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Penetanguishene Citizen (1975-1988), 4 Jul 1980, p. 22

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es Huronia calendar Saturday, July 5 -- Bake sale from 1 to 2 p.m. at Institute Hall, Waubaushene, U.C.W. of Waubaushene. July 7-11 -- Huronia Fitness Project moves into the Huronia Mall this week for workshops. Testing provides assessment on body fat, blood pressure, heart attack risks, grip strength, flexibility and endurance. Free and open to the public. Monday, July 7 -- The Huronia Rose Society is holding an open meeting at 8:00 p.m. at the Simcoe County Building located on Hwy 26 west of the Hwy 26-27 junction. Reta Caldwell will be speaking on Growing and Showing. Bring a stem of your favourite rose for display pur- poses only. Everyone welcome. July 12 -- Anyone interested in entering a canoe in "Shondecti"? on Saturday, July 12, which includes a portage, race and flotilla, should pick up an application form now at either Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, the Midland Chamber of Commerce, The Parlour, Huronia Office Services or Midland YMCA. You can also enter by calling Sainte-Marie at 526-7838. '"'Shondecti" is sponsored by the friends of Sainte-Marie. July 14-16 -- Huronia Fitness Project, sponsored by Tiny Township, will be at the Wyebridge Community Centre Monday to Wednesday. Free testing programs and workshops. July 14 'Timothy Christian Home and School presents 'The Young North Dutch Folk Group' on Monday, July 14 at 8 p.m. at the Central Collegiate Theatre, Barrie. The group will perform an evening filled with Dutch folk songs and dances complete with traditional Dutch costume. Tickets available from Continental Specialties or Wynia's Bakery and Delights, both in Barrie. Admission will be $3.50. Notice -- 15th annual Summer Antique Market, July 15, 7 to 10 p.m., July 16 and 17, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Country Mill, Balm Beach Road, featuring a Country Craft Shoppe and sponsored by the Auxiliary to Huronia District Hospital, Midland. Friday, July 18 Saturday, July 19 -- Crafts Tea - unique quality handcrafts. Pottery, stained glass, floral arrangements, antique dolls, hand weaving, sculptured figurines, miniature flowers. All at St. Paul's United Church, King Street, Midland, at 10 a.m. both days. Saturday, July 19 -- Bazaar, tea and Bake sale from 2 to 4 p.m. at IOOF Hall, sponsored by Margaret Rebekah Lodge. -- Bazaar, tea and Bake sale from 2 to 4 p.m. at IOOF Hall, sponsored by Margaret Rebekah Lodge, Waubaushene. -- The Third annual Orillia Scottish Festival gets underway today in downtown Orillia with a parade at 1:30 p.m., followed by an af- ternoon of competitions at Couchiching Park. The afternoon will feature entries from the Ontario Legion Massed Pipes and Drums, the Shettleston and Toolcross Choir from Glasgow, Scotland, Highland and Scottish Country dancers, and a caber toss contest. In the evening, a celeidh will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 34. Friday night is the Festival Night dance. Support the festival -- buy a $1 ribbon. July 26 Huronia Association for the Mentally Retarded is making plans for its 'floating casino' to be held aboard the Georgian Queen on July 26. The ship leaves Penetanguishene sharrp at 8 p.m. ; The Village Fair at the Oakview Com- munity Centre is set to go July 26-27 at Wasaga Beach. Featured will be arts and crafts displays, home baking, a mini-circus, Square dancing, booth set-ups and some local entertainment including the group the Ukulele 'A's. Fun gets underway at 1 p.m. both days and continues until 10 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. Sunday, July 27 --The Georgian Bay Art Society will have its annual show and sale at the Midland Cen- tennial Arena from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Anyone wishing to exhibit in this show may get fur- ther details from Bert Lacorix 526-6578, Gladys Robinson 526-8751 and Murray Cooper 526-9966. All are welcome. This includes photography and art in any medium. Discipline must be a key factor in education says reiired teacher by Dr. Hackstetter (recently retired math teacher from Midland Secondary School) Things have changed in school during my time but not many for the better. Nothing emphasizes that point more than an article in the March issue of the Forum, one of the educational publications of this province. It deals with the results of a Gallup survey. The public was asked, among other things, the question: What do you think is the biggest problem facing our elementary and high schools? The overwhelming majority of those asked thinks that 'a lack of discipline' is the problem facing schools in Ontario today. According to Web- Stens ) dictionary discipline means a branch of learning or knowledge; a training to develop self-control, character, oor or- Carnival to raise $$$ for "Y' Today and tomorrow by the town dock and by the curling club Penetanguishene is hosting a mini-carnival. Rides are set up by the waterfront park and on the dock there will be a special edition of the Karl A. Children's Fishing Derby, with games for every one. It's the town's way of raising money for the YMCA. The Y has asked the municipality to consider a $3,000 annual capital grant request for a five-year period. According to YMCA membership statistics, more than 500 Penetang residents use the YMCA's. new facilities in Little Lake Park on a regular basis. The carnival gets underway at the town dock at 9:30a.m. There is a skydiving demonstration planned, scuba diving, and 20- minute airplane rides for $10 a person. A crown and anchor wheel and children's games will also be included. Check your wallet Between 1970 and 1979 food prices in Brazil rose an almost un- believeable 1,587 per cent. Switzerland's percentage increase during the same period was only 53 per cent. Here in Canada we are ranked eighth in the world, with a 144 per cent increase in food prices. NOW OPEN CLUB 27 at the Granada Inn Hwy. 27 & Balm Beach Rd 526-27 derliness and efficiency. As well as, acceptance of or submission to authority and control; a treatment that corrects and punishes. Discipline In my view, if the lack of discipline (whatever it means) is a problem than it is caused by the educational system and perhaps within the family. I do agree with two points of the survey as having a detrimental effect on education, drugs and alcohol. There is one other influence of a tremendous negative impact on the education schools provide, not mentioned in the sur- vey. That is the ex- cessive amount of time spent by students from Grade 1 on, in front of the television set. Since the intellect finds its discipline in the effort to know, the emotions find theirs in the effort to feel. In both spheres schools could do a far better job. My suggestions as to the root causes why the system produces rebellion and boredom whose manifestations may appear to pe a problem of discipline are these: Our students are far too long in the elementary school system. Students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 in particular should be taken out of that system. Their minds are there not challenged enough and they end up by being bored, and they carry this attitude over into the high schools. I do not intend to dwell on drugs and alcohol or television since much has already been said on these subjects. But there are other culprits for disruption in schools. Whether it is the presence of drugs or the absence of religious instruction, the presence of alcohol or the absence of in- struction in logic, surely all this is bad, but the main problems are, in my opinion, of a dif- ferent kind. I mentioned somewhere that students are too long in the Kindergarten at- mosphere of the elementary system. What is far more ae.trimental to the development of any student is the fact that in this same elementary system, a division, a very purposeful division is made by teachers and the principal. Students are divided into two classes. Those, once they reach high school, who can do academic work and others who will go into the 4 year or even 3 year courses. It is totally unfair to make that separation and to carry that division into the high school and it is almost criminal to any student to refuse him or her the choice in their high school education, based solely on his or her performance in the elementary school. One of the many side effects of this is the fact that eContinued on page 24 BROOKLEA DRIVING RANGE on Hwy 27 Summer Mane OPEN 9 a.m.-9 p.m: daily ~ For three hundred years, a terrifying secret has been kept from the outside world. 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