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Page 14 The Claringion/Courtiec Independent, Bowmanvillc, Saturday, July 25,1998 Pegasus Farm Riding School Takes Flight The Pegasus Farm riding school and boarding facility officially opened July 20th. Regional Councillor John Mutton and Ward Four Councillor Charlie Trim did the honors at a ribbon-cutting. But, they had plenty of help. Pictured arc: Martina and Marisa Solaroli; Councillor Trim, Councillor Mutton; Diane Solaroli, Kathleen Pasquet; Karolyn and Suzanne Pasquet; Lcica (one of the riding school horses) and Alyssa McLennan, riding instructor. The school is located just west of Ncwlonville Rd., off Concession Rd. I. The address is 4398 Concession Rd. 1. Owners Diane Solaroli and Kathleen Pasquet welcome new students, both children and adults. The school provides instruction in grooming, saddling and general horsemanship for beginners. Training is also available to the intermediate level. An indoor arena allows for year-round riding and comfortable boarding boarding stalls arc also available. Home Business Assoc. Presents Awards Trent Leads Pilot Program for Students with Learning Disabilities On June 17 th the Durham Home and Small Business Association held its second Annual General Meeting. Of note were the Business of the Year Award, our great guest speaker and the election of the new board. Anne Rice of Your Rainbow Colours walked away with the Business of the Year Award. Runner up for the award and of special special note was Bruce Laycraft of Bel Laser Publishing. The guest speaker was none other than John Nemanic, founder, president president and CEO of Internet Direct or IDIRECT as many of us in attendance know it. John enlightened everyone with his personal story of how he came to organize Canada's largest Internet service company. John shared secrets, answered questions and shared his experiences with the 35 attendees. Finally, the elections for board positions were held. Positions will be decided at the first meeting meeting of the new board, but the 1998-99 Board members members in alphabetical order arc: Debbie Adamson, Money Concepts; Deborah Bluchcr, D.J. Bluchcr and Associates; Bernice Burke, The Burke Group; Chuck Byers, Vintage Ventures; Kelly Campbell, Campbell and Associate (Past President); Bob Martindalc, Martindalc Planning Services; Sue Sutcliffe, Desktop Imagery; David Swain, David Swain Racing; Christine Wells, Wells Computers. Regal Capital Planners Thanks Support of Clients and Businesses Steve Scattcrty would like to thank everyone who came out to support Regal Capital Planners Ltd. 1st Annual Charity Golf Tournament for the Hospital For Sick Children's Foundation, held on Saturday, June 27, 1998, at the Port Hope Golf and Country Club. The weather was beautiful, the food was great and it was you, our clients that made it all worthwhile. At this time, we would like to thank the following for their very generous donations: Mr. Ross Smith and the staff of the Port Hope Golf and Country Club; The Computer Doctor; Canadian Tire; East Side Mario's; Long and McQuaid (Oshawa); Balmur Entertainment (Toronto); Toronto Argonaut Football Club; Toronto Blue Jays; Silk's Café; Dennis Pizza; Consumers Gas; Pepsi Cola Ltd; Labatt's; Exit Realty; Guys and Gals Hair Salon; The Book Studio; The Sport Shop; Joe Badalis Italian Restaurant (Toronto); King Street Bar & Grill; National Home Video; Mane's Chicken and Ribs; Brine Sports; The Oak Store; Family Gathering; Hands On Music; Gould's Cards and Gifts; Country Lane Furniture & Gifts; Justin Barry Optical; Executive Copier Systems Inc; MRS; BPI Mutual Funds; Fidelity Mutual Funds; C.I. Mutual Funds; Spectrum United Mutual Funds; Templeton Mutual Funds; Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc; Oak Unlimited Furniture (1995) Inc, Trent will share in the $30-million in provincial funding announced in May's budget to establish a pilot project to support and integrate students with learning disabilities at small Ontario universities and colleges. Bette Stephenson, Chair of the Learning Opportunities Task Force and its administrator administrator Bonnie Tifflin, will visit Trent on June 29 at 11 aim. to sign Trent's contract contract for the first year of this program. The contract is valued at approximately $285,000 for the first year at Trent. Trent-and Eunice Lund-Lucas, Co-ordinator of its current Special Needs office - will take a lead role in setting up one of ,the virtual centres of ejdellence for post-scc- -omary education for students students , with learning disabilities disabilities in Ontario. Lund- Lucas, as Project Leader, will oversee the "centre" to be established at four sites: Trent, Nipissing University, Loyalist and Canadore colleges. These pilot sites were teamed to provide a wide range of program choice for the students students entering the institutions, institutions, as well as being relatively relatively small in size and having a commitment to quality teaching and the individual student. Colleges and universities universities have admitted an increasing number of students students with learning disabilities disabilities over the past decade. Learning disabilities disabilities