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Pilots hand out championship rings The Abbotsford Pilots presented Western Canadian championship rings to last year's team in a pre-game ceremony on Friday evening. Properly inspired, the local junior B hockey squad went out and snapped a three-game losing streak in emphatic fashion. The Pilots blasted the Mission City Outlaws 9-0 at MSA Arena, out-shooting the visitors by an absurd 47-8 margin as goalie Aaron Oakley picked up perhaps the easiest shutout of his career. Kyle Star led the way with two goals, and Dakota Schipper, Chris Vinette, Bradley King, Brandon Daase, Mike Tebbutt, Luke Venema and Mico Dragutinovic chipped in with singles. Pilots general manger/owner Jack Goeson said the ring ceremony was a special moment. "It brings a lot of memories back from the 24 years I've been doing this," he said, making special mention of the Pilots' volunteers and head coach Jim Cowden. "You're just thinking about everybody at that moment." The Pilots stumbled on the road Saturday, dropping a 3-1 decision to the North Delta Devils. They out-shot the Devils 29-20, but Daase's shorthanded marker in the first period was all the offence they could muster against North Delta goalie Steve Myland. The Pilots (7-4-1, 15 points) still lead the Harold Brittain Conference -they're the only team in the division above .500, and they're six points up on the second-place Ridge Meadows Flames.

The Voice of Customer Service Customer relationship management tools abound, yet let's hear it for old technology. Your voice is the most multifaceted customer service tool in your toolkit. Your voice can convey concern, care and compassion. It can alternately convey boredom, neglect or contempt. Your challenge: to insure your voice reinforces the service you strive to deliver through your actual words and action. Customer service is about more than mouthing the words customers want to hear. You have to sound believable. How do you sound? Try this experiment. Call your own answering machine and leave yourself a message normally intended for your customers. Now replay it. Are you convincing? Does sincerity ring from your voice or are you just mouthing clichés in a disinterested fashion? There is a reason many telesales and customer service representatives have mirrors on their desk. It's not to admire their beauty or to insure the proverbial spinach isn't stuck to their teeth. In this case, the mirror has two purposes. First, as a reminder to reps to smile while on the phone. Even though their smile isn't seen by listeners, it is felt. When we smile it loosens up our jaws and relaxes us. This is then conveyed through our voice. We sound more relaxed, friendly and open because we are. The act of smiling activates certain muscles in our face and neck and actually alters our disposition for the better. The mirror both reminds us to smile and confirms we are when we glance at it periodically. Not to sound overly Dramatics, but "What you see is what they get." When we consider the message our voice sends customers, don't forget to consider your inflection. It is important to understand where in a sentence you put the emphasis. What words do you accentuate? Which words do you emphasize? Depending on your placement of accent you can send different messages with the same set of words. Consider the following statement: "It's all over my friend." Depending on the placement of accent and pause, this statement could either lament the end of a successful run of some sort, or be describing the result of a sick bird flying overhead of your pal. Similarly, this statement, based on inflection, may send two entirely different messages: "What's that in the road ahead?" or "What's that in the road, a head?" You can see how inflections inform. Let's make sure the information we convey is supported by our inflections. Actors often take the Shakespearean phrase "to be or not to be, that is the question" and repeat it alternately while emphasizing different words. For instance, one variant might be "To be or NOT, to be THAT is the question!" Revisiting our triplet of phrases let's see how inflection alters their meaning: "Thank you for calling. We're delighted to serve you." We can place the accent on different words to convey different sentiments. The capital letters indicate the words being accented through our inflection. "THANK you for calling. We're delighted to serve you." "Thank you for CALLING. We're delighted to serve you." "Thank you for calling. We're DELIGHTED to serve you." "Thank you for calling. We're delighted to SERVE you." "Thank YOU for calling. We're delighted to serve YOU." For yourself, try this same exercise with each of the statements below, accenting different words within each sentence so as to find the inflection that best conveys your sentiment.

Toy Tea aids children It was ladies only today at the fifth annual Mississauga Toy Tea. Each one, and it seemed like there were hundreds in attendance, brought an unwrapped gift or gift card for a child staying at a local shelter. The women flowed from room to room and floor to floor at the Lorne Park Estates home of Evon Skinner, making it difficult to get an accurate count. They enjoyed a performance by the Mentor College Primary Children's Chorus, a fashion show by Skiis and Biikes, platters of goodies, coffee and tea. As always, the tea was hosted by the industrious trio of Anastasia de Maat, Elaine McGrath and Linda Sellers. Only the address changes from year to year. Sellers said the original Toy Tea has been going in Montreal for 20 years. She and her friends were inspired to start theirs after attending one in King City. In its first four years, the Mississauga event collected more than $50,000 worth of toys and gift cards for children in shelters. The event harkens back to another century. It's ladies only and guests must be invited. Its popularity has spread by word of mouth. "It's a tradition now because of its grassroots appeal," said Sellers. McGrath said it's about helping women and children in their own community. "There's a need and when there are children involved, people respond," she said. It's become such an institution that women start calling her a month before so they can put it in their calendars. This year, too, more sponsors are coming forward to help. Skinner said preparing the house took a little extra energy, but the hostesses helped enormously. While it's wonderful to do something for children in need, she said it's also nice to catch up with women you don't cross paths with that often. All the toys and gift cards collected will go to women and children in Armagh, Mississauga Life Centre and the two Interim Place shelters. Interim Place development coordinator Farheen Khan-Umer said the gifts are important. They connect the recipients to community at a time when they're feeling alone and life seems bleak. "The ones who are forgotten are newborns and teenagers," said Khan-Umer. "Just because they're in a shelter doesn't mean teens don't want electronics and things their friends want. For them, gift cards are wonderful." This was Danielle Manteiga's first Toy Tea, but it likely won't be her last. "Anything you can do to make a child happy any time of the year is worth it but Christmas is special," said the Mississauga mother of a three-year-old boy.