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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-12-21, Page 15• • 4 • • • C • CHRISTMAS SNOW in FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday, December 24 -- 11 a.m. t SERMON — "SILENT NIGHT — HOLY NIGHT" You are invited to join with us in a worshipful presentation of the music and message of Christmai. Attend the Churchof your choice, but don't let Christmas pass without spending an hour in' joyful " praise to Him who was born Prince of Peace. First Church,extends the wish for a Blessed Christmat to everyone. We send this greeting to you through the Christmas Music heard daily on the Carillon of Bells from the Chure.h with the- Singing Tower. • — SPECIAL MUSIC BY THE CHOIR — SOLO — "THE FIRST CHRISTMAS MORN" Mr. David Stewart ANTHEM — "LET EARTH RECEIVE HER . KING" The Senior Choir Mrs. Carol Carter Organist J J.4 J J..4 J J NORTHSIDE UNITED CHURCH Rev. M. E. Reuber Minister MRS. J. A. STEWART -Organist MR. JAS. A. STEWART Choirmaster MRS. JACK McILLWMN Junior Choir lieacl.er Rev. T. C, Mulholland Minister J SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SERVICES Sunday, (December 24th), Servicet 11:00 a.m. — "No Noise in the Stceet" The Minister Preaching Anthems: Junior Choir — "'Ding Dong, Merrily on High" Senior Choir — "While Sheppards Were Watching" — Williams Combined Choirs — "King of Glory" • CAVAN UNITED CHURCH Winthrop, Ontario REV. M. tREUBER, MINISTER MISS MARJORIE PAPPLE, ORGANIST 9:30 a.m. — "The Minister Preaching" 10:30 a.m. — Church School Come, Make it a Joyous Christmas A Municipalities Townships of Ashfield & West Wawanosh Townships of Wingham & East Wawanosh • No. of Reps. Reps for 1973-74 ' Mrs. M. Zinn * Mr. IP. Alexander ' Townships' of Tilrnberry & Howick Town of Goderich Townships of Grey, Morris & Brussels ' Townships of Goderich & Colborne Townships of Hullett, McKillop, Blyth and " Town of Clinton Townships of Tuckersmith, Stanley, hayfield & Town of Seaforth- Townships of Hay, Hensall & Zurich Townships of Usborne. Stephen and Town of Exeter • • 1 Mr. A. Corrigan 2 Mr. E.C. Hill , * Mrs. J.W. Wallace Mr. D. McDonald Mr. W. Shortreed * Mr. .1, Westbrook Mr. -I. Henderson ''' Mr. K.C. Cooke 2 Mr. -J. Broadfoot Mrs. M. Kunder Mr. H. 'rurkheim Mr. C. Mi•Donald * Mr. .I. Ridell Separate School Supporters . Mr. C. Rau in Huron County ' * (Please Note: Newly elected representatives for 1973-74) Dogs pose problqms Tim EXPOSileekSEAFORTHI, 019T• DEC. !1; 1f12-•-35 Valeclictcny reccills 6 to feel progd. ',of Ojor ,..opto, AWL if. $tro*. have feet► spy errors in judgment, .00 14o.e. will be corrected and that hopefully there ,will be no more made-- but don't eount, 1.90. highly- on that! It is also my wish that members will mil, tinue to be broadminded- enough to see the total aspect of the County system. It i.s.'04le• derful to be able to represent an area of the County, but:the Huron County Board can not function as a group, of 16 in- dividuals, it must ,be a unit which looks at the total picture, with the rights • of the in- dividual areal respected.. • have giiroRrnore,figi.. I like .to think .about to, dw- Roara Pf 'but I dp.. net regret .will. miss the . work, the fellowship, . the :senagi,. of cb44:00. 4K4 #c.c9P.1001-• meiat that eotties (TOM.. WOrl,cirlg- together with ,other dedicated- individuals; May I wish all of -, Y914, the best in; the yg_arg' come, and ask tor your support for the new chairman, It is not always an easy task.. but neyer unbearable when fifteen fellow members are giving you their wholehearted co-operation. ST. JAMES' ROMAN CATHOLIC • OURCH SeafOrth — Ontario extends wishes for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL .Zt Tr MIDNIGH T MASS (Christmas Eve) CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES at 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.. abiltalblarkk-24-Darkr-kb/04444)4247110 The. Congregation. EGMONDVILLE .UNITED CHURCH Greets You at ;Christmas Sunday, Dec. 24 th-11:00 a.m. . Rev, T. E. Hancock, Minister ST. THOMAS' ANGLICAN CHURCH Rev. J. S. Sharpies Rector CHRISTMAS SERVICES DECEMBER 240 Advent 4 11:30 a.m. Matins SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES DECEMBER 24th .