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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-04-13, Page 1Vim 4. • $12.00 a Year in Advance Single copy 25 cents tit Whole No. #5743 119th Year SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1978 — 24 PAGES O ,Y • 4 Have you ever wondered exact- ly what today's eleinentary stu- dents •are-learning about in otir changing world? Next week. local elementary schools • arc throwing open 'their doors an d . inviting the public to, visit 'the classrooms during • Ed- ..ucation • Week,. a province-wide observance .to bring parents and other adults into the. schools. . The • thcthc: • for thiS. year's Eclu6atio'n Week is "Speak to Me of Yourself". continue through the. week, in- cluding . the 4-H meeting and , soccer elub.at 7:.1S p.m. There are. 9i ow community .activities held every night at . • On TueSday, the • Grade 8A pupils are presenting .an original puppet. play 'titled "Morning Out" to children while their , mothers tour the 'school. adults arc again invited to' which is • an. informal presentation on one approach to . chil.drens! behavior.. OUIET MOMENT .International level figu Seaforth's Lloyd Eisler Jr. have a minute for a Seaforth's Lloyd Eisler Jr.' Night at the arena pair were honoured at a dance. re Skaters Lori Baler of Mitchell and quiet. lk With fans Friday night at . After a skating demonstration, the (Expositor Photo) MILK'S THE THING! Marta 13ooi, Ontario Dairy Princess and Linda Lantz, Perth County Dairy Princess, visited St. Patrick's School in. Dublin this . week to tell students about the joys of adding. milk -and-ot-fterdairy products to, ,their-diet ryThe 4iAto -;-1Vlarshaity-Steven Ryan -and Ddrmy-44oppe. princesses are surrounded by• Grade 1 students (Expositor Photo) We're invited-' to education week including: (Back row) Terri Van Loon, JOdy Cheorus, Nicole Uniac and,Cathy McIver; (centre). Miss Lantz, Jody Maloney, Miss Booi and Tammy Cronin; (front row)-Bruce Ruston, Kenny Schoonderwoerd, Jason The Sale of three parcels of land in Seafor th's industrial park was' ..approVed in principle by • town council Monday night. On the recommendation of its, development and industrial committee a„,triangular. shaped plot about the, size of two lots will be sold to Dave Schetick for an auto body repair shop at $3,000, two and a •half lots to Lance Fisher of Staffa for. a used car sales lot for $3750 and about an acre .atid three quarters to Louis McNichol of Egmondville for a trucking depot for $6,000. All the offers are subject to a zoning change from industrial to highway commercial, now before the OMB. Mr. McNichol's offer, committee chairman Ernie Williams told council, is subject to the town building access roads north and south of the land by October so that trucks can drive through the property. Councillors ',questioned Mr. Williams on what it would cost to build a road. "Considering the kind of traffic it'll get it needs to be built to a high standard", ,commented councillor Jim Sills. ,Mr. McNichol doesn't want paving, just a drivable road, Mr. Williams said and he thought the 300' or 400' distance could be made drivable wit 'h not much expense. Fellow committee member Lloyd Eisler suggested council should realize that the cost of gravel for a road would be paid back many times by the taxes on a new trucking depot. Mayor Betty Cardno said council would like to get an estimate on the ,cost of building the road. Developmer.:: committee member R.S.MacDonald estimated $300 or $400. Mr. Williams said .,his committee will build conditions that the appearance of properties in the area has to be kept up into the sales agreements. "' 'wonder Seaforth council ok's PUC water budget this week Aurae Cxpositor Seaforth Dumpers lOse South Huron W.I. Walden's 50th Anniversary Black colony near Lucan P.10 P.12 P 16 & 17 P.23 if you can buy it (land for industry) for what you are selling this for" Councillor Bill Bennett asked. Only six lots, on the north side of Birch St. remain in the town owned plot. Seaforth has seven or- eight acres of .land zoned light 'industrial in the north part' of town but it ig privately owned. The committee -has a vserve fund to be used for buying • additional industrial land for the town and Mr. Eisler said it hopes •,to-come up-with a proposal on that at its next meeting. Seaforth supports board Seaforth council supported a been , attending high school in Township of Turnberty resolution Kitchener during the strike where in the current' teacher-board she's had no class with morellian dispute Monday night although a 15 students. "And I think that couple, of .councillors said they makes a 'difference in her hesitated to take sides. . education", he said. "I don't• think either side is all. right" , said councillor Wayne By supporting the board's Ellis, "but we have put heat on efforts to curtail spending, the Board to cut and hold council wasn't necessarily saying spending". • anything about teacher-pupil Councillor • Gerald Groothuis' ratio, Mayor Betty Cardno said. said he had a daughter who's The support motion passed. engin ected today Scalar Pith he Scho-or- has planned a number of activities ranging from an energy Con- servation presentation to a dis- play on the Seaforth Water system and a mock parliament:Activities are planned every morning and discussions, especially