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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-03-19, Page 1122nd Year Whole No, 5897 pingle Copy 40 Cents Slb.00'pe.r rear in advance SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1981 - X24 PAGES 6011 the &tiCttil 71.10%Vd. the IntikOW.g. t\ , p,urr)tast.d by titi Feeestere.: tettri- , k'-oosiat0. .ind S'eatei,•( onsiantiiie • and vonserted to a hall used tor. reeeptions. euchivs„ 'barbecues and other toOmumity eseels. • Mr. Aoderson' sold the tees thing resoled from the had before the art' eery barbecue racks stored in a shed, He said the hall's interior was badls &imaged. and it till be up to the insurance adjustor "to tell st hether is c rebuild or not . ' ' He said the hall 11 as partiiills cos ered to insurance. Tit the phst fee sears, a new root Was put. ' • • (Tee— • 90 the, and last year, it .eacestrOugo• big was, installed 0• n:eWeehiline'f the bricks pointed. Mt -Anderson said• there are about .20' .'active Members. in 'the lodge, but other Members belohg .froni. as far asses a-, Relive-tic and Wingliarn. , The Constance hall ewas to base been a polling station in today's election. Voters Lae now east their ballots at the residence ot Tom Whyte. Lot 3, ('on. 4, I' miles soul WO Kinburn. 4410E,GIIM ..; , Afire which ,started.ini,the oil Inmate,: or the :Cneetance. .Forester's Nell, the f011Or Etpllett Township school. has badly dainaged the 1 interior of: the Kittb"ttrtt landmark.' The-fire was disgovered by caretaker .Erie AnderSon of RR1. Loridesboro when he went to-check on the furnace in preparation for a euchre scheduled for Tuesday evening- When Mr. Anderson checked the furnace. he found the firepert had filled with oil, and moreoil had spilled out on the floor. Within' a short time, the building %yes. tilling with, smoke. Mr. 'Anderson said he phoned Seaforth fire department from the Bill Storer home, and returned to the hall. The smoke then was "eb thick, Mr. Anderson spud. he was unable, to re-enter the building to save any-furniture or equipment. Seaforth fire department. assisted by the Clinton fire department, was on the scene • , . sherds .before 11-4:10; Fire bett rei,baisted tit! the Seem- Until teidettleeepon. and fire, thief Harks, trak.,,, said ,,eold temperatures nettle firettglitiog''difficult. some, of th.eit eninpment freeting, the . chief said fire men didn't k ei it& catai•t it e here the fire was, and the hall watesisinti ot mooke thesilreeented entry . Hesaid .1 he lire was• burning betWeen 'the ceiling and the floor doe nStairs: firemen finafis gained sties to the building through the cinches.. 4fa rs Riles. a Kinburn resident. said the e hit brick building e as used as a schOol until I ehh. The hall M a* built in 1900 ell& Conestoga courses cut Fridays for Lloyd, Lori. KINBURN HALL BADLY DAMAGED- BY FIRE—A ,fire Tuesday 4 morning, believed to have started in the furnace of Kinburn hell, badly ,damaged the interior of this 'butt-ding- The Mil, owned by 'the Court' Constantine and Court Contance Foresters, was built in 1900 and was S.S. #3, Hulleit School until 1966. (Photo by Gibb) The towns of Seaforth ?and. 'Mitchell will 'honour skaters Lloyd Eisler and Lori Baler at an appreciation night at the Seaforth Arena tomorrow evening beginning at 8. Following a skating demonstration the pair. Mayor John Sinnamon of Seaforth and Harold Jordon of Mitchell ' will make a Special presentation to the skaters on behalf „. of the two communities. Seaforth Optimists wilt—, provide free transportation to and from the arena for seniors. The number to call fora ride is 527-0882, anytime between 9 and 5 Friday. Advance vote heavy What declining enrollment? SDHS gains students • •• Enrollment at Seaforth District High . School (SDHS), contrary to what'S happen- ing at other secondary schools. is going up.. SDHS principa, Bruce Shaw said there were 363 students enrolled at SDHS in In the secondary system, total student enrollMent in 1979 was 4.475 students, in 1980 it was 4.235 and this 'year is 4,020. Next year's secondary school enrollment is expected to 'drop sharply to 3,757 BIA bylaw expected in April , A SURE SIGN OF SPRING—When skateboards-and roller skateg' appear ',around the village of Egmon'dville, can spring be far behind? Kelly Rau was learning the art of staying upright on a skateboard Saturday, with a little help from a, friend. If they'd known Tuesday's bl-usfery winter weather was right around 'the corner, maybe the two girls wouldn't have been so eager to practise these "good weather" skills. (Photo by. Hook) BY HERB SHOVELLER A by-law before Seaforth council Mon- day night which would have designated a Business Improvement Area (131A) for the town will not be ready until the April council meeting. Clerk Jim Crocker 'delayed introduction of the by-law, he told council, because he wasn't satisfied with the legal description of,the propoSed area. • Mr. Crocker said most BIAs are clearly defined and run in a straight line while the proposed . area in .