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6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 19, 1977 Section Two SEducation withmTerry Hawkins1 Series 1 Topic Ministry of Education recent- school. The second thing to The primary purpose of a ly announced that a number of realize is just what subjects school is to help. each student subjects in the Ontario Sec- wiil bec umpuisory. Al stu- deveiop to the maximum, his ondary Schools would be made dents entering a secondary or hier potentiai as an indîvid- compulsory for ail students. school program on or after ual and as a member of If you have been'trying to September 1, 1977, shall within society who will think clearly, understand these changes, 1 the first two years, include in feel deeply, and act wisely. hope that this'column wiil their program, two English This purpose cafi be achieved assist you. The first thing to courses, 'two mathematics, by facilitating the intellectual, realize, is that the compulsory courses, one science course, social, moral, physical and subject regulations recently one Canadian History course, emotional growth of each announced, will only affect and one Canadian Geography student and be developing next year's grade 9 students. course. Please note that the more fully the knowledge, Those students who are pre- History and Geography skills and aptitudes that each sently attending a secondary courses must be Canadian brings to school. t is on the schooi wiii continue their History and Canadian Geog- basis of this philosophy and education under the ruies in raphy-no others will suffice. these goals that the 'Ontario effect when they started The oniy variation ailowed in these compuIsory subjects is that under certain circum- SWIMMING POOL SACRIFICE!' stances astudent can take two ___________________________________Canadian History courses in- stead of one History and one Geography. Leading Canadian manufacturer and Everyone is entitied to theiW distributor has aluminum pools Ieft 'over own opinion of whether these frm96esnHALF PRICE! changes are good or bad. I from197 seson ____________personally think that they are good. However I have to say that for the secondary schoois Guaranteed installation and terms. Cail in Northumberland and New- collect days or evenings. 1-416-221-4840. castle and in many of the surrounding Boards of Educa- tien, these changes are not very great, because these __________________________________________ schools neyer stopped stres- ______________________________________ sing the importance of the core subjects of Engiish, Math, Science, History, and OPENINGGeography. Unfortunately, O P EN IN Gthis is not true of ail schoois in theprovince and some of the * so called "avant garde" M o day Ja uary iit schools pretty wel loe M onday Juilstudents to choose any subject they iiked and avoid most they didn't like. As a resuit some R E ID 'Sstudents could graduate from R 1 s secondary schooi with a very SA LAPPLIANCE REPAIR SERVICE limited knowledge of the SMALLbasics. For those schools the "Corplet Sinll ome pplincenew r egulations will mean "Comlet Smal Hme Aplinceconsiderable adjustments. Repairs" The fact that new reguiâ. tiens have come into force in T ELE PHON E 623-6244 respect to compulsory courses for next year's grade 9 classes not mean that regulations do Hlours: not exist for those students 9: 00 a. m. to 5: 00 p. m. presentiy in Secondary Monday through Friday School. Ail students, including Saturday those who enter grade 9 next year, must stili have three M9:00 a. m. to 12 Noon courses from each of the four _____________________________Areas of study. Aiso those who entered Secondary Schooi after September of 1974 must 164Base Line Roaid f111 the Canadian Studies; requirements and compuIsory English requirements. In ad- Unt7 dition to this. area schools have long stressed the core subjects particuiariy in Vntariogrades 9 and 10. The new regulations have slightly changed sonie other BY TH EDAY -WEE KI OR MONTH AS LOW AS Perday 219'KING ST. EAST BOWMANVI LLE Hwy. Nýo. 2 East of Liberty Phone 623-4481, "The Friendly People" Chosen Chuirmun 0f Durham Reg1ion Walter Beath With support from ail four of Whitby' Newcastie's regional ' council- former lors, Walter Beath was elected County. last week to a second term as In his regional chairman. voting,1 Regional Councillors Bob tried to Dykstra, Garnet 'Riekard, low-key' Bruce Taylor and Edward years'aç Woodyard were ail Beath He si supporters when the 30 mem- let the bers of regional council cast make th their votes. Some, S20 Votes he singl But Mr. Beath's support year wei came from ial across the and sewi Durham Region last Wed- regardir nesday morning. He claimed posa il the chairmanship with 20 the intr votes on the second ballot.