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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-12-03, Page 21Rural Report %NU Kindergarten debate re-opened by the 13.ofE. -g1int9p ark, `Thursday, 'Poppm0pr ,,Q, 19.7P TODAY'S 'CHILD BY HELEN. ALUM 7-popocrow4fp4nowe Dennis looks ready to burst into tears. So he was, beeauSe he was under orders to sit still for the photographer — Which didn't snit this active little boy at all. At 17 months, Dennis is a healthy boy of German and Canadian-Negro background. He has big brown eyes, soft black curls, and olive skin. His favorite occupation is climbing the stairs. He doesn't know how to get down, though, so he is frequently marooned till someone comes' to his rescue. Dennis is a lovable child, generally happy. He gets along well with the children in his foster home, but can be quite determined about what he wants to do. He is suspi- cious of strangers, but once he gets to know them he is quite friendly. To inquire about adopting Dennis please write to To- day's Child, Department of Social and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 182. For general adoption information ask your Children's Aid Society, 1. 12 DAY MOTOR COACH TOUR FLORIDA CHRISTMAS VACATION Leaves Wednesday, December 23, 1970 Returns Sunday, January 3, 1971 From_ S149,99 4 ,,.. „,„ 1..4,11 to !, 174 . Fia • ; ; bkirk 'Transit Service Seaforth, for Brochure PHONE 527-1222 Make friends with a 'open imo ITSKIMO • The Choice of )professionals When Reliability and Performance Count. LIGHTWEIGHT aircraft aluminum chaSSiS where pounds and strength are critical POWER to keep going when the going gets tough with 14 to 60 h.), in singles and twins. 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Let Ontario Quality pork win you golden hours of extra freedom on Sunday. And praise too! The Golden Meat makes a glorious and tasty centrepiece for the big dinner of the week! PORK: a Good Buy Becomes Better! Between 1960 and 1970 some pork prices in Canada rose while others fell. Two which carne down in price, even despite inflation, were pork shoulder and cottage roll. In October 1960 the average retail price of pork shoulder in Toronto was 60.4 tents a pound; in September 1970, 59.7 cents a pound. And in the same period, cottage roll in Toronto fell from 76.9 cents a pound to 711 cents a pound. ...That's Why the HURON Section of the Ontario Pork Producers says: The Golden Meat Gives Cook a Treat! ,eifried shrttb...s oqd BY A,13, 41c1C1,EY At this time of the year the Average. garden _parr look rather drab; its only beauty is provided hy a few colored leaves showing here and there PO some. glistening evergreens around the foundation of liplo,.119w. mph brighter picture .W42144.1. he if few berried shrubs had been planted to add .1;011044e once the leaves had yi440,ad_dti berried 01 tettrutbillro. provide r an attraction for the birds, not only for the food they Aipply during the meagre. winter Months but, like other shrubs, for the shelter and protection they afford within their boughs, For those who would like to. brighten their gardens I shall list some of the shrubs that will not only serve such a purpose but will give a good floral or foliage effect at other periods of the year, Red: Among the red-fruited kinds are the Diel's ontoneaster (Cotoneaster dielsiana) which grows four feet high and produces thick silver leaves on very graceful arching branches and the Skogholm, cotoneaster (Cotoneaster clarnmeri `Skogholmen) that creeps along the ground. The European spindle bush (Euonymus europaeus) is a large shrub growing to 10 feet high or more, with bright red seed pods that open to reveal orange-coated seeds. The deep red variety Tructo-coccinee is an excellent selection, and Red Cascade has penulous branches of bright red fruits. The winterberry or inkberry (flex verticillata) is a native shrub with vivid red hollylike fruits. It is related to the English hollybut does not have the same prickly evergreen leaves. It should be planted in groups of three to five because cross-pollination is necessary for good fruit production. Other red-fruited shrubs are: Wright's viburnum (Viburnum wrightii) a Japanese species with thick leaves, bright red fruits and real crimson leaves in the fall; the Canadian and European elderberries with bright red and deep red fruits, ideal for growing in the shade; and the .highbush and European cranberries (Viburnum triloburn and Viburnum opulus) which have Garden notes feet high by six feet across. In