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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-07-26, Page 17sykes • a. J ,M11111101111MINIMIlla..:S. Albs Jobs are available for student workers �•4 The 'following are stories on some students in the area who have successfully found summer jobs through the Canada Employment Centre for Students in Goderich. Susan Freeman, manager of the Employment Centre, says it's a job in itself to find a summer job, but with some persistance jobs CAN BE FOUND. As of July 20, 552 placements • had been' made by the Employment Centres in Goderich and Exeter. Placements represent the total number of job vacancies filled- and not the number of individual students placed in. em- ployment. The fact remains that placements are up more than 20 per cent over last year. Casual placement, that is employment for five days or less, has Centres. Some found jobs taken the greatest in- through the Centre and crease. Susan feels that others found jobs on their while many people own. cannot afford to give •There are now 565 students full-time job, students registered on the they are still willing to , Goderich and Exeter files hire them for short as still actively seeking periods of time. Casual work. Some of these farm labor, for instance, students may have found has really increased this jobs by now without year. , letting the Centre know though, says Susan. There are several `:Almost everyone who reasons for increased has applied to the Centres placments this year, says in Goderich and Exeter Susan. The Employment has been able to find Centres in \Goderich and some type of work, Exeter have used in- • whetherfull-time or tenslve advertising. The casual. .Female students weather has been con- and younger high school ducive to outside labor. males seem to have the Employer visits have most trouble finding work been increased' and local because they .are not householders have been always in demand for made aware of the physical labor. Employment Centres' .Overall, Susan says she services. has been pleased with the At one point 1,500 number of students the students were registered Centre has been able to at the Goderich and help find employment for Exeter Employment so farthis•summer. It's finally summer. You don't have to accept that statement at fac, value but I did go to the trouble of confirming that news bit with two other people. They both agreed. So I concluded that summer has arrived. That conlcusion was further bolstered by first hand evidence. It has been hot and humid•and my little body has taken to perspiring. With that evidence my analytical mind produced the previously men- tioned conclusion, But even the hot, humid weather has its disadvantages. Ice cream cones drip over your, shirt and pants before you get a chance to settle them down and after driving in the car for a bit, clothes and underthings get wet and cling the body. Just a few annoying products of summer. But in my inimitable spirit of com- munity co-operation, this correpondent has produced a list of tips to assist readers in beating the heat. I.If your neighbours use sprinklers to water the lawn, have the family put on their bathing suits and sit under said sprinkler while enjoying refreshing drinks. You culd even have a picnic. Pick a different sprinkler each night or even move around to different neigh- bourhoods. 2.Install air conditioning in your toilets. 3.Drink several beer. 4.On extremely muggy afternoons put ice cubes in your underwear or oc- casionally dump cold drinks down the inside of your pants. ' 5.Keep your socks' and underwear in the freezer overnight. Discover just how .refreshing frost on the inside of your unmentionables can be on a rather humid morning. It will makzr you want to run to work. 6.Poke holes in your suits, dresses, pants, socks, bras and pantyhose for added ventilation. 7,Drink several beer, $.If you work behind a desk all day, fool the boss by wearing a shirt and tfe, vest and suit coat but no pants. What great fun it would be working away viTth no pants on and nobody would even know it. 9.On particularly hot days,.pack up the lawn chairs and a jug of Kool-Aid, and take the family on tours of air con- ditioned stores and offices in town. 10.On one of those unb, arably humid days wear only a tie to work. 11 -.Drink several beer. , 12.If your boss is too stingy to spring for air conditioning, set up your lawn sprinkler in the office to offer fellow employees relief from the heat.13.On those ,sweltering type days at work, cool off'after lunch by putting a pint of chocolate ice cream in your un- derwear. Be careful not to stick to the office chair or sit on the boss's leather couch. 14.For a real neat joke, drive around town with the car windows rolled up so other people think you have air con- ditioning. Just think of the fun you could have fooling other drivers as they sit perspiring in their cars. 15.Drink several beer. 16.Make friends with people who own swimming pools and casually drop over to their place for a weeks vacation. 17.Put gin or vodka in the water cooler at work. 1S.Hose down your bed before going to sleep on a still, muggy night. 19.Drink several beer. 20.Install fans on your work shoes to blow refreshing breezes up your dress or pant leg. , 21.Hook up a garden hose' to your desk at work so the water flows over your head and splashes everything on the desk. 22.Borrow a friend's new car and take all the neighbourhood children out for gigantic, drippy ice cream cones. 23.Keep cool while others around you are wilting by puttin popsickles in your pants pockets. 24.And finally, drink several beer and you won't even notice the heat• te1 132 YEAR -30 j GNAL THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1979 STAR SECOND SECTION Fashion binge Job is just right . BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Jeanette Manning of Blyth had just finished her -first year of, a t'wo course in fashion year John Brown of Goderich enjoys his summer job delivering flowers for Denomme's Flower Shop. He thought he knew all of the streets in town until he Here's me thinking I was calm; cool and collected. 