- value as His opponent, Oshawa mm E regional counicillor, Alian Dewar had 10 votes. à The oniy other candidate for L the championship was Aliafl The.1 MePhail, the former mayor of Bureau' Brock Township. He polled incorre seven votes on the first ballot dto but was dropped from the edio voting because he was the TheL iowxest of the three candida-ýtes. d ayv1 CO1%the first ballot M%,r. andF Beath had 14 votes and Alan i11:4I5 Dewar had nine. to1:45 First Elected Chairmian adS With his victory at the opnf Regionial Councii's inaugural m meeting, Mr. Beath becomes the Region's fîrst elected chairman. The provincial govermnent, appointed him to the position three years ago when, the Durham Region was formed. Mr. Beath is a 57-year-old native of the former East aspects of our educational system while leaving others a s they were in the past. Over the next few weeks I shahl be discussing Areas of Study, credits, subject promotion, and individuaiized timetabies. Country Roads Nursery School re-opened in our old Schoolhouse at the third of January and is a hive of actilvity with 2 3 youngsters busiiy engaged in the various creative activities provided by Mrs. Tordiff and her staff . Mrs. Tordiff is Very pleased with the limousine service that has been arranged to operate between Newtonville and Bowmanviiie. No doubt, the parents are also -giad ,to send their littie ones -aiong with such a competent driver. Unit 6 Trinity UCW Unit 6 of Trînity U.C.W. met last week at the Church with Ethel Wight, Dorothy MeDon- aid and Marg Hayes in charge fora "Bring and Brag Night. " Among the interesting things brought were somevery oid baby ciothes, some antique china and an old autograph quilt with many old Newcastle names to provoke much dis- cussion. One member brought an original Eaton's catalogue which proved Most entertain- ing as styles, prices, etc have changed 50 much. Each member was asked to tell a littie about the handwork etc. that she had brought. This certainiy provided an interesting evening and such a nice change. Attending fromn Shaws were Alne Ayre, Doreen Barrie and June Bragg. Calvin, Dorothy, and Kevin Crago have returned from their Winter vacation in Fiorida. They spent 14 busy days sightseeing. The weather was around 70 degrees most of the time. While enroute to Key West via the Evergiades and Alliga- tor Ailey the traveliers had quite a wait on the seven mile bridge, as severai boats pas- sed. eus lasted for three hours of clowns, elephants, dogs and trapeze acts and as the speciai attraction-Gunter Gabei-Wii- liams with his tigers and horses working together in one ringý Dorothy and Calvin were quite fascinated hy ail the rumours of the terrifically severe Winter that Canadians were enduring. But, at the time of their trip Kentucky had more snow than we had. However, we're not sure now that the picture wouid be quite the. same. Gordon and Doreen, Barrie attended the Ontario Milk Marketing Board convention at the., Royal York hast Wednesday and Thursday. One -of the highiights of the convention was a fareweii huncheon for George Me- Laughiin of Beaverton, who is retiring after- il years as, chairman of the Board. The former Unit 10 of Trinity Church was held iast Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Perey Mutton King St. Town. With several members away the rest made plans for their usuai patchwork quilt which is to, be completed in the Spring and a nice afternoon of visiting was enjoyed. Attend- ing from Shaw's were. Loha Cox, Theima Lane and Mar- garet Wood. Disneyworld, Cypress Gar- dens, Sea World, Circus World, Gatorland and Cape Kennedy. Lt was both beautiful ah'd peaceful to walk at Daytona Beach when the, temperature of 76 degrees made swimming s50 inviting. After the loveiy warm wea- ther of the south it was quite a shocker to corne back to our very frigid Ontario climate. Plans are underway for the Blarnardo Reunion to take place in Peterborough on Friday, Jan. 2lstfrom 2 to 4 p.m. A busload of Barnardo friends plan to heave Bowman- ville at noon on Friday so we hope for good weather. SHAW'S Potrick G. Deegan D.T. DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC formerly known'as BOWMANVILLE DENTURE CLINIC has moved te a new location 36 KING ST. W. BOWMAN VILLE 623-4473 Now Open' Base Line Auto Body CANADIAN TIRE lIeII Be, Closed Wednesday, January 26th DUE TO INVENTORY (SORRY FOR AMY INCONVENIENCE) We W1115BeOpen FOR REGULAR BUSINESS Thursdaîy, January 27th 8:30 am o9:200 p.m. 160Church Street omnil PHONE 623-2518 Service Dept. 623-4601 Mon., Tues., Sat. 8:30 a.m. to 6:.00 p.mn. STORE HOURS: Thurs, and f re,9:0 üanm . 9:00 3CPm,