Now, you acn add more excitment and increase sales and profits for your fundraising program!

This year’s calendar marketing will help you:
· Reach new prospects.
· See current patrons spend more.
· Show everyone that you care
about, and support, the Lake everyone loves.


Designed to Open Doors and Sell! Check out some of last years photo's.

High Impact Marketing to Support Your Fundraising Team. Click here for more details!

Stunning Photography
Patrons won’t be able to resist the stunning photography celebrating the Lake’s Natural elements including wind, water, sun, fish and trees.

NEW
· FREE BONUS INSIDE.
Every calendar has a pack of Action Cards to help the Lake. Free bonus offers add tremendous value and increase sales.

NEW
· Contest Entry Code.
Every calendar has a Contest Entry code for the Make a Date with the Lake Contest.

· Sales Tool.
NEWHigh impact contest postcard visible in every calendar package will highlight the contest value added promotion.

· Total Coverage.
Our marketing goal is to make sure everyone on, around or visiting the Lake is aware of the Calendar AND that it is available through your organization.

· Multi-pronged, high frequency marketing and media.
Everyone will hear about, read about and talk about the calendar, the contest and your organization because of the high frequency of exposure achieved in the following media:

TV
Radio
Newspaper Magazine
NEWPR/media events
Online PR & eMarketing
NEW(email campaign, viral campaign and blogging)
LOL web site
NEW (includes your not-for-profit group )
LCBO marketing


Pricing Priced to sell! Suggest Retail: $15 plus GST
50-50 partnership split with not – for- profit organizations

Delivery July 15 or before, your order will be delivered to your organization.

Looking forward to including your organization in this market wide campaign!

For more details click here.

The Grand Pub Openning

Hi everyone! We are good to go!

It is confirmed 100% for our grand opening on the 28th of March, Friday evening.

For those not familiar the address is 52 Queen st West in Cookstown (better known as the IGA/Foodland Plaza) just behind Tim Hortons.

Festivities will be all evening with complimentary appetizers, a great band, prizes and opening ceremonies by local dignitaries. It will be a packed house and a lot of fun. Join us for a great evening out to celebrate the arrival of your new local!

We look forward to seeing you there. Andy, Mark and Rory and the team at The Pub.
Come anytime after 4 p.m. until late!

Alliston District Chamber of Commerce News - March 27th

Don’t forget THIS Thursday, March 27th is the ADCC’s Annual General Meeting and Gala Dinner at Silver Brooke Golf Club! With Special Guest Speaker Steve Hopkinson, cocktails and dinner, this AGM will be an event you won’t want to miss! Tickets are just $35.00. Please contact the Chamber Office to purchase your ticket: 705.435.7921. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/AGM_GalaDinner.pdf for all of the Info!


The 40th Anniversary of the New Tecumseth Home, Health & Leisure Show is just around the corner! Booths are still available but they are going fast as this year’s event promises to be the biggest yet! With our new venue (The New Tecumseth Recreation Centre), a huge grand prize to be won, special guest speakers and stuff for the kids, you won’t want to miss this amazing marketing opportunity for your business. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/2008_HHLS_Poster_downsampled.pdf for details.


Mayor Mike MacEachern invites you to the Mayor's Business Breakfast! Andrew Redden, Manager of Economic Development for Hastings County will join the Mayor to discuss downtown revitalization. Click here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/Mayor's%20Business%20Breakfast%20-%20April%2017%2008.pdf to view the flyer. If you need further information or would like to purchase tickets, please contact Katie Downey at (705) 435-3900 Ext. 230 or kdowney@town.newtecumseth.on.ca

Community Living Association of South Simcoe is hosting a Pampered Chef fundraiser at their board room, 125 Dufferin St. S., Alliston on Wednesday 02 April 08 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on Thursday 03 April 08 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Please Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/CLASS-PC%20party%20flyer%2008.pdf for additional information.

CONTACT - South Simcoe Community Information Centre, Community Connections Collingwood and United Way of Greater Simcoe County cordially invites you to attend a public reception on Tuesday, April 2nd at the Gibson Centre, Alliston to announce the expansion of 211 Service in South Simcoe. The 211 system being established across Canada will create a new public utility that will ensure all citizens have equal access to information about the services they need. By dialing 2-1-1, callers are directly connected to a qualified information and referral specialist. 211 offers live answer, 24/7, multilingual access to community, social, health and government services. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/211%20Expansion%20Alliston.pdf for details.

Mr. Bob's Network is hosting an event at the South Shore Community Centre on Thursday 27 March 2008. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/Mr%20Bobs%20Event-27%20Mar%2008.pdf for details and contact information.

