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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-06-17, Page 3CROOKED TREE — Actually this tree isn't crooked, but falling. Town workers chopped this tree down this morning. The rope tied to the tree was pulled by a vehicle on the other side of the highway. The tree was on Goderich St. in front of the home of Junior Storey and Orville Oke. --(Photo by Rimmer) THE GRADUATES— These children graduated from nursery school Friday night, and received a diploma and cap. (Back, left) Dean Finnigan (hidden), Darren Cook, Brad Moore, Lucas McMillan, Christine Dale, Jeff Flanagan, Staci Martin, Julie Medd, Jason Leeming, Gary Glanville, Cathy Laverty, Jeff Ryan, Justin Rodney. (Middle left) Craig Geiger, Michael Smale, Jimmy Crowley, Johnnie Upshall (hidden). (Front 1-Aft% Crista Clark, Katie Craig, Karen Vansteelandt, Krista Morris, Carrie McLlwain, Shannon Craig, Jamie Upshall, Brian Racho, Michael Devereaux (hidden), Stephen Van den Hengel, Jonathon Bell. Absent were Kevin Coleman, Angie Jervis, Sharon Williamson, Michael Weber, Michael Watt, and Jennifer Hargraves. (Photo by Hook) NURSERY UNDERGRADUATES — These students of Seaforth Coop Nursery attended the graduation ceremonies with their classmates, Friday night. (Back left) Christopher Dalton, Gaby White, Jenny Ryan, Teresa Wammes, Ethan Wallace, Jason Heipel, Jill Wood, Scott Wood. Janet Van den Hoven, Kelly Rau, Jennifer Marion, Derek MacDonald, Steven Fehr, Alison Morris, „Sandra Dale, Dana Dalton. (Front left) April Dalton, (bystander) Boyd Devereaux, Christopher Bach, SarahPowell,, '143a nne Vogels, Sarah Johnston, Colin Devereatni, Jason HendersOrt,.. Lawrence Flanagan; fletleta Broome, Rochelle Wocks,, Michael Hamon, Darren Coleman. Absent are Tracy Janmaat, and Erin Jamieson., (Poto by Hook) LARGE' DIAMETER — This huge tie6 Wasteilid- -this morning ' on Goderich ,81:the wedge which was chopped into it, so it would fell 'away thejlouses and onto the road, can be seen. HarVey Dolmage, Of the Town of Seaforth,.continues work on it-. (Photo by Rimmer) ToWn hall repairs cost $15,500 STANDING BROAD -JUMP — Joan &semen, of St. Patrick's school in Kinkora, looks like she may land fiat one-her stomach. Actually, she made quite a good jump Monday at the zone field meet in St. Columban. (Photo by Rimmer) 11 intario to help build curling dub IT(Mi 4.0.Na 171 111 1' mi. AA ;-101 Big ni THE HlJRO EX Unless you were there. you might think this week's photos of nursery school pupils (this, year's grads who move on to bigger things in Kindergarten and the ,under- grads who' II be back) look just a little confused. You should have been on the other side of the camera. The 'Seelig that confronted Expositor. photographer. David nook at the ptiblic Schad Friday night was te411)?, something. AtPIA lnursery slitial 5f0q1.41 out forfora Big Night 404 eucli accompanied by a~mtnimum of two relatives. Parents. grandparents. God parents and younger brelthers and sisters looking fOrwarli to their chance to learn and play with Miss Joanne. A few. overcome by the crowd scene, were not so sure.. Yes, picture taking at nur- sery school graduation. was not unlike the hype and the crowd that accompanies the AcadernY Awards or a' movie „Prehltere. Beside.s. tirne.r.o took at the camera. hold. still and • photographer David had to compete .4.00 p:404*,'j .P14 gtatidpoptip, *ti-Pnit4int 14,40.-:Itt_6;$4.61P piotoe. from d ifferen an •le t 4 *.igiO. meanwhile gilt tired of it all and didn't knew which }:i,to look. That may be evident froM the pictoral. evidence on this page. '• • But the important thing is the kids loved the ceremony in which they received dip- lomas and lots of claps. And. the cake and juice after- wards. They also loved being all slicked up and being given small. corsages to wear. Congrkidations• -the satall -;tudent;s, 400iT Oak: coed mar Litt=;ltiaone ,Sol. ;AO and to the, tn4nY,; parents: who ji*ep, the flat ee ry c tool fune*ontng'with kigars of fund x*ing and other votonter,': p4tpfit.*hos,tiot talc isvttivecj senses holy touch effort goes each .nursery school futietion. An extra hassle Friday was the fact that cups and coffee and all the trim- mings bought for the gradua- tion party disappeared Fri- day morning with the gar- bage. Nursery school solunteers seemed to take that in their stride and planned to get on with the next project. cater ing for the big ball tourna- ment here on the weekend An ongoing project now is fixing up new quarters. the portable onthe SPS grounds. •,which will be the nursery home SgpiOrp.tiV. Our apologies ta. parents *11*. Vii* appear - their ..this. ...Rhntos,-lf:Ynn'Ant:t6tbPk-.0 the tnarty poyi4 . .excellent '001040 49- took at grAdtratort , for orig., that' Olo‘.y• your kid- tO hetter advantage,, come, on in and . look through our . contact sheets. And next year. we're going to take nursery school grad pictures at a secret location. Seaforth says no to Wingham resolution Seaforth council voted down a Wingham resolution Monday night, suggesting, the town should solve its own problem. Wingham wants to