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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-05-11, Page 5n the Street By Am Beckett The names have been left out to protect the innocent for the fol- lowing two items. A fairly new real estate representative was on the verge of wrap- ping up one of her first deals when the excitement became almost too much for her. Apparently she received a call that the purchaser was ready to submit an offer that had a good chance of being accepted by the vendor. In her rush to present the offer she rushcd out of the house and didn't notice until later she was wearing one grey shoe and one black one. * * * * * * * In the same vein a secretary on the Mainway was completing an application for insurance...a new experience for her. When she came to the part that said "type of body" she glanced down at herself and wrote in "short" before realizing the question per- tained to the car. * * * * * * * * The Exeter Business Improvement Association is desper- ately -seeking help and advice on the best way to care for the hanging plants which usually go up on the Main St. around this time of year. • Andy DeBoer, who was in charge of watering last year, is not available for this season. A tender advertisement appears elsewhere in this week's T -A. According to Andy the plants require watering every third day to keep them looking their best. if you have any ideas for watering the plants please give chairperson Karen Pfaff a call at 235-2460. * * * * * * * * The B.I.A. will be turning down a request for a pair of white squirrels from a zoo in Kelowna, B.C. Some wise director came up with the remark that "they would have to be nuts to leave Exeter." Our local white squirrel guardian, Andy De Boer, is presently bottle-feeding an orphan. * * * * * * * * Susan and Dave Moore have purchased the south half of the former Hopper Hockey building and are in the middle of making ex- tensive renovations. Doug Jeffrey and his crcw arrived on the scene this week and had the building stripped down to its original front in a few hours. - - The Feather Tick 'is expected to open in their new location in July. Anne Baynham of Exeter is featured on the spring edition of the Pro Hardware catalogue. * * * * * * * * One interesting item was missed in last week's report in this space about the OPP battle against the drug trade. Undercover constable Glen Miller said the amounts of moncy arc so large in some deals that the sellers do not even take the time to count all the bills. They weigh the money. Apparently $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs 1..15 lbs. * Back in tine 10 years ago • Michael John Shepherd was found safe and sound by police offi- cers of the Forest detachment after he was reported missing by his family. Shepard was unaccounted for from 7:30 a.m. to la.m. the next day. •Exetcr Hawks, guided by Ron Bogart, were defeated by Lakcfield in the All -Ontario Junior D final. •Stcphen Township completed an agreement with the Ontario De- velopment Corporation to rent a building in Huron Park to be uscd for recreational purposes. The building, attached to the cast side of the Rec Centre, was a snack bar when the property was uscd by the RCAF. The rental fee was $3,750 per year for a five year lease.' 20 years ago •Exeter council passed what was described as a "stand pat" budget. Though rate payers were initially faced with a nine percent increase, the hike was nullified by government shelter grants. Residents actu- ally saw a decrease in their taxes. •Lynda Litt was crowned Queen at the South Huron District High School "At Home" Dance. - • "Some Exeter residents arc choking in dust from the streets, but there is little council can do about the situation," the T -A reported, noting that dirt roads in the town could not be treated until the weather warmed up. SO years ago •"That visit of Hitler to Mussolini smacks of the school boy scared stiff, whistling like a calliope to assure everyone that he is the big- gest bully in town," the T -A editorialized. "The more the jitters jit- ter, the bolder his front. . "However, the fact remains that what a man or nation sows, he is bound to reap. When money is spent for bunting that the people greatly need for bread, trouble is just around the corner. The bands and the processions and the torch lights may impress the people for a day, but governments are quite anottki thing... Rome's exhibition of show business of last week, when so many Italians and Germans find the economic sledding difficult to impossible, can be neither morally right or economically sound. Rulers cannot long fool their subjects." •A music festival held at the James Street United Church in Exeter attracted more than 1,400 contestants. Choirs, many of them from one -room school houses, came from all over Huron County to par- ticipate. 