We'll have door prizes, a silent auction, coffee, donuts, cake, guest speakers, and lots of old pictures. It will be fun to reminisce. Literacy Nanaimo will be taking a table so we would appreciate it if you could clean out your cupboards and donate us some good, useable garage sale items. We can collect it at our office until sale day. L'Association des francophones de Nanaimo, the Vancouver Island Regional Library and the Nanaimo OnLine Association has applied to Industry Canada for funding to enhance our public access computer site.
Individuals can receive instruction in basic introduction to computers and the internet.
With the funding from Industry Canada we could upgrade an additional 7 computers. The goal of Industry Canada is to establish affordable public Internet access sites all across Canada to help ensure that all Canadians have affordable access to the economic, social and cultural opportunities that access to the Internet promotes. This will enable the schools to purchase specialized reading books for working with children in early grades who are identified as having difficulty reading. She is looking for sponsors and will donate her proceeds to Literacy Nanaimo.