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C4 WndnMdr Oct 12 Out deeps by George Hoare The countryside is ablaze colour and cameras are clicking to capture It film Several artists were seen it on canvas One artist said is Nature a way of treating us Turkey Shorts Many people look forward to turkey shoots when the colors are in the so these dates will provide many with plump birds when they attend the follow tog shoots at the Georgetown Anglers and Hunters property on the Ltae North October 18 November and November All action starts at noontime but don t worry about lunch It will be avail able Saageen River All rivers flowing into Georgian Bay and Lake Huron have a fair snare of fish in the flows One thing though mars the scene In the Saugeea River and that in the form of the Mood sucking parasite called the Lamprey Ed Georgetown anglers have caught game with these Mood sucking devils on their sides There s a free way up through the ladder at Denny a Dam at the present time by all reports and many fear the lamprey may start a new comeback It a scramble so Enjoy the Outdoors Safe Journey and Tight lines Ask discount on gas for senior citizens Certificates of appreciation for IS years of volunteer vice were presented to three women laitweekalTlnkerbellNiirsery Milton The volunteers signed op work In the fall at the From left the are Campbell- viUe Edith Hammings Acton Georgetown Local teachers to attend convention Union Gas gives a per cent discount on repairs and service to senior on fixed incomes but Councillor Harry Levy would like to see it extended to the normal gas bill Since Union Gas is seeking an increase in the selling price of gas from the Ontario Energy Board Levy put forward a res this week asking a discount not necessarily SO per cent but considered on the purchase of gas by the elderly A motion was passed to send the suggest ion to the Ontario Energy Board and to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario for their backing Possibly we should look at hydro too commented Levy tut at this point it is the gas company that a looking for an crease Councillor Ross Knecntel wondered if he had a conflict of interest since be said he was a senior citlxen He predicted some technical difficulties with the idea pointing out it would apply only to owners making it unfair to renters Councillor Mike Armstrong admitted he had at first thought it would Be an account nightmare but on second thought realised people would have to apply and prove they are senior cltlxens He suggested the motion be circulated to other municip alities served by Union Gas No grade 13 under changes Teachers from Georgetown District Christian School In Georgetown will be Join ing over SCO educators from all areas of Ontario as well as a smaller number from Nova Scotia Manitoba and Quebec to attend the annual Ontario Christian School Teachers Association convention in Hamilton October and Using the theme Thy will an Earth the convention will challenge teachers to continue task or teaching every subject from a distinctively Christian framework This challenge will come via special keynote speakers and workshop sessions Gordon Spy km an Professor of Theology at Calvin College Grand Rapids Michigan wilt give one of the major ad dresses A variety of workshops will be offered In most subject areas and at most grade levels Tie Ontario Christian School Teachers Association has grown from a membership of in 1954 to its current membership of approximately The OCSTA members serve as teachers in over schools belong ing to the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools The Alliance is the largest single group of schools in Ontario outside the public and separate school system A crackdown on the secondary school system will effectively phase out grade 13 and almost double the compulsory courses needed for graduation The changes instigated by the provincial Ministry of Education will be put Into effect September 1084 and phased in over several years Special meetings be held in all High Schools for parents who will have children In grades 8 or next Sep ember those who will first be affected by the changes A Halton Task Force studied a draft docu of the ministry proposals and made 11 recommendations Many of these concerns were addressed in the final version entitled Ontario Schools Intermediate and Senior However concerns of the problems of staffing staff retraining and cost implications of implementing the reforms have not been answered and the local board is expecting further Information from the Ministry Among the major changes to be made are the number of compulsory courses required for graduation will be increased to 16 from nine only one kind of high school diploma will exist obtained by completing 30 credits In either four years or five the changes will be phased in over several years starting with grades 8 and 9 In the fall of IBM all schools will develop formal codes of student behavior all courses will be designed as basic general or advanced level new reporting and student transcript procedures will be developed jOOD FORRMNES Good ForCXnadat Four streamlined job creation programs that help business help Canadian Marry Individuals organizations and businesses have expressed an interest in doing their part to help case Canada s unemployment problems These programs arc designed to turn this interest into action Program Consolidation Canada 2 employment programs Iuvl been streamlined into four flex new programs Canada Works Access LEAD and the Job Program Canada Works projects will ordinarily employ three or more workers for up weeks and he eligible for federal financial support of up to per worker per week Applications for Canada Works projects must be sub mit ted to your local Canada ment Centre or Employment Icvcl Branch office no later than October 28 1983 LEAD The LEAD program provides the tools for communities usually those with populations