summer it has silvery foliage and inconspicuous yellow flowers. In the fall it has in the center of each large silvery leaf, red berries that look like a cluster of grapes. This is the . only shrub I know that hands the birds their lunch on a silver platter. The firehorns (Pyracantha) which are hardy in the milder parts of Canada all have bright orange berries and are unsurpassable when a berried effect is desired. They may be grown as dwarf or large shrubs or trained as espaliers along a wall. They provide excellent food for birds. Blue: There are only a few blue-fruited shrubs. The Oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium) is exceptionally good because of its hollylike leaves. It is equally at home in full sun or part shade and grows no more than three feet high. The Canaert and Grey Owl junipers, the former with green foliage and the latter with silver leaves, have waxy bright blue ,berries, T rr he, arrow-yOod (Vibtir *atom ) is ala . vik4611 i9lated tfiCi e highbush cranberry and useful for almost total shade. The fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus) grows so large that it almost becomes a tree, although ck The Sea Bu it really belongs in the shrub category. It produces large, bloomy blue fruits in fall, and white, liladike flowers in June, The western blue elderberry (Sambucus caerulea) has proven quite hardy at Ottawa and has luscious blue fruits, covered with a silvery powdery bloom. Black: Two good black-fruited shrubs are the black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) and the wayfaring tree (Viburnum lantana). The black chokeberry has shiny black berries and also blazing fall foliage. The wayfaring tree is a very large shrub which, if grown to a single stem, will form a small tree. This is the very first plant to change color in the Arboretum during the fall, Other excellent shrubs with black berries are the Peking cotoneaster (Cotoneaster • acutifolia), with rich, glossy, black fruits and leaves that change to crimson and yellow in the fall; the Amur privet (Ligustrum amurense), with lush green leaves ,,,and large, black &Ohs' the ah an "?! dart 14 amnu s4`1;da v trice rather difficult plant to buy singly for it is usually sold as a hedge. Yellow: The best hardy yellow-fruited shrubs are the thorn is noted for its bright orange berries. to winter extremely vivid red juicy fruits. ;,The ,:spectacular grape;, thoneystfck PfEbrilderWao I iferat which, 'although really a vine, in the Arboretum of the Plant Research Institute inter-twines its long, twisty shoots to form a globe-shaped shrub about four BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Following a long and fruitless debate on the subject of kindergarten in Huron County — a topic re-opened by .a two-thirds majority vote of the members — the board voted not to re-open the matter of political activities where teachers activities are concerned, Mrs. J, W. Wallace had asked that the matter be re-discussed since it, is now necessary for a teacher accepting public office even at the municipal level to be absent from school without pay. This necessarily affects the teacher's pension arrangement and it therefore dictates that in order to qualify for pension at the end of a teaching career, the teacher must work to make up or the time lost on municipal or political business. The board did resolve, however, that teachers or other employees may serve as a member of a civic body such as the library board, the hospital board, a conservation authority, a planning board etc. without in any way interfering with or exploiting their primary function as a board employee. Policy was also agreed upon regarding the matter of policemen coniing to the schools to question students. It was decided that no student under the age of 21 years shall 'be questioned on school premises by any pollee officer except with written authority of the parent or guardian of the pupil; that students should not give voluntary statements without first consulting their parents or guardians; and that no lockers and other depositories of students shall be examined by any police officer unless a warrant has been obtained or is authorizegi 'Zbx _ kijiakent: or guardian'opf the Stiident''' 4 ''. The exception to this policy is under Section 112 of The Liquor Control Act in that if a police officer informs a principal that he believes that liquor is illegally kept or had he may search, without warrant, any locker, depository, motor vehicle or other conveyance in or on