„ 9 p.m. -- Carol Service and Holy Communion CHRISTMAS DAY 11:30 a.nt. Holy Communion t 21 A warm welcome to worship with us is extent® all (Continued from page 1) Education that are now existent in Huron County, speak highly of the system because thy have seen the results of what the larger unit can do. Those critics of the educational aspect of the en- deavours of the Huron County Board of Education are just not aware of the hours of the days that the members have .pent trying to better com- prehend and hence, develop policy that would, extend the learning processes to more and more students at a level they could understand and at a cost they felt the taxpayer could af- ford. The press in our County has reported through the past year meetings that were held with teachers; with superinten- dents joint discussions with academic people, within and without ouT system in an at- tempt to learn what is being done in our system to help the students become better and more learned citizens able to take their place in society. • "As you know, our board took up its first residence in the County, Council Chambers in the Court House in Goderich. It was not long, however, until we realized accommodation had to be more than was available there and so the Nurses' Residence adjacent to the Clin- ton Public Hospital was leased from the Clinton Hospital Board and, renovated, at a minor cost, to the needs of the Huron County . Board of Education administrative staff. This served until this year, at whiCh dime, the hospital board informed ,. the Board of Education that they needed the 'space to accommodate doctors and perhaps the Huron County . Health Unit in the quarters in the Nurses' Residence. The Huron, County Board then in- vestigated the possibilities of a new home for their ad- ministrative staff. •We have been criticized by many for choosing to renovate an older building rather than building a 'new one. I would like to point out to the citizens of Huron County that this is not money squandered, but money necessarily spent to house an efficient Administrative staff which is attempting to carry on .a 10.5 million dollar business in the County of Huron, and I do not. believe that $200,000 ,is 'an exorbitamt amount of money to spend to procure office space such as we have here in the Town of Clinton. Had we chosen a new building, we feel the cost would have been a minimum 'of $325,000 and for that ' amount of money we would not have received the space on one floor, which I believe to be 'an advantage: We would not have, in all probability, had it completed as quickly to accommodate the Hospital Board .in their need_ for more space, and I hope in the near future the public can be invited in wh'at has been called the "old knitting ,fac- tory", to see what. has been done in the way of renovation. • am pleased,. as chairman of this beard,,. to..come to the people, to stand before you tonight unashamed of what this board has done, proud of the way it has worked together, of- fering n4 apologies for its con- ' duct, feeling that every minor or major event that has taken place has been well thought out. I do not agree, personally, with everything that has been, done, but it has all been achieved in a democratic man- ner with a' majority decision and with the rights of the minority respected. In a democratic society,, one cannot ask for more. "There has been criticism of the committee system which we are using at the present time in the conduct of our meetings. I believe the committee system has served a useful purpose, has cut down on the amount of time required to handle the volume of business necessarily handled each month by the board. The committee system has given every member of the hoard a chance to debate in nmittee and also at the open meeting, if he so desires, any point which he wants to discuss. I think the committee.z system could he improved by two things -- 1„. That only those members Who are elected to a committee should he allowed to diScuss, in committee. t hose points which are on the com- mittee's agenda. However, every board member should be notified what' the agenda will he when the committee is meeting and he allowed to at• and by •the time` decision comes to the open, board, there is no debate left, because everyone has had an oppor- tunity to have his say and so the public perhaps is not as aware of the thought and discussion that has gone into a decision when it reaches the Board level. This, in effect, would make the committee presenting a report the "Gover- nment" and the members who are not on the committee the "'apposition". As it now stands, two major standing committees eXist-management and education. The names imply their duties--one being business, the