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BUDDING ARTISTS - The Ste-
phen Central School students who
enjoyed the mini -art course at
SHDHS were Dwayne Finkbeiner
(left), Sarah Patterson, Matthew
Miller and Tim Hoffman,
McCURDY PARTICIPANTS
Artists for the day at SHDHS includ-
ed this group from McCurdy Public
School. Jay Hippern is at back left
with Jim Wein. Tanya Deaville is
front left with Tina Gibson.
Art course
for students
By Jodi Soldan, Jeremy
Brock
On Wednesday, January 27, the
Southern Elementary Schools of
Huron County scnt representatives
to South Huron District High
School for an Art mini course. The
teachers for the course were Mr.
Weido from Zurich P.S.; Mrs. Gra-
ham from board office and Mrs.
McGee, Area Resource Teacher.
The different techniques of art
forms learned were charcoal sketch-
ing, watercolours, acrylic paintings,
oil paintings and on the last day -
pastcls.
.By Friday, January 29, we had
completed one major "masterpiece"
and many experimental works.
We met new friends, renewed old
friendships and learned a lot of inter-
esting facts about the artists.
All in all, it was an excellent
learning experience, and well worth
all the efforts of the teachers and
students to make it a fun learning
process. Thanks.
a
MP Doug
With a federal election likely this
. year Liberals must find a "new vo-
cabulary" to help explain the dan-
gers of the Canada -U.S. free trade
agreement to the people of Canada,
Doug Frith, M.P. for Sudbury told
Firth
at organizing
the organizing meeting of the new
Huron. -Bruce Liberal Association
Wednesday night in Lucknow.
The agreement, which Mr. Frith
said was not a "free trade" agree-
ment but a Reagan -Mulroney
Roommate awarded
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Science part-time at Western at the
same time as managing Room-
mate's three part-time employees.
Next season will sec some chang-
es.made to Roommate. Stevenson
no longer plans to take on commer-
cial contracts and wants to focus her
efforts on the home market. Shc
says the main advantage of Room-
mate is the ability of the cleaning
team to be in and out of a custom-
er's home in an hour or so.
Stevenson also hopes to fill a de-
mand for boat cleaning services this
summer. Many customers requested
this service, but due to a lack of ex-
perience Stevenson was reluctant to
accept the business. However; this
winter brought a contract from War-
ner Marine to clean the boats in
storage there, so Roommate should
be well able t0 tackle floating cus-
toners this summer. .
Stevenson docs not like to as-
sume the role of manageranddele-
gate responsibility to her workers.
Shc prefers to do much of the clean-
ing herself in order to keep tabs on
the quality of her -company's work.
"It has worked out well," said Ste-
venson. "I think my sbiggest prob-
lem is finding people to work."
Because the demand for her servic-
es begins so early in the season,
students arc not out of school in
time to get things under way. Shc
does cnjoy being able to offcr em-
ployment to people who might oth-
erwise have difficulty finding work
in Grand Bend. In fact, it was for
that reason that she was driven to
start Roommate.
"If you're not a waitress in Grand
Bend, then there's nothing for you
to do," maintains Stevenson.
While Stevenson is unable to pay
her workers as Much as restaurant
workers, she feels she is contribut-
ing in a small way to expanding and
diversifying Grand Bend's business
community.
LUCKY WINNER - Art Broderick's Lottario ticket won the $20,218.60
second prize in the January 30 draw. The ticket was purchased at G and G
Discount. Broderick is a regular purchaser of lottery tickets, spending
about $20 each week. His persistence paid off. '
agreement, is a complex issue, he
said and Liberals must find a way
to get through to people the dan-
gers involved. He pointed out that
Canada has done well for itself for
120 years in pursuing freer trade
through multi -national agreements
and 82 percent of all Canadian
goods entering the U.S. arc not af-
fected by any kind of tariffs so the
whole agreement was for the bene-
fit of the last 18 percent. The cost
of the agreement, the things Prime
Minister Mulroney gave away in
order to get protection for that 18
percent was too much, he said.
"All we have to do is look at the
original opening position," of the
two sides, he said, and see who
won: Mr. Mulroney caved in and
gave away too much for fear of a
protectionist Congress. What did
the Americans want from the
agreement? Since 1984, Mr. Frith
said, the U.S. has wanted to get rid
of the National Energy Policy.
U.S. drug companies wanted to get
rid of the drug patentlawsin Cana-
da. And, he said, Americans have
always coveted Canada's hinterland
resources. The Americans have got
all these wishes.
