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Sunday
JEFF FREDSON told about life in Botswana, Africa, at the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce meeting last week. He was a teacher with the Peace
Corps there 21/2 years.
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Middle School is
of activities
May 19-23,
senior citizens
a part of one
les
of the event is to
Spirit and raise
senior citizens,
the students
and to show
the school is
ml
le
ool
will take place
the tennis
Field.
will be the
activities, will be
the day on which the senior
citizens will visit the school. They
will be picked up at the Senior
Center at 10:30 a.m. and taken to
the school by bus.
Each senior citizen will have a
student escort who will meet
them at the school and then take
the guest to one of the student's
classes and then to a special lunch
which is being prepared by the
home economics class.
The senior citizens will then
grade airplane contest May 19.
Tuesday activities include the
GAA-DriU Team contest, and a
tug-of-war.
Wednesday will be the
track-baseball contest and the
jello contest.
Thursday will be the egg
contest which will be limited to
12 couples and will be composed
of boy-girl couples only.
Friday will see the Pep Staff
skit, band and choir
attend the assembly planned at performances, "the peanut roll, the
the conclusion of the a ct!vities , p a n t y h 0 s e c o n t e s t, t h e
and will then be returned to the wheelbarrow contest and the Mr.
Senior Center by bus.
Other activities planned for'
the week include the seventh
Americ~ cgntest,.
" M6st 6f the Friday activities
will be at the a~sembly.
Shop 9:30-5:30
Friday 'til 8:30
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Life in the landlocked, arid
African country of Botswana
where the main value is'in cattle
was described to the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce
membership meeting by Jeff
Fredson last Thursday night.
Fredson recently returned
after spending 2% years as a
biology teacher there with the
Peace Corps.
Fredson said the country
became independent in the 1960s
after being a British protectorate
for many years.
The area is mostly plains and
grassland, he said, with sandy soil
and very little surface water
except during the rainy season
when there are some ponds.
The country is about the size
of Texas and has a population of
about 700,006. There are two
seasons, the rainy season and the
dry season.
The main value is in cattle
with wealth indicated by the
number of cattle owned.
Fredson said the village in
which he lived had a population
which varied from 1,000 to
10,000, depending on the time of
year.
The life of the people is
divided into three separate areas
- the village where the homes are
located, the farm plots and the
cattle stations.
Families are frequently
separated, he said, with the men
at the cattle stations, the women
at the farming fields, and the
children at home. As a result, he
said, the 'children become
e
in
independent at an early age.
Villages are located where it is
possible to sink wells and find
water, Fredson commented.
The weather is generally warm
and the peoplb spend most of
their time outside, going in only
to sleep or when it rains.
The main crop is sorghum,
which is ground and mixed into a
kind of mush to form the major
food of the people, he said.
Fredson said all of the land
belongs to the tribe and that
when a person needs some land to
farm or for cattle grazing or to
build a home, he applies to the
government council which gives
permission if it is not needed by
someone else. The person can
then use the land as long as they
have need for it. When they no
longer need it, it reverts back to
the tribe.
There was no electricity in the
village where he was located, and
cooking was done on
e
wood-burning stoves. Water is
carried from the community well.
There are few cars and the
main means of transportation is
walking or by donkey or oxen
carts.
Fredson commented that he
had visited South Africa, which
joins Botswana, and that he did
not like the way of life there and
the racial policies.
He showed slides to illustrate
some of what the country and the
people were like.
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