HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-06-07, Page 17WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7,1995
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CAS: What is going right?
Dr. Peter Marshall addresses annual meeting in Huron
By MARGARET STAPLETCN
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`'ft. An expert in the field of child,
;adolescent and family assessment.
psychologist Dr: Peter Marshall
chose "What Is Going. Right?" as
4/chose
theme of his address to the an-
rnual meeting of the Huron County
'(Children's Aid Society held late
"'last month at Benmiller.
Dr. Marshall is the author of nu -
Onerous academic papers and
p`?600ks, including the highly suc-
cessful, Now I Know Why Tigers
Eat Their Young.
Introduced by the incoming CAS
board president, W. Paul Elgie of
Turnberry Township, Dr. Marshall
said he has discovered what he
calls "The Chicken Little Syn-
drome".
At its core is the belief that soci-
ety is on a downhill path and a
yearning for the good, old days
when children did exactly as they
were told, Dr. Marshall ctaimed.
"Chicken Little Syndrome" or
CLS, has been around in one form
or another throughout history, he
continued. However, its proponents
point to drug abuse among the
young today and what they say is
an increase in the crime rate as evi-
dence that the sky really is falling.
However, Dr. Marshall proposed
that we are given a biased view of
young people in society, which sta-
tistics do not confirm. Dr. Marshall
once heard someone say, "�It takes a
whole community to raise a child,"
and he said he believes that is true.
If young people of today are do-
ing poorly, it does not reflect well
on the skills and abilities of those
assigned to raise them, he claimed.
He used data on several subjects
to support his claim that things real-
ly are not as bad as they are painted
to be. For example, in the area of
teenage sexuality, Dr. Marshall
said, teenaged pregnancies in Onta-
rio have declined in the past 15
years, pointing to better under-
standing of birth control among
young people. Surveys of teens
have found, he added, that young
people place high value on other as-
pects. of relationships, such as trust-
worthiness and loyalty.
On the topic of drug abuse, data
collected during the early 1980s in-
dicated that 17 per cent of young
people in Canada used drugs on a
regular basis, according to Dr. Mar-
shall. Ten years later, that number
had dropped to six per cent.
"Fewer young people are regular
users of drugs today," he said.
Granted, a number of young people
do abuse alcohol, but that too is
down. "As a group, teens today are
more responsible."
MUSIC
Some say the music listened to
by today's teens has dark themes,
loaded with sexual inneundo, said
Dr. Marshall.
Candidates address
agricultural issues
Continued from page 8
ducing the constituencies weren't
worth the trade-offs. "When mon-
ey is short, centralization takes
place, taking power away from lo-
cal people and taking it mostly to
Toronto," he said, pointing out
moves to reduce the number of
school boards and the move to dis-
triqt health councils.
Klopp a4,so.,clajlned, Harris was
trying to centralize more power in
Toronto and wondered if Johns
was going to take part of Bruce rid-
ing, what would happen to the
Bruce PC candidate. Jewitt argued
that representing a riding which
takes an hour and a half driving
time from one corner to another is
much more difficult than an urban
riding which is only several
blocks. "We just cannot allow this
proposal to happen."
All candidates but Klopp prom-
ised to change the lengthy, expen-
sive process of landfill site selec-
tion and open up the way for other
technologies,' such as incineration.
Jewitt said far too much money has
been spent during Huron County's
search for a landfill site, on studies
of potential sites on class five and
six farmland when it should have
been obvious that soil and hydro -
geological conditions would have
made these sites most vulnerable to
leaching.
Common sense says it would be
better to pay someone more on a
class -one or two farmland site to
get a safer site without so much
waste of engineering studies of
high-risk sites, Jewitt said. The
Liberals also would allow incinera-
tion, he added.
Johns said there now are other
technologies that can be used and
said that incinerators have been de-
veloped in the past few years
which create much less emission.
Ainslie commented that Reform
Ontario would scrap the Environ-
mental Assessment Act and start
over. Cornish agreed the expensive
assessment hearings must go, but
he warned as a former member of
the Mid -Huron Landfill Site
Board, incineration is "not entirely
successful".
Klopp ridiculed those who pro-
moted incineration in Huron
County. It was rejected for Huron
long before the NDP took power
because it was not practical, he
claimed. There isn't enough gar-
bage to justify the high costs. "Peo-
ple aren't being totally straight
with you," he said. The NDP has
concentrated on promoting recy-
cling and now the markets have
been built up to a point where there
actually is a shortage of paper and
cardboard, he said.
Several of the candidates
pledged to repeal the Agricultural
Labor Relations Act and hold, or
reduce, the minimum wage. Ain-
slie said the minimum wage should
be scaled back because Ontario is
not competitive. He said he was
CAS annual meeting...w. Paul Elgie of Turn -
berry, incoming president bf.the Huron County Children's Aid
Society board, greeted Dr. Peter Marshall, guest speaker at the
CAS annual meeting last. Wednesday evening at Benmiller.
