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Student Employment Centre Now Open Tlu> Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville. May 20. 1987 3 Need a job? Then stop by the Student Employment Centre at 36 King St. East, to check out what's available. Student Employment Officer Deanna Vivian, above, stands in front of the job board where all potential jobs are placed. Ms. Vivian says that new jobs are coming in all the time and it's a good idea to try to drop in once or twice a week. There are approximately 400 students already registered with the centre for this summer. The hot weather is here recruitment is completed in and the Student Employment Employment Centre at 36 King St. È., in Bowmanville is open for business. There are approximately 400 students already régis-: tered with the centre, and that number is expected to * climb after the high school the next few weeks. While covering a large area, including Courtice, Newcastle, and Bowmanville, Bowmanville, the centre has been open since May 4, and reports reports a lot of activity. Student Employment Officer, Officer, Deanna Vivian, says that the officers try to cover all potential employers in the area. "We do try to reach everyone, but one of our problems is that the office moves every year, so they have to try and find us as well," says Miss Vivian. Last year the Employ- THE LONGEST NO COST WARRANTY IN THE BUSINESS 6 YEAR / x W NISSAN > S.uim/) wwra/rj 1986 Jr 100,000 KM POWER TRAIN WARRANTY "Now Standard on all 1987 Nissans" MIDWAY MOTORS LTD. *5 1300 DUNDAS ST. E. WHITBY M8-H828 O NISSAN SINCE 1960-DURHAM REGION'S 1st CHOICE FOR NISSAN 1 ment Centre was located at the Bowmanville Mall. Miss Vivian travels from office to office to help out as needed. While one employment employment officer is in the field covering the employers, employers, the other one can answer answer phones and help the students that drop in. Students who are on file are encouraged to seek employment employment on their own, and also to drop in several times a week to check the job board. "We are getting new jobs all the time," says Miss Vivian. Vivian. The high school recruitment recruitment generally brings in many interested students. The officers go equipped with all the essential information information in hopes of having students sign up at the school. Anyone can call and register register a job for a student. The particulars of each job can be arranged with the centre. Some employers ask that a resume be provided. Employers can call 623- 9221. The centre is open Monday Monday to Friday, from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: In her Arpil 8, 1987 letter, Barbara Humphrey claims nuclear power has many "hidden costs" that are not included in customer bills and that "taxpayers" are subsidizing subsidizing the utility. In fact, nuclear power is one reason Ontario customers pay lower rates than most other countries in the world. Nuclear power is the cheapest large-scale source of generation generation after hydro-electric (and we're doing everything we can to tap all available water power sites in the province). Contrary to Ms. Humphrey's claims, the electricity electricity in Ontario already includes the cost of retubing at Pickering, reserve power, Hydro research into nuclear power, environmental protection, protection, financing costs, waste disposal and decommissioning. decommissioning. Equally important, it is Ontario power consumers, not Ontario taxpayers who foot pie bill for producing the elec- tekity they use. Ontario taxpayers are in no way subsidizing subsidizing Ontario Hydro. If Ms. Humphrey or your other readers have any additional concerns or questions about any of our operations my staff and I would be more than happy to discuss them. Sincerely, C.G. 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Our group has become close with msny of the villagers and I would like to share some accounts with those who are interested. interested. The host families we have are very warm and took us into their homes for three months. During this period they have patiently worked with us participants to teach about their way of life. Even for many of the Indonesian Indonesian participants there was much to learn. The language learning is definitely a major compo- . nent on this exchange. Sevrai Sevrai of the participants seemed to pick up Bahasa Indonesia fairly quickly. Personally, I find I can survive survive in a conversation verbally verbally , but always understand understand more than I say. We also have to learn the dialect from this area of South Sumatera. Each province province of Indonesia has several several dialects and the official official language of Bahasa Indonesia. Indonesia. When the villagers speak with just the local language even the Indonesian Indonesian participants may not understand the conversation. conversation. We leave the village of Muara Siban on April 15, 1987. The inhabitants here are preparing a farewell party for our group. The village village youth have been working working in the kebun (garden) to raise money for our party, and are asking each household household to contribute rice for the occasion. Knowing they are doing all of this just for us shows how close we have become. Over the past month several of the group members have grown close to a group of youths. We all work together on our projects projects and then are invited out at night. Almost every night there is a house where people will be playing guitars, singing, playing cards, and dominoes. These evenings are very interesting. interesting. It allows us to talk to everyone, in :an atmosphere ■and find There were many of the village village women cooking with .huge pans and woks that were three feet in diameter. On the final evening the whole village visited to see the bride and groom in the traditional wedding costume costume from this area of South Sumatera. I cannot describe the beauty of the clothing. The outfits must be seen to be appreciated. The bride was the perfect image of a porcelain doll. Her features