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Co-op a learning experience for students
FROM BRUSSELS
am a 19-year-old student at F. E.
Madill taking part in the co-opera
tive education program.
I have chosen this program to gain
experience about a field that I am
interested in. My placement is at
Radford Auto Parts in Brussels. They
have me doing duties such as, stock
ing shelves, inventory, delivering
parts, answering phones, looking up
parts on the computer and in the cat
alogues.
I picked this placement to further
my knowledge of the automotive
parts industry. I have also learned in
the workplace that I have to be punc
tual and polite when working with
the public and my co-workers.
I would like to thank my supervi
sor Jan Dietner and co-worker Rob
Keffer for taking their time to
explain and help me learn the vari
ous tasks.
I encourage students to take part in
the co-operative education program
to gain knowledge and experience in
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a possible career they want to pur
sue.
My name is Crystal Semple and
this, my OAC year, I was fortunate
enough to be accepted in the co
operative education program at
F. E. Madill in Wingham.
I was given a placement at
Wingham and District Hospital, on a
rotation basis, so that I would be able
to be involved in all different areas
of the hospital, in hopes of gaining
valuable experience for my future
occupation. My goal is to hopefully
become a general surgeon, or at least
to participate in the medical field
somehow. My rotation works as fol
lows: three weeks in each radiology
(x-ray), the lab, CSR, and four
weeks in each nursing and emer
gency medicine.
I worked under the supervision of
Mrs. Donna Sutton
My duties were mostly observa-
A NOTE FROM BETTY
By Betty
Graber
Call
887-9231
Grade 7 and 8 students of Brussels Public School, along with a few parents, spent much of
Saturday trying to keep warm as they soaped cars in the parking lot of Teeft’s Food Market.
The students held the car wash to raise money for their year-end trip. Putting in a little elbow
grease were Jessica Spink, left, Candice Ross and Jane Ross.
The first long weekend of the
summer is now just a memory. Were
you tenting, visiting, gardening or
just catching up? Whatever you did,
as long as you celebrated Queen
Victoria and leisure time, that’s
good. It’s hard to do together.
tions during the first couple of days.
I had the opportunity of witnessing
many exciting exams. For example,
fetal ultrasounds, leg dopplers, thy
roid exams, barium swallows (most
interesting) and your general bone x-
rays. I know that I have studied the
human anatomy already in my high
school biology classes, but it never
really makes sense unless you see
what you are studying first hand.
It is amazing to hear the blood
pumping in your veins and arteries;
astounding to see tiny unborn babies
in their mother’s wombs; fascinating
to see every crevice of the intestine
wail lit up by a simple barium liquid;
and amusing to see how many differ
ent ways that our bones can break.
Other duties that I performed were
patient information input into the
computer, creating and filing film
master bags, signing films out to
other hospitals for consultation and
basically helping the tech’s whenev
er it was possible, or whenever they
needed an extra hand.
I have really enjoyed my experi
ences here at the hospital so far,
especially here in radiology. It is def
initely a career that I will consider
pursuing.
I suggest the co-op program to
anyone who wants to gain valuable
experience in a field of work you are
interested in pursuing. It is an oppor
tunity to get a glance at your possible
future. An opportunity of a lifetime.
The Tulip Festival is in full swing
in Ottawa: music, festivities, food
and millions of tulips to admire. Son
Curtis says the city is magnificent
and the smell of the tulips has taken
over our nation’s capital - one of
these years we need to go there to
remember the history of the gift of
the tulip bulbs from our friends from
Holland. The story, the site and
beauty needs to be shared.
Have you cleared out that closet
ready for the village-wide garage
sale on Saturday? Hopefully it will
be a nice day so treasures can be
acquired and garbage moved on.
Have a great week.
Bye now, Betty G,
Give your home a new
look with the colours
of Spring
Help protect the environment1
Reduce, reuse and recycle
COMING EVENTS
at the
BRUSSELS LEGION
SATURDAY, MAY 27
Euchre Tournament
at 1:00 p.m.~ downstairs
Admission $5.00 per person
$100. cash prizes.
Bring your own partner.
No smoking event
Brussels
Country
Inn
present^
SUNDAY, MAY 28
Singles Dance
from 7:00 -11:00 p.m.
Admission $8.00 per person
Lunch provided
Enjoy "Country Trubadours"
SUNDAY, MAY 28
1:00 p.m.
Tomb of the Unkown Soldier
Canada’s National War Memorial
Dedication
Inquiries on events, use or rent
of Legion, please call 887-6562
after 4:00 p.m.
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