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The Huron Expositor, 1988-02-10, Page 1INDEX Dublin — A7 , Walton — A7 Sports — A8, A9 Kippen — All St. Columban — All Legion A15 Obituaries — A15 Births — A15 Serving the communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall, and Walton Fare i ly holds onto its roots. See page A6. Seahawk for playoffs. See page A8. Htiron. itOr X Seaforth, Or1tarjo HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDP$ESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988 50 cents a copy CSE sponsors'Quest' The Huron County Board of Education has passed a motion to introduce the Quest Pro- gram by sponsoring a training workshop for Grade 7 and 8 teachers from around the area, The Quest Program is a guidance and health program which contains lessons on topics such as family cooperation, decision making, alcohol and drug abuse, and handl- ing emotions. It is sponsored financially by . Lions Clubs and is being adopted by the school board as a suitable follow up to the Grade 6 Values, Influences and Peers (VIP) program. The Quest program addresses many of the primary causes of the problems of adolescence including low self esteem, dif- ficulty in coping with negative peer pressure, poor family communication, ir- responsiblity, lack of goals, and poor deci- sion making. The program consists of 60 lessons of 3' minute duration, and teachers must rdr- ticipate in an intensive three day treining workshop in order to successfully conduct the program. A $23,000 commitment by the Lions Club International to the HCBE will help cover the costs of putting the program into action. Each school in the county will receive 26 parent books, 26 student books, and 26 workbooks. The approximate value is $1,000 per school. Additional expenses may result if classroom sizes exceed 26, and/or books need to be replaced or updated yearly. The board will have to pay for 36 Grade 7 and 8 teachers to attend a training workshop. The cost of the workshop, materials and teacher manuals is projected at $8,400. To avert the additional expense of having to hire substitute teachers to fill in for teachers while they take the three day workshop, the board has opted to contract the workshop in the summer from June 27 to 29. The Quest Program has produced favorable report's from school boards in Elgin County, Middlesex County, and London. 1 BEAVER DRAFTEE - The Seaforth Beavers have drafted Dave ice with a few of the local hockey clubs. Here he faces off against McElwain. For a practice anyway. McLlwain was in town last week his father Jack McLlwain while Beaver team captain Ken Doig Sr. for the celebrity dinner and while here he spent some time on the drops the puck. Corbett photo. Re-entry program proposed , for , SDHS In our enlightene4. times, most people Empringham knew there was funding would agree that women have an important available for projects which supply them. contribution to make to the work force. The SDHS staff contacted the personnel However, after some women have spent from the Severely Employment Disadvan- several years as homemakers and child- in rearers many of them find their working Seaforth rduring ect ( the Dsummer while doing who were a skills are a little rusty, and they simply study of unemployment in Huron County. The SED project identified women in the 25-44 age bracket as more at risk of unemployment or underemployment (hav- ing to take a job which they are over- qualified for) than their male counterparts. Retraining was identified as a need by 66 per cent of these women. can't offer the business world all they used to. To rectify this situation there have been many adult education programs set up, and Seaforth is now a likely candidate for just such a program. Almost since the time of his arrival in Seaforth, Jim Empringham, the new prin- The SDHS staff also contacted the Canada cipal at Seaforth District High School, has Employment Centre in Goderich and found been working toward a proposal for a job re- there is a need for people trained in the entry program in Seaforth.. Mr. Empr- skills of word processing and computerized ingham arrived here shortly after Genesco accounting in modern businesses. closed their doors, and he heard from a lot of people who habeen unemployed by the closure of th4 company and needed academic upgra JOB RETRAINING NEEDED So the staff at SDHS started to investigate the o, )portunities that exist in the Seaforth area 1 or people to gain academic upgrading and jab retraining. There was (and is) an obvious need for these services, and Mr. Using this information, Mr. Empringham and his staff have put together a proposal that is now being presented to the Canada Employment and Immigration Re -Entry Programme supervisors, and if it is approv- ed, it will mean Seaforth area women will have the opportunity to get career training, and will be paid while taking this training. In the proposal, the staff at SDHS outlined why they feel the program would work at Photographs needed for edition 'l'he Expositor is inviting all photographers, amature or professional, to be a part of a special edition due out this spring. The edition, "Seaforth, Building for the Future, Stepping into the 90s" will present a positive picture of the town of Seaforth, its businesses and its people. To set it off from other special editions we'd like to feature at least one, and possibly two or three color photographs of the town - past or present - on the front cover. Anyone with photographs of Seaforth, scenic or otherwise, is invited to submit them to The Expositor as soon as possible. If found to be suitable, one or more may appear on the front page of the special sec- tion. All photographs will be returned. LOCAL ARTIST Brian Haley recently had one of his works selected for the 41st Annual Western Ontario Exhibition in London. His entry, a prisma color drawing of Stratford Ci- ty Hall, was one of 39 chosen for the Show. Here Mr. Haley shows an earlier work, a drawing of Cardno Hall, which won first prize at the Seaforth Fair. Corbett photo. their school, and how ito to recom- mendations n ade'by-tiie Eti project and by the Canada EmployMent Centre: -transportation would be available topar- ticipants at no charge through the school bus system in Huron County. -specific upgrading programmes will be developed at the school and will be easily accessible. -the job retraining in the areas of informa- tion processing and accounting match the skill demand as indicated by the Canada Employment Centre. -the development of retraining program- mes through The Canadian Jobs Strategy programme, re-entry