Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), December 18, 1968, p. 23

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Indians Page read its year The goal was to provide a bouse for ev ery Indian family in five years So far 55M homes have been built and the pro gram has been extended to seven years Although the program has in cluded some off reserve bousing it hasnt gone far enough The qualification that an Indian most have a job before he can have an off reserve bouse is not realistic Mr Chretien said He also criticized the social dis crimination Indians sometimes face While he claimed there was no legal dis crimination Mr Chretien admitted to a questioner that under the law the In dian Affairs Minister must guarantee an Indians loan thus cutting off Indians from many many credit sources taken for granted by whites While the educational situation has improved per cent of the Indian student population is attending public school with white children the educa tional climate needs upgrading Mr Chretien suggested hiring social workers not necessarily college graduates to visit reserves and talk to parents to try to convince them of the need for education for their children The Indian Affairs minister ad mitted there isnt much hope for the In dian over today but the fate of the young can be improved he said Invited to speak in Newmarket by the Young Liberal Chretien was accompanied by the only Indian in the audience his special assistant a BC Indian chief He was introduced by MP Present gift NDHS Newsin By SANDY KNIGHT STRANGE The chairman of the King I Township School Board I Jack Van Luyk ties northern development and national In a jibe at former prime minis ter John Diefenbakers Northern Vision he said be had no vision of the Im a realist but that the land per cent of Canada should be developed to benefit the native population as well as to increase the countrys wealth Drained again NEWMARKET Fairy Lake has had be drained once again It was drained last week and the water is ex pected to be missing for approximately in the air at as special Christmas activities upset the dull routine of classes Last Wednesday the students and teachers got together in a Broombalt game at our annual Skat ing Parly There was a burst of enthusiasm as Randy Perry scored a goal for the students against goalie Mr Then Mr assisted by Mr Bradley scored a goal for the teachers and the game The reason for the second drain ing this year is the high level of water from he lake An official of the Holland Valley Conservation Authority said that the con tractor trying to work on the diversion for the proposed Cane Parkway had been running into considerable trouble with water interfering with the topsoil in that Draining of the lake for two weeks will allow the work to continue and eliminate this problem Huron Hi Lite CANDY ROLE Staff Consuffonr JURVILL The game was followed by two hours of free skating and fun even Miss Schmidt who un fortunately took a fall and Miss Sinclair who made the rounds safely joined in Speaking of skat ing our hockey team play ed Bradford on Sunday and won boys Keep up the good Ted scor ed two goals Don Scott three and Bob one Come out and cheer on our team everyone it needs to success Last Wednesday our team played and was defeated in score perhaps hut not in spirit Pick who scored a goal for our op ponents by deftectin off his stick cheerfully declar ed I had to put it some where girls senior Wow Has it been a busy week Really it has been what you might call a super week One of items of this week was a special program that we have cooked up at Hu ron Heights School This is called our SAID program which stands for Student Action for International Dialogue This is more or less a student exchange club where students from our school have made pen pals out of students from Grenada and other schools such as St Vincents and St Georges in the West Indies These students have become very good friends and currently we an saving to bring three speak to us about the SAID program They were very impressed and as a gift gave us one of their com pany tape recorders to send down to the school in Grenada We will now be able to talk to the students down there through means of sending tapes back and forth I will let you know later on the progress of boys hockey team tost to St Andrews College with a score of 51 Rick Sisler got Hurons only goal In basketball the senior girls beat Bradford 3312 and junior girls beat them 3721 Great show girls beat Tins was the last game until after Christmas and we hope theyll do as well Last but certain ly not least the GAS is hoping to collect enough of the board last wonder- Trustee David project and presented the tes- support it wilt gift to Mr Van successful this year Lu Md Van hoi been in the past was Presented with a bou- nations by Mrs Mr Van is a farmer near village In Holland Marsh and has served King Town ship School Boards for the past 22 years He has been a member of the Area School Board for four years and was a founder of the Christian Reform School at I Cut Your Own CHRISTMAS TREE I Primes Scotch Pin 6th Cone Mile South of Sharon I ML Albert Sideioad WEEKENDS ONLY Phone LePage LIMITED REALTOR for Information Phot Call T Chester Manager 4814233 siwkis Saturday Dec at 800 pm Mr Mrs Donald Manning Picking Beach Musicians and Singers Paul Moore at the OrganSpecials Young People and Children taking part FILM TEENAGE CHRISTMAS A time of blessing and fellowship is anticipated SUNDAY DECEMBER Services at am and 700 pm TUESDAY DECEMBER Speciat Christinas Service at 800 pm Join us in a Christ Honouring Christmas DECEMBER 1st service at 900 pm FArjH TABERNACLE Miniate Rev Phone NOTICE For Mount Albert and District RE GARBAGE COLLECTION Collection for Christmas week will be made on Monday December instead of Saturday December MERRY CHRISTMAS TO All Ronald G Young Easter while send dents down to their school We are the first school in Canada to ever embark on such a student exchange program and were pretty proud of our selves On Thursday we had two men Mr Howard and Mr French from Phillips Co 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