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SCHOOL NEWS Carleton University's First Charity Ball All dressed up but no place to go? Hang on to those top hats because the First Annual Carleton University Charity Ball is just around the corner. Organizers of the event, to be held on Friday, Jan. 22nd in the Palais des Congrès ill: Hull, are calling it the biggest bash ever for the university. More that 50 volunteers have been recruited to help pack the hall with what organizers hope will amount to 2,000 people on formal night. The ball committee chairperson, Mike O'Neill, a fourth donating the hall for the year Arts student at Carleton, cause and Mayor James says he would like to see Durrell is acting as the everyone in the community honorary chairman of the participate in the event. event. Although he says the ball Proceeds from the ball will "will highlight the work go to the CHILDREN'S WISH students do in our community", FOUNDATION OF OTTAWA-HULL' tickets will be sold to the a charitable organization general public. that grants terminally ill O'Neill adds he is already children their fondest getting encouraging support requests. from Carleton's administra- O'Neill and some friends tion, Students' Association, were prompted to action by Alumni Association, the a similar event held annually University of Ottawa and at the University of Western businesses in the city. Ontario. The "plot was The Palais des Congrès is hatched" Thanksgiving week- end he says, and soon after he was busy recruiting volunteers from the community. Tickets for the event, which will feature two live bands, are $10.00 per person. Corporate tables will also be available at a slightly higher cost. The Unicentre store at Carleton will sell tickets beginning in December. For more information about the Charity Ball, please call 521-1997, 521-0273 or 237-3187. Preschool Music Academy registration BY JEAN GOMEZ The Preschool Music Academy will be starting its winter term soon. For almost 300 children between the ages of two and seven, music class is one of the highlights of their week. The programme encourages children to explore music through singing, movement, games and the use of percussion and melodic instruments. Classes are one hour long and the cost of the ten-week session Is $80. At present there are spaces available for four-, five-, and six-yearolds on Tuesday afternoons at our Elgin St. location and for four-year-olds Friday mornings at Alta Vista. The Academy has added a new class for two-year-olds on Wednesday mornings in Alta Vista as well as a class for Moms and their babies aged eighteen to twenty-four months. For information and BRIAN McGARRY Trustee Ottawa Board of Education Office 315 McLeod St., Ottawa 233-1143 Home: 235-7549 registration please call 233-1471. In addition to regular classes, an English and French series of special music workshops is offered at the National Arts Centre at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons from January through March. This series is being sold by subscription. However tickets for individual workshops will go on sale at the NAC Box Office two weeks before the workshop date. For information only, call 238-7270. By Monica Pine Provincial Share of Financing Education in Ontario has dropped from 61.3% in 1975 to 42.7% in 1987. Atthough dollars come from one source only (us!!) the local tax burden is becoming unbearable. We need relief from property taxes ... particularly in Centretown, the Glebe and Ottawa South. Otherwise many of us will be obliged to leave Ottawa centre and this would be the start of urban decay. The present Government of Ontario has made a commitment to fund 60% of approved educational costs. We look forward to such in Ottawa centre. (Ad paid for by Brian McGarry) 17r. PAY EQUITY ACT (BILL 154) PROCLAIMED The Pay Equity Act (Bill 154) is effective as of January 1, 1988. The purpose of the Act is to remove gender discrimination from the wage-setting process. The Pay Equity Act obliges the public sector, and private sector firms with 100 employees or more, to develop, post and implement pay equity plans and to make vvage adjustments where pay inequities are found. The following timetable applies: Group Public Sector Employees Private Sector Employers with 500 + employees Private Sector Employers with 100-499 employees Private Sector Employers with 50-99 employees Private Sector Employers with 10-49 employees Posting Date Jan. 1,1990 Jan. 1,1990 Jan. 1,1991 Wage Adjustment Starting Date Jan. 1,1990 Jan. 1,1991 Jan. 1,1992 Jan.1,1992* Jan.1,1993 Jan. 1,1993* Jan. 1,1994 (Posting is voluntary for private sector employers with fewer than 1(X) employees.) The legislation covers full-time and permanent parttime- employées but does not 'cover casual workers or students. Private sector employers with fewer than 10 employees are exempt. For further information concerning the Act, please contact the Pay Equity Commission at: _Honourable.Gregory Sorbara MiniSter of Labour 150 Eglinton Avenue East 5th Floor Toronto, Ontario M4P 1E8 Phone: 481-4464 (Toronto area) or 1-800/387-8813 George R. Podrebarac Commissioner January 15, 1988 Glebe Report - 23