petition the riding's MPP to intro duce a Private Member's Bill at Quieen's Park to insure ' representation of a munici- pality on county council in the absence of' the reeve. Reeve Bill Dale said Wing- ham's reeve goes to Florida every winter for three to five months, leaving the town without a rep ' on county council. But he said "if he doesn't .suit them, why do they elect him?" Councillor Bob Dinsmore said "I agree with Wingham, we should have a voice whether he knows the pro- cedure or not." "If you believe in local. government and are comb milted. you'd resign..if I was sick for three months, six months I'd resign. If you're not there, you're saying you're not interested" the reeve continued. Something to say by Susan White , arents kr, uestion H P.board Extensive repairs to town hall brickwork including the tower and rear chimney have cost 5l5,500 so far town clerk Min Crocker told council- Monday night. But the repair bill may not be complete. Reeve Bill Dale said bricks around windows on the hall's east side are being forced out as water seeps in behind them. An engineer from B,M. Ross was to assess the 'damage today, Wednesday, clerk Crocker said, and he added contractor Viggo Caspersen told him the town hall chimney had been "close to collapse...one of the worst he'd ever seen." Ontario Heritage Foundation funds may be available to help pay for the building's restoration and the clerk said an officer of the group will look over the building. Noting that funds had been budge ted •to work on the town hall's unused-third floor, reeve Dale commented "our third floor has gone outside." BY WILMA OWE Only 16 persons turnea up at the special Meeting held by' the Huron-Perth County Catholic School board to enable the 200 concerned parents who signed a petition from the Dublin school area to ask questions about their.education system. T1._fiflreiVed ""apetiat-mgeting- attended by five delegates who were protesting the board's decision at the end of May to relocate 20 teachers, particularly two . Dublin teachers, to different schools across the system. These transfers are to be effective when the new school term starts in Septaber. The delegates at that meeting appeared to be satisfied with the explanation that each teacher was transferred only a short distance when the board was faced with haying, too many teachers in Huron County and' too few in Perth schools, a situation requiring some juggling. However, board chairman Ronald Murray of Dublin has assured them as the meeting closed if they wanted a public meeting he would call one. ' Alice Louwagie of RR3. Mitchell led off. the questioning by asking the board's policy on- hiring non-Catholic teachers, She said the Waterloo separate school board hired only Catholic teachers. • She was told by Chairman 'Murray that there were 16 non-Catholic teachers in the syitem with the last one hired' abmit four years ago. He said an attempt was made alwayi to fill the vacant position with a Catholic teacher where possible. • Mrs. Louwagie asked if someone attended a regular meeting, of the board would there he a question period when visitors could ask, questions. She was told by Mr. Murray that there Was none as it would disrupt the meeting. Only delegations with permission to speak on a specific subject are given the opportunity to address the board during meetings. Mrs. Louwagie questioned the value of attending an Open board meeting if a person could not speak. Mr. Murray advised that the route to go for information on an ethication problem was to ask the principal of the school, 'or . the trustee for the area or bring it to the board as a final retort.. Louis (Sift) Looby asked chairman Murray why "with the two best teachers we have had, you let them go?" Mr.,Looby also asked why Mr. Murray did not vote on the transfer and was told that as a chairman he does not vote but has on occasion stepped out of the chair to Vete. Mr. Looby attaeked, the chairman (who represents IvicItillOp Township,. with many Dublin trey students) repeatedly for hot voting when, the transfers affected "your district." Shouting matches broke out each time. Mr. Murray admitted he had not voted, Mr. Looby asked "Why' did they not move someone' else? I'd keep . the two best teachers" and Mr. Murray told Mr. Looby, "You don't tell me what I want)" '''' --FAMILY-COMPAGT- Mr. Looby declared several times. "This board is known as a family compact' Mr. Murray pointed out that, on the average each teacher is moved every six or' seven years in the system.' He was asked why the non-Catholic teachers are not moved first and he replied that. "We treat every teacher as fair as we can. they are treated, the same." William, Eckert, Director of Education. explained how the. transfers were decided at Dublin--that four teachers were interviewed and asked if any two would go to Kinkora. None wanted to go. and the two at Dublin the longest were moved. Mr. tooby criticized the Dublin moves as being made at the deadline, the last night before the deadline, but he was told the trustees knew the. Thursday before the Monday night session. Wilha Vandenberk of Dublin said,, -if you do it let us (ratepayers) know two weeks ahead of time. If we had been prepared it would not have been so hard on us." Chairman Murray replied. "That would be dynamite. You couldn't do it. Half the people want "this one" and the other half want "that one". Mr. Murray also assured the ratepayers that no one trustee had any input on the transfers, both had been done-fairly. Some trustees voted against it, he stated, but thefe was nothing under the table, no fatnily compact. Matte Ernest Vanderschott of St Marys said, "There are 19 schools and we have to look at all of them. You should be happy you had them.