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Exchan student Cheryle Greenly Cartoons helping her learn Portuguese by Helen Murray Little did Greenly know In thai she spend her summer holidays watching cartoons to Portuguese is currently in Sao Paulo Brazil on a one year Rotary Exchange Program and right now is in the middle of a three month summer holiday While her new language Is progressing very well she finds morning cartoons very useful in grasping the language even The trip to Brazil was not exactly a easy flight Cheryle writes The Acton Press The Greenly family of lilt 1 took to Buffalo air port the morning of August 31 where she i a flight to J Kennedy airport in York an eight hour layover she left York at in Rio at a m From there she caught another fl ghl to Sao Paulo and finally there at a m j do pled Brazilian family did not speak any English making com mum lions difficult at first She is living with new mother and a little brother child in the family is in Toronto also on a Rotary exchange is not alone Sao Paulo There is another exchange student nearby from Chicago When school resumes in March Cheryle will be in grade 12 at a private school Summer holidays ore December January and and they also get a winter break the month of June off school School starts at a m and ends any where between am and 1 depending on subjects being taken that day Her nine subjects last about an hour lach but days can stretch to two hours There is no practical work Cheryle writes it all book work and writing from board But now thit it summer Cheryle usually sleeps in until about and watches cartoons until noon when she has lunch After that she heads to the country club and swims until about after which she ptaya basketball for a couple of hours During the evening she says she cither watches television or goes out On weekends spends her time with friends her own age going to dances or bars There are dances every Friday ind Saturday night starting at 11 pm and ending at or a m Meals arc a bit different from home confesses Breakfast is very light meal followed by a large lunch which she compares with Canadian suppers At night there is another light Lunches consist of rice and beans every day and usually a fried meat mixed in an egg and cornflour mixture They also have vegetables and fruit Houses are very different than in North America also points out Most are one storey with flat rooves The rooms are mostly tiled with marble The rich families she says have two storey homes Most of these abodes don have any backyards but all have a wall of some kind around them with a gate containing either spikes or nails Cheryle explains there is a very high robbery rate and this gives them a hit of a sense of Sao Paulo has a population of about Within the city is a city which the government has built for the poor Its set aside from the rest of the town Since her arrival in Brazil Cheryle has visited de for ten days She describes it as being touristy and very beautiful They get more people on the beaches than the population of Acton she writes Cheryle is planning a trip to the south of Brazil and to the border between Argentina and Brazil Cher vie reports her Portuguese is coming along fine She says it is easy to learn a new language when you re it She doesn hear much news about Canada and what she does hear usually comes from her family Christmas seemed strange because they don t go all out the way North Americans do There are no decorations in the town and no Christmas trees together in the afternoon of Christmas and opened presents about After that a large meal with many kinds of rice was enjoyed They talked and listened to music and at midnight said Merry Christmas to each other A prayer is said and then life goes back to normal Cheryle had too much time to get homesick Except for Christmas and other special davs she is usually too tired after thinking in i foreign language all day to wonder what friends and family are doing She does miss seeing snow though she admits Cheryle will bo coming home in June which breakdown there and a Shellnodoubt many stories to tell and to show and will enjoy escaping the mono tony of hot weather and rain 170 GUELPH STREET GEORGETOWN 8770173 A METROLAND COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER GEORGETOWN l IbuickI BUICK GEORGETOWN 8770149 One Hundred tint ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 1984 18 Pages Thirty Cents Stevens land Citizens group want more studies The Citizens Committee opposing the purchase of the Steven property l intend to let up in Its battle despite the passing of the bylaw authorizing the land deal They want the amended to delay the closing until improvements and to the Georgetown sewage plan rate a Ministry of Fnvlronmtnt certificate proving 40 population They also want an Environmental Impact Assessment Study to be done by the Town since part of the land mav be sold and developed is units The committee points out it is generally the land contains the remnant of an which may have historical They are asking that all agencies be notified and all be obtained before dosing of the land deal The letter from committee to the Clerk Administrator points out cemeteries come under the of Consumer and Com Relations ind the Ministry of The w the