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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-09-30, Page 1anastra compromise may still be in r trouble alternative. 'We're not trying to take business away from down- town either but to get kids interested in their diet." The rack with the. candy and nuts in it sits out in front of the counter and isn't very carefully' guarded, There hasn't been any problem with • stealing yet, perhaps because, as the principal says, 'They'd be stealing fiqm their own friends.' The SDHS cafeteria is certainly becoming a good place to eat. it it was open to the public the.student workers would likely be swamped with customers. Mr. Shaw says a student run cafeteria probably wouldn't" work in a larger school than srors because it'd be too complicated. He admits that 'the 'student venture isn't really an experiment in free enterprise *Mtge' At works with free labour • Old Will probably only rnike Akita( profit as long as they keep the 'quail-trot the food high and the tost§ But the 'Students are leatti)rig, and that's what school is oi about. St0,00.4Tg40*.M.Y4a0'.. ST14810 copy PC14 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY ogirrEmaeR 30, 107,0 30 PAGES • • tbducers Mr. Whiting and Clinton gave, $20 each in support of lawyer Paul Ross argued the case according to Mr. Whiting. that legal; action should be taken. Mr. Whiting said that he was "It seems the Provincial pleased with the response and government has turned their would now go ahead and appeal backs on us. We have got to take for ,support from, all the dairy action, " Mr. Whiting said. ,farmers. "If you agree, we're going to' But several farmers objected to sue for damges. If one man was to the idea of suing the government. sue it would cost a lot of money, "We elected the government but if it's a hell of a lot of people it and the Milk Marketing Boarrd. won't cost that much," he said. Now we are going to turn around Mr. Ross in his address to the and sue the people we elected. It meeting , emphasized to the doesn't seem right," said a farmers that it was imperative farmer. that people know what is at stake "We work too darn hard to give for the farmer and that a dispute sour money to a lawyer," exists. suggested one person. "What the are looking for a little justice. We h aencykwwayil?1,,a law suit do for us; we are not looking for welfare, we "pie government must know lived up to our end of the bargain (by increasing production), we want to see you (government) live up to your end," he said. Most farmers present seemed to applaud the idea of taking legal action and about half pitsent I UNPAOXINC4 THE SOUP SOHS student's council president, Bill Jeffery, unpacks pans of Soup that SDHS students cook and serve in the cafeteria at the high school, Students are running their own Show there for the first time this year, (Staff Photo) Mr. Cochrane said he hoped for` an early settlement.'•Hfhe other was amicable, we hope, this will be too.' The' director ' wouldn't say how far apart the elementary teachers and the board are, but There may still be some problems with Tuckersmith Township's attempt to let developer Harold White Homes (London) Ltd. build four houses on smaller lots in Vanastra than its official plan allOws. Township officials had originally agreed to sell the .developer a 10 foot • public 11.7.th Year. TIVhOie No. 5667 0 .4eflyslone ordered to -show plans The question of Jellystone Park in Stanley Township was again before County Council on Friday when the report of the Board of Health noted that it had authorized the issuance of an order to the registered owners of the- park to produce,'-approved engineer's plans for sewage and water systems, and that the Township of Stanley be so tag advised. It was learned that the Medical Officer of Health and the, Chief Public 'Health Inspector had visited this large recreational facility in Stanley Township where there has been no approved sewage installation for the trailer areas. Dr. Frank Mills, Medical Officer of Health Huron,-was asked why it has taken so long to get the approved plans. Stanley Township Reeve Anson McKinley noted that he hoped the council had some enforcement authority. "We haVe received no plans of any type covering lots, sewers or water systems," he said. Dr. Mills explained that the operators of the park had indicated, they would be making application for approval, which would involve filing of such plans, but had never done so, Th is led, • to the board's issue of the order. "This is a large park, 'and we would like to see it go, " Dr. Mills noted. "but it must go properly It :was suggested that a number of•lots had already been sold and Dr. Mills reported 4) having seen sold signs on lots while visiting the park. Mr. McKinley pointed out, however, that the lots were not sold as such,. but leased under an agreement which involved the purchase of shares since no reverence, was pOssible on the property. concerned. "This is a question for the Ontario Securities Commission,". he said. Dr. Mills noted that the Ministry of Consumer Affairs had expressed interest in that situation but that was an affair for (Continued on Page 22) ,(By Wilma Oke) The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board approved in a recorded vote of 7 to 5 Monday the preparation of a resolution to the Ministry of Education pointing out the deficiencies in the present legislation concerning elected • representatives on the board. In the redistribution of shcool board members announced , earlier this month, the City of ) Stratford lost a representative