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Daycare
gives kids
head start
By Pat Semple, teacher at the
Tuckersmith Vanastra Day Care
Centre
People in education have
awakened to the fact that
children's success or failure in
school seemed somehow
determined even before `they
entered the first grade at six. It
has been pointed out that by age
four as much as 50% of a person's
intelligence is set. Before the age
of four, a child's intelligence is
highly flexible. After that the
chances of raising a child's
intelligence diminish.
The following was stated by
Norma Law, Professor of
Education, Wayne State
University, United States:
Raising a child often requires
help. During the critical years of
development when, psychologists
say, a child develops traits and
hab its which will he with him for
the rest of his life, liarents should
be able to look to someone for
assistance. The staff of a child
care facility can provide that
assistance through the framework
of experiences geared toward
child development and growth
within the facility. In this way, the
'teacher' does not replace the
parents nor does the child care
facility replace the home ... they
merely supplement the role of the
parents and thehome
environment. whose goal is to
raise the child to emotional
social, and intellectual stability. A
W good nursery school is -an
educational facility under the
supervision of a trained teacher
where your children engage in
their first group experiences away
from their own home before
entering the, elementary school.
The ab ove was sponsered by
the Tuckersmith Vanastra Day
Care Centre. If you have any
inquiries or would like to enrol '
your child part time or full time
feel free to visit or phone
482-3544.
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meetingon rrole,nce a h
Judy '.LaMorsh, and her Royal before using certain stories.
Commission' on ' Violence in the Both women felt the recent ?.
Communications Industry got an. stabbing of an elderly woman in
earful at their only Western Listowel is related to the upswing. a ,
Ontario stop, in Winghatn last in violence which can be
Wednesday night, attributed to the influence�pf the
About 300 people turned out tomedia.
hear about ten briefs that gave "We have found that rarely a at ,
the. commissioners suggestions week goes by some crime isn3t
Sho'P
on what should be. done about committed that seems to be
violence in the media. similar to" a crime depicted in thea
Commission member Scott media," Mr. Young said. -
Young said the Wingham Sally Campeau of the Winghamaroe, �s ANWI
meeting was a repeat of what the -Pro-Life Association told the n
group has heard at their eight commission that her group calls
other hearings s far. TV violence abortto
n "intro -uterine
' BOO" KS nd S
IN
ERY STORE
was a major target. violence.She condemned
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One woman told commissioners abortion advertisements that are Where Shopping is a Pleasure
that TV's role should be "to carried on Windsor radio station
influence society to have higher CKLW for Michigan abortionists.
Moral standards." Morris Twp. Wingham,Advance Times
councillor Evelyn Demeray, publisher Bary. Wenger said the PUZZIeS ,
speaking for the PBluevale - Ontario Press Council is the best 0 Dolls, Games,
Whitechurch pastoral charge, vehicle to police excessive qV
said editors and broadcasters violence in the newpapers. He -Point by Number
should perhaps " ask themselves added that no weekly papers
"what good does this teach?" belong to the press council.
McKillop has visitors I y
g�� �zoijryown I
Correspondent'
McCallum.
"And cousins by the dozens." That line Emerson, a maverick who was. in the
Mr. and Mrs Harold Filson of
from ad old nursery rhyme or, something Klondyke when the photo was taken. flow
Huron Haven Park, Goderich and
seemed to be the theme when . the would you like to try to feed a mob like that
Mr, and Mrs.Carl Dalton of
Thomson clan held a family reunion at the in these days? You'd be bankrupt in a
Seaforth left for Florida this week
old homestead. week.
where they will spend the winter
There was a lot of kissing and hugging Another picture showed "my Uncle Ivan
months.
(we're an emotional family.) I was bussed as the sole surviving, member of the
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Dennis
and squeezed by a lot of middle-aged Shawville Pontiacs, takemin ttie days when
and family visited with Ethel,
ladies and made up for it by heart4y hockey was deadly serious but played for
and Elmer Dennis of Seaforth.
bussing and squeezing af number of fun, and Shawville• used. to journey by
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson of
extremely busable and squeeze'able nieces ' sleigh to take on the stalwarts of Renfrew
Huron Haven Park, Goderich,
and daughters of nephews and various and Pembroke.
spent one day' last week with Mr.
other attractive young hussies drifting Perhaps sgdly„there was no living to be
and Mrs. Mervin Smith.
about. made for huge families 4th'- ” batten -land .................
