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A SINCERE THANKS — The 96 members of the Exeter Girl Guides, Rangers, Brownies, Boy Scouts and Cubs extend sincere appreciation to their 14 leaders, parents, local residents and organizations who have supported the Scout-Guide program in Exeter. All members plan to attend the Sunday, February 27 service at the Exeter Precious Blood Mission at Trivitt Anglican Church. From the left are Rich Oosterbosch, Rich Helm, Julie Blommaert, Jeff Turner, Lynn Dawson, Donnie Kells, Kathy Topp and Lisa Rooth. T-A photo Never reached potential Board dissolves committee MACRAME ON SALE — Vina Emery and Rachael Tuke display macrame and beads at Saturday's bake sale sponsored by the Lucan UCW, T-A photo Huron-Perth VON workload increases DECISION Ottawa, February 9, 1977 Following a Public Hearing commencing December 7, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Com- mission announces the following decision. Decision CRTC 77-66 EXETER, CENTRALIA AND HURON PARK ONTARIO - 760647800 Ex-Cen Cablevision Limited Application for renewal of its broadcasting licence for its cable television undertaking serving Exeter, Centralia and Huron Park, Ontario, expiring March 31, 1977. Decision: APPROVED The Commission renews this licence from April 1, 1977 to March 31, 1980, subject to conditions to be specified therein, This period will enable the Commission to consider renewal of this licence at the same time as those of other cable television licences in the region. This licence is also sublect to the condition that the licensee own, as a minimum, the local head-end, the amplifiers and the drops to houses and apartment buildings. As stated in previous decisions, the Commission considers that wherever technically feasible the programming of OECA should be distributed by cable television undertakings on a uniform channel to facilitate iden- tification. The licensee must, therefore, distribute CICO-TV-18 London, Ontario on channel 2 and advise the Commission of any distribution changes resulting from this requirement. With regard to the distribution of CKCO•TV and CFCA-FM on restricted channels, the Commission is presently satisfied that the signals ore of satisfactory quality. However, should any impairment result, the licensee must undertake immediate remedial action or apply for CRTC authority to distribute these signals on appropriate non-restricted channels. Guy Lefebvre Secretary General 100 Canadian Radio-television Conseil de la radiodittusion I and Telecommunications et des telecommunications Commission canaciiennes The Huron County Board of Education adopted a recommen- dation made by director of education John Cochrane to con- tinue their age admission policy for kindergarten classes in Huron, accepting early admis- sion of children only on the recommendation of medical authorities who feel there is therapeutic value in it. To continue policy regarding admission The. board's current policy allows children who will reach the age of five before December 31 of the enrolment year to become a resident pupil in a kindergarten program. A child may be enrolled in a junior kindergarten class at four years of age if there is such a program offered in the system. The admission age decision The move takes the respon- sibility of recommending school year calendars away from a committee composed of representatives of the board, teacher federations principal associations and senior ad- ministration and gives it to trustees. In making the recommenda- tion to the board, director of education John Cochrane said the T.T.A.L. committee never reached its full potential. He said the cumbersome structure created by 12 members com- bined with the lack of time members had hampered the effectiveness. He added that thereAas a feel- ing among teacher' represen- tatives that they would have to obtain the opinion of their par- ticular federation on any conten- tious item. He also pointed out that there was an inequality of representa- tion on the committee which was composed of eight teachers, two board members and two ad- ministrators. Mr. Cochrane said that in re- cent years the committee dealt almost exclusively with prepara- tion and recommendation to the board of the school calendar year since many other formal respon- sibilities are now an integral part of negotiated agreements. The committee was originally set up, to discuss, formulate re- quests and propose solutions on matters of educational concern, to interpret board policy to staffs, to draw potential problems to the attention of the board and to recommend solutions. They were also to es- tablish sub-committees when necessary or when requested by Was put before the board because of the three "underage" children attending kindergarten classes in the county, Two of the children were admitted by special resolutions of the board on the request .of medical authorities at the Robarts