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.11 PAGE 20, WMW P FRPRS, WEDNESAY, MAR.Cn 14, 199 'yLCale nge '90 encourages employers to lure students By Rene Sootens Ontario riding MT Summer employment can play a vital role in a studentls transition from sehool to the world of woek. It helps ta develop the skilîs and experience needed in Canada's future labor mnarket and offers expSure ta reel jobs in the real woeld. The Challenge program has been very successful. The summer student unemployment rate has decr eased steadily o'ver the past five years, from 14.1 per cent in 1985 to 9.5 per cent in 1989. Challenge '90, the Goverrnment of Canada's summer employment programn for students, provides young people with exciting learning opportunities with local employers. The challenge program, now in its sixth year, encourages employers froin all sectars ta create meaningful suxnmer jobs for students. It also gives assistance to students oeeking entrepreneurial opportunities and to younger students lookçing ta assess their education and employment opportunities. The federal governmerpt bas also announced a $296.4-million, five-yeer, sty-in-school initiative ta reduce the 30-per cent drop-out rate in Canadien high schools. The drop-out situation in Canada is intolerable. It could amount ta 100,000 young people a year, potentially, during the 1990s, one nmihlon trying to enter a lebor mrket that increasingly-will regard many of them' as functionally illiterate, largely untraineble, and mostly unemployable. The federal stay-in-school initiative is designed ta invite collective national and community efforts ta deal with the drop out problem,- while recognizing the Provinoe's fundementel responsibility for education. The new federal initiative includes three mAjor components. Progrenis and services now directed at in-school youth will be expanded. The government will mobilize business, lebor, educators, the provinces and others.in a national approach and community action by holding a series of consultations. In co-operation with e4ucation ministies and private co-sponsors as appropriate, a: national, multifaceted information program, will reise public awareness of the dropout problem and encourage youth t tay in school. In the past, our advantage in world markets has been based on a rich supply of natural resources. Canada's competitiveness now depends less on these naturel advantages, and more on the skill we bring ta work. The sIdîls ta use technology to create higher value-added products or to find better ways of preforming tasks are t he keys ta future prosperity. For this we need to look to our young. 50's &60's oda-%noe is CF funmdraiser Remember the day the music died? Weil it comes back ta life one night a year at Iroquois Park erena with the help of the Durham Chapter of the Canadien Cystic FIbrosis Foundation. Don Daynard of CHFI, Don Baker, Creig Smith and the ' Dazettes! This year the eighth annuel 50esand 60 s Breath of Iàfe dance wil take place at Iroquois Park on Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the event wi be sold i the lobby of Iroquois Park arena at 8 a.m. on the morn1 of Sahurday A -1l7. .Tickets M18 eachanda lmit of 10 tickets per persn will be set. As usuel, the dance wil feature a hoola-hoop contest, beet Whitby Woodcarvers to haveehbi at Purple Woods On Merch 24 and 25, the Foreet & Stream Woodcarvers of Whitby wiil b. at the Purple 'Woods Conservation Area. Charlie Mesher and Paul Ward have over 65 years of combined wood-carving expenience and s8pecialize in hand-cared ducks and birds. An exhibition of their wok will be open froml10.30 am. to3P.n Carving demonstr-ations wil also be running throughout the day. In addition, carvings wiil b. available for sale- and speial orders are welcome. Depending on the weather, the exhibition will take place in the building inside the parking lot or at the picnic shelter. Sugar bush tour are also running on March 24 and 25, at il a.m., 1 P.m. and .2:30 p.m. Al tour leave from the parking lot. Maple syrup producta wiil be avMlabl.femde dressed contest, door prizes and a leisure draw featuring weekends for two in meny popular Ontario hotels and reorts. AUl proceeds of the dance go towards research into a cure for cystic fibrosis. With the rment discovery of the gene which causes this disease, every dollar brings the foundation clsr ta winnng back the future for cbildren and adults with (,F. Moveyouraoeeto a* T 1 find out more about your future at Coldwel Banker, talk to a few of our Sales Representatives. They'll tel you firstlhand what we're ail about. Or for a coný1dentiaI discussion, contact Jack Grant, Broker & Presideta 668-4000, Trafagar Realty fInc. CoIdwell Banker. Wel make sure your headed ini the iright direction. (DIM Cddwel D uRaeàui" Redl Erne. Pr.ÉmbAn COLDWEU B»M is Ra psqeo o trad.mk d<Coldud mkoe Md Soetens' housing forum March 31 Rene Soetens, MP for Ontario riding, wiil hast a housing forum on Merch 31. The forum will be of perticular interest ta both first-time and replacement home buyers. It is the intention of this forum ta, help the home buyer get the most out of a purchase by teking advantage of ail aveileble resourceli. The forum will. be erranged in a seminar format, and representatives from verlous organizations which would be of service when purchasing a home wiil be ini attendance. Some of the specific tapie that wiil be discussed include the role of the real estate agent, financing the purchase, insurance, the Ontario New Home Warranty Progrem, the role of CMHC, taxes end the Planning of a community. Those interested should contact Soetens' constituency office at: 103 Old Kingston Rd., Ajex, Ontario, LiT 3A6, 686-0432. 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