70 years ago • A public meeting was held in the Exeter Town Hall to organize girls "to assist with farm work during the summer". The girls were organized into camps and sent out into different districts to pick fruit and hoc crops to offset a shortage of man -power brought on by the First World War. •"Any stocks of liquor left in the Express Office after May 1 have been seized by Inspectors and it is now illf...gakfor any person to send, ship or bring into any province of Canada (with the exception of Quebec) any liquor containing more than two and a half percent alco- hol," noted a front page story in May, 1918. •"Private Ernest Harvey brought home with him (front the First World War) a souvenir that was prized by one of the Exeter boys now recuperating in England. It was a small shrapncll ball which passed through the body of Private R. E. Southcott." Until he sent it home with Harvey, Sbuthcott had used the piece of shrapncll as a good luck charm. Times -Advocate, May 11, 1988 Page 5 Hire a student, while you can By Adrian Harte EXETER - For many people, the approach of summer means plan- ning a vacation, or getting a chance to catch up on a tan at the beach. To most students, high school, col- lege or university, summer is a chance at employment to earn some real money for spending, saving or for next years tuition. With unemployment rates among the lowest in the country, South- western -Ontario employers are turn- ing more and more to hiring stu- dents in order to keep their companies running in the summer months when business is busiest or when regular employees are heading work is hot and hard, but the pay is good, which makes it attractive to many secondary school students. "Maybe they don't like it, but they'll pick stones to make a pay cheque," said Hodgins. Post -secondary students are a little more selective when it comes to looking for summer work. The money is always important, but so is the idea that this summer's job will somehow be geared towards a future career. This is where Hod- gins says many college and univer- sity students have difficulty in find- ing an ideal summer job. South Huron just does not have as much career -related summer employment It's Your Business The employment centre for stu- dents does its part to encourage . summer employment. Apart from administering an odd -job campaign later in the season, Hodgins also visits employers to encourage fur- ther employment, and she will tour local elementary schools to make the students aware of what jobs are available for them. "It gives them a little self-esteem and a little money," she said. The employment centre also handles the applicants for SEED (Summer Employment/Experience Development) program jobs: sum- mer positions which are subsidized up to 50 percent with federal funds. on vacation. The Ontario economy is also booming, again giving the student worker the advantage. The Canada Employment Centre in Exeter has opened up its student centre for the summer months. Even though job offers are trickling in at the moment, Deb Hodgins is expecting a busy season of match- ing employers to potential student employees. As a Laurier University student herself, Hodgins is familiar with the difficulties in finding summcr work, although she secs the job market as a far cry from the re- strained and stumbling economy of only a few years ago. "There'll be more job orders than there are students," said Hodgins, warning that if employers do not act quickly, most students will have already found summer positions.. Another side-effect of this demand for student work is that wages arc driven up as students pick and choose" the kind of work they want. Employers with Izss desirable, or more demanding jobs may find they have to offer a higher wage scale to attract students: Hodgins points out that even though the student centre has only been open for little more than a week, higher wages are already ap- parent. "We've only had a fcw at mini- mum wage and the rest are above," she said. Because of Exeter's location in the centre of a largely agricultural area, a large part of the summer work is, of course, on farms. The as the cities. Work in retail sales is also hard to find. Exeter businesses often have a complement of part-time secondary students who will in- crease their hours for the summer, leaving little room for more stu- dents. Smaller retailers have no need for students at all. "I don't know if there's as much opportunity for post -secondary stu- dents," Hodgins said. Grand Bend, however, is another story. - "There's always a job to be found in Grand Bend," said Hodgins. The combination of a resort community and a lot of evening work in restau- rants also makes Grand Bend attrac- tive to student workers. A relative- ly high turnover rate among workers keeps a demand going all summer. Unfortunately, many stu- dents have no transportation to get them to the lake, so summerwork in Grand Bend is sometimes out of the question. If there are any advantages to finding summer work in a small town or agricultural area, Hodgins thinks it is in the support employ- ers give their own youth. "Everyone wants to help and hire students," she said. "Another thing that's interesting is that we get nearly as many place- ments as Goderich, and it's twice our size," Hodgins noted. She could offer little explanation for this situation, except that perhaps Exeter has larger outlying villages than-Goderich, with Grand Bend as a major