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The Huron Expositor, 1987-10-14, Page 1• INDEX Walton A5 Obituaries —.All Hensall — A§ Births — All People — A5 Sports — A7 Dublin A6 Weddings — A11,, Classifieds — A8, A9, A10 Hockey school this week. See page A7. 103.040,1 AAboe VO I"o.g 12. • "-ed0000.,- top, Serving the communities ' and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall •and Walton r HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14,1987 50 cents a copy Vnemployment below overage • On July 22of this year the ExpesitOr ran a Because of international trends, the pro- •' itory about,a. project being started to study ject members say they believe there are• • unemployment in Huron County, The pro- groups that Will be at a high risk of being gram was called the Severely Employment unemployed or -ander -employed in the next • Disadvantaged Project, or the SED project, 10 years. These groups include displaced and it was based here in Seaforth. factory workers, displaced farm worker, • Thepurpose of the project was to find out and people who • are currently under - how many unemployed there are in Huron •employed or are working at a job that is less County, how severe their. situation is, and than the skill level they are trained for. what can be done 'about it. The practical The 'project *members. .also concluded • - goal' of the four member team who did the • there are specific segments of society that research for the project was to submit a are in trouble when it comes to finding report to a steering committee. The report employment, those being single people was to outline the team's findings arid give under,24,. people over the age of 55, and the their recommendations about what should developmentally handicapped. be"clone for the unemployed in our area. ' The project pinned down Huron County's Recently the researchers submitted the unemployment figure at 7.1 per cent. This is •first draft of their report to the committee,. lower than the provincial and national and although it is not yet open to the public, • . unemployment figures. so unemployment it is 90 per cent complet, and they did doesn't' seem like a big problem in Huron • . release some of their findings concerning County at the present time. But the concern what is going on with unemployment in of the project members is what should be Huron County. ' done' with that 7.1 per cent' in trouble now. VICTIM OF TRENDS • There are wvariety of reasons' why these The co-ordinator of the project, Mark people aren't employed, and the committee • Seasons, says Huron County is the'victim of • has found for the most part they are either • certain global and national trends. Changes lacking basic job skills, lack physical ac- • in the agriculture and manufacturing in- • cess to work, are not aware of existing job lustries have a direct affect on the number opportunities, need social service support and types of jobs that are available to Sadie- such .as daycare, or lack basic job finding ty on a local level. , • skills such as how to conduct themselves at an interview. • , These problems are the types of things the • team addressed, and they did come up with some ways.to improve the situation. • • • AGENCIES IN,PLACE One thing project merribersthink should be taken into account when trying to solve these problems are the agencies the govern'. ment already. has in place to deal with these types of problems. There are employment agencies, the Board of Education, and groups like Women Today that help people get what they need to find a job.. "There are a lot of good things in place already," says Mr. Seasons. t'People just don't know ' it's all there because they don't have information about it or access to it.'! • So the group simply recommends pedple make better use of what they already have. When an older man gets forced out of one type of occupation he has to be retrained for another one. If he doesn't have the necessary education, everything is available to make. sure he can get it. One thing that did give the researchers a bit more reason for concern was the fact the number of people dropping out of school in Huron County is higher than the national average. To find out why this is the case • • Turn to page 10 • Renovation plans held up by Ministry Plans by the owners of the Seaforth Manor "We had hoped to be done construction to renovate and put an addition on the cur- and in the new addition sometime in Oc- rent health care facility have not progressed tober," said Mr. Osimek, adding he had as well as hoped. been. told it would take a maximum of 16 Ed Osimek said last week he is waiting for weeks for the Ministry to approve the word from the Ministry of Health whose dif- project. ferent consultants must view and approve "Sixteen weeks from February takes us to ,plans for the various stages of renovation to May -June. We didn't' have our first meeting the home, before construction can begin. with the. ministry until early July, which BIG BOOTS TO FILL - ()ahoy O'Reilly tries on his father's equiprnerit as the kindergatten class from St. James Separate SChoolttiOk a tour Of the Seaforth Fire Hall last Wednesday. Corbett photo. meant we were just getting started the pro- cess, when we thought we would be finished." Despite the delay Mr. Osimek still feels', if the Ministry respondisoon, the planned im- provement of the Seaforth