Padgett Business Services is focused on helping business owners become more profitable. Our
accounting and consulting services allow clients to make better, more informed management
decisions that affect their bottom line. Free customized Padgett Connect software is available to all of our new clients. Click here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/mar08ca.pdf to download more information and this month’s “Smallbiz Builder” newsletter. tax. Contact Lucie Kremer at 705-424-3150, email l_kremer@smallbizpros.com or Margaret McAuley at 905-729-3429.


ADCC members are reminded to visit the Ontario Chamber of Commerce web-site for the latest edition of the Legislative Watch: www.occ.on.ca . As well, click here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/Ont%20COC.pdf for the OCC network news and the
Delegates Event Formfor anyone attending the Annual Ontario COC AGM in Oshawa.

Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/Mrs%20Smiths.pdf for Easter Greeetings from Mrs. Smith's Ingredients as well as their current specials.


Swing into the Golf Season this Spring at Silver Brooke's Open house on Sunday March 30th.
Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/open%20house%20poster.jpg for further details. For Directions and Contact info visit www.silverbrooke.com.

Nottawasaga Futures is co-hosting an event along with the Ontario Cooperative Association:
Cooperative Development Toolkit Workshop on Monday 31 Mar 08 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Gibson Centre. Please Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/Alliston%20workshop.pdf for details and registration information.


CONTACT is pleased to announce our unique Legacy Courtyard Campaign http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/CONTACT_1.pdf to help raise funds for the
expansion and enhancement of our services and the development of our new facility, Community Service Centre South Simcoe. Opening in August 2008, CONTACT's Community Service Centre South Simcoe will be located in a new 11,200 square feet building at Town Square II, Alliston. Please Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/CONTACT_2.pdf for further information, including an order form http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/CONTACT_3.pdf for anyone interested in purchasing a
personalized Heritage Stone to be placed in the courtyard of the new building.

Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/chamber1-10-07.pdf to learn about the advantages of the Chambers of Commerce Group Insurance Plan. Additional information can be obtained from: Johanne Levesque of Silver Insurance at (905) 936-4374.

The Cookstown Chamber of Commerce has announced the dates for their 25th Annual Wing Ding event to take place on June 7th and 8th, 2008. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/WingDing.pdf for "regular" vendors as well as for "food"
vendors. Please select the appropriate application and/or provide them to others who might be
interested. Remember: the number of food vendors is limited and all booths are on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact Deirdre Fitzgerald at 705-458-4492 or bernie.deirdre@rogers.com for further information. The Cookstown Chamber chair of the event is Laurie at 705-458-9212 or glen.munroe@sympatico.ca .

Send your announcements in ready-to-publish, cut and paste format to info@adcc.ca by Wednesday at 11pm. If you have a flyer in PDF or Word to send, be sure to include a couple of sentences to introduce your document!!








Blood Donors can make a difference to Cancer patients. Give the gift of life at a blood donor clinic
taking place on Thursday 03 April 2008 at the Angus arena. Please Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/2008%20April%20Angus.pdf for all of the details
and contact number to arrange an appointment.


Dufferin County Museum and Archives is pleased to announce the Grand Opening of “The General
Store” Exhibit. Opens to the public April 8, 2008. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/e-promo.pdf for Details.



The Alliston & District Horticultural Society is hard at work, beautifying our community and
maintaining many of the gardens seen in public places in New Tecumseth. Click Here http://jldigitaldesign.ca/adcc/Mar21/2008%20ADHS%20for%20Chamber%20Chatter.pdf for a
complete listing of their activities & speakers at their meetings.


The Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life is more than just a fundraiser. It is an opportunity to get
together with family and friends and celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost to
cancer and fight back against the disease. The Alliston Relay For Life event will be June 13-14.
Please email RelayForLifeAlliston@gmail.com to find out how you can get involved and make a
difference! And visit our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/2008-Relay-for-Life-Alliston-Ontario/7956567774 to learn more.

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How Do Your Back-ups Compare To Mine?

I recently did an informal poll of business owners, asking them about their data back-ups. Sadly, most failed to have adequate protection in place and only one scored an A+.

What really alarmed me is that almost all of them knew of someone who had suffered because of a computer crash without adequate back-ups and still hadn’t taken measures to protect themselves.

Now There's No Excuse To Fall Victim To Data Disaster

With a small investment of time and money, you can be well on your way to having a robust back-up solution that covers you for the most common back-up/recovery scenarios:
Deleted a file that you need to recover
Hard drive crashed
Building destroyed

This article explains what I do to handle all three scenarios. (There are other perfectly valid ways to do back-ups and some of them better suited than mine for specific back-up needs, but this approach I’m sharing is suitable for most small businesses.)

After years of experimentation and research, I’ve finally settled on a set of tools that I really like. I find them to be: reliable, easy to use, affordable and they will run automatically.

But before we get into the tools, let’s talk about…
What Should I Back-Up?
The simple answer is only back-up your data.

You can’t really restore an operating system or installed programs; you're better off doing a fresh install of them. However, you should keep back-up copies (along with the installation serial numbers) of your operating system and installed programs.

