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About Opportunity news. (Woodburn, Oregon) 1965-1968 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1966)
Page 3 PPORTUNITY NEWS, Friday, August 5, 1966 Education at Sandy Dorothy Keenon works with day care It was late in the afternoon. The halls of the Nbrth Plains Grade School were cool and quiet. A ll the children had gone home. There was still work to be done. Dorothy Keenon, VML Day Care Supervisor, was washing baby bottles. As she worked we talked. "Yes, we put in long hours, 5:30 in the morning until 6 or 7 at night. It's worth it; we know how much the parents depend on our help. They trust us w ith their children. That means a lot to us." There is a warm tone in Doro Idult education at Sandy has thy's voice when she speaks of the o programs: the G.E.D. night children and their Day Care activi [|es taught by tw o students, ties. | i Geil and Miss Carolyn Cook. "We have little accidents on the ¡3 G.E.D. classes emphasize math- playground, which w ill always I Lies and reading skills. The happen with active children. After Ividual tutoring offers a more antiseptic and a band-aid the lie education. Stude_nts learn to children say, 'But it still hurts.' Then They also learn mathematics I give them a chiclet chewing gum; even music. we call it a pill to take away the the beginning, the tw o tutors hurt. It makes the children happy a big problem—there was ho and they're ready to play again." rial written for the beginning It's this special insight that ■ readers w ith information that makes Dorothy effective in her d interest them. How did work. lyn and-John solve the prob- "M y own children are nearly 1 They wrote their own mater- grow n," she says. "There is always Zarolyn wrote a series for one time to help others. When l was a >0 Irian on her children and their child all our fam ily had to work and home. John wrote on irl hard for a living. We worked in the k for a student who competed fields and followed the crops; from he sport before dropping out hop training in the spring to wal school. nut picking in the fall. I know how these children feel." Dorothy had made her child Piscadores de cereza hood experiences an asset. She is very capable and has a willingness (Continuación de la P. 1) to understand the people she is itra para recoger la fruta. working with. Dorothy knows that the parents of migrant children do |n tractor con un brazo largo y everything in their power to pro- |s dedos blandos en su extremo, vee la energía para sacudir el ol mientras dos hombres con rocha larga descuelgan las izas que se quedan. Î from a woman's blouse. Day Care ren so Dorothy and her assistants used their ingenuity. Adult second hand clothing was made into needed more clothes for the child- clothes for the young. tect their young ones from poor camp conditions and the accidents that can occur in the fields. VML Day Care can help. Dorothy is grateful to the growers who have provided transportation to bring the children to Day Care. "O ur North Plains community," said Dorothy, "depends on the work of the farm laborer. Caring for their children through VML benefits us all." Dorothy holds a child's dress made Sea and sand delight Salem parents and children Rick Simon leaves newspaper .as cerezas caen en una lona nde que cubre el suelo debajo árbol. Al levantarla lona en un ) la segunda máquina empieza ícoger la lona cubierta de cere- maduras. Un tazón largo se y la fruta se deja caer con lado en una cinta mecánica que conduce hasta dejarla caer en caja llena de agua y pedazos hielo. Al caer en las cajas, una ¡ente de aire le quita las hojas >s ramitos de la fruta. Richard Simon, who has served as assistant editor of the Opportu nity News from the start, has re signed this month to accept a posi tion as Job Counsellor for the Job Development, Counselling and Placement Program of the Valley Migrant League. He completed his w ork for the newspaper at the end of July, to begin his new work August 1. The position of assistant editor w ill remain vacant through the month of August. I U emplear estas dos máquinas os seis señores y al reducir el npo que se necesita para piscar a árbol, se reduce el costo de |ar a la mitad, a un centavo dio la libra. Todo esto se hace menos daño al árbol y consigue mejor calidad de cerezas para >rocesor. Parece que el día de la omatizaeión de la cosecha de a ha llegado. Lo único que nos ida para solucionar es ¿cuales los empleos para los que hasta >ra han dependido de esto para atenerse? The Daytona Theater presents: Last Sunday Beverly Beach rang Jennie May Lucas, program aide w ith the shouts of happy childen. helped to plan the good time. Ivan Wells, Salem area supervisor, and sand, sea and sky to play by. The children and their parents, six fam ilies, worked w ith the VML Salem Center to have a beach outing. his fam ily joined the fun. As you can see in the picture, the beach is the best place to be on a clear sum mer day. Paul Ratliff, proprietario del Cine Daytona de Dayton, nos ha mandado el siguente noticiario: El programa doble este sábado, el 6 de agosto a las 7:30 p.m.: y el do m ingo.el 7 de agosto a las 2:30 sera— MI ESPOSA ME COMPREN DE, con Artuto de Cordova y Mar ga López, y LOS HERMANOS DEL HIERRO con Antonio Aguilar y Co lumba Dominguez.
