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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-11-16, Page 17GOING Fine weather draws Blue shies and warm sun- shine greeted the more than 750 people who took time off from office desk, vacuum cleaner or six -furrow plow to attend open house at Cen- tralia College of Agricultural Technology on November 9. Parents, brothers, sisters and friends of current students as well as those con- sidering enrolment next year were invited to follow the "Pathway to the Future" around the attractive, well- maintained campus, and into Huron, Grey and Middlesex Halls, the Animal Health Technology and Engineering buildings, and the recreation centre to see the many ex- cellent displays and demonstrations set up by the students. There was something for everyone. Students in the Food Service Management course passed out little muf- fins containing a delicious • combination of pineapple and rutabaga. washed down with paper cups of orange juice punch. Bruce County Warden Jack Cummings, paying his first visit to the College, was METRIC -- Invited guest Jock Cumming, caught obtaining his height andwarden of Bruce County, gets his weight in kilograms sen weight downandgram e last from student Clara Da Ponte at CCAT's open house. centimetre ar student d tClwith second -Year student Clara Da ENROLMENT APPLICATION - Pot Campbell, secretary in the Animal Health department at CCAT, tells Torontonians Anna Corluccia and her mother Angela how to apply to attend the college, during -CCAT's annual open house. A REFRESHING PAUSE --- Glen Prout, RR 1 Centralia, accepts a rutabaga muffin and a gloss of grape punch from CCAT student Brenda Mcllwrick during open house at the Centralia camapus. 1 1 NOZZLE DEMONSTRATION -- Dove Vanneste demonstrate CCAT students Don Lovering, John Haines and spray nozzle settings at the College's open house. Ponte operating the scale and calculator. "We're moving almost everyone to the far end of the large frame chart", Miss Da Ponte said with a smile. - However, help was close at hand, in the nearby displays on nutrition in the Consumer and Community Studies exhibits. The results of a blueberry muffin baking contest held the previous evening among 11 teams, each composed of two male ' students and a female coach, were not on view. The winning muffins baked by Steve Jensen and Rob Doyle had received the ultimate taste test, and some of the losing entries had end- ed up in the garbage pail. The eye-catching, stomach - grabbing demonstrations in the Animal Health lab left nothing to the imagination. The exhibits included a recently removed bovine eye, lungs, heart and reproductive organs, and the infected uterus of a German Shepherd cross, stuffed like a sausage with seven or eight five -week- old puppy fetuses. Visitors could peer into a microscope tosee canine ear mites enlarged 100 times, Ag Societies annual meeting Over 150 delegates attend- ed the Annual Meeting of the Huron -Perth Ontario Associa- tion of Agricultural Societies which was held in Listowel on Tuesday last. Fair Queens from Brussels, Dungannon, Exeter, Listowel, Seaforth and Stratford, were well received by the audience. The crowd enjoyed the musical entertainment which was provided by Mr. and Mrs. Don McDonald of Listowel. The Ken Reaney Memorial Plaque which is awarded to the Society which has the larges: number of delegates in attendance based upon the travelling distance was presented by Mrs. Jean Reaney to the Exeter Agricultural Society. The 1984 Executive is district director, Bill Flynn, Clinton; secretary, Don Young, Auburn; lady representative, Hazel McIn- tosh, Milverton; lady secretary, Evelyn Coxon, Milverton. The 1984 annual meeting will be held in Exeter hosted by the Exeter Agricultural Society. crowd to COAT Open Nouse blood cells from ap anemic animal or a simulated opera- tion in the ultra -modern operating room. Many -local veterinarians refer their more puzzling cases to the experts at CCAT. The row of computers caught the eye of many poten- tial students in the Agricultural Business r Management course. While parents watched in bemuse- ment, sons and duaghters fingered the keyboards with easy familiarity. . The practical side of farm- ing was also well - represented. Rob Traut, soils lecturer in agronomy, said 1983 was the best year yet for the College's crop competi- tion. More than 80 entries were received, compared to 53 the previous year. Canola, a more common sight each year in this area, was featured for the first time in the competition. Traut was pleased to see many of his students examin- ing exhibits like infiltration (the movement of water into OPERATION --- CCAT animal health student Karen Halliday simulates an opera- tion in the College's modern operating room for visitors to the annual open house. dvocate November 16, 1983 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 Hensa II Hazel Luther was one of the first tenants to move into the elegant Northcrest apartment building in Hensall for senior citizens. She is delighted with her new home. and proudly shows