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Clinton News-Record, 1985-1-9, Page 3Mews and featurs Katimavik cele CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9,1985 --Page 3 rates first year of volunteering in Clinton The new Katimavik group has settled into the Clinton residence. Getting a tour of the renovated town hall are, front row, left to right, " Angela Owens, Sylvie Trembley, Caroline Pelletier and Francois Corbiel. In the second row are, standing, Renata Hodges and sitting, Denis Arseueault, Jeff Baker and.Baarry Golletz. In the back row are Ken Chapman, Mary McLeaod, Wanda MacKeigan, Group Leader Dwight Morley and Clinton Mayor Chester Ar- chibald. Katimavik invites community members to the group's open house on Jan. 10. (James Friel photo Dec. 1984 1985 25 -5 -12 11 - 17 26 -3 9 -14 21 27- 0 -8 - 7 -16 28 15. 0 ••5 -10 29 • 14 2 :9 •11 30 1 . ..-3 -12 20 31 ' 1 -4 .-8 ,.21 Snow 3 cm 24 cm .Rain 40 mm By James Friel "It's what you make of it. A lot of the satisfaction comes from self learning, self motivation. You don't always have someone saying do this, do that - you learn respon- sibility." The comments vary but the pride of those fir kiung or currently participating in the Katimavik , a gram is evident. The challenging ; I ysical work, community in- volvement and living arrangements, as well as the satisfaction of personal development, all go to making the government program successful enough to encourage a series 6f expansions in the numbers of participants and community locations. Katimavik, Inuit for "meeting place," was started in 1977 by Barney. Danson of the Department of National Defense and Senator Jacques Hebert, a Canadian author. The idea was to give young Canadians a chance to see .the country, meet contem- poraries from other regions, cultures and languages and participate in work ex- periences not normally available to many of them. In return, the group's participants are volunteers, receiving an allowance of $1 a day and an honorarium of $1,000 following completion of the nine month term. Canadians of both sexes from ages 17 to 21, from rural areas, suburbia and the heart of the country's largest cities, from the regions which make up the country and from the two founding languages which make Canada so unique are chosen by a computer to provide a microcosm of the country. The resulting group of 12 individuals goes to three locations across the country, one of them in a French language centre, and each location with its own group leader. The group presently occupying the program's Clinton residence, a result of one of the re- cent expansions, have been in Vancouver, B.C., which was an eye-operler for a small town prairie dweller, and will go to St. Cuthbert, a small, 80 per cent French speak- ing community in Quebec. Three months will have been spent in each communitylby the time the group, now consisting of 10 members, completes the nine month pro- gram. ) The present Clinton group consists of two people from Nova Scotia and one from New Brunswick, three from Quebec and two from Ontario and from the west, a native of Manitoba and one from British Columbia. Four are French Canadians and half of the group are female. . Two of the original members are gone, either unable to comfortably adjust to the P demands placed on each individual a group living situation, which "can be very intense," according to Jeff Baker of the cur- rent Clinton group, or as a result of priorities outside the group taking precedence. The 10 people are taking part in seven "specially -designed learning programs" which are supposed to increase the knowledge needed both for the program and life following at. The programs are: work skills, second language, environmental awareness and appropriate technology, socio -cultural awareness, nutrition and well-being, active leisure, and international awareness. The rules governing each group are few but cover the basic code of behaviour the group members are expected to maintain: - The use or possesion of drugs in violation of the law is prohibited. - The abuse of alcohol by participants is pro- hibited, and they are expected to obey the li- Turn to page 11. MARBLE CHEESE NOW $3 * 291b. Reg. $4.19 Ib: Reg. $9.24 kg. NOW $ 7.2 Skg. Dora JU JUBES ` Reg. S1.6° Ib. • NOW $ 1 0 391b. Reg. $3.73 kg. NOW $3 a O6 kg. Specializing in Meat and Cheese Trays • C i o ery in 90 o 04 QUALITY FOODS .84 FRIENDLY SERVIC E Mull St. ( Linton. Ont, NOM 1 U) PI482'-3478 PROP. -Janet Bucf4arlan TGit fJei Q?r� d � ept, [I/SUITS i✓SPORTCOATS ei DRESS and SPORTSHIRTS A V ®'ffim5 ©0�i= R✓CAR COATS a WINTER JACKETS ✓SWEATERS✓GLOVES ✓SCARVES MAIN CORNER CLINTON 482-9732 ATTENTION GRADE 8 PUPILS AND PARENTS Remember the OPEN HOUSE and INFORMATION SESSIONS at Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton on TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1985 AT 7:30 P.M. Come and learn about. the Grade 9 Courses ,and about the many special 'progroms at CHSS. Central Huron offers a full high school pro- gram with many opportunities.for students including: Musk (Gr. 9-11), Dramatic Arts (Gr. 10, 11, 12), Art (Gr. 9-12 multi-level), Technical . courses, Commercial courses, including several Computer Courses, Latin (yes, we still havetatin! ), Bask level subjects (Gr. 9, 10, 1 L,12:_._...; this is the former tWo year and occupations program), Enrichment classes in grade 9 & 10 (a new program) special three credit Basic practical subjects. Of .course, all the other Advanced and General level subjects are offered as well. , Central'Huron offers students an extensive athletic program both at the interschool level and the intramural level at noon hour: extra curricular activities also include Drama, Yearbook, school paper, greenhouse dub, ches's dub, students council, Bible study group, band, choirs, art club, broadcasting club, photography club, and many others. This notice is of special interest to the pupils in grade 8 and their. parents in the following schools: !Myth Public School Clinton Christian School Clinton Public School Holmesville Public School Hullett Central School Huron Centennial Public School Seaforth Public School ' Ecole Ste. Marie St. Boniface St. Columbon St. James St. Joseph St. Patricks The Principal's of these schools have full information about CHSS and the courses offered. Call them. Also feel free to call Central Huron (482-3471). 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