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Recently the CRTC asked the CBC to
beef up the Canadian content on the
network, thereby eliminating such
popular American shows as Mork and
- Mindy, Mash and All in the Family.
The CBC vehemently opposed the
ultimatum claiming it would rob the
network of vital advertising dollars
attracted by the American television
show.§.
But should the CBC bend to the
demands of the CRTC, writers across
the country have put their pens to use
creating Canadian shows to rival those
of the American networks.
Fortuneatley this columnist, through
one of his several- connections,
managed to get a sample of the
television listings featuring Canadian
content.
Out House On The Prairie:Watch.the
suspense and drama unfold as Lorne
Greene struggles with the hearty,
pioneer life on a small farm on the
Inside this section:
Joanne Buchanan takes you through the
Bluewater Centre for the-
Developmentally
heDevelopmentally Handicapped in a
special in-depth way. . Pages 1A, 2A, 3A,
6A, 7A
Church news ..... . Page 8A
Farm news Page 11A
Ecology is fun Page 12A
outskirts of Mississauga. The gripping
drama of this pioneer saga is dotted
with humor as in the first episode when
we find Greene sitting on the toilet seat
of the out house and the Eatons
catalogue is nowhere to be found.
Stanfield and Son: This show is a
humerous and anecdotal aCcount of
Robert Stanfield and his son and their
trials in the used underwear business.
In the first episode the father and son
garment team are faced with a major
dilemna asthe bottom. is falling out of
their business.
Crappy Days : This light, half-hour
sitcom, is full of mirth and merriment
and concerns the day to day hap-
penings of a typical Canadian family,
the Cunninghamsters, who are on
unemployment. Mr. Cunninghamster
(played by Ed Broadbent) has his
hands full with the antics of his son
Ritchie (played by Joe Clarke) and his
best friend, Fonzie (played by Pierre
Trudeau) a street -wise biker who 3's
able to attract the attention of all ladies
with a mere snap of his fingers.
Columbo: Jean Chretien stars as a
seemingly absent-minded, bumbling
detective on the Ottawa Police Force,
with a penchant for cheap cigars. The
detective sloves hundreds of tough
cases and becohies famous with a
gesture of putting his hand to his
forhead and with a confused look on his
face saying; "Dere is just one ting dat
bodder me." Three's Company:
catch the madcap, zany comedy in this
new show in which two macho, eligible,
pensioned bachelors, John Diefenbaker
and Gordon Sinclair, share an apart-
ment with a ravishing political science
major, Flora MacDonald, while they
are attending bartending school. The
comedy unfolds as the swinging
bachelors attempt to keep their parents
from uncovering their sinful,
triangular relationship with the nubile
MacDonald.
Laverne and Maureen: This show
deals with the adventures of Laverne
(Margaret Trudeau) and Maureen
(Maureen McTeer) two spunky, high
school dropouts who work in a red pop
factory and are frustrated in their
attempts to discover true love. The
first episode opens with the two young
ladies talking excitedly about their
blind dates with Tommy Douglas and
Stephen Lewis.
Snowski and Hunch: This hour long
show centres around two swinging,
crazy kind a guys, Chief Dan George
and Knowlton Nash, who as RCMP
detectives romp the streets of Toronto
on a motor scooter romancing at-
tractive ladies for 50 minutes and
apprehend their man in the final 10
minutes of the show,
When you stop and examine the
possibilities, we don't really need the
high-priced American talent anyway.
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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1979
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SECOND SECTION
Weeklong education.series-pn m
was to develop a rapport the Centre in three years
among all the agencies and wanted to show
serving the mentallyothers," said Mrs.
retarded and Their Wheeler who termed the
families in the four week a morale booster.
county area.
"We simply said let's Each day of the special
get together. We had the week offered a different
facilities here to bring in theme dealing with the
the resource people. Also mentally retarded and
we're proud of what developmentally han-
we've accomplished at dicapped.
BY JOANNE
BUCHANAN
People sharing a
common interest in
helping the develop' -
mentally handicapped
and their families con-
verged ur,on the
Bluewater 'Centre for' the
Developmentally Han-
dicapped • in- Goderich
Township last week for a
Professional Education
Week.
The special week was
held in conjunction with
Mental Retardation
Week. It featured several
prominent speakers,
panel discussions and
films. One day was set
aside for students con-
sidering various careers
working with the
developmentally • han-
dicapped and another day
was set aside for tours of
the Bluewater Centre's
various workshops, its
greenhouse, car wash
and farm.
