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II T11L Wednesday Page If Its a trap Nobody Is above in and volatile guest Mr Para vac In I Christie The Mousetrap The played by I- rank McKle confronting Georgetown I idle Theatre will be Miss a visitor from the performing the play at the John Elliott continent played by Stacy Arcurt Theatre IS IT and Herald photo March I Here see the Check It out next Area now I alloiteatonalOuiirmii Come visit time you re out for a ski trek The Terra uu a visitor services centre Thursday afternoon Peter left and Peel Regional Chairman I- rank turned out Tor an official opening ceremony hosted by the Credit alley Conservation Authority Herald photo by Brian MacLeod reeds rep one SI CDS CHEV 305 I now lies or celled 949a YAMAHA ITI2S I on bo 1974 with 1979 JOHN to cover 4 3705 4 Free skating There will be free skating In Acton and Georgetown Friday Jon 31 1986 The Acton Public Skate will be from The George town skate is from to at the Memorial Arena IE d on he lied 1976 CHEVROLET l Doug 13 l983 speed 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LTD WE CARRY CENTRAL VACUUM SYSTIMS ODOR CHIMES SHOWROOM rEMS ARMSTRONG AVE 8772264 CUSTOM KITCHEN CABINETS 1 ELGIN ST 8774472 SHIP SHAPE HOME CLEANING HOMES IN GEORGETOWN FOR YEARS Dont totally blame African drought for hunger crisis By BRIAN raid Special Canadians can turn on their televl nightly and watch World Vision worker Gary Collins talk about the efforts of Canada aid program Now Africa is trying to tell us that a different aid is needed but arc we listening Theresa a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe and a native of that country shared her insight on hunger in Africa with students and interested citizens at the dropin centre at St Georges Anglican Church Thursday Her suggestions on how to alleviate hunger surprised almost everyone Miss said the persistent hunger problem Is not due to periods of drought but to poverty It Is poverty that leads people to have large families she said She explained that there is no national security system in Zimbabwe That means no unemployment or retirement benefits A father only source of security when he is old is his children she said The average family in Zimbabwe has eight children Zimbabwe has a population growth of per cent per year she said The Land Acts of 1913 and 1945 authored by colonial Great Britain gave per cent of the arable lond to white families In 197B 000 blacks were pushed off that land onto land that Is far less cultivable Those who were resettled did not own the land they lived on so they had nothing to put up as collateral for credit The result was they had to sell their labor to whileowned businesses at a deflated price The poor became poorer Miss explained that drought Is not new to Africa There has been drought for centuries but people survived The difference this time is that people arc starving so much that they cannot work the land she said The government took no steps to prevent the erosion of the land from drought she said During periods of long drought the good soil can be blown away by heavy winds Apart from food aid both the United States and Canada give aid to Africa annually In 1981 Canadagavet44 tied aid to Zimbabwe Tied aid means that In return for money Zimbabwe must purchase Canadian products that could be bought cheaper elsewhere The result Is that Canada s private sector benefits from the aid she added The international community should go beyond the food aid entail Thcyshouldglvcthotypeofaldthat encourages production of our own food Miss said She explained that foreign aid in the form of vast amounts of food decreases the incentive of African governments to grow own food Miss realizes that Is difficult for Western governments to break away from traditional export patterns so it is up to African governments to only accept aid which will help us to Implant Theresa development criteria I want to emphasize that It is not the lity of the international community to get us out of the crises she said Miss Chimombe said that aid In the form of machinery means that spare parts and knowledge necessary to repair them means that will never reach the point of self reliance Illiteracy is also a major problem in Africa Zimbabwe has a per cent illiteracy rate in the rural areas The result is that farming techniques are Inferior Unable to read the farmers cannot properly learn to use fertiliicr and it is too costly to educate each farmer in various parts of the continent Even if farmers manage to learn the proper techniques they cannot afford the price of Imported Hirer Even with a big harvest farmers are usually still In debt because profits are never enough to cover the credit that has been extended by the government Miss Chimombe said that smaller scale projects like water wells and clinics would be greater help to Africans than the million Irrigation project in Senegal Africans do not hove the equipment or the knowledge on how to service such projects she One other step Miss feels could help Third World African nations is Increased control of trans national corporations The benefits are marginal and they repatriate