The National Research Council Institute for Ocean Technology is located on the MUN Campus, but is not part of MUN. Research is done on anything structural that could be used in water: I.E. ships, oilrigs, racing yachts, submarines, etc. Originally named the Arctic Vessel Marine Research Institute when the institute opened in 1985, the name was changed to the Institute for Marine Dynamics in 1986. When the latest expan-sion opened in October 2003, the name was changed to its current name: the Institute for Ocean Technol-ogy. Among the various facilities used for research at IOT, there is a 200 metre long Clear Water Tow Tank, 75 metre long Wave Tank & a 90 metre long Ice Tank (longest in the world). The building is a secure facility due to the proprietary nature of the testing and re-search. Cameras are strictly forbidden anywhere in the building, except when required for work by building employees. In addition to the NRC employees, there

are several private sector companies that work in the institute.

The Commissionaires have been working at NRC for approximately 25 years & during that time, the number of Commissionaires working at this site has varied. There have been as many as four-teen Commissionaires and as few as two Com-missionaires working at NRC. Presently there are five Commissionaires working at NRC. The Site Manager, Gerry Trepanier, works 0800 to 1700 hours Monday to Friday & is responsible for ac-cess control, programming of Security Access Cards (soon to be Photo ID Access Cards), con-trolling the Visitors Parking Lot & a building pa-trol near the end of his shift. Tom Donovan (2 I/C) & Brian Austin work weekends 0800 to 1630 hours on a rotating basis and are responsible for access control, building patrols & to ensure the safety of the Refrigeration Plant Operator when an RPO is on duty. Jim Nethercut & Michael Judge work rotating evening and midnight shifts Sunday through Thursday & are primarily re-sponsible for the safety of the RPO when an RPO is on duty and they will conduct building patrols when an RPO is not on duty. The building is quite large & the length of a building patrol is approximately 2.2 km. In addition to reporting any security related items when conducting building patrols, the Commissionaires will note any safety related items (safety being a key item in what is basically an industrial complex) for action by the Site Manager.

Gerry Trepanier

Site Manager

The National Research Council– Site # 1013

January 2011 Volume 1 Issue 4

Introducing Mr Robert Jenkins-Newly Appointed To The Board of Governors-Commissionaires-Newfoundland & Labrador Division

Volume 1 Issue 4

Born at St. John’s, New-foundland December 3, 1943.

Graduated high school with honours from Prince of Wales College, St. John’s. High School Head Prefect. Active in athletics and music.

Graduated from Memo-rial University in 1966 with a Bachelor of Sci-ence Degree and Pre Med Diploma. While at Memorial University, served on executive of Arts and Science Soci-ety and was selected in 1964 by university stu-dents as Mr. Memorial.

While attending univer-sity, joined University Naval Training Division (U.N.T.D.) spending sum-mers aboard Canadian Navy ships and land bases in Nova Scotia and Quebec. Selected as Cadet Captain of H.M.C.S. Cabot U.N.T.D. Cadets and received his commission as a Sub-Lieutenant in 1964.

Active in and served on ex-ecutive of Mu Upsilon Nu Fraternity. Founding mem-ber of New Upsilon Singers, a folk singing group who have appeared on a variety of television programs locally and live performances in Ot-

tive Council with a variety of tasks related to Cabinet and its operations. Also responsi-ble for protocol functions and related matters.

1972-85

Assistant Secretary to Cabi-net (Procedures and Admini-stration) and Deputy Clerk of the Executive Council.

1985-88

Deputy Minister of the newly created Department of Con-sumer Affairs and

Communications.

1988-89

Deputy Minister of Culture, Recreation and Youth.

1989-92

Chairman, Canada Games Park Commission, Chairman of St. John’s and Eastern

Residential Tenancies Board. Co-ordinated the visit of Princess Anne in 1991.

1992-94

Deputy Minister of newly created Department of Tour-ism and Culture.

