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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), December 1, 1982, p. 3

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En route discipline part of the job The front seat may be yours limit Staff Writer The children Mary Ann Martin used to drive to kindergarten are now married adults Thirteen years on the same school bus route driver Mrs Martin picks up children for and Stewart town public schools on Third Fourth and Fifth Lines The bus drive itself tough Its Irving to handle alt those children that s tough Mrs Martin said She knows all the child ran on her bus although there are occasionally new faces as families move away and new ones move The ones you don get to know very well are the good ones You get to know the naughty ones she laughed This year I had no probleru at all though there have been years I ve had five naughty ones at a time If let five get away with it then have ten naughty ones on your hands She saves the Iron seats for children misbe have and thev may sit there for a week or longer If this method of discipline isn t successful Mrs Mar tin enlists the help of the school principal but that something she has- n done for three vears she said For a few years at Christmas lime I have small gifts for the kids I thought had Improved the most or behaved the est Some do Mrs Mar Chattering with her charges isn Mrs Mar tin style First thing you know be talking and not concentrating on driving she said It alright for the stud to talk to each other but Mrs Martin docsn want them packing to one side as someone shows a If a new gadget Her rule Is that stays in the seat until they get to school Born on a farm and currently managing a horse farm Mrs Martin was used to the standard shift of farm tractors and found it easy to learn use the rivegear stick ft of the yellow buses Doth of her sisters In St Catharines now drive school buses loo Whenever they were visiting me I d say come on along I have to do my bus run now she said and they liked It Actually get to sit down three hours a day thanks to this job Mrs Martin said I look for ward to that after standing up all day She has ten horses boarding on her Sixth Line farm and she trains stand bred race horses when she driving the bus This job leaves her time during he day to do her chores around the farm she said SECTION A HERALD December Page Parting gifts for town CaaUnned tub page Al than the word I wrote better than I talked he joked think I hold the record for being on more losing vote than any other councillor Later be Mid I don t think you 11 find as many nice people anywhere as you will right here Coun Terry Ihroufth KMcfatP presented the town with two plaques by Artisan Village Acton craftsman Roy coat of of and will hang the town a council chambers The other mark the building of the cultural centre and is expected to be hung in centre ltifli patience and wo noisy children thi i ways Taking up three boors a day the school bus drivers have The job requires m to be more the dally to school he Indicated for chores around the home Safety stressed to drivers Majority are women behind steering wheel Every morning a fleet of yellow buses rumble along the and lines of Sabbath debate The news media has made a great todo of the cooperation and rapid building of the new kingdom Hall In Brampton This is all well and good however no one seems to consider that even their Bible you shall not work on the Sabbath and they worked Saturday and most of Sunday to complete it Tor a Sunday night meeting A Christian would never work on Sunday especially on the Lord House The Jehovah Witnesses are always ready to set me straight and will this time I am sure but the Word of God Is sure and can not be a We are told lo bring such Infractions of God s Law to light and condemn it This type of building program was started in the USA and has spread here It goes for back to a planning stage a preparation stage and a gathering of pre- fabricated materials Then the whole hall Is put up with great hoopla and publicity the publicity is great for the sect The last of the Marriage Enrichment seminars at Knox Church in Georgetown will be this Sunday evening al p Renewing Romance In Ma it is one that we all should lake in even If we have only been married for short time My marriage has lasted a quarter century and my wife and 1 arc going to attend this one not that we need It but new ideas arc always good and will seek to lake others with us We can thus shore when our friends and acquaintances are seeking help Did you ever think about our native peoples They are often in the northern areas of Canada and now are boxed in with winter These times are Please remember to pray for them and those who minister them in this wild and desolate part of Canada The original Canadians should not be neglected and need our prayers Won you make this a matter of dally prayer The number of Baptist Pastors in prison In Russia rose In the first six months of this year There are now pastors imprisoned and they face increasing harassment and even death Pray tar them dally Otltvier My Hebrew calendar tells me that Is approaching Consider your Jtwish friends at this time of year we remember the most important Jew that ever lived Halton Hills picking up sleepyeyed school child ren books under their arm hats askew This silent army of bus drivers rumble along the same routes come afternoon delivering now fully awake and energetic youngsters back to their homes In Hills Travel ways transports the most children to and from school It has buses travelling STB kilometres Of the drivers Travel ways Murray Inglls em ploys are women It dldn used to be that way farmer or someone with a mall route who would drive the school buses he said Today every bus driver Class B licence and Is required to take nine hours of defensive driving courses They must write a provincial ministry of transportation and com test and have hours of training opera ting the high seated buses Every three years they must have their eyes test and pass a medical examination Rules are strictly en forced by the province and bus companies stress safe ty with their drivers send them each year to Safety seminars and work In a threepart series beginning issue Her ald reporter Anl Pederian talked to some of the town s women school bus drivers entrusted with fer rying hundreds of young to and from school microwave cooking school Wed Dec 8th 6 30 900 In store demonstration and In struction by factory trained por- Please register in advance In person or call G00DLETS DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN Maple Avenue Baptist Church is holding a youth banquet Dec at p m This like the first of the Christmas activities and is followed by their Sunday School Christmas Dec 12 at All welcome The Georgetown Ten Days for World Develop ment organization will hold its first meeting Wednesday tonight esday at m in St George Anglican Church Members of all church especially people serving on Outreach Commit tecs are cordially invited to attend Our purpose is to plan an educational and action program in support of our sisters and brothers in Central America to all my Church correspondents please call or write with a complete list of all your churches Christmas programs as soon as possible Wo will run them as soon as received and hope lo miss nothing Remember we should share the good news and this is one more way Call now NOTE Asked to respond to Mr s comments Walchtowcr spokesman Hal ter Graham told The Herald that Jehovah s Witnesses don keep the Sahbalh pointing out that law or In the Bible Is given only to Jews I challenge any one to find In the Bible where It says Christians must keep the Sabbath he said The Bible gives to Christians the law or love lose to the Creator and to one neighbors The building in Brampton on the weekend was done by many people showing love to the Creator and the community by providing centre for Bible study The views expressed by Mr In his column are his own and not necessarily those of The Herald Pulp and Paper Reports Expanding Forest Renewal TREES PLANTED forestry experts ate certain that Canada forests can be 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