Lasco happenings May to June 2015

May to June 2015

Happenings Awards 2015

REAP Awards 2015 FEATURE: Porridge Saves Lives What’s Cooking? Fathers’ Day Recipe Food Drink Brownie with Breyers Ice-Cream International Nurses Day LASCO treats Teachers Police of the Year impacts the media & schools Pictorial Highlights: Fortis Run Nurses Day

Read Across Jamaica Education Minister and Education Ambassadors Tour Plant

John Rollins Success Primary students accept the LASCO REAP trophy from Lascelles Chin at the Releaf Environmental Awareness Programme (REAP) Awards held at the Jamaica Pegasus on June 3, 2015. The Montego Bay based school won the LASCO REAP trophy and ten desktop computers.

Happenings

Awards 2015

Peter Chin (left), LDL MD presents the second place prize package of a projector and laptop to Bath Primary and Junior High School at the REAP Awards Luncheon. Joining him in the photo opp are (l-r) Keafier Edwards, Teacher; Jordane Blake; Dennis Cowie, Teacher; Monnesha Minott, and Beverley Edmondson-Edwards.

Students and teachers of Farm Primary and Junior High pause for a photo opportunity, with their third place prize package of a flat screen TV and DVD player.

Members of the John Rollins Success Primary School in St. James, winners of LASCO REAP 2015 show off their prizes with Stephen Newland (left) Project Director, Heather Murray, LASCO/ Ministry of Education Principal of the Year 20142015 (back) and Laurie-Ann Chin, Miss Jamaica World 2014. The presentations were made at the LASCO REAP Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, June 3 at The Gardens, Jamaica Pegasus.

Happenings

Awards 2015

Ten year-old Jo-nathan Smith of Allman Town Primary and his schoolmate Daniel Campbell introduced a new videogame developed by the students , at the LASCO REAP Awards Luncheon.

Stephen Newland, Project Director (left) of the LASCO REAP, Carrolyn Llewellyn, Sales Manager, LDL (2nd left); and Hon. Lascelles Chin share a light moment during the handover of an appreciation basket to Laurie-Ann Chin, Miss Jamaica World 2014. Miss Chin was a guest at the LASCO REAP Awards Luncheon.

Happenings

Mom Was Right!

Porridge Saves Lives You can still hear her voice ringing in your ear, “drink up the oats porridge, it’s good for you!” Almost every Jamaican child has memories of their mom placing a bowl of steaming hot porridge before them, with pressing encouragement to drink every last spoonful of it.

Once again your mom has been proven right. A 2015 Harvard study of 100,000 people found that those who regularly ate a bowl of oats porridge had a 5 to 20% lower risk of dying from heart disease. The study was done over 25 years and the participants who consumed a bowl of oats per day were found to live longer.

Oats porridge is great source of potassium, iron, calcium, vitamins E and B , magnesium and protein which are great for heart health. You and your family can get your daily vital vitamins and minerals in a tasty and convenient pack of LASCO Oats Porridge Mix , available in banana, cinnamon or plain. The LASCO Rolled Oats is a great alternative for a thicker texture.

Father’s Day

Food Drink Chocolate Squares

(with Breyers Natural Vanilla Ice-Cream)

1 cup 3 large 1 ¼ cup ¾ cup 1 tbsp 1 ¼ cups 3 tsps 1 tsp 2 tbsp 3-4

LASCO Soft Margarine (melted) Eggs (beaten) LASCO Food Drink Chocolate Flavour (powder)* Icing sugar Vanilla extract Flour Baking powder Salt LASCO Browning Cherries (cut in quarters)

What’s Cooking?

Method Beat the eggs, then add vanilla, LASCO Browning and melted LASCO Soft Margarine.

Combine all dry ingredients. Whisk egg mixture and gradually add dry mixture.

Scrape onto a sheet pan and bake for 20 minutes at 350°F. Allow to cool and then cut into squares.

Top with cherries.

Serve with a scoop of Breyers Natural Vanilla IceCream * ¼ cup of LASCO Instant Chocolate with Nutmeg powder may be added for additional sweetness Makes 15- 18 squares.

Happenings

Read Across a Jamaic Day

LASCO Ministry of Education Principal of the Year 201516 Heather Murray White dramatises a story to students from Lititz All Age School in St. Elizabeth during Read Across Jamaica 2015

Read Across Jamaica Day furthers LASCO’s objective of advancing the nation through education. Anieta Bailey, LASCO/Ministry of Education (MoE) Teacher of the Year 2014-2015 led a lively reading of The Three Little Pigs with students from the Clonmel Basic School in St. Mary and Nanny’s Red Coat to Grade Four students at the Clonmel Primary and Junior High School.