1994-96

Clerk of the Executive Coun-cil.

January 4 to March 14, 1996

Deputy Minister of Education

tawa, Nova Scotia and throughout the Province. Re-mains active ( 40 years) member of the group with public performances and fundraising events for the University Alumni Associa-

tion and other or-ganizations.

1965-66

Joined Gov-ernment of Newfound-land and Labrador under con-tract as Co-ordinator

for“Come Home Year

1966" a major marketing and advertising event to promote and boost tourism in the Province.

1967-68

Appointed Co-ordinator for Centennial Year 1967 in the Province, organizing

various events, activities and projects to celebrate and pro-mote Canada’s

100thAnniversary.

1968-72

Moved to Office of the Pre-mier as Correspondence Offi-cer/Administrative Officer.

Assisted Clerk of the Execu-

and Training.

March 14, 1996 to De-cember, 1996

Deputy Minister respon-sible for Strategic Social Planning.

June, 1996

Appointed Co-ordinator for 1997 Royal Visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal

Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Newfound-land from June 23rd to 26th, 1997 in

celebration of the 500th Anniversary of John Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland.

January, 1997 to Mar

Chief Electoral Officer and Conflict of Interest Commissioner for Mem-bers of the House of As-sembly.

Served on numerous sen-ior officials’ committees over the span of service, including

Senior Expenditure Re-view Committee, Gov-ernment Re-organization and various Inter-departmental Working Groups.

Directly involved in co-ordinating, planning and organizing visits to the Province of the Queen Mother, Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess

Anne, the

King and Queen of the Bel-gians, various Governors General, Heads of State,

Ambassadors and High Com-missioners.

Appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (L.V.O.) By Her Majesty the Queen in June 1997, for per-sonal service to the Sovereign in organizing a number of Royal Visits to the Province from 1967 to 1997.

Member of Board of Direc-tors of Government of New-foundland and Labrador Spe-cial Celebrations Corp., which planned Soiree ‘99, Viking 2000 and Receiving the World 2001 (Marconi) Celebrations.

2006 – 2007

Was invited and accepted ap-pointment as Acting Citizen’s Representative

(Provincial Ombudsman), House of Assembly, for a pe-riod of 14 months.

Community Activities

Active member of the scout-ing movement as a Troop Scouter for 12 years, and subsequently as President of Provincial Council, Scouts Canada.

Past President, Newfound-land Division, Canadian Red Cross.

Awarded Red Cross Medal of Service; Boy Scouts of Can-ada Medal of Merit and Sil-

ver

Acorn; and Canada 125 Medal.

Founding member (1989) and Past President of the Rotary Club of Avalon Northeast. In

November 2003 was awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship for out-standing community

service in Rotary.

Committee Member and Vice Chair: Festival 500 Committee, an International Coral Festival Event attracting choirs from around the world - (2001 – 2006

Member of Board of Directors 2003 to present

Board Member: Topsail United Church 2002, 2003, 2004

In 2005 became actively in-volved in the Advocacy Commit-tee of Newfoundland and Labra-dor Region of Canadian Diabetes Association(CDA) and continues as a member.

In 2007,2008 and 2009 was elected as regional Delegate to CDA National General Meeting in Vancouver, B.C.; and Mont-real,Que. Married to Patricia E. Boone, R.N. in 1966. Three chil-dren - Karen, Debbie and Robbie.

Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of ex-changing digital messages across the Internet or other computer net-works. Originally, email was trans-mitted directly from one user to another computer. This required both computers to be online at the same time. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, for-ward, deliver and store messages. Users no longer need be online simultaneously and need only con-nect briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.

An email message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email's content. The message header contains control informa-tion, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usu-ally additional information is added, such as a subject header field.

Email has now become the preemi-nent means by which business is conducted worldwide. Organiza-tions communicate with their sup-pliers, clients and employees using email almost exclusively.

