WELCOME TO 
THE VALLEY EAST TODAY 
ONLINE WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 26, 2006 ISSUE

 

The Best of The Holiday Season To All Of Our Readers!
As publisher of Valley East Today, I would like to extend my best wishes to everyone for a Very Merry Christmas and a Truly Happy New Year!

This week we will be bringing you an abbreviated issue of Valley East Today due to the holiday schedule. I would invite you to take a few moments while you are relaxing to browse through some of the previous issues of the past year and examine the different sections of the main web site at www.valleyeasttoday.ca . We have try to bring you as much information as possible in our attempt to keep you aware of what is happening in your community.

Next week is the first of the New Year in 2007. A year we hope will be the beginning of another marvelous year of personal growth and prosperity for everyone Valley East and indeed the entire Greater Sudbury Area. 

Today, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to all of you who have formally registered to receive the Valley East Today Weekly Online News Magazine. At the current time we have over 2600 people receiving this publication each week directly to their personal email address. In addition, we know that there are thousands more people being forwarded the publication as subscribers share the stories, editorials and articles each week.

We will continue to uphold the high standard of communication that has been established since Valley East Today first began publishing in November 2005. Valley East Today will continue to be one of the most comprehensive sources of information for this community and will furthermore continue to promote the accomplishments and achievements of individuals living in this part of the City of Greater Sudbury.

Robert Kirwan, Publisher of Valley East Today

   

Where People 

Make The Difference!

A Community Where

Quality of Life

Is Our Top Priority

Winners of Our 
"Keep The Spirit Alive Contest"
Make sure you look at the article below on this page to find out who were declared the winners in our "Keep The Spirit Alive Contest". Four of the subscribers to Valley East Today are walking around today with some pretty valuable prizes, just for receiving our weekly Online News Magazine. Thank you to all who have registered. We hope you are pleased with the publication.


 

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CHRISTMAS HUMOUR

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Grand Prize Winners of The Keep The Spirit Alive Contest Announced

   Ever since the "Keep The Spirit Alive Contest" was introduced in June the number of people registering to receive the Valley East Today Weekly Online News Magazine has skyrocketed. 

   There are now over 2600 people receiving the Valley East Today Weekly Online News Magazine every Tuesday and we know that it is being forwarded to as many as 10,000 more people because of the wide variety of articles and features of interest that are included in the publication.

   The three community-minded local businessmen in the photo are Mike Lemieux, owner of Hanmer Home Hardware, Robert Kirwan, Publisher of the Valley East Today Community Web Site and Online Weekly News Magazine, and Ken Desjardins of Desjardins’ Food Basics. The three men teamed up to sponsor a “Keep The Spirit Alive Campaign” to encourage all residents to spread the message that Valley East is a great place in which to live!

   Everyone participating in this campaign had a chance to win a “Grand Prize” consisting of 100 Lotto 649 tickets for the New Year’s Eve Draw on December 31, 2006 .

   Runners up will receive other valuable prizes, including “two” mountain bikes donated by Hanmer Home Hardware, $300 in groceries from Desjardins’ Food Basics, and a full six months of free long distance calling in Ontario. 

   In order to qualify for these prizes, all you had to do was register to receive the Valley East Today Weekly Online News Magazine. Every month from June until the end of December 2006, ten names were drawn at random from all of the people registered to receive the publication. The seventy (70) finalists are listed below.

 

CONTEST QUALIFIERS
The following seventy (70) subscribers to Valley East Today qualified as finalists in the "Keep The Spirit Alive Contest". Ten different qualifiers were selected each month from June 2006 to December 2006 inclusive.

QUALIFIERS 

FOR THE 

MONTH OF 

JUNE 2006
#0065  Chantal Proulx
#0133    Marilyn Liske
#0384 Bernadette Mrochek
#0411 Cathy Bellefeuille
#0446  Gaston Boisvoneault
#0690 Carol Mailloux
#1057  Glynis Cappadocia
#1228 Shelly Pelland
#1318  Nicky Blais
#1827   Michelle Wiebes

QUALIFIERS 

FOR THE 

MONTH OF 

JULY 2006
#80 Kim Dwyer
#154           Lana Ranger
#255      Karen Lische
#288     Rebecca Ogilvy
#886  Chris Coulombe
#1086   Brian Koivu
#1194   Jessica Rienguette
#1979  Corina Gavin
#1993   Lynn Poulin
#2006    Linda Dubois

