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Editorial Comment Welcome to The House As this is being written Monday afternoon, an historic occasion is underway in the hallowed halls of the House of Commons in Ottawa that must be quite an awesome thrill for the recently elected Mr.Brian Mulroney. After winning the leadership of the Progressive-Conservative party in a hotly contested battle, he plunged into another election in Nova Scotia and won that quite handily. On both occasions, the fascinating fascinating world of politics was new to him, but it didn't phase him one bit. He handled himself admirably and came through with flying colors. colors. It's been quite a year in this young man's career. Today, he takes on his third challenge challenge of the year, and it's the biggest one of all, although at the moment all the cards appear to be stacked in his favor. He's never been in the House of Commons as a member of that august body; indeed indeed until this year had never run for any public office, yet he is now heading a party that is at its peak in popularity and may well be forming forming the government of Canada a year from now. Of course this is a presumption, based on current popularity polls and could change considerably if the Liberals can improve improve their popularity prior to an election. During the next few months it won't be easy for him. Mr. Mulroney will be put through every test that his opponents on the government benches across the aisle can dream up. They will be probing and prodding prodding continuously, trying to find his weaknesses and making the most of his lack of experience. Even the NDP party that sits alongside the Tories will be testing him on his policies, trying to improve their standing in the country by showing they are better prepared to govern than Mr. Mulroney's party. His toughest job will be to keep his cool, avoid making grievous errors in the heat of debate, and show that he is in charge of his party at all times, because they too will be watching his performance. He's chosen his party's departmental departmental critics wisely and should now be ready to demonstrate demonstrate that he has the leadership leadership qualities that are needed if he indeed is to become Prime Minister. Minister. The session ahead should be most interesting. z -- By1ine... By Peter Parrott v The sun is setting on the educational educational empire built by the Province of Ontario in the 1960s. For the first time in recent memory, memory, not everyone meeting minimum standards can be assured of a place in university. And that seems to point to a future future in which the educational system system will be drastically changed. For years, universities were mainly set aside for the professions of làw, medicine, education or similar similar fields where a diploma has been a requirement since the middle ages. During the 1960s, two factors caused the ivory-towered university university to lower the drawbridge and let in whole armies of students: First of all, the sixties had prosperity. prosperity. Secondly, the sixties produced produced millions of students from the postwar baby boom. The prosperity of that decade meant that money was available to educate the baby boomers. I suppose suppose the dollars could have gone elsewhere. They could have been spent on better highways, or space exploration or athletics. But for some reason, education was singled out as an area for vast amounts of expenditure. Universities became a kind of learning factory which took in cash and high school grads by the bushel basketful and disgorged degreecarrying degreecarrying graduates. One could argue that there were flaws in the system. The individual with a three-year diploma in comparative comparative literature or art history was hardly a marketable commodity commodity in the job world. His only option was to teach his specialty and create an endless circle of persons taking courses to earn degrees which would entitle them to teach other people who would earn degrees degrees to teach others, ad infinitum. This is the closest anyone has ever come to inventing perpetual motion. Hindsight reveals that the mass- production of university graduates was not entirely successful. Grads may have had papers to prove they had jumped through certain academic hoops. But they did not exactly set the world on fire. Anyone Anyone who hoped the expenditures of cash and the creation of new cam- puses would produce a mid-20th century Renaissance must have been disappointed. As the last of the baby boomers received their diplomas, enrollments enrollments declined and funds became more scarce. Along came the community college. college. It teaches students how to run a computer or program a metalworking metalworking machine without requiring them to dabble in psychology, anthropology, anthropology, philosophy, comparative comparative religion, or any of the other university university arts programs. Now what happens? Well, I predict that the universities universities will start raising the drawbridge, drawbridge, flooding the moat, and generally generally becoming more fussy about the people they allow into their halls of wisdom. They will cater to the Wayne Gretzkys ofthe academic world, and leave community colleges colleges and other post-secondary schools with the task of educating the public for jobs. Some will argue that it's high time the universities returned to this approach. approach. Legend has it that institutions of the 60's and 70's churned out unemployable unemployable Ph.Ds and B.A. recipients recipients who could not spell. Like any legend, there's some truth behind it. But easier access to centres of higher learning also exposed a large number of people to a liberal education which would have never been imagined in their grandfathers' grandfathers' day. The affect of that instruction, instilled instilled in the students of the past two decades, will not be entirely lost. It will shape the way North Americans think and act in the future. future. Tightening the requirements for university admission may not be the tragedy that some have suggested. Perhaps, a university education should not be considered the natural natural right of all Ontario taxpayers. But it must continue to be equally available to all who are qualified. 