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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-11-02, Page 1 (2)Communications was the subject of a day long session of 70 teachers and parents at Seaforth District High School on Monday. - Participants, in the .day's activities. sponsored by the Teachers Federation. were 25 parent-ratepayers from the area, local board of education trustees and the complete staffs of Seaforth. and Walton Public Schools' and' Seafortb District 'High- $Chool. The morning session, under the general theme of expectations and, concerns, dealt with parent-teacher and sehool contact, the question of discipline,' extra-curricular activities and complaints and miscon. ceptions 'the elementary and secondary Empty house burns .13Etal4WOOb 114tEANAtiONAt . sinti• in the tolddlo° Of Leon :hftlbriey'S field, Makes, it all offiCisil, H lorrOws won first prize —in the first,' maybe annual, beechwoo,' I t- Whole No. 5773 119th Year $12.00 a year in advance Single Copy 25 cents SEAFORTH', ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1978 28 PAGES FIRST/ SECTION PAGES, 1 — 20 'RatOpoyer.'rneetiev .gets.::.. ig crowd but ew questions -SINGAING A SONG.— Vanastra Day Care teacher Beatrice Thomson of Kippen leads a group of childr'en in singing for their parents during, the Open House held.at the cenAre on Monday evening. The children are Parents are guests at PD day poor go-betweens for communication and teachers said that letters sent home to parents elicit little response. Parents were urged to be concerned about courses and curriculum and to attend all parent-teacher nights, as well as monitoring, their childrens' homework. Parents and teachers were encouraged to work together to monitor studentsberiaviolity • Vandals suspected in Londesboro fire Vandalism is assumed to be the tause of a fire which broke out . early • Wednesday morning on a farm owned by Murray Adams- of Londesboro.. The farm was formerly owned by Bill Little. • A vacant house on the lot was badly damaged. and will have tq be demolished -A f . is belonging to Mr. Little which were 'till in t house were destroyed in the fire.• The Blyth .Fire Department received the cart about 12:09. a.tit. but weren't able to bring the fire under sontrol untilaftet..3 a.m. The., side and back of the house were in flames when the firemen first arrived on the 7scene. Fire chief Irwin Bowes said. he eouldn't . estimate the cost of damage to the house because the Adams had planned to renovate the home so they could make it liveable and then rent it to tenants. , The chief ,said some of the- indic ations of vandal s were that the fire was on the exterior of the house, that it started on the floor of thesunporch, plus the fact the hydro was disconnected -and the house was locked. There was some insuranccerserage on the building. The fire is still under investigation by the O.P.P. By Alice Gibb It was the kind of hot news tip every reporter dreams of getting at least once in his life. The cal44ame in to the Expositor Tuesday morning arid the staff wasted no time in following it up. The farmers out Beechwood W'ay organized •their own plowing match - no. make that their • own' Beechwood 'inter- natiotial Plowing Match. and the 'Expositor was the only paper to get the scoop. The reporter met the informant, who wishes to remain anonymous, outside the Beechwood store and they set off in an unmarked car to discover just what the Beechwood 1PM was all about. The informant.' by the way, was cleverly disguished behind thick, dark glasses and he had a woollen cap pulled down over his ears. After all, who 'knows what might have happened to him if he'd been recognized. less than a mile from the Beechwood store the team discovered the evidence - a large sign reading Brechwood International Plowing Match, first prize. A few furrows over was VOther smaller sign, with the Words 6th. prize written on it. term Maloney, of R.R.1, Dublin the farm's owner had not only captured top prim in the mulch, but he'd finished in last place in and out of school. A more detailed report on the professional activity day discussionS will be carried next week. I _.„ _ A BIG GIRL — Handling her own glass and her dinne? 