QUALIFIERS 

FOR THE 

MONTH OF 

AUGUST 2006

 
#5 Lillian Wade
#37  Lisa Proulx
#74 Hayden Hack
#499 Linda Tessier
#623 Doug Malloy
#1098 Bob Boyuk
#1283 Shandi Charette
#1366 Todd Mazzuca
#1522 Sharon Leger
#2259 Angele Rancourt

QUALIFIERS

FOR THE

MONTH OF

SEPTEMBER

2006
#14 Laura Lafrenier
#22 Christine Villeneuve
#332 Vic Evans
#345 Ron Hogue
#1108 Bruce Gilles
#1707 Angela Gelinas
#1910 Ashley Maclellan
#2216 Debbie Sonier
#2332 Kim Rivet
#2378 Carole Landry

QUALIFIERS

FOR THE

MONTH OF

OCTOBER

2006

 
#70 Cheryl Lemieux
#206 Amber Williamson
#432 Lisa Oakley
#977 Vince Weirmeir
#1068 Claudette Marchand
#1246 Michael Hebert
#1489 Kim Jackson
#1656 Brian Austin
#1756 Georgette Pharand
#2027 Mark Ross

QUALIFIERS

FOR THE

MONTH OF

NOVEMBER

2006

 
#0009 Joshua Harkins
#0057 Ryan Roley
#0267 Andrea Lebel
#0784 Kim Servais
#1112 Darrin Bolger
#1177 Mike Duval
#1784 Phyllis Blain
#1973 Kristi Sauve
#2158 Cindi Carrier
#2216 Kim Morris

QUALIFIERS

FOR THE

MONTH OF

DECEMBER

2006

 
#0483 Penny Wardell
#0589 Patrick Stevens
#1576 Mike Mirka
#1877 Nicole Lalonde
#1956 Richard Seguin
#2133 Trevor Merchant
#2412 Tina Guy
#2478 Bruce Vaillancourt
#2569 Chandle Larose
#2642 Christine Bourdon
 

WINNERS OF THE 
KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE CONTEST!
GRAND PRIZE
WINNER

MIKE 
MIRKA

 100 LOTTO 649 TICKETS
FOR DECEMBER 31, 2006
DRAW
1st RUNNER UP
PRIZE WINNER

LISA 
PROULX

 TWO MOUNTAIN BIKES FROM HANMER HOME HARDWARE
2ND RUNNER UP
PRIZE WINNER

KIM 
MORRIS

 $300 IN GROCERIES FROM DESJARDINS' FOOD BASICS
3RD RUNNER UP
PRIZE WINNER

BRUCE 
VAILLANCOURT

 SIX MONTHS OF FREE LONG DISTANCE CALLING IN ONTARIO FROM VCCNET

CONNIE LAFOREST
Residential Mortgage Specialist
RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Phone: 705-969-3796
Fax: 705-969-1492
Cell: 705-677-6379
connie.laforest@rbc.com
  
Connie Laforest will be providing us with special information articles to help people better understand the new product lines and options available from the RBC Royal Bank.
Troy Felice Builds His Future By Joining The Army of Small Business Owners In The Greater Sudbury Area
Troy Felice at age 31 is trying to build a better future for himself by joining the army of small business owners who have turned to entrepreneurship in an attempt to escape the cycle of low-paying, dead-end jobs. 

Born and raised in Valley East, Troy attended St. Anne School in Hanmer and then started out at Confederation Secondary School in Val Caron. He moved away from home at the age of 18 and dropped out of Lasalle Secondary School, three credits short of his grade 12 diploma. The past thirteen years have been filled with episodes working at call centres, on welfare, and even a stint as a financial planner.

He was considering starting his own business when his father told him about a company that he had seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show. After thorough investigation of the business, Troy now finds himself as the owner of SLEEP WELL, and is an authorized dealer for Hygienitech Mattress Cleaning Systems. 

For the complete story and more photos 


  

Please accept our apologies for this very small publication this week. 

The following links will take you to last week's publication of December 19, 2006.

We look forward to seeing you in the New Year with our January 2, 2007 publication!

Have a Happy New Year!
 
 

Published by
INFOCOM CANADA BUSINESS CONSULTANTS INC.
Robert Kirwan, President & C.E.O.
4456 Noel Crescent, Val Therese ON P3P 1S8
Phone: (705) 969-7215    
EMAIL   rkirwan@infocomcanada.com