FOCUS Help the Aged opens new office in Fifth Ave. Court BY SYLVIA GREENSPOON Help the Aged, a non-profit organization which raises money for the elderly, recently opened a new office on the second floor of Fifth Avenue Court. Cecil Jackson Cole, the founder of Oxfam, started Help the Aged in 1962 in England. The Canadian operation opened in 1975 and is the only registered agency in Canada which concerns itself with the needs of old people on a global basis. Through the Adopta-Gran program, sponsors help feed and provide medical care for the disabled elderly in India, Sri Lanka, Haiti and many other countries. Supporters in Canada include a high proportion of seniors ana many prominent figures including former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Canadian donations in 1987 totalled $338,454. Last year, over $15,000 went to the Alzheimers Society of Canada. Moved by devotion of workers Betty Gittens, Chairperson of Help the Aged, Canada, speaks with enthusiasm about her own involvement over the past year. She has recently returned from Dominica, a small island in the Carribean between Guadaloupe and Martinique, where she personally visited 30 of the adopted grans and learned how the funds were being used. Despite the impoverished living conditions of a large number of the abandoned elderly, Betty was impressed by the gratitude that was expressed and moved by the dedication of the workers and Sisters who make their way daily along treacherously steep and winding roads to the remote dwellings of the elderly. The two helping organizations which care for the elderly and distribute funding in Dominica are R.E.A.C.H. (Reach Elderly Abandoned Citizens Housebound) and Sisters of I.C.M. (Immaculate Conception of Mary). Their duties include making trips to the elderly's houses, cleaning and bathing, which involves carrying water from other sources since there is no indoor plumbing. They also feed and give physio and occupational therapy to the disabled. Three R.E.A.C.H. workers and one driver are able to care for nine elderly a day. There are 66 Dominican and office equipment all of "Grans" presently being which have been donated. sponsored by Canadian fami- One of the rewarding asplies and a total of 1200 in ects of the Adopt-a Gran the Adopt-a-Gran program. program is bridging the gap Sisters Joyce and Jean are between sponsor and recipient. particularly excited about a Betty, Loretta and Andrea try new mini bus being purchased to keep sponsors informed of which will enable them to the state of their-Grans transport the handicapped in through photos and letters wheelchairs to the infirmary, written by workers of the The cost of the bus is local Caring organizations. $69,000 (E.C.). A new solar Sponsors are usually heating system, at a cost of delighted to receive such $38,000 (E.C.) is being in- information but at times stalled for the infirmary reality can be disillusionwhich until now lacked hot ing. One sponsor recently running water. These two withdrew her support because projects are being funded by she was offended by the donations to Help the Aged, Canada. direct, detailed manner in which a worker described her For assistance in the Gran. Perhaps she didn't Ottawa office, Betty relies on Andrea Paquette to superrealize the letter was reaching her unedited from Nairobi. vise donations and Loretta Despite the ups and downs Villeneuve to oversee the Betty finds this_volunteer Adopt-a-Gran program. A handful of volunteers come during the week to help. Les Jamieson has been volunteering with Help the Aged for one day a week for the last ten years. The office has been partially donated by Minto and is furnished with desks, file cabinets kINIS I= I Mb.,1 NMI I I MI -«u I MN 11111.A. WO' /MIN work increasingly more rewarding. Since her visit to Dominica, she hopes to inspire other Canadians: "We are such a wealthy country. Surely we can share some of that wealth with those who are less fortunate." bik THE OTTAWA FOLKLORE CENTRE LTD. A h GUITAR: ALL STYLES SCHOOL OF MUSIC WINTER AND SPRING 1988 MONDAY THRU SATURDAY Betty Gittens visiting a Gran in Dominica. VIOLIN: MOST STYLES MON, TUES, WED, SAT. BASS: ELECTRIC AND ACOUSTIC THURS. VOICE: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY WED & THURS. PIANO: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY MON, TUES & THURS. DULCIMER, TIN WHISTLE, TENOR BANJO: MON. & WED. RECORDER & FLUTE: TUES. & THURS. CLARINET & SAXAPHONE: WED. & SAT. HIGHLAND BAGPIPES: SAT. ELECTRONIC KEYBOARDS: MON, TUES & THURS. HARMONICA: THURS. BANJO: BLUEGRASS: MON, TUES, & THURS. OTHER COURSES AVAILABLE: BLUEGRASS BAND, BASS, FIDDLE, RHYTHM GUITAR, MANDOLIN AND ADVANCED COACHING. TRANSCRIPTION, SONGWRITING, STUDIO TECHNIQUES, APPLIED THEORY, COMPOSITION, EARTRAINING, MUSIC THEORY AND ANALYSIS, PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHERS, AND PRIVATE ADVANCED COACHING IN ALL INSTRUMENTS. GROUP INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE FOR INTRODUCTORY GUITAR, BANJO AND FIDDLE. ENQUIRE ABOU'r0 RYPRQ.QRAMME!!!.!Q:F...SPEOAL'VOR.K:...jtt.. 744 BRONSON AVE. AT CARLING. 238-7222 LM MN I I 1111 I II II I NM /DM MIL\ IIMIN January 15, 1988 Glebe Report - 24
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