1 was trying to remain unaffected by that stupid ferris wheel but she saw right through my act. Do you know what consolation from a five .year old child that is fearless does to her old man's ego? . I knew three days in advance that I had to go on it. But 1 kept telling myself it was just a ferris wheel. It wasn't high enough to make me want to scan the boxizon for aircraft but then it wasn't . six foot off the ground where my head is used to being. I should have gone into some sort of training. Had 1 taken a chair up on the 'roof of the house I may have been better prepared. I'm not into this macho thing that dictates that when all males get on a carnival ride, regardless of what sensation that 'ride gives you, you sit there appearing bored as it flings you 'around. I just wasn't relaxed sitting up" there in that rollicking bucket with a little girl that wasn't happy with thel started the job and discovered a few new ones. He has been as far as Zurich delivering flowers. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) , Story on Page 3A view offered from the ferris wheel and wanted to stand up' to look for her mother in the crowd below. We were first ones on the thing and I was happy with that. I figured by the time it was loaded and ready to go I would have gradually gone up and back down and would be all set. A joke to say the least. A little girl and her mother got on after us and I heard my daughter say something about the girl being a classmate of hers. When we got to the top of the wheel 1 asited her what she said. I thought the question was going to cost me my life. The little girl was behind us and lower than us and to see her I had to turn around. Just as I did my daughter twisted around in the bucket and leaned over the back to point her friend out. When the dumb thing started to go back and 1. saw nothing but cable and supports between me and the ground I abruptly ordered her to freeze. I explained in a fatherly • merchandising at Georgian College in Barrie and was home for the 'summer to look for a job. She was really hoping for a job in a clothing store but figured it would he almost • im- possible to get one because each store usually already • has its own regular. staff, She applied to the Canada Employment Centre for Students in Go.derich•anyway, stating her preference for ex- perience in a clothing store because 'of its relation to her course of study. "I registered on a Friday,, they (t'he Employment Centre) called me on Monday and I started work the following Thursday," • says Jeanette. She is still amazed that she found work within a week and is especially amazed that she found ;work that appeals to her'. Jeanette got a job at Schaefe-r•'s Ladies' Wear on theSquare HiGoderich. She has been working since the third 'week of May •and will continue until the first part of September when she returns to continue her course in Barrie. Jeanette's course in- volves learning about 'fabrics, sales, dealing with customers, personal appearance, modelling and- even •rnake:.u.p.. Wh.il.e.,,:r,. . stie's gained a lot of knowledge . through her course, she claims that practical experience is the hest you can get and feels her job at Schaefer's will give her plenty of that. . Jeanette likes meeting people and since this is her first job in Goderich, she is meeting many new faces. She has worked in both Clinton and Blyth in. the past and during her Christmas break last year, she hada six-week course placement in the girls' and teens' clothing department at Simpsons in downtown Toronto. ..Goderich is a. nice • change from the other locations she has worked in, she says, and she feels that it also has a lot of nice 'clothing stores.. When Jeanette returns to Barrie in September, her class will be opening an on -campus clothing store. Crass 'merrib•ers, including herself, will he in charge o planning, organizing, setting up and running the store with the help of some faculty advice. She is looking forward to that. Jeanette likes to sew and she took art courses which she really enjoyed while attending Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton: She won a senior art award and an interior design award there. This background in art and interior design has helped her in • her course, she says. When Jeanette graduates from her course, she says she would like to work in a store like Schaefer's and gain as much practical experience as she .can. And someday, she would even like to open a clothing store of her very own. fashion that she couldn't squirm around adding that if she tried anything like that again I would break both her legs. I started to relax a bit and when I did I realized it may have been a mistake to get on this thing. I• glanced at the framework of the wheel and couldn't help but wonder if that slightly bent support and 'that thin cable was going to last the two minutes I was going to need if, That thought lasted mere seconds. The next thing i knew my stomach was in my throat. The$4ario Andretti of ferris wheel operator's was at the controls, For what seemed an eternity this guy sat there disinterested with the lives he had in his hand until all of a sudden he added a little more throttle:`He then started looking at faces as they whizzed by. He slowed the Ithing'down and I got a hold of my sense figuring first ones on first ones off. Forget it. We're coming Allison Bain's job story is on Page 3A Jeanette Manning of Blyth was pleased to find a job in a clothing store this summer since she --is studying fashion met•chandising in college. She is working at Schaefer's Ladies' Wear on the Square and turd a busy timeat the side alk sales recently. (Photo by Joanne•Buchanan) to the top and I estimate that the speed we're going should bring us to the bottom for unloading. Mario slams on the brakes and jeaves me 'rocking out of control at the top. My daughter squeals with delight and starts climbing in the seat to find mommy, I envision the splat as we hit the pavement and order her again to freeze. She ignores me and starts looking over the side and then the back trying to spot her friend. Just as my life started flashing before me Mario starts things up slowly bringing me back to earth. By the time we're low enough for people to see us I've got my bored machalook on and I'm letting the child squirm .as much as she wants. As I get off I summon up all my courage and advise Mario that the ride would . be better if it went faster. I ignore his suggestion that 1 take another spin. "Naw that things a joke," I tell him trying desperatley to walk a straight li jerr Seddon J