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OUR READERS WRITE Questions value of parent volunteers Dear Mr It was recently published that the educational requirements for an elementary school teacher must bo a degree In the sciences or the arts as well as one year of teachers college The teachers will therefore be more qualified On the other hand volunteer workers ore Invited Into schools to work with our children unassisted bv tencher and tho school administration will know little more about the volunteer than her name No application Is needed qualifications unnecessary but tho fact that they will offer their tlmo and work without salary no specific requirements are needed Are we supposed to surmise that our children will benefit from higher education that will be Imposed on our tenchern while on the other hand unqualified help are in tho schools under tho title of parent volunteers If It was necessary to hire this additional help and pay them salary I wonder how many of them would qualify Because parent volunteers can be ob tained at no cost to the Board of anyone who has the time to offer can work In tho schools where no record of performance Is made nor docs anyone pass judgement on their ability to teach I would to ask the board If It Is really such a bargain If this is so then why must the teachers of future require a university degree 1 would like to think that my son is being taught by qualified teacher not by a parent who is neither trained nor observed Tin Pros Wednesday rll Citizen of Year well chosen Box I note that your Citizen of Year has been chosen for the town of Acton At last the committee responsible for this award has made It to someone who has worked for community as a whole While acts of valor and heroism are fine the greatest reward In doing these things is mutual satisfaction that one has done what was necessary at the right tlmo and these persons usually don t want publicity lxt this committee continue to make tho award annually to someone who serves tho community as a whole not for a single act In the meantime congratulations Ted While not always seeing eye to eye with some of your theories you have worked for community at large for a long time Yours truly Andrew Welch SPRING racka at both Acton public schools arc being used almost to capacity Photo Trustee says homework just waste of time Norm work for school students is a waste of time that could bo spent better doing something else like cooking or working around the house trustee George told County Board of during discussion on tho mutter at their meeting In Thursday 1 hud the best principal in the system when I was In school She never believed In homework and neither did I he told the board No need Acton Nnssugoweya Trustee lorn Watson said with the good rtHource centres now there Is nottheneed for homework and youngsters don have to fill minds with trlvln like they used to John Ionium saw It as a means of formulating good study habits Bill in a grcut vehicle the homo and the school It helps parents know what their youngsters are doing In school Ik Rubbish makes fires Spring cleanup drive backfires Maybe the usual spring clean up campaign should be converted to an grass fire campaign members of Halton County Fire Prevention Bureau were thinking this week Since Easter weekend fire departments in Halton have been running around the countryside putting out grass fires Since tho snow melted tho spring sun has made grass and fields quite dry making It easy for a carelessly tossed cigarette or an unsupervised rubbish bonfire to get out of control and spread across the fields Meanwhile Fire Prevention Bureau members have been busy this post few weeks distributing spring clean up posters urging all homeowners to get busy cleaning up their homes and eliminating fire hazards While you arc doing your spring cleaning tako a few minutes to check your home for anything that might constitute a Ire hazard the Bureau suggests Cleanup bum up Trouble is said Milton Fire Chief A Clement people are also tidying up their lawns gardens at this time of the year they accumulate a pile of rub bish and decide the quickest way to get rid of It Is to burn it Before you know It the fire has gone out of control and the dry grass Is burning Another problem comes from the rural where Contrast and Conflict from communal kindergartens children a quarters and social and cultural centres Individual living quarters provide personal privacy Kibbutzim are predominantly agricultural but many run sizable Industrial enterprises There are 235 of these kib butzim In Israel with populations ranging from 60 to 2 I- supper at NeveYam we had a session in the common room which was informative and enlightening Dan production manager In the kibbutt factory told us about the basic principles of the kibbutzim where members are equal and adults arc elected to member ship Everyone who Is able must work and of course the movement started as an attempt to solve the practical problems of settlement They developed centres which could be defended Dan suggested the secret of the survival of kibbutzim was In adjust to changing times and conditions and the dependence on the voluntary goodwill of the people who made up membership They had no laws no courts and no police enforce ment and they were built on the mutual respect of the Individual One was free to leave the kibbutz but to join required a one year probationary period after which the member would be either accepted or rejected by a vote of the full membership of the kibbutz NeveYam was founded in by a group of pioneers from Poland Initially expecting to build their kibbutz economy on fishing from the Mediterranean They found this unpractical and went into mixed farming and eventual built a cannery in which has taken on an increasing importance in the economy of the community They choose crops that don need too much labor grow cotton and have about acres of fish ponds In which they grow carp These arc processed In their canning factory as arc orange juice and other citrus products Diversifying they also have for guests and a poultry farm which was established on the sand strips just north of the kibbutz The factory employs up to workers from outside the community at Its peak processing periods With four per cent of the Israel population In kibbutzim we wondered whether young people would accept the somewhat restricted life whUh the kibbutz offers Members Indicated they t be sure their children would follow in choosing the life of a cooperative community but