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- Deenie Stewart -- Last spring the Simcoe County Board of Education approved an idea new to this area: the holding of a nursery school in a high ig school. The point of the project is to give family studies students a chance to supplement classroom instruction about parenting with experience. Deenie Stewart is the head of the family studies department at Midland Secondary School, she has a large part to play in the 'nursery school, as do family studies teacher Debbie Bonthron, and nursery school teacher Kathy Stewart. Eighteen boys and girls aged three and four are brought by their parents three mornings a week to a classroom given to the project by the family studies department. The children are supervised each day by, in addition to Kathy Stewart, a mother, and three or four family studies students. By school year's end al least 70 family studies students, all girls, will have spent time in the nursery, Deenie Stewart said. "We'd love to have boys,"' she said, pointing out that boys will be parents too, "but there's still a bit of a stigma attached." The curriculum is co- educational, and boys have taken family studies courses in other years, but not this year. "If you are preparing students for family living, parenting, why not fathers? But you can only teach what you get." The nursery is co-operative. Mothers of the children take turns spending a morning at the nursery, and sit On a committee to raise funds. The only period during which the students will not be helping in the nursery will be during examination week,. and the week . before examinations. "Parenting education is so im- portant,' Stewart said. Students spending part of their school hours in the nursery find out what young children are like, what their needs are, and what constitutes normal development, she said. Nursery duty isn't simply playtime for the students as well as the children. The students are required to write a paper based on_ their classroom experience. To be fair, the nursery isn't all playtime for the children either. 'It's not just a big pile of toys," Stewart explained. Different areas of the room are filled with toys and books and other educational material that is designed to stimulate different areas of the child's mind. In One corner of the nursery there is a creative centre, in another a dramatic centre, where children can dress up and play feed_the baby, and in another area, a library. The nursery doesn't cost the tax- Payer any money and is '"'a tremen- dous learning situation for the students," Stewart said. All young people are parents in some way, if not the obvious way, through having children of their own, she said. They have nieces or nephews. They are in a parent's position when they are babysitting, or when they are swimming instructors or camp counsellors. The information that they take away from the class is not something that they 'stow away and keep for 10 years."' Stewart said. "You don't have to bear your own children to be a parent." The Friday Times Second Class Mail Registration Number 3194 and Friday Citizen Second Class Mail RegiStration Number 2327 Published by Douglas Parker Publishing Ltd at 309 King Street, Midland, Ontario./ 526-2283 75 Main _ Street, Publisher: Douglas Parker Editor: Douglas Reed Penetanguishene, Ontario/ 549-2012 The Friday Times and Friday Citizen are distributed free each Friday to households in Midland and Penetanguishene » Parker Publishing Limited also publish The Midland Times, Penetanguishene Citizen and Elmvale Lance each Wednesday in the Huronia market. They add a buffer zone. water wells. (plume? eContinued from Page ss around the site is 'toward the southwest, roughly parallel to the concession road."' "among the advantages recommending this site for waste disposal is the virtual absence of any development (residential or otherwise) immediately downgradient of the operation." Additional Investigations In order to determine the extent of current environmental impairment and predictions of future impairment further study involving the '"'installation of about 15 additional observation wells and a more comprehensive water sampling and analyses program"' has been undertaken. This Phase II study is expected to be ready within three months. Minimizing Impact Morrison Beatty recommends that "the property abutting the west side of the landfill site should be acquired to serve as Phase II will determine whether a "system of leachate interceptor wells can be used to control the spreading of a contaminate plume.' Conclusion The report concludes "'The results of the first phase show that, while there is likely migration of contaminants beyond the western boundary, there is no evidence of contamination in any nearby private There is no indication of any immediate hazard or threat to water supplies. Fur- ther hydrogeologic study is needed to define the extent of the contaminant 'i are aA Congratulations Jeanette Leroux, left, past chairman of the Quota Club, presents Nel Peever with a small present in recognition of Peever being chosen as the Citizen of the Year by the Midland Civitan Club. y, Fourteen teachers interested in post Fourteen teachers under contract to the Simcoe County Board of Education have suc- cessfully applied to the board to be considered as potential employees of the Department of National Defence in Europe. The Department of National Defence will make its own choices. A maximum Of one public schoo] teacher and one high school teacher would be allowed to take a leave of absence by the SCBE. A teacher whose application is accepted by the Department of National Defense would be in Europe for two years. The board would expect that teacher to stay with the board for at least two years when the teacher's two years in Europe was com- pleted. A teacher posted to Europe would retain benefits such as_ his pension and_ seniority while away, but would not necessarily be placed in the same school or at the same level of responsibility on his return. CNIB Kevin Purssell, left, secretary of the Midland and District Rotary Club, passes a cheque on behalf of the club to Dean Nicholls, local Canadian National Institute for the Blind chairman. 3 plays- Midland Secondary School Adults $3.50 Students $1.75 Season's tickets Adults $8.50 Students $4.25 Phone Joan Hanna 526-5655 or Ray Knight 534-7162. Huronia Players present Neil Smon's THE ODD : COUPLE -- Directed by Janet French October 30,31 at 8 p.m. Tickets at Mac's Milk, Huronia Office Services, Barber and Haskill, Gignac's - Penetanguishene Page 4, Friday, October 30, 1981