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The SouthWestOrry,FlegiOrialCCUflCII: Qt
TVQmarlp is looking Mr applicants for .;
nmir,009 to a counaseat,
•„-,Tvorltario has five regional councils,
each composectbf 15 members who meet;
regularly to advise the network on policy
relating to the educational television ser-
vice in their region. The regional councillors,
all volunteers, are also active in creating
awareness in their own cOmmunities of the
many services' available from TVOntario.
In additioni, they help organize communi-
ty workshops and meetings on utilization
of the edutational television service.
Each Oouncil reflects the geographic,
cultural, and professional profile. of the
region it serves. Members Of the regional
councils are appointed for terms of up to
three years, renewable once.
Applications for nomination to the South-
western Region& Council, along with
resumes, should be received by Monday,
23 February 1981. If you would like to serve
as a volunteer regional councillor, or know
of a person who could help in this important
work, please contact;
Ed Pleva
Nominating Committee Chairman
TVOntario—Southwestern Regional Council
293 Neville Drive
London, Ontario N6G 1C2
(519) 679-3422 (bus.)
(519) 432-7356 (res.)
TVOntario
The television service of
The Ontario Educational
Communications Authority
In My Opinion aiff too precious to
A man on a motorciele
races through a nothing
hlrinel and makes it through
alive. nOther attempts to
jump a .concrete wall,
smashes into it at 12B kmh,
and ends up paralyzed. Still
another person risks his life
by laying his neck over a
rtizor-sharp machete while
his assistant uses a sledge
hammez to break a concrete,
block on his forehead: All
this, in the name of enter-
tainment.
Yes folks, for the mere
•cost of turning on your tele-
vision you can be witness to a
fellow human being spitting
death in the eye, and, if you
are very lucky, you may
even see one fail and watch
,as the mutilated remains are
carried off on a stretcher. To
this example of the degrada-
tion of human decency, I ask,
"Has life become so cheap
that we can play at deoth?
Do our lives so lack meaning
that we must taunt death to
fulfill it?" Are we returning
Variety Show
• The VVingharn Lions Club is produc-
ing a Variety ShOw with numbers from
• the local organizations in town. The
crowning of Miss Frostyfest Princess
will take place at this event.
Thursday, February 19
• 8 p.rn. VVingham Town Hall
Aclults $2.00 •
Children 12 and Under $1.00
Bill Thomson
• Come out and see all the local talent!
Another Frostyfest Weekend Event.
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I watched !Thot'a•InetediblW
for the first. time, and as
watched, I worfdered "Why"
and "For ''What?" 'Glory?.
Publicity? This idea re-
minded me ominously of a .
Gr. 11 English short story,
'The Prize of Peril!.. In it
people volunteered to be
mercilessly tracked down
and killed, for if they could
elude their would-be killers
for a specified period Of,
time, they would receive a
fantastic prize. In Gr. 11
thought the idea ridiculous,
yet here we are doing itno
and for free, no less!
Granted, 'That's Incred-
ible' does include soma
beautiful examples of laud --
given miracle: the church
congregation that arriveit10
minutes late to find the
church had mysteriously ex-
ploded; the severely re-
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Television is not all bad
Television has really
created a world of its own in
the last 25 years. It is, with-
out a doubt, the most vivid
and versatile medium of
communication ever en-
countered by man. Its poten-
tial is endless and this fact
has been realized by those of
honorable intentions and by
those of questionable
motives. • agree or disagree with this
If you were given a basket •theory because 1 am cer-
of nearly perfect apples and tainly no - 'expert in
asked to pick out the least crintinolOgy. Illwould, how -
desirable one, the task would ever, like to ask the pro-
be quite complex. If, on the Ponentsa this tbeorY a cluesr
It is my opinion that these
glaring evils of television
catch the eyes of the critics
and the good, that may be
found is COniVered too in-
significanCto be. bothered \. vision that don't deserve air
with. •• time. There- are some pro -
It is said that television grams that sicken even
shows too much violence and mature audiences. But the
gives too many suggestions manufacturers of television
to criminal Minds. I cannot sets have provided the
viewing audience with an
escape hatch, as it were. It is
knOwn as an \ on-off switch
and this device can be used
at the4riewer's discretion. •
I must also admit that chil-
dren arethe mostlikely vic-
A 1-1 pi Lai filorn;n9 For E E. MO ci Si L. oteni
melody can exert as much
influence as a little Holly-
wood blood.