But Canada didn't get the one
thing it had set out to get: guaran-
teed access to American Markets,
he said. The agreement doesn't stop
Congress from changing the laws
to hinder Canadian imports and it
doesn't exempt Canada from the
Omnibus trade bill making its way
through the U.S. Congress. Cana-
da has the most efficient steel com-
panies but U.S. law still won't let
them capture more than 11 percent
of the U.S. market without bring-
ing retaliation.
He credited Mr. Mulroney with
getting a slightly better dispute
settlement mechanism but it still
won't prevent the Americans from
doing something like taxing soft-
wood lumber imports again.
In the long term, the highest
price Canada may have paid is in
the establishment, through the
agreement, of a continental energy
policy, Mr. Frith said. -
During the oil crisis, Canadian
companies were helped because they
only had to pay 75 percent of world
oil prices, he said. Canada won't be
able to give our own industries.this
kind of break anymore, he said.
"We've given up generations worth
of a very important tool to get the
18 percent of Canadian exports in",
he said.
Canada has always been organized
on an east -west basis, he said and
that if we start thinking in north-
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Provincial target is $4,454,000
Easter Seals campaign in March
Hope and opportunity are impor-
tant words to physically disabled
children.. Maintaining hope and op-
portunity to more than 7,100 chil-
dren -in Ontario is what The Easter
Seal Society has worked for since
its inception in 1922. •
Throughout the month of March
the Exeter Lions Club will join
with the Society and its 228 affiliat-
ed Easter Seal service clubs in co-
ordinating their 42nd annual Easter
Seal Campaign. This year the pro-
vincial target is $4,454,000 - the
highest goal ever in the Society's
-history.
"The many needs required by
physically disabled children are nor
immune to rising costs, said Gib
Dow of the Exeter.Lions Club. "We
again turn to the people of Exeter
and arca for their support, and the
resources required to ensure a life-
style of dignity for the special chil-
dren and families under our care."
The -Easter Seal Society is the
largest, most independent children's
organization of its- kind in Canada.
With a budget in 1988 of $14 mil-
lion, slightlymore than three per-
cent will come from government
sources. For this reason Easter
Seals depends heavily upon the ef-
forts of its volunteer service clubs,
and funds raised through a variety of
means. The majority of funds are re-
ceived through the March mail cam-
paign, but the Society also receives
funding from its provincial Snowa-
ramas and Skiaramas, assorted cor-
porate special events, individual do-
nations, and the annual Easter Scat
Superthon to be telecast Saturday,
March 5 to Sunday, March 6.
Children receive assistance for the
provision of vital equipment such
as: wheelchairs, braces, artificial
limbs, a camping holiday at one.of
five Easter Seal camps, transports
tion to treatment centres, extensive
research and prevention programs,
and much more: .
The Society also employs 38 Eas-
ter Seal Nurses located in -23 district
offices in Ontario. Through home
visits(fiey co-ordinate services and
progfams for each child, and serve.
as advisors for parr -'s.
"Physically dis d childrt 1 do
not live in a dream World. They are
faced with harsh realities every min-
ute of the day," said Mr. Riddiough,
president of the Easter Seal Society.
"Helping these children to triumph
over their personal challenges is an
ongoing commitment of Easter
Seals. Through the generosity of
meetin
south terms, it may become diffi-
cult to define what it is to be Cana-
dian.
It has costs us a lot of money to
maintain the east -west emphasis, fie
said but we have developed some
really unique things because of it
such as the need for a mixed econo-
my. We have developed a very good
lifestyle by being tolerant because
of having different languages and
cultures.
A deregulated economy in a coun-
try 5000 miles wide with a small
population cannot work, Mr. Frith
said. Once the Mulroney -Reagan
agreement is in place, the next step
will be harmonization of laws, and
it is the country with the 250 mil-
lion population that will have its
laws accepted by the smaller coun-
try.
Canada would gain many of the
same benefits of the agreement
without the costs if it just had stuck
with multi -national agreements
through the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT), he said.
The U.S. is one of the big pushers
behind the current Uruguayan round
of GATT negotiations because they
want the service industry around the
world opened up because Americans
are so strong in that area. Thc U.S.
will push hard to speed up the pro-
cess and "I don't believe for two sec-
onds that the omnibus bill and pro-
tectionism (in the U.S.) will stand
the test of time."
Mr. Frith warned that many of the
things the Mulroney government
claims to have protected, such as
marketing boards, and social servic-
es, will, over time, perhaps in two
generations, be wiped out because
of this agreement.
Canadians must, he said, maintain
the ability to do those things neces-
sary to solve uniquely Canadian
problems.