for adults, every afternoon. ' On Monday, April 17, " the week's activities open with an energy- conserVation presentation at 10 a.m. featuring workshops and AiscusSions on renewable energy and solar models followed by,a question and .answer period. All interested members of the community are invited. lh the afternoon, adults arc invited to an informal discussion group. starting at 1:30 p.m., .on the topic "Parents Setting School Goals." • Regular evening events will • On 'Wednesday morning the Grade 8B class will present original stories to kindergarten to Grade 3 pupils in small groups throughout the school, and adults arc invited to join in and listen. In the afternoon, Don Keillor. • director of the Huron Centre for Children and Youth will discuss• the role of the centre On 14hursday morning, a special gyrimasties assembly will open the school day at 9 a,m, Tots whose mothers arc visiting the school can take part in pre-school library day starting at 10 a.m., and there's free coffee for the mothers. The Thursday afternoon pre: sentation is "Metric in the Kitchen", a workshop Ila Mathers) home economies teac- her. and local cooks arc invited to attend. Hensall council decided the job of regulating the reading materials used in the classroom 'belonged to the Huron County Board of Education and not memberS of council. Council voted to take no action on a letter from the St. Joseph's The week is climaxed with a dress-up day for students on Friday. In the morning'', Grade 8 history students are going to take a stab at running;, country with a mock parliament', complete with prime minister and leader§ of tlie opposition. • The final activity of the week is a workshop on -Community Creat- ive Playgrounds at 1:30 p.m., including,a film and discussion, on the Seaforth Public School project with Buist. Finally, during the week, each glass wil 'display special projectS they completed recently . - from the kindergarten's' "Syrup tast- 0100 teachers were expected to in the 1978-79 Contract. The teachers and the trustees will Huron County's 274 high , r exchnge picket signs for teachers first proposal was for a begin_ immediately to rebuil d textbooks this Morning and return next year including increments 13,5_-percent increase hi wages that mutual trust that was to the elassroomsendinra 31 day "kicked about so much". She strike. . . and the board countered with a said she felt po one had won or teachers voted Wednesday four percent hike: The two loSt in the strike pointing out that night on a contra—prOpOsal adjusted their offers by about two both sides could claim victory or hammered out in a weekend percent but couldn't close the'gap say nothing and allow the other, to bargaining session that to anything less than five percent think they had won. - een on tv • of negotiations that inclUded . the . 1977-78. The two sides agreed to 'they reacted without great en- . The contract problems were including increments. The hike night at their regular meeting. ironed' Out in a gruelling negotia- brought the average teachers Mitchell - Seaforth Cable TV -flog marathon that began 11:00 salary in Huron to $23,200. wrote council that it has set aside Board chairman John Elliott a half hour from 6 to 6:30 on the Saturday morning and ended at • dawn Monday. refused to comment on the second Wednesday of,each month . The settlement according to the spokesman was basically a saw- Elliottef-thse-liaid 4whes .ually to give a'Short talk and then off on teacher workload; a clause 'wb4gli.pcelkeructe:mtmMbEtauosn the pact after ansWer -phone questions or listen for me-liFers of council individ Wednesday night td' comments from viewers 'over expanded on in this year's Shirley Weary, spokesman for . Mitchell - Seafocth cable says it the air. contract and the beard wanted Branch 45 Of the Ontario- could see local 'board of education rernoved, and sends salary demands and the Sickleave Secondary 'School Teacher's reps, and other elected - officials of 50 to be eligible for th . The teachers balked at "sat isfied with the contract but , ,,t recommend councillor gratuity clause to 'an arbitrator. q...- Federation said Monday she was using the free time program. The workload clause was the gratuiV main stumbling block in the the 'Suggestion demanding that that she was not "leaping up and Groothuls start", joked councillor 1977-78 agreement. The clause • the clause .remain,unaltered'. A down delirious with joy". , . , Mrs. Weary said 'she felt the Wayne Ellis. governed the Pup.1 • Period final, deciSion on the gratuity w ill But other than that there was -Contact (F)PL) which is nutnber of • be left to an arbitrator along With best deal .possible had been made no indication from Seaforth "s` stud_ents_a teacher sees in a day, teacher salaries for - the next for the teachers. She said she feltelected representatives on Wages proved to be the only hurdle-the-parties-couldn't -clear .._ . day. The teachers proposed the_ workload terms to expand on. a clause alr:ady in they eort&act for , ,,,1976,,,,77,. The clauielp the ojtk: contract read that the ' board "shall endeavour" to meet the terms 'of the workload clause. The teachers wanted the, clause made binding and the 'board claimed that would erode its management rights and wanted it removed altogether from the pact -. The board, argued that if the ing