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Thursday, April 8, 1971
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Board unhappy at
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
A communication from the Ontario
Department of Education advising that in
1973, all students entering Ontario teachers'
colleges will be required t., have a university
degree in arts or science was not greeted
kindly by the Huron County Boatd of
• Education.
"They put a ceiling on spending and then
they put us in the position where we can't
do anything else but spend more," stated
Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Goder'ch. She noted that
Clinton campus depends on student interest
Space reserved at Base
BY KEITH ROULSTON
The future of a community college in
Huron County hangs in the balance unless
more interest is shown by students in the
county.
In an interview on Friday, Ross Milton,
administrator of operations for Conestoga
College of Applied Arts and Technology in
Huron, said Conestoga is prepared to offer
college courses beginning this fall at a
campus in the county, but that response
from students has been minimal. He said
space has already been reserved at Canadian
ROSS MILTON
Forces Base Clinton and he had prepared 18
courses based on the needs of business and
industry within the county but so far the
response has been so lacking that "we are
going to have a hard time justifying our
budget".
"If the people of Huron want a college in
their midst then we must have people to
train," Mr. Milton said.
Mr. Milton, who has represented
Conestoga in the county from his offices in
Seaforth for nearly a year, said he has been
examining, the needs of the county during
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Column
Tomorrow (Friday) is of course Good
Friday and being a holiday it will mean
changes in the normal postal service.
There will be no wicket or rural route
service on Friday but regular service will be
in effect on Saturday and again on Monday.
The lobby of the post office will of
course be open on Friday for those who
have postal boxes. There „will be normal
service on outgoing mail and at the street
letter boxes.
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Here's hoping that the news this week
that Conestoga College plans to set up a
campus here in Clinton is just the beginning
of more good news. However, as Mr. Milton
and Mr. Cummings point out, it is up to us
in the area to show our concern over the fate
of the town with the Base closing and to get
behind proposals and support them. Elected
and appointed officials can not do all the
work.
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An attempt is being made to organize a
basketball program for the spring for boys
from 12-14 years of age. The program will
be operated out of the Ontario Street United
Church gym but is open to youngsters of all
faiths.
If enough interest is 8hown among local
youngsters the program will begin in the
next week or so, probably on Thursday
evenings.
Boys interested can register on sheets that
have been distributed to most of the area
schools or by dropping into the
News-Record. It is hoped that coaching by
experienced coaches will be supplied as well
as a chance for the boys to show their stuff.
A resolution passed by the directors of
the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture, Thursday night calls on the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture to
sponsor 'an advertising campaign to educate
the consumer on the portion of the price of
a food product that is returned to the
farmer.
The resolution calls upon the OFA and
commodity groups to institute a campaign
of spot newspaper ads and short television
commercials to tell the farmers' story to
urban d*elIera.
In promoting the idea, Mason Bailey,
vice-president of the HFA, said an urban
friend of his had been suggesting this to him
for several years. He said urban dwellers did
not know how little of the price they paid
for food 'products actually went into the
fanners' pockets.
the time he has spent here and could almost
guarantee jobs within the county to the
graduates of the Clinton campus. He said
immediate plans for a college in Huron call
for about 200 full time students and 250
part time students.
"As soon as we have the students, we're
ready to go," Mr. Milton said.
Mr. Milton explained that the courses are
designed under 10 programs. These include:
1. The post-secondary plan, offering two
and three-year diploma courses for high
school graduates on a full-time, day school
basis,
2. The Canada Manpower Training Plan,
offering courses to teach specific skills for
the Manpower and Immigration Department.
These vary in length and include such things
as teaching English to new Canadians or
teaching skills such as welding.
3. Ontario Referral Plan, under which
persons are trained in classes primarily
meant for the Canada Manpower Training
Plan but given to persons who do not qualify
for benefits from Canada Manpower.
4., The Registered Nurse's Assistant
course, for persons being trained under the
certification of the College of Nurses or the
Ontario Health Association. Some such
training has been carried on in the county at
times in the past.
5. The Management Development Plan,
aimed at increasing the efficiency of the
individual enterprise. Graduates from this
course can work up to an Ontario Manager's
Certificate. This course was formerly offered
by the Trade and Development Department.
6. Personal Enrichment Programs,
offering short courses in such hobby-type
past-times as ceramics and art.
7. Personal development courses to help
the worker develop further skills in their line
of work such as additional training for a
welder who does not have training in a
specific skill in welding.
8. Nurses' Training, where the College
makes a contract with a hospital to train a
certain number of nurses.
9. The Agency Co-Operative Plan where
training of a specific nature is offered in a
course designed for a specific group such as
the Independent Insurance Association.
10. Training within a business or
industry, where the college sends its faculty
to an individual industry or group of
industries in the same locale to train
personnel right on the job. The college may
draw on experienced instructors from
Huron County Development officer
"Spence" Cummings is trying to find out
what interest there is in the area over a
youth recreation program proposed recently
by which Would eventually lead to use of
facilities at CFB Clinton.
