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By NANCY FIGUEROA Of The Examiner When youve been away from home half year and youve studiously practised ballet during that time there is nothing nicer than coming home and relaxing says Jac queline Sloan Barrie girl studying with the Royal Win nipeg Ballet Thursday Jacqueline 16 flew home to warm reunion with her parents Don and Jeanette Sloan and her two brothers and one sister never thought Id miss my brothers and sister Jacqueline told The Examiner But you do get homesick Jacqueline tall golden haired beauty has obviously been missed by her family too Were so glad shes home said Mrs Sloan Coming home says Jacqueline is nice relief We were getting overworked near the end she said Our bodies needed rest Coming home however also poses few problems Im really going to have to watch my weight with all the Christmas baking and things she said And watching her weight is continual problem Although she isnt sure or is reluctant to tell what her weight is she says ballerina shouldnt weigh more than about 110 pounds Thats so the guys can lift you she said Her teachers confirm her fears Theyve told me theyre happy to have me here and that look promising she said But they say my weight is my biggest hurdle ENJOYS WINNIPEG Although Jacqueline misses Barrie she enjoys life in To Heart Egundgflgn Barries ballerina home Winnipeg She lives in duplex with three other ballet students one from Victoria BC one from Prince Ed ward Island one from St Thomas Ont and one of the school administrators We get along like sisters she says then dancing from to pm Their schedule includes school from am to 315 pm five days week plus two hours of dancing on Saturdays On top of that they have homework chores shopping and laundry to do They dont have television but any spare time often finds them naturally watching ballet The school supplies them with free tickets to any ballet company performing in Winnipeg plus free passes to any performances of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet It costs about $4000 for lomonth stint with the school more than the Sloans could manage bursary however was provided by Barries May Court Club The Sloans were overjoyed by the May Courts support When she has finished Grade 12 Jacqueline hopes to join the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company She said however It is very competitive field All sorts of things could happen There are 250 students enrolled in the schools profes sional program and the company is composed of less than 30 dancers Something about her however tells you she isnt just another young girl with impossible dreams of being prima ballerina For Jacqueline Sloan youre certain dreams are going to come true Elvis fans donate $$ teenage love of the late great Elvis Presley has been translated into dollars for the Ontario Heart Foundation courtesy two Barrie women Eleanor McCue and Jane Lapp are in their early 305 now they were boppers in the early 605 when Elvis was already well established as the King of rock and roll When he died they were both shaken by the loss of their teenage idol and resolved to do something to honor him So three years ago the two women held their first Elvis Presley Night dance with an Elvis imitator as the featured performer Because early reports stated the cause of the Kings death as heart failure they decided to donate all the proceeds to the Ontario Heart Foundation Subsequent revelations that in fact their hero died of drug overdose have not changed their original commitment The first years Elvis star was high school boy hired for $10 and the total profit was $575 Last year the ticket price was $15 and the top Canadian Elvis imitator performer from Toronto who calls himself Selvis donated his time for free The donation to the Heart Foun dation reached the $1000 mark This year says Eleanor Selvis will be retur ning and again donating his time The cost of tickets has been raised to $20 along with the rise in cost of just about everything else But thats still great price for fun evening for two which includes meal Joseph and Mary had babyagain Remarkable coincidence surrounds the birth of pound ounce Joseph Charles Austin pictured at his Swindon home Wednesday His parents are both named after the Biblical parents of Receives mont JOPLINMOtAIiForthe ficiary of threebedroom home and everything in it He Chan the cat will live in luxury and he takes the style to which rest of his nine lives Charlie hes become accustomed in his fourpawcd stride Charlie Chan 10yearold white alley cat is the sole bene inherited the brick house Per sian rugs and antiques when his devoted owner Grace Alma Patterson Wiggins died in April 1978 This cat and second cousin Annuity Quotations AND INSURANCE AGENCIES ND The Annuity Specialists All types of annuities arranged with the issuer trust life insurance companies etc offering the highest rate or the bestcontract Brochure explaining all annuities or