on Monday'and tuesday mornings, to the Grade Five's workload'clause was made display of their creative talents in binding it would determine how "Spring Stories." . . many teachers.the . board was • ' The solar model which . if required to hire 'to staff 'its five there's enought interest, will be secondary schools. The board on display all week at the school is negotiating team claimed the ' courtesy of the Energy Conservat- workload "Clause would conflict . ion Centre, Goderich.' . • with. tlie, pupil teacher ratio, .a St. James': School in Seaforth`,- figure written, into the contract has also lined up a number of ,•that is used` to determine how special activities to mark Educat- many teachers are required for ion Week and bring members of the county's students.' the community into the AcheaL The PTR-ailOwts thelaccard to ' On Monday, April 17, the 'determine how many teaChers it week's events open with a special school mass at 9 a.m. enrolment. The old contract set On Wednesday classrooms are 'the PTR at between 16.8 and 17.2 • (Continued on ,Page 3) meaning one teacher would be industrial =committee sells land "This must be a first" commented councillor Wayne Ellis as a waterworks budget from the Seaton)] PUC was tabled at Monday night's council meeting. Past councils have requested such a budget regularly as the town must approve waterworks capital spending and councillors seemed glad to have the figure down on paper. Council approved a capital budget of $75,900. including marathon difference. As a final solution lasted'33 hours. The countyboaed both agreed to send the wage of , education ratified the pact settlement to an arbitration ' Tuesday night by a 12;1 vote. hearing that will• be held some • The ag .reement covers both time before-""the''''''sdhool year the 1977-78 and 1978-79 school begins in September. '. 4 , term and if accepted by - the p"roSbaileanTriesinpr7needgottojaub;.lityt,51er. Seaton]] council members-have teachers ends almost 15 months - been offered free TV time but ' eight week strike. an increase of 7.5 percent thtisiasm to the idea Monday"- . that • the teachers wanted a teacher . ratification vote hired for every 17 students in the system. The teachers hired by the PTR'syStem include non teaching personnel such as - •principals, v.ice-princiPalS, guidance counselfors-and librarians. ,The-board agreed to write the workload' clause into the 1977-78 contract along with the stipulation that the PTR is made the deciding ffaCtor. It agreed that it could li ve with the workload clause- that made the PPC binding only if the workload demands could be met with staff hired within the pupil teacher ratio. • 11g..ortly-other undecided, issue-- in the 1977-78 'contract was a sick leave gratnity clause the board,, wanted to alter. The clause offers teachers financial security involving up to half a year's salary for sick time. If the teachers had not lost time due to sickness the sick leave pay was -Made a gratuity -given ;to"-the teachers at retirement after seven years of 'Service to the board. • The board wanted .the gratuity clause reworded . requiring .a teacher to complete . either 12 years Of service or reach the age Coun c i l not • • • the average class size and the number of periods'a teacher is required to, each during a School schoOl year. -- it-was a-L'fair resolution-of-4h problems",. cable company's offer, scheduled, She said she hoped the . to start -this- month. -whetheror not they'll take up-the 11 must hire based on total school REMEMER WHEN ? — Mrs. Ruth People, Mrs. Jean_Keys and Mrs. Sarah Elliott, all of Seaforth, recalled some fond memories as' they examine old photographs at the Huron South Women's Institute's 75th anniversary celebrations in Hensall last week. (:Expositor Ph-oto) School books-are board's business Hensall decides Catholic Women's League calling for the condemnation of several books used in the county. Tne !encr included excerpts 'from the books which the league labelled as pornographic. - "We are all aware of the problem of pornography in the ,movies. T.V., magazines etc. However. we feel the vast majority of parents are unaware there is a •problem in our own high schools," the letter read. "Unless we, the parents, voice our objections to the school board, teayiers.• MP,Pls etc. concerning material used in schools, this serious problem can only accelerate," the league wrote. • Several councillors said the type of books mentioned in the letter were not in, use xhen they were in school. "I'm not a..10.ster.and I'm not a school teacher, but I know that this is pornography," said Reeve Harold Knight after he read the excerpts:- Councillor Bev Bonthron said the excerpts in the letter may be the only explicit references in .the whole book and that xthe rest of the book may have edticational value. Councillor Paul Neilands said the matter shotild be decided by the Board of Education and not Hensall Council. The rest of council agreed and the letter was filed. $58.000 for the new well . and pump house and $6,000 for enginedlring fees related to it, $1,800 for three new, hydrants, $600 for water meters, $8,000 for new mains and $1,500 for services. There ,are no comparable figures for 1977 because a firm' budget wasn't really drawn up, PVC Manager Tom, Phillips' - .explains, • (Continued on Page 3) I T.":11.1,1,1,..2-.•,1,