PERC Executive

The Pembina Escarpment Reading Council

  

Position	Name	Email Address
President	Lisa Carlson	lcarlson@prsdmb.ca
Past President	Barb Lepp	barb.lepp1@gmail.com
Vice President	Cindy Phillips	Cindy.Phillips@gvsd.ca
Secretary	Suzanne Godard	sgodard@prsdmb.ca
Treasurer	Darlene Keith	Dkeith@westernsd.mb.ca
Membership Chair	Louise Duncan	lduncan@prsdmb.ca
Member at Large	Allison Abbott-Wiebe	wiebej@sdnet.ca
Member at Large	Heather Armstrong	lady.library@gmail.com
Member at Large	Barbara Penner	bpenner@prsdmb.ca
Member at Large	Annie Friesen	afriesen@westernsd.mb.ca

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The Pembina Escarpment Reading Council (PERC) was recently chartered by the International Reading Association as a Regional Council.  With wonderful assistance from the Manitoba and International Reading Associations, the PERC executive members were successful in establishing a Board of ten people and a membership of over 20 people – both of which were necessary in the chartering process. Since that time, the membership has grown.  Carol Hryniuk-Adamov, Manitoba’s IRA representative, and Susan Barnaby, MRA president, were very helpful in the establishment of PERC, and the executive sends out a huge thank-you to them.

PERC has set goals that will drive the council’s activities.  These goals are as follows:

• To promote the love of reading
• To promote and improve literacy for all
• To celebrate the connections between learning, literacy, and life
• To connect with IRA, MRA, and other local Manitoba councils
• To provide a venue for community literacy advocates to partner as one voice
• To provide an avenue for regional educators to learn and grow as literacy instructors
• To be a source of excellent professional development that matches research and practice in the area of literacy

PERC held a launching event - “Literacy 1 to 110” on February 22nd in the beautiful Winkler library, and is currently running a Logo Competition as well as planning for next year’s program. 

If you are interested in becoming a member of PERC, please contact your principal for a membership form, and send the form with a $15 membership fee to: 

P.E.R.C.  c/o  Louise Duncan

 Prairie Rose School Division 
Box 1510 Carman, MB R0G 0J0

And remember:  Every Manitoban – a literate Manitoban.

Submitted by:  Dale Owen and Louise Duncan, PERC Presidents.