were very distinct distinct and the costumes just complemented her beauty. We were fortunate to participate participate in the wedding celebration because this is not the time for marriages. Following the harvest, when people have more money, marriages take place. The second event was a visit from the Canadian Ambassador, Ambassador, Jack Witllelon, from Jakarta. We had met him previously when we arrived arrived in Indonesia. He held an informal reception there and this was similar. We all had a chance to talk to him about how the program is progressing. During my stay here in In donesia I have learned numerous things about people. When cultures are studied usually the differences differences arc examined more than the similarities. Even if things do not appear to be the same at surface level, there are many underneath. Being able to work with the people here, listen to conversations conversations and opinions, and most importantly observe observe how things are run, I have learned more about human beings than any textbook could tell me. We have been here during the low season. From May through to August the busy season of harvesting coffee will be in full swing. It would be intcrcling to see how different the activities of the families are when there is work every day from dawn to dusk. The way of life is very hard in a village, village, but the people survive. I feel for the women who must walk to the kebun (garden) (garden) with young infants on their backs and their baskets baskets to do a day's work. Sometimes if there is an older child with her, they may carry the basket of the infant. The children are given a lot of responsibility early. It seems that the oldest girl in the family is in charge of some cleaning and meal preparation. My one sister, who is eleven, is the one in charge of making dinner, sweeping, and maybe doing the dishes before going to school in the morning. Everyday it is possible to see young girls, maybe around the ages of seven or eight, going to the public mandi with a basket of dishes dishes to wash. Obviously there is a split between the sexes and the females arc given the domestic responsibilities. responsibilities. My host family was interesting interesting to live with because because they have a business arrangement. My father owns a coffee plantation, one of the four coffee grinders grinders in the village, a store, and other things I am sure I am not aware of. My ibu (mother) told my counterpart counterpart and me that she had an agreement with my bapak (father). He looks after the coffee business and she tends the store. If one borrows borrows money from the other they must pay interest. My ibu makes a joke about the way my bapak comes to ask how much articles arc in the store. This family business business is tended by all members members of the family, even the two youngest. For each individual the Canada World Youth program program offers something different. different. I was hoping to sort out a few things in my life. 1 now feel my views have become become broader and I am more personally aware of thines that formerly I had only read about. 1 also feel that my experiences are applicable to my life in Canada. Canada. The next piece I will write will be the last about the program. These last few weeks are full of good-byes, protocol and travel. Upon our return to Canada the three groups arc to visit their host communities of Alikokan, Dryden, and Fort Frances, to inform the , families about the second part of the exchange. It may take a couple of weeks for me to finish the next article because of readjusting to being home again, but hopefully hopefully it will be worth the wait. Van Belle fylosicil and Cja/uHon Ge+d/ie PLANTING WEEKEND SMt where theyjare comfortable and find"put, that even being so farfvom our Canadian Canadian friends, we can feel comfortable. ^Our work projects in the past month have added new things to the village. Fences throughout the whole place have been erected and painted white. We have also improved upon the public mandi built in February, and constructed a place at one of. the mosques for ritual washing before prayer. The villagers were the main workers in the projects projects but the group did do some beneficial work. Many of the concrete work sites such as the bathing place at the mosque and even one of the fences have been given the stamp of INDO-KA. This is the motto for our exchange exchange between the two countries. There were two major events during the month of March that involved the whole village. One was the reception for a newlywed couple. The Kepala Desa (head of the village) has a younger sister who was married a few days before and had come to visit her family here. For two days the bride and groom had to go to almost, if not every house in the village to eat. The first night was to meet the couple and family members members who had travelled from other villages. The second night and third clay were the time for cooking. Numerous anumals were killed for the occasion. For me it was the first time to see a goat skinned, disemboweled, disemboweled, and then eat some of the freshly cooked meat. Haydon On the way home on Sunday, Sunday, they called n to celebrate celebrate Mrs. Ann McKinnon's 84th birthday. Mrs. McKinnon McKinnon was a visitor at her daughter's in Campbollford. Mr. and Mrs. Stevie Liptay and family attended the "Night of Song" variety program put on at Zion Church, Mitchell's Corners by the choir on Friday evening. evening. Mrs. Bov Cochrane, Cindy anil Kathy went to Peterborough Peterborough on Friday, it being P.T. day at the schools and visited witli Gramma (Mrs, John Cochrane). Mrs. Keith Miller of Sunderland Sunderland will be a visitor with the Cochranes today. Jack and I wisli to express deepest sympathy to nephew Harvey and his family on learning of Joan's (Mrs. Harvey Jones) death Sunday evening at her home in Bowmanville. VAN Mill GARDEN CENTRE AT COURTICE LOCATION ONLY VAN Mill FLORAL SHOPPE AND GARDEN CENTRE AT COURTICE HWY. 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