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Put yourself in their shoes
Residents in the northern part of town are upset over the prospect of
having a retirement home in their backyard, but hopefully, council has
put their minds at ease by passing a site control bylaw.
A group of local people want to build a retirement home on property
located off Charles Street in Clinton, but residents feel it will devalue
their land and create parking problems.
Only time will tell us if these,. problems will occur, but in the meantime,
everyone should take another party into consider. That party is the senior
citizens.
Councillor Gord Gerrits claims seniors have had to leave town because
they could not find accommodations here. If this is true, it is sad.
At any age it is difficult to pick up and move to another town or city. The
unfamiliarity of the surroundings and not knowing anyone causes a lot of
stress and strain - something elderly people should not have to deal with.
But perhaps the saddest part of all is after spending a good portion of
their life in a community working and associating with its residents, they
are told there is no room for them.
Put yourself, your parents or your grandparents in this position. No one
would like to go through it themselves or have a loved one go through such
an experience.
Surrounding communities, such as Seaforth and Hensall, have retire-
ment homes situated in residential areas. A drive passed one of these
buildings will reveal well maintained buildings and grounds.
During their prime, senior citizens were the backbone of our communi-
ty and as they grow older, they are teachers to the younger people they
come in contact with and a wealth of information for anyone who cares to
listen.
They deserve to be treated with respect and given the best the com-
munity can offer becaue they are anything but second class citizens. - by
Anne Narejko.
Horoscopes are fun
I'm not superstitious, I don't believe in
fortune tellers but I very seldom miss
reading my horoscope.
Before I read the front page news on my
favorite daily, my eyes take a direct path to
the index where they pick up the section and
page number of the horoscopes. From there
I read what will happen to me in the next 24
hours.
I'm not sure whether I really believe so-
meone can predict what will happen to
themselves or others by the location of the
stars, but horoscopes certainly are
entertaining.
Recently I borrowed a book which has
anything and everything in it about each
sign of the Zodiac. I must say that it is the
most entertaining book I've read in a long
time.
My sign is Leo, and for all of you out there
born between July 23 and August 23, you'll
be happy to know the sign of Leo presents
Philosphers and researchers
will be important in future years
By Joan Van den Broeck
Trustee, Huron
Board of Education
The value of a World Congress on Educa-
tion and Technology lies not in the
likelihood of transferring information into
direct local application, but in the ex-
posure to the creative thinking of
philosophers and researchers who are the
vangard for the future, standing as they
do, on the edge and looking out at a future
whose misty perameters are as yet
undefined.
They are, if I can make the analogy, like
the Indian Scouts from the American West
of yesterday - articulating the dangers that
lie ahead and suggesting safer routes. Like
the settlers of a bygone era, we wait in
safer places, unable to ,formulate the
shape or nature of our foreboding.
Some, like David Suzuki, return from
their mental forays to :warn us to be
cautious, stay another day, before foray-
ing into unknown territories where the con-
sequences are yet undetermined. Others
like George McRobie, Author of Small is
Possible, seeing the perils ahead has
determined that technological develop-
ment and the accompanying deskilling and
disenfranchisement of the people are not
worth the cost in human terms. He urges
us to look at more humane alternatives
for, when 'leisure time' for the few
translates into 'massive unemployment'
for the many, the benefits are dubious.
The leaders of tomorrow are in our
schools today. How can we help prepare
them for the social upheaval that? . it is
predicted, will shape our future, where it is
perceived that artificial intelligence and
highly advanced technological develop-
ment will redefine the shape of work? How
can we assure the foundation of a humane
environment determined by the needs of
the people and not by the profit sheets of
mega -corporations?
In the next decade, it is conceivable that
computer companies will sell educational
instruction directly to the consumer,
bypassing traditional institutes of learning
and offering their own certificates. Will
young people then become the products of
the corporation rather than a reflection of
the aspirations of the people?
It is questionable that we Will be able to
protect the traditional manufacturing in-
dustries that have held us in good stead in
the past. In Korea, where the educational
standard is as high AS our own, the people
work for one-fifth of the Canadian wage.