-Seaforth runs in a scattered outline encompassing portions of Main St. and Gederich The clerk added there.were no objections to the proposed 'legislation. An earlier B1A by-law for Seaforth was halted last fall when several merchants presented a petition opposing-the legislat- ion. After the intent of a WA was explained. however. they withdrew their oppositione gnd work is again underway leading to the current by-law. A BIA is a section defined by council in' which only those ratepayers assessed for' busyness purposes contribute an autumnal levy for the development and promotion of the area. BY HERB-SHOVELLER 'Federal cutbacks in. its budget in° support of social and educational programs will cause serious reductions in courses offered at Conestoga College's Clinton campus and could even threaten its life. "The problem is our numbers, are at a minimum already so with a reduction of 20 per cent we are getting to the point where the Clinton campus Might be in jeopardy.", Ken Dawson. a teaching master at the Clinton campus said, Wednesday. The -proposed 20 , per cent etittetek hits training .days which' Canada Employment purchases through the colleges., Because the Clinton programs rely heavily on the trainee • funding. the reduction will result in the loss of between three and teaching 'positions of the six currently at Clinton. Mr, Dawson is not one of the teachers being released' or ,transferred,-but he has been _reassigned to teach English as a second language. That, he said, has him worried. " however,. because the program doesn't exist. yet. • . • The Clinton instructor explained Cone- stoga president Ken Hunter had described the governoient's. decision es "thoughtless" and said he -was.upset -with the- shortmetlie he ,woee'given of, the, cutbacks. Mr,,, ',Hunter _ —found out about the :Cutbacks in late February. -Mr. Dawson said part - of the problem stems from the provincial government being in control of edUcation while the federal government looks after employment. In between lies skills training, like most of the courses offered at Clinton. "I don't understand it thyself." In.. "!'i continued. "I understand Canadtrlaas a shortage of skilled workers •and we have to import skilled workers. I think our tax dollars should suppert that training. "There's a lot of disturbance at theClinton campus. We're very upset. all of us. I think there's going to be some talk on this, I don't think it makes any sense." "Our prograin here is highly successful. We are very pleased with our results. We. may be small. but we give our students what they need to• continue at , the larger campuses. We get them prepared here." Mr. 'Dawson, who is local steward iif• the conutionity college teachers' union, said the Al° organization can do. little to protect the teachers who will lose their jobs. "The union's hands are really tied," he said. "The cutbacks were made according to the contract. It's not a fight .leetween the union and management." He added union president Scan O'Fly tin intends, however, to put some pressure en the prOvincial government to pick up sonic of the slack created by,the cutbackS. •4The ebnitruction trades 'helper course will be eliminated and the clerical-secretary and academic upgrading programs %sill be re- duced as a result of the 'cUrbacks, ;roved hears Riddell September. there are 367 students enrolled students. today and therewill be likely be 370 students next fall. While other high schools are reducing" the numbers of courses offered. and ,some are experiencing staff .cuts. Mr. Shaw said SDHS will be gaining a teacher. The principal Said the average retention rate at the high school has been 99.9 per cent for the past three years. which waits More .sputtents are enrolled the following year than' the year before at the school. However, while SDHS isn't experiencing the declining enrollment problems of other schools, two courses will be discontinued here next year-History 550 and French 550. both Grade 13 programs. Mr. Shaw said the courses have been dropped. because, an insufficient number ,of students was interested in taking them next year., However, while' there' are 121 courses offered at the school,this yl;ar, next year ther there' will be 128 available, to students. Mr. Shaw said discontinuing ' the two Grade 13 courses next year sheuldn't,affect anyone's university enrollment, since stu- dents' are accepted' if they have. the Grade 13 English requirement and they den't need a second language for most programs. Other high' schools which have lost courses include Central „Huron Secondary School in Clinton, which will be dropping a machine shop course. shorthand 400 and 'mathematics 552 and, South Huron Second- ary Scheel in Exeter; where Latin, 550 and 450. computer science 400. welding 300. 400 and 'cleetroniee 300 and 400 will be dropped. These course cuts. including others at F.E. Madill in, Winghani. will result in a staff reduction of six teachers in the secondary school panel. ati iron, Kersviser to 1. eeterich. 