One of the goals identified by Sen-ior Management under the Strate-gic Plan is to increase our commu-nication with our clients and our staff. To meet that goal we are now rolling out our own Commis-sionaires Email Server. Every Commissionaire in Newfoundland and Labrador will now be provided with an email account. Senior Management have already mi-grated over to the new accounts and we will be requiring all Com-missionaires to do likewise. We will no longer be communicating

with Commissionaires on any other account but that provided by us. Site Managers, for example, who are currently using web email provided by the Client are now asked to move to the new Commis-sionaire email service.

To make the migration easier we have elected to use a web based mail service. In order to access their email Commissionaires need only log onto the Division website at http://www.commissionaires.nl.ca

Once there, you select the tab called news. Under the news tab we will have a link to the web server. The other tab will take you to the Division newsletters.

Click on the link called Email. This will take you to a Smarter Mail Enterprise Site. Here you will need to enter your username and password.

Every Commissionaires’s email address is formatted in the same fashion and will serve as your username. It will consist of your first initial followed by your last name @ commissionaires.nl.ca For example, jlynch@commissionaries.nl.ca or ttoe@commissionaires.nl.ca

The next step is to enter your pass-word. Again, we have formatted every Commissionaires password in the same fashion. This is your initial password which will be used to get you to SmarterMail. Once you are logged on we encourage you to change your password to one of your choice.

Your assigned password is the first initial of your first name and the first initial of your last name, both of which have to be capitalized,

followed by 2010com!

The username and password for Jim Lynch would be:

Username jlynch@commissionaries.nl.ca

Password JL2010com!

The username and password for Tom Toe would be :

Username ttoe@commissionaries.nl.ca

Password TT2010com!

The username and password for nearly every Commissionaires fol-lows that format. Once you have logged on you will see that Smarter Mail looks the same as any other mail server and can send, receive, and forward mail in the same fashion as others. To the very left of the screen you will note shaded out menus. The second from the bottom is the settings menu. When you se-lect settings you can change your password to one of your choice.

Every Commissionaire is expected to begin using this service. It will soon become the sole means that Senior Management will use to forward in-formation to Commissionaires. Over time, we will be reducing our mail outs for general notices, payroll stubs etc in favor of sending these items by email.

Site Managers are asked to assist all Commissionaires to ensure that eve-ryone is online. If you experience any problems please contact the Dir of Ops/Trg

Commissionaires Email Accounts Now Available Volume 1 Issue 4

Canadian Corps of Commissionaires Newfoundland and Labrador

Strategic Plan

An important component of Stra-tegic Planning involves develop-

ing both a Mission Statement and a Vi-sion State-ment. The Mission, Vision and Strategic Direction of the Ca-nadian

Corps of Commissionaires– New-foundland and Labrador Division is as follows:

Strategic Direction-1

The Division will seek to main-tain the viability of the organization over the short, medium and longer terms. This will include identifying options for growth through further market re-search, selecting fea-sible opportunities for implementation, and measuring success.

Strategic Direction-2

The Division will seek to raise its profile and the services it offers in the Province. This will include identifying the best means to mar-ket its services, bring greater rec-ognition to its social mandate, and seek opportunities to raise its over-all profile with selected sharehold-ers as well as the general public in the province.

Strategic Direction-3

The Division will improve its cor-porate governance and become a better performing organization. This will include reviewing its de-cision making processes and the flow of information between the Board of Governors and the chief executive officer, establishing

separate committees of the Board to oversee each of the strategic directions, reviewing and re-vising as appropri-ate, its human re-sources policies, and undertaking succession plan-ning.

Strategic planning is an organi-zation's process of defining its strategy, or direc-tion, and making decisions on allocat-ing its re-sources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and peo-ple. Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an or-ganization's future course. Very simply put, strategic planning identifies where the organiza-tion wants to be at some point in the future and how it is going to get there. The "strategic" part of this planning process is the continual attention to current changes in the organization and its external environment, and how this affects the future of the organization. It involves taking a wide look around at what's going on outside the organiza-tion and how it might affect the organization. It also involves taking a hard look at what's go-ing on inside the organization, including its strengths, weak-nesses, opportunities and threats. Strategic planning de-termines the overall direction and goals of the organization. .

