HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1990-06-27, Page 3' Oa Jame .141,•at Bervk United Clan* Rev. (Wald Ifelnolineoi Luckaewo
was installed as Chairman of Bruce Presbytery. Preaeatiag the gavel to
Bev. Picrarbine is Rev. Oestreicher, former Chairman from
Walkerton.:
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Fighting •the waragainst11-
literacy is the,,goal-of a new Cana-
dian foundation, formed as part of
a literacy project that involves
community -newspapers across
Canada. • • •
•• Enabling people to learn will be
one of the objectives of the CODE
Literacy-, Foundation, created to
-fund 'literacy projects M 'developing
countries following, International
Literacy Year. • • -
ine need for -worldwide action,
against illiteracy la acute as near.
ly one ,billion people are illiterate.
Ae,PODEJoiiiidah'on;belleVes;titat
supporting literacy, and in. turn
education, is essential for develop--
Mentand improving the living con-
ditions of millions of -people, •
Money raised through the
Literacy Foundation enable
CODE, the. Canadian Organization
for Development. through. Educa-
tion, to help support activities that
promote, literacy and educatiOn.
For more than 30 years CODE, has,
been shipping educational materials
and supplies to the Third World. It
does so in the belief that supporting
education is an important first step
towards, development and encourag-
ing selffeliarice. ` • •
Among CODE's many
achievements is;. the Jamaica
primary Textbook, Project. Since,
Recycling. must
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a newsPrint recycling operation
which, they. hope to make into a
regularly operating business.
Fenton said a three-year agree-
ment with the reeyclera. will. be
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sighed shortly. • ,
:He said it is the type of solution
the committee looks. for. •He has
heard that Ihree more de -inking
plants wilrbe built sometime soon
in .Ontario and Quebec,
Two primary operation will take
place within, the.recycling building;
separating , steel and aluminum,
cans, and baling all materiala ex-
cept glass.
Fenton said, beside* newsprint,
there are markets fur all the
materials.
A five-year contract was signed
Wednesday night to sell glass to
Consumers Olas., Toronto. Fen-
ton said care must be taken in sor-
ting glass because recyclers Will
send back any "contaminated"
loads, or loads which contain
porcelain or any other unacceptable
glass. Most of the sorting will take
place at the curb where unaccep.
table glass will be left in the Blue
Boxes with a sticker or a tag, ex-
plaining why it hasn't been taken.
Steel cans will go to Dofasco or
Stelco, both of which are in
Hamilton.
1984o millions of ;textbooks have
been printed on paper 'supplies by
CODE.. Today,. - thousands of
Jamaican children learn with, the
help of books, where -before they
had ' none,
In the southeast African country
of Malawi, overwhelming registra-
tion in adult literacy classes het -
ween, 1302 andJ937 exhausted the
Supply of learning materials.
CODE's 'contribution, of $543„000
Werth of paper will benefit an
estimated two mililon .' adult
learners by .
);,..CODE, a noniPt9fit:*, charitable
�ranization agdAht- Canac14n.
Community Newspapers Association
ere co-sponsors of kewsljnit; The
International Newspaper': Literacy
-Exchange.NewsLink isl:eonducting_
an exchange between:'community
newsPaper reporters in Canada and
developing countries in Africa and
the .daribbeful:I'lie project is also
developing a newspaper literacy
program; gall NewsAble • that will
enable; adult literacy teachers. itt
Canada •ta, • use the community
newspaper ,as a learning tool in
their classes.
'Further information about the
CODE Literapyyoundation may be
• obtained by -eallint. (013) '232-3.569 or
writing the foundation at 321 Chapel
St., -Ottawa, ON, KIN 7Z2. DonP,-
tionsare tax-deductible.. . • •
be 'iefficient
Aluminum cans will make their
way back to ;Alma; and 'be
re-
smelted.,111 Tennessee. They ' '
first- to-Voronta; Fenton
The -eunimittel is currently
deciding. which of two plastic pur-
chasers, --Dow in Toronto and a
company. in London, will offer the
best .price. • " ' •
Loads of each material will be
stored in the recycling .building
un-
til there it a full load to ship. •
Fenton pointed out that it re-
quires 90 percent less energy. to
re -smelt alumhuun cans than to
produce thein from the Ore. Coin-
- parable figures for steel cans Ohm,/
that It takes 60 per cent leis energy
to re;sinelt the cans than to pro-
duce them.
Newsprint producers are less
eager to recycle because doing so
would cut mto the tree-barvesthtg..
segment of the operation, requiring
large-scale changes to the com-
pany, Fenton said.
. New employees needed in the
operation include two 'vehicle
operators, two or three parkin* or
full-time people at the facility, and
a secretary.
The nine participating
municipalities in the program are
Port Elgin, Southampton, Wiarton,
Kincardine, Walkerton, Hepworth,
Lucknow, and the townships of
Saugeen and Amabel.
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