under 000 to build their own solutions to their ploymcnt problems LEAD involves local residents In the planning gement and ownership of new tures designed to create employment now and in the future Proposals from Chambers of mcret economic development da t ions band councils municipalities and LEAD corporations will result in nearly million being invested in community ventures over the next two years social problems have prevented them from entering the work force will benefit her the next two years Job Corps will provide over million in wages and other program of these programs has been designed to make it easier for seekers and to encourage private sec tor participation generates long term employment benefits and helps people now And all share a focus on Canadian youth Works will provide immediate term employment to thousands of laid off workers people whose Insurance benefits have run out those who now depend on social assistance and people who need work badly summer for dents will also be made available through this program Over the next two years more than million will be to employ workers In pro that cither add to productive capacity or benefit Individual communi tics Sponsorship from organizations and is required to make it happen Job Corps- Job Corps is designed to help lions businesses individuals mumci politics and school boards introduce severely employment disadvantaged people to trie world of work A nation of life skills training and actual job experience in controlled work situations will help ease this group into the labour market The main focus of the Job Corps Program is youth i Individuals whose lack of education fob experience mental physical or CareerAccess Access is designed to give the inexperienced the disabled and the disadvantaged j chance to prove- themselves program provides wage subsidies can be as high as and extend for up to months to employers who provide the supportive on the fob learning and experience that these people are looking for Over the next two years more than million will be spent on this program The main focus of Career Access is youth helping these Canadians increase their the business community can help itself by opine experienced employees for future growth The of Canada will spend over billion on direct job creation programs in More than individuals will benefit from a combination of funding from government and enterprising ideas from the business community and the profit sector InformMloo on Canada Works LEAD Job Cotpa and the Career I Employment and immigration Canada immigration Canada John Robert John Roberts Canada Report from Queens Park Prime farm land in Brampton vanishing The preservation of Ontario agricultural land has long been a matter of concern to Ihe Ontario Liberal Party In the light of the Ministry of Agriculture s recent support for the urban development of acres of top quality foodland In the City of Brampton the Pro Government s commit to the preservation of agricultural land is a farce and a sham says Liberal Leader David Peterson On September 10 the Brampton City Council con a staff report on changes to the proposed Brampton Official Plan Council voted to designate cultural land as rural rather than agricultural which would have more accurately reflected the predominant land use and intended future use Rural as a classification is seen as nothing more than a holding category until the rural land is ready for development Brampton Council also voted in favour of the urbanization of the acre parcel of land which Sandringham proposed to develop No phasing criteria are to be established and the definition of the land to be developed has been left so general that any or all of the land can be developed at any time The City Official Plan must now be approved by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and the Association of People Evalu Agricultural Land who the urbanization have asked that the Plan be referred to the Ontario Municipal Board for hearings Virtually the only steps which the Provincial Government has taken to preserve agricultural land are Ineffective guidelines which are not bin ding upon municipalities It thus remains economically more attractive for munlei polities to approve industrial development over agricultural land preservation A recent major Federal Government study reported the alarming disappearance of millions of acres of prime farmland In Ontario especially In the urban shadow This controversial Brampton situation is a classic example of the continued destruction of valuable farmland Brampton was well endowed with agricultural land contain ing some 9 per cent Class I land Only onehalf of one percent of Canada land is In this category and proximately onehalf of this small amount is In Southern Ontario Between 1071 and Brampton lost some 16 acres of prime agricultural land and the trend continues Brampton 000 acres of farmland remaining Last year our parly questioned the Minister of Agrl culture and Food about the lack of comment by his Ministry on the application of Guidelines to the Brampton Official Plan which included the urbanization of over acres of agricultural land and which had been circulated to his Ministry for comments In October 1080 After three years of stony silence the Ministry finally decided that the best way to preserve acres of cultural land whose need for development has not been demonstrated is to include It In the urban boundary and allow It to be phased in The definition and time frame for the phasing was intentionally left vague Surely a more logical means of preserving farmland is to keep ft out of the urban limit Especially In view of the fact that the only justification for the inclusion of the land for urban Ization which had been excluded in the Draft Official Plan was as the result of a submission to Brampton Council by R Webb the former law partner of Premier Davis on behalf of the Sandringham Develop Group I 1 9m