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PAGE 10 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1993 °> â€"FREE J _ Ask about our mix and match 1 ; J combination of glasses and contact § J 1 lenses. Complete details in store. 1 1 1 _ Expires: July3, 1993 _ 1 1 Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute P. 0. Box 22 077 Cambridge N1R 8E3. Tel. 62â€"0283, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. The grapeâ€"juice incident was a minor disaster when it hapâ€" pened, yet all the screaming, nameâ€"calling, cursing and bad temper in the world wouldn‘t affect it â€" but it would affect the child I am sure that most of us have participated in the following scenario: A small child is sitting up to the table with the grownâ€"ups, perhaps for the first time. Elevated precariously on cushions or a couple of phone books, legs dangling, it lacks the stability it was used to in the highâ€"chair. Nevertheless it is trying to cope with the new experience but, reaching for its glass of milk it is knocked over. _ â€" Instant commotion! People standing up, rushing about, all seem to be talking at once. And as if all the fuss wasn‘t enough to totally bewilder the child it is likely to be punished as well. For what? Because in all innocence it inconvenienced some people, that‘s what. I am sure that you, as an adult, have cursed a similar situaâ€" tion, maybe knocked over your wine glass, and were acutely embarrassed by it; but were you punished? That was nuisance to others too, but you hoped that they would understand it was an accident Of course, children must learn to respect our things; but we had better face the fact that there are bound to be some acciâ€" dents in the learning process and in these cases it is far better to have the scars on the furniture â€" than on the child. Our loved ones are beyond price; the things they break, scratch, or stain, accidentally, can be fixed orâ€"replaced with far more certainty than the emotional damage that we can inflict through thoughtless punishment by word or deed. _ As he was desperately trying to remove the stain, which appeared to be futile, his daughter, near to tears, tried to say how sorry she was. He was too busy to make a comment at the time, but a few minutes later, understanding how badly she felt, he gave her a big hug and said he knew how she must fee, then he said: "*"Y‘know you are a lot more important to us than a living roomâ€"rug." You would like to have the matter handled in a adult manâ€" ner, right? Then why, when a child is the cause, do we tend to act in a childish manner? And showing that we value our things more than we do them â€" that‘s pretty hard to take, you know. 1 s I went to a houseâ€"warming party of a friend of mine recently. Almost everything in the house was brand new, including a beautiful rug in the livingâ€"room. e s During the reception, the 15â€"yearâ€"old daughter of the house, spilled her glass of grape juice all over the rug. There was the usual horrified silence before my friend bolted for the kitchen to get a cloth. * That set me to thinking. Wouldn‘t it be just wonderful if we could all do a better job of keeping things in balance â€" in their true perspective? And we could if we just learned to wait until the emergency, or whatever it was that made us angry or impatient, was over for a while. If we did, in most cases we would end up saying nothing at all, or something thoughtful and kind, instead of inflicting an emotional wound that might take a long time to heal, if ever. 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"CKWR‘s mandate is to provide an alternative to the mainstream, and we put a high emphasis on our local independent talents," says CKWR program director Joe Downey. "So the type of stage we‘ve put together, is a way, depicts the programming we do here at the station." To further promote and support local talent, and celebrate this community‘s diverse multicultural makeâ€"up, CKWR is presenting the talents of local perâ€" formers at Waterloo Park‘s Bandshell, Friday evening, to kickâ€"off the Sounds of Summer Festival, And the artists performing at the event have been selected to represent various aspects of Waterloo Region‘s cultural community. Local artists expressed such interest in the Comâ€" mUNITY Stage event, Downey wishes more could have been:given an opportunity to perform. Six groups will be featured at the event, he says, but this region enjoys a veritable wealth of talent. "Ideally, we would like to have gone the whole weekend, and had bands from every one of our proâ€" grams out there. But with just one night, we had to pick a few," Downey said. "The original idea was that we would have our own stage at the festival for the entire weekend, but because this is our first year involved, the Sounds of Summer people suggested it would be a better idea to have & oneâ€"evening event. So we decided to cover a few areas of our programming, and get that out as sort of a smorgasbord of sound." The Dervishes perform at CKWR‘s CommUNITY Stage, which kicks off Sounds of Summer, Friday Deborah Crandall Smorgasbord of sound Local talent showcased at CKWR CommUNITY Stage _1 91 King Street, N., Waterico @@) BP 747â€"5657 folks at CKWR FM have only one motive in SUPER OPTICAL Downey says the station is hopeful a community stage can be operated throughout next year‘s Sounds of Summer Festival, and feels organizers will have no problem recruiting enough local talent to perform. "We would have no problem at all running a local stage for the entire weekend. Just from the number of bands who entered to be on this stage â€" we took entries from anyone in the area â€" we could have "It is really incredible in this community," Downey says. "Working here at CKWR, we‘ve really reached out to a lot of different parts of the community. 1d like to say that we‘ve reached out to everything, but that will come in time. At this point, though, we are reachâ€" ing out quite a bit, and this sort of stage just brings that forward and says, ‘Hey. Look what this commuâ€" nity has to offer. It‘s just incredible â€"â€" we‘ve got jazz, we‘ve got folk, we‘ve got Celtic,â€".we‘ve got Spanish music and alternative rock. And more, and more, and more." The first performers will take the stage at 4 p.m., and entertainment will continue until sundown. Here‘s the lineup: *The Rockway Seniors Glee Club opens the event. This highâ€"spirited group of seniors from throughout Waterloo Region has been performing in the area for several years. From its home at Rockway Senior Cenâ€" h'e,fl;m.;avnhwambudmu.perfm- ing oldâ€"time and contemporary favorites. *Heather Chappell & David Wharnsby perform at filled a weekend. And that was only for the one night. Had we advertised that we were taking bands for the whole weekend, I‘m sure would still have had to say no to at lot of different acts." 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