Grant to Goderich
Murray Cardiff, M.P. for Huron -
Bruce last week announced funding
approval under Section 38 of the
Canadian Job Strategy Program for
the town of Ge*lcrich in the amount
of $49,823.
This funding will cover eight jobs
over approximately a two year peri-
od. It is to improve the town parks
by clearing brush lots, as well as re-
pairing and painting picnic tables
and benches. This funding will also
be used for tourist and industrial in-
formation and some minor repairs
and painting on municipal build-
ings.
donations large and small, The Eas-
ter Seal.Society remains dedicated to
.providing opportunities for each
child, and hope that one day they
will make their own dreams come
true. .
IRIDOLOGY - Iridologist Joan Vankoughnett holds the chart and the light
she uses.
More than meets the eye
For most people, the eye is the - in. the US, but not in Canada.
window of the soul. For iridolo- Joan has been studying iridology
gist Joan Vankougnett, RR 4 and other related treatments connect -
Grand Bend, the eye - or more par- cd with holistic medicine - reflexol-
ticularly the iris - is, -a window into - ogy, acupuncture, massage therapy
the physical body. and nutritional health through herbs
Iridologists maintain that the and vitamins - for nine years. Her
markings in the iris reveal structu- main office is in Strathroy, but she
ral defects, inherent weakness, and operated a second office in -Grand
the activity of the various organs Bcnd in the summer months for the
of the body; anemia, nerve tension, past three years, and plans to reopen
toxemia, glandular disorders, drug in the village in June.
poisoning, chemical imbalances At the Grand Bend location Joan
and congestion all show up in one offered herbal -perms and hair colour -
of the :most complicated tissue ing, herbal facials, and herbal corn -
structures of the whole. body - the pounds to help heal' skin tissue
iris. damaged by -acne. She claims to sec
Although the study of the iris in the iris the adverse affects- of
can be traced back to both the an- chemical perms in the lymph sys-
cient Chaldcans and -Chinese, the tem and the:scalp.
first modern documentation was Many massage therapy clients
.published by a physician in Dres-, come on their doctors' referrals.
den in 1670. Hungarian physician Nutrition counselling. are -also
Dr. .Ignatz von Pcczcley, who available. - -
opened a homeopathic practice in Joan's interest in herbs goes back
Budapest in 1869, is credited as to childhood in - Marlhank near
the true originator of modern iri- Kingston. Her mother gathered and
dology. , prepared herbs for various ailments -
Iridologists claim their art is a -catnip. for stomach upset and child -
simple, painless, economical and hood colic, red raspberry for diar-
non-invasive way of looking into rhea.
the body, to be employed in con- - Joan- leads groups on walks
junction with any other system of around her herb garden at her cottage
analysis or diagnosis that a practi- . in Port Franks, explaining the
tioncr wishes to use. plants' medicinal uses. She has
In a foreword to "Iridology" by brought out a booklet reconimcnd-
Australian iridologist Dorothy. ing the specific . herbs, vitamins,
Hall, H. David Lyons, MD, states minerals and -dietary sources to aIle=
that "Mapped on the.iris is a reflec- viate specific illnesses such as ab
tion of every part of the body...It 'scess, constipation; gout, insomnia
has been demonstrated that the ef- and morning sickness right through
fects of surgery show transient to toothache and .warts. Thc book
changes in the iris. Anxiety also has a list of most of the com-
states, poor handling of emotions mon vegetables and fruits,- andthe
and compulsive eating habits are vitamins and minerals found there -
three generalized states which pro- in.
duce particular changes in the Joan holds out hope for those hat-
iris...it is a useful diagnostic ap- tling the smoking habit.,
proach to the -whole person, pro- "If herbs are used to cleans -the.
viding information about the gen- bloodstream and replace nutrients,
oral pattern of that individual. It the desire for.nicotinc vanishes",
informs you about predispositions, she said.
past illnesses and general character- Joan is a firm believer in the im-
istics...In my professional work in portance of what we put into our
preventive health care, iridology bodies, and feels strongly that peo-
provides me with insights into pat- plc should educate themselves about
terns of lifestyle and potential in- what they cat, and the harmful or
herent weaknesses in an individu- beneficial results. -
al." - "God has given us a lot of ways
Iridologists arc licenced in Rus- to figure things out for ourselves",
sia, many European countries and Joan observed.
SPRING FASHIONS - Miss Colonial Hotel, Kathy Brenner, Grand ,
Bend, models the latest sporty set at a fashion show Iasi Friday night at
the Grandi Bend Legion Branch 498. A large number of the fashions were
designed by Perry Originals, Exeter and Grand Bend.
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