The program was proposed to Secretary
of State Gerard Pelletier by Paul Roach who
for the past two years has operated the
Canadian Hockey-Sport Training School at
the former air base at Centralia. Roach
approached the government with a proposal
for an eight-week athletic training program
under the government's Opportunity for
Youth Program.
Roach suggests operating the program
along the lines of the army cadet training
programs which in former years trained
thousands of high school students during the
summer months but which has reduced its'
numbers in recent years.
The proposed program would involve
high school boys from 14-18 years of age.
Sessions would be of two weeks duration
with residence provided for the 50 boys in
each session. A total of 200 boys would be
involved.
On Tuesday evening the Clinton Lions
met for a special meeting in their new
"Good Used Clothing Store" next to the
Town Hall at 19 Albert Street.
President George Lavis announced that all
is ready for Saturday's opening. The newly
renovated store, which will be open
Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons
from 2 until 5 and on Friday evenings, will
"If we want to get across what we want
to say, we're going to have to pay for it",
said Bailey.
He suggested small ads stating such things
as: "Last week farmers in Ontario got 21
cents per quart for milk" or "There are three
cents worth of wheat in a loaf of bread."
Bailey said he would eventually like to
see legislation to bring in cost plus a
percentage mark-up in food pricing. In this
way, he said, the more a manufacturer paid
for a farm product, the more he could
charge. Thus tire trend would be to pay
more to the farmer so that those along the
line in prc•cessing could make more money.
The resolution asked for help in financing
the campaign from the different commodity
groups in the province since it was felt the
OFA alone could not afford the, cost of such
a campaign.
another such -industry or utilize its own
instructors who have had experience in
industry before joining the college staff.
Mr. Milton said that to run a satisfactory
course there must be 15 persons in a class.
He said that he has already reserved 30,000
square feet of space as soon as it becomes
available at the Base, but would ask for
much more if interest among potential
students picked up.
He said it appeared that trained personnel'
would be able to find jobs within the county
for years to come. He said industrial
expansion in the county was at a rate of six
per cent last year and could run at 12-14 per
cent this year.
But he warned that many of the
industries that have recently moved into the
county will founder if they do not have
access to trained personnel.
Mr. Milton said he has visited or made
arrangements to visit all secondary schools in
Huron County to tell graduating students
about the courses available. Anyone wishing
information on full or part time courses that
will be offered he said, could get further
details by contacting Conestoga College,
Huron Information Centre, P.O. Box 802,
Seaforth, or phoning 527-1090.
Mr. Milton said he saw the initial 18
courses offered as a stepping off point to a
much larger program at the Clinton campus.
He said he could see the chance of the entire
recreation course at Conestoga, now centred
at the Doon campus near Kitchener, being
switched to Clinton because of the superior
facilities offered at the former air base.
But he emphasized that a good reaction
for the initial programs offered was essential
to the future of the college to serve Huron.
Roach proposes to begin the program at
the former Centralia base but to lease space
at Clinton once the program gets going.
The program now offered by Roach at
Centralia has been in operation for two years
and has seen 780 boys from 8-14 years of
age involved. His school differs from normal
hockey schools in that no professional
players are involved, just trained resource
personnel.
Many of the ideas contained in the
program Roach is pushing to the government
were first put forward by a local woman,
Mrs. V. Ray Bird, in a letter last year to the
then Treasurer of Ontario, Charles
MacNaughton. Mr. MacNaughton contacted
Mr. Cummings who then got in touch with
Roach about the plan.
Roach and Cummings feel the program
has a good chance of success if it has strong
local support. If you feel there is a need for
such a program hi our area, you can lend
your support by writing to the County
Development Officer, Box 4, Adastral Park,
or calling 482.9012.
feature clean, good quality clothing. All
proceeds are to be used for youth and
welfare projects.
Mr. Lavis emphasized that interested
citizens should leave contributions of
clothing at Murphy's Garage, Corrie's Red
and White Store, or Beecher Menzies' Law
Office.
EASTER SEALS
Laurie Colquhoun gave an encouraging
report on the Easter Seal Campaign which
has now reached two-thirds of its objective.
To date $850 has been collected in the
Clinton area to help our crippled children.
Mr. Colquhoun pointed out, however,
that time is running short and that all
contributions large or small should be sent
to Clinton Lions Club, Box 419, Clinton,
Ontario.
BY WILMA OKE
Snow removal has cost Tuckersmith
Township ratepayers $21,126 this year while
the budget had been for $12,000, it was
reported by Road Superintendent, Alan
Nicholson, at its session at Brucefield on
Tuesday night. To assist in covering snow
removal costs for 1971, council approved a
supplementary by-law for $6,000 and now is
submitting it to Department of Highways for
approval.
Mr. Nicholson reported he is still waiting
for the Department of Highways' approval
for construction of the new Sproat's bridge
but expected it in time for tenders at the
May meeting.
A building permit was granted to Harold
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
"I believe we have taken the first
significant step towards a very expanded
special education plan for Huron County,"
stated Bob Elliott, chairman of the Huron
County Board of Education.