Co-ordinator of
Volunteer Services and
overall co-ordinator of
the special week at the
Centre, Mrs. Pat
Wheeler, felt the week
was quite successful and
very well received by all
who took part in it.
Professional Education
Week took the place of the
Open House which the
Centre has held for the
past two. years. Mrs.
Wheeler said one of the
ideas behind the week
PREVENTION AND
DETECTION
Monday's theme was
prevention and detection
of mental retardation
with special 'guest
speaker Dr. Louis
Balogh. Dr. Balogh is in
charge of the
rehabilitation unit for
children up to six years of
age at the Children's.
Psychiatric Research
Institute (CPRI) in
London.
Dr. Balogh pointed out
that mental retardation is
a condition that has.been
with us for many years.
Simply defined, it can be
considered as a defect in
reasoning skills. Those
people having IQs lower
than 50 would qualify as
mentally retarded.
Three per cent or
600,000 people in Canada
are mentally retarded.
Eighty per cent of these
people can be educated.
Intelligence depends on
both inherited and en-
vironmental factors, said
Turn to page 2A •
Tim Previtt, a resident of the Bluewater Centre for
' the Developmentally Handicapped, shows Don
Campbell, executive. director With the South Huron
and District Association for the Mentally Retarded,
one of the rabbits in the barn on the centre's farm.
Working with animals was found to be good therapy
for many of the residents. Campbell was at the
centre for Professional Education Week held last
week. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
Theresa Millen and Connie Jamieson, instructors at the Jack
Reavie Opportunity Workshop for the developmentally han-
dicapped in Wingham, watch as Betty Rouse, a resident of the
Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally Handicapped, does
some prevocational training. A tour of Bluewater's workshops
last Friday brought a conclusion to Professional Education Week
held at the Centre last week. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
I don't have much time to write this
epistle today I've got to rush out and
vote. I figure it's going to take me
longer to decide who I want to lead this
country than it is to decide what
message I want to impart i this space.
I feel it's the least I can do. Ed, Pete
and Joe were ' more than willing to
entertain me every night for the past
six weeks and if all they want me to do
in return is go out and throw an X on a
spot on a card I guess I can oblige.
Anyone catching the news Monday
night may have noticed that we're soon
going to be back to disaster film clips,
murder, pestilence and disease before
too long. The big three are at the end of
the campaign trail and television
reporters no longer *hi be able to wait
until one of them kisses a cow or fails
out of an airplane for their nightly news
film.
There appears to be a' few more
nights of election flogging before
Canadians" can get back to the im-
portant things in life like soaring prices
of everything, declining supplies of
everything else and frost warnings on
these wonderful spring nights.
Despite election laws forbidding
politicians from campaigning Sunday
and Monday the big three managed to
get their mugs on the old tube. Pierre
took in a hockey game, Ed went to
Ontario Place and ran around in the
rain when he wasn't pushing his
daughter on a swing and Joe got
Maureen and the kids out of bed early
Monday and took in a pancake supper.
The big three were all billed as
contented and confident as they headed
home to await the election results.
Television reporters stood in empty
halls across the nation telling viewers'
this is where anxious party leaders and
their followers will await results of the
voting. ,
And now it's up to us. If your like me
all that campaign garbage will flash
through your mind in the ten seconds
you'll occupy the voting booth and
you'll mark your X wondering if your
vote is going to have the impact
political experts say it is.
According to the experts voters in
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island,
Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta need not
show up. They have already -indicated
which way they lean and that they
aren't about to change.
Voters in Saskatchewan like the New
Democratic way of doing things and
could support the NDP enough to spoil
the wishes of Conservatives and
Liberals. Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, bastions of Conservative
power during RUbert Stanfield's time,
are considered up for grabs since
Stanfield left the fold and the Tories .
and Gi''its have been fighting tooth and
nail for a seat inrthe east.
(Ontario apparently has no traditional
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leanings. The province that wins or
loses elections has 95 seats and ac-
cording to the experts there are 95
elections here. Rumour has it that anti
Trudeau sentiment has been doused by
the Joe Who? syndrome and that the
NDP has a shot at forcing the Tories
and Grits to split the pot. That means
that voters in Ontario may feel the
country needs a change but many feel
that there is nothing to change to.
Apparently we're still not convinced
Clark can do the job.
I understand that what it all boils
down to is how the voters in British
Columbia vote. There are 28 seats in
B.C. and those seats could win or lose
the election for Pete or .Joe. My
suggestion when all this trash is con-
sidered is why don't the rest of us just
stay home and let the people on the
west coast decide who the next P.M.
will be.
jeff'
Seddon
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