We can not compete effectively in this en-
- vironment without seriously downgrading
our standard, of living. Reducing wage
scales to subsistence levels is not the
answer, .
According to Stuart Smith, Chairman of
the Science Council of Canada,. Canada's
hope lies in the development of new
technoiogics' and products. For example,
the developfnent of lithium an aluminum
alloy,.allowed Canada to win back this seg-
ttilent of the dlr'craft a#60 000(040%
to foreign
aluminum resource suppliers.In order to
maintain a leading edge in world markets,
we must, according to Smith, leap onto a
precarious treadmill - for knowledge will
be the new service trade.
Not every Country will be able to escape
through this knowledge intensive escape
hatch, but in the short term we will be buf-
fered from the impact by our natural
resources. But what effect will this high
tech industrial development have on the
people and their employability?
Technologies today are quite 'different
from the technologies of tomorrow. Micro -
technology will have a more pervasive im-
pact on society than we have realized to
date. Despite the myth that technology
creates jobs, according to United States
Bureau of Labour Statistics and
Forecasts, high tech industries are not
labour intensive.
People need
to learn
how to care
about
one another
the "most spectacular personality in the
Zodiac,"
According to this book, we are ruled by
the sun and the sign Leo reflects our Lion
symbol. It goes on to say Leos are "kingly
people, heroic and generous."
From the information given, Leos are
pretty good people. We are lively - "every
kind of entertainment is ruled by Leo." We
are giving - "everything connected with Leo
is large, fulsome and generous." And we are
lovable - "Leo is the sign of love." (When I
came across this point, I finally realized
why my daily horoscope was always
highlighting romance.)
Another chapter tells what one can expect
from their mate. A Leo wife is suited for a
"worldly, ambitious man" while the Leo
husband fits into the "scheme of domestic
life quite smoothly."
While flipping through the pages, I came
across a section called the Astrological
Guide for Parents. This guide tells you what
your children will be like, and after reading
the first two lines under the "Child of Leo,"
I've decided to think twice about having
children.
It says, "The Leo children are the most
vital and active of pill the types. They are
highly strung, domineering, and much in-
clined to show off." But then it went on to
say, "Actually they are often handsome,
lovable children full of talent. They excel in
outdoor sports and are healthy, tireless and
able to compete succesuflly in any field
where children are contenders."
Horoscopes may not be 100 per cent ac-
curate, but after reading descriptions of
various friends under the signs, they don't
seem to far off.
Brucefield Correspondent
The News -Record endeavors to cover a
wide area, but in order to do so, we rely on
correspondents to write the daily happen-
ings and the "people news."
We no longer have a correspondent for
Brucefield. If anyone is interested in writing
for us, please give me a call at 482-9502.
In 1959, five per cent of the labour force
was involved in high tech occupations, the
same percentage holds true today and itis
; not expected to change by 1990. Skill
change within occupations have been
downgraded, not enhanced, by
technological developments according to
these same statistics.
What skills will young people ,need to
cope in the society of tomorrow?
Sophisticated computing skills? Not
necessarily. Through evolution, corn -
Otos will become easier, not more dif-
ficult, to operate. as 'thinking' functions
are incorporated into their design. As well,
high tech occupations (technicians, pro-
granuner'S,analysts, etc) are not expected
to be growth areas.
The exploding area of employability will
be in the human caring field and corn-
munications. Who will be able to pay for
these services remains to be seen. Accor-
dingly, ethics and values education
becomes more critical than ever before to
entire in the future, a mat's worth is
not, like as in our consumerism society,
determined by his employability. A pro-
found evolution in thought that isr quietly
eating away at the roots of today s value
System. �.
Outdoor Cookin'
By Anne Narejko
jcuck Riddell, MPP
Two new programs
As Minister of Agriculture and Food for
Ontario, I was pleased this week to an-
nounce two new programs.
Cream Quality Program
The Cream Quality Assistance Program
is a $1.5 million grant to help the province's
2,000 cream producers improve the quality
of the product they ship to the dairies, which
means better butter.
