First dinner meeting Monday October 16th 2006. Registration 6.30 - 7.00 pm. Dinner 7.00 pm, Program 7.45 - 9.00 pm. Rosedale Room, The Waterloo Inn, 475 King Street North, Waterloo. Members $30, Non-members $35. Featurning guest speaker Karen Redman, MP Kitchener Centre to speak on Women in Politics.

For more information check out www.bpwontario.org and doreen.hillier@sympatico.ca

Adele Alfano Canada's Diamond Coach will be launching her new keynote ICE, ICE, BABY! Discovering Your Inner Bling. How bright do you sparkle? Join Adele and her guests in a guaranteed fun-filled evening and discover your inner bling!

Wednesday November 29th, 2006, Burlington Holiday Inn. www.KissMyTiara.Ca

For more information contact Rose Keating at rose@diamondwithin.com

As the SBCN is a networking group I find it beneficial to pass on information about small business owners I have worked with and maybe the visitors to this site will take a look at the websites posted here and in the future may well find they need to use the particular businesses themselves.

One such business is owned by Tamara Gollob and is called Classique Decor www.classiquedecor.ca.

As many of you already know I was the co-chair for Runway for the Cure: Our Vision of Hope, a fashion show featuring breast cancer survivor models. Working with no budget at all and relying on sponsorship of any kind at all, and hoping we sold all 500 tickets, I spent a long time on websites and looking in the Yellow Pages for businesses that would help me in some way. I came across Tamara who owns Classique Decor in the Yellow Pages and phoned her to ask for her help. We arranged to meet at her place of business and we immediately liked each other and trusted that we could work well together. Tamara was very sympathetic to my dilema and because she felt that the Fashion Show would be an excellent way to help raise awareness for Think Pink Week she agreed to be one of the sponsors for this event. Tamara and her co-business owner, her husband, worked tirelessly the day before the Fashion Show and on the day of the Fashion Show and gave 150% of their time and expertise to ensure the Ballroom looked beautiful. They decorated the ceiling and it looked like a fairy wonderland with tiny lights and pink and white sheaths of material criss crossed on the ceiling. Tamara decided that we needed a bit more in the way of decorations and donated even more decorations for the stage and did not ask for anything in return. We had agreed on a one time only price for this event and Tamara gave us much more than we anticipated. I almost cried when I saw the Ballroom finished with all the decorations and would like to thank Classique Decor for their generousity and time and effort put into helping us make sure the event was a success!

The Small Business Community Network has gone pink for October! Countless web sites across the Internet are turning their pages pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

You can find out more at: http://pinkforoctober.org/

Communitech is offering its popular Chapter 4 networking sessions as part of Entrepreneur Week on October 5th. You can register for these free sessions, held in the ballroom at Bingemans, via the Communitech web site.

This is a great chance to network with other entrepreneurs in the area and get tips and advice from industry experts in the fields of:

• Sales & Marketing
• Human Resources
• Legal & Accounting
• Funding & Finance
• Business Management & Leadership

The CIBC Run For The Cure in the KW area will be held at Bingemans on Sunday October 1st.

For more details, visit their web site.

 
Hospices provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to help people with terminal illnesses to live at home or in a home-like setting as fully and as comfortably as possible.

The focus of hospice is on caring, not curing – and on life, not death. Quality of life, family wellness, community involvement and living in dignity are all part of hospice’s compassionate vision.

UNICEF Canada supports a national education program to engage Canadian educators and young people in understanding, responding to, and taking action for children’s rights and global development. Speakers educate the public about global issues and UNICEF’s work for the world’s children and issue a call to action for people to get involved with UNICEF through volunteering or fundraising initiatives. Speakers deliver fun and informative presentations on UNICEF programmes and projects to schools, clubs, and community organizations, explaining to them what they can do to help. Speakers will receive access to resources including speaking notes, ready-made presentations and activities. UNICEF Canada is looking for speakers in the Kitchener-Waterloo region who will be available during day time hours to deliver speaking presentations. For more information or to apply, please contact Christine Martin by phone at 416-482-4444 x891 or by email to cmartin@unicef.ca.

Tickets for the Runway for the Cure: Our Vision of Hope fashion show to be held on Monday evening 11th September, 2006 at Bingemans Conference Centre are now on sale at CIBC branches and Bingemans priced at $20. Stacey Englehart from CHYM is on board as MC, a past Oktoberfest Idol, Alisha Nauth will be singing and a $500 gift certificate is one of the door prizes. Support this wonderful event in support of all the people in your life who have been touched by breast cancer!

We are pleased to offer all our Small Business Community Network members their own blog!

If you login to the site, you'll notice a new link under your username, allowing you to start blogging. We're also featuring the latest blog posting right on our home page, giving you even more visbility. And of course, all our blogs are searchable from our site.

Local Oktoberfest Idol winner, Alisha Nauth, will be singing live at the Runway For The Cure fashion show event on September 11th. The Small Business Community Network is a sponsor of this event, aimed at raising awareness of Breast Cancer.

President and Founder of Working Lifestyles Research & Training has the ideal book for anyone with a home based office - Making Working from Home Work -

THE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR A SUCCESSFUL HOME OFFICE

by Jane Orend

This remarkable book shows the reader how to maximize their productivity and enjoyment of working from home by guiding them through the fundementals of home office success.

Check out Janes book via her web site.

Tickets for the upcoming Runway for the Cure: Our Vision of Hope Fashion Show to be held on Monday September 11, 2006, can be pre-ordered by contacting Linda Ockwell-Jenner 519 - 893 1598 or by accessing this link and clicking on "Register for this Event". Door prizes $500 gift certificate, White Gold Necklace, Swarovski Crystal Pin, entertainment, and refreshments.

... to send me comments on what they do not understand about women for my new book!

I am looking for content for my new book. Men who really do not know what their significant other is really saying, what they really mean and what they really want. Men often say they are misunderstood but did they read the script?

Want to know more? Contact me: linda@motivationalsteps.com

At the 7th annual Guelph Awards of Excellence Gala on June 14th, Platypi Designs was awarded the Guelph Quality Awards (GQA) certificates in the categories of Planning and People Focus.

These certificates are given to companies who have demonstrated excellent quality in each particular area of focus, and three companies were presented certificates for 2006.