Keep back-ups of your installation disks (along with the installation serial numbers) in a trusted, secure off-site location. Check with your license, but most programs and operating systems that I'm aware of allow you to make back-up copies.

To make backing-up reliable and easy, I suggest the following best practices:
create folders on your computer to organize your content into. This makes it easier to find your files and easier to select them for back-up.

If you have a network, create a centralized filing system and have everyone store their data in the same location.
Be sure to back-up your Email folders.
Keep a list of critical passwords stored off-site in a trusted, secure location.
Recommended Back-up Tools

Over the years, I’ve backed-up to different kinds of media: floppy disks, zip drives, CD’s and DVDs. I don’t any more. It simply became too time consuming and confusing having to manually swap disks, worry if the media was getting too full, buying new media, wondering which back-up set was the right one, etc.

Now I’ve got it really streamlined… Undelete. Sometimes, restoring a deleted file from the recycle bin doesn’t work. In these cases, I use a free software called Recuva.
Hard Drive Crash. I use and recommend SyncBackSE. You can purchase it on-line for about $40 and download. With SyncBackSE, I don't have to spend any time manually copying files...I set-it and forget-it.I use it as my primary local back-up and is my first line of defense in case I can’t retrieve a deleted file or because of a scenario such as data corruption or hard drive crash.I back-up my centrally stored files to a physically separate hard drive. SyncBackSE is set to automatically back-up daily in the middle of the night.
Disaster. In addition to my daily local back-up, I also do a daily off-site back-up. For this, I use an on-line tool called Mozy. For about $4/month (way cheaper than buying storage media), it securely backs-up all of my data to an off-site location.This is my last line of defense in case my local back-up has failed for some reason or some sort of disaster has occurred and I need to start completely over. Like my local back-up, it’s set-up to automatically back-up every night.
The bottom-line is that my back-up tools work silently in the background to give me not just one, but two daily back-ups…one in the office and one off-site. My data is securely protected.

Use your notebook. When we go away on vacation, I use SyncBackSE to make a complete back-up on my notebook and store it off-site in a trusted, secure location. With over 300Gig of disk space now on a notebook, it can easily hold the data. If you do this, I recommend you take precautions to secure your notebook such as having a boot level password and encrypting your data.

With a little time invested and the right tools, having a solid back-up strategy in place to protect your business is easily accomplished.
Where To Get Help
If you have any questions about backing-up your data, I’m happy to share what I do to back-up my data with you. If you feel like you'd like the help of a competent techie to help you, then now is the time to find one. Now, there’s no excuse…Right now—while you’re still reading this article—pull out your day planner and schedule a time to get your back-ups in place.

Helpful links to the back-up tools recommended:
Recuva
Free undelete utility.
SyncBackSE
About $40, buy on-line and download.
Mozy
About $4/month, on-line service. There's also a free version available that let's you back-up up to 2Gig of data.
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Two gerat speakers at Barrie's Southshore Community Centre

Two great talks at the March 27th ‘Lets Get Connected event’.

Sue Croft, Star PerformanceBuild Your Professional Confidence! Although many business owners and entrepreneurs appear to be out-going and at ease with others, statistics show that many of us are ‘closet introverts’, and that we often dislike and feel insecure in the daily interactions necessary to be successful. Discover the key elements to feel more at ease and effective, both in your business as well as in your life.

Learn how increased confidence can affect our relationships with self & others, decision making, effective communication, and our ability to deal with conflicts or difficult customers. Gain powerful strategies to change your habits, enhance your goals and become energized in all that you do!

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These practical, memorable tactics will make the "doing" of business easier and the success of business more certain.

Help Support '94 Girls Barrie Soccer Team

Help Support ’94 Girls Barrie Soccer Team

The Barrie Spirit ’94 Girls Soccer team will be traveling to Florida in July ’08 to participate in the Disney International Tournament. As you can imagine, a tournament such as this one carries huge costs.

We ask you to please help support our team with our online auction. Starting on Monday, March 10 until midnight Wednesday, March 19, 2008, log onto our team website http://www.sport.ca/team/index.php?team=1216 , click onto to the Auction icon, and proceed to the Document section of the site, where you will find more then 30 items to bid on.

Items up for bid include: Raptors Tickets, Colts Box Seats, Lenny Kravitz Concerts Tickets, Mind To Muscle Training Sessions, and much more!!!

More items will be added to the site, so please check back frequently! The bids will be updated on a nightly basis. Successful bid payments must be made in cash or cheques payable to the Barrie Soccer Club. All proceeds made from the auction will go to the ’94 Girls Soccer Team.

We thank you in advance for your support in helping us reach our goal as we represent the City of Barrie and our Country in Florida come July!

Yours In Soccer,

The ’94 Soccer Girls

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