3H|e (Üanabian States man 623*3303 (Jck Ourhim County'» Or»«t Family Journal Eetabllshad 12» years ago In US4. 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Crews at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station have been working 24-hours a day on a continuous pour of concrete for the station's vacuum building. During 10 days, they will construct the 150-foot exterior wall, moving moving at à speed of 15 feet per day. The slip form (a part of which is shown here) is rising at a rate of about six to nine inches per hour, with 60 jacks used to move the device. Construction of the wall requires a workforce of approximately 240 in each 12-hour shift. The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 14, 1983 A workman at the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station helps load one ofthe metal buckets used to haul concrete up the slip form at the Darlington vacuum building. The outer wall of the structure is being built by means of a continuous pour. When concrete has been raised to the proper height, it is moved into place manually by wheelbarrows and chutes. SUGAR and SPICE Roughing it in the Park Canada has almost as many square miles of parks as it hat. of parking lots. I am not against th s. I love parks and I hate parking ots (somebody got me in one the other day to the tune of a busted fender, anonymous, of course.) We have huge national parks, full of mountains and stuff that nobody ever goes near, except a few hardy outdoors weirdos. They're too rough for us ordinary human beans. Then we come down the manageable parks, like Algonquin, where you can canoe and make bonfires, and your chances of death are much less from wolves and bears than they are from stepping on a broken beer bottle. Then we have parkettes, where you can go and bake in the sun and watch your kids trying to break a leg on one of the Star Trek climbing machines, or the unbalanced teeter- totters. All of this is, of course, leading somewhere. It is leading directly to The Great Camping Trip in the Park. x We had our grandboys for two weeks this summer. It was great. They are a little older, a little smarter, and they scarcely break anything any more that is carefully hidden away. They don't even fight any more. Well, only when there is an issue at stake and one of them wants to kill the other with a large stick. But it was very restful, compared with other summers. Last year, the total damage was about $400. This , year it was only about $130. This was somewhat offset financially, by the fact that the food bill soared astronomically. Each of them eats more than my wife and I put together. Fortunately, they were enrolled in an excellent day camp (guess who paid the fees) and all that was required was to rout them out of bed, make them put on some semblance of decent clothes from the warehouse warehouse they immediately turned their room into, get their breakfast, make their lunch, have a good dinner ready when they got home from camp, and try to maneuvre them into bed by midnight. Nothing to it. Except washing all their clothes every two days, finding their blasted shoes, which could be in the attic, a closet or the basement, and vacuuming the sand out of their sheets every day. We were rather blithely looking forward to taking them back to their mother after the two weeks, when we learned, with a slight shudder of horror, that their mother had manipulated their Uncle Hugh into taking them on a camping trip for a week, from our place. Hugh came up from the city the week before to have a "conference" with the grandboys about their wilderness experience. He was going to take them to an island, on an Indian Reserve, and they were going to live off the land, practically, right in the middle of the bush. He spent all Saturday morning making a.list of essentials. The kids watched cartoons on TV. Hugh had a dandy list. Raisins, peanuts, sunflower seeds, and about 140 pounds of canned stew, apples, bread, cutlery, pots, pans, plates, the whole business. It would have taken a coureur de bois canoe to carry the stuff. We held our mum. Next Saturday he appeared all ready for the camping trip. There were only one or two things out of joint. It didn't bother the boys, who were all excited about the camping trip. But it bothered me. It seems that I was to drive them to the ferry across to the island, about 15 miles. They had one sleeping bag among the three of them. The food hadn't been bought, nor the insect repellent. There were no cooking utensils or cutlery. There was one pup tent, suitable for one. Frantically phoning friends, I located another tent that would sleep three, plus more sleeping bags. It was still feasible. I haven't mentioned that Hugh had arrived for the camping trip with one arm in a sling. He'd fallen off his bike in the city and had to hit the emergency ward when he arrived here. Wrist broken or badly sprained. But spirits undaunted. He was going to carry through. I went out in