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41m rs mlt7 mm Jean Stevenson gave the details of day care in Ontario Monday to group meeting at Georgian College Mrs Stevenson is co the college which began this year Students children in nurseries Examiner photo ordinator of the early childhood education course at who graduate are qualified to work with Raising kids properly aim of college course By ROSEANNE McCABE Examiner Staff Reporter Who cares for kids That should be the concern as day nurseries in Ontario in number says Jean Stevenson comdinator of the Early Childhood Education program at Georgian College There are growing num ber of infant care centres growing number of single mothers raising their children Weve got to face facts If we arent caring four our children some adult is she told group Monday at Georgian College The early childhood education course is new this year at Georgian College Mrs Stevenson spent eight years with the day care bran ch of the ministry of com munity and social services and was assistant to the director when she left She also taught home economics in high school Children will take over what todays generation begins she said Or if they dont carry on the work they could be unemployed or in jail she said The question we should be asking is are there enough people who value childhood to put time energy and money into raising children children properly CONFUSING Mrs Stevenson said day care as term is confused by many people Many dont know the dif ference between day care centres and day nursery schools nursery school is for two to three hours day with em phasis on developmental programs But day care centre is for children who need care up to 10 hours day because their parents work Emphasis is also on developmental programs There are also family day care homes in which there are up to six cared for in private home They take five or fewer children The Day Nurseries Act sets the limits for day care stan dards In day care centres all facilities are checked for proper lighting ventilation health regulations health of the children and staff and that the staff is qualified ac cording to the amount of children cared for The early childhood education course at Georgian is one of many in community colleges in the province training people to work with children in day care Fees for day care in tario are now about $0 day or $4511 week she said Mrs Stevenson also discussed subsidizing day care in Ontario Those parents wanting financial help with day care must apply to the citys com munity and social services department and qualify for needs test The city can decide to give financial aid or not The city applies to the provincial government and can work out split of payment The city pays 20 per cent and the province 80 percent The province can get so per cent rebate of that Ho per cent from the federal govern ment she said Priority is given to single mothers who are working she said and lowincome families More and more parents are turning to private home day care Mrs Stevenson said They are more flexible to suit the various working hoursof parents she said Area girl guide convention More than 350 girl guide leaders and commissioners from the Silver Birch area of Ontario will meet this weekend in Barrie for their annual meeting The convention will begin with registration Friday night at the Continental lnn Workshops will be held at St Andrews Presbyterian Church and Collier United Church These workshops will include leathercrafts games hooking macrame camping skills gadgets dried flower arrangements judo OPP protection for women back packing and conservation The theme of the meeting is Somewhere Over the Rainbow organized by Sandra Harris division commissioner for Champlain division The closing banquet will be held Saturday at 145 pm at Collier United Church Lillian Gracey deputy provincial commissioner for New for fall 77 Ontario will be the special guest along with Jean Kroct sch Silver Birch arca conr missioner representative from the ity of Barrie the mayor of the week and Rev William Fritz minister of COlllCl Street lnitcd Church and his wife Leaders will attend from as far north as lluntsville Bracebridgc the Owen Sound area Xlerich south from Kit chenenWaterloo Guelph St Marys and Strat ford Model wears red print gown with square neckline left Tuesday during showing of Fall Col lection 77 of designer llanae Men in New York City At right the Japanese designers big bubble top wom with matching slacks and boots AP Photo Timing is fact oflife So if you eat out often you might as well accept it say several Barrie waitresses Ruthann Sheldrake 21 waitress at the Brookdale Inn says she makes as much as $125 week in tips She makes $250 an hourminimum wage for licensed restaurants If it wasnt for the tips wouldnt work here she said Cathy 22 waitress in restaurant with no licence says she couldnt live on her minimum wage of $265 an hour The tips arent as good as in licensed restaurants but she makes enough to get by She makes about $20 week in tips Pat McCarthy makes more than minimum wage at pizza restaurant but thats because she has some managing duties as well as being waitress She says she hardly ever gets tipsfisomething she isnt used to after working six years in restaurants You live by your tips she said Who