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1Q f 1 ER•ICR SIGNAL STAR, TI.•IURSDAY,MAY 6, 1976
Ed Rowe
The board of directors of
the Maitland Golf and
Country Club have announced
the hiring of a new club pro, '.
Edward Rowe of London.
"Rowe, - previously worked
as a pro at the Fair -Villa Golf
Club outside London kr the,
past eight years. It was his.
first jolt since turning pro in,
1968.
He is• also, a member of the
•
board of directors of the
Ontario professional. Golfers
Association ands`' a
:.representative of the Western
1 --
,Ontario -, Professional Mini
Baur.
The mini -tour consists of 12
• events at.12 courses and the
players are rated on .a polrit
system .in eacti event. Last
year Ed finished a "respec--
ta,laie seventh out of 30 par..,
:.,ticipants. This year one of the..
tour events will be held at
Maitland.
Ed, by bis own admission,
was appYehensive about
taking•a job at a nine hole,
course but is quite en-
thusiastic about the potential
of the course and termed it a•.
'tough challenge.'
Ed., hopes • to rejuvenate
junior participation at the
club and has plans for junior
golf clinics and the invitation
of 'a junior invitation tour•'-
nament. He is also looking
forward to meeting and
playing with as many_ area
golfers asthe job will permit.
Ed is presently commuting
from: London and will.
relocate in Goderich with his
wife and two sons.
Heath�p'po.int�d..
to steering council
Bruce R. Heath, Director of
the ,Huron .County Children's .
• Aid -Society, has been named
to die' SteeringtoLai av9th,e
Management Information
Systems project + for
• children's services in the
provincial Ministry of
' Coinrnunity' ' and Social..
Services, . -
�•M.,.�:i,.�•t mem,-�,e,r-�..ouncrl�,,�
composed of senior members
of the Ministry, and executive
_ directors of the : Children's'
7Aid s o Societie``TWronto, and
Mr. Heath presently serves
on the London District
Retarda.tfon. Services
'
Corn mittee"tl't the:M iru
Community " and , Social
Services, the 'Early School
Leaving. Committee of :the
FHB SeparatWorke School
.Board culty ofa the SociaContinungo£
Educatron ' Connell . of the
l
VVi]frid`' I;airiei•i-Iffifi e fty, ,
and the • Steering: Committee
i rens' for ,the proposed Huron
Mental— Health' Centre ::tor
Hamilton, is responsible for,
the development of -:a com-
prehensive, province -wide
:information .system, to be
streamlined and integrated -
with the present financial and
• statistical data systetns`inthe
child ''welfare 'network.
Children and Youth.
He is a member and past.
president' of 'the Goderich
-Rotary Club, and chaired the
Landon Symphony Orchestra
series --in Goderich this --past
season:
You can. lead •a horse to
water, but you can't make,
him drink. You Can't teach an
old deg,new tricks. You can't
make a silk purse out°of a•
sow's ear. •
, To' these old adages might
be : added • another, . closely;
.related. You Can't create 'a
fluennt,• sparkling, bilingual
cosmopolitan ' out of a dull
middle-class, middle-aged,
civil servant.. • •
I'm glad to see that some
semblance'. of sense has
seeped : into the senility
surrounding. ,the .approach to
bilingualism at Ottawa.
Keith Spicer, the. grand
poobah '. of bilingualism',
appointed by the Trudeau
govern•ment,to:wet-nurse one
of its., favorite .babies,' has.
finally reached a conclusion
that an average 12 -year-old
could have arrived at,
without undue mental strain,
in about 15 minutes.
-4-le .decided, and had the
courage to admit, that the
governin,ent 'program for
creating bilingualism in the
'civil service was bass ack-
welds. .. .
Some: unkind people might.
say that Ottawa Civil servants
have always spoken with a
double . tongue, evenwhen
they had only one language,
and why have them speaking
doubietalk in.two?
SPiC:E
Instead ofpcivil
onrin millions
converting into g
servants- . ,st8dgy ,
into connoisseurs of
French language.and culture,.
• :Mr.,. Spicer; concedes, the
..money should be spent in the
schools,. teaching .F. rench to
children. Great. thinking,
Keith. Anyone: '. with any
.knowledge of : learning a
second language could have.
told you that two years ago.
•Ordi•na.ry,' every -day
Common, sense and .'ex-
perience shows' us how true
this 'is. Take an average
family of immigrants • to
Canada; German, Italian,
whatever you like. The
parentshave great difficulty
in learning English, Jid
retain a strong accent all
their lives.
