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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-05-28, Page 26:rf • ;. i 3` CONFIRMATION AT MOUNT CARMEL — Students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School participated in Confirmation exerd+es Wednesday night. Back, left, Bruce Andrews, Andrea Becker, Peter Conlin, Glenn Ford, Shannon Houston, Clint McCann, Jeff O'Brien, Kim Roane, Shelley Uniac, Brian Vanneste and Steve Arnold. Second row, Mary Lynn Dietrich, Kathryn Cuillerier, Amy Glavin, Lori Glavin, Leona Glavin, Tara Houston, Steve Glavin, Wanda McCann, Dwayne Marrinan, Roberta Mommerhteeg, David O'Connor, Darlene O'Rourke, Neary Troeung, Vicky Roane, Christy Van Dongen, Kim Van Dongen and Jamie Wulterkens. Front, Pam Dietrich, Anthony Glavin, Shaun Glavin, Julie Uniac, Jim Koster, Nicole Vanneste, .Lisa McKellar, Deanna Olmstead, Shari Brennan, Gary Relouw and Marnie Walker. Confirmation at Mount Carmel mation name and symbols of the Ho- ly Spirit. They did a good job of answering the Bishop's questions about their faith, as evidence of good preparation by their teachers, then each marched up with their spons& to be confirmed. The occasion was graced by beautiful' music from the'Precious Blood Choir and the school choir, under the direction of Mrs. Kraftcheck. The readings were given by prin- cipal Laurie Kraftcheck and Father Nelligan made his farewell address to his parish as he left for his posting to a parish in Port Lambtort the next day, May 22. The Bishop spoke eloquently to the congregation on the importance of confirmation as a maturing of faith in the young Christians. They must now accept responsibility for the practice of their own faith and let the light of their Christianity. shine in this darken- ed world. Among those confirmed were several from Grand Bend; Roberta Mommersteeg, Gary Relouw, Vicki and Kim Roane, Kim and Kristie VanDongen, Shelley and Julie Uniac,\ Deanne Olmstead, David O'Connor and Marnie Walker. Following the ceremony everyone retired to the school gym to meet the Bishop, bid goodbye to Father Nelligan, take photos of the students confirmed and to enjoy the treats pro- vided by the parents. and C.W.L. ladies. The Sacrament of Confirmation was received by 62 young people at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Wednesday evening. Bishop J.M. Sherlock, of the London Diocese, of- ficiated the ceremony aided by Father Remark, the Bishop's_ Secretary, Father Nelligan, pastor of Mount Carmel, Father Morrissey, decorated with their special confir- pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary, Grand Bend, and Father Fleiming, retired at Mount Carmel.. The sponsors, parents and relatives all crowded the church to see the special Mass and•rite of confirmation administered by Bishop Sherlock. The students all wore stoles that they had Mary's Musings By Mary Alderson ' Somewhere in China there's a little Chinese toddler speaking perfect English. At least that's what we think - you see, at our house we have a lit- tle Canadian girl who's speaking perfect Chinese. I know the whole concept is pretty far-fetched, but I can explain it. I think the stork got the voice boxes mixed up when he delivered the two babies. Somehow our Canadian baby got a Chinese voice box. For example, I pick up Chelsey from her crib each morning. Instead of saying "Good Morning", she says "Chin ping yin". It must be Chinese. Unlike her father, she's quite talkative in the morning. She goes on at great lengths about "ding chow yang"- as near as I can figure out she's telling me about her dreams. The other night I heard her giggl- ing in the bathroom. My suspicions were aroused and I went to check on her, but found nothing amiss. "What are you doing?" I asked. She looked at me with her big, brown, innocent eyes, shrugged her tiny shoulders, and said, "Gook sing chin ping thin." I really must get a translator. Later I learned that "Oook sing chin ping thin" means "I just pulled all the kleenex out of the box and stuffed them in the toilet. Then I put the lid down so you couldn't see them in there, and q9w I'm acting innocent." Mommy wasn't giggling •when she pulled the soggy kleenexes from the clogged toilet. GETS CONTRACT Grasdahl Construction of RR 2 Crediton has been awarded a sub- contract on construction of the Mississauga Civic 'Centre. The ata firm headed by diff Grasdahl'submitted the lowest of five bids for the covering and roofing of the walkways for $231,000. The general contractor is Jackson Lewis of Mississauga. The timbers are being cut at the Grasdahl yard this week and then moved to the site. The walkways will be covered by decorative lattice type woodwork made from heavy timbers. Her language skills really are remarkable. She can hold an English storybook upside down and read aloud in Chinese. Even if she's not reading aloud, I