Upper Canada Chapter This Week

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Happy New Year


From your chapter’s executive, a wish for a healthy and prosperous new year.
Chapter meeting is Jan. 21


Join the Chapter for the annual Landscape Ontario roundup, with LO executive director Tony DiGiovanni and LO president Bob Adams. It will be held at the New Strathcona Paper Centre, 16 McPherson Drive, Napanee, Ont., on Jan. 21st, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn about the direction of LO for 2009. The second part of the meeting focuses on Managing Financial Statements. Learn the A, B, and C’s of managing financial statements and how to make them work for you. This presentation will help give you the starting tools for staying in business and knowing your costs. Lunch is provided. RSVP to Stephanie, 1-800-265-5656, ext. 354, or ssmith@landscapeontario.com.
Winter is time to brush-up business skills


Ottawa is presenting an exciting series of green industry business management courses, based on the six required modules to achieve CLP certification. These are stand-alone business courses; if they wish, participants may write the corresponding CLP exam at the end of the day. Ottawa will be hosting all six modules of the program:

• Strategic Planning – Mon., Jan. 26

• Leadership and Corporate Citizenship – Tues., Jan. 27

• Human Resource Management – Wed., Jan. 28

• Corporate Financial Management – Wed., Feb. 4

• Marketing and Sales Management – Thurs., Feb. 5

• Exterior Production Operations and Risk Contracts and Legal Requirements – Fri., Feb. 6.


For more details, or to register today, visit www.horttrades.com/clp.
Trent to host job fair – Jan. 28


Trent University is hosting a Summer Job Fair on Wed., Jan. 28. Landscape Ontario members may staff a table to inform students about summer work in their industry and collect names and resumes of students interested in working in crews. Information about Career Centre services for employers can be found online at www.trentu.ca/careers/employers/overview.php. In addition, LO members may: Post opportunities on workopolisCampus.com, or the university will at no charge; host an information session; hold on-campus interviews; supply recruitment information and company literature for the university resource library and use on-campus media to advertise.
GreenTrade open to exhibitors



Are you Supplying Products or Services to the green industry? Consider exhibiting at GreenTrade Expo in Ottawa. GreenTrade Expo is Eastern Ontario’s Premiere Green Industry Buying Show. It’s on Wed., Feb. 18, 2009, from 9 a.m. – 4 p. m. Over 1,000 attendees will attend at Lansdowne Park, Ottawa Civic Centre, Ottawa.
For exhibit space or sponsorship inquiries, contact Lynn Lane, 613-796-5156 or llane@landscapeontario.com.
Prosperity Partnership Introduction – Jan. 14



The introductory Prosperity Partnership seminar will get you started on to the road of success on Jan. 14 at Strathcona Paper Centre, 16 McPherson Dr.,in Napanee. This program is intended to help green industry members clarify what they excel at and what components of their business need attention and improvement. Click here for more details or to register.
Best Practices Seminar – Jan. 15



The Prosperity Partnership Best Practices Seminar will take place at Strathcona Paper Centre, 16 McPherson Dr., Napanee. For those who have completed the Introductory Prosperity Partners seminar, this is the next step on your journey. Best Practices will be looked at in five areas: financial health, professional operations, sales success, leadership and developing customers for life. Click here for more details or to register.
LO This Week
Receive profile ribbon


Members are invited to drop by and see us at Landscape Ontario’s Congress 2009, from January 6 – 8 at the Toronto Congress Centre. Visit the LO Resource Centre, Booth #728 to receive your ‘profile ribbon’ and your chance to win a free membership! We will have a draw, so bring a business card with you. Get recognized as a: Commodity Group member, Chapter Board member, Prosperity Partner, CLP, CHT, CIT, CLD. Also, take the opportunity to visit the Green Forum stage, New Product Showcase, Green Products Showcase and catch a couple of seminars at the Congress Conference. To register for the trade show or conferences, or for more show information go to www.locongress.com.
Awards to honour landscapers – Jan. 6


The top landscape contractors, designers and maintenance contractors in the Ontario horticulture industry will be honoured at the Awards of Excellence Ceremony and President’s Reception at Doubletree Hilton Hotel, 655 Dixon Rd., Toronto during Congress 2009. The President’s Reception, is from 4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. and the Awards of Excellence Ceremony, is from 5:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The annual awards ceremony is a ticketed event.
Latest landscape design newsletter


Just in time for Congress, the third installment of the Landscape Design newsletter is out. To read all the interesting articles go to www.horttrades.com/displaynews.php?n=595&categoryID=10.
SCIP needs registrations


The Safe Communities Incentive Program (SCIP) has announced that due to lack of registrations, all SCIP programs for Landscape Ontario will be cancelled, other than the one booked in Ottawa and at LO’s Milton office. These two venues will also be cancelled if not enough registrations are received by January 15. For information contact Carol Divitkos at 1-800-663-6639, ext. 3431.
Learn why what worked doesn’t work


A half-day workshop, entitled ‘Why What Worked Doesn’t Work Anymore and How to Make it Work,’ for business owners and managers is scheduled for Feb. 12 at the Best Western in Milton and Feb. 20 at the RA Centre in Ottawa. The workshops begin at 9 and until 12-noon, with lunch provided. A minimum of 25 registrations are required to justify running the event, with a maximum of 50 seats available. Those numbers must be confirmed ten days previous to the respective workshop. Register after Jan. 12 through the www.horttrades.com website. For information, contact Sally Harvey at sharvey@landscapeontario.com, 1-800-265-5656, ext. 315, or fax 905-875-3942.
Great opportunity at Canada Blooms


Don’t be left behind – ensure your company stands out amongst the crowd by showcasing your skills and services at Canada Blooms 2009. There are a limited number of small, walled gardens available to LO members to showcase their skills to over 80,000 people from March 18 to 22nd. Participants have access to mulch, sand, equipment, volunteer material handling, tickets to Canada Blooms and $9.00 per square foot of garden. For information contact Charlie Dobbin at charliedobbin@canadablooms, or via phone at 905- 508-3806, fax 905-508-7489, or cell 647-283-1841.
Allan Dennis

Editor, Landscape Ontario

905-875-1805, ext 320

adennis@landscapeontario.com

www.horttrades.com

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