visitors the well-designed kit- chen with its almond cup- boards, butcher block counter top, and floor to ceiling pantry. The spacious bathroom, equipped with handrails beside the toilet and tub, is large enough to al!ow a wheelchair to move around with no difficulty. The hall storage cupboard beside the clothes closet has a wall outlet for tenants with small freezers. All living rooms and bedrooms are carpeted. The hall storage cupboard beside the clothes closet has wall outlet for tenants with small freezers. All living rooms and bedrooms are carpeted. Each of the 22 units has a distinctive bay window. and its own little patio. The ones at the front of the building have extra fencing to provide more privacy. The wide halls are equipped with handrails. Access to the second floor can be either by stairs or elevator. Each floor has a Targe lounge with its own ht- tle kitchen. laundry room vitt. tree use of the washer and dryer, and garbage room The main floor has public washrooms. The entrance to the building is controlled, and the doors are only opened by a tenant's key, or by someone inside identifying the caller, pushing a button in their apartment, and releasing the door Mrs. Luther's friend Nan Britton is still unpacking Pagel A seniors happy in new apartments boxes in her one -bedroom apartment, atter selling her home on King Street. Looking around at her brand new stove, auto -defrost fridge and adjustable shelves in the kit 1 COSY KITCHEN - Hazel Lutlie, 'a tenant in the seniors apartment building in Hensall, prepares to make a cup of tea in her well-designed kitchen. EXTRA TOUCH - Northcrest residents Hazel Luther (left) and Nan Britton visit in front of the graceful hay window of Mrs tuther's apartment. Centre now two thirds emptied Nearly two thirds of the 151 patients at the Bluewater ('entre for the Developmen- tally handicapped at Goderich have found new homes across Southwestern Ontario . and remainder should be relocated by Nov. 28. William Gregg, ad- ministrator of the facility which is to he transformed in- to a regional centre for juvenile offenders, said Mon- day the original target date of Friday for completion of the moves has been "re targeted." He said even that deadline will be flexible to permit the orderly "graduation" of pa- tients into their new quarters, some of which are still being refurbished "We have a couple of weeks to play around with". He said the centre won't place pa- tients in new homes until those homes are ready. Patients are being placed in homes in Huron County and places like Hamilton, Brant- ford, Stratford, Meaford and Guelph. he said Attempts have been made to locate the patients as close to family and friends as possihie. tie said 59 patients were at Bluewater as of Monday, however, nine were making pre -placement visits to their new quarters in preparation for moving. There are 166 staff members and the first 25 will be laid orf Friday. Gregg said. They are part -tine and unclassified employees. Until Nov :30. the staff working will total 89. while 69 will be work- ing until Dec 16 when the last will be laid off. After the Iasi patients leave, he said, remaining staffers will help close down the facility and make home visitations to the former patients. Gregg said he maintains four guarantees about the placement of patients in the community: no one will be cut door;" good "home-huckedlikeoatmospherethe" will be required for the new quarters: day workshop or stimulation programs will he provided patients,parents and family are to he consulted throughout the transition. He said he expects to re- main at the centre until ear- ly next year as "closure co- ordinator" but he has not yet accepted a new posting. Originally a psychiatric hospital, Bluewater was transformed into a regional centre for the developmental- ly handicapped in 1976. in September. the Ontario - government announced the facility would undergo a multi•million dollar, 15 -month transformation into.a centre for young offenders. It is to become one of two such regional facilities to accom- modate 177 young persons ag ed 12 to 17 who will be a responsibility of the province starting April 1, 1985 under the yet -to -he proclaimed federal Young Offenders Act which raises the juvenile of- fender designation from age 16 to 18. More than 160 employees are expected to be required at the revamped Goderich facility. chen cupboards, she express- ed her pleasure by saying "we never had it so good:" The general public is in- vited to an open house at Nor • - thcrest on November 20, beginning at 2:00 p.m. A tour of the building is convincing proof that being a senior has some distinct advantages. There are still some apart- ments available for rental. Canadians lucky, Kenyan says Canadians are among the luckiest people in the world and the Huron County Board of Education was reminded of this fact when they received a little insight into the educa- tion system of Kenya Joseph Mutisya. a principal in a grade 1 to 8 school in Machakos, Kenya told the board at its November 7 meeting that "whatever you need is available." Mutisya