As opposed to milk producers, who ship
whole milk, cream producers separate their
milk at the farm and ship only the cream.
Individual producers will be eligible for up
to $2,000 to improve their sanitation or cool-
ing equipment at their farms. As well,
ministry staff will assist cream producers in
monitoring their equipment.
Aquaculture Research
As part of a new direction by the Ministry
of Agriculture and Food, I also announced
last week the purchase of a fish farm, to be
used for aquaculture research.
The farm, at Alma Ontario, near Elora,
will be used by the University of Guelph to
facilitate farm sale research and the expan-
sion of breeding, nutrition and pathology
studies. With consumption of fish expected
to increase fivefold over the next decade, it
is important that Ontario farmers have ac -
Coss to the necessary knowledge to put them
in this area.
Already,- there are over 100 licensed fish
farms in Ontario with annual sales of $5
million.
Experience 86 Grants
Three Huron County organizations recent-
ly. received Experience .'86 grants for the
hiring of summer students, as announced by
Minister of Citizenship and Culture, the
Honourable Lily Munro. Congratulations to
the Huron Historic Gaol, Van - Egmond
House, and the Huron County Library.
Seniors use
parks free
My colleague, Natural Resources
Minister Vince Kerrio has announced a
change of policy for the use of Ontario's pro-
vincial parks by senior citizens. Effective
immediately, seniors will be able to use the
parks free during the week, and for half
price on weekends. Traditionally, seniors
have been able to have free access during
the week, but had to pay full fees on the
weekends.
Ultra Violet
Light Study
Environment Ontario is funding a study of
ultra violet light treatment as a means of
disinfecting bathing beach water polluted
by high levels of bacteria. The $200,000 study
will be conducted by the Upper Thames Con-
servation Authority, which will construct a
full-scale ultra violet disinfection system
this year.
The demonstration project will be fully
evaluated during the swimming seasons of
1986 and 1987 to determine all operating and
maintenance requirements as well as costs
for effective application of the process.
Although ultra violet light treatment has
never been used as a means of improving
beach water quality, past Environment On-
tario studies have demonstrated that the
process is an environmentally safe and inex-
pensive method of disinfecting sewage
treatment plant effluent. If successfully
developed, this innovative technology could
be mulled at many beaches as an interim
solution to bacterial pollution, while the
longer term objectives of improving provin-
cial water quality through source controls
are proceeding.
• New Tourism Sign
Policy Announced
Ontario's tourism industry will receive a
boost from the ministry in the form of a new
highway signing policy, Ed k'ulton, Minister
of Transportation and Communications an-
nounced on May 26. "The new system is
designed to expand on, and improve, the
current signage as well as achieve a con-
trolled relaxation of the criteria involved in
tourism signing," the minister said.
"Under it, tourist attractions can be sign-
ed from, provincial highways, in addition to
freeways and staged freeways as the cur-
rent system allows, Fulton added.
"We are making highway -based tourism a
reality. By coupling ,tourism with our ex-
cellent provincial highway system, we can
double the potential for our province to at-
tract more tourists, be they from Canada,
U.S. or other countries."
"We are bolstering this effort by equipp-
ing our emergency patrol vehicles with fre
travel information kits which, contain a
highway map, traveller's encyclopedia,
Metro Toronto guide pamphlet, plus a letter
of welcome. What better way to let tourists
-know Ontario really is happy to see them,"
he added.
"We have also lowered the attendance re-
quirements to qualify for tourist attraction
signs. All qualified attractions can be signed
now from a distance of 10 km, even up to 30
km in some instances, based on attendance
figures." Cost of the new signing will be
recovered through an equiptable fee
structure.
"Other tourism initiates being in-
vestigated by my ministry include the prs-
motion of tourism in those municipalitf
where there•is a potential to exploit locally
known attractions," said Fulton, including
dpgrading of existing ones, in the north and
on freeways. "-
"With this policy, my ministry and this
government, is keeping a promise to On-
tario's tourism industry to help it maintain.a
high profile through increasing itS visibilit
to the travelling public."
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