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Clinton News-Record, 1974-12-24, Page 16Santa is a jolly old soul'and never gets upset when one of his helpers misses one of her lines. Santa, played by John Gelling, dropped in on the Holmesvitle School Christmas concert along with three of his helpers played by Lynn Cross, Melody Falconer and Lisa Forbes. (staff-photo) ',LAZIt7IstgE3t::VaSAIz7-1illUzt713v5,SM,IMMZ ,IP.PAI*PSW-A)vg4, ] g A MERRY IYI>15,11;.MIY:41M4X;IASXMPA:RUMIAZA:11Z,W3WWM:1:13tZNI5a3*,Iltgn CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR . 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Member Canada DepOsii Insurance Corporation riuf undo Trwt Cothpany de,otryi entireiy in serving the people 0/ Ontario. ' TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 Serving & investing in your tommunity O. (Dave) Croon * Manager -524430i 100 KINGSTON GOOSRICH signs and lights to assure that the lights are clearly visible for as great a distance as con- ditions permit. Trustee Alex Corrigan of Bluevale expressed his incense over the letter and questioned the medical officer's right to direct the board on buses, "I wonder what he is trying to "do, come in and take over something from us?" Wilfred Shortreed, Walton, was re-appointed to represent the board on the Trustees Council. The following teachers have submitted resignation's effective Dec. 31:Mrs. Linda Wilhelm, F.E. Madill Secondary School; Glenn Buck, Kow;,ck Central Pohl Elryeri Probizanski, South •Huron High School; A4an Sygrove, Victoria Public; Mrs. Louise Syrogrove, Colborne Central; Miss Christine Smith, Grey Central Public; Miss Janice Bonthron, Robertson Memorial Public and Miss Margaret Adams, Usborne Central Public, The following teacher replacements have been engaged on probationary con- tract, effective January 1: Miss Carolyn Schofield, F,E. Madill from Belleville; Mrs. Jacqueline Smith, Howick, previously of staff there; John Holmes, South Huron from Forest; David Brereton, Vic- toria Public from M iddlesex County; Miss Bonnie 'Perdue, Colborne Central from Strat- ford; and Mrs. Fredamae Gillies, Grey Central, from Halton. County. A commemorative plaque will be mounted in a suitable location in the Administration Centre by the board and will inclUde the names of all the board members of 1971-72, when Robert Elliott was chair- man' and D.J. Cochrane, secretary. It is estimated to cost approximately $300 to $400. . Neil Walker, bus driver, Zurich Public School, resigned effective December 31. As the meeting concluded, Trustee John Henderson of Seaforth asked what the situation was at the Blyth Public School in regard to the sewage problem which had been unresolved for over a year. Roy Dunlop, Business Ad- ministrator, replied thathe..had received a letter to•the•board from J.R. Bray of the ministry of the environment which he proceeded to read: "Dr. G.F. Mills and I have considered the proposals presented in your let- ter and the correspondence in view of the serious water pollution and public health hazards that were created by past failures of the septic tank and leaching bed system and in view of the satisfactory arrangements that have now been made for hauling the sewage, Dr. Mills and I are in agreement that the hauling programme should continue BY WILMA OKE The Huron County board of education will eXpress its con- cern to the Town of Goderich and the Ontario ministry of transportation and Qom, - rnunications over a proposal to widen Britannia Road (High- way 21) in Goderich Trustee Dorothy Wallace of Goderich expressed concern about' the safety of school children from Victoria Public School crossing Britannia Road which under the proposed plan will become a four-lane through street. The board will ask for direction to improve, pedestrian safety on the proposed widening. Speaking about a traffic light which will be at the intersec- tion adjacent to the school, Mrs. Wallace said, "Ws a wbrrisome enough corner now arid I'm worried that traffic will move faster with the lights. I'm concerned that traffic will come around the corner at a very fast rate to beat the light." Mrs. Wallace cited the new shopping mall out on Highway 21 as causing increased traffic along the route. She suggested the possibility of an alternate route, South Street to Highway 21 to ease the' traffic strain. "For my own personal view I'd like to see the road left the way it is," she said. Chairman Cayley Hill asked Mrs. Wallace, "Economically I'm not sure, but what would you feel about an underpass at the corner?" 