It was a busy year for our Learning Centre. We ran public training events in Ontario and Maritimes as well as hundreds of customized, private in-house training and/or coaching/mentoring engagements for our valued EMC Members in all parts of Canada & USA (for parent companies of our valued members and their US facilities).  Topics included Lean Manufacturing, Lean in the Office/Finance/Purchasing areas, Financial Applications, Supervisory & Leadership, Team Building, Human Capital, Customer Sales & Service and Health & Safety.  EMC is certainly grateful to all of our preferred vendors who do such a great job. They include Value Stream Solutions Inc. (Chad Metcalf, Bill Petch, Don Breau, Brian Sloan, Tom Bechtel, Bruce Craig and Shal Grant), Montana HR (George Raine & Geordie Raine), Peter Vandeweg, George Kairys, Cindy Stradling and Industrial Safety Trainers (too many great facilitators to mention) who were just voted 'Barrie's Employer of the Year').  In addition to these facilitated events, we have over 2,500 seats in use for our 20+ courses offered on-line for Health & Safety through Sundown.  We had some wonderful support financially with training and mentoring funding from OMAFRA for the Ontario Food Processors.  Amy or myself are always available to discuss your needs and we look forward to hearing from you.  Have a great Christmas and New Years - talk to you soon.