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8 News Record • Wednesday, April 13, 2016
OYAP Grade 7 Technology Days -
Mitchell Community Centre
Special to Clinton News Record
In our ongoing commitment to
encourage youth apprenticeships,
the Huron -Perth Catholic District
School Board is pleased to
announce that it will be present-
ing OYAP grade 7 Technology
Days for a sixth year. This innova-
tive hands-
on event is offered to all grade 7
students attending Huron and
Perth county Catholic elementary
schools. The program exposes
students to fun skills develop-
ment in the area of technology.
Future careers in the technologi-
cal field will be inspired by the
amalgamation of community
partners and senior student -
peers. Relevant, real skills will be
demonstrated and performed by
all of the students.
This big event will be taking
place at the Mitchell Community
Centre on April 11, 12 and 13,
2016, with the help of our talented
student volunteers from St.
Michael Catholic Secondary
School, Stratford, and St. Anne's
Catholic Secondary School,
Clinton.
There will be eight trade and
technology workshop areas, each
with project activities to be
completed.
The Construction area will
include plumbing, electrical and
woodworking. Manufacturing
will feature plastic injection
molding, techno forming as well
as drilling and tapping. The
technical design area has 3-D
printing. There will be an exca-
vation simulator in the heavy
equipment operator area.
Transportation will include
small powered equipment,
bearing lubrication and starter
motors. Hair and esthetics par-
ticipants will be introduced to
hair styling and finger nail man-
icures. Four County Labour
Market Planning Board will fea-
ture a skills opportunity trainer.
In the skilled trades tractor
trailer from Lambton College,
participants will work on bird
houses to practice wood
working.
For more information contact
Tim Mattens, OYAP Project Coor-
dinator 519-345-2440, Ext. 328.
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The YMCA would like to thank all the YMCA and community volunteers for their
generous support and commitment to making a difference in our community.
During Volunteer Week our doors are open to ANY volunteer in our community and the'
family. Visit your local YMCA and let our team know which organization you volunteer
with and enjoy a YMCA experience on us!
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Stories of Immigration & Migration
A New Temporary
Exhibit at the Huron
County Museum
Special to the
Clinton News Record
A new temporary Imigration and
Migration exhibit will be on show at
the Huron County Museum April 5
to October 15, 2016.
Whether it was settlers from the
Great Britain in the nineteenth cen-
tury, Dutch immigrants after the
Second World War, or more recent
refugees & immigrants, the migra-
tion of people in and out of Huron
County has brought great changes
to the landscape and culture of our
County.
The Huron County Museum's
newest exhibit features the stories of
7 people who moved to make Huron
County their home. Beginning with
the story of Agnes Mcllwain, a newly
married step -mother to six moving
from Ireland in 1840 to Goderich
Township with a new baby on the
way; the exhibit traces each person's
life as they arrive in Huron County,
make their home and leave their
mark. Also included is the story of
Margaretha Keller -Becker, a young
German woman immigrating in
1865 to Hay Township. She lived
through two world wars and numer-
ous changes to the County, raised 10
children, and passed away in 1942
as one of the district's oldest
residents.
Not all immigrants came by
choice. Bernard Brown was only 10
years old when he came to Tucker -
smith Township as a Barnardo's
Home Child. Emigration separated
Bernard and his younger brother
Edward from their mother and sis-
ters in Northern Ireland. A decade
after he arrived in Canada, Bernard
returned to the United Kingdom
with the 161st Huron Battalion as a
soldier in the First World War. Due
to World War II, Victor Kadonaga
came later to Huron County as a
young Japanese -Canadian man for-
cibly evacuated from British Colum-
bia in 1942. In 1946 he came to live
on the farm of Ernest and Irene
Townshend on the Cut Line near
Holmesville through church
sponsorship and was able to finish
his schooling before moving again.
Still others saw Huron County as
part of a land of opportunity. Bakke
de Haan was only a six-year-old girl
when she and her family emigrated
from the Netherlands in 1948 to East
Wawanosh. Knowing no English,
young Bakke sometimes found life
in Canada strange and puzzling, but
she soon adjusted and thrived. Her
memoirs have been recorded in her
book Our Land of Milk and Honey.
Living still in Goderich today, Ernst
and Pauline Tafeit grew up in times
of scarcity and hardship in Nazi -
occupied Austria. The couple had
only been married six months when
they immigrated to Canada in the
winter of 1951. In Goderich, they
soon partnered with two other
recent immigrants to found their
own manufacturing business, Akro-
mold Ltd. And finally, the most
recent immigrant featured in the
Museum's exhibit is Kaushik Patel
who as a boy had dreamed of Can-
ada while at school in India. Origi-
nally from a farm family, Kaushik
was looking to run his own business
and return to life in a rural commu-
nity when he and his family took
over Charlie's Variety store and set-
tled in Clinton in 2007.
The stories featured in this exhibit
are only a small selection of the
journeys that have shaped and con-
tinue to transform Huron County as
new neighbours arrive to this day,
and illustrate the strength and diver-
sity of our residents.
The special exhibit is open to the
public during museum hours until
October 15, 2016. Regular admis-
sion rates apply. Groups and tours
welcome. Visit the Huron County
Museum to see and learn more
about these individuals, and to leave
your immigration story for others to
discover.
The Huron County Museum is
located at 110 North Street, Goder-
ich. Visit on Tuesday - Friday,
from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (8 p.m. on
Thursdays) and from 1-4:30 p.m.
on Saturday. Summer hours begin
May 1.
For more information, contact
Elizabeth French -Gibson, Senior
Curator at 519-524-2686 x 207, or
efrench@huroncounty.ca.
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