comparison of old and new RRSP options tree on request 50 BRANCH OFFICES COAST TO COAST lOCAl ASSOCIATE REG lACHANCE Box 39 I36 Boyfield St Barrie 7285986 taconsed thotgh Noth ANWO Put aside panic tweet If 1353113 Not indulging in all the traditional treats and sweets of the holiday for ballerina Jacqueline Sloan for in Barrie for holiday but will return season will be the biggest challeng the next week at least Shes home soon to her studies with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Examiner Photo mhliuflmlycglufie Help for diet desperadoes If last years visions of sugar plums lingered on stomach and hips rather than long agoeMary and Josephhe was born on Christmas Day andhis father is carpenter AP Photo in Jasper were her only rela tives and she just liked cats better says Thelma Fenix the first of Charlie Chans three caretakers since the death of his owner $15000 trust fund was set up to keep the utilities taxes and insurance paid on hans house in quiet suburb of this southwestern Missouri city About $150 month was allo cated to keep Chan fed and pay his twiceyearly veterinary bills 30yearold schooltea cher now is his liveiii compan ion and she says the tomcat is loving and lovable pet with distinct personality of his own The executor of the estate wanted someone to live here fulltime so Charlie would have Tomcat inherits owners house lots of affection and pats said the teacher who asked not to be identifed When come home from errands hes always sitting in the window talking to me through the glass Hes glad of the company think In his leisure hours the hefty feline ottcn stretches out on the stereo or the comfortable couch or favorite marbletopped table Mrs Fenix says Charlie was an orphan of no special breed when he nieowed at the front door one night and changed his life forever when he strode across the threshold When Charlie dies the house and its furnishings will be sold according to the terms of the will CA TCH THE DISCO FE VER IOWEEK DISCO COURSE BEGINNERS lNTEIMEDIATES COME AND SEE FREE DEMONSTRATIONS OE All COURSES THURSDAY JAN 3rd PM AT BARBIE YWYMCA For further information Call 7266421 Closses start Monday Jun 7th in dreamsthen this year its time for new and different look atfood Whether you are going to parties this holiday season or giving the party yourself You can be sure it will be hard to survive without gaining weight It is the glorious time of the great too much when emo tional stress and calorie laden foods are equally dangerous saboteurs Here are some tips on how your hips can survive the holidays and you can salvage personal peace of mind from traditionally hec tic and fattening season For the Diet Desperadoes of January it is the same every year at this time Youre looking for painless weightless scheme you are feeling bulky guilty and desperate Youre ready to swear never again You are ready to try anything But are you ready for some common sense Can you put aside your panic for just while to face some hard facts First you should note this Many successful weight wat chers report that weight loss begins in the holiday The way in which you think about yourself can dramatically af fect your efforts at weight con trol positive outlook will affect your zating behaviour positiver but panic and guilt will surely undermine your at tempted weight Ioss because they know the perspective In stead of looking at an overall picture of achieving stable permanent weight panic makes you look towards crash dieting and other possibly dangerous methods Secondly you have been here before and you can be here again next year unless you begin right now to look at the overall picture Well be ing good nutrition and sensi ble weight maintenance do not happen by magic overnight They are an individual respon sibility and they do not look after themselves no matter how desperate you are to be thin Thirdly it could very well be that you as well as many others are simply better at losing weight than you are at keeping it off True Then start working on the idea that Januarys weight loss is only the first step towards the ultimate goal of weight con trol RESOLVES Concentrate on making some positive changes for this year Be it resolved in 1980 that This is the year learned that diet is simply what eat Everyones diet should be consistent wellbalanced and nourishing Therefore will choose food plan that is consistent wellbalanced and nourishing In addition the food should taste good because am look ing for weight control not punishment am making it my business to findout from doctor nutri tionist or reputable weight control organization how to plan proper meals and how much food is enough will choose desirable realistic weight to strive towards will make it my responsibility to maintain that weight through sensible sound approach eating wisely and well will stop telling myself that ant big boned too busy victim of heredity it too set in my ways to change TEMPTATION Anything is possible if work ed at one day