ADVISORY- ETFO Annual Meeting Features Lieutenant Governor, Grand Chief Beardy, Education Minister

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2010 Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Annual Meeting
Featured Speakers include Education Minister, Lieutenant Governor, Grand Chief Beardy

August 11, 2010

TORONTO - More than 500 public elementary school teachers will attend the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in Toronto from August 16-19. They will debate and set policies and directions, and hold elections for the position of First Vice-President and Vice-President (Female) to fill the second year of a two-year term.

The ETFO meeting will feature an address by Ontario Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky, who will speak to delegates on the eve of her government’s implementation of the full-day Early Learning Program for Kindergarten. There will also be a special presentation by Lieutenant Governor David C. Onley and Grand Chief Stan Beardy of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation about the Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal Summer Reading Camps, now reaching over 2,300 youth in 29 First Nations Communities.

The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario represents 76,000 elementary public school teachers and education workers across the province and is the largest teacher federation in Canada.

What: ETFO Annual Meeting
Where: Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto
When: August 16-19, 2010

Reporters are welcome throughout the meeting. Media credentials are available at the ETFO Media Centre (Sheraton Hall B). For complete details of meeting hours, daily agenda, and resolutions, please visit www.etfo.ca, and click on the annual meeting link. Daily highlights will be posted at the site.

MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

Mon., Aug. 16 - 4:20 p.m.
Welcoming Address by Sam Hammond, ETFO President Following his address, Hammond will be available to speak to the media.

Tues., Aug. 17 - 10:45 a.m.
Address by Hon. Leona Dombrowsky, Ontario Minister of Education

Wed., Aug .18 - 1:45 p.m.
Address by Lieutenant Governor David C. Onley, Grand Chief Stan Beardy

Thurs., Aug. 19 - 11:00 a.m.
Address by Andrea Horwath, Leader, Ontario New Democratic Party

For more information contact:
Valerie Dugale, (416) 948-0195 (cell); vdugale@etfo.org
Johanna Brand, (416) 948-2554 (cell); jbrand@etfo.org
Mary Morison, (416) 948-3406 (cell); mmorison@etfo.org

August 16-19 ETFO Media Centre, Sheraton Hall B, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Phone: (416) 945-6296; Fax: (416) 945-6298

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