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THE HERALD Wednesday August IS Page Literacy group celebrates special year 50th anniversary Theres nothing as anniversary An anniversary celebration was held in honor of ind I- rank of at the Oddfellows Hall on Street Saturday afternoon Herald photo By GERALDINE BARNES Public Relations Committee North Literacy Guild September 8th heralds Interna Literacy Day a special in this year of celebration of International Literacy Year On this day we at the North Halton Literacy Guild salute all practitioners advocates and tutors and pay particular tnbute to the courage and hard work of learners who through their will ingness to retrain are exercising their rights as citizens more fully The Guild is now in its third year of operation and has tutoring venues in Georgetown Acton and Milton Its aim is to reach out to the one in five adults in this com who cannot read adequate ly to cope in our ever changing society Individual tutoring is conducted in an atmosphere of confidential ty and the focus is on the learners needs This makes for vaned pro gramming and funding is provid by the Literacy Branch of the Ministry of Education Local service clubs been generous with their interest and support and this allows the project manager Maureen McCallum and tutor learner coordinator to choose multi media resources for the students whose ages range from sixteen years to Tutoring workshops are con ducted by the aforementioned staff and Eileen Evans a valued member of the Guild Executive Volunteer tutors become aware quickly of the negative conse quences of illiteracy for the in dividual families and all of socie ty For example lack of reading skills becomes very obvious on the labour front A recent survey by the Canadian Task Force on Literacy reveals that technology is redefining job requirements Thus the level of reading and com prehension ability calls for a minimum of Grade nine but usual ly the standard is closer to grade twelve The report goes on to state that illiteracy costs Canadian business an average of four billion dollars annually This staggering figure is to some workers in ability to read job related materials and results in absenteeism industrial accidents unemployment and long rehabilitation The establishment of Workplace Literacy programmes and the en couragement of managers bosses and union leaders has helped alleviate these problems With that in mind the North I Guild has hired a workplace literacy coordinator Karen Bongard Karen would be pleased to discuss such upgrading projects with business and labour personnel in this community for an article by Ms Bongard on this vital and timely topic The S educator Jonathan Kozol says Illiteracy makes its victims half citizens their rights exist in print but not in fact Many Canadian bom citizens are in that category Their ages run from sixteen to fortyfive poten tially their most productive period yet many reading highway signs a drivers manual government forms the voting pro cedure fire and medical warnings Because most readers are in telligent they develop coping strategies which work some of the time but there is always the fear of being found out Nonliterate parents experience embarrassment and frustration when faced with their childs report card or a note from the teacher Passive Reducing Exclusive Ladies Salon SUNTAN BEDS per Session Sessions or 50 8734907 Georgetown DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC TRENTON 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL 8772359 KING PIZZA SUBMARINE 10MOUNTAINVIEWRD GEORGETOWN 87751778 WITHIN 30 MINUTES onrrsflwe IN TOWN ONLY FREE POP WITH PIZZA SLICE PICKUPONLV Choose from our wide iriety Piz I Slices Subm Dishes Ctiickt Dishes and Grilled Foods all your SAVE 200 I a UP TO SALE o 0 OFF QUALITY MENS suns by Cambridge Merit and Benchmark PRICE MENS DRESS SLACKS 25 OFF MENS SHORT SLEEVE SHIRTS by Gant BVD and Polo PRICE CASUAL MENS SLACKS by Gant Polo and Merit 1 PRICE OTfl Mens Wear 211 GUELPHST Northview Plaza 8777361 GEORGETOWN