It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve you, and the region for the past 3 years. On behalf of EMC, I feel I can say that we continue to strive for excellence to ensure you are able to achieve it as well. Eastern Ontario has seen excellent growth in membership – thanks to you. Looking at the past year, much has happened. I am glad to say we have been able to help many members and community partners with their challenges. Whether through Member Needs Help or our local outreach, we have been able to solve supply challenges, compensation inflation issues, process improvement, acquisition of COVID resources and a smattering of various requests that have me amazed at the depth and breadth of expertise and resourcefulness in our region. New programming continues unabated at EMC and we continue to seek out new resources and programming to assist you – to which I ask that you forward to me any ideas or challenges that you are facing that you do not see us addressing currently. Lastly, I wish you the very best for the holiday season and hope that you get much needed time with family and friends as possible. I look forward to working and growing with you in 2022. Steve Upcoming SIG Events How to Calm Upset Customers Thu, Feb 3 12:00pm Zoom Health, Safety, and Environment Best Practices Sharing Thu, Feb 10 8:30am Zoom Wage and compensation round table Thu, Feb 24 8:30am Zoom Working for Workers Act update Thu, Mar 10 8:30am Zoom Recruitment, Retention and Newcomers: Overseas Hiring Best Practices Thu, Mar 24 8:30am Zoom Session Plant Automation Update Thu, Apr 14 8:30am Zoom Training and Development best practices sharing Thu, Apr 28 8:30am Zoom Recent Blog Posts Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Competitiveness Stream (AMIC) Mon, Jan 17 Making Your Organization Accessible for Ontario's Newcomers Fri, Jan 14 Manufacturing Sales in the Modern Age Mon, Dec 27 A Pretty Rigging Job is a Safety Rigging Job! Fri, Dec 24