The Citizen, 1991-09-11, Page 19Melinda and Brian TenPas
Area couple weds
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1991. PAGE 19.
Retraining program begins at GDCI
HAMILTON - TENPAS
Melinda Lenore, daughter of
Bruce and Anne Hamilton of Brus
sels and Brian Allen, son of Mary
TenPas and the late Albert TenPas
were united in marriage on Satur
day, May 4, 1991 at 4 o'clock in the
Brussels Presbyterian Church with
Rev. Carolyn McAvoy officiating.
The Maid of Honour was Carol
TenPas of London and the best man
was Ken Cousins of Brussels. The
bridal attendants consisted of Miss
Shauna Dane of Belmore, Mrs.
Brenda McIntosh of Walton, Miss
Prayer, theme of
Mennonite service
On Sunday, September 1, at
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship,
Pastor Tom Warner preached the
first of a series of sermons on
Prayer. This week's sermon con
centrated on the History of Prayer.
September 15 “Habit of Prayer”
will be the main topic.
Anne Hemingway was pianist
and Thelma Steinman was the song
leader.
At the conclusion of the Worship
Service, after a brief teaching
covenant service the children filed
out to their new classes for the
coming school year. The Adults
also each chose one of three
options for the Adult classes this
quarter.
Teachers for the on-coming year
are: Kindergarten and Nursery,
Yvonne Dettweiler and Lena
Seigers; Grade 1 and 2, Suzanne
Wideman and Yvonne Kitchen;
Grade 3, Alice Marlin; Grade 4,
Brenda Gilkes and Elaine Hiller;
Grade 5, Nancy Elliot-Greenwood;
Grade 6, Sharon Demaray and
Sharon Horst; Grade 7 and 8, Rod
Steinman and Paul Siemon; Youth,
Rob Demaray and Allan Dettweil
er, Mervin and Tillie Lichty.
Margaret MacLoed and Martin
Baan will lead an adult class in a
study of the Books of Acts, while
Elwin Garland will lead another
class on I John. The sermon Dis-
Judy TenPas of London and Mrs.
Karen Trivett of London. The
guests were ushered by Tim Fritz,
Troy Hamilton, Todd Wheeler and
Ken Higgins all of Brussels.
The soloists were Glenn Trivett
of London and Miss Crystal Devlin
of Vancouver accompanied by
organist Mrs. Joanne King of Brus
sels. Lighting the candelabra were
Miss Sherry Stewart of Listowel
and Murray Pipe of Brussels. Fol
lowing their honeymoon in Can
cun, Mexico the couple are now
residing on Albert St. in Brussels.
cussion group will be chaired by
Bev Brown. A Sunday School
Workshop will be held later in the
month and will be conducted by
Mary Mae Swartzentruber.
The Youth Group met at Martin's
Recreation Area on Saturday
evening for a “Back-to-School”
party.
THANK YOU
CHRIS, JUDY, BRETT & MATT LEE
WOULD LIKE TO THANK
THE FOLLOWING
PEOPLE FOR
HELPING OUT AT
OUR RECENT
MOTOCROSS
•Brussels Cadets for providing course marshalls
• Brussels Village Market
•Debbie Trollope and the St. John Ambulance Crew
•Trailblazer food booth
•J.R.'s for the donation of pizza
•Huron County work shed
•Rothmaeir excavating
•Hugo Masskant
•McGavIn Farm Supply
•Ryan Bulldozing
•Andy Vander Veen & Henry Grobbink for having the
crops off In time tor the race
•Morrison's for all their help
•Special thanks to Grog Clark and his gate crow
Manny Taylor, Dan Taylor, Dave Soontiens, Will &
Lorrio Perrle. Thank you to the following people
who helped to make the two days run smootfry
Margaret, Marie & Yvonne Cronyn, Barb Ferris, Kit,
Jason Connolly, Mike Cronyn, Mariam & Jenn Eadie
The Citizen for the terrific Insert and all the advertis
ers who sponsored It.
Goderich District Collegiate
Institute (GDCI) principal Bruce
Shaw attended the September 3
meeting of the Huron County
Board of Education (HCBE) to dis
cuss the proposal of an innovative
job strategy nrogram at the school.
