The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-05-25, Page 2a
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Jan. 4
MYTH
FAREWELL TO A
COMRADE—Members of the
Wingham Fire Department led by Chief Dave Crothers
formed an honor guard at the funeral of James A. (Jim)
Carr on Monday. Mr. Carr, who passed away on the
RNA graduation
weekend, was a former chief of the department and
long-time deputy chief until he retired from active duty in
recent years.
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Young ii...s.t wns trip
to Switzerland this fall
A Holyrood teenager will
be flying to Geneva, Swit-
zerland, courtesy of the
Canadian government this
fall after finishing as one of
three winners in .a nation-
wide telecommunications
poster contest.
For Susan Meyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Meyer, the trip comes
as an unexpected surprise
and she is delighted. Already
the Grade 9 student has
become a celebrity at F. E.
Madill Secondary School in
Wingham, after word of her
success circulated through
the school grapevine.
She learned of her win last
Friday when a telegram
arrived at the school from
federal Communications
Minister Francis Fox, in- V
forming her that as a winner
in the contest she will
receive-a-_oneweek-..iriP- .tU-
6aneve in -October- for the -
Telecom '83 show as well as
a $500 savings bond.
At present, Mr. Fox said,
her poster is on display at the
Salon des Sciences et Tech-
nologies, Montreal, "where
thousands of visitors have an
opportunity to appreciate
your great talent."
It is quite an accomplish-
ment for someone who says
her poster is really just the
development of an idea she
thought up last year for a
Grade 8 art project.
"I didn't think it would go
as far as it did.
"It's not very detailed. I
think they liked it because
there was nothing else like
it"
Her creation is a three-
dimensional poster, she
explained, in the form of a
shallow box lined with tinfoil
----afld
pTastfc: Tnside is a globe; ciit
from construction paper,
with three figures, also cut
tofollowtheGoldenfrom paper and representing
people of different races,
seated on the -globe.
The figure in the centre
holds a-- telephone with the
cord, made from fine copper
wire, looped around the'
three, illustrating' the theme
"Telecommunications:
Pulling Us Closer Together".
In the background is a
satellite.
Susan's art teacher at
Madill, Dian Joanisse, said
the news of the win came as
a pleasant surprise' but was
not a total shock, especially
after entries from Madill
swept the medals at the
Huron County Science Fair
in Clinton earlier this year.
She commented then to
some other teachers that
Madill might possibly
Follow the Golden Rule, is
what Valedictorian Judy
Kerr of Goderich told her
fellow graduates of the
Registered Nursing Assist-
ants' program last Friday at
exercises held at the training
centre in Wingham.
Mrs.. Kerr said-nursing.is
an. honorable profession and
stressed that nurses must be
attuned to the needs of
others, not only at work, but
24 hours a day. Personal
satisfaction of a job well
done means so much, she
concluded.
The graduation was the
50th of its kind, according to
Mrs. Jean Ellacott, program
director. In her parting
remarks to the students,
Mrs Ellacott told the
graduates they must never
stop learning and reminded
them that nursing begins and
ends with the patient.
Guest speaker Jack
Kopas, a former chairman of
the Wingham hospital board
and a guidance counsellor at-,,,
the )` E:" -Madill Secondary --
School,. urged the graduates
to always take time to read,
laugh, think, dream and
work in their later years. He
also commended them for
their hard work and per-
severance.
Diplomas and pins were
presented to the graduates
as well as individual awards.
Patricia Merchant of RR 3,
Walkerton, won the Profi-
ciency in Bedside Nursing
Award; Mrs. Lynda Neil of
Harriston won the Scholastic
Achievement Award; and,
Mrs. Kerr won .the valedic-
torian's gift.
A highlight of the exercises
was the presentation of the
book The Bedside Specialist
to thq�hbrary al lite training,,
centre'. The book, a history of
the RNA program in the
province, was written by
Verna Steffler of Wingham,
a graduate of the local
training centre.
A reception was held for
the graduates, their families
and friends, after the
graduation program.
Graduating class mem-
bers are: Debra Arnold,
Wants tax break for meal sale
Live up to support pledge,
restaurant owner challenges
By Henry Hess
BRUSSELS — The owner
of a local restaurant is
challenging Ontario Premier
William Davis to live up to
his government's pledge of
support for small businesses
by granting a sales tax
exemption for a special pro-
motion he has planned.
Bill Protopapas, who has
operated the Olympia
Restaurant on the main
street of this village for the
past seven years, has
slashed Meal prices as part
of a "Return to the '60s"
promotion planned for next
MR. & MRS. BILL PROTOPAPAS, proprietors of the
Olympia Restaurant in Brussels, have sent a letter to
Premier William Davis asking to drop the provincial sales
tax during a special promotion they have planned. Mr.
Protopapas says that while the government has manag-
ed to aid other sectors, there has been nothing done for
him or thousands of other small businesses, struggling
to make ends meet.
week.
He said he hopes the meal
sale will help to revive a
flagging business, being
squeezed between high
mortgage interest and
declining traffic, and if it is
successful he plans to con-
tinue it.
