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Thomas Thompson -Advertising IVIanager
Sharon Dietz - Editor
Pat=Livingston ® OIfieeManager
Joan Hehn - Compositor
Merle Elliott Typesetter
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There are few people ut •Lucknaw who work as hard as the
*tiers at the Bank of Montreal. They stand at their wickets
patiently working their way -through countless deposits and:
withdrawals, shuffling paper and money; Staying ,calm and
efficient and :accurate,, no matter how long the lineup of
customers. in front of them. • -
Many of.us .couldn't work with the public all day as they ,do.
•Most of us would find it impossible to cope, if we couldn't.
retreat behind the walls of our offices at least once a day. Butt
tlese_girls work all day in full view of everyone who enters the
b'ank.And even when they=do that portion. of their work which
doesn't deal directly With the .customer, they must balance off
in .full view of 'every customer standing in line cursing them-
for'
hem-for` closing their wiett.
• It's one of the m nianding° jobs It's tiring, both
physically and 'mentallywo ,. t i standto iirtat all day And manage
money that isn.'.t yours. hoping everything, will balance at
the end of the day. <. '
To someone who can't even keep hisown bank :. book
':balanced, it's amazing -the Work these girls do. And as is too
often the c'aseln most institution, the people who provide the
service and: deal with the public make much less than those
whoshuffle paper in offices and attend meetings in corporate
board rooms.
Theirworkload has increased dramatically since the
,closure -of the Royal Bank branch in town and they haven't
been- provided with additional hill time staff to cope.
Despite their increaised • work load; together with their
manager, Dorothy Brintnell, they've . worked to provide
increased efficiency in service in a friendly, patient, helpful
manner. , . .
Hats off to Diane Morrison, Lois Alton,; Sjaine MacAdam
and Shelley Campbell ;.•
-Pay carepriority
Day Care is 'an idea whosb time has come. The issue is no
longer whether subsidized day care will be: provided' to free
women to work. Women are'choosing to enter the labour force
because- they want a career as well as a family and in some
instances,, because the two earner family is a • necessity to
raise a family.
Women are in the, work force to .stay. The issue now is the
.quality of child care being provided to the children of working
parents.
The issue is no longer only an urban concern. A report on.
rural Ontario•women entitled,' The. -Changing Scene, tabled
recently by Agriculture ,Minister Dennis :Timbrell, noted that
61 :per cent of farin women, work.. full . or' part time often
carrying an outsidejob as well as farm and child rearing
duties. The women identified the provision of affordable day
care as their second or third most important priority.
The province currently provides subsidies for only 16,218
day care spaces in a province where there are 319,000
children under age five whose parents work. Ontario
Treasurer Larry Grossman's recent budget offered funding
for an additional 1,500 day care spaces and as yet, the
provincial day care co-ordinator, John Pierce has no time
table set up for. the allocation of the day care spaces
mentioned in the budget.
Provincially subsidized day care is seen only as a form of
welfare for the very poor, not at universal need.
High income parents pay the full fees of about S5,000 a year
for each child, in day care centres, but the vast middle class,
with an average family income in Ontario of $34,021 in 1982,
cannot afford day care and are forced to leave their children in
informal arrangements. Eighty-five per cent of young
children are outside of formal care - with a grandparent,
unsupervised baby sitter or in the worst cases, sent home
after school alone with a latch key tied around their necks.
Day care should be considered an extension of the
education system rather than a form of welfare. Indeed
Timbrell's report told the Ontario government, that the
continued relegation of day care to a back burner, will be as
dangerous in the future in the rural ridings as in the cities.
The report found an extreme "generation gap" between the
attitudes of older rural residents and the new generation of
farmers, whose wives are equally important business
partners and `income earners.
It is time for the federal provincial governments of this
country to recognize and accept the correlation between day
care and equal opportunity for women in the work force. A
major day care initiative should be expected following the
federal -provincial meeting of women's ministers held in
Niagara -on -the -Lake last week.
It is time for the federal and provincial governments to
establish co-operative funding programs for universal day
care in this country. The need is more than abundantly dear.
The politics are ripe.
Anothergeneration of children shouldn't. have to spend
their first four years deprived of quality care while the
politicians catch up • to reality.
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Nothiig finer than a spring morning on main street
You can tell it's spring when
Charlie comes back from Florida
and he and George are walking
down Quality Hill on their way to
the post office when you're on your
way to work in the morning..
The coffee crowd is already
assembled at The Scoop and the
early morning crowd has already
been and gone at Al's.
The girls at Cedarhill are water-
ing the box plants in front' of the
store with a garden hose.
Hilda is sweeping the sidewalk in
front of the grocery store. (In the
wintertime she's shovelling away
the snow.' Ken kept telling her to
wear a hat so she wouldn't catch
yet another cold. She refused, so he
arranged for Santa to deliver a pair
of elephant ear muffs for Christ-
mas.)
A few of the old boys are sitting
on the bench in front of Kwan's
watching activity pick up on the
EDITOR'S
NOTEBOOK
by Sharon Dietz
street and later in the morning
they'll go downstairs to play cards.
The post office is bristling with
"Good Morning" and "Nice day,
eh?" as people pick up the morning
mail on their way to work. Some-
thing is lostfrom a community
when you have mail delivery'
because you don't go to the post
office to pick up the mail. It's an
opportunity for the people of the
community to start their.. day
meeting friends and neighbours.
Jim is carrying out baskets of
fruit and bags of charcoal in front of
the fruit market. The lights are on
at the funeral parlour and later in
the day work will go around as to
wilo has passed on.
Ken is on his way to Becker's for
the first coffee of the morning. Don
has been in to pick up his morning
paper. Former newspaper publish-
ers do that, you know. Even when
they're into another business, they
still start the day with the morning
paper.
The aroma from the bake shop
follows you all the way down the
street, as you out to get coffee,
tempting you to enjoy an apple
fritter or a doughnut with the
morning cuppa.
As the morning settles in and
another work day is underway, the
boys at the furniture store will
observe the main street activities
from their positions on the sofa
displayed in the front window .of
the store.
There's nothing finer than a
spring morning onmain street.
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