is in Ontario on a Canadian Crossroads Inter- national exchange program. Ile is visiting Huron County for one week. coming from Middlesex County. The Ke- nyan is being hosted at the home of tan and Sheila Clarke of tttt 5 Lucknow. Mrs. Clarke is the student services co- ordinator for the board. A principal for 14 year Mutisya is in Canada for tour months and expects to return, home at the end of December. His main reason for coming to Ontario is to share, with his colleagues back home. the in- formation he has gathered here. Ile has four interest areas which he is focusing on. They are rural development. the education system here, the social life and agriculture. Mutisya arrived Friday, November 4, in Huron and by Monday afternoon had already spoken to a group of students. "I showed slides and answered questions Many many questions," com- mented Mutisya. Ile told the trustees that he has been "shocked" and im- pressed by the facilities available to students in this province "The students here do everything for themselves. in the developing world. teachers feed t information i to the students," said Mutisya "1 feel that when i go back to share what i have learned. it will be quite a lot," added the principal. He also has high regard for area farmers. "They're never asleep. They work tirelessly. I've seen farmers work to 2 a.m." said Mutisya, enthralled. Ile thanked Canadians for "opening their hands" to developing countries and add- ed that his country needs teachers and books. ft was later learned that although his school is located about 40 miles from Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, the 400 students under Mutisya's guidance attend a school which has no electricity or running water. The school has Grade 1 to 7, withGrade8 being introduced this coming January.. As in Ontario. Kenya has a ministry of education which doles out the money to operate the schools "But to build schools in the rural areas," commented Mutisya." the parents have to pay." Back home he has. six children. Ile has not seen his sixth child who was born on September 8. after he had left to come to Ontario. Mutisya, whose interests revolve around mathematics, science. primaducation and scouting, has' never- ending praise for Canadians. "Canadians are sociable, generous. and considerate very. very considerate." the soil surface) and erosion control. "We don't have time in class to do this. There we show movies, but here the students can get their hands right in. Open house gives them an opportunity to see while doing", Traut commented. After spending the day moving around the College where he has been principal since 1969, Doug Jamieson noted the students felt very comfortable as they manned the displays and talked to the visitors. Most of the projects were actual work that had been turned in to be graded. "We tried in all the displays to show as clearly as possible the variety of subjects. and the types of skills and infor- mation the students are lear- ning in each curriculum course", Jamieson said. • No exhibit was especially designed to illustrate the theme; each display depicted part of normal everyday ac- tivity at the college. "Getting a good agricultural education IS the pathway to the future", commented Dennis McKnight, head of the Col- lege's livestock branch and one of the -staff members on. the open house organizing committee for the past four years. Both Jamieson and McKnight remarked on the enthusiasm and esprit ae corps among the students this year. Many were quite con- scious of the one adverse review by a reit-known farm writer last year. and were determined to do everything in their power to prevent a recurrence. This year the 330 students enrolled in one of the our two- year diploma courses offered by CCAT come from India, Hong Kong, and the Maritimes as well as 34 On- tario • counties. This represents a remarkable growth since the College opened its doors in 1967 to 75 students in two courses. Centralia also offers a variety of subjects in continu- ing education: A weekly class in futures marketing taught by John De Putter assembles every Wednesday night. In January 35 courses including dairy nutrition, swine management.. financial management, crop pest con- trol. farm machinery maintenance and computers in agriculture will be announced. The students occasionally remove their noses from the grindstone, as proven by the lively square dancing and keeping-fitexercises demonstrated at the open house. The school supports broomball, volleyball and hockey teains as well as a school choir.. A first year student tending one of the exhibits in the Animal Health lab spoke for her classmates when she said "This college is everything I expected - and more" c -j CHECK HAYLAGE -- CCAT soils lecturer Bob Traut shows some of the entries in the haylage competition to Kby and Jack Blair at Thursday's Open House. A TASTY DISH — CCAT principal Doug Jamieson and student Ashok Bhatra admire a casserole on display during the College's open house. After graduation, Bhotra will return to his family's catering business in Bombay, India. 1