common among such students are difficulties in such as listening, perceiving, reading, writing, writing, calculating and spelling. Such students now make up as much as 3 per cent of the student body at some post-secondary post-secondary institutions. To improve their possibility of success, such students benefit from admission policies and practices which are fair, combined with supportive programs that allow the student to excel to his or her best ability. The program planned consists of two stages of system-wide supports for students with learning disabilities. disabilities. The first year, to be implemented in the coming academic year, involves programs aimed at incoming students. The ■. subsequent phase in the jiyear following will also ; target upper year students. h ' Intended to help students students make the transition from secondary school to post-secondary, but also from post-secondary to work, the program will establish a support network network of students, staff and faculty for students with learning disabilities. It will also provide opportunities for such students to contribute contribute to the program as mentors and role models for future students with learning disabilities. Trent's proposal with its partner institutions was submitted in March in response to a government request. Trent is well qualified qualified to take a lead role, since it has a high porpor- tion of learning disabled students. Trent has now sent Insect Safari at Forest Centre Summer for many people is characterized by the whine and buzz of the dreaded mosquito. Slaps and "ow's" arc heard in the evenings coming from many people's backyards. Insects arc not all annoying, annoying, however. Find out all about some of the beautiful and beneficial bugs of Ontario at the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority's "Bug-eyed" program on Sunday, July 26, 1998 front 1-4 p.nt. at the Ganaraska Forest Centre. This family program will take participants on an insect safari to the field, the forest, and the underwater world in search of creepy crawlics of all shapes and sizes. Discover what makes an insect an insect and how some of the 88,000 species in North America live their lives. Collecting equipment will be provided, but participants participants are welcome to bring their own nets and bug detective skills. The cost of the program is $10.00 per family, $5.00 per adult and $3.00 per scnior/studcnt/child, Preregistration is required, as space is limited. Please call (905) 885-8173 for more information or to register. British Volunteers to Help In Trent's Nature Trails During Working Holiday Members of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) will spend a summer holiday at Trent University clearing trails and doing other work in Trent's nature areas. At least six British volunteers will join some Canadian participants, including members of the Peterborough Field Naturalists, in the nature areas during the July 31 to August 9 BTCV working holiday. The project has been organized by Trent biology professor professor Roger Jones, Chair of Trent's Nature Areas Committee and Cailin Clarke, a graduate student. The Federation of Ontario Naturalists will act as project host, with participants residing at Trent's Peter Robinson College. The British volunteers pay their own airfare and a registration registration fee to the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, the largest organization in the United Kingdom promoting practical conservation work by volunteers. The BTCV operates operates a number of international working holidays, hut the project at Trent is its only Canadian project this summer, areas information regarding the program to applicants who disclosed during the admissions process that they have a learning disability. disability. A program orientation orientation will be held August 15 at Trent for students and their parents. This fall's pilot at each partner institution will involve up to 25 new first- year students who have self-identified that they have learning disabilities. There will be no cost to the students participating. Hi, I'm Ace! Hi! 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If you wish to become a part of this project, please contact Mr. Peter Watson, P.Eng., Manager of Waste Management, Region of Durham WorkÉDepartment at (905) 668-7721 extension 5235, ! prior to ^ugûsf, ! 2 ! ,l f ;'" , 'l!9 i ^8'."T|ie Public Advisory Committee will be selected in early September. Councillor Rick Johnson Chair, Works Committee If you've been getting a busy signal... we're sorry. We know that many of our customers have been trying to call us about billing services and power outages. And, we realize that many of you have not been able to get through... even on your second or third try. Here's why you may be having trouble reaching us. With our switch to a new bill and new payment schedules, along with our regular daily service inquiries, we are experiencing an unprecedented, high number of calls to our Customer Communications Centre. Although we did add staff to handle more calls than usual, we are unable to keep up with the high number of calls coming in. 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