at time In stead of dreaming about wak ing up ten pounds lighter tomorrow morning concentrate to New evidence reveals Lowtar cigarettes aren lifesavers TORONTO tCl If you think switching to lowtar cigarette will prevent your life from going up in smoke you will have to wait another 20 years to find out assuming you live that long The cigarettes have been pop ular for about four years not long enough for telling evidence to accumulate Canadian and US studies bear out this uncer tainty There is small but statisti cally significant reduction in the risk of dying with the use of lower tarnicotine cigarettes says 1979 US Surgeon Gen erals report Youre dealing here with man and we must wait for the epidemilogical evidence It will take at least another 20 years before we know says Brian Zilkey smokingresearch sci entist with the Canadian agri culture department We cant get good fix on how the individual smoker achieves reduction on them Frog Prince Store for Children 205 Dunlop Street East Barrie Teieplione 7372001 Fine toys books records 81 supplies stationery Open Wed Thurs Fri evenings before Christmas to pm on acting to eliminate tempta tion from your path Search and Destroy Mis sion Your targets are leftover holiday candies cookies nuts pretzels bread dressing and other bits and pieces which may be scattered about the house Be ruthless Throw it out or give it away or get so meone else to wrap it up and store it for you Keep Yourself Busy There are other things in life besides food give them fighting chance Leave couple of novels out and put your hobby materials at the ready At this time of year you must owe several thank you notes get notepaper envelopes stamps and pen together in prepara tion for the moment when you are seriously tempted by food You will then have ready made alternative to eating Television is not your best friend right now Too often it leads us into bad eating habits Be selective about the programs you choose to watch Whatever you do dont eat in front of the television for the time being Make mealtime an experience in itself Take at least 20 minute for our meal You will feel fuller and more satisfied Reduce your appetite go for brisk walk Gaining weight over the holidays can become habit The panic and desperation you may feel right now are pro bany based on vague suspi cion that you have been out of control for too long and that you have eaten too much all day every day While the first part of that statement may be true chances are that the second part is an exaggeration Dont waste your time feel ing guilty Make weight con trol habit with yourself in stead and you can leave the ranks of the Diet Desperadoes for ever People do obtain lower ex posure but not as much as one would predict given how mucti they went down says William Rickert biochemist studying tarnicotine effects They may cut down little bit on lung cancer but dont do thing for the real danger the carbon monoxide says George Lewis an anatomy professor at McMaster University in Hamilton More than 100 brands of ciga rettes are manufactured in Canada Virtually all bear the name of one of the big four Rothmans Pall Mall of Canada Ltd Imperial Tobacco Ltd Benson and Hedges Canada Inc and RJR Macdonald Inc Company chemists measure tarnicotine levels which then are doublechecked by the fed eral government It vvn nuv $7 Ann Landers Illegitimate grandson Tfear Annianders Our son fathered little boy but did not marry Loretta He offered marriage but she refused saying she didnt love him enough to live with him and felt the environment would be unhealthy for the child My son is supporting the child sees him often and is good father To complicate matters my daughter is very friendly With Loretta She also loves the youngster and invites mother and son to her home often My husband has seen the boy few times and he adores him too am being pressured from all sides to treat this kid the same as treat our legitimate grandchildren In other words invite him and his unwed mother to our home and make them part of our family Am wrong because feel Loretta is immoral and the child is not my real grandchild because his parents never married need your thinking Ann am too emotionally involved to be objective Please help me In Ohio Dear Ohio The boy is flesh of your flesh blood of your blood Even though his parents did not marry he is indeed your grandson If you open your heart to this innocent child your own life will be far richer Please talk to your clergyman cannot possibly tell you in few sentences all that you need to hear Dear Ann Landers Some of my friends have trained their young children to answer every telephone call with Who is this before Mommy or Daddy will come to the phone When call paddy to ask if he would like to play golf or an employee to inquire about changing shifts find it pretty darned insulting to be cleared through fiveyearold secretary Am wrong to feel this way If you agree how would you handle the situation Irked In Austin Dear