More students hold down part-
time jobs than ever before, he add-
ed, noting that students who
worked had lower drop-out rates.
"The:fact is there are more kids
staying in school and more going
on to post -secondary education
than ever before."
In conclusion, Dr. Marshall shot
down his own theory, the Chicken
Little Syndrome, as unsupported by
the evidence. "We have a genera-
tion of young people who are at
least as well prepared for society as
we were when you take a balanced
look at the evidence.
"We have every reason to be
proud. We (as parents, educators
and child-care workers) need to
keep confidence in ourselves. We
need to look around and see the
positive indications that we are do-
ing a lot of things in the right direc-
tion ° aiad we need to continue."
In other business at the CAS an-
nual meeting, Mary Moffatt, outgo-
ing president, was thanked by Mr.
Elgie for her six years of dedication
and tireless work for the society.
Also leaving the board of directors
is Dr. Bruce Thomasson.
- A newcomer to the CAS board is
Belgrave native Mary Ellen Walsh, •
a school principal.
against labor legislation, but added
he was against compulsory check -
offs for farm organizations unless
there was a vote of apprpval by all
farmers.
Cornish said unionization was
not appropriate for the farm fami-
ly. Farmers, he said, know how to
properly treat their employees.
Klopp argued that claims the
,t'at><tily, farm had .been ,unionized
were wrong. Instead, he said, the
labor legislation might ensure that
small family operations can be'
competitive with huge 10,000-
20,000 -acre operations in the fu-
ture by giving workers on those
farms the right to unionize. As for
the minimum wage, he said, with
inflation low, it. was unlikely it will
be raised in the future.
Johns said the Conservatives
will freeze the minimum wage un-
til it becomes more competitive
with rates in nearby U.S. states and
other provinces. Harris, she said,
had fought to have public hearings
held about farm labor legislation.
"Agriculture should not be subject
to industrial style labor legisla-
tion," she said.
The Liberals; Jewitt said, will re-
peal the Agricultural Labor Rela-
tions Ac,t and return the exemption
from the Labor Relations Act for
the family farm. He proposed that
all farm groups be brought together
to form a code of practice for farm
labor to promote proper treatment
of farm employees.
While other candidates promised
to extend GRIp support to 85 per
cent of the last five years' average,
Klopp said he'd love to he able to
make the promise but a 30 per cent
federal funding cut for support pro-
grams meant that there is only
money in place for 80 per cent sup-
port. Ontario had taken a tough
stand to get agreement from other
provinces and the federal govern-
ment. he said.
Answering a question about
funding for' the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture, Food and aural Af-
fairs, Johns claimed the cuts in
spending proposed by Harris
wouldn't touch agriculture.
Klopp scoffed at Conservative
and Liberal promises to reduce the
civil service without touching
OMAFRA. While his government
had cut the OMAFRA budget, it
had done so while providing tools
like the commodity loan program
that lets farmers help themselves
without creating big budgets and
jobs for bureaucrats, he said.
Jewitt promised no cuts in re-
search funding and a Rural Invest-
ment Fund to help individuals and
co-ops get into value-added enter-
prises from ethanol to on-farm
food processing.
Ainslie provided one of the
chuckles of the night. His party
would drop the lural affairs part of
the ministry, he said, because, "It's
a hotbed of left-wing think-
ing."
.1 -
However, looking back at some
lyrics of days gone by, including
those by the venerable "Beatles",
this is not a new phenomenon and
probably no worse today than 30 .
years ago, he said.
In fact, the entire "generation
gap" is something of a myth. Sur-
prisingly, according to surveys,
young people today have the same
values as espoused by their parents:
friendship, education, justice. Addi-
tionally, when asked what.they val-
ue most, young people also answer
peace, literacy and the environ-
ment, hardly a calloused view in
Dr. Marshall's estimation.
"Education bashing has become
a blood sport in Canada," Dr. Mar-
shall claimed, but statistical evi-
dence does not point to this.
A recent United Nations study
indicated that Japanese and Canadi-
an students have the top literacy
rate in the world and drop-out rates
have dropped steadily in the past 20
years.
"What we have is a group of
highly -educated young people,"
said Dr. Marshall and those who
claim otherwise are putting up a
smokescreen because society
doesn't have• jobs and opportunity
to offer them aPthe end.
Huron WI
annual
meeting
Know United Women
hold general meeting
BELGRAVE--The general meeting
of the United Church Women of
Knox United Church, Belgrave,
was held in the church schoolroom
on May 25 at 8 p.m.
The meeting opened with every-
one - reciting the UCW Purpose.
Anne Spivey introduced Harmony
Spivey, who entertained with three
piano selections which were enthu-
siastically received. Wilma Higgins
thanked Harmony.