His staff will be doing its
share by working for half
wages that week, permitting
him to offer unheard-of
prices such as $1.29 for a
breakfast of ham and eggs,
20 cents for a cup of coffee, 69
cents for a hamburger and
$1.75 for a roast chicken
dinner, and he wants the
premier to chip in by per-
mitting him to suspend the
seven per cent sales tax.
In a letter to Mr. Davis,
delivered to him at Queen's
Park this week by Huron -
Bruce MPP Murray Elston,
Mr. Protopapas asks for
some of the same con-
siderations the province has
offered to other business
sectors.
"You have said that you
would help small business to
stay in business," he notes.
"You recently brought out a
budget allowing the fur-
niture industries to sell their
products for three months
without charging sales tax.
We are only asking for a one-
week exemption."
He explains that Brussels
is a small community with a
population just over 1,000,
more than 60 per cent of
whom are over the age of 60.
"There are also many people
out of work due to the slow
economy.
"Our restaurant is trying
to stay in business, but
coping with two mortgages
with rates of 21a4 and 1814 is
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Lucknow; Lynn Brown,
Wroxeter; Laura Dennis,
Walton; Deborah Dick,
Palmerston; Velma Elliott,
Brussels; Brenda Fischer,
Mildmay; Darlene Gamble,
Teeswater; Mrs. Anne Hill,
Teeswater; Mrs. Judith
Kerr, Goderich; Irene Mar-
tin, "Dungaiuio '; ` Patrni fat'
Merchant; Walkerton; Bren-
da McLeod, Wingham; Mrs.
Charlene McEwan, Holy -
rood; Mrs. Lynda Neil,
Harriston; Anne Regan,
Mount Forest; Mary Ann
Schinbein, Listowel; Michele
Skinn, Hanover; Patricia
Stackhouse, Londesboro;
and, Christine Van Spengen,
Clinton.
Power, peak
down in April
The peak demand for
electricity in Ontario last
month was an "estimated 15
million kilowatts, a decrease
of 5.3 per cent from the April
1982 peak, Ontario Hydro
reports.
energy conv,mption for
10Ib n h''ui ased `by' 0.3
per cent 'to 8.44 billion
kilowatt hours, compared to
8.41 billion kilowatt hours in
April 1982.
Electricity exports to the
U. S. rose to more than one
billion kilowatt hours, an
increase of 19 per cent over
April of last year. The sales
earned Ontario Hydro $13.1
million.
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produce a national winner,
Mrs. Joanisse said, but they
pooh-poohed the idea and
told tier not to get her hopes
She added that Susan's
poster was always her
personal favorite, so she is
especially pleased it was the
one picked to go to Swit-
zerland.
She explained the poster
contest is part of a project
called "Youth in the Elec-
tronic Age". All the art
students, made posters, and
the best three from the
school were picked to go to
the county science fair.
From there she's not quite
sure where they went, but
somehow the poster ended
up in Montreal.
InS't 1 dth
year to-publi a e=roT
telecommunications in the
world of today. This is the
fourth such contest, open to
155 different countries, with
Canada taking part for the
first time.
What does Susan think of
all this? Well, she's excited,
of course, but it hasn't made
her change her plans.
"Telecommunications and
art are both interesting," she
said, "but I'm going to be a
lawyer. I find that really
interesting."
Is fact; she said, Site hopes
to go into criminal law and
eventually become a judge.
"I think it would be in-
teresting to hear all the court
cases and decide — it's a lot
of responsibility."
It's a family affair, she
noted. Her dad works .at the
Walkerton jail and her
brother wants to be a
policeman. He can catch the
crooks and she can try them
and then send them along to
Dad for their punishment.
Of course, she added, she
is young yet and there is lots
of time to change her mind.
GRADUATED
Paul K. Johnston, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Johnston
of RR 2, Bluevale, graduated
from the Centralia College of
Agricultural Technology in
the Agriculture Business
Management program. Paul
is a former student of the
Brussels Public School and
F. E. Madill Secondary
School, Wingham.
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poster
will form part of a worldwide
photo and drawing com-
petition held -every, --four
WINS NATIONAL CONTEST—Susan Meyer, a Grade
9 student at F. E. Madill Secondary School, Wingham,
will be one of three Canadian students traveling to
Geneva, Switzerland, this fall to compete in an inter-
national telecommunications poster contest, after
finishing in first place at the national level.
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RNA GRADUATION—Nineteen girls graduated as RNAs last Friday during exercises
held at the Nurses Training Centre at the Wingham and District Hospital. The
graduates are: back, Laura Dennis, Irene Martin, Patricia Merchant, Michelle Skinn,
Charlene McEwan, Debra Arnold; centre, Velma Elliott, Christine Van Spengen, Bren-
da MacLeod, Anne Hill, Mary
Regan, Darlene Gamble, Deborah
Stackhouse.
Ann Schinbein, Lynda Neil; front, Judy Kerr, Ann
Dick, Brenda Fischer, Lynn Brown, Patricia