is paying Waitresses for their service The employer or the customer ONUS ON CUSTOMER The onus is on the customer says Miss Sheldrake Tipping 10 per cent of the bill has been the rule of thumb though some waitresses say its 15 per cent now Recently Ontario industry and Tourism minister Claude Bennett said he thought people in the service industry should be paid as much as 50 cents less than minimum wage because of tips Right now minimum wage is $265 an hour But its $250 in licensed restaurants because drinkers tend to tip more Waitresses in Barrie would turn in their aprons if they were mid 30 cents less What ripoff that would be said one waitress who wished to remain anonymous She is married Her husband works but he does not get fantastic wage used to be able to make it on the wage makcbbut couldnt now she said And we live quite moderately So does Cathy single with her own appaitment and Pat who is married with two children My husband gets disability pensionbut have to work Pat said Stella Willson waitress at the Continental Inn was indignant at the thought of being paid 50 ccntsless ARENT STEADY Tips arent steady You cant buy house or plan your life on something as un predictable as tipswit wouldnt be fair to cut wages she said She said the only way she would stay on as waitress without tips is if the minimum wage was boosted to $5 an hour Youd never get an em Tipping ployer to pay that said another waitress who has been working in restaurants for two years She has general bachelor of arts degree but no specific skills Restaurant work was the only work could find she said What if the public boycotted No one tipped ld quit for sure And so would other waitresses Who would be the waitresses she asked Are restaurant employers usmg psychological warfare on the customer The onus is on the customer to tip suppose says Mrs Willson But how do you fight it its one of those things that has always been there she said All five waitresses said there are advantages totipping Incentive thats itit makes waitress do her best job said Pat tell you right nowif waitress doesnt do good job when Im eating out she doesnt get tip Mrs Willson agrees But Ruthzmn Sheldrake tips now out of principle Unless youve been waitress you dont know what itslike Another waitress who said tipping was optional for the customer said she gives tips for the same reason DESERVE MONEY You have to put up with some pretty ignorant people sometimes think we deserve the money for good service shesaid Its customerwaitress relationship While some waitresses feel the examiner Wednesday Apr 20 1977 15 Youd better learn to accept it say waitresses in Barrie eateries is it fact of life we must accept more people are tip pingwmostly those 30 and overMrs Willson says people are getting away from the tradition Inflation is doing it When beer cost 75 cents they left you quarter Now beer 15 90 centsyou get dime John Pretty Canada Man poer counsellor in charge of service disagrees with the idea of cutting the mimimum wage for waitresses The waitresses in the notso upperclass restaurants are getting the short end of the stick he said The employers he said should be responsible for paying decent wages to waitresses We as individuals customers should not be sub sidizing persons wage He said however tipping does provide an incentive for waitress And that is what management wants If you dont have good waitresses youre lost He says there is high turn over in waitress positions DISADVANTAGE Low wages and long hours are disadvantage to the job he said The serving profession is becoming femaledominated hesaid Unskilled men can turn to construction They dont have to settle for lower paying jobs hcsaid Many young girls and separated mothers are waitresses he said because they have little background in anythingelse lifestyle By SLE ROCILIFFE Examiner Staff Reporter Betty Jenkins and Brenda Simpson are dairy princesses for the Ontario Milk Marketing Board They didnt get their titles by modelling swimsuits And they arent expected to sit back and look pretty at the banquets they attend There are things do that know are waste of my time said Betty 1976 Ontario Dairy Princess after the lluronia Dairy llcrd Improvement Association banquet But there are also things do that are challenging The two girls were raised on dairy farms Betty in Elgin County and Brenda the Simcoe County Dairy Princess in Oro Township and they know what dairy farmers face in ter ms of costs and business outlooks You know from personal ex perience about the industry said Betty who was elected last September at the Canadian National Exhibition but you still do lot of studying beforehand Its like winning job for year and you have to know what you are talking about Dairy princesses spend they yearlong term talking to people from Kingcrgartcn children right up to high school seniors says Brenda and they speak at banquets What they are doing in all their appearances is act as spokesmen for the milk marketing board and get rid of some consumer miscon cept ions POOR IMPRESSION lot of our time is spent in schools Childrens books there have very poor impression of what dairy farmer is says Brenda The books show farmer milking his one cow by hand and it shows his one pig and his one eh icken The dairy industry has become so modernized in recent