Lo ie
ry officials.and others involved

: ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.
Government

Sgeingt l
ies sea.
. ..gon-‘ever with one of the
 island’s biggest drawing

- cards: ‘ever on: ‘the. ag

‘scheduled oe

Aug, 7-19 here
oe ‘draw ~ ea are expected of

_ - visitors in addition to the 3,-

-Core curriculum
_ means dropouts

‘NAPANEE; Ont. (CP) —

° Introduction’ of a- core.

curriculum into Ontario
 fecondary act achools - ~may
increase ‘the. dropout rate,
Saye a board of education
intendent,
ren pal, iho recently
as SU inden
. of the Lennox and Addington
_. County school board ‘to
:”.. assume position
Sept. 1 with the Peel County
-poard:.in . Mississauga,
predicted the dropout rate
* will grow among students in
*- the four-year level of study.
“In-an- interview he said:
‘There is little doubt in my
«mind, and J have. the facts
ard statistics to sup
-that-: the - general-l level
student, is not well provided

. for in the ‘secondaryschoo!

System of this province.
“‘These | Students
; picireciaae a majority in our
vo ye in comparison
with: the “academic * elite,
little ‘is-done for. them, The
majority of dropouts come
from Miia - group . of

oo My fear is that recent
decis ions bythe politicians
, too! “introduce ‘ore

.  eutrieulum, core subjects
‘and:

province- wide
5 evaluation - will. provide

one of
. Student decides to abandon

t it,

eee cae TOURISTS EXPEC TED IN DRO VES
: Newfies await Summer

000-plus athletes and
offic
The ‘antici ated increase
re ‘has spurred
commission to ponder a
eoncentrated effort to
attract convention traffic. It

enda.. is studying Canadian cities
— : of comparable size‘ ‘to find
a ‘The - ‘Canada ‘Summer.

Games, :

out the secrets of ‘their
success" in playing host to”
conventions, ‘

“This rovince has a lot to
offer tourists—lots’ of |

additional hoops for these

throw. pe ple to jump year
0 and our

rate will increase,” “pen
Failing core subjects is

e main reasons a

the school system. ~:

A provincial ‘study. found *
31 per cent of ¢ ts leave
because they e school
generally 30 per cent leave
as a result of
cent becaune whee Y dinbke
courses and 19. per cent
because they dislike
teachers,

Dodds said: “One of my
most serious concerns is
that the system:
el gcing elitist. Most
and trustees have a middle-
class, elitist sort of edu-
cation and background.

“We must continue to
search for a system which
will slow down the learnin
proc ocess for some and 5

t up for others.”

Dodds said * education
decisions all too often
depend . on

expedien cy. .
There’ long-r
ere’s no long-r r ange

planning, none beyon

Pent election; decisions are
made ‘today but you can't
count :¢ ‘on them tomorrow.’ "

~ FINMING TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT |
COMPANY LIMITED |

ls pleased to sponsor a

MANAGING INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS SEMINAR

tobe held in the Skeena Room Terrace Hotel
on ‘September 7th and sth 1977

: “Binning Tractor Training Division will. be
mh presenting: this 2 day intensive training seminar

-which teaches ‘Who am I? ‘Who are all those J.

~- people out there?’ and ‘What special skills do |
‘need'to deal with them? It is a program. aimed
at, supervisors and managers af all levels..

‘This pi program has been found highly successful:
“in many major areas of British Columbia, and

since registration is limited, application should

be made now,

For further datails please contact: -—

Mary. Paterson,

-FINNING TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT co. ro. 5

‘4621 Keith Avenue:
“Terrace, B. C..
VeG 1K3°:

Tel: esr

local tourist equipped,”

Shere

Political

M5,

Se

history, recreation and °
-EPACE, an

-a- commission
spokesman said in’ an

whe ge gest mis a
te fa cai large

single” . aon fon, ", At
esent,. large conventions
ve to. accommodate their

del tes in‘a number of |

Th woviuee’s art in the
e ce’
[ine ovine 5
been . an.
campaign in-national an
international magazines.

_The tourism department has N ,
udget for

a $500,000

hao purposes” this
“Tourism Minister Thomas

Hick and = his officials
have been negotiat
Ottawa. the ‘terms
year
thistar ical corridors—100.0r

mite bigs rojects, ome { them .

ieee Se a Schvork of
places to visit and things to
see is. the type. of

development .that -attracts.
visitors and facilitates the.
arrangement of package .

The department _ also is
negotiating - a .. federal-
provincial agreement on a

y be program designed to give -

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THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, Auguat 4 77, PAOR 7.

a strategy
tet tourism muna seaegy

The program, devised b
department officials wit
the assistance of a
- consultant - from. Nova
Scotia, is to identif.
of tourist otentia.
needs, and w
about the situation on a
shortterm basis—five years;

and

“It is being realized that . .
hotels and motels cannot be |. ,

viable in certain areas of the

province and the alternative ‘|

may be he camping grounds, ”

He Bed that 12 to 15 per
cent of
Newfoundland are privately
operated while private
enterprise runs 78 per cent
of cam
Edward Island, 75 per cent
in, Nova Scotia and 70 per
cent in New Brunswick.
“The main thrust of the

rogram is to get the private
. ectar more ‘evolve in the
tourist industry.” -

The province . hopes an

agreement, worth about.

$18million, can be reached
this summer on the strategy

program..

Meanwhile, a team at: Me-
morial University. is
studying the effects of

tourism, including the costs:

and benefits, government
pe, ahd social and ‘cul-
i a

laces |

tcan be dene.

campgrounds . in’

rounds in Prince |_

year.

~The ait Famous Bahat in the Ward”

—
WENDY

" CLIBBETT.

Tourism was worth about

$100million to the New-. —
foundland economy last. -

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