Members of the board meeting Monday
afternoon and evening in Clinton agreed to
provide a special education program
throughout Huron County beginning this
fall, providing sufficient funds can be raised
to pay for it.
The full program, as proposed by W. D.
Xenwell, superintendent of special education
services in the county, would cost $204,300
for the 19711972 year. It calls for one
additional superintendent at a salary of
$21,000; one psychologist at $19,000; one
psychometrist at $10,800'; one remedial
reading specialist for the secondary schools
at $10,800; three speech therapists for the
elementary schools at $7,800 each; three
special learning disabilities specialists for the
elementary schools at $7,800 each; one
secretary at $3,500; five secondary school
guidance teachers at $54,000 (total) and
three elementary school guidance
counsellors at $23,400 (total). In 'addition
there would be other costs such as travelling
allowances, etc.
BA requirement
the starting salaries for university grads is
higher than the starting salaries for teachers
who graduate from teachers' colleges after
high school.
"It's a queer kind of an attitude on the
part of the department," added Mrs.
Wallace. "This board should protest."
The Huron board will write a letter to the
Ontario School Trustees' Council asking that
the matter be included on the agenda of
some future provincial meeting fox
discussion.
Pethick, 17 Railway Street, Seaforth, to
erect a house in Harpurhey.
The council members discussed at some
length the official plan for the County of
Huron which has recently been completed
and written up in book form, with
accompanying map. Several discrepancies
were noted, such as Egmondville and
Harpurhey were supplied with Seaforth
water, whereas they have their own water
supplies. Also, the hamlet of Nippon was
omitted altogether while other smaller places
were included.
Clerk James I. McIntosh is to investigate
what government assistance is to be offered
in the removal of dead elm trees along the
township roads.
It is understood that the board will
implement only as much of this proposal as
can be economically sound for the county at
this time. However, the members of the
board were made aware of the tremendous
need throughout Huron County for this type
of education.
A presentation during the afternoon
session pointed up the fact that some
children have special learning handicaps
which can only be overcome by experts in
the field of special education. These
handicaps can include, such things as
perceptual problems, visual and audial
difficulties, motor control troubles, etc.
A film shown to the board members
showed that between 15 and 20 percent of
all children may be experiencing some
learning disabilities which are preventing
them from achieving their potential. It was
Directors of the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture reacted bitterly
Thursday night to the news that Huron
County Council had refused to support a
resolution from Perth County calling for
legislation to stop the importation of "cheap
beef" from Australia and New Zealand.
But it wasn't so much the failure to
approve the resolution that had the members
of the farm group angry, but the remarks
made by some councillors in turning the
resolution down.
Heaviest criticism came from a remark
made by Williarn Elston, reeve of Monis
township who claimed importing and
exporting was a two-way street. He was
quoted in newspaper accounts of the touncil
session as saying 40 per cent of the hogs
produced in Canada were exported.
Jack Stafford, president of the HFA said
Council will pay the levy of $246.43 to
the Ausable River Conservation Authority.
Passed for payment were the road accounts
of $6,909.81 and welfare acounts of
$1,100.76 for the month.
A special meeting of Council was held on
March 25 when council applied to the
Department of Municipal Affairs for
assistance in dead elm tree removal.
A building permit for a house was
approved for Lorne Carter, RR 2, Seaforth
and an application from Co-ordinated Arts
Service to sell lottery tickets in the township
was approved. One of the recipients of
proceedg from these sales is the
Shakespearian Festival at Stratford.
proven that while these youngsters have
average and above average intelligence, some
quirk within them prevents them from
learning by the usual methods employed in
the present educational system in Huron
County.
It was shown, for instance, that some
children are unable to express themselves
through written examinations when they
would compete more than adequately if
given the opportunity for oral examinations;
some students must learn through
movement, actual touching and feeling. The
whole spectrum of special learning
disabilities is so wide, it was learned, that it
would not be possible to list them all in a
short space.
It was also shown that the will to learn
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he had seen the quote in the paper and
hoped it was a misprint. He said the figure
should have been more like four per cent.
Other speakers were equally appalled by the
figure and the implications they felt'it would
have on the general public. (Figures supplied
by the Department of Agriculture and Food
show about 500,000 hogs .of the total
number of 10 million hogs produced in the
country are exported, approximately five
per cent).
Members were also incensed over the
remark 'of Tuckersmith reeve Elgin Tompson
who had said "We've never had it so good."
"Do both of these gentlemen's wives
work?" wondered vice-president Mason
Bailey.
President Stafford said that if this was
good, it looked as if farmers had a long,
tough road ahead.
Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology is prepared to
open a college in Huron next fall and has already reserved space
at CFB Clinton in the former Radar and Communications School
building (arrow) now used as the Canadian Forces School of
Instructional Technique. The problem is there are not yet any
students for the school to train and 200 full time and 250 part
time students are needed in the next short while. —CF Photo.
Tuckersmith removal costs up
Federation plans campaign
to educate consurr ers
County Development officer
interested in interest
'Nearly new' store opens
Board takes 'first step' in nett) plait
Federation angry over
County Councillor's remarks