The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-08-22, Page 19NATURALIST DISPLAY CENTRE
Pinery Provincial Park this summer,
park as part of the S.W.O.R.D, program
display showing some of the birds and
Liz of Exeter
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naturalist
the area
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young people
of the ministry of Natural Resources.
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are employed at the
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• Summer jobs at Pinery
no longer just for boys.
improvement program was
started to clean up the damage
done to beaches in the winter and
keep them looking good, and a
road scar improvement program,
is designed to rehabilitate sandy
patches by the roadsides which
are slow to reseed.
All of the S.W.O.R.D. programs
are designed as additional ser-
vices to what the provincial park
offers. The students working in
this program are helping Ontario
campers enjoy and understand
the outdoor life.
Things have really changed
since the days when you took
your tent, axe and coleman stove
and headed off into the bush to try
and fight off the mosquitoes. -
through the visitation service.
The information team at the
pinery includes Liz Jolly of
Exeter, Kathy Cook of Hensall,
Audrey Mariott of Goderich and.
Barb Keys of Varna.
Even more surprising than the
information services, on a foggy
morning or a hot humid af-
ternoon, you might see the
garbage girls.
"The Pinery", boasts Harvey
Smith, "is likely the only
provincial park in Ontario with
an all girl garbage crew."
The girls are part of a garbage
recycling program with
S.W.O.R.D. Garbage bags are
given out to all campers and they
are asked to separate their cans
and glass from the rest of the
refuse. These articles are picked
up, sorted and resold.
' The program, however, does
not discriminate against men.
Employees are also involved in a
sign maintenance program,
which is designed to keep all park
signs to a minimum of words and
avoid some confusion. A beach
INFORMATION HOSTESSES — More and more girls are being employed by provincial parks for the
summer months and these three girls are just part of the large staff at the Pinery this year. The girls are
employed by S.W.O.R.D. to provide the campers with information concerning the park and its services. An
Information trailer, campsite visitation interpretation program andchildren's Nature recreation are involved.
The a 7 -ls are from left: Barb Keys, Varna; Kathy Cook, Hensall and Audrey Marriott, Goderich.
By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR
Mrs. Leonard,Wein is confined
to her bed for the next couple of
weeks.
Mrs. Wm. Armstrong and
daughter Jodi, recently returned
home from St. Joseph's Hospital,
London.
Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
Victor Green in the passing of her
husband.
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Preszcator,
Brenda and Barbara Glanville
and Mr. & Mrs. Edward Regele,
RR 4, Walton spent Monday in
Collingwood. There they toured
the Blue Mountain Pottery plant,
the Rainbow Ceramics, and the
Pine Pottery. On their way home
they went by Owen Sound and
visited the Huronia Pottery in
Meaford.Mrs. Jacques England
spent the weekend in Port Elgin
with her husband.
Brenda Glanville has been
holidaying with her sister Mrs.
Elaine Foran, Huron Park.
Tammy Preszcator,
Sebringville spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Stan
Preszcator.
Mrs. Larry Preszcator and Jo-
Ann, Sebringville spent the
weekend with Mr. & Mrs. John
Pritchard.
The times are changing. Not
too long ago, when camping in
Ontario, the only girls you saw in
a provincial park were other
campers.
Today, if you drive into .a
provincial park, chances are it
will be a girl in a green uniform
who takes your registration. But,
that's not all, girls have taken
over many of the jobs in the parks
that were once reserved for the
male of the species.
In fact, if you were to visit the
Pinery Provincial Park this
summer, you would see an
amazing number of female
employees.
Most of these girls are em-
ployed as part of the S.W.O.R.D.
program, sponsored by the
Ministry of Natural Resources.
Spelled out, S.W.O.R.D. means
students working on resource
development, and the Pinery has
hired 23 of these students for the
summer.
Perhaps the most popular and
most widely used S.W.O.R.D.
undertaking is the children's
program. It is run by three young
women, Gail Bressette from
Forest, Bev Finnen of Exeter and
Sue Ambercrombie of London.
The program is run Tuesday to
Saturday morning and includes
games, puzzles and crafts
designed to help the children be
better campers as well as lear-
ning about the outdoors,
According to Harvey Smith,
visitor services programmer at
the Pinery, approximately 1,000
children have taken advantage of
the program already this season.
The Interpretive program at
the park includes guided hikes
and canoe trips, evening walks
and nature movies describing the
wildlife of the park.
An information trailer, staffed
by young ladies, is equipped with
information on the wildlife,
family programs and rules of the
park, as well as information on
the surrounding communities.
Part of the information ser-
vices involves a campsite
visitation program. Members of
the information service team and
others in the S.W.O.R.D.
program spend the afternoons
wandering around the three
camping areas in the pinery,
bringing information right to the
campers and answering any
questions they might have.
The information trailer has
served between 7,000 and 8,000
campers this year and an ad-
ditional 5,000 have been reached