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The following comments are from students of the Grade 8 class at the Main School in Moose Factory, Ont. The class was recently in the area for a school trip; they were billeted by local residents and taken on tours of all the local sites. Ilere are some of their observations: Ste. Marie Among the Hurons: A: the Museum, mos! of the students enjoyed 'themselves. They had ihings thai were dug up. --Bernadine Rickard There were skulls, bones of a human being, also muskeis, pisiols, and other things like rocks. --Chad Faries There was very old stuff there. They musi have dug ii up, 300 years ago, probably. I! was_in- ieresling anyway. The women thai showed us around her name was Esther. --Kelly Roach The Indian Village was greai. Our tour guide showed us alot of things and told us some things I never knew before. --Paul McLeod Huron Museum - We went io look whai the Huron's used long ago and whai the Georgian Bay people used for iheir homes. --Wilbert Visitor The Martyr's Shrine: The Martyr's Shrine was big like a castle. No one did not break anything. We sa: around things and kepi our hands io ourselves. --Kenny Chum We saw some bones from a famous priesi named Jean de Brebeuf, he was seven feet 'all. Another 'hing we saw there was aloi of candles, they use 'he candles for donaiing. Everytime you donate a dollar you gei io lighi a-candle. - --Lindy Linklater The Shrine was O.K., and ii was a nice place. In 'he Shrine many people were healed. --Tina Mianscum We went 'o Mariyr's Shrine, it was ihe biggest church I ever saw, some of us even liked it. When you wani io ligh! a candle you have io pay $3 io ligh: i:. --Alfred Vincent The Shrine was very interesting, ii has- many candles and i! was very big, even bigger ihan our Hall. --Clarence Trapper The Elmvale Jungle Zoo: Judy, Kelly and I fed the sheep, lambs. We got scared because they mighi bite us. We fed them corn. Afier we went 'o see some more animals like ihe Eland, did ii ever stink there. We were picking up rabbits, they were very cuie, and cuddly. I fed ihe bear, his tongue feli sofi when he licked the peanuis off my hand. When ihey were iaking a picture of Annabella standing beside some birds and when they would call she kept on screamimg. I've never Seen so many strange animals. --Annie Gunner They said a lion weni to the washroom on some of the boys. They were irying to take a picture of a girl with a Kookaburra and she screamed and the girl sereamed even harder. --Judy Gagnon The Penetanguishene Bottling plant: On Tuesday June 1, the weather was miserable. We were supposed :o go for a boat ride to Christian Island, bui we had to cancel ii because ii was raining, so instead we spent our aflernoon in a Coca Cola Company. --Verna I: was far ou! man, like going in there and there are all these machines all going at once to make thousands of bottles of Coke. --Darryl And, generally: - After lunch Kelly, Judy, Dorothy, Betty and me helped the ladies with the dishes. We all went to play baseball, boys against girls. The chaperons Barb, and Mary, played too, and Murray the bus driver was ihe umpire. The boys won of course. --Denise I like the way this billeting program runs. I {heard ihat before this billeting program even | Huroniathrough -- theeyesof oose Factory kid. siarted. Siudents used to sleep in gymnasiums. I like the billet we were staying with, he was kind and generous, he even took 3 of us in his home. On our free day with the billet, ihai was a Sunday, he took 4 of us from Moose Factory to Wonderland, plus his 2 kids and himself. And he paid for ii all. I had a wonderful time, and I let him know too. I think people will love billeis in the fulure, you make new friends --Verna I feel siaying with people from Midland was a very good idea, because you really got 'o meet nice people, and they got to mee: the real Moose Factory. I! was fun staying with people from Midland, because ihey know their way around preliy good. --Darryl The 'rip was greai for me anyway. I had fun with people I jus: mei or are complete strangers. --Kelly I think the irip would have been better if we didn't joke around bui over all the irip was greai, there was aloi to learn. --Murray I bough: shorts, T-shiris, ihai said Iron Maiden on ii. Two girls pierced iheir ears. --Annie The siudenis and ihe 'eachers were working hard io go away. Many phone calls were made by Mr. Delaney and -Mr. Puksa. They phoned io places such as Huron Museum, Sie. Marie 1, Parry Island, Gibson's Reserve, M.S.S., Jungle Zoo, etc. --Lindy I 'hink Midland is a nice, quiie, exira-ordinary place io visii, with the whole class. It's nice and quiet, noi like cities. Midland is a marvellous place to visi'. I have 3 or 4 friends 'here now. The people there are really friendly. I should say, you should visi' ihe place. --Verna A few of the boys and I weni up this slope to a lookou: 'ower, ii was tiring bu' worth it, after I got io the iop, Mr. Delaney and I only took a few seconds gelling over while some boys were s'ruggling and some more boys were wanting 'o Jump over. Mr. Delaney 'old 'hem not :o because 'hey migh! crack their heads open on the rocks. Some boys fell in. I was sorry 'o leave ihere because i! was so beauiiful. --Judy The driver said 'I wish I could drive you guys back"' and I wished he did. --Wilbert I can't pronounce ihe bus driver's name it sounds like French, anyway. Denise and I sai way a' the back of 'he bus, righi beside ihe washroom. I:'s kind of hard tv sleep when there's abou: 3 or 4 ape recorders going a'! the same time. Afier awhile the washroom siarted to smell a little. --Kelly The irip was excellent excep: for some boys. --Wayne Wapachee The trip wasn': bad, and I think thai everyone had fun, bu! we couldn': mind staying longer. --Bernadine Rickard The most exciling part of the trip was the Go- cari in Balm Beach, I like ii when Terry iakes head siarts. --Andrew On my free evening, most of us went to the Arcade. Many of us blew our money there. --Tina Mianscum A' the Wye Marsh, our group wen: on the Wildlife part of the Marsh, bu: I didn't like meeling the frogs. --Tina Mianscum I think the trip was excellent, nobody got badly injured, jusi scrapes, and bruises. Nobody got home sick, or sick, only travel sick. --Cheryl I' rained most of the time. Thank you. --Dale I think I have learned a lot. --Chad I wish we were there until it closed! --Wilbert Visitor More people make use of office The' office of the Oniario ombudsman, Donald R. Morand, received approximately 10; sper. Geni amore complainis and in- formation requests this year than the previous year, his ninth annual repor for the period April, 1981 '0 March, 1982, shows. Further, the office of the om- budsman has reduced he number of in- vesiigaiions carried over ai yearend 0 1,457. This is the lowes: carry- over of in-progress cases since the office began functioning in the fall of 1975 During he ninth reporting period, ihe office closed a 'otal of 10,175 complainis and informa'ion -- requesis. The majority of these were closed within several monihs of their receipi, Morand's office reporis. In faci, 7,164 or 70 per cen! were han- dled within one month. Fighiy-eighi per cent or 8,947 were closed within six months of 'heir GECelp, a Nes Om budsman's «ffice. Since Morand's_ ap- poinitment, approxi- mately three years ago, cost «f living increases io employees and other standard increases in ihe cos' of services and supplies have affecied ihe yearly budge'. However, when 'hese increases are com- pu ed, Morand's office siaies tha! the overall office expendiiures for 'his three year period are approximaiely $250,000 less than the above men'ioned in- creases. In times of fiscal restraint, he siaies he is naturally proud of 'his ac- complishment. Along with 'hese' savings, Morand reports that he has still been able io increase 'he number of employees conducting investigaiions. Morand further reports ihait members of his siaff held private hearings in more communities this year 'han ever before. Overall, staff members of 'the office of the ombudsman visited 76 communities province- wide in this reporting period. 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