and the large rural area around Wingham gained one. This evened up the representation from each county, giving Huron and Perth each seven board members. Speaking for the four members from Stratford, Howard Shantz said, "One of us will be missing next year." Mr. Shantz 'said they didn't have a leg to stand on to appeal the redistribution this year but wanted the brief sent to express their concern about what might happen in the future as a result of the proposed property tax reform plan by the government. Jack Lane, superintendent of ••:,1, business, suggested it, might be prudent to wait and see what the decision of government might be in the proposed property tax reform plan as there apppared to be considerable opposition to it, before sending in a' resolution from the board, '1 Stratford trustee Ronald Marcy insisted ,that k brief should be presented as soon as possible to express. the board's concern about what might happen. Joseph Looby of Dublin said he did not think the *schoOl board should be involved, "If Stratford does not feel they have the right representation then let them go to the government." William Kinahan of. Lucknow, who represents Wingham and the area to, get more representation, Salary talks between Huron's 360 elementary school teachers and the board of education haven't broken down. A provincial fact finder has been appointed in the negotiations only because provincial law requires one if an agreement hasn't been reached by September 1. That's what the director of the Huron County Board of Education, John Cochrane says',:: People are left with the impression that negotiations with secondary school teachers, who settled with the board last week for an 8 per cent salary increase,' were easier than negotiations with the elementary teachers, but that impression is wrong, Mr. Cochrane says. Mr. Cochrane said 4..he board and the secondary/ teachers tentatively ,settled in July, with commented on the Stratford trustees remarks, "I think what you are saying is to with the children in the big rural area in the northern part •of Huron." Voting for the resolution were Howard Shantz, David Teahen, Mickey Vere, Ronald Marcy all of Stratford; John O'Drowsky of St. Marys; Vincent Young of Goder- ich and Ted Geoffrey of Zurich. Against the resolution were Donald Crowley, Gadshill; Francis Hicknell, Seaforth; Michael Connolly, Kippen; Jos- eph Looby, Dublin; and William Kinahan, Lucknow. In other business, the board accepted the resignation of the custodian at St. Mary's School, Hesion, Mrs. Marie Poissant, effective October 29. James McDade at St. Patrick's School, Kinkora, was gi,ven permission to submit his name to be nominated as a candidate for hssignment for teaching in 'the Department of National Defence Dependants' School overseas for a two-year tour of duty. The board set the next meeting to be held on Tuesday, October 12 as Thank'sgiving Day falls on the regular meeting night. Meeting adjourned at 10:50 p.m. ' • Students selling Expositqr The people of Seaforth and area will have a chance to helathe students of SDHS finance their activities when they buy a new dr renewal subscription to the Raton Expositor. The annual SDHS. Expositor stthscription campaign starts tonight and 'will run for a Week. SDHS students with Expositor receipts Will be offering (Continued on Page 22) , (by John Miner) .A group of about 50 Ethel area dayy farmers decided Tuesday .• night to take legal action against the. Ontario Government. :Represented by Clinton lawyer, 'Pant Ross, the group hopes to force the Ontario GoVernment to pay, compensation to dairy farmers for the loss of revenue they suffered when milk quotas more cut back 15 per cent. The cutback to industrial milk :'producers was ordered by the federal government last Aprp, This came after the Ontario Government had encouraged for tWo years greater: industrial, milk production under a ,special loan system to dairy farmers. The meeting in Ethel, on the farm of Elwood Seili, was called to' see if dairy farmers would support a suit. "You tonight, are going to be the-, jury who decide if we go ahead," organizer Albert Whiting told the group. he said negotiations looked hopeful. 164 secondary school teachers voated to accept the board's 8 per cent offer last week, with 41 voting againSt it and about 70 Tuckersmith clerk Jim McIntosh says the township plans to pass the bylaw reducing the walkways to five feet, which doesn't require public notice, at Tuesday night's' regular council meeting. He said he is preparing either a bylaw or a minor variance to 'the plan that would allow building on the reduced sized lots and that it would be votedon after notice to the yublic is published and OMB approval is received. The houses are already under construction. Huron County's senior planner, It started out as an experiment, but SDHS principal Bruce Shaw is so pleased • with the way the student run cafeteria at the local high school is working out that he thinks students will be running the place indefinitely. SDI-1S has the first student operated cafeteria in the county, as a result of a presentation that Mr. Shaw, made to the Huron County Board of Education last spring. He says he had two goals in mind, to see if the quality of the food that the cafeteria sells to students would improve, and to give the student workers, all volunteers, an educational experience. By all accounts, both goals are being met. Students Mary Jane Salisbury. and Bill Jeffery, presi- dent of •the " student's council, were busy Friday morning getting soup and french fries ready for the