other academic, half of the board and the chair- man and vice-chairman are on each. 2. A committee which has served a very worthwhile pur- pose has been the chairman's advisory committee. This com- mittee is comprised of four members, the chairman, the vice-chairman, the chairman of the education committee and the chairman °L.' the msnaagement committee. These people have not met often, but they have met when necessary as a sounding board for the chairman, to discuss very con- fidential personnel problems and to present to the Board reports on these problems whenever deemed necessary: and handling of necessity, must be kept- confidential. Some people say, there should be nothing confidential: in 'public business, but I believe that anyone who has dealt with per- sonnel or personal problems knows this to be untrue. However, because of its con- fidential nature, this committee has perhaps caused some suspicion, and although I. am an advocate of it and though I am chairman, I would haNte to vote against its future use sim- ply because we cannot afford to have any group, or organization within the board which does not have the wholehearted sup- port of all the members. "It -would be my hope for next- year that the committee system, two standing commit- tees, (education and management) will continue to exist and will be handled in the way that I have just outlined so that the people will he better informed--not that the work will be more fairly handled than it has been, but that,more petiole 'how' it has: been handled -and have faith that all facets of a problem have been discussed. There is no doubt that sometime it will be necessary for the chairman to call on 'senior members of the board for advice or opinions and this should not be taken as a sign of secrecy, but only to confirm or reject his own opinions. si• As most Of you know,' we ,haVe in the past yea'r moved some of our elementary prin- cipals to new locations within the County. 'these gentlemen, and I call them gentlemen sin- cerely,-have done an excellent job in picking up the reins in a new school, in fulfilling their duties as principal and chief administrator in these new areas and have organized smoothly functioning educational institutions fulfilling the purpose for which they were built. These men and understandably so, were not initially,' entirely happy with their moves, but. I. am happy that they now have seen that the need of the system has been answered by, their wholehear- ted co-operation and ability to adjust and fulfil the position entrusted to them. My thanks and congratulations to..uthese men, and I hope that this prac- tice will not be abused, but will be used in the future so that all schools may benefit from a change of our capable Prin- cipals. "My congratulations also go to the other fine members of our staff whether they he ad- ministrative, teaching, custodial, cle'r'i cal or engineering, They are'all part of the educational process in Huron County. We have had our differences, we have had our agreements. we have bad ups and' downs. hut through it' all 1 feel quite confident that everyone felt the, other was striving to achieve the same ,goal-that of a better educational system for the students of Huron County at a justifiable cost. "Mv thanks to my vice- chairman, ,to the other fine KII.:,mber.-; of this hoard who have' worked with me throughout the past two years (Continued from Page 1) Building permits were issued to Gary VanLoon of R.R.4, Sea- forth for a 'feed room and gar- age; and to Kenneth Smith of Egmondville for a. house on West Mill Street which will include a garage and a,,Swirnming pool, ouncil accepted thete.rider,Of Gordon Heard Construction of R.R.2, Seaforth for $1,290 for the reconstruction of 750 feet of Second Street in Egmondville.: Passed for payment were the accounts which included road ac- counts of $3,661.42 and Bruce- field Fire Department costs of $1,709.25. Council approved a tile drain loan for $7,500. Application will be made for a second grant under the Provin- (Continued from Page 1) on school property while giving guitar lessons .in .a number of Huron County sehonls. 