school property and the principal cannot prevent him from making that search. Snow removal tenders have been approved ranging from $5.50 per hour for a man and loader to $12 per hour for a man and a blower. Successful bidders were Russel W. Irvin for Brookside PS, $8 per hour; Glen Layton, Clinton PS, $10 per hour; Gordon Bosman, East Wawanosh PS, $8 per hour; Glen Price, Holmesville PS, $8 per hour; Edmund Hunking, Hullett CPS, $9 per hour; Walter Weber, Stephen CPS, $8.50 per hour; Harold Metcalfe, Turnberry CPS, $5.50 per hour for loader and $12 per hour for blower; and C. A. McDowell Ltd., Usborne CPS, $10 per hour, Three more break-ins were reported at Seaforth PS, Seaforth DHS and Clinton PS. The board learned that perhaps 50 percent of all damages have been recovered through insurance and that no one has been apprehended as yet for the troubles. Chairman John Lavis warned that insurance rates could rise if vandalism continues and suggested that an all-night custodian in the schools could he helpful, if the board would at' some time give consideration to such a proposal. Mark MalpasS, manager of purchasing and transportation, reported to the board that the cost per mile for elementary students transported on school buses under contract is 52 eenta per day; for secondary students riding school buses under contract, 47 cents; for students riding board-owned buses, 52. cents. This study is based on the 1,970.71 school year, "The cost per student for transportation in the county for the present school year is 53 cents per student per day," reported Malpasa. Resignations have been received from the following teachers effective December 31: Mrs. Wanda Jefferson, Brookside PS; Mrs. Dorothy Ball and Mrs. Charlotte Daly, Clinton PS; Mrs, Donna Greb, Hensall 'PS; Mrs, Barbara Soldan, Huron Centennial PS; Mrs. Lynda Bruce, J. A. D. McCurdy PS; Mrs. Helen Hunter, Robertson Memorial PS; Mrs. Sally Sillery, Seaforth DHS; and Alford W. Thompson, F. E. Madill SS. I.G. Godwin, attendance counsellor, has resigned effective November 18. A leave of absence was granted to Mrs. G. E. Ball from F, E, Madill SS and a one-year extension of a Department of National Defence leave has been granted to Miss Marion Triebner. The audio-visual technician at F. E, Madill SS has tendered his resignation effective December 11. It was agreed that the director of education, John Cochrane would ask him to stay on until the end of January by which time a replacement will hopefully be found. Chairman ' Lavis suggested that the staff at F. E. Madill SS could likely manage for a while until the position is filled but Superintendent Madill stated that audio-visual equipment at Wingham is "so sophisticated" that it would probably sit idle. Ih otirr business, the b• oard gal* — 1"-trt'e'enses geeiAt to the members, the senior administrative staff and their wives and husbands would be met by the Huron County Board of Education; agreed to investigate the possibilities of public school assessment which is not coming to the public school system. Put your money where you get your mortgage Most of the money invested in our high interest paying Guaranteed Investment Certificates has a priority in mortgage loans we make in the same area. Your investment in Victoria and Grey Certificates, not only helps you, it helps your community to grow and prosper. TRUST COMPANY SINCe 1839 Lealand HID, Manager Elgin and Kingston Streets, Goderich ,524-138:t yellow-fruited honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica `Luteal and the yellow fruited European cranberry bush (Viburnum opulus 'Xanthocarpum'). Both have lustrous deep golden-yellow fruits, but those of the cranberry last longer. White: There are quite a few good- white-fruited shrubs, but the best of all is the popular snow b erry (Symphori carpus albus ‘Laevigatus), which produces large snowy white berries in fall, and the variety `Mother of Pearl', which is quite distinct with rosy-tinted white berries. The Siberian dogwood (Comus alba var. sibirica) also produces waxy white fruits, but these are at their best in early summer. However it has beautiful red bark, which brightens up the landscape considerably as soon as the leaves fall. In most parts of the country it is not too late to plant these shrubs, although I would advise getting them from a local nursery where they may be freshly d. If the' ground freWe afte'r**:701Weirig,"— spread a four-inch mulch of leaves or straw around the plant to give a few weeks extra rooting period.