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l2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesay,AMay 29, 1991 'The Futugre Starts Here" From the Principal: The school years is coming to an end and students and teachers are preparing for the examinations which begin on June 17. As well as preparing for their examinatioris several Clarke students have achieved notable accomplishments i the last week. Craig French, a Grade 12 student at Clarke High School, was selected by the Northumberland and Newcastle Regional Science Fair to enter his computer project at the Canada Wide Science Fair. This fair was held at Vancouver, Britsh Columbia during the second week of May. He has returned from a fascinating experience. I addition, lie received the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology Award of $500.00. The project is called Lifepass: A ,1arke Hirgh News Computerized Medical Record. The prograni manages patient records for a hospital. It includes the ability to code and store a complote medical record on the magnetic strip on a credit card sized piece of plastic. Craig has been working on this project for eight months.. Congratulations are due for an excellent effort. Congratulations to Jennifer Berney and Jason Hansen on their wins in the Eastern Ontario Regional Track meet in Brockville last Friday. Jason placed 3rd i the 3000m rua and Jennifer placed 4th in the Shot Put. Both of these student-athletics will go on to the AIl Ontario (OFSSA) Track Meet in Sudbury this Friday. As well two other students represented CHS, Carnie Farrow ran in the 400mn event and Chris Yeo ran in the 3000m event, On Friday, May 24th the Student Council of Cak High School held an outdoor rock concert, featuring three bands. front the school. The talented mnusicians involved were Steve Vander Schee, Dan Walters, Kevan Roy, Andy Rorabeck, Brian Mereweather, Blaine Tate and Stacey Thompson. The student bands raised $366.00 to help Denise House, a home for battered women and children in Oshawa. On Wednesday, May 29 the bands will be holding thieir Annual Band Banquet to celebrate another successful year. On June 5 the athietes and coaches wil celebrate another year of excellence at Clarke High School. These are just two of a series of events we have to celebrate excellence in education at Clarke High School. Coming Events June 5th - Athletic Banquet June l4th - Last Day of Classes Jume l7th - Exams Begin! June 28th - Report Card Pick Up Between 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 4 Miles North of Newtonville on Newtonvllle Road. Museum a vital part of our Heritage As we celebrate Heritage Week in the Town of Newcastle 1 feel that this would be a good time to examine the nature of our Heritage and the role that Museums in Canada play. Heritage means a great many things to a great many people but just where do Museumns fit in as "Leaders" in the Heritage community both locally and nationally. The issue of Heritage and the Museumn's role, is a complicated and controversial one. Until recently museums have been defined by their actions and place in the community. Museumns collect, preserve, conserve and present displays and exhibitions utilizing the artifacts that they hold in trust. Oiginally seen as educators (when museumns have evolved more towards "entertainnient" for most with a minor emphasis on education. Museumns mouint wonderful displays of Victoriana and Edwardian artifacts, reflect periods and lifestyles spanning a couple of hundred years in Onltaro/Canada, and provide hands on programmes for children. Some have venitured in to native histor-y and pre-history, some are explicitiy science oriented, while others are beginning to venture in to the, enviroument. Museum courses and professionals have long tauglit these base principles and expounded on themn to their Boards and volunteers. Do museumns have a greater responsibilitythough? A commiuity's heritage can be defined in terms of politics, education, cultural, multi-cultural, sociological, natural, historic and contemporary. These are but a few. Where does the museuni "fit in." -Museurns receive public money through taxes - fact. Museumns raise large amounts of money from the public - fact. Museums collect, preserve, conserve and present an areas history to educate and illuminate - fact. Museurns employ trainied professionals in order to pass along the stewardship they hold to future generations - fact. Museums can justify their existence by the above criteria - fiction! The world does flot stand still. Neither cari museunis if they wish to survive. Financial situations change, social situations change, and the needs of thie public change. Museums face new deniands every day. Demands that, if they ignore will destroy them. Museunis have begun to alter their focus to expand in to new areas. Museunis are responding to current social and environniental issues in order to help the community understand by placmng events in to their proper perspective in history, thus remnovmng themn from the emnotional "here and now." Museums are also recognizing the need to develop new and innovative programming dealing with non-traditional, or at least unexpected, topics. During poor economie tumes, the need for comnmunity networking has also come to the forefront. Museumns are actively seeking out "partners" in the community. Not always as a means of fundraising but, to expand thie role of the museuni and the public base of support and direction that is so vital for ail Apuseums. Museunis are also an imiportant part of the business comimunity. Although museurns have traditionally down played their "industry" side, this alone hias becomne one of the key factors i justifying an institutions existence. I Ontario alone thlere are over 30M recognized, professional museumas with an annual combined attendance over 9 million. Annual expenditures on museumns acros.s Canada tops $480 million and Canadian museums generate over $2.5 million through gift shop retail sales. This impact on tourism and business is staggerig. As part of the larger "Cultural World' in Canada, museums combine with theatres, art galleries, co-operatives and others to form thie 9th largest industry in Canada. The annual revenue of Canada's cultural industry is equal to Our textile, aircraft and chemical industries combined - over $8.5 billion! (Continued page 13) Lawn Contrai you can depend on - Weed Spraying - Crab Grass - Fertilizing - lnsoct Spraying - PIug Coraeration Program available for the season. See the Difference Quality Makes! 983-5598 (Orono, Newcastle) j