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my Barrie women receive grant to hire students Children learn through play in Sometimes when all the theories have been tried and tested the old ways prove to be the best ways That seems to be the trend in early childhood education it Barries Creative Playtime summer program for children from three to five years old the children receive caring atten tion but are not manipulated if there are early childhood education theories behind the efforts of the five young women who watch the 20 to 25 children during each session these are not obvious The children have room to move inside and outside at the Johnson Street Public School site time to themselves to try many different activities and time with the whole group There is no structure to decide what to do when but the atmosphere and surroundings promote learning The emphasis is on being with the children says Mary Lower who with Kay Storer received the Young Canada Works grant paying the salaries of five students FORMER TEACHERS Both women are former teachers who left teaching to 14 Heather Hall and Jackie Allan found the costumes they wanted in the dressup centre of Barries Creative Playtime project on now at Johnson Street School The proiect funded by Young Canada Works runs until Aug l0 Examiner Photos by Claudia Krause Marion Pilon of Elmvale correctly identified lqst weeks photo in The Newsmakers Contest as the trailer overturned on the Highway 400 ramp at Essa Road and won Big Meal at McDonalds If you know the story behind this weeks photo send your name address telephone number with your entry to Newsmakers Contest The Examiner Box 370 Barrie L4M 4T6 Win ners will be notified by mail Winners are selected by random draw of all correct answers Examiner Photo Garden Notes Roses blooming now at Barrie arboretum visitors welcome raise families Both now have young children We have tried to set up learning atmosphere where children can learn while play ing says Mrs Lower Children learn best when theyre happy not forced in one area of the school gym nasium is carpentry centre equipped with hammers nails wood and other materials which completely absorbs the attention of two young boys and girl while The Examiner reporter tours the gymnasium Nearby is the dressup cen tre When the children spot the camera they all want to try on costume cowboy vest bunny suit flounces here and there highheeled shoes guards uniform One young fellow across the room is setting plastic building blocks on top of one another higher and higher until the structure breaks The snack centre has fresh carrot sticks and cool water available anytime the feeling strikes PLAYING HOUSE Some children are coloring making prints from vegetables dipped in paint Others are playing house in pintsized kitchen and bedroom Whah cries little girl covered with blanket preten ding she is sick baby Another little girl comes running There there she says Youll be all right The father is little boy wearing construction helmet girl dressed in an angel costume comes fluttering across to the carpentry centre The little carpenter looks up at her pauses then says You look nice Outside are riding toys plastic tub filled with water sandbox and climbing ap paratus off of which two little fellows pretend they are fishing ENCOURAGED The students ask the children many questions about their ac tivities and encourage the childrens imaginative flair We told the parents not to expect their children to come home each day with brown bag full of what theyd made thatday The process of doing and ex perimenting is for children at this age more important that completing something to show to mommy says Mrs Lower Lynn Slessor project manager and student in physical education at Universi ty of Toronto visited local nursery schools in Barrie one week before the Creative Playtime program began COLLECTED ADVICE She read books and talked with Mrs Storer Mrs Lower and Gaye Sclater with the early childhood education departlt ment at Georgian College in Barrie We wanted it to be an at mosphere in which the children could express their ideas If they wanted to pretend their tractor was spaceship wed encourage them says Miss Slessor Creative Playtime will have run six sessions before the sum mer is out Places in the later sessions are still available Parents pay $5 for each two week session their child at tends The first sessions end this Friday while the next ses sions begin Monday either morning or afternoon and finish July 27 The final sessions morning or afternoon begin July 30 and finish Aug 10 Parents can register at Johnson Street School Monday through Fri day to 1130 am or to 330 pm It JII lliiII Barrie Horticultural Society With the funny vcatbcr we have had this past season one has not thought much about heat However we could still have some very hot day weather and if you want to save work for yourself and help your prized plants mulch them Use your grass clippings sawdust or wood chips Failing to have any of these the next best thing is to keep the earth vcll cultivated lic sure to keep all the dead blooms all picked off your plants or thcy will soon become gaunt and leggy Pinch the terminal bud out of any growing too tall so they will branch out and become bushy All those flowering shrubs that have just finished bloonr ing should be pruned Their next years bloom comes on new growth and if you cut that later you will have no bloom next spring There seems