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AD AGENCIES
Grafiks Marketing & Communications, Sarnia
Promoculture Canada Ltd., Toronto, Hensall
Quarry Integrated Communications,Waterloo

AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT
Advantage Seeds
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority
Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation
Maitland Trail Association
Novastar Genetics
Ontario Coloured Bean Growers’ Association
Snobelen Dehy

CORPORATE / INDUSTRIAL
Benjamin Moore
Best Western Sarnia-Lambton
Big ‘O’ Inc.
Bonnie Doon Golf & Country Club
Boise Cascade Canada
CropLife Canada
Design Concrete
Iceculture Inc.
Municipality of Bluewater
Northlander Industries
Oke Woodsmith Design/Build
Rhône-Poulenc
Syfilco Ltd. Industrial Knitting

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Centralia College of Agricultural Technology
Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology
University of Guelph

GOVERNMENT, RURAL & SOCIAL AGENCIES
Guelph Community Foundation
Habitat for Humanity Huron County
Huron Business Development Corp.
Huron County Health Unit
Innovative Rural Communities
National Film Board of Canada
Ontario Agricultural Training Institute
Ontario 4-H Council
Ontario Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services
Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Ontario Pork
Ontario Works
Perth County Visitors’/Huron Tourism Ass’n.
Rural Response for Healthy Children
The Ontario Rural Council

SMALL BUSINESS
Bed & Breakfast Inns
Bistro 437
Country Flowers
Four Seasons Jewellery Design
Jillian’s Floral Design
Riverline Nature Store
The Chocolate Factory
The OmZone

Writing is more than just writing. A lot more.

Skillful research • deep thinking • organizing ideas • creating structure • intention • expression •
accuracy • grammatical perfection • grace & flow…

Good writing takes skill, education, experience & an intuitive feel for expression.


PUBLICATION CREDITS
AgriBook Magazine AIS Publications, Exeter, Ont.
Beans in Canada AIS Publications, Exeter, Ont.
BioCycle Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Cattlemen Winnipeg, Man.
Corn in Canada AIS Publications, Exeter, Ont.
Farm & Country Toronto, Ont.
Flower Shop Delhi, Ont.
Greenhouse Canada Delhi, Ont.
Ontario Farmer London, Ont.
Solid Waste & Power Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.
The Canadian Hereford Digest Calgary, Alta.
The Country Side Terra Cotta, Ont.
The Fort Frances Times
Fort Frances, Ont.
The Globe & Mail Toronto, Ont.
The Journal Nepean, Ont.
The Rainy River Record
Rainy River, Ont.
The Rural Voice Blyth, Ont.
Toronto Life Toronto, Ont.
Travel Scoop Toronto, Ont.

“A writer is a person for whom
writing is more difficult
than it is for other people.”
~ Thomas Mann

 

 

AWARDS & GRANTS

Environment Ontario Award
Ontario Arts Council Grant
Ontario Hydro Award: Best Agricultural Story
Ontario’s Top Training Excellence Recognition Award of Merit
SUS Foundation of Canada Grant


Published in August 2007, this illustrated biography of Pavlo Romanovich Yavorsky was written, designed and created by Darene Roma Yavorsky, with translations from Ukrainian by Dr. Donna Anna Yavorska ~ both his daughters. The book was launched at the 75th anniversary national convention of the Ukrainian Youth Association of Canada (CYMK) which Pavlo Yavorsky helped to found.

The 112-page full-colour large-format book contains his writings and more than 275 images of artifacts, photographs and documents compiled from a rare private collection as well as the ‘Paul Yavorsky fonds’ at Library and Archives Canada. Text includes translated passages from ‘Starymy Stezhkamy/Bygone Pathways’ — his published memoirs — as well as journal entries from 1932-1937 when he organized CYMK branches in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Eastern Canada and from 1938-1939 when he travelled with Vasile Avramenko as dance instructor, performer, publicist and fund-raiser for the Avramenko/Edgar G. Ulmer feature film, ‘Cossacks in Exile’. In later years, over several decades, Pavlo was a columnist for the Ukrainian Voice and other publications, writing on varied topics of significance to a Ukrainian-Canadian readership: multiculturalism, arts and literature, history, politics and current events.

Since its release, orders for the book have been received from every province between and including B.C. and the Maritimes; it is on file at Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, the Government of Alberta’s Historical Resources Foundation, Vegreville Centennial Library, Saskatoon Public Library and the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, where copies are also available for purchase at the museum gift shop.

Generous funding assistance toward printing of the book was provided by the SUS Foundation of Canada and is gratefully acknowledged here. ‘Show Them What You Can Do’ is available by mail order in hardcover (limited edition of 100 numbered copies) and softcover, with proceeds from book sales going toward the Pavlo Romanovich Yavorsky Ukrainian-Canadian Youth Scholarship fund.
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