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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1984-12-26, Page 3nd' raataras Over 300 enter contest Logos for Huron Centre CLINTON - More than 300 young people from throughout the Huron County area displayed their artistic talents at the Huron Centre for Children and Youth recently when a countywide search was held to design a logo for the Centre. Don Keillor, director for the Centre, said he was overwhelmed with the response the contest received. Individual artists of all ages entered, schools took on the project and entire classes made the design contest an art assignment. A panel of judges spent more than four hours studying the artistic efforts. They decided on three winners and an honourable mention. Winners included: Daryl Graham, 10, of Brookside Public School; John Paul Maurer, 11, of Stephen Central School; Lin- da Wiebe, 17, of Goderich and District Col- legiate Institute; honourable mention, Patti Jo Linder, 19, of R.R. 1, Sebringville. Mr. Keillor said that the logos would be used in a variety of ways, as letterhead, for buttons and posters, all in an effort to pro- mote the family counselling service. The contest also helped to promote the agency, which has been operating in Huron County for more than seven years. More than 100 people attended a special open house at the Clinton offices to learn more about the Centre and to see the artists work. At that time, contest winners were presented with their prizes, AM -FM por- table cassette players, donated by Jerry MacLean and Sons Sports of Exeter and the Clinton Optimist Club. CLINTON ;NEWS -IU CORD, WEDNESDAY', , DECEMBER 264984-4;p , Daryl Graham John Paul Maurer Linda Wiebe Patti Jo Linder Plan helps upgrade volunteerwork CLINTON - As charities and other volunteer organizations make efforts to in- crease the effectiveness of their operations, the provincial government has developed a program to "provide .an overview on how volunteer boards can solve internal pro- blems and upgrade their current opera- tions:' The Dec. 5 Clinton community briefing session was one of three in Southwestern On- tario and the only one scheduled for the counties of Huron, Bruce, Grey and Perth for about a year. The volunteer board workshops, developed by the Ministry of Citizenship and ' Culture, are opened to organizations served by the ministry. These include arts organizations, cultural groups, library boards, ethnocultural and multicultural organizations, heritage groups, historical societies, museum boards, community-. in- formation centres and community volunteer bureaus. "The seminars are intended to give some insightas to how a board functions," said Jean -Yves Leduc, a consultant with the Southwestern Region of the ministry. The sessions focus on "providing an orien- tation to the resource manual" called Work- ing with Volunteer Boards by Dianne Abbey -Livingston and Bob Wiele, "Organizational Development theory and its application, and assisting participants to develop problem -solving skills." Up to 100 participants are allowed per forum. The manual has been revised in 1984 and was described by Mr. Leduc as an easily understood reference manual, "The jargon's been taken out and it's easy to use -it's like a recipe book." The book has been based on question- naires which are included so that a member can find out how the board to which he or she belongs is running. If the answers are un- satisfactory, the ministry can, be called in to - conduct a workshop to improve the board's performance. Following a community briefing session such as the one conducted in Clinton, par- ticipants can register for a facilitator's weekend workshop which are "intensive residential training sessions for community leaders with some background in the prin- cipals of Organizational Development." The Workshops are conducted by the authors of the Working with Volunteer Boards manual and ministry staff and are designed to "aug- ment skills of participants by providing sup- plementary resource material; demonstrate theory extensively and t� stimulate net- working."• People participating ., in the in-depth facilitator's workshop have to indicate that ley FEELING HUNGRY? The next time you eat a meal remember that kundreds of thousands of people in Africa are dying of starvation. You can help. You can send your donation to Londesboro United Church who will forward the money to the Canadian Food Bank. The Canadian International Development Agency will match your donation three to one making it worth four times as much! Your tax deductible donations can be sent to the Treasurer of Londesboro United Church, Box 145 Londesboro; Ont. NOM 2H0 or can be given to our minister Rev. Dave Snihur. Cheques should be made out to Londesboro United Church. re Famine Relief. The Famine Relief Committee of this church urgently ask you to help. THAN( YOU they will provide a follow up to the workshop and conduct an informational meeting with their own board or within the community. "These workshops are put on by the ministry to help organizations fucntion well. If people are frustrated then the organiza- tion can disband," said Mr. Leduc. There are many individuals who can con- tribute to their communties and the ministry feels it has made a positive step toward getting those people involved and to keep them interested by utilizing their skills to their best advantage, and through these volunteer workshops and, other programs such as the Volunteer Service Awards pro- . gram. "Since we reorganized we recognized we can't be everywhere at once. The ministry acknowledged the untapped resources in the cpmmtiliity,And the needl,itq utilize them," added the consultantt .. Although the ministryS always had pro- grams like this, the nature of volunteerism is. changing (it has been estimated that about $5.8 -billion was collected by volunteer organizations, not including an estimate of the time needed to collect the funds) and the workshops now have an increased visibility. There is a method to receive feedback on the workshops with the participants filling out a questionnaire at the end of the session. "I must . say they've been very, very favourable in terms of content and presenta- tion," said Mr. Leduc. With the success of the workshops, "I'm fairly confident we'll have an opportunity to do this again,"concluded the consultant. o„ with wishes °f 1° •. Were glidingin°nd prosperity for our lova end friends in theNew w Ye°r. Amy Glavin, Darlene O'Rourke and Mary Lynn Dietrich of Mt. Carmel School, were among the more than 300 young people who took part in a contest to design a logo for the Huron Centre for Children and Youth. The family counselling agency recently held an open house at their Clinton offices to name the winners and to display the hundreds of en- tries. (Shelley McPhee photo) SEASON'S GREETINGS Rene Leveille Yvonne Vezeau Paula Leveille Laurie Broadfoot Peggy Richa,-dson 3 ALBERT STREET CLINTON 482-382.6 We sincerely wish all our generous patrons a wonderful.Christmas and a Happy New Year.. May your holiday season.be filled with friends, family, love and joy. 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