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Orono Weekly Times, 1 Apr 1981, p. 7

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I Vf A feature at Orono Fair 1 -T.. To speak at YMCA Annual Laura Sabia, one of the members of the Canadian women's rights movement, will be guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Durham Durham Region Family YMCA April 10th. Eddie Eastman and his Band Terra Nova Express will be featured at the Orono Fall Fair on Saturday afternoon afternoon and evening, September 12th, 1981. A contract has been signed between the Eastman group and the Durham Central Agricultural Society for the upcoming fair. Eddie Eastman has been receiving acclaim across the country of late and began the year with a most successful performance in Winnipeg Where he was the headliner for the New Years Eve Urban Cowboy Party. t During the past two years Eastman has been nominated as a Finalist for the Juno Awards for Country Male vocalist. Eastman's latest single, How Deep in Love Am I and Lonely Eyes has. cornered chart action in Canada in major radio markets. Community College job finding success More than 91 percent of the 16,270 full-time students who sought employment after graduating from Ontario's community colleges last year had found jobs by mid- November. A further 4,615 graduates did not seek work or t did not report their activities following graduation; graduation; of these, many became became homemakers or con- continued their studies.* The information is contained contained in the Ministry of Colleges and Universities annual College College of Applied Arts and Technology Graduate Placement Placement Report. The report assists students in selecting college programs and making career choices - and shows OMNR TO PLANT 700,000 TREES IN LINDSAY DISTRICT (Continued from page 6) ; i authority of the Wood- rands Improvement Act (W.I.A.). Any landowner with at least four hectares (10 acres) of land suitable for reforestation may be eligible to enter into a management agreement with the ministry. Under the agreement terms the landowner pays the cost of the nursery stock, while the ministry assumes the plant- , ing costs. The agreement life is usually 15 years during which time the landowner agrees to protect the trees from livestock, fire, wildlife,' insect and disease attack. If you would like information information on the W.I.A. program contact Lindsay District Ontario Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 322 Kent Street, West, Lindsay, Ontario, K9V 4T7; telephone 705-324-6121, from Peterborough 799-5201, from Oshawa-Whitby 571- 3211. Agreements are already being drafted and site inspections inspections scheduled for the 1982 spring tree planting season'. ' And organizers of the dinner at Durham College are expecting the outspoken T pronto pronto Sun columnist to have no shortage of subject matter for her Oshawa speaking engagement. engagement. At the height of the recent Advisory Council on the Status of Women feud with federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy, Sabia said Canadian women's groups must stop "toadying" to the federal government for funding funding and assistance. "What we get in the constitution is what women in this country want, not what Pierre Trudeau wants," she fumed. "He Who pays the piper calls the tune, and the government, at every level, has been calling the tune. I think it's time we say we don't need them." A former separate school and city council member in St. Catharines, the 65-year- ■ old Sabia first gained national II attention in 1965 when she was named chairman of the Committee Committee for thé Equality of j Women, the body responsible for the creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of | Women. She was subsequently ap- 1 pointed by the federal government government as director of the Federal Status of Women Council, and by the provincial government as Chairman of the Ontario Status of Women Council. An unsuccessful Progressive Progressive Conservative federal candidate in 1968, the Pembroke Pembroke native has never concealed concealed her opinions of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Orono Weekly Times In recent weeks, she has written of his "crucial constitutional constitutional treachery", "his relentless relentless drive to totalitarianism", totalitarianism", and called him "a tyrannical brat." A week ago, when Trudeau said he could not find a "qualified" woman to sit on , the Supreme Court of Canada, Sabia converted her Sun column into an open letter to the P.M.: "Justin case you think all women are 'flower children', let me set the record straight. Women have brains galore. They are well-educated, sensible, sensible, sensitive, with great gobs of gumption and perspicacity. perspicacity. They are sick and nauseum of hearing the word 'qualified' 'qualified' over and over again. It's a damn rotten excuse, mon vieux. Have you always sent 'qualified' men to the Senate of the Supreme Court? Next thing you know, mon cher, you will tell us that the Supreme Court of Canada doesn't have washrooms for women judges! Get going and install some 'Joanies On the Spot' - tout de suite! " In addition to her activities as a feminist, Sabia has been a member of the board of •directors of the National YWCA, national president of , Wednesday, April 1st, 1981-7 the Canadian Federation of University Women, served on Children's Aid Society and United Appeal boards, and holds honorary memberships in Beta Sigma Phi and Delta Kappa Gamma sororities. In 1974 she was named an officer of the Order of Canada, and she holds an honorary doctorate in laws from Brock University. Tickets for Sabia's April 10th appearance at Durham College are available from members of the Durham YMCA board of directors, or by calling 668-6868. Majorât Minor Repairs BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC -ENGINES REBUILT -VALVE JOBS -FRONT ENDS -TOWING MANGER'S GARAGE ORONO 983-5130 : total job placement across the college, system. The report notes that there is widespread belief that civil, electronic, mechanical, industrial, industrial, electrical and other technologies may soon experience experience rapid expansion. Hospitality Hospitality and fields relating to data processing have grown fastèr than anticipated and are expected to continue to provide many Opportunities for qualified graduates. Careers Careers related to the development, development, prqduction and con-* sumption of energy are also expected to require increasing increasing numbers of workers. Health-care programs and business-related programs such as accounting, managing, managing, marketing, advertising and word processing, the report suggests, should continue continue .to show high placement rates. Construction and certain' certain' manufacturing occupations occupations will need many trainees as a large portion of the current work force nears retirement. for Ontario Junior Citizens of the Year The purpose This program will be inaugurated in Ontario to provide recognition,for outstanding achievements or acts of courage and initiative, by boys and girls between the ages of six and eighteen years. It will include individual awards presented for meritorious conduct and special group awards for recognition of the efforts df young people throughout the communities of the province. The reason Extraordinary deeds of OQtario boys and g irls"!ire often performed within,the community. We need you, the local nominators and newspaper editors, to bring these outstanding yoüng people to our attention, so that we will be able to give them the honour and public recognition, which they so richly deserve; Who.is eligible Young individuals who have performed acts of heroism, perhaps endangering their owi) lives, overcoming disabling physical or psychological handicaps to match or exceed théir peers, or being involved in some worthwhile community, service endeavour. For further information contact your local newspaper or Ontario Weekly' Newspapers Association, ' Tel: 1 -800-266-3054 for â brochure. . A COMMUNITY PROJECT OF CP AIR ' AND THIS NEWSPAPER. ORONO WEEKLY TIMES CP CP and arc registered trademarks of Canadian Pacific Limited.

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