The Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-03-12, Page 16PAGE 2A —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1986
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Goderich artists could
benefit from place of
their own, says Martha
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End of February - where have the last two
months gone? Tomorrow morning we have
a "Pancake Breakfast" at the 'Rec' Hall.
Most everyone turns out. Besides being
great with orange juice, sausage and coffee
- and more if you wish - we get to talking to
people you haven't seen too often. Friendly.
The newscast says "cold and windy" - I
can put up with 40-50 degrees but as long as
the sun- shines you are still warm enough.
You run from the cold wind but, burn with
the sign! •
I spent today from 9 to 4 at the Sarasota
Art Classes, working on a money raising
•,pro; ct - Cook. Books! Recipes have been
gathered from their special dinner parties
where scrumptious food is "just something
else", and the whole Art League has
gathered special things for this event. So,
there are at least two inches in the book of
goodie info' and it will stand on your counter
like a beautiful small tent - since a fine pain-
ting is on one side of this triangle.
Everyone who had time has done pain-
tings on these 6 x 8 inch boards of masonite,
the whole thing hangs together on two book
binder rings. Very simple, really, but the
paintings of flowers, tiny scenes, fruit,
mushrooms - dozens of ideas some painted •
directly on the brown masonite, most on a
painted background and more on materials
of linen and other fine materials glued on
the front piece with contact paper on the
back of it. The back support is left plain - not
really seen anyway.
The recipe stands there so nice while you
need it, turn the cover back to the painting -
most of them signed! The small painting
alone would sell for $25 easily, but the whole
thing sells for $13! It is selling as fast as they
can make them. I thought our local artists
might like this idea too.
The building is also interesting. Fairly
large - all one floor, no lugging heavy equip-
ment up and down - there's even a place to
leave things if you wish. Easels, deep sinks,
shelves, just about everything you need -
room for at least 8 to 10 artists to work.
A lot of sculpture and other arts can be
done there. Art works hang in a big room
right at the front of the building. There is a
much larger room behind it with lots of wall
space but it is also used for dinners and lun-
cheons and meetings and this room has been
dropped about four feet with. at least six feet
of space oht from the walls'so you can walk
around and see the art work or look down on
the people playing cards. There is also a
sales roomwhere you can display and sell
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So, I hope, someday, Goderich artists can
have a place of their own. The youngsters of
the last many years have a great many
potential artists. A convenient place to learn
and create would be nice! I recall a group
who really tried to bring this alpout - many
years ago, but so few, could see it. It was also
a lot cheaper, then, too. So, I hope someone
will try again.
Last week Abe and Muffin, Donna and
Freddie visited Doug and Madeline in
Venice and we also spent a day with them. It
was wonderful to see folks from hoine -
especially when we were all practically
raised together! Those were fun days and a
lot of happy memories. I hope they are all
settled down now after their big tour.
I'm starting on a nice painting of a little
guy walking throught a stream, lugging his,
sneakers along. The scenery around it is
very nice - but I'd like someone to send me a
photo of their youngster - about 3 or 4 years
old - smiling or serious - I'll probably use it.
Signal has my address.
We have not been travelling around too
much - a couple of trips to Fort Meyers,
several to Venice, but we are quite con-
tented to stay home if the weather is cool or
rainy.
Going over some old papers I found a
news item from Calgary area, Alberta. It
mentioned Les Kimber who is no stranger to •
producing plays and working with film
crews. He was the unit production manager.
Les is married to Irene Sparks' daughter.
Working along with David Janssen (Dr.
Richard Kimber - TV series of the
Fugitive )- remember? Wm. Shatner of Star
Trek and many other actors we knew.
Les had been doing surveys for different
film companies. The scenery - prairies,
farms, hills, mountains and streams - it was
all there. Pioneer Women was done out
there. -The news item was dated 1973 - and
Les is still going bigger and better.
I met Les, wife andfamily, many years
ago. They were going to or coming from
Hollywood in their big motor home. At the
time I had no idea how important they were
to the movie industry in Canada. Perhaps he
has retired by now. I'll ask Irene when I get
back.