School for the Deaf, London, who felt that the therapeutic value of association in group sessions with' other the board to do so, to offer assistance to the board, to serve as a sounding board in es- tablishing board policy, to screen, discuss, evaluate and recommend solutions on conten- tious issues referred to the board, the teachers or senior ad- ministration and to establish a level of priorities for sub com- mittees. children would be of benefit before the children attended the Robarts School. The third child was admitted to kindergarten in another area and the enrolment was treated as a transfer from another system. In a report to the board, Mr. Cochrane said several parents in the county had asked that the board reconsider its policy on early admission. One of the petitioners had heard of the three exceptions in the county and requested early admission for her son who was born on February 1, 1972. Her request was supported by the results of a test as administered by a co- worker in the Huron County Health Unit and by a letter of recommendation for the super- visor of the Tuckersrnith Day Care Centre in Vanastra, Another group of parents ask- ed the board to reconsider and Mr. Cochrane pointed out that the requests raised questions concerning the role of the health unit in determining readiness for school and whether or not con- fidential health records were used for personal use to obtain background information on the pupils already enrolled. Mr. Cochrane offered the board several alternatives to their policy, He suggested that if the present policy was changed Trustees' Council was increased by 8.5 per cent or about $300 for a charge of $4,447.00. He said the board was invited to submit ar- ticles if desired. Chairman Mickey Vere said the conference of the Stratford Leisure Advisory Council will be held February 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Stratford and invited any trustee to attend if they wished. The board supported a resolu- tion from the Niagara South Board of Education that with the sale of surplus buildings and properties there would not be any grant deductions. The board supported the Hastings-Prince Edward County Separate School Board resolution The workload continued to increase for Huron-Perth's Victorian Order of Nurses staff, nurse-in-charge Susan Harvie told the annual meeting Tuesday night. Visits increased by 5.2 percent in the two counties to a total of 17,862 during the past year, she said. Office space was added in Listowel and a facility in Clinton continued to be used, along with the main office in Stratford. Staff remained constant at seven full-time nurses, one part- time nurse, 11 relief nurses and a the board could consider making the enrollment age five by the end of February. He also suggested eligibility for admis- sion being determined by a testing program. The director remarked that in his opinion pressure to admit children to school at an early age should be resisted. He claimed every youngster has a right to an early childlhood free of the regimentation of the school system, pointing out that society comes to everyone all to soon. He said the whole question of try- ing too soon to make adults out of our youth at the other end of the spectrum had not entered into the decision at all. on the concern about por- nography. , Mr. Vintar was asked to con- tact the Dean of Huron-Perth Deanery to ask if there was any unified effort against por- nography being planned in the area. Michael Connolly, expressing concern about snow loads on school roofs and safety of roofs, was told that a check was made by Kyles, Kyles & Garratt of Stratford last falland a report made to the Ministry that all schools in the system in Huron and Perth met safety regulations. All principals will be asked to check roofs for snow problems. • The Huron County Board of Education dissolved its Trustee- Teacher-Administration liaison committee Monday afternoon and gave the committee's responsibility of recommending the school year calendar for board approval to the education committee. People can save hydro Ontario citizens have respond- ed positively to appeals from the Ministry-Of Energy and Ontario Hydro to cut back on the con- sumption of electricity. According to Hydro estimates, at least 350,000 kilowatts were saved on critical days during December's power crunch. That represents about the peak load of the city of London. Although the response oc- curred in an emergency situa- tion, Hydro Chairman Robert B, Taylor says, "it does show what can be achieved if everyone becomes energy conscious." Urging that this type of conser- vation should be practised every day of the year, and not only in emergencies. Mr. Taylor notes, "individual customers save on their bills, of course, if they use less." "But in terms of capital invest- ment, if Hydro could count on that 350,000-kilowatt reduction as permanent and reduce its long term