Their chi1drn, even though
their only language is their
native' one when they arrive
, here, and even 'though it is
spoken;alniost exclusively at
home, are completely at ease
in English Within a year or
two. To hear them chirp and
prattle away in the idiom,
you'd never know that they
,weren't , born and bred in
English-speaking Canada.
For an .adult, learning a
new language is horribly hard
work. And for a bureaucrat or
civil servant, it must be
doubly difficult, because their
minds are •constitutionally
Kingsbridge Kapers...:.
(continued from page 9)
lair and da _hter r,...and
Mrs.Gordon Barger, Jr.
Miss Valerie 'Shackleton,,
daughter : of Mr. and. Mitis.
Benson Shackleton, is at-
tending - a nine• month Bair=
dressing course at "The
Rouse bf ` • Cannel-
_
oupal in
Wa#exo a1r�aSPnt the
weekend at the home -of her
parents. •
_1V4r and .Mrg: Anthnny
'Knoop anis°tnernbers of their
family spentthe weekend •in,
Hamilton and attended the'
wedding of •their son Gerald
on'Saturday, May. 1.
Mrs. Maureen. Chilton • of
Moose° Factory. is visiting at.
the home of her parents, .Mr.
and . Mrs. Mark Dalton • and
family.
A arg= crow • a en:e
Stag held.' for Michael•.
Courtney, son of.Mr. and:Mrs:`
Levo Courtney, on Saturday,
May 1., ; at Foran's.
Approxin•iately S1,600.00 was
• realized
• Mr Frank Sullivan who
�i"as been ma'kin�"g-tiis"fioi"iri'-�`
Goderich during the winter
•
unable: to admit' anything
new.
French-Canadians who,
want to get'Asornewhere-
Canada, whether it'sin
business or:' politics, learn -
English because.•they have to W
Whatever,' the pundits say;
this is primarily, an English-
speaking;country,, . ,.
Moist French-Canadian;•
cabinet ministers are at least
adequate in• English Some •
politicians, . like Pierre
Trudeau and Claude Wagner,
speak English beautifully, far
better than most . of their
Anglophone peers • and op:'r
ponents.
But when .. an Anglo
politician speaksh
French;
however•atrciousl ,.we look
upon.. him. or her. with
amazement, as though it
were a sign of genius. What
hypocrisy, in a country that
theoretically, bilingual, (I'
still wince everyti:me•. 'John
Y
Diefenbakerstrs intowhat.t
he fondly believes ISFrench )':
he
you may have gathered,
I heve, strong feelings about'.
bilingualism, '>unlike . a great
many Canadians; I am for
it. But.,,, the government's
approach ' to creating that
blessed state hasbeen at best
a farce, a charade, at worst a
swindle of the taxpayers.
hi 0111
Ofcourse the beginnings
must bewith•the children! On
the surface, the study of
French in our schools has
been encouraged by goyer.-,-•
• nrnent. In fact,. the moneys.
for ::a .practical,realistic
approach to learning French
' have been held backfrom the
schools and poured into that.
bottomless: pit at.Ottawa.
Fr•.ench has practically,
. been abolished as a ;+
prerequisite for 'university.
entrance.: As a .result,' and.
because learning. it requires
some real effort, students shy .
away from it and look for
"bird'' courses.
-
Result, French classes in
Our schools have . shrunk
depiorably. This, despite the
fact that French is being
taught better, and in 'a more
lively, interesting, and
realistic Way,"than• ever
before.' (I,studied French for
five , years- in high school,
-three iln univQrsity, and can
barely proposition a girl; let.
alone ` order , a meal in
French.) •
O K,
Let's'. start start all over
again.' with our bilingµal
program, ,and forget' that
painfuLfailure in Ottawa.
Start teaching it to kids in
Grade 1,,.Keep it:.up. Make it a
prerequisite for untVersity.,
••months,: returned to his•home.
hereon Friday, April 30. ' • ''
Mr. Frank Riegling •was
admitted to the Wingham and •
District General 'Hospital on
Saturday evening following
an accident and was able to
return to his home the
following day. • .
Take the drudgery out of
doing dishes away from
Morn ort Mother's Day.
Come in and see our selection of
dishwashers and give Mom a break.
•
It's not so easy to catch those little fellows. Jim Bishop does
a little fishing to point out something of interest to a group'of
teachers on a field trip at East Wawanosh Conservation
Area Tuesday. (staff photo)
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