percent A lot of potential surplus goes back through transnatio nal corporations she said Miss Chimombe said that she did not want to eliminate national companies because they do bring advanced technology Into the country Handicapped children wait for Shared Care workers There a dire need for foster parents to care for handicapped children In Hal ton Region We need at least six families In the Burlington and Georgetown areas Just to meet our Immediate needs says Sharon Hatter of the Home Care and Ha I ton Shared programs Homo Care Is a Lai foster earn program of Ministry of Community and Social Services that strives to provide a family setting for children who have special needs which cannot be met in their own homes The program provides community based placement or mentally handicapped children where their parents reside In Hal ton Region are serves the needs of parents who need more than occasion a relief from the demands of caring for their child Parents of handicapped children usually opted for full time roster care or Institutionalization because there was nothing else available explains Ms Hatter The new Shared Care program helps parents cope by Ing consistent relief up io a maximum of days a month Ms Hatter notes that foster parents will be provided with training parent relief financial compensation and support from the program co ordinator The children presently in need of foster families include a six yearold profoundly handicap ped North gir requiring total care and supervision in a foster home two weeks a month preferably In the Georgetown area two mobile speaking Burlington boys aged 10 and who each require a foster homo two weeks a month in their community a semi mobile partially toilet train 14yearold North boy whose parents require relief for two weeks per month In a foster home In his community a profoundly physically and mental ly handicapped 11 yearold Burlington girl who requires full time total care in a foster home preferably in her own community For more information call Ms Hatter at or New yearbook Back For 87 is on track The following year books were forwarded to us 1932 Nan Hurst 19C2 1965 Judy Williams Maxwell 1057 1958 1959 I960 1961 Jessie Glynn Some of these yearbooks arc on loan We arc starting a permanent collection of yearbooks All former students and friends who would like to donate their yearbooks will have their names acknowledged In the Centennial Yearbook Picture We have received pictures from Ralph These pictures were taken in the 1970s and 1930S Mrs Islay E McClure of King Street submitted this 1935 football picture See If you can identify Bob Goldham Reg Bill McNally Bob McMenemy Paul Barber J Lambert and the others Anyone with pictures of past events is asked to submit these to Tom at the High School Remember to identify the picture or event and add your phone number from lWi Challenge The Supervising Editor was J the Editor was Gordon Alcott and the Assistant Editor was Arthur First Excerpt Our Magazine We take great pride In submitting to our readers the first printed magazine of Georgetown High School take pride in telling of our school our staff of teachers and our school activities When first undertook the editing of this magazine were faced with many difficulties and discourage ments due mostly I suppose to inexperience in this kind of work but the indomitable perseverance of the staff and helpers and their greatly appreciated cooperation and Interest overcame all these obstacles so that now we are happy to show you our work The forerunners of The Challenge were lively sheets called Echo and The Blast These sheets were circulat to the homes Docs anyone have a copy No breaks for school reunion The town has no objections to an Action Continuation School Reunion In June having a special occasion permit for alcohol but It lsn t ready to waive a rental rate for the Acton Centre Max Sprowl secretary on the reunion committee had to settle for a deferral of his second request to the towns budget committee Monday night About former students of the Acton Continuation School during the yean 1907 to 1954 are organizing a reunion June at the Acton Arena They were hoping to get the arena rent cancelled by councillors as they are a profit group The committee expects to attract up to a maximum BOO former teachers and students of the school to Acton from locations as far away as England and California Mr Sprowl It taken about volunteers IS months of research to track down addresses for people he said Conn Pam Sheldon said she felt like a but wondered why the rental cost couldnt be incorporated Into the ticket price for the reunion Recreation Director Tom Shepard said that the rent is a discounted fee which the town fa subsidizing Coun Sheldon said she wants the town to stick to the rate structures It sets for user groups or else at least develop criteria by which council determines who t pay Mr Sprowl said he helped with a Rotarlan reunion last year that had serious financial difficulties and was concerned this reunion would also operate at a deficit If all goes well the Knights of Columbus who are handling the Ear will profit from liquor sales he said