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Real Estate MARKETPLACE Wednesday May 23 1979 Halton CAS needs help families and children in north with special needs i can best Ik niel by new Children Society CAS volun The is out fill in services to and Milton iih has pariieular needs accord ilunleer Co irdlnalor for has grca need for bit brothers will act as models to he followed by children A big brother skills tailored to the child needs such day today matters as how use public Iran or making economical purchases The CIS in George town his four referrals on Its books We con fill them and they re all important Mrs Morri son said There are about eight big brothers in Hal ton CAS and big Bisters Big Brothers arc also in demand at Milton as are other volunteers case a ides who deal with families Case aides provide friendship teach child management skills assess families and other functions Milton however has a more urgent need group leaders for mothers and for children At least six leaders for preschoolers could have positions Their func tions says Morrison are to give children a good time at least once a week and also assess children so parents can be helped in designing activities which enhance children s development Presch for Instance may be watched to see if they are speaking well enough for their age to deter mine fingers hands and arms coordinate properly The mothers group is part of a self help pro- pram The CAS volunteer eiicouriges the parent to say her needs an Willi to familj The mi is then as in discovering mi I hods of meeting hose The need luulecrs is in Acton Big brothers sisters list aides fibers are urgently required Mrs In Haiti there ire volunteers m si of thorn women Our dim is in Ihen Improve family life so thai children can grow up in their homes with their own About hilt the families who require this help come to us on their own states an Ontario CAS volunteers handbook volunteer helping an elementary school age child in north is likely to meet the child on an average of once per week Guidance comes from the CAS and Mrs Morrison who discusses cases and their meanings with volunteers Most of these discussions take place in a volunteers home or in local offices such as Acton Com Services Centre Once a month there is an education session for volunteers at Oakvillc and yearly volunteers set up their own education refresher program In Georgetown Acton and Milton the CAS also has field workers nearby There are other roles CAS volunteers fill supervising children while a parent Is being interviewed driving children or families on outings or to doctor ap pointments interpret telephoning and collecting toys and help ing with children Christmas projects CAS started with a meeting in Milton years ago Today s society is right up to the minute with its campaign for volunteers To find out more about volunteering for CAS telephone Mrs rison volunteer co ordinator French get extension A special cose was made for extending the lime limit on applications to the Board French Immersion course at School Trustees agreed by a three vole margin to ex tend the time for applies one week until Fri- My hats off to our farmers Even though we arc into the last quarter of the twentieth century with the tremendous technological advances that have been made this can still be a mighty harsh land to live in At the time of writing my heart aches for those poor devils in southern Manitoba and in northern Ontario who have been victimscffloods It must be devastating to see your fine farm covered with muddy water yourhouscor under the force of a vast callous element over which you have no control We can blame ourselves for bad judgment faulty management or just plain laziness But when Nature chooses with her random indifferent power to throw a big one at us whether it be fire flood drought hail or grasshoppers there is not much to do but weep curse or pray Modern man can walk on the moon drift through the sky in luxury at miles hour keep himself warm and clean by flicking switches and pressing buttons He can communicate with his fellows over thousands of miles But when It comes to a tornado or an earthquake there is little he can do but cower until It over and then try to pick up the pieces We are not much bothered In this country by those two acts of God But we have plenty of our own variety floods forest fires periods of cither drought or rain that make the farmer despair Perhaps the greatest glory of man is that he refuses to succumb the desolation that follows curses of nature that remind him constantly that he is a petty creature indeed Importance in the scheme of things than an ant or a cockroach and not nearly as capable of survival over the long haul But they won do it and that is why man will survive worst things that Nature can do to him He will pick up the pieces and rebuild with a stubborn and dauntless spirit that makes him refuse to give If I were a farmer in the Red Valley today I probably feel like going out behind what was left of my bam and quietly shooting myself I just finished The Pioneer Years by Barry Broodfool about the settling of the West A lot of people failed in heir first confrontation with the eternal hardships of he prairies the bitter cold the vast emptiness the terrible daily toll the plagues f insects hail drought them fought back with little but their human refusal to cave In under almost unbearable conditions And their are still there And they too will go on fighting the savagely of this country of ours and triumph in the end Toclay farmer in the West has equip ment his ancestor could not even dream about He can farm four sections in the time it took his grandfather to extract a meagre crop from a quartersection with horses and brutal dawntodark human labor With the advent of the telephone and the automobile the appalling loneliness of life on the prairies of which Sinclair Boss writes so movingly has disappeared Today former may even have a small aircraft to flip him into the larger town or across the border to the fleshpots of the States Bui there still isn t a darn thing he can do about the weather If there is drought fatten If there is hail he can have a year work wiped out in a few hours and be off to the bank to borrow for next year He may have modern technical advice from government He may be part of one of the great breadbaskets of be world providing food for millions But if rains all summer the bank still wants the inter est on his loan even though his crop is a disaster Sure I grouse just like you and you when bread goes up a nickel a loaf beef prices soar milk costs more than beer or nearly as much and I can afford a head of lettuce without cutting down on cigarettes But when I think of the gamble a farmer lake the amount of work he must do and what he gets for his product at the rail head I can only shake my head and mutter Why do they do it I wouldn Weil my friend it going to get a lot worse With the millions of acres of junk land in this country on which build houses our blinkered politicians continue to allow industry and developers to buy up rich farmland and turn it into factories that pollute with essences highways that pollute wlthgas fumes and high rises that pollute with people Take a trip abroad Check the prices of farm products Ours ore still among the cheapest in the world When you have to pay J for a pound of meat cents each for tomatoes and S3 for a loaf of bread don cry Just remember you read it here firs The farmer in this country has been getting royally screwed for decades and he knows Prime Minister choose call the farmers anger whining My hat is off to them Pick up the pieces boys and rebuild We need you Very much