Zurich Citizens News, 1978-06-22, Page 13Page 14
Citizens News, June 22, 147$
Visitor from Ceylon
enjoys Ontario stay
By ALICEGIBB
Saliya; Tennekoon, 18, of
Colombo, Sri Lanka, has
already seen a cross section
of life in Ontario that many
of the province's residents
never see in a lifetime.
The young man, who is
part of the Crossroads ex-
change program, has spent a
day at the Ontario Science
Centre, visited Queens Park
and sat in on a session of
parliament, toured the sights
of Niagara Falls, the Oak-
ville Ford plant, attended a
cattle sale in Hensall and
visited the University of
Guelph and various farms in
Huron County.
Tennekoon, who stayed
with -the Ian McAllister
family,R.R.1 Zurich, is part
of an exchange program
which operates to acquaint
Canadians with the Third
World countries and to bring
young people from those
- countries to Canada.
An important part of
Saliya's stay in Canada has
been telling Canadians
something of the history and
life of Sri Lanka, a country
which is 20 miles off the
southeastern coast of India.
Sri Lanka
Until 1972, The Republic of
Sri Lanka was known as
Ceylon, a country famous for
its exports of tea, rubber and
spices, as well as precious
stones such as diamonds and
rubies.
Until 1948, the country was
under British rule and today,
English is still spoken by
many Sri Lankans as their
second language.
Tennekoon, who recently
spent a day talking to
students at Zurich Public
School about his country,.
said there are five major
groups living in his country,
the Sinhalese, who make up
two-thirds of the population,
the Tamils, the next largest
language group and the
Moors, Burghers and
Veddahs.
Saliya was selected to
come to Canada through his
involvement with the
Y.M.C.A. in Sri Lanka.
An 18 year 'old,. he is
the youngest Crossroader on
this year's exchange.
Tennekoon, who graduated
from St. Benedict's College,
a Catholic private school in
Colombo, the country's
capital city, studied
athletics, drama and
Sinhalese classical singing
while a student, interests
which led to his work with
rural _ development camps
and camps for un-
derprivileged children, both
sponsored by the Y.M.C.A.
The rural development
camps, for children from 12
to 18 years old, try to in-
troduce smaller villages to
group and fellowship ac-
tivities, drama, singsong and
teach students the basics of
sports like badminton,
basketball, gymnastics and
judo.
Ceylon
However, on his return to
Sri Lanka, which Tennekoon
still calls Ceylon, .he will be
working with a rural
development project which
will focus on one small
village of 125 families.
Here workers from the
Y.M.C.A. will be presenting
youth programs teaching
home gardening and
gradually establishing a
community centre which will
house a public library and
handicraft centre.
After three or four years,
the centre will be turned
over to the village to
manage, and the staff from
the Y.1VI.C.A. will move on to
another village.
A similar kind of project is
,also being tested in Sri
Lanka's urban centres.
Saliya finds one of the
major differences between
life in Sri Lanka and life in
our country is the pace it's
faster here.
In his country there is only
one major four lane high-
way, called the Canadian
Friendship Road, built with
the assistance of the
Canadian government.
Although much of Sri
Lanka is rural, the farming
carriedon there is very
different,from that in Huron
County. Many farmers used
to grow rice, and although
this is gradually changing,
farms in Sri Lanka always
tend to be smaller than in
Canada.
Dairy
With the creation of a
National Milk Board, many
farmers are keeping dairy
cows. The smaller
operations milk their cows
by hand, and the milk is
collected by milk board
wagons.
However, the government
has opened a number of its
own dairy farms which
operate on a much larger
scale and with modern
equipment.
Another type of farm is the
tea plantations or estates,
where Sri Lanka's most
famous export is grown.
Tennekoon said recently
many of these estates have
also been taken over by the
government and some are
now run by a tea plantation
board.
During his stay in Canada,
Tennekoon has met fellow
Crossroaders from around
the world. One - hostess
was Margie Whyte of
Seaforth herself a former
Crossroader, who took Mr.
Tennekoon on a tour of the
University of Guelph and her
family's poultry farm.
Following his stay on the
Seaforth area farm, the
young man from Ceylon
spent three weeks at the
farm of Mr. & Mrs. Ian
McAllister of R.R. 1 Zurich.
Prior to his departure for
the Ken Campbell farm in
McKillop township, Saliya
returned to Zurich public
and enthralled the
youngsters with a masterful
display of pantomime and
performed a few songs on the
bongo drums that are
popular in his homeland.
This year, eight Canadians
will visit Sri Lanka art of
the Crossroads 'exchange
and they've already met
Tennekoon and his two
fellow Sri Larikans for a
briefing.
When he returns to Sri
Lanka, Saliya knows he'll be
in demand to give talks on
life in Canada since , "now
they have a witness."
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PANTOMIME POSE — One of the highlights for students at
Zurich Public School has to be the visits of Saliya Tennikoon of
Sri Lanka who until recently, had been staying at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ian McAllister of RR 1, Zurich. At his final visit to
the school, Saliya gave a demonstration of pantomime to the
students. Staff photo
DASHWOOD MAN COMPETES — One of the area com-
petitors in the Hensall Oldtime Fiddler's contest held in Hen-
sall over the weekend was Willis Desjardine of Dashwood.
The local resident finished second in the 35 to 55 age group
of the competition. Staff photo
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Annual conference
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Dimensions -- that's what
200 girls will be talking
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Club conference to be held
at the University of Guelph
from June 20 to 23,
From •effective -speaking
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tone of the conference in his
address called "Dimen-
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"Dimensions - All About
Me" focuses again on the
conference theme. .
The conference, led by
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staff, will close with a semi-
formal evening banquet and
program.
Dimensions will give the
girls plenty to talk about at
this conference.
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