know she is reading in Chinese, because she reads from back to front. She prefers to read aloud, particularly to an audience and gets quite upset when Mommy doesn't sit around to hear the ending of the story. Even in Chinese, Cinderella, or "Pook zing kin" as Chelsey calls her, marries the hand- some prince. Poor old Pepper will be sleeping in a corner, when Chelsey will come along, sit on him, and start reading to him. Pepper barely understands English, and has little interest in Chinese stories. He has a two word vocabulary -- "woof" and "grrr". When Chelsey disturbs him to read him a story he usually responds with a loud "Ggrrr Don't worry, we're trying to teach Chelsey English. She's picked up a few words. Right now, her favourite word is ball. Anything round that she's like to play with is a ball. She calls balloons balls. When I open the refrigerator and she sees the eggs, she shouts "balls". The other day she was sitting in my shopping cart in the grocery store. She spied the grapefruit and shouted "balls". When no one paid any attention to her, she repeated herself -- about 50 times. That's the problem with learning new words -- once she catches on, she wants to use the word over and over again to make sure she's got it. Eyes is another new word she just learned. She pokes her dolls and Teddy bears in the eyes nad shouts "eyes!" trium- phantly. She does the same to anyone who tries to pick her up. Mommy's glasses are covered with tiny finger- prints as the result of Chelsey learn- ing the word "eyes." Well, I'd better go. Chelsey just came up to me and said "Wang win doo dee ish nuk." Loosely translated I think that means -"f just got the china cabinet open and I piled all your good tea cups on the, floor". We're slowly overcoming the language barrier. GETS TORONTO AREA JOB -- Cliff Grasdahl and Joe Groot are shown cutting timbers and preparing rafters for o contract to cover walkways at the Mississauga Civic Centre. T -A photo COLLEGE FITNESS --- Nina Knee shows some of the exercise equip- ment to Doug and Jim Rimmer of Parkhill during Saturday's Applica- tion Day at Centralia College. T -A photo f Results of child .stitdr. Many. *cbool$ at Cainp vcs What's geology? What it it like to sleep in a Conestoga chuck wagon and live in a town like Dodge City of the yid west? How do water, soil, plants and people affect each other? These are but a few of the SOO or more questions which each school class wW have answered when they attend the Camp Sylvan Conservation Program. Camp Sylvan is located near Parkhill, and is operated by the Ausable Bayfield ation Authority: The Camp Sylvan Conservation Program is operated in May, June, September and October and is unique as it is the only residential conserva— tion education program inthis part of Ontario. Schools from within ihe AB - CA watersheds quickly reserved by February most of the available two and a half day sessions foe. their grade seven and eight classes. Kathie Monk, Community . Reis - tions Technician with the Ausable Bayfield Conservation . Authority, says that it's surprising what the students experience and accomplish in two l A half days of living and studying "In the time that a c attends, they learn a great deal about science, geography, history, math, copservtdioet, each other, their headsets, and dives. e am, the ABCA hopes )Through diet t Andante will gain an understanding and appreciation of nature aid the interrelationships found between partsof our world. Camp . Sylvan has a hands-on ap- proach with students wading in the stream to oke urs water quality and quantity characteristics, and study- ing fields and forests on their hands and knees. Al Willer, a trapper, Jay Campbe 1, a meteorologist, and Frank Wight, an expert on Indian ar- tifacts, will talk to students about their interests. Through all this, students will learn of the important factors they will have to consider when using our natural resources in the future. Schools attending in May and June are: St. Boniface, Zurich; Warwick PREPARE EXPO POSTERS -- The theme at Usborne Central School Friday was Expo '86, Shown preparing posters are Koren McCurdy, Brenda Wilkinson and Tammy Rohde. T -A photo A recent study of the education of young children addressed many issues and prepared recommenda- tions for changes by the Ministry of Education. Boards of education across Ontario will be studying responses. Some of the issues are ad- dressed in this article prepared by Ila Mathers. Response tq early primary educa- tion project The Societal changes that have pav- ed the way for family planning are closely related to the increased educational expectations for the planned family. Parents, now more than ever before, are tuned into the needs of the young child. Demands of a dual career family make optimal day care a prime requisite, schools must be prepared to follow quality day