The proposal was developed as
the result of co-operative discus
sions between personnel from
Employment and Immigration
Canada, Mr. Shaw, and HCBE
Superintendents Chuck Rowland
and Paul Carroll.
In introducing Mr. Shaw to the
trustees, Mr. Rowland provided
some background regarding the
proposal. Under the Canada Job
Strategy concept, this program is
similar to other adult training pro
grams offered by the board in part
nership with Employment and
immigration Canada.
Unlike these other ventures, this
program has more of a training
approach than a teaching and is
under the sponsorship of Huron
Industrial Training Advisory Com
mittee (HITAC), he said, with
HCBE becoming the delivery
agent.
The idea is to see a technical
studies program in construction
technology for 20 adults, running
for a period of one year. Classroom
instruction and the on-site work
placements would take place at
GDCI. The program ties into the
plans for expansion at the school.
"This is unique in that it is
attempting to accomplish a couple
of things with unemployed, skilled
workers, by enhancing their educa
tion background and in some cases,
actually having them eam a sec
ondary school diploma," Mr. Shaw
informed the board.
The program will involve co-op
work as well as "running the entire
gamut of what people leave high
school with," said Mr. Shaw.
"There will be classes in English,
math and technical studies.
Supervision would be provided
by a general contractor and trades
persons working in partnership
with the teaching staff and project
manager for the program.
Planning for expansion at GDCI
has been on-going for some time,
Mr. Carroll reminded the board
noting that increasing the labour
force by 20 trainees will be a sig
nificant savings in overall costs. To
do an addition similar to the one
recently finished at Grey Central
Public School near Ethel will result
in an estimated saving of up to 20-
25 percent of the overall costs, Mr.
Carroll said. "If we adjust the type
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of structure — more the nature of
the first additions we completed on
the elementary panel in 1989 — to
basic utilitarian, savings can be
increased to up to two-thirds. "
He then went on to say that if the
project is phased in to get trainees
involved in the interior renovations
the increased savings could amount
to half of the overall costs.
"The desirable route is to proceed
as planned," he suggested, adding,
that it was important that the
trustees understand that a commit
ment to accept the project is a com
mitment to proceed. "The emphasis
is on a training type of education,
but there is a residual effect."
Candidates, said Mr. Shaw, will
be in receipt of some sort of Unem
ployment Insurance Commission
(UIC), and be from age 18 up. It is
hoped that candidates will have
some particular skill, so that while
they learn another trade, they can
offer their expertise by re training
someone else, Mr. Shaw explained.
They will have a minimum of 10
women and 10 men.
Trustee John Jewitt reminded Mr.
Shaw that there are many people
struggling financially, who need to
be re trained, but are not receiving
any kind of government assistance.
Cook’s. We go the
extra distance to get
your crop to market
quickly.
When you’re ready to
harvest, you can count on
Cook’s to handle your crop
efficiently. With 8 branches,
and 11 licensed white bean
satellites, we’re well
positioned to get you
unloaded fast and back to
the field.
And when it comes to
marketing your crop, Cook’s
international connections can
give you a competitive edge
We’ll keep you informed of
world supply and demand to
help you market it for
maximum returns.
This fall bring your crop
to Cook’s. We’ll go the extra
mile to help make your
harvest a profitable one.
"Where you can trade with confidence."
"This is a forgotten group. Canada
Manpower is interested in getting
people off UIC, but there are a lol
of other people not eligible who
need help," he said.
"We agree with those concerns,"
said Chair Joan Van Den Broeck.
"It's an unfortunate reality that peo
ple not in the system often can't
benefit from these types of pro
grams."
Trustee Rick Rompf stated it was
his understanding that Manpower
had placed no restriction on the
program so any unemployed person
should be able to become a trainee.
After discussion the trustees
passed a recommendations that the
program be approved and that plans
be devised for the construction of
additional space at GDCI to com
plement the program.
Trustee Roxanne Brown said she
was pleased about the program.
"We have talked about alternate
financial strategies to answer the
problem of expansion and it looks
like this will indeed save us more.
Ms Van Den Broeck and Director
of Education Bob Allan extended
their thanks to the board and the
staff for putting this project togeth
er and particularly Mr. Shaw for his
commitment to the idea.