contributor. HIRE -A -STUDENT - Deb Hodgins will be dealing with both job -seeking students and employers all summer at the Canada Employment Centre for Students in Exeter. Local Jeweler attends -American Gem Society's annual Conclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Judy Dalrymple of Anstett Jewellers Ltd. attended the 198$ Ameri- can Gem Society (AGS) Conclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada be- tween April 23-26. The American Gem Society, a professional organization of jewelers in the United States and Canada, sponsors an annual education con- vention for its members and friends. Jewelers learn about the latest in- dustry developments, hone their gemological expertise and gain other important information during the intense four-day program: Sessions on appraisals, diamond and colored stone grading, pearls and detecting gemstone treatments were included in the program. Business and mar- keting courses were also offered. The 54 -year-old Society has provided over half a century of dedica- tion to improving and advancing gemological education in the jewelry industry and providing consumer information to the public. Before the American Gem Society was founded in 1934, there was no formal or- ganized gemological study in North America. Every AGS member -jeweler must pass an annual reregistration ex- amination based on subjects covered at the Conclave to renew mem- bership in the Society. , Non-profit organizations can hire students with 100 percent funding. SEED jobs must meet Strict crite- ria for providing valuable career - related experience. This can lead to some inflated, and often bizarre, job descriptions when an employer ap- plies for the grant. Hodgins point- ed out one application seeking a "farm management trainee", an im- pressive title, but she discovered the Job is really just to drive the trac- tor. Nevertheless, Hodgins credits the SEED program with creating many summer positions which would not exist otherwise. Unfortunately, employers who would like to get in on this SEED program have missed the boat. The deadline for applications was in March. Hodgins only recommenda- tion is to apply quickly for the sim- ilar provincial OSEP program. 1-lodgins isn't worried about stu- dents not getting started early enough. Most college and universi- ty students are already working, and with five weeks of secondary school left, the student employment centre is attracting many job seekers hop- ing to land that perfect summcr job from among the few positions post- ed on the boards. agricrew agricrew agricrew agricrew agricrew agricrew Studentcentre opens Ily Deb Hodgins It's summertime again! A time for sand, sun and surf. Students will 'also have the chance to work hard and earn some extra money and gain valuable work experience. The Canada Employment Centre for Students is now open and pre- pared for all that this summer has to offer. The Centre.is eager to se- cure jobs for students; while simultaneously meeting the needs of the employers of this arca. Each summer the Canada Employment Centre for Students assists local high school and post -secondary students in finding summer em- ployment. The Centre functions to refer qualified students to em- ployment vacancies which arca employers have reported. This service is efficient and time -saving for the employer and is also free. - Post -secondary as well as secondary and elementary students have been registered at the Centre for the past couple of weeks and we urge those students who have not yet registered to do so. Being reg- istered will certainly incrcase your chanc .Lfinding-summer em- ployment. If you arc an employer and, require additional employees in your business or simply wish to have some extra work done around your home, remember that able students are ready to begin working for. you. If you arc interested in hiring a student, please call Deb Hodgins at 235-1711 or visit the office at 414 Main St.. in Exeter. Students arc also urged,to stop in to check for possible job placements. The of- fice is open from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. ANSTETT JEWELLERS LTD. IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE • Judy Dalrymple Karen Gaul HAS EARNED THE DIAMONDS AND DIAMOND GRADING CERTIFICATE OF THE GEMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA A Diamonds and Diamond Grading Certificate from the Gemological• Institute of America is recognized around the world as a standard of professional expertise and achi vement. The knowledge and train- ing represented by this certificate are at your disposal. It is another way in which we provide you with the best advice and service possi- ble, enabling you to buy fine jewelry with confidence and wear it with pride. Our commitment to professional education through the Gemological. Institute of America is a commitment to our custonfers. ANOTHER STEP IN OUR DEDICATION TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ANSTETT JEWELLERS SPECIALISTS 8 Amen st CLINTON SINCE 1930 284 Main St , EXETER 28 Main St. 8.. SEAFORTH .., 135 Omen SI. East, ST. MARYS 1\ 203 Durham St. E. WALKERTON 2 TM Squars. OOOERICH.