ARTA HEADLINES

Remembering Floyd Sweet
Friday & Saturday, November 16 & 17, 2012
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The official ARTA magazine, is published 4 times a year. To see the most recent and previous versions Click Here

As I sit at my desk pondering what to write to meet my submission deadline, the temperature outside is hovering below minus twenty degrees. However, on the Alberta political scene, the fire's been lit, and the mercury's starting to rise... read more.

"A call to become something more" ... that is a very exciting challenge, one that ARTA is looking forward to. But how does one answer the call to become something more than it already is? The answer to that question... read more.

We have a new contest winner to announce! Thanks to all of you who entered. The lucky winner is... read more...

Monday, June 18, 2012
Sandpiper Golf and Country Club, St. Albert
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Effective lobbying & advocacy enables people to act with integrity, individually and collectively, to build genuine trustworthy relationships and create networks and goodwill.
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ARE you a Regular ARTA member in good standing? The Branch Initiative Grant is intended to be used at the Branch level for NEW programs or activities or new pilot projects not currently provided by existing ARTA services. The key elements to consider are new activities or programs large or small that will attract new members or enhance the experience of current members of your branch. The financial assistance may provide opportunities not previously available at the Branch level. For more information and application forms …

Click here to download the Branch Initiatives Grant Application form PDF

Click here to download the Cover Letter PDF

Click here to download the Application Form

Click here to download the Evaluation Form

ARTA now has a new telephone system. Our new numbers are:

Toll free anywhere in Canada 1-855-212-2400
Local 780-822-2400

We are still working out the bugs in the new system – so please be patient with us.
We are also updating our phone numbers throughout the website – and we ask you to be patient with us once again as we do this.

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The scholarship applications are very impressive every year. After a careful selection process, this year's winners were recognized at the ARTA Annual General Meeting in October. All of the scholarship winners are to be congratulated! We wish them continued success in achieving their goals. View the winners

Winners to be announced shortly!
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From left to right -- Daniel Mulloy (Executive Director), Paul Demers (Treasurer), Juanita Knight (Vice President), Gordon Cumming (President), Marlene Reddekopp (Past President) view image

Whether or not you are a teacher ; if you are planning on retiring soon, or are already retired, the ATRF (Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund) website may have information you’ll find helpful.

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As you all may know, the Federal Government will be implementing changes to the Canada Pension Plan in 2012 and more than likely some of these changes will affect retired teachers and retired people in one way or another. read more...

Retired members of the United Nurses of Alberta are now eligible to join the Alberta Public Sector Group Benefit Program, sponsored by ARTA. read more...

We now have our membership registration and renewal procedure online. This is only available to our regular retired teacher members and affiliate members in the educational sector (retired teachers and support staff, university, college and technical institution's personnel). read more...

Every Article that runs it's course on this home page will now have a home! We are glad to keep allowing you access to these archived articles through this section.
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