Keynote Speaker: Tamara Vrooman

"Connecting With The Business Sector"

• The ecomonic benefits of investing in the Early Years; reframe it as an investment, not as a cost.
• Early Years services are not just for "those kids"; they are for "everybody's kids".
• BC Resouces = Forestry. Mining. Oil & Gas. And one more! Kids!
• 80% of businesses in BC are small businesses. They are very busy. Make it easy for them to participate...can they contribute their time? Their employees time? Warehouse space? Chairs?

More info on the remarkable Tamara Vrooman:
here
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/money/story.html?id=55df12ad-4ad0-4b85-88f6-8de306e8de35&k=9439

Live blogging from Success By 6 provincial conference: Seth Klein is here. Here's info about women and poverty:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/~ASSETS/DOCUMENT/National_Office_Pubs/2009/Women_and_Poverty_Fact_Sheets.pdf

Flu season is upon us. You can protect your family from the flu with some easy actions.

Well, the Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning table has been dragged (kicking a screaming some may say) into cyberspace. We blog, we twitter, we discuss...but