first onslaught of' students on their lunch, hour. Mary Jane. says each of the 19 student volunteers puts its about one work stint a week. The volunteers make home- made sandwiches, get the milk, Roman Dzus says his department advised Mrs. B a'ker to seek legal advice if she feels her property value is affected by the township's action. Mrs. Baker's house, which is rented, is next to the pathway in Vanastra and one of the' n ew houses is going op beside it. The planner said he feels Mrs. Biker has "a reasonably good ' case for compensation." The planning department's position is that Tuckersmith acted improperly, in allowing the houses to be built "and will have to face the consequences of their action." They are not going to launch an objection, but will state that position if a ratepayer launches one. Mrs. Baker says she is going to sit tight and see if any other ratepayers object to the bylaw allowing building on the smaller lots. After the bylaw goes through regular channels she says she'll consider legal action. ' Mr. Dzus said there's a remote 'possibility that the developer (Continued on Page 22) fruit' drinks, fruit and yogurt out on the counter and cook and serve hamburgers and hotdogs. Another student takes in the money as the kids work their way down the cafeteria line. .Bill says he's learned some- thing about cooking, and a lot about management, since the student run cafeteria started. The 19 students and four supervising teachers, Don Renshaw, Harry Scott, Karen Teskey and Mr. Shaw have one paid employee, Jenny of Dashwood, who runs the cafeterias in the Exeter and Goderich high schools. She • helped them set up for the first two weeks of school, but now they're on their own, although she'll check in frail time to time. Besides the kids who voluntar- ily give up their spares to run the cafeteria, for no pay, the principal says other . students will be involved. Accounting students will keep books for the venture (which takes in over $100 a day) and home ec students will plan menus and cook hot meals like chili and spaghetti which the cafeteria will offer one day a week, starting in October. The SDHS„ principal says the cafeteria isn't selling ,chocolate bars and gum and very few candies. They are trying to offer healthy snacks, like nuts and raisins, and find, in spite of what a confectionary salesman predicted, that they sell well. "And we ran out of white milk three days," Bruce Shaw report gleefully. Students like the Ttealthier food. Jan Bolton and Pat Ander- son, as they line up for soup, say they used to bring lunch from home "but we don't need to now." Other students pick up a container of french fries to supplement what they bring from home. Two girls say they are just eating french fries and pop for lunch, in spite of what they're taught in health classes. "We like then)," they shrug. Mr. Shaw admits that the Cafeteria isn't going to win over all students to good nutrition. "But we want to offer an DAIRY FARMERS MEET — About 50 area dairy farmers met at the' farm of Elwoocj Seili of Ethel Tuesday night and decided to go ahead with plans to sue the provincial government for damages they entailed when milk quotas were*cut early this summer. Clinton lawyer Paul Ross, along with Toronto lawyer Aubrey Golden, is acting for the farmers. (Staff Photo) Others still talking some details to be worked out in September. Summer meetings with the elementary teachers were impossible, the _director says, because many of them had commitments in the way of university summer courses. Mr. Cochrane said board and elementary teacher negotiators met only once this summer, on June 28, once again early in , September and were, meeting for the third time only Monday night. Graham Yeats of Clint:in is chief negotiator for the teachers. Mr. Cochrane said negotiations with the elementary teachers were being carried on as if the provinlially appointed fact finder, Ian Hunter 'of Toronto, wasn't around. He said both sides had sent" briefs to Professor Hunter but "we hope we won't need him." School board knocks redistribution walkway that adjoins his property to bring the lots up to acceptable 5000 square foot size. But after a number of Vanastra property owners objected, a 'compromise was reached that' would leave a five foot walkway open to the public and allow the developer to build on lots that were too small. But property owner Edith Baker says she is going to let her original objection stand, because the township is "catering to the developer at the expense of the residents. Secoodci rY teachers settle teachers not at the meeting. The secondary settlement, according' r. . to a press release from Mr. . Cochrane and Shirley Weary of the Teachers Federation, also (Continued on page 16) the province "This is going to be the lira time anyone has sued the• government for incompetence$" Mr. Whiting replied. "We're going to get a hell of .a lot •of good publicity and they'll get a hell of a lot of bad." "Which is better, going up to Ottawa and pelting Eagene Whelan with milk or' taking •legal action?" Toronto lawyer Aubrey. Golden, who argued successfully that the province had acted illegally in closing several hospitals, including Clinton, was at the meeting. He will be working with Mr. Ross on the farmer's case. THE FIRST SEWER CONNECTION — Jim and Dianne MacLeod's house on Goderich St. W. was the first one to. hook into Seaforth's new sewers on Friday. Above, Art Varley stands in the trench where sewer pipe now connects the house to the sewer project. (Staff Photo) And it's working SDHS students running cafeteria ‘;•