Sheila Nixon gave the call to
worship and the hymn "More Love
to Thee" was sung. Ruth Haines
read the scripture lesson from Prov-
erbs and Samuel before Mrs. Nixon
gave the devotions, based on prayer
and how it can change our lives.
However, neglecting prayer can
weaken us, she said. The offering
was received by Lorna Cook and
Jane Grasby and dedicated by Mrs.
Haines, who led in prayer. The
hymn, "Savior To Thy Dear Name"
was sung with Donna Shaw at the
piano. Mrs. Nixon closed the wor-
ship service.
Doris Michie introduced Marilyn
Wood, who showed slides of a trip
taken in 1994 to China and Hong
Kong. This was a most interesting
and enjoyable presentation. Mrs.
AUBURN --The 95th Huron West
District annual meeting of the
Women's Institute was held recent-
ly at the Auburn Memorial Hall.
The theme was "Communicate"
and the meeting was attended by 56
WI members who all received a
plant from the Auburn Co -Op and a
knife from Radford's at Blyth.
Mary Nickles, Tavistock, provin-
cial board director, ratified the dis-
trict directors and installed the offi-
cers. She also reported on activities
for the year, saying there are 49 en-
tries in the quilt competition at Mil-
ton with the winner being an-
nounced June 14.
There also are 32 entries in the
song competition at Milton and a
Women's Institute rose will be
available to 500 ladies'in 1996.
A few delightful violin selections
were provided by Dora Alton and
Roberta Linshill of the Dungannon
branch. Jane Muegge, rural com-
munity advisor, said 1,000 people
attended "Slice of Huron".
The Maitland Branch looked af-
ter the crafts to a total of $1 16.
Marjorie Anderson thanked the
branch and greetings were received
from London area, Huron East and
Huron South.
"The Maple, Leaf Forever" was
sung.
Mrs. Muegge was the guest
speaker,and she spoke on "Commu-
nicatio ". She was thanked by Irma
Cartw fight.
Be grave branch gave the memo-
rial for three long -serving mem-
bers. St. Helen's collected the
cheques for pennies for friendship.
The public relations, curator and
program coordinator's reports were
given.
St. Helen's invited the group for
the 1996 district annual meeting.
Officers for 1995-96 are: past
president, Betty Archambault; pres-
ident, Mrs. Anderson; first vice. E.
Cartwright; secretary -treasurer.
Jean Nethery; assistant secretary.
Reta Kelland; public relations, Ma-
bel Jacklin; assistant PRO, Isabelle
Craig; curator, Lois Elliott; pro-
gram coordinator, Mary Hunter and
resolutions, Edith Cooper.
Saxophone
workshop
The Ex Quartet, a saxophone
chamber ensemble, is offering a
week-long saxophone workshop
for elementary school students at
Norwell District Secondary
School, Palmerston.
Sax Sounds '95 runs from June
26-30 and is an opportunity for stu-
dents in the area to get some tips
from members of a professional
saxophone ensemble, while at the
same time meeting other students
who share the same interest in the
instrument. Each day the work-
shop participants will get together
and discuss topics that are relevant
to the life of a saxophone player.
In addition to the daily work-
shops, there are a couple concerts
that are open to the public. On
Monday, June 26 at 8:00 p.m., the
Ex Quartet will present an opening
concert in' the E.C. Gray Centre,
NDSS. This concert promises
something for everyone with a
wide range of music being per-
formed, from classical to jazz and
ragtime selections. Admission is
$5 at the door with students under
12 and under admitted free.
The closing concert on Friday,
June 30 will be a chance for the
participants of the workshop to
show off what they have been
working on for the past week.
This concert begins at 8 p.m. in the
E.C. Gray Centre and admission is
free.
The registration fee for the
week-long workshop is $165.
Anyone interested in attending the
workshop can call NDSS at 343-
3107 or the Ex Quartet at (519)
744-9723.
Michie thanked Mrs. Wood and
presented her with a token of appre-
ciation.
The minutes of the last meeting
were adopted as read. Barbara An-
derson presented the treasurer's re-
port and moved its adoption. The
president, Mrs. Higgins, read cards
of thanks received since the last
meeting.
A discussion about: Camp Me-
nesetung followed. Mrs. Anderson
moved a motion, seconded by Mrs.
Michie, that the Belgrave UCW do-
nate $100 to the camp. The motion
was carried.
A motion was by Louise Bos-
man, seconded by Edith Vincent,
that church dishes do not leave the
kitchen unless the group is using
them was carried.
Dates to remember include: the
country social on June 24; the
EWPS graduation on June 26; the
Blyth Country Supper on July 22
and a luncheon on July 20.
The next general meeting will be
held Sept. 28 with Mrs. Vincent in
charge of the program. Edith Land-
esborough' will be the guest speak-
er. The meeting closed with the
UCW Benediction. Lunch and a so-
cial time followed.
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