nurseries. To graduate from a small nursefj+ class to a class of 25-28 is a culture shock for most children. It is at this point that "at risk" children begin to suffer from the large class syndrome. Wouldlt be a wiser use of resources to have 'smaller primary classes where more time could be spent with those that need the remedial lesson or a slower pace? Certainly! Would it cost more? Yes, but are the young children of our society not worth the same as those in secondary school. Why not close the $911.00 gap in the per student grant system? Let's target special funds to the Primary Project the way we have for special 'education and cooperative education. Specialist Qualifications are necessary for a variety of subjects - all primary teachers should be fully qualified - given an appropriate time line. Teacher education centres must take the lead and provide top quality programs and personnel. Junior kindergartens, available in some centres, should be available for parents that wish to send their children. Quality learning en- vironments are a necessity. Junior kindergartens could provide the alternative. Flex entry, determined by the child's development, could make the arbitrary entry age obsolete. With smaller classes children can progress at their own speed so there will be continual progress through the lear- ning stages. (grades). The Home and School Partnership must be developed and strengthened. Parents of primary children are most actively interested in their child's school life. I strongly recommend that the Ministry show its initiative in the im- plementation of the recommendations made in the report on the Early Childhood Education Project. A strong commitment is needed to make any impact: - recognition that the primary years are worthy of the best that education has to offer - financial resources especially ear marked for the education of the young. Children are our greatest resource- lets provide the very best learning en vironment possible. County road section to certify employee The county roads department hopes to have one of its employees certified as aninstructorintherequirementsof the new Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act. Huron County Council gave its authorization last week for J. Steffler to attend the Ontario Trucking Association seminar in Toronto in June. Upon his completion of the seminar, Steffler will receive a cer- tificate authorizing him to instruct other county employees on the proper techniques for handling dangerous goods. Recommendation to send Steffler to the seminar was made in the roads committee report presented during county council's regular session last week in Goderich. County Engineer Bob Dempsey told council that one of the difficulties with the new act is that most municipalities are not familiar with the rules and regulations which it presents. "It's simply amazing when you read the fine print and see just what is in there," he said. Under the new act, he illustrated,_ ordinary windshield washerfluid-is included in the 1 dangerous goods. "This particular act was pro- claimed last year and nobody really knows anything about it," Dempsey. said. Recently, the ministry of transpor- tation and communications gave a half-day course on the requirements of the act at the Auburn patrolyard. That course was attended by all of the county's foremen as well as the ex- ecutive of the Huron County Roads Superintendents' Association. Dempsey pointed out that although certificates were presented to those completing the half-day seminar, the. course was not comprehensive enough to produce someone qualified to instruct truck drivers and other personnel on the requirements of the act. Compleetion of the Toronto seminar is expected to provide such a certificate for Steffler. The county engineer also expected that Steffler will be available to in- struct any employees from the coun- ty's member municipalities on the handling of materials covered under the new act. However, he said the responsibility for certifying those employees would be that of the local municipality. 7.4 Central; 'Huron Centennial, Brucefield; Zurich Public; Grand Bend Public; Bosanquet Public; Hen - sail Public; Hohnesville Public; Our Lady of Mt. Carol; St. Michael's, Sarnia; Robertson Public, Goderich; St: Patrick's, Dublin; HD. .0 rull, Michigan; and Milverton Public. There are still a few nukes available in September and October. U teachers are interested, they should • contact Kathie Monk at Camp Sylvan, 294.6631. Low .drug usage at Huronview Hu�rtoonthview, the county -operated honlb for the aged near Clinton, main- tains the "lowest overall average" for drug use by its patients, Huron Coun- ty Council was told last week. Wayne Lester, Huronview ad- ministrator, made the claim during presentation of his annual report to council at its regular monthly session in Goderich. Lester