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Message from the Board

Dear Members and Friends,

First, we would like to say thank you to the ones joining us at this month’s meeting. We had a great discussion about the future course of our association.

Before outlining our future strategy, we would like to bring those who could not join up to date about the most important facts which pushed us into this direction:

• Our membership base has dropped to 26 members in total incl. honorary members (5) and students (3). Currently, only 18 members have renewed their membership.
• We had multiple great events (John Stanton, Nanotech at UofA & NINT, 40th anniversary) with low attendance rates despite the quality of the event.
• Out of app. 40 guests welcomed at the 40th anniversary, no new memberships could be created.

Message from the Board

Dear Members and Friends,

I trust that all of you who were able to attend the Christmas Party at the Cultural Centre on Dec. 2 had a great time.

Our next regular meeting will take place on January 10, 2012 at the Cultural Centre.  We will not have a speaker on that evening but a session to discuss the future of our association.  Once again, we are facing the issue with the very low attendance record of our members and also the lack of people renewing their memberships. Maybe our association has outgrown its original purpose and intent.  This is what we would like to discuss with our members and come up with a resolution and or solution because we just cannot continue and the board has tried numerous things and events, etc but there seems to be no interest.

Message from the President

Dear Members and Friends,

On Nov. 08 we had our regular monthly meeting at the National Institute of Nanotechnology.  Besides a laboratory tour, there were also several speakers who spoke about the importance of nanotechnology for Alberta as well as about novel products, which were developed at the University of Alberta, the National Institute for Nanotechnology, and the Alberta Centre for Advanced MNT Products.  I herewith like to thank our board member, Mr. Michael Thomas, for organizing this memorable event at the university as well as speakers and tour guides who made their time available to our associations. You will find more information about the topics and the presenters on our website.     

Message from the President

Dear Members and Friends,

I like to thank all of you who have been able to attend our 40^th anniversary celebration on Oct. 21, 2011 which was a great success.  The Mayor of the City of Edmonton, Mayor Stephen Mandel, also attended our function to bring greetings from the City as well as present our association with a plaque in commemoration of our anniversary.

Message from the President

Dear Members and Friends,

I trust you all enjoyed our Sept 13 meeting where we heard Mr. John Stanton of the Running Room who spoke to us about the Triple Win which his company experiences but which also can be applied to all of us in our businesses. 

Dear Members,

please, see our dinner menu for the next meeting:

• Starter
  • Salad
• Main course

Dear Members,

we are very pleased to announce our next guest speaker for September: Mr.

Founder of The Running Room and Walking Room
Author of Eight Books on Running and his new Canadian Best selling book,
Running: The Complete Guide to Building Your Running Program

Message from the President

Dear Members and Friends,

I trust you all are having a great summer so far.

I like to thank all our members who helped out in the German pavilion during the Heritage Days festival this past weekend. This year the GCBPAA really came through with a lot of volunteers to help out the GCAA who was really struggling to find volunteers for this important event.  

Hi and welcome to the new GCBPAA website.

We just launched our new server and are now working on moving the content over. Please continue to be patient as the transaction will still need some time. Thanks a lot!