Anyway one can dig up some fine old
memories - if you get around to it!
Take care, keep well - dig up a few
memories, too.
Love,
Martha
Underemployment
of youth is country's
most important issue
BY JOAN VAN DEN BROECK
TRUSTEE HURON COUNTY
BOARD OF. EDUCATION
Chronic unemployment and underemploy-
ment among today's youth is, I believe, one
of the.single most important issues affecting
the future of Canadian society. In England,
in recent years,disenchanted and
- unemployed youth have rioted in the
streets in their frustration. In our own city
of Toronto, young people walk the streets in
increasing numbers and, homeless and
broke, look for shelter in the downtown mis-
sions — an unheard-of - situation but a few
years ago..
If, as the futurists say, we have left the In-
dustrial Age behind as traditional manufac-
turing industries find new homes in third
world countries (leather, textiles,'furniture
where 80 percent of the jobs were lost) and
the newly emerging Information Age will
only support sophisticated high-tech in-
dustries (electronics, communications), we
can expect to disinherit many young people
from ever finding meaningful employment
with a living wage that allows them to get on
with their lives and enjoy the benefits we
took for granted only a generation ago.
The significance of marked changes in our
ability to provide meaningful employment
will, inevitably, have a profound effect on,
not only the way we see ourselves, but also
on our ability to sustain our current social
structures. In essence, the future of the mid-
dle class is at stake and, with it, the future of
democracy — for democracies ..do not
flourish in countries without a substantial
middle class. Without a concerted public
will for significant social change we could,
quite conceivably, become a country of
`haves' and `have-nots' Within the frame of
our.own lifetime.
It is telling that, unlike other generations,
young Canadians must put their futures 'on
hold' and are unable to get jobs which allow
them to establish their own economic in-
dependence. The Katimavik program, for
example, despite its worth, puts young lives
on hold. Other than the adventurous and
desperately unemployed who among us
would want to work for $1 a day if there -was
an employment option? Current youth
employment programs are fingers in the
dike: short-term projects do not foster long-
term self-sufficiency. .All they do, it • seems
to me, is offer young people the opportunity
to acquire questionable skills for, at best,
uncertain markets.
The Huron County board of education has
opted into federal and provincial Co -
Operative Education programs in an effort
to help unemployed youth acquire job skills.
A pilot federal program is currently in place
at Central Huron Secondary School in Clin-
ton and a provincial program to fund the im-
plementation of co-operative programs and
transition to employment programs . for
school leavers has recently been announced
by the ministry.
These initiatives, as valuable as they are,
will not be the panacea -for a problem
philosophically rooted in a society which
has, with phenomenal success, been able to
maintain its momentum, until now, by
allowing -traditional markets to find their
own level thereby shaping the nature of the
economy. •
Some suggest tomorrow's reality will not
include a job for everyone who wishes to
work for a reasonable living wage. Can we
allow a large unemployed and
underemployed 'sector of the populations to
live on the fringe of an otherwise affluent
• society without courting disastrous social
consequences?
Legislation has recently been introduced
to permit early retirement for teachers
without penalties. This move will, hopefully,
open up the profession to young teachers
standing on the sidelines waiting their op-
portunity to enter the profession. I hope that
industry will not be far behindjn developing
like initiatives. A small, but worthwhile step
into a future with as many pitfalls as
opportunities.
June Hill will direct Theatre's
next. production in April
The third Goderich Little Theatre Pro-
duction, Barefoot in the Park, will be
presented April 23-26 at The Livery.
Auditions for Neil Simon's comedy will
begin at The Livery Wednesday, March 12
at 7.30 p.m. and Sunday March 16 at 2 p.m.
Both males and females are needed for
this production.
Goderich Little Theatre welcomes peo-
ple who are new to the community to try
out for a part at the auditions and also,
people'interested in set building and work-
ing in other capacities backstage are
Welcome.
ARTS
June Hill will be directing Barefoot in
the Park.
GLT has just completed the successful
staging of The Tomorrow Box, which was
well received. The set was on loan from the
Blyth Festival.
If you have ever wondered about your
r
future in acting, come on out and
volved with the GLT.
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