The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Growing up Canadian on TV YOUR CHILD TV by Deborah Bamiteln NC Moat of us would have to agree thai television ploys on Import ant role In our lives Canadians now spend over holt tholr leisure watching television All the lime we spend reading attending sports and cultural events exercising social izing or just plain relaxing does not add up to I no amount ol time we Theaverage person watches approximately hours week which amounts to nine years In an average life span houni By the time our children reach the STRIPPING AND REFINISHING Is II worth the time and effort The garages and Canada are tilled with untold num bers of interesting pieces of old fur niluro with pari their old finish stripped off and wore abandoned whon the ob became loo anything when the old varnish was removed They sit in the dampness and gradually deteriorate to a point whore ore beyond redemption even by an expert Many thousands interesting old solid wood pieces become useless In this manner every year The truth of the mattof is thoy worth the and effort part II I hoy are built from solid wood most modern is and solidly constructed Wo are talking not only about antiques but also ploces made as recently as years ago A lew tips To help you make stripping grand mothers cocker an easier and more enjoyable chore see your local hard ware retailor and let him you on the different types of and varnish remover available Ho can also show you a complete line ol supplies you will require including steel wool sandpaper scrapers putty knives and solvents Ho also carries a complete line of stains and finishes and can advise you on what product Is best for your particular requirements Hero are a lew hints to help you when you go back to lhat half- stripped piece you now have stored if wax and sol vent and the wax rises up to the top prevents solvent from evaporat ing and allows it to do its job Give stripper time to do job Most people aro in loo much of and try to remove the finish before the solvent has had time to soften it Take nil precautions Wear hand and skin protection tabic surfaces stripper ago twelve they will spent 12 hours watching television more time than will have spent In school In those 12 hours hoy will watched 10 000 hours of American programming They will havo seen more hours Amor- programming Ihoy will wo spent in a Canadian school Television has print as major moans transmitting cultural information attitudes and to their dev elopment as Individuals and as Can adians Any parent whose English- speaking children watch Sosama will that an early ago thoy more Spanish than French Parents will also tell you that it takes li at lor means to be Canadian thon wo must accept responsibility to help them understand the rolevance or Irrolevanco of what watch on television to program What can we do about he situ ation when wo have many more American options than Can adian ones For one thing wo can encourage children to watch the many excellent Canadian programs produced tor children all ages The titles may no bo as rccognli- as those of many American series and may not bo s otter lliey night III and mages thoy can them shows that P HITTING Meeting a fast moving ball at exactly the right moment with a baseball bat is one of the toughest skills In sports It all starts the moment you pick up a bat Duke Snipers Play Ball Tips iclccl IhcrtDhl hat lor not on hi loo lou haic n act the hat second set knuckles each hand lined Grip the bat loosely In your lingers not tout palms Your will up as you swing Into the ball Many players slide their hands up the handle or better control This Is called up and It helps get the bat around more quickly Canada Play BATHROOM CARPETING CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE Remember when the ported bath room had the clinical sparkle a hospital Weil sparkle is still import ant but now it turning up in baths a little Dandelions end thoso two lawn weeds you must tako action early says Weed Special is Rudy Brown head of the horn- culture and biology section College of Agricultural Tech must bo controlled it gorminates apply a pro- emergence herbicide such as or in other liquid or fertiliser herbicide mixture Brov Follow the application riles commended by manufacturer The herbicide goes to work liter spring ram the herbicide is through the roots emerging lio germinating si by during pole against weeds more effectively Slay greener longer during periods drought and generally remain Dandelions requiret too apply thoy bloom and reapply in late summer Spray woods on a bright sunny to protect elding them a Brown said of are ng you to apply It you it to In alive wall lo wall carpeting or area Taking their cue from the world manufacturers are showing how to make a bathroom beautiful without sacrificing comfort end practicality servo two purposes The is purely functional vont slipping and sliding on wet or having to stop out of the hard surface second is aesthetic Bathrugs can sollcn look allow you to change irge begun to ask more elegance in their the about decorating em started to change Patterns both in and wcls gaining on traditional colors As a result the old rule at bathings and lowels must be same color is being disregarded and coordinating colors of pattern ed fabrics are used to bright- Solid colors are also changing The host sellers are appear in many different now vogue with manufacturers mixing different multicolored yarns to create a strong toitured Tho most popular bathroom rugs are high saxonies which bathroom and is Bathrugs also used to alter the appearance tho room If you have a small powder room of bathroom whore too mony colors would look busy or bright colors would be over power ing o virtually years ago is feeling I look rugs I a moro airy feeling bathroom corpoting of until a low ilso good lor giving a luxury and elegant You Solid colors or muted patterns with contrasting border will givo your bathroom a dramatic now look in bathroom bo you chock the content carefully when shop ping lor Nylon is the most popular bath pro and patterns on the markol Tho right will go a long way making your bathroom and comfortable oasis you exclusively American As a result Canadian children have more under standing ot the American legal pro cess and procedures than Canadian process Many do not know difference botweon two systems Through dis cussion differences can bo polntod out and most importantly watching television can become a posltlvo learning and social ox per A rocent CB1 nowstottor outlines the programs for children currently being offered by Canadian notworks Canadian shows aro identified in the II you would like to receive a copy of tho newsletter please write Broad cast Institute Eghnton Ave Toronto Deborah Bern tie In it the Executive Director The Children Broad cast I warn to stop and lake a look at it them doserled Some are restored as historical sites But only a few still village There one a tin Just north of London It a flour mill with a real flavour The Flour Mill is wooded valley You can see it from highway and as soon as Jenny spotted It she slowed do Mustang Shadldnlaskanjquesno turned into tho winding driveway down Into valley and puilod up at the mills frontdoor bird dog when she sniff Bill Matthews the I ho re He was busy but dropped everything to toll us and show us around BIN estimates historic SI ace was built about t boon in samp i im iy for generations and surprisingly for ill its autumn morning along the edge that loafed along near It reached a dam when it small torront to power Rube Goldberg car ufy year Its Bill explained how it i broken down clcanc Everything moved sal ij I go keep track I liked the look Hour as It flew big Currently about ions is produced I Bill why mill mar to stay profitable when s had gone business Whon technology brouqh mot hods most shiny now equipment and ox p too quickly Then found with the bit Tho Mill has a coupli airly large accounts but sells buyers in surrounding area is Thoros also a retail outlet near Iho whoro both city and country people got Hour and health VJo a qualified miller sua Bill Our equipment Is but and although wall make a fortune wove small Bill was telling us that there about small lour mills around at turn of century Only a few remain in entire country Ironically the Arva Mill survived it change with the timos ltstayodustobouttheway it was back in the days small mills were in flour