to be few more delphiniums around town and am so glad There is no lovelicr sight than weilgrown Giant Pacific Delphniiums with some Mordcns Pink Lytbrum beside it The colors are so intense they just hold you spellbound We hope everyone will pay attention to the very beautiful flower beds put out by Harrie gardener chney DeBoer and his assistant aroiinc Sweet if you look at them all and study them you can lcam great deal and by applying what you Iiiin learned make you own flower beds and home more beautiful The man who bought out the late John Schloen of Brooklin who gave us the Barrie Rose came to Barrie July to take cuttings from the Barrie roses in Centennial Park so he can propagate and we can ha vc more Barrie roses Anyone wanting to sec some nice roses should visit the rose beds at the arboretum in Sunnidaic Park Barrie SOCIETY NEWS Your society is short of someone for the dried flower sec tion at country fair since Helen Saunoris is in Vancouver for some time Also George Watson retires on that date and he and Mary have pet supplies On July 81 members toured to NiagaraontheLake to see the play The orn is Green The day the place and the play were all delightful thought was told the tour to Stratford was full but it is not There are still 22 seats The date is July 25 for First Part of Henry iV Details from bookers The tour to the international Lily Show is July 14 at Royal Botanical Gardens Btis leaves am from Wellington Hotel Hess Village and Ben Veldhuis Greenhouses will also be visited Florence Lockhart is back booking She has been nursing her brother who was in hydro accident The tour bookers who have all tour details are Mrs Lockhart at 7283873 10 am to pm Margaret Laurence at 72tr6798 or May Max well at 7288248 The local garden tour is Aug Anyone interested in shar ing view of their garden with fellow gardeners can call 7284543 Dont forget the Home Beautification Contests that are open to any citizen of Barrie For details call Joe Palmer at 7282593 Anyone with those little plastic containers tomatoes come in could donate them to the recycling com mittee also the small baby food bottles Society membership is nearing 2600 and the new mailing list is being revised Barrie th re were those in the city who thought Ray Marshalls ij enthusiasm was mis festival Kempenfest and named this years honorary patron did not let negative remarks and him he described the events Brian James points the hopscotch with water from plastic tub set out for the children Ray Marshall at right founder of the festival which has become Kempenfest accepts photograph of the i97l Festival from Gord Knox this years Kempenfest chairman at Kiwanis Club of Barrie meeting Monday By LAUDIA KRAUSE The Examiner Back in the days before had Kempenfest His sense of fair play would not let him mention names of those without vision for Barrie but he did say one was then member of city council and another was wellknown Barrie citizen was told Our women will not be safe Bums will be sleeping downtown We will have to increase our police force and taxes will go up guided Marshall founder of the known now as unfair obstacles deter him he said but he has not forgotten those ea rlv opponents SETBACKS OVERCOME Many obstacles threw On Menday evening at Kiwanis Club of Barrie meeting held as tribute to themselves into Marshalls path especially concerning the chosen site at what was then Formosa Springs Brewery Park but the festival went on leading up to the first festival in 1971 That first year sales amounted to about $8000 he said Marshall who now says his idea for an arts and crafts festival for Barrie originated with his wife Dorothy ap preached the Kiwanis Club of Barrie nine months earlier to sell them on the idea He and his wife had been impressed with the Autumn Arts Festival in Toronto and felt festival would work for Barrie He commends Bill Me Creary then Kiwanis presi dent for his support also Helen Cox and Barrie Art Club members who wrote let rs throughout Ontartn an the examiner qugesday July 1979 Mry Lower sits with Derrick Lucas and with the guinea pig on loan to the Creative Playtime protect from Maple Grove School in Barrie Louise Clark Karen Corfe and Corinne Ashle especially mixing in some water Huronla Festival of the Arts chairman this year Is Dan Arnoldi speaking here with other Kiwanis Club of Barrie members Examiner Photo Kempenfest founder praises those who helped in early festival days viting exhibitors MANY T0 PRAISE He also praised the help during festival time from the Emergency Measures Organization which sent 22 auxiliary policemen and the Rotary Club of Barrie which sent 20 men to patrol the grounds Canadian Forces Base Borden sent technicians to handle traffic control and parking Les Cooke then Barrie mayor gave his blessings and Cooke Cartage supplied trucks for the parade led by Barrie Concert Band from ci ty hall to the park Marshall said About 4800 persons attend er son Matthew as they ply enloy the sand and ed the first festival which raises $1400 for community work Our people proved they had stamina Like good soldiers they hung in until the end The biggest surprise was finding that we had made profit Marshallsaid This years Kempenfest Aug and includes much more than the original arts and crafts festival dog shows regatta and other water events nonstop enter tainment and downtown pedestrian mail Kempenfvst will draw an estimated 40000 persons from Barrie and all across Ontario this year