vears said Bettv that it needs explaining to people She said consumers often dont have the right impression of dairy farmer Consumers complain about prices because they see the price go up and they think that money is going right in the far Imers pocket said Betty They dont think about production costs or land costs or the middlemen she said Thats what we are trying to help them understand by speaking to different groups To help older students un derstand she says she takes business administration classes through the process of setting up dairy operation Secretaries association fashion show in early May Dont be afraid to ask questions says Pat Neil executive secretary and assistant product manger of General Tire and Rubber Co Show initiative be in terested There is so much to learn in every office she told the regular meeting of the Barrie chapter of the National Secretaries Association NSA Miss Neil was one of three communl IANNED CABBAGE quarts shredded cabbage tblsps butter or margarine 12 cup chopped fresh onion teaspoon caraway seeds W2 teaspoons salt lateaspoon pepper teaspoon sugar Remove outer leaves and discard Cut head into quarters cut out core and cut into thin shreds with knife Melt butter in large skillet Add onion and cook over ow heat until tender Add cab bage and remaining ingre dients mix well cover and cook over low heat for five minutes until cabbage is cristender Makes serv ings MURIEI SAUNDERS speakers at the meeting held at DeVilbiss Schools ut was the theme of the meeting Students and teachers from area schools attended Sheila Quinn medical secretary stressed con fidentiality major factor in her job as doctors secretary Courtesy and neatness is also important she said Rosemarie Sprowl secretary ty kitchen Readers are invited to send their favorite recipe to community kitchen co The Ex aminer Box 370 Bar rie Ont L4M 4T6 Winning recipe will receive fullcolor cookbook from Con sumers Gas Company Due to their number recipes cannot be re turned for Four Seasons Radio outlined her daily duties and stressed neatness and ac curacy Norma Ferrier thanked the speakers Pat Neil gave the treasurers report The NSA will hold fashion show May at 730 pm in the Blue Flame Room Consumers Gas Building Fashions by Evangeline will be featured Mary Morris president and Betty Akers past president will represent the group at the Canadian division annual meeting May 20 to May 23 in Quebec City Member of the Year will be picked on executive night April 27 at the Continental Inn The Eccles are lucky Postmaster Albert Eccles was at choir practice Thursday night when his wife Betty won $10000 in the Wintario draw Its standing joke in our house every Thursday when he leaves for practice Mrs Ec cles said He asks Shall bring home bottle of rum just in case we win The children and jumped up and downliterally when we watched the draw on television Mrs Eccles said They plan to pay off the house mortgage she said The Eccles buy tickets regularly and have won $100 twice and $25 The Eccles have two children at home Annette 11 and Adele 10 BRENDA SIMPSON from ro talk to them about cost rather than just the nutritional aspect of milk and they realize its expensive she said Its so hard to start up dairy fann these days said Brenda Theres so much money that has to go into feed and equipment Betty will represent Ontario and Canada at the coronation of her British counterpart this June while Brenda intends to spend the summer in Simcoe County talking to different groups In August she will compete for Bettys title process that involves week of interview and public speaking lts not just looks that count these days says Betty KNllliE IMPORTANT They are judging you on your personal knowledge and stough your ability in public speaking She eamed the respect of one emcee who spends much of his time with normal beauty c0n testants lie was going to have me come up and be interviewed while the girls changed into their swimsuits she said So prepared some notes and was ready when got up there She said the emcee pulled her aside later and said dairy prin cesses always impress him He said all we needed was one question and wed take off she said He said he wan ted to know what kind of training we had that we could speak so well Then she said the beauty contestants got up to speak They giggled through the queshons she said Morrows celebrate 62nd wedding anniversary William and hristine Morrow played with two generations of family Saturday before guests arrived to celbrate their kind wedding anniversary The Holly couple held granddaughter Iiristiua littcrson five months old left and greatgranddaughtcr Laura Lynn Smith right examiner llioto ALLAN SllilllARl Brereton naturalists annual goes Thursday Allan Stewart fish and wildlife supervisor for the ministry of natural resources lluronia district will speak at the annual meeting of the Brereton Field Naturalist Club Thursday at St Georges Anglican Church llall The evening will begin with potluck supper at 630 pm The fish and wildlife division of the ministry is the govern ment agency protecting and promoting fish and wildlife values The Brereton club co operates with the ministry by sharing information about bir ds and certain animals Stewart will talk on the various ways naturalist club can be involved with the ministry