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10 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, April 6,1994 Education "New Directions" Clarke Student Combines Studies and Apprenticeship Signing an Apprenticeship Agreement are, from left: Peter Demeter, Demeter, owner of Clarington Roofing, Orono; Mike Dreslinski, S'.S.W.A.P. student at Clarke High School; and Shariffa Kassam, of the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board, Apprenticeship Branch. Mike Dreslinski will be able to begin his apprenticeship in the sheet metal trade thanks to a program which will allow him to apprentice and also complete his studies at the high school. Monday, March 7, marked an important important date in the life of Clarke High •School student, Mike Dreslinski. He is now a CO-OP student, and a S.S.W.A.P. student working on his ; shcct metal apprenticeship papers. This is all possible through Mike's co-op employer, Pete Demetcr, owner owner of Clarington Roofing of Orono; the Ministry of Education and Training; Training; and the Northumberland and Clarington Board of Education. The Secondary School Workplace Apprenticeship Apprenticeship Program (S.S.W.A.P.) aims to increase the province's supply supply of skilled workers by encouraging encouraging more young people to choose careers careers in the skilled trades. S.S.W.A.P, allows Mike to log his éight-hour days towards his sheet metal apprenticeship papers and cam high school credits as well. Mike hopes to get 4 credits for this semester, semester, leaving only 2 remaining for his Ontario. Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). After graduation he will continue with his apprenticeship and be at that much further ahead on his career path. After working with Mike as a coop coop student for less than a month, Mr. Demeter saw the potential and was prepared to take Mike on as an apprentice. apprentice. As Pete says, "He is a good worker and why not get him started now?" This is a big commitment by the employer and the program's success success depends on their willingness to train young people for the skills needed in the job market. Duo Wins First Prize in Music Festival Canadian kids arc becoming increasingly increasingly street smart, road smart and arc quickly learning to play smart when fire breaks out. This rise of a new generation of wise Canadians Canadians is in large thanks to the Canadian Tire Child Protection Foundation. Every day, the Foundation is flooded with hundreds of appreciative appreciative letters from parents, schools, police police and fire associations, community groups, and kids themselves. Jennifer Garland, manager of the Foundation, says the steady influx of mail across Canada is jjroof that the Foundation is meeting its mandate to teach kids to be careful. The Foundation is the product of a 1989 Canadian Tire nationwide survey survey which found that the issue of child protection and safety was of vital vital concern to the majority of Canadians. Canadians. As a result, in 1989, Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited and its Associate Associate Dealers launched a child protection protection program. Last year, they set up the Canadian Tire Child Protection Protection Foundation to give added impetus impetus to their efforts to reduce incidences incidences of childhood injury in Canada. Funded jointly by Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited and Associate Dealers, the Foundation supports three nationwide programs delivered mainly in schools: Stay Alert...Stay Safe teaches streetproofing to children, children, the Canadian Tire Cycle Safe program is designed to reduce biking injuries and Leant Not to Bum®, the Foundation's newest addition, is an educational fire safety program. Ms. Garland, who is an expert in child safety issues, is tremendously encouraged by the success of the programs. programs. "They confirm that education is the key tool for reversing some devastating statistics," she says. "Contrary to popular belief, injury, injury, not disease, is the leading killer of preschool and elementary children," notes Ms. Garland. "In fact, intentional intentional or unintentional injury accounts accounts for 60 percent of deaths for Canadians aged one to 24. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. For every fatal childhood injury, another 45 require require hospital treatment and many more require emergency care." Included in those statistics are cycling-related cycling-related injuries. Ms. Garland says that about 100 cyclists die in Canada each year, and half of them are under 15-years-old, She adds that biking accidents typically account for about 50,000 visits to emergency rooms yearly, and 30 percent of those visits are due to head injuries. When studies showed that Canada's Canada's fire fatality and bum statistics arc among the worst in the industrialized industrialized world, the Foundation adopted Fire Prevention Canada's Leam Not to Bum. "A large percentage of the victims of fire arc children," says Mslv 3 Durham College : North Campus Offers Students RaeAnne and Rosalyn Boss RacAnne and Rosalyn Boss of Bowmanville participated and placed first in the piano duct class in the Pickering Metro East Music Festival. The Boss's medal-winning song was Sonatina for Two, a piano duct. The girls received high marks and praise from adjudicator Shirley Kwok. "It was a lovely ensemble with lovely balance between the solo and accompaniment parts," says Kwok. "The melody was beautiful and expressive with excellent harmonic support." RaeAnne and Rosalyn were presented presented with their medals at the Festival Festival of Stars Concert which was held on Saturday, March 15th. In addition to her duct, RaeAnne placed third for Study # two by Czerny and Study # five by Bcrcns. Both RaeAnne and Rosalyn arc piano students of Mrs. Lowry. The Durham College North Campus Campus (Uxbridge) is offering a Future Directions Program beginning in, April 1994. This program, which is funded through the Labour Adjustment Board, is geared toward individuals 19 years of age or older, unemployed due to economic down sizing and ready to take charge of their future. The Future Directions Program begin April 4, 1994 and runs until August 5, 1994, for a total of 18 weeks. Students will upgrade in Math and English, learn or improve computer computer skills, investigate alternative career career options and receive extensive career career planning techniques training. For more information or to register register call Durham College, Uxbridge at (905) 852-7848. Locally owned and operated by Glen Morris Garland. "For kids, the difference between between life and death often hangs on knowing how to respond to a very threatening situation." Leam Not to Bum has been used successfully' in 50,000 classrooms worldwide and is credited for saving hundreds of lives. Thanks to the Foundation's sponsorship, Canada is the first country in which the program program will be implemented nationally. Associate Dealers across Canada are doing everything they can to reinforce reinforce the messages of the Foundation's Foundation's three programs. As well as financially financially supporting the Foundation, many Associate Dealers and staff host a wide variety of special in-store events. Staff dress up in Bert and Gcrl costumes, the popular streetwise mascots of the Stay Alert...Stay Safe program, to share safety tips with kids in a friendly, fun way. Stores regularly set up information booths, announce specials days for meeting police officers and fire service representatives, representatives, and demonstrate safe biking biking tips and helmet use. "Our Associate Dealers arc perfectly perfectly positioned to help deliver the programs," says Alan Goddard, Canadian Canadian Tire vice-president of corporate corporate affairs and chairman of the Foundation. Foundation. "We have 425 stores across Canada, each one within 15 minutes of 80 percent of the local population. We arc able to reach an enormous number of families, and our goal is to ensure that child protection informa- , lion gets out to them all." President of the Foundation, Arch Brown, who has been a Canadian Tire Associate Dealer in Barrie, Ontario, Ontario, for 31 years says that Associate * Dealers across Canada consider the Canadian Tire Child Protection Foundation Foundation a way of giving something back to their communities. "All of us have stories of parents coming up to us to thank us for encouraging their... kids to practice safety willingly," J says Mr. Brown. "We're all very' 0 proiid of the work we do with theT Foundation and there is tremendous g personal satisfaction in helping the children in our communities. It makes us feel part of a large family." f: Vincent Massey Play Carries Environmental Message Students at Vincent Massey Public School watched a play about composting and recycling put on by Mr, Woischwill's Grade 5 class in the gym on Wednesday afternoon, March 30. Above, a student cast in the role of a scientist, analyses creek water that killed'so many fish. Afterwards, class representatives picked up composting buckets for their home rooms from the vice-principal. /< A Gem of A Jeweller! Now is the ideal time to bring in all your repairs or old jewellery for refurbishing by our expert jeweller. 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