I must admit that some
things are presented on tele -
other hand, one was blighted' lion:. DO. the.-0.iri„ ters of tele -
or mouldy, the task would vision scrdits•have•more vio- tims of poor television pro -
considerably easier. • • lent'or Sadirilic minds than • igraiiiining: Exposure to vie -
This principle can be thOSe books". , lent elements on television
applied to television as well. The Most violent scene can injure a child. It is, how -
The bad is so obvious that it that I have ever encountered ever, up to parents to protect
tends to stand out among the was -not on television but in a children from these ele-
rest. When television shows best-selling novel The sments, just as it is their re -
are good, they can be very, Moneychangers written by a, SpOnsibility to protect their
very good but when they are respected Canadian author:, children from matches and
bad, they cap be more than Arthur Hailey. cleaning chemicals.
horrid. ' • I took a close look at what Nothing created by man is
prime time television had to without flaws and television
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Warm Up Bonus Draw. Over $5
million in tax-free prizes. including
$11/2 million in Bonus Prizes. .
The seven -digit Boats Draw ticket
number gives you
a chance to win
one of 5 -$100,000,
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exactly to any one of the 65 Bonus
numbers drawn, you're either a
$10,000, $50,000 or a $100,000 winner!
That's $11/2 million in Bonus Prizes'
The regular six -digit ticket ,number
gives you a chance to win one of
6 - $100,000 or 24 -
$25,000 Grand
Prizes. And there
are 331,914 other
prizes. That's
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of regular tax-
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ning. Two shows were not
suitable for general family
viewing. One was a reinact-
ment of a tragedy at Kent
State University in 1970 and
the other was a television
version of East of Eden, a
novel that can be found in my
English room. Another
movie which prorndsed blood
and. gore was a shoot -em -up
Western .biased upon a
classic in literature, The
Last of the Mohicans.
On the other hand, viewers
also had the opportunity to
watch Kermit the Frog as he
entertained with his beauti-
ful rendition of "The Rain
Connection". Surely his
But I can't agree that its
imperfections outweigh its
enormous possibilities. I re-
member getting up at five
'o'clock one morning several
years ago to watch the
wedding of a princess taking
place an ocean away. I look
forward to watching that
huge glittering sphere in
Times Square, New York
signal the start of every new
year.
I can see these things
through the magic of tele-
vision, a magic that I believe
is white and good, not black
and evil.
• Lori Anne Jamieson,
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A cure for the blues
We all seem to be noticing
more and more that times
are getting harder. People
grumble and groan and get
bluer. Depression is be-
coming a common, house-
hold term and no-one seems
' to be excluded from its trap.
It seems to me though that
we are forgetting something.
ex-
citedlyyouhave Sorry cure,
not to comedisappoint
only
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tskt
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redis-
covered an old one: the gift
of friendship. I have founda
number of opinions by
various people and I hope
they will help you discover
the cure in -your own way.
Lynne
Great friendship is delight...
a hyphen between two
a min
minds,
bridgebetween twowills,
where
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My friend peers in en me
with men -y, wife face, and
though the sky stays alai, the
very light of day, the very
Sun's self comes in with him.
• A. C. St'vialbume
A mountain is made. up of
atorns, and friendships of
little matters; and . if atoms
hold not together the moun-
tain is crumbled into dust.
He who sows courtesy reaps
friendship, •
and he who sows kindness
gathers love.
St. Basil
A little thing, perhaps, on
meeting
To give a friend a cheery
greeting
A little thing — but who can
say?
Those words may brighten
up her day.
The most can do for my
friend is simply be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow
Upon him. If he knows that I
am happy in loving him, he
will want no other reward. Is
not friendship divine in this'?
Henry David Thoreau
The caribou is the only
one of the 41 species of deer
in which both semis have an-
tlers. In the wild a caribou
lives up to 15 years.
Frozen to death
A man dies. His body is
frozen at once. He lies in a
state of suspended death, un-
disturbed in his icy "bed" for
years or even centuries.
When the time is right, his
body is lifted from the deep
freeze, thawed., revived and
repaired. The frozen corpse
is now a living man.
This account may seem to
belong to the realm of
science fiction, but the pros-
pect of freezing has already
become a reality.
Enthusiasts cling to the idea
that someday they will be
frozen, and then. hopefully
revived when medical
science has progressed far
• enough to ensure a cure for
their disease.
