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Regional Maple Leaf Communications Inc (RMC) is a Canadian publishing company located in Edmonton, Alberta. The company specializes in community interest children's magazines distributed free of charge in select communities across Canada. RMC's five major annual publications are "The Elementary Safety Book for Children", " Drug Facts for Young People", "The Teenage Survival Handbook", "Green Planet for Kids", and "The Children's Book of Celebrations". Notable artists of RMC publications include Ben Wicks and Bob Hahn. Managing Editor is Toni Ziganash since 1979. ==History== The company was founded in 1977 by R.L. Heath as Regional Press Ltd. A second company Maple Leaf Press Ltd. was established in 1980 and the two companies were amalgamated as Regional Maple Leaf Communications Inc. in 1987. Regional Maple Leaf Communications is a member of Edmonton Chamber of Commerce since February 1988.〔(Over two decades of Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Membership )〕 In 1987, RMC was nominated for both the Canadian and the Alberta Solicitor General's Award for Crime prevention and took home the Alberta Award.〔(Alberta Solicitor General's Award for Crime prevention 1987 )〕 The Ontario Block Parent Association produced a video for school demonstrations based on the story of "Susan and the Secret Code" taken from the Elementary Safety Book for Children. Gary & Sharon Rosenfeldt, founders of Victims of Violence, partnered with Regional Maple Leaf Communications to publish an annual missing children's poster which is printed on the inside cover of the Elementary Safety Book for Children. In 1986, RMC received a commendation from Victims of Violence for their support in efforts to reduce crimes against children.〔(Commendation from Victims of Violence Organization )〕 RCMP Foundation has reviewed and endorsed three of RMC's publications since 1999, "The Elementary Safety Book For Children", "Drug Facts for Young People" and "The Teenage Survival Handbook".〔(Endorsement Letter from RCMP foundation )〕 Green Planet for Kids and all four accompanying websites (i.e. http://drugfacts4youngpeople.com/, http://elementarysafety.com/, http://greenplanet4kids.com/, and http://teenagesurvival.com/) were included in the endorsement as of April 1, 2013. RCMP Foundation also has RMC in its partner's list.〔(RCMP foundation's partner list )〕 In 1996 cartoonist Ben Wicks began illustrating the cartoons for The Elementary Safety Book for Children, Drug Facts for Young People and The Teenage Survival Handbook until his death in 2001.〔(Ben Wicks participation with Regional Maple Leaf's family of children's magazines )〕 After consulting with his wife, Doreen Wicks, RMC established ("The Ben WIcks Award" ), an opportunity for aspiring artists to compete for the opportunity to illustrate one of the books and receive $10,000. Twenty-seven artists were chosen over the years until 2010 when it was retired for the company to move on to the development of accompanying websites to their publications in order to give access to everyone. A previous Ben Wicks Award winner, Bob Hahn, was especially commissioned to develop characters for GreenPlanet4Kids.com.〔(Bob Hahn is commissioned for RMC’s newest project on eco awareness. )〕 After finishing that project he was hired by RMC full-time to also create specific characters for DrugFacts4YoungPeople.com, ElementarySafety.com and TeenageSurvival.com.〔(Bob Hahn accepts permanent position to design all of RMC’s upcoming websites )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regional Maple Leaf Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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