building plans accordingly, the saving would be in the order of at least $350 million and that says nothing of the fuel savings." Grand Bend church news The teen-age group club met last Sunday night in the Sunday School rooms of the United Church. Erryn Shepherd was in charge of the worship service. Films by the Canadian Cancer society on smoking, were shown followed by discussion The Church of God young people met Saturday afternoon at Mr. & Mrs. Russell Sniders home, A tobogganing party was plan- ned, but wet weather intervened, so indoor games were played and lunch served. Church of God men's club meeting was held Wednesday evening in the Sunday School rooms, and at this meeting their wives were invited. Devotions were led by Arnold Gaiser. During the social time slide pictures and commentary were shown by Mr. & Mrs, Ken McGregor of ., their trip to England, Ireland and Scotland last summer, Lunch was serveci by the men. Church of God ladies held their February meeting Thursday afternoon at the Church Sunday School rooms. Thirteen ladies answered the roll call by a verse of scripture with joy in it. Joy was the theme of the meeting. Devotions were led by Mrs. Harold chamberlain and a missionary talk by Mrs. Janet Desjardine. A box was passed around to collect sewing notions which will be sent to Esther Snyder who is working on the mission field in Grenada. Sunday morning sermon text at the United Church was Facing Temptation, "The Time of Testing'', with Rev. H. Moore officiating. Choir anthem was "Take the name of Jesus with you," with a duet part taken by Mrs, Ross Love and Alec Hamilton, Education Week scheduled to be held from April 17-23 will be marked by various activities in the Separate Schools under the jurisdiction of the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board it was learned at a meeting of the board in Dublin, Monday night, Superintendent of program, William Eckert, reported the theme of Education Week this year will he Growing with Digni- ty. He said a teacher represen- tative from each school will be named by the principal and this committee of county represen- tatives will meet Wednesday to discuss various activities, Each representative will return to his or her school to plan with the principal and other teachers what that school will do during the Week. When a decision is made the plans will be submitted back to the county committee which will co-ordinate the activities and publish a booklet outlining the whole program. This list of ac- tivities will be available to the parents. Trustee Arthur Haid, RR 4, Listowel, will represent the board on the county Education Week committee. A request from John McCarron for permission to visit the separate schools in Stratford to present the Young Olympian program was held over until the next meeting of the board on February 14 in order to secure more information. Vincent Young, Goderich trustee, chairman of the transportation committee, recommended that James Spence Read be appointed school bus driver of the board-owned vehicle at Holy Name of Mary School at St. Marys, subject to his successful completion of his driver's examination and ob- taining his school bus driver's licence. He will succeed Walter Kilgallin, custodian at the school who has been driving on a tem- porary basis in addition to his custodial duties. When it was stated Mr. Read would be taking the three trips a day-morning, noon and after school - this raised some questions among trustees who seemed to have forgotten that noon-hour busing was done in the system. It is also done at Goderich. Trustee Michael Connolly of Kippen said he thought "we should take a harder look into noon hour busing". He did not think it was right for it to be done in some areas only, Mr. Young said it was done for these children as they were more than a mile from school. "Because of distance they had to be bused, otherwise they might have gone to the nearby public school." Mr. Young said this was looked into constructively last year, but if there was anyone over a mile from the school they should come forward if they wished to be considered for noon-hour bus- ing, he said, However, Mr. Young said where noon-hour bus- ing is done he did not think "it was worthy of changing for the few dollars we would save." John Vintar, Director of Education, reported the 1917 fee for the Ontario Separate School SS plans education week, debate noon-hour busing full-time secretary, Mrs. Harvie said. Despite the increased work, the staff size is sufficient, she said. "We have enough now. It's fairly consistent and we're fortunate to have nurses who stay with us. Women generally tend to stay in the work force now," Elected 1977 board president was C. J. Ferguson. Other executive members include past president Hazel Skidmore, first vice-president Sharon McKenzie, second vice-president W. J. Elston, treasurer W. J. Brooks, and secretary Jean Wilhelm.