PAGE 6, THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, July 7, 1977

USEFUL EMPLOYMENT

Help for the handicapped

Manitoba legislation

WINNIPEG (CP)
Working as a chambermaid
may not mean a great deal
to many people but it is the
culmination of about three
- months’ training for Suzie.

Teen-ager_Suzie. (not her
real name) is a former
student at Prince Charles
School in Winnipeg. After
finishing a program with
help from 4 trainer on a

' federal Local Initiatives
Program grant, she was
hired in May by a Winnipeg

, motel.

Suzie is classed as
‘‘trainable mentally
handicapped” a designation
for people whose IQs are
about 50 to 70° (100 is
average).

Her employment

. represents considerable .

progress: People with her
disability weren’t always

at Prince Charles School.

The students ages range
up to 21. :

One of the three other stu-
dents enrolled in the work-
experience program, which
provides individual
attention, has been hired
full-time at a ‘daycare
centre.

Another wasn’t hired at
the work site and returned
to ‘the regular wWwork-
experience program while
the fourth, who worked as a
dishwasher in a pizza
restaurant, is learning food
preparation there.
PICKED FOR POTENTIAL

Suzie is one of about 35
students from the school

now active in the program.

‘She and seven others were
picked because of past
records in the school and
because they appeared . to

care centres and the health-
sciences centre are among
places where students are
working. © :

- Students aren’t paid for
their” labors but the
companies pay part of their
workers’ compensation
premiums = to
protection in case they are

urt on the job,

rovide ©

rohibits - payment of
iudents on workexperience
programs, Holland said.

He conceded employers
benefit from the free labor
but said the program gives
employers the opportunity
to consider the students as
potential permanent
employees.

The work the students do
couldn't be done in a
classroom, he said. It;
supplements that of regular
employees but doesn’t
replace it, so no one .is
denied a job because of the

a.

e program's objective
is to turn employables into
employed, tax consumers

_ into taxpayers.

Still an exclusive
_ club for gentlemen

WATERLOO, Ont. (CP)
— The Waterloo Club is a
place where men are men
and women are barred.

said Waterloo businessman
‘Ross Hartrick, a member
for 15 years.

“It’s sort of an in-between

have potential for future
employment, Holland said.

Furniture manufacturers,
the garment industry, day-

allowed into’ Manitoba
public schools, says John
_ Holland, co-ordinator of
work-experience programs

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-Founded in 1914 by the time after work and before .
Seagram family, who used you gohome. Its not that we
toown the premises, itis the don’t like our wives, but
oldest licensed club in there are certain things that.
Ontario and one of the last guys just share with each
bastions. of male  su- other.”
premacy. - RETREAT NEEDED

It isn’t a tightly exclusive | Hartrick said the reason
club. Membership is opento for not allowing women in
all men, annual dues are the club is simple.
just $50, thereis noinitiation “They'd screw it up,” he
ee and drink tabs are said. ‘This is the only island
modest—70 cents for beer we've got left and women
and 90 cents for liquor. can drink pretty well

Businessmen and a few anywhere else anyway. So
doctors and lawyers use the why do they need this place
place as an after-work too? You let women in here
watering hole, for playing - and, I'm telling you, it’s the
cards, shooting pool or just end of the club. We need this
putting their minds in retreat.”
neutral and enjoying a few Clarence Young, 76-year-
pints with friends, old past president of ‘the

“It's like a fraternity, a club, said a few directors
blotter for your worries, a have proposed opening
place where you can come membership to women,
and unwind and not worry = “It was turned down flat,”
about what you say anddo,”” he said. “There’s a real

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escape from a

fellowship we’ve established —
at the club because ‘it’s: a
men’s club. It’s like a
fraternity:and we want to
keep it that way.” on

Young said the club used
to be more of an elitist
operation during the early
Seagram era,. whdn the
membership read like the
Who's Who of Waterloo and
Kitchener. . eo

“But. that’s all changed
now. We have a real cross-
section, people from
business. and industry,
professional people, the
whole gamut,”

Tme typical scene at the
club is low-key, members
flopping back in the red
leather chairs of the bar
room or kibitzing in one of
the two card rooms,

“All we have here is a
holein-the-wall hideaway -
where we can come and —
relax, unwind and have a
few drinks with our
friends,” said Hartrick.

‘Just the way the
Seagrams wanted it to he, ’
he added,

Canada Reindeer

Canada’s only reindeer’
herd forages near Inuvik,..
the country's northernmost |
incorporated town—about” ‘
130 miles north of the Arc-
tic Pole, The animals are
descendants of stock im- .
ported from Alaska in the -
1930’s. An Eskimo who pur-
chased the reindeer fram the
Canadian Government three |
years ago operates the herd
of 7,000 as a business,
slaughtering them and ship-
ping the meat to markets in
the south. _

_-KhyberPais
Pakistan's Khyber Pass".

"20 miles of steep, rocky road. |

—is traveled regularly by."
afleet of vintage 1950 Amer-". *
ican cars that serve ataxis ~~”

choose their’ own ‘husbands.

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McKENZIE BREAK

Stars Brian Keith, Helmut.
Captured:

German U-Boat) commander. .

. and 600 prisoners plan a daring:

POW camp In:

Scotland,