'In view of the fact that present policy permitted Mr. Pulsiler and others to offer music lessons within school premises, with the approval of principals, the Education Committee felt that perhaps a fine line was being drawn between offering guitar lessons indoors and in a trailer. It was suggested that the board's decision should be re-examined. Following some discussion on board liability, the following motion passed, Resolved that a trailer be allowed on school property for the purpose of teaching music , subject to the policy -of the board concerning music in schools, and subject to the approval of the board'Su HPRC Board accepts tender 'The tender of Genan Con': struction, Waterloo, was accep- ted at a special , meeting of the Huron•Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board ..joy Seaforth Monday night for an addition to Holy Name School in St, Marys. The firm's tender of $289.891 was the lowest of seven tenders. The major• sub-trades were awarded to G.L. Slaght of Credilon for plumbing and heating and to Perth Electrical Contraciirrg Ltd of St. Marys . for electrical, The addition includes one kindergarten room, two classrooms, one library resource centre, administrative offices. general purpose room and change rooms. The work on constructioti&/ will start in March and is to be completed in August. The new addition will be built onto the north end of the school and the original school at the extreme' south end will be demolished, Only a stone wall will be retained as part of the existing school. ti • • BETHEL BIBLE CHURCH An Associated Gospel Church Egmondville REV. D. 1.. PATTERSON, B.Th., PASTOR CHRISTMAS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24 10:00 a.m. — FAMILY BIBLE SCHOOL 11:00 a.m. — CHRISTMAS IS A HYPHEN 7:30 p.m. — CHRISTMAS EVE CAROL end WORSHIP SERVICE. A VERY BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL tend and listen, thereby being fr it is my sincere hope that those given the chance to prepare any , of you who are r'emaintng, and pertinent itarmation to he those of you whir are coming in presented at the open meeting, for the first time, will strive to and thereby giving the public a ‘4,ork together, will strive to clear insight into the workings achieve mutual trust as voo of the Board of Education. As work together with the ad• it stands now, a member . ministration so that the people debates at the committee level • of Huron County ran continue cial Municipal Winter Work8 Program, the initial allocation was for $2,325. Council will ask for $4,000 this time. Clerk James McIntosh read a letter received from the Ont- ario Geographic Board, Par- liathent Buildings, Toronto, cniegtfoning` tfie- nelw: tame of Van- astra bell* gi'veln "16e former Adastral Park and whether local people liked the name. Reeve Elgin Thompson and Councillor Cleave Coombs said they were satisfied with the name and were getting used to it. The -name was suggested by Mrs. Margaret Rudd of Clinton in a contest held by the new owner of Ad- astral Park, the former Canadi- an Forces Base. Concil adjourned at 12*: 30 a.m. solicitor with regard to board liability. The inaugural meeting of the board will be held on Jan. 8 and the first regular meeting on January 15. Trustee Cayley C. Hill OF Goderich expressed his appre- ciation to retiring chairman Robert Elliott for his handling of board business during his two years as chair.kan., Following a tut (ewell speech by Mr. Elliott, John Broadfoot thanked him on behalf of the other board members and said how much they have appreciated how wholeheartedly and con- scientiously he had worked. Skating rinks for winter fun With cold weather and snow oitr the ground, it's time for skating and hockey. You can construct a backyard skating rink on lawn areas without damage, if you're careful, says R.F. Gomme, horticultural specialist, It is preferable that the ground be frozen in the location you choose. Start the rink after the first heavy snowfall. Select a level area and outline the rink by mounding extra snow around the perimeter. Be sure to tramp the area around the rink to pre- vent water from draining away. Boards placed on edge will make ideal hockey cushions. Level the rink surface by dragging it with a snow shovel or a toboggan. Spray light layers of water to build a base, letting each layer freeze before adding the next. Agarden • hose or lawn sprinkler Is excellent for this. Sometimes large plastic sheets can be used to help retain • the water. Holes in the rink or rough areas can be patched with snow, then soaked with • water. • Once a good base has been° established, each layer of water will begin to level the ice sur- face. When the rink is in per- fect condition, the only upiteilp is to brush off light snow and apply another fine spray of Water. Reverse stand on 0