'Mrs. Wallace said she would agree, "As long as the children are safe," Asked about the safety patrol by John Westbrook, Mrs. Wallace said only young children from Kindergarten to Grade 6 attend the school. There are 450 students at the school and another 30 trainable retarded students will be added when the Queen Elizabeth School takes up its new quarters in the school next year on completion of the con- struction and renovations un- derway at the school now. , A letter from the Huron Medical Officer of Health, Dr. G.F. Mills to the board advised of the need to have larger and brighter rear driving lights and riding lights on school buses and to have drivers required to periodically get out and clean 9ff the rear lights of the dust and dirt that tends to obscure them very quickly in bad weather. Dr. Mills said he had obser- ved that school buses are hard to discern in poor weather con- ditions such as fog, snow or dust because of the inadequacy of the lights, which makes them barely visible at 50 feet", R.L. Cunningham, transpor- tation manager, stated that all school busses operated must conform to the regulations of the Highway Traffic Act and the Canadian Standards Association and all drivers are required to maintain clean and that the leaching bed should not be re-activated." Angrily Mr, Henderson replied: "It's time that we sent a delegation to County Council. Our administration cannot work with this (Health) Ad- ministration. It has taken them almost a year to say the sewage system won't work, I think we should have a committee of the new board meet with county council in January to disbuss this problem." The press has learned that the haulage bill from February 5, 1974, (when pollution problem first reported by Dr, Mills) to August 30 was $2,940 and it was estimated that this amount has probably doubled at the present date with the autumn rains. As the meeting concluded, Cayley Hill asked the retiring trustees to speak. John Broad- foot of Brucefield spoke of his 25 years on school boards and recommended his successor, Robert Peek, who has had school board experience. Donald McDonald of Brussels said he felt a turnover of board members was wise. John Hen- derson asked the board mem- bers to compare the committee system and the monthly meeting to the 1971 twice- monthly meetings. Mr. Hill told the three, "We shall miss you very much in- deed" and spoke of the con- tribution each had made over the years, and then welcomed the new members. He asked for a vote of confidence for the ad- ministration and the board members rose to their feet as they applauded. Mr. Hill, in his closing remarks, spoke of the progress made by the board over the years, especially in the im- proved relations with the teaching staff. He spoke of the review and revising of board policies which have improved the system and made the han- dling of many items of business routine. Mr, Hill said he hacibeen an advocate of the committee system and still is with some reservations. He said he thought the method of operation by committee had been correct to date but won- dered if changes should be con- sidered. He suggested a continuance of form of committee system but with a basic change, in- stead of the board responding to recommendations of the committees on a variety of sub- jects, perhaps it would be better for the board to consider all items of business first and then delegate to one committee or the other if required. The com- mittee then would investigate and provide further infor- mation on subjects relative to education or management. "In other words, let the board review first and the committees respond to the direction of the board. It -may be necessary at times to establish hoc commit- tees to take on special studies. This has been done before and there is no reason why it can- not be continued into the future." Mr. Hill continued, "One thing is important. All trustees must be given an opportunity for active participation and it is not a good idea to load commit- tees with a lot of routine items which tend to make committee work dull and non-stimulating, I think committees should be given projects or asked to make studies which might form the basis of reports to the board with recommendations. There are subjects we should in- PACE 6A,,,CLINTON NEWS MORD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER. 1974 Road widening needed vestigate, there are going to be problems in the future and some constructive planning and investigation now could be of great benefit to the board and administration later. on. • He said that an endeavour to aid some of the students has been made for those who have learning problems but to date we have not aided those students with exceptional abilities." In his report Mr. Hill said that ways and means of of- fering the public a bit more in- formation as to what is hap- pening in the field of education and '"throw open our doors and make available to the public more information on our ac- tivities."