Prairie Provinces
- Address and Contact Information
- Find-an-Editor hotline
- Professional development and other activities
- Events
- Certification Study Groups
- Newsletter: Latest Edition
- Liability insurance meeting report
- Executive update
- Current executive
- Volunteering (members only, please)
- EAC-PPB Editing Awards Recipients Announced
- Mentoring
- Minutes of executive meetings
Address and Contact Information
Editors' Association of Canada – Prairie Provinces
P.O. Box 12082
Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3L2
prairies@editors.ca
- In Calgary: Lori Burwash
- In Saskatchewan: Michelle Boulton
- In Winnipeg: Leigh Patterson
Find-an-Editor Hotline: prairies@editors.ca
Looking for an editor to handle your next project? Look no further. Email the PPB Hotline to post your project. This Hotline puts you in touch with EAC members in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
As a benefit of membership, EAC–PPB members receive regular email announcements about local and national job opportunities.
Professional Development and Other Activities
Most events are open to members and non-members. For more information, contact:
- Program chair: Brenda Jorgensen
- Alberta (north), Edmonton programs: Brenda Jorgensen
- Alberta (south), Calgary programs: (vacant)
- Saskatchewan programs: Michelle Boulton
- Manitoba programs: Leigh Patterson
Events
Prairie Provinces Branch
If you wish to be added to our emailing list to be notified of upcoming events, email Käthe Lemon.
Certification Study Groups
Edmonton
If you are interested in joining an Edmonton-based study group to prepare for certification contact Theresa at agnewt@shaw.ca. We look forward to hearing from you.
Latest Edition
Prairie Provinces Branch
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Latest Edition is the newsletter of the Editors' Association of Canada, Prairie Provinces Branch. The current issue is available only to members, as a benefit of membership with EAC. See for yourself the valuable information it contains, by viewing a sample copy below. Articles, news items and comments are welcome. The editor reserves the right to edit submissions for length. Articles may be submitted by email attachment or fax, on diskette, or as hard copy. Please contact the editor for details: Get the latest with Latest Edition Download Latest Edition: Volume 17, Number 2 Winter 2009 (PDF, 1 MB) To view the newsletter, you require Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software program which can be downloaded from the Adobe site.
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Executive Update
What keeps the PPB executive busy?
Leadership, programming, and publicity are key roles for all of the executive members.
- PPB Operations Manual (PDF, 284 KB)
If you would like to know more about the roles your executive fulfils, the following highlights from our job descriptions will provide you with an overview. If you are interested in becoming a part of the executive, contact Paul Payson, PPB Chair.
- Chair
- Vice chair
- Branch representative to national board
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Membership/volunteer chair
- Program chair
- Publicity chair, external
- Publicity chair, internal
Current Executive
Prairie Provinces Branch
ELECTED POSITIONS
- Chair: Paul Payson
- Vice-Chair: (vacant)
- National Representative: Arden Ogg
- Treasurer: Margaret Sadler
- Secretary: Minnie Boschma
- Program Chair: Brenda Jorgensen
- Membership/Volunteer Coordinator: Sharon Skage
- Internal Publicity: Käthe Lemon
- External Publicity: Deborah Lawson
- Member-at-Large (Athabasca): Florene Ypma
- Member-at-Large (Calgary): Tamra Ross
- Educational Liaison: NJ Brown
NON-ELECTED POSITIONS
- Past Chair: Eva Radford
- Newsletter Editor: Joan Dixon
- Job Hotline Coordinator: Martha Smith
Volunteering
Want to be involved, but worried about overcommitting? We welcome your help with occasional activities. Volunteering is a great way to become a part of the editing community, and we'd be delighted to have your help, whether it be as a member of the EAC-PPB board or as someone who can just lend an hour or two for a particular event. To add your name to the volunteer roster, send an email to Sharon Skage.
EAC-PPB Editing Awards Recipients Announced
NJ Brown (PPB Educational Liaison); Rhonda Skinner (Scholarship Recipient)
The Prairie Provinces Branch proudly announces the first winners of the new EAC-PPB Editing Awards. The recipients, all from the Grant MacEwan University Professional Writing Program, were selected based on academic performance in editing-related courses and, in the case of the scholarship recipient, pursuit of an editing career. The winners are:
- Second-year student (one-year student membership): Lynda Schroeders
- Third-year student (one-year student membership): Michael Fisher
- Fourth-year student (one-year student membership and $1,000 scholarship): Rhonda Skinner