Hungarian will be offered at Carleton University from September 2017 for the very first time in the history of the university. After many years of hard work, Carleton has reached an agreement with the Government of Hungary through the vital support of the Embassy of Hungary. As a result, the course will be co-sponsored by the Government of Hungary.

Hungarian is a credit language course for complete beginners, no previous knowledge is necessary. It will run 2 × 2 hours per week in the fall and winter terms (from September 2017 until April 2018) that will take students to a solid beginner level (level A1 according to the Common European Framework of Languages). The course will run in the “Less commonly taught languages” category, for which the official registration has already begun at the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton. More information is available under the code of the course, LANG 1010B – Hungarian.

Dr. Emese Bukor

The course will be promoted on social media platforms as well. Feel free to check out the “Learn Hungarian” site on Facebook (run by Dr. Emese Bukor, the instructor of the Hungarian course at Carleton) or the SLALS Language Resource Room‘s Facebook page to find more information (videos) over the summer about the Hungarian language and culture.

Feel free to share the information with those who might have an interest in studying Hungarian. Those who are currently not students at Carleton can still register for the course as a special student. Students at the University of Ottawa will also be able to register for the course.

Sponsored by the Ministry Responsible for Nation Policy of Hungary

There is a new discount of $5,000 available for those who sign a contract with the retirement home by March 31^st, 2017.

Further information.

Dear Members, Friends, Supporters,

The Board of Directors (BOD) became compelled to discontinue the OHCC’s Friday dinners due to the unavailability of sufficient resources of chefs and required assistants. During recent members’ meetings we did make announcements regarding this sore state of affairs, and we forecasted the possibility of such changes approaching, but our appeal, regrettably, did not produce the needed outcome. We intend to continue serving lunches for now, but please take note, that these are still understaffed, and our ability to sustain them is in jeopardy. Your voluntary help is always sought, even if we do not call for it constantly.

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For sake of clarity and transparency of the matter, we point out that the time and energy invested into preparing dinners has been about the same as what has been needed for lunches, while the number of consumers attending dinners has gradually decreased to less than half of those coming to lunches. Consequently, the net earnings of the House produced by dinners became insignificant, thereby rendering the volunteers’ efforts totally inefficient. This cannot possibly be upheld, unless there is a considerable workforce available willing to take turns on a regular basis. Up until now, each Friday Lunch and Dinner required 20-24 man-hours of volunteer work in the kitchen alone. The program change will reduce this to 12 hours, which still has to be staffed.

Of course, due to the cancellation of dinner service the related small income will be lost, and the BOD will plan by keeping this in mind.

As always, the House (OHCC) needs committed, tenacious and reoccurring volunteer help that it can rely on. Promises were many, participation remained to be desired. If 2 to 3 people would form a cooking team once a month, they could take care of one of the lunches or events per month.
The usage of the term volunteer work is somewhat misleading, since the BOD recognizes the help received with a slight pay. The contribution of BOD members to all events is always given without compensation.

What it all boils down to is the committed and organized collaboration of all those community members who intend to keep the House standing and well maintained, and treat it as a valuable and worthy heritage to be passed on to future generations.

We hope that this appeal will stir you into action, after all, it is a common cause. In the mean time, we have no alternative but to implement the following changes to the Friday opening hours:

12:00 – 15:00 lunch service
17:00 – 20:00 evening social, senior’s club, library hours, occasional events – no dinner is served

Take out orders will continue to be available. Only orders placed by 8:00 AM on the preceding days will be guaranteed, and they can be picked up during our opening hours on Fridays as specified above. Unpaid orders will be recorded and accounted for as debts owed to the OHCC.

Your still hopeful
Board of Directors of the OHCC