So a child who dies of a dis-
eased heart could be frozen
until there is a cure or trans-
planting is a routine proce-
dure.. A woman of 90 may
hope that in the future the
aging process can be
arrested or even reversed.
The prospect of freezing
could very well be the
remedy for any previously
inconquerable disease or ail-
ment man encounters.
Freezing the dead could
also create some major
complications. Present
freezing techniques still are
not technically foolproof and
if a body is not properly
frozen the brain cells could
become deprived of oxygen
and serious damage would
ensue.
Moreover, even if the in-
dividual has no adverse side
effects from freezing, will
their new future be so
beautiful? A person may
have' been brilliant and
learned when they lived but
ht an advanced era this wis-
dom could be outdated and
impractical. They would be
,virtually unprepared for any
profession.
Legal dilemmas also
would be inevitable. When
people are not buried what
'happens to their estate? Are
their heirs denied 'inheri-
tance? Is their property to be
kept in trust for them, un-
usable by others for perhaps
centuries? Could there -come
a time when the dead will
ultimately own all the
property and hold all impor-
tant positions? If Trudeau
were to die, would he have
the right to resume office as
prime minister when fie 'was
revived? Population, as if it
wasn't alreadY a threatening -
problem, would no doubt in-
treis overwhelmingly
through `the addition of all
those revivable corpses
every generation.
The first freezing opera-
tion occurred in January of
1967. Dr. James Bedford now
lies in suspended animation
waiting indefinitely for a
cure for lung cancer, the's:1's-
ease that claimed his life.
Even though freezing and
resuscitation may 'only be
optimistic• speculation,
enthusiasts cling to the fact
that no scientist will come
out and .definitely say that
freezing and revival are for-
ever impossible., After all,
what have you got to lose?
Jeff Hunter, 12D
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WAX
FOR GRIP—Bonnie Perry, a Grade 8 student at
Turnberry Central School, waxes a pair of skis during
a ski workshop Friday morning. The workshop was
conducted free last week at local and area elementary
schools by representatives of the Ontario Ski Council.
Congratulations;
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netts Oldengaralt
a second place- finish
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Remembrance Day poern
and '43qtay• contest. 111#1/?,':
competition was Oponsofer
by the local Legion,
Congratulations, to
Wheeler who coin
the Canadiant, '
championships ,
fourth in .
division. Cbauc Ip*infelhOW
for the population of figure:
skatersin our scheoll
The amid winter, cal*
val is just aintuid-the corner
at F. E. Starting Febrttaiyi
16-22 a number of craZy.
things will be happening, In -
eluding among many thin
Pillow fights, snow
turing, teacher -student
races, a penny carnival and
a lot mere. You might call it
a little rejuvenation before
exams.
Something that you might
see -often at F. E. Madill is a
• basketball game, and
-although our games are ex-
tremely exciting tile game
I'm about to mention may.
take the cake for the inost,in-
teresting. Why? Because the
• players - will he playing)*
• wheelchairs. Thegtnie-iWili
be held On Feb. 22. ,
That's all for this week.
• L.
Mustang mania
Midgets — On Feb. 4 the
Mustangs played their last
home game of the season.
The Midgets • met some
strong competition from
Norwell in the „first half,
coming away on top with a
close 32-27 lead at half-time.
"Then the Midgets came
alive With Ed Hunter and Bill
Wiemer coming away with
14 points each. In the second
half the Mustangs led Nor-
well 76-40 and won.
High scorers were Ed
Hunter with 28 points, Bill
Wiemer with 14 and Phil
Hinton! with 13. The win still
leaves Wingham in second
place with a 6-1 record be-
hind Listowel with a record
of 6-0.
Juniors — The Juniors
played a :,well -fought game,
losing after two periods of
overtime 51-45. The Mus-
tangs led Norwell 23-30 at
half time. They kept their
lead until the final minute
when Norwell tied the game
at 37 all.
In overtime, both teams
traded baskets and the score _
remained tied at 43. In the
second- overtime period the -
Mustangs fell into trouble
when Kevin Saxton fouled
out. Norwell saw its chance
and took the win51-45.
High scorers for the game
were Mark McDougall with
12 points, Kevin Saxton,
eight, and Rance Willis, Jody
Dennis and Kelly O'Hagan
with six each. Bad news htt
the team the next day when
they found out that Kevin
Saxton suffered a separated
shoulder in a hockey game
and Jody Dennis' knee was
acting up again.
11. Willis
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