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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 05, 1981
Page
5
Larry Bonneville of Medicine Hat argues editors confused Early Childhood Services with Daycare Services. ECS is a half day program for five year olds and families in 11 city centres, while Daycare is a full time program for two years to school age children of working parents. The task force aims to study transferring ECS to the School Board, not Daycare.
Peter McArthur criticizes Dr. Ken Clementi for funding and promoting the planned cancellation of Medicine Hat’s preschool screening program while urging clear leadership and factual costs. McArthur argues the program’s value should be preserved if beneficial to the community amid budget strain and referendum-style scrutiny.
A Medicine Hat reader defends the E C S program stating it is not daycare but an educational program run by fully qualified teachers with Bachelor of Education degrees. The writer criticizes ignorance about E C S and emphasizes teachers instruct rather than babysit.
Maria Roberts, former chair and vice chair of Crestwood E C S, lauds the Medicine Hat educational initiative as a tool to improve individuals and the wider community and expresses pride in the program and its participants.
Doug Davidson argues that Sunday shopping is essential for many who rely on weekend store hours. He urges opponents to visit busy Sunday aisles to understand the need and dismiss outdated views.
The Redcliff Historical and Museum Society aims to preserve local heritage through a museum and historical society. It seeks community help to gather photos documents and artifacts and offers memberships to fund the project. Contact Cliff Dacre or another director for information.
The News invites reader letters on topics of concern and interest. Letters may be edited for grammar and taste and must be signed with a writer's address and telephone. Libellous content will be rejected and unread submissions lacking contact details will not be published.
Washington debates a cohesive Africa policy as the Carter era contends with South Africa's rigid racial system and Namibia's move toward independence. Crocker and Haig push for minor ity protections and revised Security Council mandates while Angola's turmoil complicates any grand bargains amid Cuban involvement. Internal U.S. politics threaten to reshape any accord.
Japanese observers identify life-long employment, enterprise unions, seniority wages, and close management labor cooperation as core. Theories range from backwardness to corporate community exchange, with reforms sought for women, non-regular workers, and pay gaps.
MIT physicist Victor F Weisskopf answered four Soviet survey questions by urging reductions in nuclear arsenals. He proposed a peace race with 10 percent unilateral cuts and called for government actions over scientists to curb the arms race. The Moscow News published his replies along with Moisei Markov’s commentary on parity and reciprocity.
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