611 by herself at Egmondville United Church's turkey supper last Wednesday was Carri Mcllwain, who's two. She's the, 'daughter of Jim and Donna iVicliwain of Egmondville. (More photos inside the Exositor.) as well. However, our informant pointed out ' it was actually Ray Maloney who was responsible for plowing the winning furrows. " It's doubtful the 'other plowman will confess - the sixth prize furrows were decidely,cloddy and there was a suspiciously generous amount of grass still showing above ground. The second place winner in the mysterious match was Ken Ryan. a neighbouring farmer. and the third prize was captured by Jim Maloney: - The fourth prize plowsman was Ron Ryan and fifth place was taken by veteran furrow fighter. Jim Murray. When our informant was asked just who judged the competition, he answered rather mysteriously, "Just say it was the Hal- lowe'en goblins. . The \prize for Mi. Maloney "well, maybe a pumpkin?lhe informant said. The spon%ors of the match are still a mystery, or according to our informant; their names are "off the record". Either the boys around Beechwood have hem, drinking Qome of that fermented McKilIop . cider or else maybe it WaS t a: m, ail Hallov,k*en prank. Still, the idea of holding an ann rallitinh in Betel -mood cen id catch on! There were lotS of answers but not too many questions when a good crowd 'packed Seaforth's council chambers for the town's, ratepayers' meeting' Monday night. Cost plus Mayor Betty Cardno and deputy Reeve Bill Dale saidthe ladn was sold to encourage development and when a former council bought the land it was decided to get cost plus expenses from resale. `4Future issues facing the new council . include ,a fire decision on a new hall, a renegotiation of the Fire Area Board agreement, an updating of Seaforth's zoning bylaws, perhaps "a third senior citizens' apartment building (there's no word yet on when construction of the second will start on ran- Si; the ma; or' reported) and the possible designatioP of Main St. the meeting was told. • Bob Dinsmore , who's been acclaimed to the new council, Wondered if council had looked at extending boundaries to make more industrial land available. The develop- ment committee ,,and planning board will have to look at it, he was told. • Mr. McLaughlin asked council why a road was being constructed (George St.) 'to service an industrial park lot bought by Louis McNichol:`I have a back alley I pay taxes on and there were some days last winter when it was never plowed." The road belongs to the town deputy reeve Dale pointed out and the construction was one of the conditions of sale, the mayor added. "The, money spent there could have gone for sideWalks," The resignation of Joseph Mills, Superintendent of Education for Huron-Perth County 'Roman Catholic Separate School Board was accepted with regret by the, board at a meeting in Dublin Monday night. It will be effective December 31. Mr. Mills has accepted a position as education Officer with the Ministry of Education in Toronto. He was hired by the board September 1, 1976 as superintendent of special services and since August, 1977, he has been superin.' tendent of program, combining it with the special service workload. The board will hold a special meeting November 1 to discuss advertising for a replacement for Mr. Mills. The board approved i revised policy regarding scsecretaries to be adopted January 1. Formerly the policy for re- muneration for the secretaries was based on, countered Mr. McLaughlin.., Roil Boose of Goderich St. West asked 'council when it's going to consider a tough bylaw on biuning leaves. "The pregent bylaw l'has no teeth and even it isn't being enforced.'.' he, said, citing problems for drivers or even people who want to sit in their own homes without smelling neigh- bourhood smoke, "It's worthy of con- sideration and needs amore thorough look," Mayor Cardno told him, Defense Irwin Johnston, chairman. of council's' police committee gave a spirited defence of the Seaforth force saying • the men in- vestigate 140-150' ocurrences ,a month, compared to 30-40 a 'few years ago. He described a few hours he had spent downtown late one night and said things were pretty quiet. "I'd like to ask Mr. Johnston what time he was uptown" asked John F. Scott, to laughter from. the audience. "It must have been a Monday night." He questioned the need for five policement in Seaforth when Listowel, with 4 population of 5,000 plus has seven ?It allow S 24 hour-coverage Thursday, Friday and 'Saturday; councillor Johnston replied. "I'll give you' a ding some morning when it's noisy downtown" Mr. Scott promised. , In contrast to a stormy ratepayers' meeting two years ago, the only queStion PUC members faced' was from Bruce Hoelscher, newly acclaimed councillor. "One day every week our water tastes terrible", he said. • PUC.. chairman Gord Pullman said something is added to town water once a week but it should be in everyone' water. The chairman said he hoped the PUC manager would send a man over to check out: Mr. Hoelscher's complaint. Lowering Mr. Pullman cited a lowering of the water' rate, drilling of a new well and establish- ment of a reserve fund as PUC accomplish- iments: • Present officials paid tribute to town and PUC employees and' asked the public for constructive criticism, and praised those who attended, "Come out to, council meetings instead of waiting until two years are up," said councillor Ken Roth, who is retiring, "Support your council. I think they'll do a better job." 