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Ee ---------- RRR TREE 14 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 1, 1992 Utica N \ 44 by Vera Brown A reminder that this Frida is euchre night in Utica Hall starting at 8 p.m. Sunday church services will be held in Utica this week start- ing at 11 am. We have just learned that we will have an as- sistant to our minister to hel out in areas that Rev. Bewell isn't able to attend to, and he will be in attendance this week and we all look forward to meet- ing him. Looking ahead to White Gift Sunday which will be the 13th in Epsom. Be informed that the families that we give gifts to this year consist of a mother who wears size large and a sev- en-year-old boy who wears size eight; a mother who wears size large and a one-year-old wear- ing size two. All gifts should be left unwrapped. The U.C.W. Christmas meet- ing will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at Epsom Church start- ing at noon for a pot luck lunch.- Goodwood will be guests and supplying dessert, we are asked to bring the first course. All la- dies of the community are invit- ed to join us on this occasion. Alice Lee is inviting ladies of the community to her home on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. for a miscellaneous bridal shower for Tammy Vanuden, a soon-to- be bride. A couple of big boys having birthdays this Saturday. Happy birthday to Eric Sobil and Doug MacSween and to all those cele- bratingin December. Eileen Slute attended the Master Gardener's Seminar at the Civic Garden Centre in To- ronto on Sunday. Birthday greetings to Rich- ard Tracey who celebrated his seventh birthday on Friday with some of his school friends who came to a party at his home. His grandparents visited on the weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Archibald from Syracuse and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Puck- rin and Mrs. Elva Symes of Goodwood. The Utica Community Day Care were in the spirit of Christmas on Saturday when they entered a float in the San- ta Claus Parade in Port Perry. Children, teachers and parents dressed up for the occasion and I'm told that Franklin the tur- tle was also present. It's hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner. After all it was just last Thursday when we enjoyed 18 holes of golf and probably will get out again before the end of the year. It sure has been a strange year weather-wise. "Home of the Greatest Hot Dogs & Sausages Located at: ss NN in North America" GOURMET COFFEE Yes! We are still Open! Monday to Thursday 11 to 2:30 Weekends 11 to 4:00 GORD LEWIS ESSO CENTRE, 94 Water St., Port Perry Happy lst Birthday AVERY ANNE FREY With much love, Mommy & Daddy and to GRANDMA who shares her birthday! TE PIZZA & SUBS 80 Water Street, Port Perry 985-8448 * Free Delivery ya" in a Limited Area Find us fast in the "Yellow Pages" ™ Not valid whout coupon. Expires Dec. 7/82. Not valid sith any ofr offer Shirley Cane and her Welsh pony Kenview Kally-ko brought home countless trophi "Scugog's Comm unity Newspaper of Choice" i . W 2 5% es, rib- bons and honors from the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair after completing a rare "clean sweep" in the competition. The 11-year-old mare, who was shown at the fair by Mrs. Cane, as well as son and daughter Philip and Patty, was also named Supreme Champion of the Show. Students face many tough decisions as university applications are due By Julia Dempsey Port Perry Star David Toye sympathizes with this year's batch of graduating students. In the past, if a student re- ceived his high school diploma and his university degree, all kinds of career opportunities would be open to him, the head of student services at Port Perry High School told the Port Perry Star. "The '90s are a different ket- tle of fish," Mr. Toye says. "It doesn't matter how strong a student (one may be academi- cally)," he says, because when it comes to selecting a post secon- dary course the students are asking "Is this going to enable me to get a job." Ontario Academic Credit (OAC) students at both Cart- wright High School and Port Perry High School had until Tuesday, Dec. 1 to submit their university applications to their guidance counsellors. Each stu- dent had to whittle the vast number of schools and courses down to three choices. "It sounds so final," says Mickie Putersson, principal and counsellor at Cartwright High School. "I tell them not to panic, but to make the best estimate they can...do as much reading as pos- sible and visit the universities." "There are avenues (the stu- dents) can take" if the course they choose is not what they ex- pected, she says. Mr. Toye agrees, saying "many programs tend to be very general in the first year." But students have to make the grade first, and in some cas- es that means an over 80 per cent average in six OAC classes. As an example, Mr. Toye says last year's cut off mark for the Arts program at Queen's Uni- versity was 84 per cent. "They (the students) know the grades (they get in OAC courses) are what will dictate if they get into the school of their choice," he says. Queen's University in King- ston and Trent University in Pe- terborough are popular choices among many students at PPHS this year. CHS students are fa- voring Sir Wilfred Laurier Uni- versity in Kitchener-Waterloo. Although each school's stu- dent body has popular choices of st secondary schools, both rs. Putersson and Mr. Toye believe that choices aren't being totally based on where their friends are going. "I'm impressed by this year's group of graduating students," THE GIFT THAT GIVES ALL YEAR LONG A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT by Rob Monaghan, P.P.O.C. - P.P.O. 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"All the universities are excel- lent, but not all are excellent for each student," he says. Now that the applications are in students must play the wait- ing game while continuing to work on their grades -- prelimi- nary grades are included on the applications but high schools must send more comprehensive ades in April -- and save their ard-earned money. Saving for their education has become more important than ever. Ontario's New Demo- cratic government announced last week it will be hiking tui- tion fees seven per cent as of September, 1993, and is abol- ishingits grant program. That means tuition will in- crease from about $1,894 to $2,026. If a student lives away from home, a year at school can cost as much as $10,000. "That's a lot of money," Mr. Toye says, adding the increase in tuition fees doesn't help the matters any. "How many people are going to get a seven per cent raise this year?" 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