they were encouraging their young people to seek higher education I talked with a beautiful young girl who seemed to have a radiance borne of Inner contentment to determine her ideas and attitudes towards kibbutz life Shevah came with her husband to the kibbutz three years after they had been married In Paris Danla at had two children now six and David now five Her work in the factory was as a secretary and was in charge of the visitors camping operation at the kibbutz Danla s children were cared for In the kibbutz nursery and when she left work she would pick them up at p m and have them until about p when she would return them to the nursery or the school for the night The older Corrinne would be home rsday evening for the Sabbath and In the summer as a family they would go straight to the sea after work or they might walk around the grounds of the kibbutz picking flowers and sharing time together Danla work in Paris France was as a teacher of small children and she studied languages preparing for work as an inter preter Nissim a salesman They had discussed the possibility of kibbutz life before marrying but reached no decision until three years they found life In France not up to their expectations They found people selfish and there was no time for friendship They felt there was no purpose In life Now after years at the kibbutz both ore happy and has convinced her parents to move to the some kibbutz Her father had been a financial journalist for 40 years He told me he was enjoying life there very much Nissim parents are approach Inc retirement and In September plan to come to Israel to settle in Haifa Members of the kibbutz do not receive any pay for their work but we were told that each year they receive about 1 BOO for their personal use providing cither T V sets clothing or whatever they may choose Their collective efforts give the kibbutz about a million gross turnover It was exciting meeting these people and learning of their sense of purpose The outward radiance and enthusiasm which they seemed to have was impressive It was our first glimpse of the very deeply ingrained sense of purpose which we seemed to find everywhere we turned In Israel That night we slept in the guest houses at NeveYam and the next morning after a varied breakfast Including fish and a number of Mediterranean delicacies we toured the canning factory led by David the factory manager The plant produces about cases of citrus fruits daily requiring about 140 tons of citrus fruits The rind from the juiced oranges is dried for cattle feed The processing factory also handles fish and brand names of Jaffa orange Juice Conttnuod Next Week DANIA SHEVAH and husband abandoned life in Paris for contentment and challenge in Kibbutz life where they raise their family JOYCE CARPENTER proudly presents THE ACTON SCHOOL OF DANCE Springtime Show WITH The Georgetown Barbershop Chorus ROBERT LITTLE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Saturday 24th April 1971 745 jn Admission Children and under Tickets available from students or call Limited number only A letter from Eden Mills landowners decide to burn off a patch of dead grass or a few tree stumps Such Ires their own wind and if they are not carefully supervised can spread quickly to threaten a barn homo or a bush Open Ires Illegal All fires in the open are Illegal the Bureau points out If they are not covered under local municipal by laws or tho Fire Code the Atr Management Branch of the Ontario Department of Energy Mills May Dear firtat excitement hero tho lust little while Two Canada appeared an Die pond and It looks as If they might stay 1 very morning thing we look out to see If they still there One evening several of their friends seemed to to maybe we 11 have oven more Norm started feeding them and tells mo thoy arc now literally eating out of nor hand nicy round and honk under the bedroom window when they think It time for briukfustl Solve problem 1 don t know if 1 told you wo solved the Icicle problem at the of the house Norm Murnhull suggested I gut table So I did and ho very kindly put It up for me It lags up and down tho lower part of the roof When there is snow you turn It on at a lime I found Just about sunset best and It gives off enough to make little tunnels In tho Ice for the water to escape and so there no buckup or icicles Very good While I was away in January the water pipes froze Here again I was lucky Mrs Anna Jackson who wan checking house in absence found the trouble and again NormJr fixed things up and Resources Management has strict controls which state no open fires are allowed without a permit And local fire chiefs do not have the authority to issue such permits Bureau members are considering possibility of dropping their annual clean up campaign and turning their spring efforts toward a campaign to cut down on the costly rash of grass fires In one recent spring season they figured grass ana bush fires had cost Halton taxpayers over If the grass continues to remain dry ana If the fire calls keep coming In at the rate they have since Easter weekend the spring of 1971 could be just as costly IlyV K Barrow It was the first timo that had and I think It was because some of Iho Insulating had been disturbed However no more trouulo and the now pump w Installed last spring seems too IJkes plants You know how I like to some In house like to something growing nils time It was rows About a year ago I read that they did well In rock gardens so I got Being mo the poor little Ihlngs were choked with weeds but still green In September So I brought them into tin house Thoy seemed to like kitchen window and have I loomeil a couple of times One In red one yellow and the blooms arc about the sire of a nickel My little copper planter will hold four small Tropical plant So noon I drove over to Belgian Nurseries for some more Thoy have one greenhouse which Is a Joy to visit at that time of year- full of tropical I got a very small thorns and a tiny Christmas cactus These too bloomed It made an interesting change from the begonias much as I appreciate them Once again It looks as If I m going to bo lucky with grass cutters Hike Marshall succeeded his cousin Dennis Abraham boys kept Ihlngs looking pretty good This year lien Marshall has taken me on has been working around all day getting the old dead grass and weeds rake I up and carted up to the bock A happy birthday dear Shall think of you together in Sunday With FROM LOVELL BROS MEAT MARKET RED BRAND BEEF 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