Manor could be completed this year. "If we can start the project reasonably soon we can close off the home and do all the interior work that needs to be done this winter. Then we can do the exterior work. like landscaping in the spring," said Mr. Osimek. To prepare for construction and to avoid wasting valuable time once construction does begin. some minor things. liking mov- ing the wheelchair ramp from the back en- trance to the front, are being done now. A Crushed stone base is also being put down on the parking area along Wilson Street with Turn to page 10 Freak accident knocks man from boiler top A total man will be returning to work this week after a freak accident caused him to miss a couple days last week. Pat Flanagan, who is employed by Boilersmith Ltd., was working on top of a boiler last Wednesday When a part that had just been put on the high pressure boiler blew off and hit hirn.in the face. The impact caused him to lose his balance and fall eight or 10 feet to the floor below, Mr. Flanagan was taken away in an am- bulanee, but was not kept in the hospital. X- rays revealed nothing was broken, only bad- ly bruised. ADAPT . Joni Howard.' a Seaforth school teacher. barterlds at the Alcohol Drug Awareness Program or Today media presentation Al! the drinks were. of course non- alcoholic as the committees way of showing that you can have a social drink without getting drunk. Corbett photo School board adopts ADAPT' The secondary schools in Huron County will be offering education in a new subject area from Monday, October 26 to Friday. November 6. The new education will come from .a program called the Alcohol Drug Awareness Program for Today, or ADAPT. The program was started as the result of a coroner's report regarding the death of a secondary student from a Huron County school. The coroner's report was received by the Huron County Board of Education in the Spring of 1085, and it recommended secondary schools develop -a plan to make students aware of the hazards of drinking and driving. As a direct result of the coroner's report a school was selected to work in conjunction with the Addition Foundation and other agencies to look at programs that could be used as models for a program for the school system. The Huron County Board of Educa- tion decided to support the program and make a financial commitment to extend the 'program to all secondary schools in the system. Terry Johnston. Physical Education Head • at Seaforth District High School. was asked to chair the project. His committee contains representatives from all the Huron County high schools, including Terri Brintnell and -Linda Doig from Seaforth. The project committee came up with ADAPT. which they feel will be an excellent program to educate students and members of the community about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse. A two-week program ADAPT will in - Turn to page to • Student's academic comebcic The 1987 graduating class of the Seaforth District High School has a very special stu- dent within its ranks. The accomplishments •of this student can only be described as retnarkabte. Raytnond Wilson Little, became an of- ficial drop-out in October of 1985, and took a ph with a lotal firth. • By the spring of 1986 Ray had decided to return to formal education and sought the advice of the guidance counsellor in the local high school. Ray enrolled ininiediately in an indepen- dent Study Credit COurae. He continued this coarse through the Winner, then registered at Seaforth District High School as a full time Studerit. He completed his independent Study Cote while maintaining an honors average in the day Sehool progratti. Ray began a second Independent Study Credit Course in Noverribet of 1988, OM- pleted his first semester and received four credits itt jar -wary of 1987. In a determined effort to &a* closer to his goal. of gtadoating. and gaining admis- Sion te College, RayTook fWe catittes during the day, one during the tenth hoar,. and don - tinned with his Independent Study. He was granted with his second credit thrOugh Independent Sttidy in April 1987. and began his third, the 011 important 27th credit that Would earn him an 'Secondary Scheel Graduation biplane and admission to dollege. College applications had been subrititted hi eager anticipation in January. By June 1987 ttay bad earned five more credits from his day school prograiii, and With six Weeks -to �hhad half hit final Credit to cemplele' by Independent &tidy. Ray cernpleted thisfinal Credit end Wea granted e his graduation diploma Fridays night. September 25. Ray had successfully completed 13 credits in just over a year. Students normal- ly complete seven Or eight credits in a school year. If that doeSift deserve the descriptive term "remarkable", "amazing" or even k remarkable -fantastic-. add in the fact Ray continued with a part time after-school job and was an Honor Student_ Ray is continuing his education in a Business program at Georgialf College this fall, and is a proud example of what a courageous, ambitious student can accomplish. • ^ ^ , REMARKABLE COMEBACK - Ray Little was a high schoOl drop out who decided to Corrie beak to school. After a lot of hard weak he graduated from Seaforth District High &heel ow September 26. Presenting NM with an award for ricedeMte aehleverrient at the COMMericeinerit ceremony was teacher Howard James. Burgets photo.