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Most people have been sucked in, at one of Calumet Island, and the tribe dispersed,
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time or, another, to a family reunion. It can some of the boys joining the great exodus
be a ghastly experience or a joyful one: to The West, the El Dorado of those days.
This one fell into the latter category. They were honest, hard-working, good -
There was no Mourning for the dead, looking; gregarious people. But it wasn't
only a great sense of being alive, and the enough. They established themselves and
pleasure of knowing that all these people, worked like slaves to build something.
of all shapes and ages, were blood kin, all Then came the Depression.
sprung from the fertile loins of one Walter And they suffered.Boy how they
Thomson, an Irishman of Scottish extrac- suffeFed! All of Canada took i4 in the neck,
tion; away back there in the 14th century. but the prairie farmer took it in the neck
Walter was prolific, and his sons were no and in the guts and in various other parts of
slouches either. One of them, Mountain the anatomy.
Jack Th omson, a sometime scourge of the Most of my uncles went through The
Ottawa Valley during the great lumbering GG,reat War. Many of their sons • went
days, had about 10 children by' his first through world War 11. Some didn't come
wife, and when she died, married her sister back. 0 '
and produced another large family. Things picked up. Some of them even
•Another, William, after whom I was made a accent living before they died.
named, sired 10 children. And there was Their children are moderately well off, '•
the last of them, my uncle Ivan,' 84, middle-class people with warm hearts and
dancing around like a 30 -year-old, no pretensions.
welcoming all of us with something close to But they're fiercely proud of beim
tears of joy in his eyes. Thomsons. (And don't ever try to spell it
He's as handsome as always, slim as a with a "p". We have no truck with the poor
boy, blue eyes sparkling, wit bubbling, white trash Thompsons with a "p".)
striding about as though he'd never heard And there we were, cousins by the
of arthritis. A man of many talents, a dozens, on the lawn of the 103 -year-old
......,conversationist who plants trees lovingly, a "homestead", looking out over the Ottawa
traveler whose next letter might be from River, where Grandfather had been a
New Zealand, an artist in working with slide -master in the lumbering days, and
wood, a deep lover of nature and people, Mountain Jack, his brother, had been a
and a concerned and loving patriarch of the "scrapper" known throughout the Valley
clan. for his fists and feet, in the days when cops
It is my casual boast, and my brothers' were few and far between, and a trkaSwas a
and sisters' grudging concession, that I man, or else.
"take after him". I wish I did. lie
remarried at 80 and has a three-year-old A gang had flown in from Saskatoon.
grandson. Figure that one out. No way can Others had come from the States. It took
I match that. me 15 hours driving to get there and back.
He showed me the room in the oldTbrick And I wouldn't have missed it for the
homestead, a fine house on a steep bluff world. I hope some of the young ones got
overlooking the Ottawa River, the the sense of pride and family that 1 did.
bedrooms in which my grandmother bore There •wasn't a millionaire present.'
the 10 children. No wonder she died at an There wasn't a famous person present. But
age when most modern women are just there they were, salt of the earth, backbone
getting their second wind,, or their second of Canada, a lively, loquacious, witty lot, °
husband. and I was glad to be one of them.
He showed a . i u e 1 j?is Jamil at Social footnote to Westerners. My first
M pp $.L a4 '.+�+ YJv SiFy,P•ytla "{Y q:2 ...1 pct 1
�ack Tltomsoi%
the dining tablre.-'At' t e head, ,my_ r .cousin, aril his wife Louise,
grandfather, ` white hair and huge curly of Saskatoon, were not, respectively, in
beard. On one side, four strapping sons. their underwear and nightgown, as they
On the other side, three daughters and two were last time I met them, a couple of
little sons, and an empty place set for years ago in Germany.
Daycare
gives kids
head start
By Pat Semple, teacher at the
Tuckersmith Vanastra Day Care
Centre
People in education have
awakened to the fact that
children's success or failure in
school seemed somehow
determined even before `they
entered the first grade at six. It
has been pointed out that by age
four as much as 50% of a person's
intelligence is set. Before the age
of four, a child's intelligence is
highly flexible. After that the
chances of raising a child's
intelligence diminish.
