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l I I 10 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, December 9,1987 Section Two Many Careers Outlined at M. J. Hobbs Senior Public School The students at M.J. Hobbs Public School got a first hand look at many different occupations last week. The annual "Career Day", held on Wednesday, December 3, featured over two dozen various careers and gave the students a chance to talk to the professionals. Pictured above is cake decorator Wendy Delaney, with Dianna Atkinson looking on in interest. Organizers of the one-day event say they are really happy with the response from both the speakers and the students. by Carolyn Hepburn Career decisions can be awfully confusing. The students at M.J. Hobbs Public School received received a helping hand last week at their annual "Career Day". , Two dozen representa tives from various occupations occupations were present at the school on Wednesday, November November 2, for four half-hour seminars. The students were able to choose their occupations of interest several weeks prior to the one-day event, and most received their first choice, according to Heather Hooper, a teacher's teacher's assistant at the school. This year an attempt was made to bringstudent's parents parents to the school as speakers. speakers. It was quite a success, as Celebration Marks United Way's Success The end of the 1987 United Way fund raising campaign was heralded with celebrations at Elusions night club in Oshawa. Garnet Rickard was one of several several divisional chairmen who reported on the campaign. Mr. Rickard was in charge of personal gifts and foundations and reported a total of $172,512. Although Although this year's overall goal of $2.6 million was narrowly missed, campaign organizers were extremely happy with the results. Many groups and organizations organizations in the Town of Newcastle helped to make the drive a great success. 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OSHAWA 725-3600 the list of choices ran from nursing, carpentry and accounting accounting to the armed forces, cake decorating and dog grooming. Several groups of students students also took field trips to various places, including the Flying Dutchman Hotel, Northcutt Elliott Funeral Home, and the Durham Journal, to get a better idea of the careers involved. Furthermore, Furthermore, the students also got a better idea of exactly what is available to them in the future. "They can go in and do anything," said Nancy Rae, a family studies teacher. According to Mrs. Rae, the students are exposed to many non-traditional roles as well. Most of the work for "Career Day" is in finding the representatives. After the students fill out their forms on which occupations they would like to see, staff try to pinpoint as large a variety as possible. "They (the speakers) are very obliging to the school," said Mrs. Rae. Many of the people present had to arrange arrange for time off or make alternate working arrangements arrangements in order to take part in "Career Day". At the end of each presentation, presentation, students were given the chance to ask questions. Some even got a hands on look at the speaker's work, as was the case in cake decorating decorating and creative careers. While trying to make a decision decision about a career can be difficult, "Career Day" at M. J. Hobbs certainly sets the students on the right foot. Vincent Massey News Come one! Come all to our second annual Book Fair! An excellent selection of paperbacks, posters and bookmarks are available. Prices range from $1.00 to $12.95. So for all those last minute minute gifts what better than choosing a gift that educates educates and entertains! The Fair will open 9:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 on Thursday, December 10 and 8:30 until noon Friday December December 11. Set ... Set ... Spike! The volleyball season has opened with a smash. Vincent Vincent Massey has started practises for the Junior Schools Volleyball Tournament. Tournament. Because we don't have a gym at Vincent Massey Massey we are fortunate to be able to use the high school gyms for our practises. This year we have two great coaches. Mrs. MacLeod MacLeod is coaching the girls and Mr. Stapleton is coaching coaching the boys. Jennifer Kelly, Hannah Whately, Tina Robertson, Mandy Dykstra, Connie Smith, Jennea Gloss, Tanya Silver, Jessica Barrie, Shannon Green, Angela Brignall, Alisha Conahan, Andrea Parks, and Carrie Jackson are on the girls team and Paul Young, Mike Jenkins, Jason Thompson, Dana Craig, Alan Rickard, Steven Oke, John Bourke, Bruce Har- num, Doug Parkins, Jeff Tucker, Sean Doherty, and Kyle Shackelton are on the boys team. Hannah Whately. Mrs. Medd is a really neat teacher! Instead of a Hallowe'en Hallowe'en party she had a monster party. Now she is having a bird Christmas instead instead of a normal party. We have birds hanging from the ceiling and bird feeders and projects displayed in the room. Mrs. Medd also said she's putting up an odd tree but she didn't say what it would look like. She's making us look forward forward to the upcoming season. season. HO! HO! HO! Alan Rickard. Brandi-Conahan of Mrs. Dolan's class enjoys dres-. sing up and playing in the home center the best. Brandi also likes the book center, painting, cut and paste center and process writing. She has painted Toastmasters Club Receives Charter on 1st Anniversary The first anniversary of the Bowmanville Toastmasters was celebrated Tuesday, December 1, in a meeting at the Lions Centre. In addition, the Toastmasters Club also celebrated the fact that they were awarded their charter and officially recognized recognized as a Toastmasters Club. The non-profit organization organization meets once a week, encouraging the develop ment of members' speaking and listening skills. The Toastmasters executive and international directors are pictured above. Front row left to right are: Mayor John Winters, special guest, Joan Winter, Irene Kon- zclmann, Randy MacGillivray and Muriel Godden. Back row left to right are: Gerald Brown, Joe Christl, Vince da Costa and Vigi Gurushanta. quite a few paintings this year and on Hallowe'en helped to carve a pumpkin. Megan Cleary enjoys the reading center the best. She also enjoys painting, cut and paste center, process writing and writing poems and stories, such as I Love You, Think about me, Someday, Paddington. Megan loves writing stories and poems. So you see, we have some very creative kids in Mrs. Dolan's class. Samantha McDonald. . In Mr. Stapleton's class we are doing multiplying for math. In Environmental Studies we are doing a unit on communications. We also have I.B.M. computers on line and in reading we are doing Individual Reading Reading with the super sleuth's You read a book and choose one card on Sherlock Hound's Comprehension, Detective Duck's Phonics, Inspector Bones Word Study or Private Eye Pete's Creations. Then we glue them into a scrap book and hand them in. CCvfJcrest Cleaners 38 3Ciny Street East, bowmanville Telephone 623-7061 • Dry Cleaning • Skirts •Laundry T. McQuarrie, Owner The Bowmanville Lions Club would like to thank everyone who supported our Annual Turkey Roll and $1,000.00 DRAW. The winning ticket was No. 3074 and was held by Ted Werry of Enniskillen. Enniskillen. BOWMANVILLE LIONS CLUB HOLIDAY SAVINGS i'.S* Kf* v ANY LIVING ROOM DINING ROOM AND ADJOINING HALL FURNITURE CLEANING 3 Seat Sofa (Get chair done FREE!) DRAPES 10% OFF A.D. CLEANERS 67 V2 King St. E. 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