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she holds a title which has yet to be held by anyone was awarded the title after reading 20 books or November, Michelle has read 80 books chosen from a total of 8,526 pages. The school is proud of her accomplishments. librarian and founder of the program, said it‘s purâ€" pose is to give children who like to read a chance to be recognized for their reading ability and dediâ€" The third annual Comâ€" munity prayer breakfast will be held in the Kitchener Farmers‘ _ Market next Tuesday morning, beginning at 7:15 a.m. The purpose of the prayer breakfast is to bring togethâ€" er those who are filling an active leadership role in our community to ask God‘s guidance in carrying out duties and responsibilities. It has become a meaningâ€" ful experience for many in the Regional Municipality This week‘s discussion on Canadian Unity deals with our attitudes of approach to the subject and, especialâ€" ly, to the problems and challenges inherent in national unity today. Although our sense of what it means to be Canadians has grown most of us are pretty provincial or even locallyâ€"minded. Our daily special and political conâ€" cemmns are confined mostly to the part of the country we live in and to the people we know personally. With more widespread education. travel and exchange of ideas and experiences via newspapers, magazines. radio and television. we are growing in understanding of how other Canadians live. The issues and the personâ€" alities of the present ~Quebec problem", although startling and even threatening, have forced us into facing a lot of national problems including Canadian unity. Traditional loyalties and prejudices regarding race. religion, language. politics and social customs are a mixed blessing. Admittedly. it isn‘t easy to deâ€" cide what to keep and what to change. I would contend that mature. democratic nationalism ought to be the shape of the national unity we desire. This does not demand sameness or uniformity (a common goal in dictatorships), but it does require ~unity in diversity"‘. That is possible only when supported by a love of Canada strong enough to put loyalty to Canada‘s wellâ€" being first. while allowing for reasonable expression of many individual and group differences. Sometimes we forget that. in addition to the native Canadians and the English and the French. a third of our people come from other backgrounds. Canadians speak in many tongues. go to different churches and have very differâ€" ent customs. In my view Rebecca West was quite pracâ€" tical in her description of what a nation should be ommunity prayer breakfast " Michelle : MacEachern School SupeReader By Rev. Harold K. Wright Emmanue! United Church cation much the same as dents in grades one to six. It has been divided into six levels with each a little more difficult than the preâ€" vious one. Children have been supplied with a list of complete a specified numâ€" ber at each level. Upon the completion of the books at each level the children make an appointâ€" ment with Mrs. Secord and are examined on content. At level one the student is receives :wardl for parâ€" Grant Koch, principal of gram falls in line with the The speaker this year will be Dr. Peter F. Bargen, Executive Director, the Ontario School Trustees‘ Council. He will tell of his moving to Canada as a young boy with his family and settling in Western Canada. The theme of his of Waterloo. adaress is ‘ Seeing the Hand of God in the Affairs of Men." Under the direction of David Arthur, the Forest Heights Collegiate Concert made crest that says N.A. MacEachern SupeReader awarded a certificate and a felt crest bearing a circle Participation in the proâ€" cates and additional circles with the number one. At levels two, three, four and gram is voluntary and the program will be carried on from year to year allowing years to complete it. Mrs. Secord said that no attempts were made to She wants it be be a chalâ€" lenge. Today staff, students Band will perform: William Cowls will again chair the programme, inviting Sister Joan O‘Sullivan to open with the Prayer of Invocaâ€" tion. Lessons for the day Reader is really a someâ€" will be read by students Leonard Monheit and Cameâ€" Tickets at $3.25 per perâ€" son are available from the Steering Committee and reservations in advance are requested by noon May 15th, please. Telephone Ethel Schaus at 884â€"2362 *A shelter where all talents are generously recognizâ€" ed. and all forgivable oddities forgiven"‘. Any worthâ€" while national unity has to be based on justice, freeâ€" dom. a sense of personal and social responsibility and integrity, or it is not worth striving for. Can we meet that challenge? So much depends upon our approach and our ‘‘sizingâ€" up‘* of the situation across the country. For example: there‘s the temptation for Ottawa and most of the provinces to ‘"keep Quebec in her place"‘. Quebec Separatists violently oppose that position and demand nothing less than "sovereign independence" for Queâ€" bec. The third temptation is for nonâ€"Quebecers to say: ‘"Let Quebec go her own way: and good riddance"‘. Give a little thought to those positions and you‘ll realâ€" ize they are not only extreme; they have been arrived at through frustration, prejudice and passionate desire to solve, or at least get rid of, the "Quebec problem"‘. Make no mistake, the issues for both the English and the French have been long standing. For many years the stage was one of ‘"conquerors and conquered"; then came the years of "the quiet revolution‘‘ and. more recently, the politicizing of Quebec grievances in the formation of the Parti Quebecois (among other proâ€"Quebec groups) and the Levesque government in November. 1976. How can the threat to the breakâ€"up of Canada as a nation be met? No one. to my knowledge. has the comâ€" plete answer. It must be clear that we ought to bring an open mind and an open heart to the issues and the personalities involved. Of course. we cannot. and should not. forget the achievements and the failures of the past. Most Canadians. including the majority of those in Quebec. do not want Canada carved into rival nations It can happen if we don‘t take a humane. tolerant and realistic approach to the matter Michelle Kelley, 10, a grade five student at MacEachern School, was the first student to complete the school‘s unique SupeReader program. Joan Secord, right, librarian and founder of the program, presents Michelle with a crest in recognition of her accomplishment. "J. Show a lile stye. _ * ‘The Task Force On Canadian Unity® is holding meetâ€" ings all across to discover what many groups and thousands of individual Canadians think and want to see happen. ‘The Task Force‘ also has the complex and difficult job of coming up with recommendations for desirable and workable changes; all of this at a time of severe economic recession and political unâ€" rest. The prime issue raised by Quebec Separatism is whether Quebec should remain in, or optâ€"out, of Conâ€" federation. With its long history of French language, culture, education, laws, etc., tied in with a sense of grievance against its English "masters‘‘ who ‘"took over their country"‘, Quebec nationalism has become strong and demanding. Extreme Separatists are callâ€" ing for sovereign independence to be a nation free to govern itself, pass its own laws, set its taxes, enter into trade and other agreements with Canada and other nations. In another talk we‘ll discuss how wideâ€" spread this demand is; also, how desirable and practiâ€" cal it would be for Quebec and for the rest of Canada. Before agreeing to dividing Canada we must ask ourselves how ready we are to make some pretty radical changes in our attitudes and in our dealings with one another in such things as schooling, business, politics and the sharing of rights and responsibilities between different levels of government in Canada. Loyalty to Canada as our country is more than sentiment, alone. It is both an ideal, and a practical. respect for a freely elected parliament and for the laws it enacts; a respect that comes from the highest levels. In taking the Coronation Oath, Queen Elizabeth was asked: "Will you to your power. cause Law and Justice. in Mercy. to be executed in all your judgâ€" ments?®"" To which the Queen replied> ~I will"‘