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8 The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville, June 20,1984 Section Two Trustees Outline Long Range Objectives Grade Three Student Becomes Expert Typist A Town of Newcastle trustee suggested last week that a policy on co-operative education deserves a place in the public school board's long-range plans. "I believe it's important important for the board to very carefully monitor its existing co-operative co-operative education program," program," said Bob Will- sher. As a result, he asked that the co-op program be monitored to ensure an effective learning experience for all students students and to ensure that education keeps pace with job requirements. requirements. He also suggested that transportation transportation for co-op students students should be reviewed reviewed to ensure that students are not excluded from the program due to trans portation difficulties. A resolution to this, effect was approved by trustees at last week's meeting. It joins a list of other long-range objectives objectives that the board of education has adopted at its most recent recent meeting held in Cobourg. Some of the other goals include development development and maintenance k■,....J Celebrated 1st Birthday Erin Laurel, daughter of Dick and Janet Rutherford, North Orono. Little playmate for Amelia and Andrea. Proud grandparents are Jerry and Jean Duvall and Jim and Ada Rutherford, all of Orono. $8000000 DODGE TRUCK PROVINCE WIDE CLEARANCE JUNE 1-30 " UP TO $500.00 In Factory Discounts Available on 1984 Ram Tough Pkkups and Romchargef 5 yr /160,000 km Anti-Corrosion Protection Plan at No Extra Cost Available on ofl R84 Ml the Rom tough Pkkupt and Ranxhargeci Available June 1-30 at MacINTOSH CHRYSLER - PLYMOUTH LTD./k 331 Park Rd. S. 290 North Front St. Oshawa Belleville 728-4638 (613) 966-8610 (iimsun of effective curricula for all students, developing developing positive morale among staff and students, and providing plans for professional growth and development development among staff. Another long-range objective is to co-operate co-operate with neighbouring boards of education to identify and implement programs where costsharing costsharing is feasible. Trustee Wilf Day suggested that in view of Premier Davis' announcement announcement this month concerning separate school education, the recommendation on sharing programs with other boards shows remarkable remarkable foresight. "As we all know, we're going to be doing a lot of sharing in the future," he said. Let's Get By T Harry Growing! VanBelle 4 - ~~ z ■-#) !' f / ■? -F ,;ÿ • f .# , L Clean Now we are talking about the carpet around the house which is normally called the Lawn. Everyone wants to keep it nice and green, to give your home that country feeling. feeling. When the dry hot summer weather sets in, this carpet has a struggle to stay green, so a bit of help on your part is needed to give you that result. As with all plants, lawns are a group of small plants that have a root system which must be able to grow readily into the soil that they are planted in, so obviously the soil that you grow the grass plants in should be a good topsoil. Most of the new subdivisions subdivisions lack enough new topsoil topsoil under the lawn to keep it healthy, since a lot consists of just clay dug out of the basement. basement. So a little help should be given to the soil medium. There are several ways to improve this condition. First of all, remove all the sod and add at least six to eight inches of a good grade topsoil and then replace the grass with either new seed, although it is too late right now until late August, or you can place new sod down, which can be done now and is readily available from our local sodfarm, who has some excellent sod available available this year. Just make sure that the sod is well watered and give the new sod an application application of lawnfood to help it get started. The second way to improve the soil under your lawn takes more time, since you have to work through the grass. Clay soils will grow excellent lawns if it can be loosened up. To understand the composition of clay soil is easy. It consists of very small particles with a so-called glue around each particle which makes the particles stick together, forming forming a very tight clay mass. The trick is to get these small particles broken up or to neutralize the so-called glue so This can be done in two ways, the first one is to apply a material consisting mainly of calcium which is called gypsum or clay break. It can be applied directly on the lawn and then must be watered in to get it into the root zone. This one will break up the so-called glue and loosen up the clay particles. The second way is to let the grass roots do the job by heavy feeding for two years. This must be done at least once every six weeks, then the grass roots are being forced into the clay soil separating the particles from each other by the force of the roots. Grass plants like all other plants need air. in the soil to grow properly so by loosening up the soil this will be done. Aerating with a power aerator will also help, but it will not loosen up the whole area, just where the tines go into the soil. A lot of lawns come through the winter in bad shape, and most people blame the hard winter for this condition, but in most