professionals, for young ties Timmins has to offer young employees.” entrepreneurs within the professionals. “Whenever possi - professionals and their families. The evening concluded with a Chamber network. ble, we used the services of “We wanted to make a state - post awards celebration, featur - According to Chamber young professionals, from deco - ment that there are great things ing the musical stylings of President Gary Marriott, it’s rators to the evening’s musical in our community for our young professionals Tom Oliver important that the organization entertainment. I think everyone young professionals and young and Steffany Venerri. work to engage young profes - was impressed with the calibre families, and this event was the The Young Professionals sionals. “From the Chamber’s of the evening, the nominees best place to launch the video,” Committee, an initiative of the perspective, having our young NOMINATIONS and our great recipients. They stated Marcel Pelchat, event Timmins Chamber of professionals host an event like all deserve recognition for the Nova Business Excellence Awards emcee and the driving force Commerce, has been active for this is a great opportunity for take place on contributions they make to our behind the video. “It will be approximately two years. Its them to recognize fellow young local economy and the commu - posted on the Chamber website efforts focus primarily on offer - professionals and entrepreneurs Thursday, April 14, 2011. nity,” stated Bigeau. and we encourage businesses to ing professional development who go the extra mile to give Nova nomination on page 2 The event also launched a use it as a tool to promote and networking opportunities back our community.” Timmins promotional video ROSS, POPE & COMPANY LLP “Your End-to-End Computer Solutions Provider” 101 Cedar St. South Chartered Accountants Timmins ON P4N 2G7 Tel: (705) 264-9484 Fax: (705) 264-0788 101 Cedar St. South E-mail: [email protected] Timmins ON P4N 2G7 Tel: (705) 264-9484 Fax: (705) 264-0788 E-mail: [email protected] ROSS POPE INC. “Helping You Achieve Your Goals In Your Business Is Our Goal In Our Business” Consultants 2 - MARCH 2011 inside business Nominations open! Chamber set to celebrate the Northern Lights of Business With awards season in full Community (over 30 employees) age — in fact, self nominations award category are indicated in Tickets for the awards gala swing, the Timmins Chamber of ® Service Excellence are encouraged by the organiz - the nomination guide. Be sure will go on sale soon. Commerce is proud to officially ® New Business (under 2 years) ing committee. However, cus - to indicate why your business open nominations for the 2011 tomers, colleagues, staff and deserves to win! Nova Awards, Timmins’ premier ® Marketing Innovation Achievement family members are all encour - Step 4: Submit your nomina - Should you have any ques - business excellence celebration. ® Young Entrepreneur (under 30) aged to submit nominations for tion by 5 p.m., March 11, 2011. tions or require assistance in fill - The Nova Awards recognize ® Business of the Year the businesses they feel deserve ing out a nomination package, the movers and shakers in (1-5 employees) the special recognition of a Interested in submitting Nova Awards Committee mem - Timmins’ business community. Nova Award. bers are available to help: Each year the Awards grow in ® Business of the Year a nomination? ® Gary Marriott at (6-49 employees) success and reputation. This Forms can be downloaded on 705-268-8600, or How complicated ® year’s awards ceremony takes ® Business of the Year the Timmins Chamber of Joel Bergeron at place on Thursday, April 14, at (50+ employees) are the nomination Commerce website 705-268-9988. the McIntyre Arena. The dead - ® Non-Profit Organization Award www.timminschamber.on.ca. line to submit nominations is packages? Please send all completed ® Apprenticeship Award Businesses are encouraged to March 11, and finalists will be The nomination packages are submit their nomination forms nominations by mail, fax, e-mail announced March 31. ® Environmental Award easy to complete. before the March 11 deadline! or hand delivery to: ® Aboriginal Partnership Award Step 1: Pick the award catego - ry (or categories) for which you Nova Awards Categories: ® Best Place to Work want to submit a nomination. Do I need to be Selection Committee Awards will be given to busi - Step 2: All nominations must a member to win? C/O Timmins Chamber of Commerce nesses in the following cate - have questions #1 to #4 P.O. Box 985 gories: Who can nominate? Businesses do not have to be Timmins, ON., P4N 7H6 Anyone can nominate! Often answered. ® Business Contribution to members of the Timmins or fax: 705-360-1193 it may be the business owner or Step 3: Answer the additional Community (1-30 employees) questions in the nomination Chamber of Commerce to be manager that is best equipped to nominated or to win. or [email protected]. ® Business Contribution to complete the nomination pack - form — the questions for each Chamber presents budget recommendations on finance and economic affairs Timmins Chamber of (LIB/Mississauga— for Northern Ontario; Commerce President Gary Streetsville), Kevin Flynn ® The importance of continued Marriott made a series of rec - (LIB/Oakville), Norm Miller re-investment in the North ommendations for the 2011 (PC/Parry Sound—Muskoka), through NOHFC. provincial budget to the Leeanna Pendergast Standing Committee on (LIB/Kitchener—Conestoga), “We are an organization Finance and Economic Affairs Charles Sousa that has been around since at Cedar Meadows on the (LIB/Mississauga South), and 1949, and we take our role as morning of Jan. 27. Peter Tabuns (NDP/Toronto— the voice of business very Timmins is one of the com - Danforth). seriously. So when the oppor - munities being visited by the The last time the Standing tunity presents itself, it’s very committee as it gathers sub - Committee on Finance and important that we provide missions from stakeholders Economic Affairs came to the provincial government before the drafting of the Timmins was in 2008. with the northeastern 2011 provincial budget. In his 10-minute presenta - Ontario perspective by shar - The Standing Committee tion, Marriott spoke to the ing some of the economic on Finance and Economic committee about: challenges, some unique and Affairs is empowered to con - ® Using energy as an economic some not so unique, facing sider and report to the House development tool; our member businesses,” stat - its observations, opinions and ® Far North development and ed Marriott. recommendations on the fis - the Ring of Fire; “It is my hope that the gov - cal and economic policies of ernment takes into considera - ® Land use planning and tion our concerns and that the province. The nine-per - the Far North Act; son committee is made up of our recommendations are members of provincial parlia - ® Alignment of provincial and reflected in the 2011 provin - ment (MPP) from all three federal environmental cial budget.” parties. Members are: Pat Hoy assessment processes; To obtain a copy of the (LIB/Chatham—Kent—Essex), ® The forestry industry and Timmins Chamber of Laura Albanese (LIB/York tenure review; Commerce’s presentation to The Standing Committee on Timmins Chamber of Commerce