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PAL Canada® is the national umbrella organization, linking the six (at present) PAL Chapters in Halifax, Toronto, Stratford, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. Membership in PAL implies a commitment to PAL’s mandate, which is to provide assistance to older, disabled or needy members and associates of Canada’s Performing Arts Community, in the areas of health, well-being and affordable accommodation.
Each Chapter is autonomous and is represented on the Board of PAL Canada®. Membership in a Chapter automatically includes membership in PAL Canada®.
At the national level, PAL Canada® promotes the goals of the whole organization by:
- providing resources and networks for communication between the Chapters:
- representing PAL members and Chapters to other national organizations and on issues of broad national concern.
- offering a national identity to the Chapters through the provision of trademarked/registered symbols and phrases.
- encouraging the maintenance of high standards for the provision of affordable housing
- for its members through award winning residences in Toronto and Vancouver.
- assisting in the development of new Chapters.
- providing access to national sources of funding which can be of benefit to the Chapters and their membership.
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PAL CANADA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING JUNE 21, 2010 |
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May 2010
PAL CANADA FOUNDATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING JUNE 21ST
Pal Canada members and members of PAL Chapters (Chapter members are also members of PAL Canada®) are invited to join us at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of PAL Canada® on Monday, June 21st, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in the Green Room at PAL Place, 110 The Esplanade, Toronto, or, if you can’t make it to the meeting in person, to participate by proxy. Those whose membership fees have lapsed may renew their membership and new members may join, at the meeting.
Your PAL Canada® Board will take this opportunity to report to you on its work since we last met in June of 2009. The Board has been meeting regularly and working very hard to further the goals of PAL. The Chapters across the country have also been busy, and will provide us with reports on their activities as well.
All members were sent, on May 28th, a package comprising the material needed for the meeting. If you find that you haven’t received it in a reasonable time after that date, Please contact Gail Benn at the PAL Canada® office.
A copy of the financial statement for 2009 will be available at the meeting, but if you would like to receive one beforehand, again, please contact Gail Benn at the PAL Canada® office and one will be sent to you.
I look forward to seeing you on June 21st although, I realize of course that distance and/or time makes that impossible for many. If that turns out to be the case, it is really helpful if you name as a proxy someone who is likely to be able to attend. (proxy forms are provided in the AGM package).
Sincerely,
Chris Marston
President, PAL Canada® |
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Board Conference Leads To Action |
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A fully-attended Board Conference, held in Toronto in November, led to a number of firm decisions regarding PAL Canada®’s future direction. Conducted by well-known facilitator, Ron Robinson, President of ABARIS Consulting, and financially supported by Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, which also provided the meeting facilities, the intensive3-day gathering resulted in inspiring and ambitious -but do-able- tasks in the reinvigoration of PAL into the future. As you will see in our President’s Notes column (page 3), it also led to the adoption of a 3-year Strategic Plan which will see real progress made in those necessary areas of action identified as requiring concentrated efforts from all concerned, everywhere in our country.
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Support Fund Established for Artists |
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A new annual fund has been established to encourage and support visual arts within the PAL Vancouver community. Through the generosity of Winnipeg-born designer, J. Shanna Fromson, the fund supported its first annual independently juried show of resident artists’ works in conjunction with an Art Exhibit and Sale in October 2009. The inaugural year’s awards went to Richard Cook, Sharon Bell, Jarmila Kostliva and Julie Prescott.
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Allan Macmillan is New Secretary |
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A long-time worker for PAL causes, Allan Macmillian has become our new Board Secretary, replacing Hazel Walker who retired from the post in the Fall. Macmillan served as the official representative for the AF of M of the US & Canada for many years, stepping aside only recently. The musicians are now represented by Jim Biros. Allan was thrown immediately into the thick of things and is hard at work at numerous tasks already under way, and girding himself for many new challenges coming his way. |
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Palingenesis Winter 2010