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GETTING READY TO GO — Participants in Sunday's first-ever Terry Fox Run in Wingham were eager to
get started. A total of 80 participants registered for the run and raised over $8, 500.
Gu iph university launches
training in Central America
The University of Guelph will pro-
vide training for faculty from veter-
inary medical schools in Costa Rica
and Colombia as part of a four-year
development project that may have
far-reaching effects on both public
and animal health in Central Amer-
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Anhnal heaitil as it relates to live-
stock pforlifetion and veterinary
public health Will -be emphasized in
the exchange Of teaching faculty be-
tween the Ontario) Veterinary Col-
lege (OVC) and veterhxary schools
at the National Universityof Cotta
Rica in San Jose and the National
University of Colombia in Bogota.
On behalf of Monique Landry,
minister- for external relations and
international development, Guelph
MP William C. Winegard annotmced
the Canadian International Develop-
ment Agency (CIDA) will contribute
more.tbort.fmosoon, toward, the $1.1. -
million project.
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Agricultural museum hosts
cra fair this weekend
Over 45 artisans from across the
province will be displaying their
crafts at the Ontario Agricultural
Museum's 5th annual Christmas
Craft Fair, Saturday, Sept. 24 and
Sunday Sept. 25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Located in the rustic environment
of the Museum's Gambrvl Barn,
visitors have the opportunity to just
browse or to purchase quality home-
made crafts.
Exhibitors from Manitoulin Island
to Terra Cotta will be in the fair dis-
playing quilts, pottery, knit
sweaters, jewelry, folk art, pre-
serves and more.
Over 4,600 people last year came
to visit during the two-day event.
The Ontario Agricultural Museum
is a 32 -hectare outdoor site con-
sisting of over 30 buildings and dis-
plays.
Costinned interpreters perform
daily demonstrations of op4earth
cookery, blacksniithing, sprnning
and weaving, and wheelWrighting.
The• Miaow/ la own da)ily.#oni 10
am. to 5.p4fl, Admission, is -$3 , for
adults, $1.50 for students $456 for
seniors, and a family rate of 0.50.
This fee . includes adinission:to the
Craft -fair.
Located just five km West Of Mil-
ton, the Museum can be reached
from Highway 401 via exists 320B or
312 and follow the signs.
The Christmas Craft Fair, the
Museum's largest event, also ends
the ': ; season on Sept. 25.
Howick teachers graduate
from a summer course
Howick Central School teachers
Alex Hutchigiii and Debbie Bennett
graduated from an extensive sum-
mer course, "There's Magic in a
Learning Centre", held at the Uni-
versity of Waterloo from Aug. 22-26.
They teach in a Grade 3-4 class at
the school.
This professional development op-
portunity was sponsored by the Fed-
eration of Women Teachers' Associ-
ations of Ontario which represents
33,000 women public elementary
school teachers.
Junior classroom teachers from
- - across- -the- prvvince- attended- this
course where they explored estab-
lishing learning centres, manage-
ment techniques, skill development,
monitoring and evaluation strate-
gies and communicating with par-
ents. Teachers who took the course
will push for more resources for the
junior grades in their home commu-
nities when they return.
For several years the Federation
has emphasized the need to renew
elementary education in view of ex-
citing, on-going reseparch. It has lob-
bied the provincial government for
more funds for these very important
early years in school.
Terry Fox Run funds were used in
the establishment of the Terry Fox
Research, Fellowship Program for - • -
Physician Scientists which allows
medical doctors to .train in cancer ‘:
research, thus providing a link
between the bedside and the
laboratory.
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RUN REGISTRATION — Wingham's first-ever Terry Fox Run to raise mOney for CEIRCer reseatch4e,s
held Sunday. Cindy MacDonald, Tim Keil, Linda Edgar and George Michie, all on the left,helpetl .tO
register the 80 participants. Over '$8, 500 for cancer research was raised in the Wingham run alone.
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Rabies, tuberculosis and other
diseases carried by. animals are
threats to 'public health- throughout
Central America, and, the agricul-
tural sector suffers economic losses
from decreased annual production
as a direct result of disease.
The CIDA project will train veter
inary faculty who can teach and, by
multiplier effect, increase the num-
bers of veterinarians in the field who
are trained to address these disease
problems.
Project directors from the three
institutions met in Guelph this sum-
mer to plan the first phase of the
project in which -two prOfessors from
Costa Rica and Oile 'frdm Colombia
will visit OVC in Janillify.
Five veterinarians from each
country will study at OVC over the
next four years, while up to six
Guelph faculty will travel to Costa
Rica and Colombia to present short
cours and assist with field Investi-
gation projects.
The link will stimulate research
collaboration among the three vet-
erinary schools, says Guelph's pro-
ject director Jan Thorsen, a profes-
3or in veterinary microbiology and
inimunology.
4'We can use a great deal of the ex-
pertise Guelph has to offer," says
Dr. Luis Rodriguez of Costa Rica.
His institution hopes the program
will help its faculty train veterinari-
ans who are better prepared to deal
with current problems like bovine
respiratory diseases, endemic viral
infections„ that affeck the digestive
tract of cattle, and leishmaniasis, a
parasitic disease transmitted from
tiniinals to Inunans by insects.
The institution also hopes to capi-
talize on Guelph expertise in fish
pathology, an area where Dr. Rodri-
quez says the veterinary medical
profession in Costa Rica is not keep-
ing pace with developments