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Singing OutVolume 10 Issue 2 What’s been happening at H4S? The Harmonize For Speech Fund continues to be a major source of funding for universities, colleges, speech/language clinics and students studying speech/language pathology. Government funding for speech/language pathology appears to have disappeared, and we are seeing more requests than normal by organizations desperate for assistance. We have still managed to fulfil our funding this year to the different sectors as follows: Speech/language clinics, schools and services 61.7% Universities and Colleges 19.4% Speech / language Conferences 8.4% Students 8.3% Administration 2.2%
TOTAL 100.0 % ________________________________________________________________________________ Living Memorials Roy Cunningham Murray Osborne Alfred Frank Robinson Bill Ryder Gus Scheiers Paul Tamblyn Don Hutchison Olive Janes Barbara Blunt Gordon Whidden Pastor Glenn Butler Kenneth Robert Curry _______________________________________________________________________________ A Tip of the Hat to ……… …. the following chapters in Ontario District for their chapter donations to the Harmonize For Speech Fund this year and their continuous dedication to the mandate of assistance for speech-related projects in Ontario. Scarborough "Dukes of Harmony" $9,566.00 Barrie "County Chordsmen" $5,079.00 Greater Toronto "MegaCity Chorus $3,791.00 East York "East Yotk Barbershoppers" $3,548.00 Guelph "Royal City Ambassadors" $1,500.00 Oshawa "The Horseless Carriagemen" $1,423.00 Simcoe "Gentlemen of Harmony" $1,250.00 St. Thomas "Elginaires" $1,100.00 Peterborough "Aces of Harmony" $1,000.00 ….. the following quartets, octets and seniors’ choruses which continue to support the Harmonize For Speech Fund with donations this year.
Vocal Maturity Seniors' Chorus Tri City Gospel Chorus Single Malt Quartet Acapellics Anonymous Quartet ___________________________________________________________________________________ Our Funding At Work On behalf of the Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity, thank you so much to the Harmonize For Speech Fund for your wonderful grant of $2,000.00 towards speech therapy. We will, of course, report to you in a timely fashion with respect to the details of how your funds were expended once this has occurred. Once again, please accept our sincere gratitute for your support of the Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity. We sincerely appreciate your partnership in providing much needed speech therapy to Ontario chlldren in need. Mary-Anne Herrema, Development Associate ________________________________________________________________________________ Acapellics Anonymous Quartet of the Cornwall Chapter presenting a cheque for $325.00 to the Cornwall branch of the Ottawa Childrens' Treatment Centre. The quartet also sang for the parents and CDA students at the Centre.
__________________________________________________________________________________ On behalf of the York-Durham Aphasia Centre, and March of Dimes Canada, I would like to thank the Harmonize For Speech Fund once again for your generous donation of $1,500.00 to support people with aphasia. For more than 20 years, the York-Durham Aphasia Centre (YDAC) has been providing residents of York and Durham regions and Peterborough with services to assist individuals with aphasia and other communication disorders to more effectively adapt to the condition and communicate with others once again. In 2010, YDAC became a program of March of Dimes Canada after a two-year merger, now giving aphasia sufferers easier access to March of Dimes' variety of programs and services for childsren and adults with disabilities. Thank you for making a difference in so many peoples' lives. Mary Lynne Stewart, Director of Fund Development & Communications _________________________________________________________________________________ I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your contribution of $2,900.00 to the Faculty of Health Sciences' Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Program of the University of Ottawa. I wanted to personally thank you for your support. It is greatly appreciated. The textbooks, research support and awards you provide significantly enhance the high-quality learning environment that we offer our students. Your loyal support helps the Faculty in its continuing efforts to provide students with access to the best resources in teaching and research. Your support means a great deal and touches the lives of many talented and deserving students. Thank you once again for your interest and commitment. Denis Prud'homme, MD, MSc, Dean ________________________________________________________________________________ We are writing on behalf of the entire Kindergarten Language Program (KLP) team of the Toronto Catholic District School Board to express our gratitude to the Harmonize For Speech Fund for so generously supporting our KLP snack program with a gift of $1,000.00. As you know, the objective of the KLP is to provide preventative, intensive oral language programmimg to senior kindergarten students. Through the snack program, students have had many opportunities to prepare and enjoy healthy snacks that relate to our daily theme. The snack program provides our students with a wonderful opportunity to use all of their senses while learning new vocabulary, following directions and practicing their oral language skills. We are very thankful that our students have had the opportunity to participate in the snack program. They truly enjoyed it! Thank you so much for your support. Christiane Kyte, Chief Speech'Language Pathologist _______________________________________________________________________________ On behalf of Language Express Preschool Speech and Language, I would like to express our sincere thanks for the $2,000.00 grant you have provided to move forward with our Language and Emergent Literacy Kits. Your generous support means that we will be able to provide our speech language pathologists with the resources to share knowledge, and to provide parents and caregivers with fun activities to promote their children's literacy and language development. Thank you for your continuing commitment to helping those with speech and communication disorders. Catherine Robinson, M.Sc., reg. CASLPO, Clinical Coordinator _________________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer/Trustee Bruce Dibble and his wife, Pauline, at the Georgian College Donor Appreciation Dinner on April 22 in the Georgian College dining room.
________________________________________________________________________________ Our Chairman, George Shields, C.M., being honoured for his 60 years of dedication to our hobby of barbershopping in Ontario District and the East York chapter.
_________________________________________________________________________________ Did You Know…….. …. that there are 32 chapters in Ontario of the Barbershop Harmony Society comprising over 1,300 members from Sarnia to Ottawa and North Bay to Toronto? …. that there are many quartets in Ontario District that would love to sing for your group or organization? All you need to do is ask. Search out a chapter near you in our main menu under “About Us”. Then click on the chapter contacts or web sites. …. that you can make an online donation to the Harmonize For Speech Fund on our secure web site through our association with CanadaHelps.org which is a not-for-profit organization set up to collect donations for virtually every Canadian charity at a very small cost to the charity. Tax receipts are issued immediately on line after the transaction is completed. See the link on our main menu under Donations. If you wish to make a donation directly to the Harmonize For Speech Fund, a PDF form can be downloaded from the same location on our web site. Just click on the PDF donation. .... that you can designate the Harmonize For Speech Fund as a recipient for some of your charitable donations through United Way payroll deductions or as a direct donation to United Way? Use Registration Number 88923 2443 RR0002 when filling out the donation form. ________________________________________________________________________________ Please send information of your event pertaining to Harmonize For Speech for inclusion in the next issue to info@harmonize4speech.org .
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