Happenings LASCO Police of the Year Impacts Schools and the Media.

Our corporate ambassador, Det. Sgt. Ava Lindo, 2015-2016 Police of the Year has been busy waving the LASCO banner high. She has embarked on a number of school visits including stops at Gaynstead and Kingston High Schools, as well as May Pen Prep as a part of her youth engagement mandate. She also hosted a special edition call-in radio program for child’s month on Roots 96.1 FM, where she dealt with domestic issues.

Students of the May Pen PrepSchool are engaged by the Police of the Year

Det. Sgt. Ava Lindo engages male students after her session at Kingston High.

Det. Sgt. Ava Lindo hands out Curves goodie bags to the female students at Gaynestead High SCchool.

Roots FM invited Det. Sgt. Lindo to host a special call-in programme during Child’s Month, where she addressed pertinent issues affecting the nation’s children.

LASCO Treats Teachers

A teacher is introduced to the Instant Chocolate Caramel by Krishta-Gay Lewis-Harewood , Brand Manager during breakfast, while another relaxes after consuming a delicious cup of porridge

Esther Lennon, teacher at Jose Marti Technical High was the random winner of an Adam & Eve Spa Certificate.

Over 200 teachers at Jose Marti High School, St. John’s Primary, Merl Grove High, Dunrobin Primary and White Marl Primary and Junior High were given the opportunity to win LASCO gift baskets, MoneyGram gift bags and spa gift certificates in a rafflestyle pre-teachers’ Day give-a-way initiative. Representatives from LASCO Distributors and LASCO Financial Services presented the prizes to a number of lucky teachers, whose names were drawn from a pool of teachers. All teachers and support staff at neighbouring school , Jose Marti Technical High were also treated to a sumptuous breakfast.

Delectable breakfast options of LASCO Vienna Sausage, corn and oats porridge, mackerel rundung and Instant Chocolate were served to the teachers.

Nicolene Worthy-Donaldson, LFSL’s Marketing Manager and Renee Rose, LDL Brand Manager read one of the names of the lucky Merl Grove High teachers who won a LASCO gift basket.

Beresford Sweeney is cheered on by excited students at the Merl Grove High School, as he was randomly selected for a Pre-Teachers Day treat.

Miss S. Pitt, teacher at White Marl Primary School receives a gift basket from Kelia-Gaye Dunbar, Marketing Manager, LASCO Distributors Ltd.

Minister of Education and Education Ambassadors Tour Plant

LDL Managing Director, Peter Chin welcomes Education Minister, The Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites on arrival for a tour of the LML plant and factories.

LASCO hosted the Minister of Education (MoE) and the LASCO/MoE Teacher and Principal of the Year for a luncheon and plant tour on May 20, 2015. The team was also accompanied by senior personnel from the Ministry of Education and The Jamaica Teaching Council. Following the plant tour, Anieta Bailey, Teacher of the Year and Heather Murray, Principal of the Year presented a summary of key knowledge points taken away from the trip to the annual ASCD Conference; which was a part of their prize package.

Chairman re-introduces Minister Thwaites to the line of iCool LASCO factory staff, Joma Ross briefs Minister Thwaites on the operation of one of the equipment during the tour of the LASCO factory beverages, while Anieta Bailey, Teacher of the Year and and plant.

Heather Murray, Principal of the Year looks on.

Anieta Bailey, Teacher of the Year (right) and Heather Murray, Principal of the Year giving a presentation on their ASCD trip, during the luncheon hosted at LASCO White Marl.

PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS Take some time to savour pictorial highlights of the launch of International Nurses’ Day, LASCO’s participation in the Fortis 5K Run, as well as Mother’s Day/Child Month activities.

LASCO Brand Manager Renee Rose (left) visited new mother Grace Ann Wilson at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital on May 11 to present her with a gift basket filled with LASCO baby care products. The new baby is Gianna, a Mothers' Day bundle of joy.

(L-R) LASCO/NAJ Nurse of the Year 2014-15, Shashana Lawrence; Chairman Lascelles Chin; President of the Nurses Association of Jamaica, Janet Farr; Minister of Health, The Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson participate in the tradition of cutting the International Nurses Day cake, at the launch held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on May 12, 2015.

Staff and members of the public flocked the LASCO booth at the Fortis Puma 5K, sponsored by LASCO iCool, and held on Sunday May 3, 2015.