the car to pick up some food or something, and suddenly I had one of those brilliant ideas that hit a guy twice in a lifetime. No ideolgue, with one arm, wandering around in the bush, looking for a place to sleep, with two tuckered little guys, each carrying 80 pounds, losing the faith rapidly. I went home and laid it on the line. "You're going to camp in the Little Lake Park." I'd checked it out by this time. There were tent sites, running water, toilets, a barbecue, a great view of the lake, and swimming. Hugh, bless him, was going to go through with the original plans. But he put it to a vote, and the boys, bless them, said, "Little Lake Park" which is almost in the middle of town. So they had a great camping trip. Set up their tents, got a fire going, and had three great days of summer. Gran, who had almost gone catatonic at the first proposal, dragged up some pots and stuff, and we visited them (six blocks away) only three times a day, bringing them only ice, food charcoal, candles and a few other treats. Fourth day it rained. Wet tents, wet sleeping bags. Wet children. Mud. However, after we brought Gran down from the roof, it sorted out. The sun came out, the sleeping bags went over the clothesline, the tents were spread out to dry, the kids clothes were packed, and undaunted Hugh took them off on the bus to sleep at his place in the city, which is just one jump ahead of a leaking tent. September 7,1983 Mayor Garnet Rickard and Council Members Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance St., Bowmanville, Ont. Dear Mesdames and Messrs.: On behalf of the Community Involvement Committee, we would like to minimize the fallout resulting from a misunderstanding misunderstanding between our Committee and the Bowman- ville Improvement Association, Association, The C.I.C. was formed in May of 1982, The purpose of the initial meeting was "to invite suggestions by local Real Estate agents of the Town of Newcastle for projects projects and - or services that we could provide to make the Town of Newcastle a better place to live ini". The Committee Committee was to receive Oshawa and District Real Estate Board financing, After many meetings two projects were decided upon, the major concept being that we would furnish the impetus, the ideal and basic funds, while community members would put their time and talents to good use for positive results. O.D.R.E.B. gave us $350.00 to initiate the two projects: we TRIPLED the moneyl We helped students at B.H.S. to organize a band concert. They realized $770.00 with which to purchase band instruments. The shop students at B.H.S. produced two benches, with our committee paying for the cost of the materials. Our Intention was to place these two benches in major down town areas. They were to have two plaques; -1 - gift from local Real Estate people, 2 - made by B.H.S, students, They were ready In June for the summer season - to date they have not been placed. We understand that the B.I.A, are not in favour of accepting a 'precedent-setting' 'precedent-setting' gift which includes advertising. advertising. We have since made plans to place the benches on private property where we hope they will be used and appreciated by older people in Bowmanville, Bowmanville, We want you to know that we are happy with the placement, placement, but unhappy with the treatment, Community Involvement Committee Pat Irwin, Treasurer Marg Bain, Chairperson CIC Members: Pat Irwin - ReMax Cornerstone Cornerstone Realty Marg Bain - Hockin Real Estate Ron Brooks - Century 21 Banner Passant Iris Dorman - Family Trust Real Estate Dorothy Hartford - Edvan Realty Ann Van Dyke - Van Dyke Real Estate Community Involvement Committee Care of ReMax Cornerstone Realty Limited 68 King Street East Bowmanville, Ontario L1C IPG Gentlemen Re: Donation of Benches Thank you for your letter In which you express concern about our disposition of your offer to provide two benches for use in our downtown, Your suggestion to donate the benches was communicated communicated to us In August, at which time it was suggested that each would contain a significant significant amount of advertising, As this would Indeed create a precedent, since others might wish the same opportunity, it was decided that such an arrangement could prove to be difficult to regulate, and remain fair to all concerned. As a result, the following motion was passed at the August 3, 1983 meeting of the Board of Management, "that we are in favour of Pat Irwin of ReMax Real Estate donating donating benches for the downtown core, if they arc compatible with our own benches, and no advertising is involved." Our Ihe number of clients unemployed and registered for work at the Canada Employment Centres in Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa for the month of August totalled 18,552, consisting of 8,639 female and 9,913 male clients, Placements In the three offices totalled 446 for the month, which compares to a Landscaping Chairman was directed to determine the suitability of these benches with regard to our general beautification program. It is our understanding that they were deemed to be reasonably compatible and could be used. If further questions still need to be answered, please do no hesitate to contact me. ■ Yours very truly George Webster Chairman p.c. Town of Newcastle Canadian Statesman total of 400 placements during July. The majority of clinets were registered in Clerical and related; Sales; Services; Machining and related; Product Fabricating, Assembling and Repairing; Construction Trades; Material-Handling and related. EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS