CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Dave Topping achieved OFA Team Leader Status
Moe is our newest Team Leader, she will be working very hard during the Motorcycle Show learning her new duties

Thanks Serene, for taking on a newly created Office Assistant position. Serene will be helping in the office as well as scheduling Keepers & Parkers. Questions for Serene, call the office or
604-309-4583.

Thanks Susan for creating our Medallion Your Event Specialist Web page. Check it out at www.medallionevents.com. There are reports available to print & use for sites, as well as Time Cards!! While your on line check out Medallion’s very own event; www.gottabekiddin.com

P.S. We will survive the Motorcycle Show !!!
Thanks to ALL Security Team Members, without everyone working as a Team, Tradex would not run so smoothly. Sometimes we forget the non Tradex valuable Members. For example, if we weren’t doing such a good job at Norrish Creek maybe our contract wouldn’t have been extended for another year!!! Either that or it was the comp. Bike Show tickets LOL !!

Oh yeah, for those of you who know about the Mission Mountain site on Burma Road – we are still there!! The contract should have ended already, but guess not!!

“Christmas Pictures” we are having trouble burning them on to a disk, be patient we will get it done.

Zack Bell stopped by and says “Hi” to everyone. Zack is doing well and looks rested. (lucky guy, he didn’t even consider helping out for the Bike Show, don’t know why??)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
FEBRUARY
JOYCE
JEFF
JANUARY
MELANIE M

EVERYONE MUST SUBMIT 2006 EMERGENCY FORMS & TAX FORMS BEFORE NEXT PAY DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

REMEMBER: Say HI to all the new staff you are about to meet, make everyone feel welcome. Tradex staffers will see lots of staff they haven’t seen for a while. I’m callin’ in favors from everyone I know to get everything taken care of.

NEW PROCEDURE:
PARKERS & KEEPERS do not have to submit timecards anymore. Hours will be taken off the Sign In sheet at Tradex.

SIGN IN WHEN U START
SIGN OUT WHEN U LEAVE

TRADEX SECURITY: Everyone must remember to sign in or there will
be _ _LL to pay!!!! You still must submit Time Cards as you guys & gals work other sites as well.
BY THE WAY: PANTS ARE NAVY not black if you need a Mark’s form let me know. Everyone in Navy by the RV Show !!!

Funnies:
Okay, Okay, it finally all makes sense now... I never looked at it this way before:
MENtal illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause
GUYnocologist
AND
When we have REAL trouble, it's a HISterectomy.
Ever notice how all of women's problems start with MEN?

OKAY ONE FOR THE GUYS NOW:
What exactly are Cats?
Cats do what they want when they want. They rarely listen to you, they are totally unpredictable. They whine when they are not happy. When you want to play they want to be left alone, when they want to play you want to be left alone. They expect you to cater to their every whim, they are moody. They leave their hair everywhere.
Conclusion: cats are small women in fur coats!!

Together Everyone Achieves More

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!

NEW YEARS NEWS:
Did you hear that Moe got engaged??
Serene & hubby are planning a family vacation?
The Motorcycle Show will be the largest show until May?
Graham accepted a full time position at BC Car & Truck rental, thus stepping down from Medallion.
T-4’s will not be ready until the middle of February – the government is behind on issuing forms!!
Roger Moisan has accepted a Fork Lift operator position at a Construction Company.
Val Pollard is our company hottie!!
Dave Topping is studying studiously to achieve his OFA Certificate.
The Motorcycle Schedule SUCKS!!!
Everyone is working OT & DBL time!!!
Tammy MontgomSTO:LO UPDATE:ery is still off work due to her foot & no end is in site.
Brad makes for one funny lookin’ elf!!
There is a puzzle on the back of this News Letter.

SECURITY TEAM MEMBERS: use colored highlighters to draw attention to important information, Do NOT go around Building #20, weekend shifts please take your lunch garbage with you ( bugs arrive before Mondays!!)
K-LINE UPDATE: SEE ATTACHED KLINE MEMO, foot patrols to be increased and varied !!! More than one per shift!!! BE ALERT !! BE AWARE !! Big Theft last week !!

This Day in History: Bad Friday
It is said: Never change your bed on Friday; it will bring bad dreams. Don't start a trip on Friday or you will have misfortune. If you cut your nails on Friday, you cut them for sorrow. Ships that set sail on a Friday will have bad luck – as in the tale of H.M.S. Friday ... One hundred years ago, the British government sought to quell once and for all the widespread superstition among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky. A special ship was commissioned, named "H.M.S. Friday." They laid her keel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, selected her crew on a Friday and hired a man named Jim Friday to be her captain. To top it off, H.M.S. Friday embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday, and was never seen or heard from again. Some say Friday's bad reputation goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. It was on a Friday supposedly, that Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit. Adam bit, as we all learned in Sunday School, and they were both ejected from Paradise. Tradition also holds that the Great Flood began on a Friday; God tongue-tied the builders of the Tower of Babel on a Friday; the Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday; and, of course, Friday was the day of the week on which Christ was crucified. It is therefore a day of penance for Christians. In pagan Rome, Friday was execution day (later Hangman's Day in Britain), but in other pre-Christian cultures it was the Sabbath, a day of worship, so those who indulged in secular or self-interested activities on that day could not expect to receive blessings from the gods — which may explain the lingering taboo on embarking on journeys or starting important projects on Fridays. To complicate matters, these pagan associations were not lost on the early Church, which went to great lengths to suppress them. If Friday was a holy day for heathens, it must not be so for Christians — thus it became known in the Middle Ages as the "Witches' Sabbath," and thereby hangs another tale.

Together Everyone Achieves More