The following was stated by
Norma Law, Professor of
Education, Wayne State
University, United States:
Raising a child often requires
help. During the critical years of
development when, psychologists
say, a child develops traits and
hab its which will he with him for
the rest of his life, liarents should
be able to look to someone for
assistance. The staff of a child
care facility can provide that
assistance through the framework
of experiences geared toward
child development and growth
within the facility. In this way, the
'teacher' does not replace the
parents nor does the child care
facility replace the home ... they
merely supplement the role of the
parents and thehome
environment. whose goal is to
raise the child to emotional
social, and intellectual stability. A
W good nursery school is -an
educational facility under the
supervision of a trained teacher
where your children engage in
their first group experiences away
from their own home before
entering the, elementary school.
The ab ove was sponsered by
the Tuckersmith Vanastra Day
Care Centre. If you have any
inquiries or would like to enrol '
your child part time or full time
feel free to visit or phone
482-3544.
00, t
POS
,
i
i
i
V e
I t
, N
t
ghaT
meetingon rrole,nce a h
Judy '.LaMorsh, and her Royal before using certain stories.
Commission' on ' Violence in the Both women felt the recent ?.
Communications Industry got an. stabbing of an elderly woman in
earful at their only Western Listowel is related to the upswing. a ,
Ontario stop, in Winghatn last in violence which can be
Wednesday night, attributed to the influence�pf the
About 300 people turned out tomedia.
hear about ten briefs that gave "We have found that rarely a at ,
the. commissioners suggestions week goes by some crime isn3t
Sho'P
on what should be. done about committed that seems to be
violence in the media. similar to" a crime depicted in thea
Commission member Scott media," Mr. Young said. -
Young said the Wingham Sally Campeau of the Winghamaroe, �s ANWI
meeting was a repeat of what the -Pro-Life Association told the n
group has heard at their eight commission that her group calls
other hearings s far. TV violence abortto
n "intro -uterine
' BOO" KS nd S
IN
ERY STORE
was a major target. violence.She condemned
•
� t
One woman told commissioners abortion advertisements that are Where Shopping is a Pleasure
that TV's role should be "to carried on Windsor radio station
influence society to have higher CKLW for Michigan abortionists.
Moral standards." Morris Twp. Wingham,Advance Times
councillor Evelyn Demeray, publisher Bary. Wenger said the PUZZIeS ,
speaking for the PBluevale - Ontario Press Council is the best 0 Dolls, Games,
Whitechurch pastoral charge, vehicle to police excessive qV
said editors and broadcasters violence in the newpapers. He -Point by Number
should perhaps " ask themselves added that no weekly papers
"what good does this teach?" belong to the press council.
McKillop has visitors I y
g�� �zoijryown I
Correspondent'
McCallum.
Mrs. Ed. Regele
Mr. and Mrs Harold Filson of
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Regele,
Huron Haven Park, Goderich and
Krista, Karen and 15arlene of
Mr, and Mrs.Carl Dalton of
Princeton visited on Sunday with
Seaforth left for Florida this week
the former's parents Mr. and
where they will spend the winter
Mrs.Edward Regele and also
months.
visited at the home of Mr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Dennis
Mrs. Harold McCallum.
and family visited with Ethel,
Mr. Ronald McCallum had the
and Elmer Dennis of Seaforth.
misfortune to have a bone in his
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson of
ankle fractured. He is wished a.
Huron Haven Park, Goderich,
speedy recovery.
spent one day' last week with Mr.
Mr. and Mrs.Clarence Regele,
and Mrs. Mervin Smith.
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Edward
(Intended for last week)
Regele last Wednesday evening.
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Sympathy is extended to the
Dennis family in the sudden
passing of their sister .Miss Tena
Dennis. Miss Dennis was . a
resident all her life in McKillop
Township before retiring to
Seaforth.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold
McCallum visited on Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Preszcator
of Crediton and Mrs. Elaine
Foran and Mr. Robert England of
Huron Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Powell
and Miss Joy Hey spent Saturday
evening in London.
Mrs. Joseph Thornton spent
Monday afternoon visiting with
Miss 'teone Hotham of Seaforth.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Preszcator of Crediton visited
Beautiful
Glass and China
r Books
Hard and Soft Bound
Christmas
Decorations
Large Assortment of
Personal Cards
By Coutts - Hallmark — Rustcraft
Boxed Christmas Cards
Tablecloths
SCOTCH
LACE
Christmas lights a
Christmas
• • decorating • • fr'
Tablecloths & Serviettes
Table Pieces & Candies
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with Mrs. Edward Regele and ,
with Mr. Edward Regele who- is a
rt
patient in Seafoh Communit
Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Dalton and See
Jamie of Londesboro visited on y
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul
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