option will provide financial support to participants. -the guidance department at the school is available to provide academic and career counselling to support the efforts of the Canada Employment Centre. PROBABLE PARTICIPANTS There would be 20 participants chosen for the Re -Entry program. Mr. Empringham says there have been occasions when men have been accepted into Re -Entry, but only in rare and special circumstances. For the most part the program is targetted at women who have been out of the work force for at least three years, and who are cur- rently on some form of social assistance. These women will be financially compen- sated according to their situation and their need while they attend school. Participants would become full time day - school students for the first semester, and would take courses such as Business English, Personal Life Management, Ac- counting, and information processing. They would be put into a real working situation in the second semester for practical on-the-job experience. In the second semester the school would keep in touch with participants Turn to page 10A • HONORED FOR EFFORT, ENTHUSIASM - Seaforth native Lloyd Eisler and skating partner, Isabelle Brasseur of Quebec, accept the NutraSweet Giving It 100 Per Cent Award at Canadians '88, from Ian McIntosh, Marketing Manager, The Nutra Sweet Company. The pair, who finished second in the Canadians,and qualified for the Olym- pics were honored for their enthusiastic skating performance, Seaforth residents wishing to congratulate Lloyd and wish him luck in Olympic competition, can do so by signing their name to a telegram. Names are being taken at Archie's Sunoco, Bob and Betty's Variety Store, or by Jean Hildebrand. Eisler awarded for love of skating Lloyd Eisler of the Seaforth Skating Club, and Senior Pairs' partner Isabelle Brasseur won the Nutra Sweet ''Giving it 100 Per Cent" Award at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships, held January 20-24 at Memorial Arena in Victoria. "Mr. Eisler, 24, and Miss Brasseur, 17, placed demands for standards of excellence on their new partnership equal to or better than those achieved with previous new part- ners. Early on in the competition, they as- tounded spectators with the qualifty and stroke of their technique," said NutraSweet. Mr. Eisler and Miss Brasseur were recognized for their outstanding stamina, good sportsmanship, generosity of spirit; and their dedication to and love of skating. The award is given m recognition not of the triumph of one skater over another, but of the quality of being one's own best competitor. In addition to the award, NutraSweet will contribute a $500 bursary to the Canadian Figure Skating Association's Skaters Development Fund on behalf of Mr. Eisler and Miss Brasseur. Local artist fares well with works A local artist has had one of his works chosen for the 41st Annual Western Ontario Exhibition at the London Regional Art Gallery. Brian Haley of Seaforth was one'of 300 ar- tists who put in an entry for the exhibition this year, and he was also one of the 33 chosen. The show is a 39 piece exhibit con- sisting of paintings, drawings and photographs by regional artists. The piece that was accepted for the ex- hibition was a drawing of the Stratford City Hall done in prisma color, which is a type of art pencil which allows the blending of col- ors. Prisma color is a relatively new ar- tistic medium to this region, and Mr. Haley has been working with it for about the past three years. This is his first success with prisma color, but he has been rewarded for earlier works in other media. Mr. Haley says he has always enjoyed drawing, but it was his first success while he was still in high school that initially got him interested in art as a career. The Lon- don Art Gallery was then relocating, and held a contest offering a first prize of an all expenses paid trip to Mexico for one week. Mr. Haley won the prize for his drawing of a tiger in a field. Unfortunately he couldn't take the trip because Grade 12 exams and a snowstorm conspired to keep him home, but he says he did get a cash reimburse- ment and a lot of inspiration. Following high school Mr. Haley went to the University of Waterloo and spent three years in a Fine Arts prograrn. Following this he tried doing some freelance work for about five years, but has found the Seaforth area is not big enough to give him enough work. Moving to a larger centre such as Toronto is the only feasible way he could support himself conmfortably as a freelance artist, and he doesn't want to move. So he has started working at Klings in Seaforth and pursues his art part time. The most common subjects for Mr. Haley are buildings and scenery. He says he can draw people but isn't as good at it as he would like to be. In the past he has drawn portraits and such, but he says everyone has their own ideas of how they look and what their picture should look like. Something like a building or a landscape is perceived by most people in the same way. Mr. Haley has had a fair share of recogni- tion for his drawings aside from -his recent success with Straford City Hall and the earlier trip he won to Mexico. In 1983 he won first prize at the Seaforth Fall Fair for a drawing of Cardno Hall, and he has had his share of works that have been sold or have received favorable comments after being on display. While working as a freelanre ara;ga !,^ everything from pictures of clients' homes to sign and Iogo designs for businesses. He says when you work freelance you have to pretty well be a jack-of-all-trades. Mr. Haley's brother Paul has worked with him on various projects, and is cur- rently going to school to become a commer- cial artist. Paul has done well as an artist and he entered the 1986 Chrysler Search for Canadian Wildlife competition and won third place in the fish category. Paul works with acrylic paints and one of his paintings of a rainbow trout won him the award. Last year he entered the same Canada -wide competition again and got two honorable mentions. Brian Haley has been involved in art as a career for the past 10 years. For now he is happy with what he is doing. Working at Kl- ings gives him an assured income, so he doesn't have to woi-ry about producing art to make a living. Now he draws part time when he wants and on the subjects he chooses, and he thinks that may be a significant reason for his recent success. "Now I'm doing what I want and not wor- rying about trying to conform to someone else's ideas," he said. Mr. Haley's work will be at the Western Ontario Exhibition in the London Regional Art Gallery until March 6. -