Impact Study the clarification of the land is conditions included as an pus of the filler in sent lo the of hi of on r lit erne Itnnih thi Housing and to Miller of if Region explained the has In of sewage to i oph lit said si lies will lie ink to ihi population when is lompletod contends ihncissuis win properly lonsldered i so fid the proposed amendment in hollowing louncils response to the brief submitted thi t it ap ired that only left to ihi was a the II goes on tosa lack of funds for costs mike tint option Hie is delermlni to Ih Mi s landpunhnse and s illustrating oilier mi ins of so In Rockwood Water sewer bills jump 41 percent will be our tears In fin lt ltd He made his debut three weeks early and only lipped the birth j hut now In iciretess scales at fUe pounds one ounce Sisters Lean ne Ryan was bom at IWilmsda at lack il High winds heavy snowfall create nightmare chaos for motorists Winter returned to with last wet missed the full brunt of in four years where Schools many commuters d not it home Tuesday night or found scleral hours longer thin in i rmn had to abandon thtir The mar liki londitiotis bigan in Acton around cm mng four hours earlier thin prcdiclid Strong winds We the snow irtunil poor b Tun la the snow hid the about m rnak driving fairly good around town The men stayed on the job until Tuosdj But Tuesday a flurries turned into trouble about in the when kilo metre winds and snow fall created the worse siorm since December 1 1979 Tbit evening Hilton Board of staff and associated bus lines decided to coll school off for the next day as weather forecasters were predicting the storm to get worst into Wednesday Radio and television stations in the area were notified of the closures Plow operators were back on the job at a Wednesday but found the going rough according to Frank of the Hills Works Department Visibility was very poor many areas he said and cars slowed down their progress considerably mainly in the rural area In many spots throughout town drivers gel into their driveways and were forced to park on the road This however was expected he noted AH available men worked until about p Wednesday and then told to go home until midnight at which lime they were to report back to work for mow removal of downtown Acton and Georgetown Trafflcon the Fourth line between 15 and chaotic Tor a while to the afternoon after a mow plow went in the ditch explained the operator had to go around an abandoned car road A grader was unable to pull It free so a tow truck was called The truck had to be tied onto the grader and the two vehicles were eventually able to dislodge the plow estimates there was about a foot of snow dumped on the area with drifts as high as four feet However because of the drifting it was difficult to tell exactly how much fell Snow fences in the area were do good he admitted mainly because an east wind in uncommon and the fences are located on the west side of the road where they are gen more useful Water and sewer bills in have taken a per cent jump this month thanks to the provincial Ministry of Environment For the majority of customers those on a flat rate water alone is increasing 10 per cent from a month to However sewer charges are leaping from to for a per cent increase The nine meter customers in the village will be paying per 1 gallons of water used In a letter sent to homeowners by clerk Lloyd resident were told the provincial governments water and sewer charges for Inst year were which were paid by the township from the individual bills However for explained the province wants 148 which is on increase of C4 or over 7C per cent In order to cushion the blow to homo owners the clerktreasurer said 20 will be taken out of surplus funds to go towards the bill and mother 9 provincial grant will help to defray a portion of the in ircise But this Mill leaves which must be paid by the village customers and raising the monthly rates Flat rate customers previously paid 17 month but now face monthly This has been the first increase in sewer water rates since their installation In IJ7B according lo with the Ministry of billing the Township of t ram a on a flow basis projected growth I Hie to lack of housing growth told customers the Ministry for have hilled the- municipality on a dollar basis The Ministry has suggested to the town ship various ways to lessen the impact on the local consumers but only viable one according to Ihe letler is increased growth in Currently system is only running at per cent capacity Crash kills Acton man Andrew 37 of RR 3 Acton was one two men killed instantly in a two vehicle crash Wednesday on Highway 7 between Mississauga Rd and Nerval According to Caledon was a passenger in a taxi driven by Mohammed Sadiq Toronto The cab was westbound on Highway near Moore Instruments about4pjn when lost control on the ley pavement and swerved Into the path of on oncoming east bound gravel truck Police say the two hit headon and the ruck rolled over on top of the taxi killing both occupants Coroner W conducted the post Thursday Mr is survived by his wife Vic Jayne Thomas Funeral service was held at St Church Acton Saturday followed by cremation Inside lie WarM Day at Prayer In to ft BtmMM aw i Market be part of OMarfe Read A an asset to Mi Story m Sparta law ton to Ma