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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-06-15, Page 6fl; Jim Cr wtord will be helping children enjoy their summer holidays this year through his joJ with the. Family and Children's. Services office in Goderich.• The office was able to hire Jim through a federally sponsored Summer Canada program. His project runs • for 16 weeks, and two other students have been hired for 11 weeks. They will start work on June 20. The students have been hired to set up a program to take children from all over the county on supervised day trips and overnight ex- cursions. Jim's job so far has been to organize the program, finding places. and activities where they can take the children. When the two camp workers start next week the program will begin in earnest. The program was started more than five years ago to give children the chance the chance to do things they might not normally do. Jim says by taking them to at- tractions in their ownarea the children learn what can be available to them in the summer. Last year about 260 children participated in the daily outing program. Each, day one of the supervisors will take four or five children out for the day. Once every ten days the three super- visors will take a group of 12 children camping overnight. �1rrllr rs also arra g �d mp program, of i h ey can send •children • to established camps fora week at a time; Last year they were able to send 116 children to camp who ordinarily wouldn't have been ableto go. Jim ,has already had ex Oriente with this type of work; this -is his third year working with this - same program, and his second year as the project manager. He has just completed 'his BA in economics at the University of ' Western Ontario, and has applied to the University of Toronto for a masters program in labour economics. This job gives him organizational ex- perience and supervisory skills that are important in his field of •study. He also likes the fact that it is a people -oriented job. The other two students hired as' camp workers.. are Marianne Menzies from Clinton, who has finished two years of child studies at the University of Guelph, and Valerie Millson from Seaforth, a grade 12 student who has done volunteer work for the Family and Children's Services centre in the past. ' With these students, the centre is able to offer more complete services for the county's children than otherwise . would 'have been possible. Con9 tatufationi. to tIiE ccrinnE ' i,2 oat DE a ti ��1.ECta.Ctifa.t ;;'1(adzt",/ of Menton Won i& ittand orca£tuted `iEatis. Clinton JEWELLERS 482-3901. Jim Crawford is starting his third sunimer at the Family and Children's Services office in Goderich. Jim, along with two other summer students, will be organising day trips and overnight excursions for children in the county. 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Murray Cardiff, MP for Huron -Bruce, had summer jobs working on his family's farm, cementing basements and chimneys for a con- struction company at 75 cents an hour, and working part-time at a funeral home. Through these jobs, Cardiff developed good work habits and learned the value of co-operating with others. He firmly believes in the adage: "A fair day's work for a fair day's pay" and says the contacts he made during his school years aided in making him feel a part of his community. `Don't be too picky' and `maintain a positive outlook no matter what ' setbacks occur', are pieces of advice Cardiff would offer to students; looking for work in today's economic situation. He stresses the importance of students preparing a good resume, highlighting their strong points, past working and volunteer experience and their skills and interests. Mayor Eileen Palmer first worked as a dining . room waitress in a summer resort in Cornwall, Ontario. She got the job through Manpower when she was 15, and worked at the same jab for many summers after that. Although her salary was not very much, Mrs. Palmer. says -the' tips were rather good,• especially from the Americans who were at- tracted' to the resort from Massena, across the St. Lawrence. She worked six days a week, eight hours a day. The hours were broken up bet- Ween etween breakfast,. lunch and supper, so most of the day wastaken up by her work. Mrs. Palmer says the'work was fun, and she had ex- posure . tO xposure..to a wide cross- section of the public. "It was the best. experience any 15 year old could have." George Parsons, president of Goderich Elevators, first ,worked #0sir P'Qr, for the Muustt of . r sort duridg • the early years of the second world war: At the time the ministry JACK RIDDELL ELSA HAYDON REV. JOHN WOOD heavy slugging, working from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days a week. He doesn't remember his exact wages, but says it was something fantastic like 35 cents an •hour. Mr. Parsons says the job would have shaped his career because he made up his mind to go into civil engineering. But after the war he started to work for Goderich Elevators, and never did return to school to follow his former plans. Other summers were spent' ' as an Mr Cadet,, also in • Northern Ontario; as a parts department employee at International Harvestor; and as an employee in the Extension Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Riddell's past experience in the agricultural field aided him both in landing his first permanent job with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and throughout his life. His -summer jobs gave him new perspectives of Nor- thern Ontario where he came to understand the deper deficit ol• ne-ihditatry towns;' appreciation and knowledge - of other people with different lifestyles; and experience in vier working.._,,.and ,:co operating Riddell's advice for students currently searching for summer employment is to be prepared to work hard and put in long hours; to take advantage of government As a student, Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron-iMiddlesex, worked 'onnhis-father's arid - uncle's farms as well as spending one summer as a. Junior Ranger in Blind River, 75 miles away from :1u . 3a. � ,,:all"Mds if'l ignsof i izatiur1. RCAF training bases in "You learned quickly to Goderich, Centralia and Port take orders and get along . Albert. The work was done with, the only other 12 teens over two summers, when you would see all summer," Mr. Parsons was 17 and 18. 'Riddell comments on .his He. says the work was Junior Ranger job. 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Elsa Haydon says her first job experience was slightly different from other people because of her backgrounds_• Mrs. Haydon grew up in Estonia, a country on the Baltic Sea which is now part of the U.S.S:R., where she says nobody, would have expected . her .to. have a summer job. But Mrs. •Haydon soon began to have an even More different experience. She .say the warinteprap ed.her i les ht unitrersrt`t; and she began working as a nurse's aide for the RedCross. She left. her country towardsthe.ead of-thewar aa<•,., .. rt`was Tiy then'occupred by Russia, She went to an Estonian refugee camp in Bavaria where she worked in the adrinnistration depar- tment. Mrs. Haydon came to Canada by registering with a transport of domestics. She signed a contract with the government for $35 a month to .work as a maid with 'a Canadian family. It was her first - paying job. She says that many people who did not have Canadian relatives used this opportunity to come to the country. Mrs. Haydon says she was fortunate to work for an excellent family that treated her not as a maid but as a family member. She says it is important not to think that a job is beneath your dignity. She hastens to add that even though she did not have a job when she was younger, those were dif- ferent times. Now, she thinks. ,,r it is important for young people to have summer jobs. Rev. John Wood had a variety of jobs when he was younger. He grew up.; in Niagara'Falls,.so his first job naturally was picking fruit in the Niagara fruit belt. He recalls picking strawberries for 25 cents a day. Peaches, he says, were a }onus at $2.25 a day. When he was 18 Mr, Wood got a job as a clerk in the department of education in Toronto. He says even though he was living away from home he managed to save $50 in three months. Over the next few years he had a variety of more strenuous jobs. He spent a summer of construction work pouring concrete for Ontario Hydro at Niagara Falls. Another year he worked at a chemical fac- tory that made pickerite to fill shells during the war. He later worked at a car- borundum factory, which he says was safer than the chemicalplants, one of which blew up whien he was ..still working there. Mr. Wood recognizes that it is a different world now than when he was a student, T, but his feelings about summer jobs remains the same, "If people are willing to do what they can find, they will appreciate the value of their education."