1.'111 getting more commit tinents than before." If aka*. polle in; thealwee ,10'etf-r are any indication, area voters 'arcgone ajs.,„ ' apathetic about today's provincial ,, Voter turnout at advance polls in Huron. Bruce, leuron-Middlesex and -Perth ridings was'up considerably from the last provincial election in 1977. • . Returning officer Eldrid Simmo ns of Exeter _said 750 people voted at advance polls Thursday. Saturday and Monday in the Huron-Middlesex riding. up from the 522 voters in 1977. In Seaforth, 112 people cast their ballots ahead' of the ,March 19 election date. in Clinton there wiere 134 voters at the advance poll, 208 in Exeter, 195 in, Goderich apd 101 in Parkhill. . George McCutcheote returning officer in Huron-Bruce., reported over 1.000 people cast -their ballots in advance• palls in that riding. up from 621 -votes in 1977. The advance polls were held iii Port Elgin 022) . voters. Kincardine (370 voters) Wingliant 0071 and Brussels (87). Mr. McCuteheon speculated the good weather brought people out to the 'advance. polls. Jim Rae. eleetionS Clerk in -the Perth riding, said a total of 1.777 voters east their ballots at advance polls. Although Mr. Rae didn't have the 1977 advance poll resells handy. he said it was a heavier voter turnout , at the Perth advance polls this time Speculating the heavier turnout was due to the good weather. Mr. Rae said' at one point election, workers were concerned whether they had enough balkits available for voters °The advance polls in Perth were held-in Stratford. Milverton. Mitchell. St. Mary s and Listoyeet,,, Today. the regular polls opened at 8 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. for the province's 32nd general election. An estimated 60 per cent of the population is eligible to vote an the 125 ridings across Ontario. Urban voters must have their names on the voters' list in order tai cast ballots. but rural voters, whose names' have bet it om itted from the list. may vote if someone they know on the list vouches for them on polling day. BY ROSS HAUGH More than 800 persons attended Thurs• day's beef on a bun feed at the Pincridge Chalet in support of Jack Riddell. the incumbent Liberal candidate in the,March provincial election,. London, Centre MPP David Peterson spoke to the large. crowd which came front all parts of the riding from Strathroy tit Goderich. Mr. Peterson lauded Mr. Riddell for his efforts d. ng the past eight years in the Legislature refuting area Conservatives who say the local member must be on tht governthent side to be effective. He coetinued, "That's a lot of nonsense. Jack his forced the government to do a lot more than they would have ordinarily." "Your MPP led the fight against foreign ownership of farmland. He was the defini- tive voice On that subject and singlehandcdly embarrassed the government into taking some action." said the London MIT. Mr. -Peterson added. "as our agriculture critic, Jack is continually making mincemeat of agriculture minister Lorne Henderson. He will be a very important part of a new Liberal..., government." Mr. Riddell talked about Ontario's OW ing.economy. He said, "We are so blessed with natural resources.' yet arc lagging behind in economic growth." He suggested the need for a job. training program as there will be a shortage of 30.000 skilled workers by 1985. Inside this week— Children's Aid support manners. Monsters, you ` sec. were the subject of his speech, which stein' John the top prize in the'0 1-IPIACSS, page AS.. • 'The Perth Children's Aid S'ilciety will be able to expand the programs it now offers following a 14.23 per cent funding increase • from the provincial government. The boost is in the top ten offered counties in the pro- vince. See stony, page A4. Winning with monsters Diggin' in Young Michael .klenderson was more concerned with diposing of his spaghetti than with having his picture taken at the St. Thomas Anglican Church supper Fri- day night. Sec pictures, page' AS. Story's end remain- unanswered. Alice Gibb, in her Serendipity , column, has found a ,iew more -answers about the kid- !tapping, planned by former 'Beechweed resident Michael MeCardle. page A I l . Though many of the, quest- ions about the Labatt case John -Ryan, a senior student at St. Columban' Separate School, has made the most of WELCOM1NO SEAPORT/1 LIBERALS—IVIere than BOO persons attended the Beef on a Bun gathering at the Pineridge Chalet at Hensel' Thursday night in support of i-luron-MiddleSex Liberal' candidate Jack • Riddell. Above, Seaforth residents dde White;, Zack Ryan 'and Mike. Coyne are welcomed by Mr. Riddell. About the present Davis governdent Mr: Riddell said. "It's like a boat stuck on a bar, we need a new cress to get it back in the water." While confident of victory Mr. Riddell said, "I'm not taking anYthitm for granted. We have to conSider every opponent seriously, bin, I'm pleased with the response