(the two teachers) so long. I would be thankful fer that. Trustee . Vincent Young of Goderich reminded Dublin ratepayers that while they did not seem to think the replacements might be as good teachers as the ones leaving, the new ones would be bringing Clew ideas to the school. He said Goderich lost four teachers in the transfer.' Mrs. Louwagie said that there's a lot of difference in whether a teacher wants to go or does not want to go. Mrs. Vandenberk expressed interest in salaries paid to administration and also the amount they are allowed to have to go to seminars and conventions out of the province. She asked if the board's books were open to the public, if anyone could go and look at them. She was told by Mr. Murray that the board could not have' everyone running in to look at the books,but that the financial- Statement for the board would ,be in the papers in two Weeks, He suggested that "if a person wanted certain information it would be better to go to the trustee for the area' and ask the trustee to pure--.-the-..-needed. -material. He. _said . printouts are made every two weeks and the trustees are informed on finances. Mrs. Vandenberk said that taxpayers should know where their dollars are going and =Iced such questions as how much it costs to send one delegate to the west for a convention. Mr. Murray expained board policy allowi three trustees to go out of the province and the convention budget ranges from $5,000 to $7;000. REASONABLE SPREAD Vandenberk stated that , the more the teachers Make, the more administrative staff makes. Mr. YOdbg said there is a reasonable 'spread. He suggested that with a bit of checking you would, See that the administrative staff are all receiving abbot 510,000 less than other boards. This is not fair, he said. .Mrs. Vandenberk said, "You can't put it up too much. People are complaining about BY WILMA OICE A Wintario grant of $93,333.34 to the Vanastra Curling Club will go a long way toward covering the construction costs of a new,curling rink being built this summer. A letter from the Ministry of Culture and Recreation confirming the grant was read at a meeting of Tuckersmith Township council Tuesday night. Council will sign a contract with Wayne and Harold Smith •Construction Ltd. of Egmoudville for the construction of the new steel-clad building and removal of thd Aid building at a cost of $118,355. Reeve Robert Bell and Councillor John Browntidge will attend the founding confer- ence of the new association to replace such associations as Rural Ontario Municipalities Association (ROMA). Mr. Bell will be a representative from Huron County council. r. high taxes already:" Mr. Murray said that the board is not heavy in administration. He said it seems there is nothing more than can be done than is being done now-we must provide for the Students. _Thelrustees.smere..askestto.lelitite of ,munielpalltks each represents and it was Soon evident many are responsible for several municipalities. Mr. Murrak'said that it is difficult for them to Speak to all their ratepayers and that parents should seek out their trustees when:they need an =Planation for something troubling them, Mr. Murray told the ratepayers that they should come around a year from now in NOvember (at election time) and tell them (at the. polls) how you feet. Some expreased a desire to attend board meetings ' when something they did not understand (such as Bill 82, on special education) was on the agenda. Mr. Murray said the hoard Meets every second and fourth Monday except • during July and August or On a holiday. He suggested that they contact their trustees to find out what would be discussed at a meeting, or their local schools as they receive agendas. A registration fee of $25.00 will be paid for Peter Aunger, a life guard at the Vanastra recreation centre, to attend a coach's clinic in Kincardine June 12 'and 13. Allan Nicholson, road superintendent, in his report. said gravelling of township roads 'will start today. ' Applications for four tile drainage loans for a total of $45,100 were approved by council. Council members expressed annoyance that applications-for tile drainage loans. are not always being returned to the township office until after construction of, the drain is complete, A decision was made not to approve a loan in the future unless the application is returned before start of the work so that proper inspections can be made. The meeting wat'adjourned at 10:30 p.m.