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2 The Acton Free Press Wednesday Aug 15 with JENNIFER Jamaica is more than a beach read recent slogans coming out of that sunny tourist haven for Steve Ormaby of Elizabeth Drive Jamaica was tainly more than a beach it was home for the first Jamaica has been in a state of revolt for some years against the very things that Steve re presented he was growing up wealthy plant Lion owners and managers Yet his memories of the country and his fellow of oil races are happy and pleasant It a easy to lake ides in any social revolution and It s usual to put down the upper classes However when the subject is explored It a often found the situation isn t black and white or good and bad Instead a form of benevolent symbiosis often develops Hard work forall Such was the case in the and on a Jamaican sugar plantation asSleve remembers it His father was overseer for three estates of 1200 acres in Spanish Town Steve went to good British type schools andhadservantstoasslsthlsmother However Steve also remembers he long hours his father put in the enormous amount or work he did and the care he took of his employees most of which would have been In very poor straits Indeed if they didn t ha their farm job Steve is critical of the system to the extent that he felt workers were underpaid for the amount of labor his father as overseer had his hands tied in this area Such was the case in most countries that lime Education in those days was In private British schools for children whose parents could afford the fees Public schools offered education for ail other children up to high school level Steve attend several schools with a wide variety of boys Segregation was practiced but it was sexual and economic rather than racial Steve says the education he received was very very British and hardly fitted the boys for life They were taught little of Jamaican history folklore or culture That he learned from his nana and other friends along with the native patois they spoke at play The boys explored surroundings part the 100 acre grounds of the School in where he spent many happy years They try to trap wildcats and birds and generally made a nuisance of themselves Despite living in a country surrounded by the sea Steve I learn to swim till he was 12 Two bad experiences observing drowned people with his Nana had instilled a fear of the water into the young boy However once he learned to swim he rap made up for lost time making the school swimming team Hurricanes frequent Oneof the hazards of living in a tropical country is the frequency of hurricanes Steve experienced three in his lifetime and recalls the big one of You always knew It was coming Our house was a two storey without electricity and with verandas outside The stairs to the were on either side of the verandas Dad cut a hole in the floor a trapdoor just above the icebox so we could get downstairs The roof blew off rain came pouring In and we bad to spend night In the kitchen building It rained for a with winds of IS to 130 My uncle a bouse blew apart and he got trapped under his piano as it blew on top of him My father had to bore holes in the floor to let the water out WedjustsUrtedputtingtheroofbackon when another hurricane almost hit us it just missed us Not I press with education Steve was 16 when bis family came to Canada It was then he realized the lack of preparation his schooling had given him He also feels Canadians are lucky having the chance to learn to do things for themselves He describes his childhood as because family servants did everything for him when he was home from school His orientation in this country was hard but he rapidly adjusted getting situated with a West Indian land surveying company He is now in the printing business and lives with wife and children Michael and Heather near Fairy Lake Heand Bcrria have been back to Jamaica twice in and travelling the Island from the Kingston waterfront and Dunns River Falls to the bauxite mines of Reynolds and Mean They were amazed at the amount of government subsidization of businesses and building as Jamaica independent of Britain since 1964 at tempted to equalize the wealth They noted that although the peasant homes were still the same shack type dwellings most had to TO boat motors outside to help with their fishing Improvements in peasant living standards were obvious to the Ormsby without seeming to destroy the relaxed happy way of life Steve feels time and better education of the poor arc needed to bring the haves and the havenots closer together He would love to return to Jamaica and show his children his homeland He also like to have a little villa there and would go back despite ecooomic and social unrest a present That Iho way the Island in the Sun affects a lot of people Sieve examines a tray made of various Jamaican woods Internationa president visits Ys Men Christian Bach of Denmark has been international president of the Y Men club for on ly a month and already has made several stops in Canada and the United States with Acton being one of his most recent Mr spent two nights in Acton last weekonc at the home of former international president Pat McKenzie Jeffrey Ave the other with the family of Acton a Men president Jun Rivett He had been In London Ontario the night before his arrival in town and was expected in two days later Mr Iverson at years old is the second youngest international president in the history of the club The youngest was according to Mr McKenzie He was sworn in as president in