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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17,1979, PAGE 15 Rotary club's On Jan. 27 the Whitby Rorary Club will be meeting its second exchange student from another country who will be spending a year in town as part . of an inter- national student exch program. The Rotary club's exchangestudent was0 Conlin, from Australia, spent the last year in Wh Parent activity da Last week Durham ele- mentary students took home registration forms for Parent Activity Day, February 15. Parent Activity Day is being held this year in Oshawa. Ned Hubbell, a public rela- tions expert from Michigan, who spoke at a very success- ful Teachers' Workshop in June, 1978, has been engaged to speak to the Parent Activity participants ii morning sessions whicl be held at G.L. Ro cafetorium, Oshawa. Hubbell is a dynamie entertaining speaker. A buffet lunch wil provided at G.L. Ro cafetorium and after1 the participants wil involved in Teacher V shops of their own choi Play care for schoo children only will be a able at a cost of $2 per c 2nd exchange student is, ange - and recently returned home. miles inland from Sao Paulo. interested i This year's exchange Fernanda is 16 years old camping, first student is Fernanda and is in her third year in gymnastics a Julie Abelaira, from Brazil, who high school, which is an Oceanogra who livesItr the city of Sao Jose equivalent to Grade 12 in Fernanda's itby, Do Rio Preto, about 250 Canada. will be an exe Her father is a lawyer and in Oshawa dui 1 presidentof the local univer- The famii Iv is F eb. 1 sity and her mother is a 0f the Rotary teacher. acting as hos n the Children should bring their Fernanda is studying on a rotating h will own lunches. Englisb at sehool and has an year. 'berts The sponsoring federa- American exchange student The purpose Mr. tions, the Federation of-in ber home town who is student excha and Women Teachers' helping her with the are to further Associations of Ontario language. The language of goodwill and u l be (F.W.T.A.O.), the Ontario Brazil is Portuguese. She is enable stude berts lunch Il be Work- ice. l-age avail- child. George Ashe explains the legislative process The Ontario Legislature may be recessed , until March, but Durham West MPP George Ashe is finding little time for a holiday. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Brooklin and District Progressive Conservative Association, Jan. 10, Mr. Ashe said there are lots of things to do even when the House is not sitting. Mr. Ashe is a member of two committees, the Select Committee on Hydro Affairs, and the Standing Committee on General Government. The Hydro committee sits three or four days a week tilI the first of March; a week before the Legislature resumes, he said. Constituency work is an on- going thing, 12 months of the year, said Mr. Ashe, but his most time-consuming job is his work as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. In this capacity, he visits various parts of the pro- vince, and has to plan for the next session of the Legislature. Mr.--Ashe described for the Brooklin members some of the procedure on how the Legislature operates. "The legislative process can be very boring and frus- trating when your in it," he said. There are 125 members in the Ontario Legislature, and 20 is supposed , to be a quorum, but sometimes debates are carried on when there are not 20 members present, lie said. Many members are absent from the house after the question period, he said, because they are in committee meetings. Mr. Ashe explained the three ways a bill or resolu- tion can come before the House. The first is a Private Member's Bill which is in- troduced during a special time set aside for these bills. The government members use private members' bills "to test the waters of the legislature," said Mr. Ashe, but they usually do not go very far. Twenty members can veto a private member's bill Opposition bills are usu- ally good ideas said Mr. Ashe, but are usually too costly to implement. Mr. Ashe spoke of a pri- vate member's billlie intro- duced last spring to ban public opinion polls on pro- vincial elections. le said he received a number of calls on his bill, including one from lReader's Digestbwhich wanted to write an article on the.subject. . The second way to get an item before' the Legislature is a Private Bill which can be brought forward by a member on behalf of a muncipality, or corporated orgainzation or group, or a company, "for a very specific and and narrow reason." Private Bills are fairly successful but costly for the applicant, said Mr. Ashe. The third type of bill is governnient legislation, which is a very long process which can take from two months to more than three years to be passed, said Mr. Ashe. Public School Men Teachers' Federation (O.P.S.M.T.F.) and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federa- tion, District 17 (O.S.S.T.F.) anticipate that some four hundred adults will register for Parent Activity Day., The registrants will join with the fourteen hundred elementary, and over one thousand secondary school teachers in Durham to learn more about Professional Activity Days. Those adults who wish to attend Parent Activity Day but have not received a registration form should telephone 668-7531 in order to obtain a registration form. IOOF lodge welcomes members to meetmgs Eastern Star Lodge No. 72, Whitby, Independent Order of Oddfellows, wish to extend a sincere welcome to all members of the IOOF in this area to attend their regular meetings held every Tuesday night at the Odd- fellows Hall, 211 Brock Street, South, at 8 p.m. VELVET TOUC11 Fumiture Stnpping • L lo dip * Unique tanks or flow-over caustics ..Proceas REPAIRED-REFINISHED et MacNell's Antiques & Upholstery Older fumiture & antiques bought & sold . ITPAYS TO HAVE YOUR.FURNITURE RE.UPHOLSTEREÃ"" 413 Dundas St. E. WHITBY Bus. 668.5481, Res. 668.6520 from n swimming, riding and ndi wants to be apher. cousin Caria change student uring 1979. es of members y Club will be t to Fernanda basis for a full es of the Rotary ange program r international understanding, its to advance .Brazil their education in another country, broaden a student's outlook by learning to live with and meet people of different cultures, creeds and colours, give the student an opportunity to be an ambassador from his or her country, and an opportunity to study all facets of life and culture of their host country. While in Whitby, Fernanda will be 'addressing the Whitby Rotary Club and other organizations, talking about her home country of Brazil. CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF WHITBY CONTRACT W79-1 SALE 0OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING LOT Tenders will be received by the undersigned until 2: 00 p.m., Friday, February 2, 1979 for the sale of a residential building lot on Dundas Street West, south side, between Fances and Annes Streets. Tender forms are available at the Town of Whitby Treasury Department, 575 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario. Telephone 668-5803. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. R.A. Claringbold, Deputy Treasurer, Town of Whitby. S.kyLarHolidays