Izaih’s Christmas

Izaih is a three year old boy from Pelley’s Island in Cen-tral Newfoundland. He is currently living with his mom at the Hillview Terrace Apartments in St.John’s. Izaih has Leukemia and is being treated by doctors at the Jane-way Child Health Center. Bill LeMoine, in our ID Ser-vices Division, and his wife are friends with Izaih’s mom. When Bill told us about Izaih’s predicament the staff at Commissionaires HQ quickly started a small col-lection with the intent of brightening Izaih’s Christmas. Bill and his wife had the honor of presenting Izaih with his gifts just before Christmas Day. Below are a few pic-tures of Izaih with his new toys. We are sure that Izaih and his mom will need support throughout his time at the Janeway. If anyone would like to support this cause they can send a cheque payable to Commissionaires-Newfoundland and Labrador Division and we will ensure that it goes into the Izaih Fund. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Izaih’s Christmas

Congratulations Quick Thinking Commission-aire Alerts DFO Officials

Congratulations are extended to Commissionaire Baxter Wheaton for his professionalism and strong sense of duty. By alerting authorities over the holidays Com-missionaire Wheaton helped avert what could have been a costly disaster involv-ing the water storage tanks. The details of the incident are contained in the Clients email to Site Manager John Clarke at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

John

I felt I should pass along a little info to you, re a recent call on our chill-ers.

On December 27, I received a call from Comm. Wheaton, informing me that the chiller alarm was on. He acknowledged that he was aware I had left instructions to dis-regard these alarms until after Christmas, but he noticed the tem-perature was getting higher in the storage tank. Once the temperature in that tank reached room tempera-ture, it should have stopped climb-ing, but it was around 35 C when I was called.

I returned to work to see what was

going on. Some software glitch had switched the pumps back on, and they were heating the water in the tank. Fortunately, no dam-age was done, and I drained off the heated water. Comm Wheaton's diligence, and his initiative in calling me, be-cause he felt there was something not right, likely prevented some damage to the fibreglass storage tank. I just wanted you to be aware of this situation, and express my appreciation; it's comfort-ing to know your staff is on top of things.

The pumps have all been shut down manually since this occurred.

Jeff

Congratulations On behalf of Senior Management and all members of the Corps we extend our con-gratulations to Commissionaire Tony Jeans on being recently appointed Assis-tant Site Manager at Marine Atlan-tic Port Aux Basques.

Marine Atlantic Inc. is a federal Crown corporation that reports to Parliament through the Minister of Transport. The Corporation pro-vides a constitutionally mandated passenger and commercial marine transportation system between the Island of Newfoundland and the Province of Nova Scotia.

Marine Atlantic’s mission is to pro-vide a safe, environmentally re-sponsible, and quality ferry service between the Island of Newfound-land and the Province of Nova Sco-tia in a reliable, courteous and cost-effective manner. Commissionaires Newfoundland and Labrador Division provides se-curity at the Marine Atlantic termi-nal located in the ports of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labra-dor.

Asst Site Manager Tony Jeans joined the Corps in June 2003. Prior to that he worked as a Site Supervisor and Lead Hand at Sea Freeze Limited.

As Assistant Site Supervisor Tony will answer directly to the Site Manager, Larry Hill, and will be responsible for a wide range of duties some of which include:

-supervising, directing, motivating, disciplining and coaching site per‐sonnel 

‐monitoring and evaluating staff performance and currency of training and recertification 

‐managing timesheet functions and the scheduling of employees 

‐ensuring seamless communica‐tions with Marine Atlantic Opera‐tions work requests 

‐ensuring all details at the site are organized and supervised to the extent required