cases this was not true, the damage was already done last summer by an insect called the chinchbug. It eats the top of the roots, below the grass blades, and then with the hot summer last year a lot of lawns turned brown, but it was not the heat that killed the lawn but again the chinchbug was the guilty culprit. Then, we had a relatively warm fall, so most lawns stayed this way until this spring and then winter was blamed for this condition. " To prevent this happening this year, an application of insecticide should be applied during the next two weeks, since the chinchbug loves the warm weather and will start its cycle during the heat in the month of June. More on the chinchbug next week and how to keep your carpet green and clean. ■ Until next week, happy gardening. TELEPHONE 623-6555 JOHN MANUEL, C.G.A. Income Tax and Related Accounting Services 118 King St. E., Suite 2 Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1N4 4AI BRICK DIRTY? We clean Brick, Aluminum and Vinyl Siding, Paint Removal from Brick, etc. NO SAND BLASTING Increase the Value of Your Property Today FREE TEST and ESTIMATES Serving the Durham Region for 4 Years (REFERENCES AVAILABLE) EVER-KLEEN, WHITBY EXTERIOR CLEANERS 666-3733 or 579-9956 •ai i vjMvïTjl Dr. R. VanHoof wishes to announce that he will be moving the location of his practice to 98 King St. W. (2nd floor) (former Glen Rae Dairy building) Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1R4 Effective July 3rd, 1984 Telephone 623-7261 or 623-2533 Toby Lowe, 8, a grade 3 pupil at Waverly Public School, works on a school assignment on her electric typewriter under the watchful supervision supervision of parent volunteer Marilyn Edwards. How many eight-year-old children do you know who can touch type? Toby Lowe can. Toby, a grade three student student at Waverly Public School, has cerebral palsy and uses the typewriter to do her class assigments since, for her, it is faster than hand writing. Marilyn Edwards, a volunteer volunteer typing teacher, said she enjoyed teaching Toby to type. "She's a very ambitious ambitious little girl and really wanted to learn." The main problem Toby has is reaching the keys as her small finger don't have a large enough span. Toby is described as a child who is very independent independent and usually accomplishes accomplishes what she sets out to do. Her parents Debbie Debbie and Brian Lowe are responsible, responsible, to a great extent, for Toby's positive attitude. She is an only child and gets plenty of attention. "The more we encourage, the more Toby can do. She could be a lot worse off," Mrs. Lowe said. A computer has replaced the pencil in Toby's house. She completes her homework homework under the watchful eye of her. parents and a printer runs it off so she can take her work back to school. Twenty minutes a day is devoted to homework. "Typing "Typing helps Toby complete her work three times as fast," said Mrs. Lowe. Mrs. Lowe said Toby is just a normal child, not a perfect child. "Now with the weather getting nice Toby kicks up a fuss once in a while. She'd rather be out playing than working. Cerebral palsy is a congenital congenital condition affecting the ability to control movement. movement. Though Toby leads a relatively relatively normal life she has her limitations. She has a slight limp and hears with the assistance of two hearing hearing aids. Her motor development development is slow but she gets her physical therapy by running at play and walking to and from school. "Toby has to eat more because because she burns off more energy than a normal child would doing the same thing," Mrs. Lowe said. "She has her bad days when she doesn't get enough sleep and when she hits a growing spurt she tends to fall down sometimes." Toby said it didn't take her long to learn how to use a typewriter. "It's my favorite favorite part of school and good exercise for my fingers." For fun she rides her bike and skips. Toby likes playing playing at school but the merry- go-round scares her when the kids push it too fast. According to Mrs. Lowe, teachers didn't know how to handle the situation with Toby. "They were frightened at first. We explained that she's tiny and fragile looking but she's tough and the kids at school have accepted her." Greta Bradley, Toby's teacher, said Toby likes to try everything. "She's self- motivated and participates fully." At first Toby's classmates wanted to do everything for her. "She proved she's a real little digger," said Mrs. Bradley. "She one of the best hitters in three-pitch baseball and the other students students are very supportive." Mrs. Lowe said the school has done a lot for Toby. "We're very happy about the effort everyone at the school has made." And as for Toby, she's busy thinking about summer summer holidays. "I hope we go back to Canada's Wonderland," Wonderland," she said. "I loved it there." • SPECIAL OFFE&PQR NEW SUPERCHANNEL SUBSCRIBERS • FREE! ONE WHOLE MONTH OF GREAT SUPEKCHANNEL MOVIE ENTERTAINMENT Thunder With the "3 months for 2" Summer Special from Rogers Cable TV! Bay for 2 months of superb SUPERCI1ANNEL movie entertainment for only $15.95 a month* ...we'll give you a bonus month absolutely free - a $15.95 value! Enjoy 24-hour, commercial-free movies, all summer long - what a great change from summer repeats! 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