'Will be based on a combination of the number of rooms and the enrolment figure in the school. This is an attempt to equalize the working hours. The wages for the secretaries will be $4.20 per hour with zero experience, $4.35 with one year's experience and $4.50 per hour with two years or more, all effective as of September 1, 1978. Ronald Marcy, Stratford trustee, was appointed to the protection to persons and property committee being formed in Stratford to study a task force report on vadalism by City of Mississauga and how it would' pertain to Stratfrwri With municipal election day oh November 13, the board's regular meeting date, it was agreed to hold the next regular meeting on November 20. December 4 has been set as the date of the inaugural meeting of the board for the 1979-1980 term, with the first regular meeting to be held December 18. Jennifer Burt, Vanastra; Chris Gill, Seaforth; Kimberley Dixon, Vanastr Hodgins, Vanastra; Angela Tyndall Varia'; Angela Harrison, R.R.4, a; Lai4 Munro, Vanastra; Megan ,,Vanastra and Miss Thomson. (Photo by Oke) Halloween pranksters : may -have been responsible for fire in McKillop Township early Wednesday morning. An empty frame house on the sideroad near Lot 15, Con. 7 was reported a blaze at .1:15 a.m., by an 0.P, P. officer patrolling the area. The Seaforth tire department responded to the call. and battled the fire for almost three-quarters of an hour. The house was almost completely de- stroyed by.the time the firemen teadted the seene. Chief H • Hak said there wasn't ally hydro connected to the house, and the building was vacant. The owner of the abandoned house stilt (Continued on Page 3 ) teachers and the parents might have about' each others role. Among the parents who p,articipatedr in the 'debate were: (list not complete) were Betty Beutteumillet, Trudy Btoonie, Margaret : Dale, Chris Knetsch,- Joyce Braecker, Maja Dodds, Caro' Hunt :ind Rose Robinson,. 'Charlotte McKercher, Janet Badteff and • Anne Ste, Marie. Mary Catherine,. Lane, Dinah Sills, Jean Stewart. Neil McGavin, Elsa Ruston and Roberta (Bert)' Kloss. The three trustees who participated were Dorothy Williams, who represents Tucker,- smith ratepayers, John Henderson 'from the Seaforth area and Donald MacDonald, representing. the Brussels-Grey area. The participants were divided up into groups to discuss areas where the lack of communication causes problems and to determine how this could be solved. . One solution suggested was that a way to avoid many future problems would be to have an early contact between parents and teachers - possibly using the first profes- sional development day for a large nieetng of teachers and parents: It was pointed out that the large "sex education" meetings last year proved to be most useful. ,Parents suggested when a problem arose involving q student, they would like to 'be informed about it before the situation became explosive. The teachers also asked to be informed by parents about any problems involving their children. It was suggested a meeting between the two could solve, the matter-even a phone call would clear up many situations. It was agreed by all that students make Hot news tip takes reporter to Beechwood IPM site Ratepayers questions singled out the sale • of lots at low prices in Seaforth's industrial park, the purchase of a possible' fire hall site for $20,000. burning leaves, the shortage of industrial land within the town, excessive noise demintwn at nights and. an occasional bad taste in town water as issues of concern. After the mayor-and councillors reviewed • the past two yeam.stressing an increase in building permits, storm drainage and Sidewalk construction, a procedural bylaw updated for the first time since 1942, a low ' Cost housing subdivision in the works, a restored arena the establishment of a reserve fund for the first time and a busier • police force, the meeting was thrown open to • questions. ' Local care dealer Bill Maim blin questioned the wisdom of buying p operty for $20,000 while selling an industrialpark • lot for $2,000 or $3,000. 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