Come support Team Woodlawn!

We are proud to be associated with the Cobourg Junior Soccer league.
This is our first year sponsoring.

Local Literacy Group The READ Center Gets Provincial Support!

Many will recall the READ Center fundraisers that The Woodlawn Inn put on from 1990 to 2000. Back then, the READ center was not known, had no funding and was run by a Nancy Blackler Jenkins and her dedicated group of volunteers. I like to think that The Woodlawn Inn had a small role to play in highlighting the work of the READ center in Northumberland County. For ten years, my wife Jennifer Gillard coordinated the summer sell-out dinner and we had guest authors like Timothy Findley, Rohinton Mistry and Jane Urqhart. The READ center did ultimately get to be a United Way of Northumberland funds recipient and just recently the READ center has recieved provincial funding. Congratulations Nancy!!

LOCAL LITERACY SERVICES GET A BOOST

McGuinty Government Helping More Ontarians Become Literate

Ontario is moving forward with improvements to literacy programs in Northumberland-Quinte West.

The province is investing in the Northumberland READ Centre ($70,600), the Quinte Adult Day School Inc. ($121,327) and Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology ($389,760), to strengthen literacy training provided by Employment Ontario, Lou Rinaldi, M.P.P. for Northumberland-Quinte West announced today.

Ontario is investing $3 million across the province in research projects to improve service to adult learners and create a new province-wide curriculum for adult literacy training.

QUOTES

“The work of organizations such as the three listed above are critical to ensuring that the people of Northumberland-Quinte West can participate in high-skilled training, required by the new economy.” - Lou Rinaldi, M.P.P. for Northumberland-Quinte West.

“We’re taking action now to help people strengthen their skills while laid off and looking for work so they’ll be better able to find jobs in the new economy.” - John Milloy, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, and Minister of Research and Innovation.

QUICK FACTS

• 3.4 million Ontario adults have literacy skills at less than a high school level.
• By 2020, about 70 per cent of new jobs are expected to require postsecondary education and training.

LEARN MORE

For information about the Ontario 2009 budget.

For information about Ontario’s services to strengthen literacy. .

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Contact:

Lou Rinaldi, M.P.P., Northumberland-Quinte West

1-800-263-3980

Proudly Northumberland featuring Hoskin Farm

Proudly Northumberland

The Woodlawn Inn is proud to support our neighbours, the men and women working in Northumberland County’s farms, dairies and bakeries.

Three-course menu 45.00

Grilled Mediterranean style bruschetta
Millstone Bakery, Cobourg

Grilled striploin steak au jus with rosti potato
and spring vegetables
Hoskin Farm, Grafton

Bread and butter pudding with apricot glaze
Stirling creamery, Stirling

CR Gummow School Visits The Woodlawn Inn

Fresh Pasta Demonstration
Aspiring chefs and the curious watch executive chef John O'Leary prepare
fresh pasta. The Woodlawn Inn played host to Dianne Plaskon's senior
kindergarten class recently. The kids had an opportunity to participate in
a hands on demo and then sat down in the dining room and had a
delicious lunch featuring, fresh homemade pasta!.

Proudly Northumberland featuring Haggis Rise Farm

The Woodlawn Inn is proud to support our neighbours, the men and women working in Northumberland County’s farms, dairies and bakeries.

Fettuccine al Parmigiana. Hand made egg pasta lightly tossed with butter
Stirling creamery, Stirling

Lamb mixed grill with rib chop, loin medallion and shoulder chop au jus.
Served with herb roasted potatoes and sautéed fresh vegetables
Haggis Rise, Mitchell Farm, Campbellcroft

Apple crisp a la mode
Big A Apples, Brighton

Three-course menu 45.00

The Woodlawn Inn recognized by HKPR's Eat Smart Program

We have won the eat smart award again this year! Eat Smart! is Ontario’s Healthy Restaurant Program www.eatsmart.web.net which recognizes smoke-free restaurants for achievement of high standards in safe food handling and nutrition. Restaurants in Northumberland County have been invited to participate annually since the year 2001 and the program has grown consistently since that time. Winners are announced in May, and a promotional campaign follows. Activities include advertisements in local papers, radio and phone books, visibility at community events, and distribution of posters and dining guides throughout the county.

Proudly Northumberland featuring Hoskin Farm

Our new menu is ready! This week we are featuring beef from the Hoskin farm. Gaye Hoskin, his son Chris and their families have been producing free run, hormone injection free beef from their Grafton farm for years. The beef has a clean, sweet flavour and many guests have mentioned that it some of the finest beef that they have ever tried. If you can not make it over to the Woodlawn Inn for this weeks dinner you can always check out Hoskins booth at the Cobourg Farmer's Market.

MENU

Cream of Yukon gold potato and roasted onion soup
Laver’s Farm, Warkworth

Grilled ribeye of beef, topped with peppercorn brandy sauce,
served with red potato rodelles and sautéed spinach
Hoskin Farm, Grafton

Golden honey fritters with vanilla ice cream
River Valley Honey, Stirling

Three-course menu $45.00