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Ontario Summer Jobs, 1997, the Ontario government's $43.5 million strategy to help 40,000 young people ages 15 and up find work or job counselling, has exceeded its target by 4,000. About 44,000 young people have been helped by the summer jobs strategy."Young people deserve training and work experience that will give them a solid foundation for their careers," said Ontario Minister of Education and Training John Snobelen. "Summer jobs are a critical first step to help young people develop skills and career interests that last a lifetime."
"We're proud of the success of Ontario Summer Jobs, 1997. I want to thank the thousands of employers, in businesses, community groups and government, who hired students this summer. I also want to thank the non-profit organizations, community colleges and others that delivered the programs so effectively."
Ontario Summer Jobs, 1997 is working in communities across Ontario with a very positive response from employers and young people. It combines programs offered by the Ministry of Education and Training, Management Board Secretariat, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism. It offers a range of services including an incentive for businesses and community organizations to hire young people for up to 16 weeks, and a loan program to support student businesses.
Thirty-five years later, as part of UW's 40th anniversary celebrations, the faculty of arts is going to remedy that oversight with a "birthday celebration and belated grand opening" for ML next Friday, September 5. The event starts at 12:15 and will be held in the arts quadrangle in front of ML, or, if it rains, in the Theatre of the Arts.
Ken McLaughlin and Paul Beam, who were arts students in 1962 and are now members of UW's faculty, will speak briefly "about the olden days", says Anne Harris of the dean of arts office, who's organizing the celebration. The Varsity Briefcase Drill Team will perform, UW's president will help cut a ribbon, and there will be music and "cupcakes while they last".
The real highlight of the party, though, is likely to be a "retro fashion show" with "authentic garb" of the kind that ML's corridors have seen over the past three and a half decades. Some thirty staff, faculty and students have been persuaded to act as models for the fashion show, Harris says.
Faculty: One (1) member of full-time Environmental Studies Faculty to be elected by the full-time Environmental Studies Faculty members (term to April 30, 1998). One (1) member of full-time Mathematics Faculty to be elected by the full-time Mathematics Faculty members (term to April 30, 2000). Two members of the full-time Faculty at-large to be elected by the full-time Faculty at-large (one term to April 30, 1998; one term to April 30, 1999).The fine print: "Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, Secretariat, Needles Hall, Room 3060, no later than 1 p.m., Friday, September 12, 1997. Elections will follow if necessary. Nomination forms are available from the Secretariat, extension 6125."Graduate Student: One (1) full or part-time graduate student of the University to be elected by the full and part-time graduate students (term to April 30, 1999).
Undergraduate Student: One (1) full-time Faculty of Environmental Studies/Independent Studies undergraduate student to be elected by the full-time Environmental Studies/Independent Studies undergraduate students (term to April 30, 1998).
The faculty of applied health sciences sends word of a PhD thesis that's about to be defended:
Department: Health Studies and Gerontology.
Candidate: Erin Tjam.
Thesis Title: Comparison of Health Status and Use of Western and Traditional Chinese Medicines Among the Elderly by Culture.
Supervisor: John Hirdes.
On display: Faculty of AHS, Matthews Hall 3120. Oral examination: Friday, August 29, 9:30 a.m., Matthews Hall 3119.
The local Volunteer Action Centre is looking for people to "plan special events, solicit advertisements for a newsletter, chair a publicity committee or become a board member" for "a local community arts centre". Also wanted: someone to "plan and organize a fun monthly social event for survivors of head injury". More information: 742-8610.
How do you clean up a Great Lake? In particular, how do you clean up Hamilton Harbour? This site, produced by eight accounting students who took Environmental Studies 220 last year, describes how a Remedial Action Plan has affected such things as water quality, dredging activities, and fish tumours.
The course, taught by Mieke Delfgaauw, was titled "Environmental Economics", and she insists that Web page skills are essential to it, right along with class discussions and technical and presentation skills. "Memorizing will not be part of this course. Understanding and learning are part of this course." Says the course outline:
Your final project will be on a topic in the field of environmental economics (e.g. eco/eco systems, monitors, indicators, case studies). This project will have as its main foci: content, structure, accessibility on-line, current and future use for people in the field of eco/eco system management.The Hamilton Harbour project is one result; others dealt with budget cuts in Ontario government ministries, sustainable agriculture in Grand Bend, and rehabilitation of Frood Pond in Sudbury.This assignments consists of several parts: group discussions in class, interaction with partners in the field, presentation of the draft in class (last couple of weeks of this course), final project on-line by December 5, 1996.
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