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the HERALD the HERALD Community Focus Wednesday October Literacy Guild works with adults By HEATHER ANGUS Herald Special This is the first of a four part series on success stories at the North Literacy Guild Oneonone tutor ing for any adult in Hallon Hills is free confidential and in djvidualized Study and when it suits you You can get your own tutor by calling Ae at the North Literacy Guild 873 or Scott not his real name and his tutor Anne Simpson were matched by the North Halton Literacy Guild in September 1990 After working together at lessons Scott has his reading and writing skills With the one onone system at the Guild I think so meone can really fail Scott says You re going to gain something from the experience Scott first heard about the North Literacy Guild from an advertisement on Chi Channel last summer lie t sure if the literacy pro was suitable so he dilated about calling for a cou pie of months I t know if Id be Scott says I though maybe you had to be unable to read or write at all and I could read Scott finished high school but later realized that he didn t have enough understanding of gram mar and spelling to achieve his personal goals A computer operator in the manufacturing sector he hopes to take college courses and to write his biography for his children Scott has taken adult education courses at a local high school but found they didn t suit him I couldn t fulfil what was ex pected in the classes he says I tried to run when I t walk Scott doesn t respond well to stress so he never did well on ex for these courses As soon as the exam was over the in formation would all come back to me he recalls There are no exams at the North Halton Literacy Guild and tutors don use grades to judge a student s progress Students work at their own pace using materials of their own choice The person to person relation ship with a tutor really helps Scott says and the Guild staff are warm sincere and friend Scott now feels much more at ease when writing he enjoys composing letters short stories and accounts of daily ex penences I have always ad mired people who have a flare for writing with ease without mistakes he says The more I write the more I have an urge to write Scot I adds The only problem now is that there not enough time to write everything I want to Anne and Scott meet every week in the afternoon evening or morning depending on Scott Tutor Anne Simpson work shifts They hold their lessons in the local library or at the North Literacy Guilds office on Trafalgar Road in Georgetown Scott doesn spend as much time on his reading and writing as he would like due to his family life and busy work schedule He has been frustrated by this realizing that his progress depends on the amount of time and energy that he puts into his lessons It s not always easy to come to the lesson sometimes I m busy sometimes very tired Scott admits But I always leave Doors close at Kays Grocery the lesson felling good Scott and Anne have been using spelling and writing exercise books as well as a computer soft ware program called Grammar Gremlins The North Halton Literacy Guild has two com puters which students and tutors may use Scott now wants to learn to touch type on the com puters keyboard using a how to software program Anne likes the spontaneous nature of her tutoring sessions with Scott I enjoy seeing Scott grasp an idea Anne says It s very exciting when something becomes clear it happens at odd times when you don t know a breakthrough is coming Scott likes the flexibility of their lessons We go along and come across something pected not necessarily planned as part of our lesson he says Pretty soon we re dealing with a different problem of writing or spelling Scott s advice to individuals who could benefit from joining the North Literacy Guild to overlook what people think and say look instead at your long range achievement per sonal freedom and expression He adds that you may feel after joining Gee why t 1 get help earlier By USA BOONSTOPPEL POT The Herald For years George Brandford has been opening the front door of Kay Grocery on Guelph St and closing it after a long day behind the counter But Aug Mr Bran regretfully locked up Kay s to spend needed time recuperating from illness I in ill health When I feel bet ter 1 11 open it up again but I have no idea when that will be said the yearold man while sitting at his kitchen table at the back portion of the building where Kay s is located After spending so many years working close to 15 hours a day having nothing to do easy to take for this well knovn well respected and well liked man in the community It s hard he says simply As a young man Mr was no stranger to hard work He was in the airforce for two years before he started working for Alliance Mills later known as He worked there for years Then he married and purchased the grocery store on St re naming it Kay s after the woman he married Together the two worked sideby side in the store for year before Kay passed away in May of Kay s Grocery supplied its customers with groceries con fectionary and built up a reputation for its meat counter I had customers come in for years stated Mr Then I had their kids as customers and their kids too For 20 years before Mrs Brand ford died the couple also ran a recreation room for teenagers to come in and eat their lunch and have a place to shoot the breeze as Mr Brandford calls it We had a juke box and a few pin bail machines in there It was a place to relax and eat your lunch He admits he really enjoys having his own store It a real sense of independence I ve enjoyed it over the years Special literacy workshop On the morning of Monday tober 7 a workshop will be presented on How To Design and Compose Clear Language Documents for the Workplace Frontier College Canada s oldest literacy organization will be teaching participants how to reach employees clients and consumers more effectively through advanced plain language techniques Sponsoring the workshop for business government and social service agencies in the area is the North Literacy Guild a profit organization that teaches adults how to improve their reading writing and basic math The workshop teaches you that clear simple writing is always better particularly for the author said Karen of the Literacy Guild AH regardless of their literacy skills are far more likely to read a brochure or training manual that sclearly laid out and jargon free she said The setting for the workshop is the charming Heritage Farm north of Georgetown Con breakfast is included in the registration fee For more information contact Karen before September at 873 2200 Registration is limited to par George has owned and worked In Kays Grocery on Guelph St In Georgetown for years but due to a debilitating Illness he just doesnt have the energy to keep the store open and has tern porarlly closed it He plans to reopen the grocery store when he feels better Herald Photo A family of scholars Alexander Sekulovich M S son erf the late Mr George Sekulovich and Mrs Juanita Sekulovich of Georgetown recent ly graduated from the University of Manitoba with his Masters Degree in Nuclear Physics Alex ander moves on to Vancouver to take up a position in his field Andrew Sekulovich younger son of the late Mr George Sekulovich and Mrs of Georgetown recent graduated from Institute in Toron to in Electrical Engineering Technology After vacationing in Germany Andy returns to Toron to to take up a position with Grey Coach Michelle Sekulovich daughter of the late Mr George Sekulovich and Mrs Juanita Sekulovich of Georgetown recently graduated from Georgetown High School and now attends Col lege London where she will pur sue studies in designing