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Queen 's Park report Former CUSO volun- leers Donna and Rich- ard Denham. of Cones» (ago, are arranging a reunion at their tarm June 13 for those voUm, teers who served with them in Tanzania from 1967 to 1989. Including spouses and families. some 45 people are expected to attend. In the past two de- cades, CUSO has placed more than 8.000 skilled Canadians on two-year contracts in the Third World. A number have been from the Kitchener- Waterloo area. Jim Walker, now a professor in the history department of the Uni- versity of Waterloo, was one of the early ones. He was a CUSO teacher in India in 1962, travelling out with the second group of young The Select Commit- tee on Ontario Hydro Affairs has apparently become one of the first casualties of the new majority Conservative government, which has informed opposition parties that it does not intend to reconstitute the committee which has been in existence for six years. Terms of reference of the Com- mittee called for an examination of several areas of Hydro's plan- ning strategy, includ- ing the various merits of large, small, remote and urban area gen- erating stations, the ratio of new nuclear plants to fossil-fuelled stations and the eco- nomics of nuclear power in comparison with generation from other fuels. Meanwhile, Liberal Energy Critic Julian Reed has charged Om tario Hydro with hiding the true costs of nu- clear fuel by adding the future costs of dismam tling nuclear power stations and perma- neatly disposing of nu- clear waste to the total electrical bill. It's been " long years of service (or Canadian University Services overseas (CUSO). (ounded in 1961, Also, an opposition' Member has asked the Premier to make pub- lie the findings of a 1976 investigation into whether any govern- ment impropriety oc- CUSO celebrates first 20hjiiiiii'ii Canadians to be placed overseas. He was a chairperson ot the local CUSO committee in its early years. D'Arcy Wagner, now a farmer in New Ham- burg, was one of CUSO's youngest ever volunteers when he was sent as an exten- sion worker to northern Ghana from 1976 to 1918. At the time he was only 19, though he had grandam with an agricultural diploma from the University of Guelph. Steve Allen, current- ly active in education activities and working at the Global Commu- nity Centre in Kitchen- er, spent two years in Nigeria with CUSO as an English teacher at a Kano teachers' col, lege. Lucy Pickard, also from the Kitchener- Waterloo area, is one of CUSO's senior volun- teers. Now 60, she will be returning to Nigeria as an English teacher In the preliminary report of a study of the province's high school system, Duncan Green, Chairman of the Secotr dary Education Re- view' Program, an- nounced recommendas tions that all high curred in the awarding of two Ontario Hydro contracts. The Pre- mier had stated in 1978 that the report could not be released be- cause the Toronto Har- bour dredging case was before the courts. That case has now been con- cluded, __ 7 . i WVIIDOI'V." chener-Woierioo area and invites his many fnends and Chen's to coll or drop m and see him for osststortce on all your Real Estote tronsochons. Coll: office 884-1260 residence 8851171 REAL ESTATE APPOINTMENT C1anadatustFRealtzar Niieria from an to And then there's Rich Carothers. one of CUSO's longest serving volunteers. Since 1909. when he was placed by CUSO in Tanzania as a math teacher, Rich has served a total of seven years as a volunteer with the organization. More recently he's been invovled in appro priate technology in Botswana, testing windmills for raising water from boreholes. and developing solar devices. Currently conducting wind-tunnel testing of windmills at the Uni- versity of Waterloo, Rich will be embarking on another two-year Third World placement with CUSO this sum- mer. His wife, a doctor, will be working as a CUSO volunteer as well, this, summer. Lucy Ontario is the only province in Canada which continues to have five years of high school, even though students from other provinces can enroll in ontario's colleges and universities without having to take reme- dial courses. This re- port is one of a number of similar studies un-. dertaken by the Gov- ernment since 1950; most of them have also recommended the phasing-out of Grade 13 because it is consid- ered unnecessary. During the recent provincial election campaign, Liberal Leader Stuart Smith also made a similar In its early years, CUSO recruited mainly school programmes be squeezed into a four- year curriculum by 1988, thus putting an end to Grade 13. Canada Trust IS pleased to on- novnce the oppomt- ment of Mel Van Der Veen as sales representative m our Uncoln Plaza office m Waterloo, He hos been a soles distritr otor for the post 14 yrs, Mel us a long hme resident of the kt cherter-WoterIoo Founded in 1961 as a non-profit, independent organization to coordi- nate the recruitment of Canadian volunteers for overseas' services, CUSO has evolved as overseas' needs have changed. CUSO pays for the worker's orientation along with certain al- lowances, travel costs and for medical, dental and life insurance. The government or agency requesting CUSO ser- vices pays the salary and provides housing. Though bestknown for its overseas' place- ment work (there are university graduates to work as teachers. Today, there is a de- mand for a broad range of skills - sawmill oper- ators. engineers. trade- speople, those experi- enced in business, community develop- ment and cooperative management as well as an ongoing need for health and education workers. suggestion. So far, the Minister of Education has refused to indicate her reaction to the idea. She says she is waiting for the educa- tional community to express their opinions. WIWM.!I9| Kin-E. FumM-IIJUId-m-W Sea,'."?, . Want 8t91 Km E.. PM all Mall. 657 Ban-on W serving in Asia, AFri- ca, Latin America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific), CUSO in recent years has gained a reputation as a funding organization for worthwhile self- currently some 700 CUSO WQI'kel'S ranging WW") I w: M "" I.“ - in) Drive Bolts Coolant Mom Exterior Lamps WIS Wiper Blades Tires . Alignment Wheel Balance Brake Lining (1 m. ' 1 rear) Brake Fluid 'cSrCii'd ABSORBERS . Check anyone codant system = at] tefdl, It re-ttt . Clean modems: hrs . 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Components Shock Absorbers P/S Leaks . throughout the decade ls part of an integrat- ed, community-orient- ed approach to pro- gramming. For more igttorma, tion on CUSO and its work, call Kerrie Sunday. CUSO Water- loo Coordinator, 885. 1211, ext. 3t44.