told council the nursing at Huronview was "most pleased" with a ministry of health report which revealed that the use of drugs at the institution was in order: The. MOH periodically audits the drug situation at Huronview. Theministry's report showed that, in an area which includes Windsor, Sarnia, London and Goderich, Huron - view's average for the number of drugs used per patient per day in homes for the aged was lowest overall. - "There is no drug abuse at lluron- view", Lester said. A continuing review of drug use helps In keep the average low, he added. Outside the meeting, he said that the average use of perscription drugs 'at the home 15 3.8 prescriptions per patient. Also during his report Lester pointed out that 52.5 percent of the home's 158 patients requiring extend- ed care were in the category of "heavy extended care". The ad- ministrator said he has taken the posi- tion that if a resident requires nurs- ing and personal care of more than three hours per day, the care is then considered to be heavy extended care. He referred to a recent article from a trade journal in which another nur- sing home's administrator had cow, plained that ministry of health fun- ding was for 1.5 to 1.8 hours of care while expecting the homes to provide,, more. At the time the annual report was plsepared, there was a total of 283 residents at the home. Of that total, 126 required less than 1.5 hours of care, while 75 required extended care and$3 residents required heavy ex- tended care. An elderly man believing his hearing was failing stopped at a hearing -aid center and asked about prices. "We have them from $25,000 down t0 81.50." "What's the $25,000 one like?" "Well, it translates three languages." "And whatabout"the for $1.50?" "It's this button attached to a long. string." How does it work?" "It doesn't, replied the salesman. "But if you put the button in your ear and the string in your pocket, you'll be surprised hew loud people will talk." PRECIOUS 01.000 CONFIRMATION — Confirmation exercises were held Wednesday' at Precious Blood Separate School. Back, left, Chris Phillips, Robert Verberne, Jacqueline Westelaken, Penny Parent, Diana Verberne, Angela Mielke, Jennifer Levier, Denise Kints and Bryden Gryseels. Front, Jennifer Cook, Giselle Charrette, Amy Relouw, Todd McCann, Justin Charrette, Chrissy O'Toole, Michelle Birmingham and Jamie Bedard. T -A photo Wintario comes to Varna complex By Mary Chessell The Wintario show will be broad- cast from the Stanley Township Com- plex on July 17 in conjunction with the Sesquicentennial celebrations. The committee members are looking for any interesting photographs, either modern or of times past, that would be suitable for a TV clip about the township. You may leave them at the township office during business hours or call Tim Beard at 565-5237. All ar- ticles will be returned. These photos are needed by June 7, as they have to be forwarded the next week. Tickets for Wintario will be$3.00 and include a Wintario ticket. They will be available by June 26 or sooner. On Thursday of this week (Friday if it rains) the students of Huron Centennial School at Brucefield will be releasing balloons tagged with their names right after lunch. They will form the numbers 150 on the soc- cer field, and will be photographed from a plane. Everyone is welcome to come and see the balloons go up. The delay in respect to the 'souvenir • plates is because of a poor color reproduction. The committee is doing everything possible to correct the problem quickly. Jim Kirton, representing the Pastoral Relations Committee an- nounced in Varna Church on Sunday that Rev. Robt. Sam Parker, original- ly from the Chatham area, has ac- cepted a call to The Varna -Goshen charge. His wife Barbara is the daughter of a dairy farmer. Sam was an accountant for a short time before entering theological college. Their home church is in Cambridge, so he is being ordained by Hamilton Con- ference in HarriSton on Wednesday evening. Ivan McClyrtiont will speak on the history of area churches at the Huron Historical Society meeting on Thurs- . day evening at the Stanley Complex. Everyone is invited to attend. Darlene Babych of Fort McMurray is holidaying with her parents, Mer- vyn and Margaret Hayter? Congratulations to Bill and Helen Taylor, who have a little grand- daughter after seven grandsons. She is Collette Marie, born to Joyce and Bill Boussey of London on May 21. Members of the Stephenson Clan, please remember your 56th annual reunion is. on Sunday, June 1 at Huron Centennial School at Brucefield. Registration is at 3 o'clock. Entertain- ment begins at 4:00 featuring the Var- na Singers and other family talent. Supper is at 5:00 with sports to follow. I would like to find someone to do the Varna correspondence for the summer months, as I am away fre- quently. Please call me if you would like to do it.