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1 \ '•K.. Grade Seven Student Featured in Film on Computer in Classroom Sidbits from Around the Region y WHITBY--Whitby's planning committee has recommended recommended approval by council of a subdivision for the area north of Rossland Road and west of Brock Street North. Despite some objections by area residents, residents, the committee okayed the Stolp Building Corporation Corporation proposal which calls for 149 homes, including including 53 townhouses. Since its original proposal, Stolp has reduced the overall number of homes from 159 and the townhouse total from 88. The neighbourhood will be rather expensive. Houses will range in price from $180,000 for townhouses to roughly $400,000 for detached units. The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, June 28. 1989 3 Bowmanville Student is Highland Dance Champion AJAX -- Up to 8,000 Ajax residents were without electrical power for much of the past weekend due to an overheated substation which failed Saturday afternoon. Hydro workers were not able to restore service to all customers until Sunday night at 11:00. Ajax Hydro was puzzled by the blackout. A spokesman spokesman said that the substation was not overloaded when it gave out. The area most affected by the interruption interruption in power was north of the 401; between Church Street and Pickering Beach Road. Billy Hopkins has been using a computer in his grade seven class at Mon signor Cleary School since last December. Billy, who has cerebral palsy, has found the his writing and reading has improved great- "Before, I wrote with a pencil and it was hard to.see what I was writing. The computer is a lot faster," he ; said. In one minute, Billy now is able to write nine words on the computer screen. Previously, Previously, it took him about five minutes to write seven words with a pencil. Both he and Mr. Quinlin say that his reading has also improved since the computer computer has become part of tneir class. A graphics program helps him illustrate his work so he doesn't have to ask his classmates classmates to draw any .pictures for him. And the computer will perform a spelling check on nis work. "Whatever is wrong," he says, "the computer tells me and I just have to change it.". Instead of telling him the' correct word to use, a list of ly since using the machine. The computer makes notetaking notetaking easier and helps him produce neater assing- ments. by Andrea Adair Billy Hopkins, a grade seven student at Monsignor Cleary Separate School, eagerly eagerly tries any activity put before him. Although the 12-year-old has cerebral palsy, he doesn't let the condition control control his life. He's played on the school's volleyball and soccer . teams and has his sights set on participating in the next Olympics. Now. the next item he can ada to his list of accomplishments accomplishments is being part of a movie. Billy is featured in a documentary documentary entitled "I Love My Computer". It deals with the use of computers by physically challenged students students in the classroom setting. setting. Twenty-seven students from Bev Quinlin's class ap- Ï ieared in the video with Bil- y and all attended the video's video's premiere on June 15 in Toronto. - i Mr. Quinlin explained that the video was made as a promotional film to show the advantages of having a computer in the classroom for use of disabled students. For Billy, the advantages are many. He said that prior to using using the computer in December, December, his writing was difficult to read and the act of writing writing was a slow process for him. Because of that collaboration, collaboration, when the Hugh MacMillan MacMillan Medical Centre, a centre in Toronto that works with children and adults with special needs, came to Courtice to film the video, the entire class was included. included. .The video was shot, a press release said, "to show educators the potential of the computer in social, recreational, recreational, employment and school settings." Billy said he thought the final product was ^pretty good" even though he was a little nervous about it. ■ "I've never been in a movie movie before. It was an experience," experience," he said. Hospital Bd. Greets Its New Chairman words is, offered and Billy has to select-the" Word he thinks is correct. Mr.Quinlin said they have made good use of the computer but states they are still learning about it. Other students in the classroom who have had experience experience with the machines offered their assisstance to get the computer running and help when something goes wrong. "There is a lot of collaborative collaborative learning involved," Mr. Quinlin remarked. by Chris Clark Memorial Hospital Chairman Chairman of the Board, Anna Strike, delivered an emotional emotional good-bye last week, and then welcomed the hospital's hospital's new chairman, Cord Willis. As her three-year term came, to an,end,. Mrs. Strike, ! 'thanked the Hospital Board's annual meeting held on Tuesday, June 20. Hospital Executive Director Director Richard Elston thanked Mrs. Strike for her "excellent "excellent job at the admiralty position...over position...over the past three years." "Your constant interest, consis tency ; of process, and , o rTih-ioThf rmrmia • consiftteney-f.çt .process, ana. I ji.iiams.eu a mynsd.of; peop_ A as t u tig ability to identify and • for-their support and encour- deal issues will be diffi- | ; agement, ^particularly i ; dur- cuM' 'replace," he contin- in g the difficult period of uec j. construction at the facility. 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The 16-year-old girl managed to flee when a witness on a nearby apartment balcony yelled yelled down and startled the attacker. Police report that at about 12:15 a.m., a four-door mid-sized car pulled into a private drive and approached the girl asking for directions. When she balked, he produced a gun and held it to her side. The attacker is described described as white, six feet tall, wearing faded jeans and a blue tee shirt. w W WHITBY -- Whitby residents will continue paying long distance charges to call friends in Toronto. By a 56 percent margin, Bell customers in Whitby have voted against a proposal to include Toronto calls as part of Whitby's basic service. Whitby councillors surmised that the large rate increases were the reason behind the decision. Business and residential residential rates would have more than doubled had the Toronto area been added. As well, Whitby residents living east of Thickson Road were not included in service expansion plans. m OSHAWA -- The Durham Board of Education has a new chairman following an election by trustees on Monday. Whitby Trustee Ian Brown will replace Lorna Murphy as chairman. Mr. Brown has been vice-chairman and was nominated by a past chairman, chairman, Ruth Lafarga. Pickering Trustee Louise Farr also received some votes for the position. Brock Trustee George McLaughlin was elected to the vice- chairman's position to replace Mr. Brown. Heather Douglas, 12, is off to New Brunswick to compete in the national highland highland dancing championships. Earlier this month, she captured the Ontario Highland Highland Dancing Championship in Toronto. The national competition takes place in St. John, New Brunswick, in July. Having captured the On mg . tario Highland Dancing Championship this month, 12-year-old Heather Douglas Douglas will move on to represent her province in the Canadian Canadian championship. Heather, a Bowmanville resident and student at Ontario Ontario Street Public School, will be competing in the Canadian Canadian Interprovincial Highland Highland Dancing Championships Championships in St. John, New Brunswick, this July. She came away from the Ontario competition with a total of three gold medals and a silver in the four dances dances which comprise a championship. championship. Dancers from across the province came to compete compete in the event held at City Hall, in Toronto. These most recent medals are not her only honors in highland dancing. Last year, Heather was first runner-up in the Ontario competition and she earned a bronze and a silver in the "Canadians" during '88. 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