lrked can understand your irritation when asked by youngster to identify yourself Actually the fault is yours The proper procedure when telephoning is to identify yourself at once no matter who answers Example This is Mr Jones May speak to your father please Dear Ann Landers am 20 my fiance is 19 We are getting married soon and we dont want to start family until we are financially able to manage We figure it should take us from three to four years have been studying up on birthcontrol methods trying to decide which is best for us We cant afford to make any mistakes Last week came across book on astrobiology which says female can conceive ONLY during twohour period every month According to the author if woman follows this method of birth control she will be 100 per cent safe Please give me the address of good astrologer with whom can work out my chart Thank you Soon To Be Married Iii Battle Creek Dear Soon Sorry dont want any part of this one Its too risky If womans periods are even slightly irregular she could find herself knitting tiny garments lot sooner than she had planned Erma Bombeck Try taking tree down By ERMA BOMBECK Women You say you hate crow ds You say you yearn to have time for yourself to get ir touch with your feelings You say there are always kids underfoot and demanding husbands and you never have the house to yourself Have got solution for you Take down the Christmas tree Youll never know what isolation untzi you stand in the middle of walltowall pine needies and ouice This tree has to go Your husband Wlll return to work two days eariy The children will return library books visit shut2n get paper route or Sign up for meatpacking plant tour The dog will go outside and shiver for four hours Its the same every year stand it as tong as can Then one day walk across the floor and realize that careless spark from my knees rubbing together could send theentireliving room upin flames Its amazing how in just one short week Christmas tree can go from religious experience to the pits Those soft green branches that you buried your ace in for the pine scent are now Acupuncture C1ty The needles that turned brown and fell to the carpet went to that big forest in the sky taking the smoking vacuum cleaner withthem The bird that chirped when you plugged giving lighthearted sound to Christmas was choked to death by III mob during the first eight houzs What lei of hang Iimply from the branches strangled by its our plug The cranberries and the popcorn have dropped collec tively into the carpet where they take root and con tinue to reproduce themselves into the shag long into mer The string of lights that your husband carefully Is on each bough now has no ginning or lost its plug and fused itself into Nothing comes off as easy as it Eve Zle hooks on the bulbs cling to the branches auntie £21 left with hookless bulb in your hand Suddenly there is crunch under you pulverized candy cane From out of the no five people all wanting share of it They dont have to know as five years 1in people places CHRISTIAN SINGLES 3731 the corner of dropin is being planned at John Street Garnrw 33 Gwens home for the Collier Goods on DUTZIOL Christian on New Singles Years Eve Call 1189509 or Lillian at TitiNTI for further information IIOGMANAY DANCE The Sons of Scotland Benevolent Association Lovat Camp No 217 Barrie will hold its annual Hogmanay Dance on Monday December 31 at 630 pm in the Willow Room of the Continental Inn hot buffet dinner will be served at pm with dancing to follow at to the music of Syd Stark Tickets are $10 each For information and reservations call 7283048 or 72€r9960 RESCUE SQLAI DANCE The Simcoe Rescue Squad is having New Years Eve dance at the Barrie Armoury on Monday December 31 featuring live band Willow Creek Tickets are $45 per cou ple and include hats horns meal door prizes and all drinks Proceeds will go to the Squad to keep the trucks in service and to purchase new equipment To obtain tickets call 7373844 for delivery or buy them at Midway Variety on comui DENTURE THERAPY ClINIC rommu BARRIE DENTURE cumci 7264721 ms ounior St BAthtE MEMBER DENTURIST socnm Glenn ii the Bsyfc Radio Shack Mall IIlllSENIORS 10week course Deg ners bridge be January tron in the Essa Road Church with instructor Ms Scome Church There will be no charge for the course but may be necexzary to buy small book Classes will be held every Thursday at the same time ELVISNIGIIT On Saturday January Eleanor McCue and Jane Lapp will be holding their third an nual Elvis Presley Night with all proceeds to be donated to the Ontario Heart Foundation The dance will be held at the ANAF Club on George Street with featured performer Elvis imitator Selvis of Toronto Music in the breaks will be provided by 2001 Disc Jockey Service Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at Sams downtown Ticket price includes buffet and door prizes Call 7260868 or 7269169 for further informa tion WANTED ioooo RECORDS ADAM BOOKS INC 74 DUNlOP ST 156