July after a surprisingly short period of time as a member He joined his local chapter in Denmark In the late s and soon worked his way up to president He was then made district sec retary with the post of lieutenant director for Denmark closely following In 1973 he was made regional tor and in to 1978 was the area Y Men president of Europe He was elected international president through a mail in ballot During his three week stay in the United States Mr visited North Carolina Texas Col North Dakota Minnesota and New York While in Texas he attended the U S area convention This was the only time he spent in a hotel staying with Men s members during the other stopovers In Canada he will make way east to at tend the Canadian area convention in Fred eric ton New Brunswick He goes home August after a seven week lour Mr a school teacher spends the next travelling around the world including Asia in October and North preparing for the organization working purpose is to support the closely with the activities of the he explained- Our main but remain separate Acton Men a president Jim Rivett and Pat McKemle right welcomed International Men president Christian Into their last week for a two day stay Mr Iverson Is touring North America for seven weeks before heading home to Denmark Mr McKentle presented the guest with a leather wallet from Beardmore as a reminder of visit to leather town FOR ALL YOUR GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING NEEDS Art Opn from tfldatfc Day Eicapt national convention in Stockholm Sweden next year Mr Iverson can speak four languages and understand a fifth llsh he said is the Inter national language of the Men club He also speaks Swedish and Nor weglan as well as his ive tongue of Danish He understands German but cannot speak it Mr Iverson is the third international president to be elected from Den mark and the second ma row One president has come from Australia and Japan with all the others elected being from North America Canada is not new to Mr Iverson as this is his sixth trip to North Am erica His wife has just completed her fourth vis it but had to return home with their two children as they were returning to school this week His wife teaches English Mr was very pleased to met Mr He explained he had heard about about the past international president for several years and had ways wanted to meet him Mr McKenzie and wife Mary were happy to re turn some of the hosp itality they received while visiting Denmark in They were ted royally Mrs Mc Kenzie said of the trip and hope Mr Iverson en Joyed his short stay in their home Acton is a good ex ample of how a Y Men s club works across the world Mr Iverson said We are an independent Georgetown dump costs month Region Public Works Committee has recommended be spent to Import final cover and put in leacliate controls at the George town Hills waste disposal site The only problem which bothered some councillors at the com mitlee meeting Aug is the fact the site wilt only be In operation until the end of October meaning that It will cost a to keep the site total sum breaks down as Fill Import for day today cover I Oct fill for final cover control system and contract operation July Oct 31 000 Presently it is Western police nab Acton B E suspect The last member of a trio allegedly responsible for a series of town break ins was caught doing the same routine- in Alberta Edmonton police arrested the 18year old Acton youth on break and entry charges He in custody When police out there are finished with him he is to be returned to face charges by Regional Police Two other members of the group are out of cust They are also from Acton end district Local police allege they broke Into several town establishments this summer Included on the list were the Royal Canadian Legion Acton Bowling Lanes and Reliable Taxi Stand Temporary postmaster Acton has a new post master at least temp orarily Bob Hammond pres postmaster In Bolton has been called In to temporarily fill the pas Ition left vacant with the sudden death of Gord in June How ever Mr Hammond is only in Acton on a temp orary basis It is not known when a permanent person will be appointed necessary to six merits of soil cover daily Last year there was enough cover material in the area that could be supplied free but this the lack of cover has meant purchase and shipment to the Georgetown site One boon from the extensive environmental work on the dump site is that water running from the urea has been found to be of trout stream quality Nevertheless the control system has been added to make sure there will be no contamination of ground waters or the Credit River The committee was told money is in the operating budget to cover Iho cost of the systems and disposal site cover as planned FOBBED BOOMS KITCHENS BATHROOMS RE CHEAT ON ROOMS LAUNORVROOMSANO BASEMENT ROOMS Prica in 0 10125 t 8990 TOOO 30 OKI 13200 OO Ml 13930 MO 153 WORK SOCKS mk FAMILY m BARGAIN CENTRE HIGHWAY NO WEST OF ACTON S 8532380 FLORIDA ALL FLORIDA DESTINATIONS 4 RETURN DecemberlG Max mum Stay days 30 Days Advance Booking Limited Numbar of Seats Available mm 8531553 HALTON HILLS CNE Service BUS to Port Credit Train to the Grounds Buses are routed from Acton MID Main Via Mill Young and Queen to Highway 7 via 7 to Moore Park Ptaza In Georgetown via Main MM St and to Georgetown Martial via to BUSES from ACTON Sunday to Friday lOJSam 1125a1n Saturday Labour Day 102s cm ZStun GEORGETOWN Moore Park Plaza Sunday to Friday 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