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Times-Advocate, 1979-04-18, Page 3To mark education week Times-Advocate, April 18, 1979 Area schools plan many activities This coming week, parents of elementary age children throughout the province will have an ex­ cellent opportunity to see what actually takes place in both the separate and public elementary schools. Education minister Dr, Bette Stephenson will of­ ficially kick off Education Week in Oshawa Tuesday with an address on this year’s theme “New Realities”. Schools in the area have several days of activities planned. At Exeter Public School on Tuesday parents may visit the schoch any time between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to see a normal school day. On Thursday evening open house will once again be held with a panel discus­ sion on child abuse schedul­ ed to take place from 8:30- 9:30 p.m. This presentation has been arranged through the Huron county family and children’s services branch. Precious Blood in Exeter has a full week of activities planned with a quilting demonstration on Monday by grades five and six, Tues­ day will see grades four and five engaged in many ac­ tivities including a spelling bee and a Reach for the Top contest. In the evening the students in grades seven and eight will hold their annual potluck supper for their parents. On Wednesday at 1:30 Ex­ eter potter Kaaren Batteh will visit grades five and six. Thursday afternoon will see open house for the school’s music classes. On Friday a science fair for the entire school will be held. At St. Boniface school in Zurich the students will compose letters of invitation to their parents on Monday with grades one, two, five and six presenting an assembly on Tuesday. Wednesday is orientation day for students starting in September. Thursday afternoon will be open house at the school while on Friday senior students will work with the younger children in physical education and crafts. At Ecole St. Marie open house will be held on Mon­ day and Tuesday while on Wednesday a French play, back sale and cake raffle will be featured. Thursday will be another open house day with Friday set aside for another play, a hot dog lunch and a parent­ teachers versus students miniature hockey game. At Zurich Public School open house will be held on Monday with the operetta “Going West” being presented on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. • Usborne Central School plans to hold open house all day Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Also on Wednes­ day a bake sale and science fair will be held. J.A. McCurdy School at RAINS CAUSE WATER LEVELS TO RISE - Heavy rains Friday night saw water levels in local streams and rivets rise dramatically. Watching the cascading waters at the Exeter dam Satur­ day aftei noon are,Todd and Bob Jones of Exeter. At the time this picture was taken, the water was within a foot of going over the dam's wall. T-A photo Huron Park will have open house from 7 to 9 p.m. with science, history, art and twinning projects with other classrooms outside of the county. At the Huron Hope School which operates out of the McCurdy building, open house will be held Wednes­ day during school hours. On Friday the school’s staff will attend a conference in Toronto concerning the mentally handicapped. At Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, open house will be held the entire week with an Ontario Provincial Police Dog display scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday. A meeting of the Parents-Teachers Association will also be held that evening. Thursday will see a school assembly for parents and teachers with an Education week program featured. Stephen Central School has a variety of activities planned including a history fair to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Also on Tuesday a variety programme will be held from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. On Thursday the Walt Disney movie “The Com­ puter Who Wore Tennis Shoes” will be shown. Thursday will also see a basketball tournament in­ volving teams from six area public schools. The boys’ teams play at J.A.D. McCur­ dy and the girls’ teams play at Exeter Public. The first games will be played at 9:30 a.m. and the parent spec­ tators are welcome as space allows. Friday, is a Professional Activity Day for the public schools on the theme “Moral/Values Education”. The sessions are being held at South Huron District High School and participants will include trustees, separate school delegates, parent representatives and secondary school staff members as well as the public school teachers. * 4 * Financial and river ones School budget Continued from front page I I *I Banks topic at Come this May 14 Grand Bend will join the ranks of communities with two or more banks in their domain. Council learned Monday that the Toronto-Dominion Bank has purchased proper­ ty beside Harwood Drugs on Highway 81 Crescent and will have a mobile bank operative May 14. Gord Hathaway of the bank said a mobile unit presently located in Forest will be moved to the above site. He said the mobile unit will be a full service opera­ tion. Hathaway said work on a permanent facility will com­ mence no later than May 15, 1980. Replying to a query from councillor Keith Crawford Hathaway said the bank is quite willing to comply with requests from council such as angle parking in front of the temporary bank. Craw­ ford said parking along 81 Crescent had been a problem in the past and that angle parking would help the situation. The permanent bank will have parking in the rear, Hathaway added. Echoing the sentiments of council, Crawford said it was nice to see another bank in the resort. Getting the last word in was councillor Harold Green who asked Hathaway joking­ ly “What took you so long?” The Heavy waves which battered Grand Bend a few weeks ago will cost the village about $2,000 accor­ ding to Green. • He said a large tree located about 300 yards west of the bridge totally destroyed stairs owned by the village which lead to the river. At the lake end a small houseboat jammed its way between a private dock and village dock causing con­ siderable damage to both facilities. Crawford said repairs should begin soon con­ sidering that the start of the summer season was only about a month away. Council passed a motion authorizing repairs up to $2,- 000 to be carried out. Council took no action on whether the boat named the Zoo would be permitted seasonal docking space at the village docks. The matter was first brought up by Deputy-reeve Judy Uniac who said the boat had caused numerous disturbances in the past cou­ ple of years. Reeve Bob Sharen said the village’s lawyer had said the • NOTICE The regular meeting of the Board of Management of the Exeter Central Business s Improvement Area scheduled for Thursday, April 19 has been cancelled. A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING has been scheduled for Wednesday, Aprilu 25 at The Old Town Hall at 6:30 p.m, All members of the Central Business Improve­ ment Area are invited to attend, A. ELI,A. representative will be contacting each member shortly with additional details. resort village had the right to deny docking space to parties who council felt were un­ desirable. Following considerable t discussion, Crawford moved seconded by Uniac that the Zoo be denied docking space. After Uniac had seconded the motion, Green stated “That’s not the way to do it.” Clerk-treasurer Louise Clipperton said the seasonal docking space was allotted to the first five applicants in the new year. She said several crew members of the Zoo dropped in once every three weeks to enquire about their status. Green agreed with both Crawford and Uniac that the boat and its' activities were not the most desirable but to deny them space when they had met the requirement would not be fair. The motion was defeated on a tie vote with Crawford and Uniac voting in favour while Sharen and Green voted against. Sharen then suggested the motion be amended to read that the Zoo would be asked to move upon the season’s first complaint. This motion also died following a dis­ agreement on the wording of the amendment. Finally, Sharen crumpled the second motion up and tossed it into a nearby waste paper basket. There’s the possibility that while most liquor and beer outlets will be closed on civic holiday in most centres across the province they could remain open in the resort. The reeve said until recently he had not been aware that for civic holiday which occurs on the weekend of August to be a legal holiday a municipality must issue a proclamation. If the holiday was not proclaimed the liquor and beer outlets could remain open. Directing a glance towards Green who is an employee of the local liquor store, Sharen said “it was worth looking into”. DRAW WINNERS Winners of the South Huron Rabbit Breeders Association spring draw were — C. MitsOvich, Lon* don; Wilma Munn, Hensall; Helen Abram, London; and John Chambers, both of London. adequately funded was aesthetic maintenance. He told the board there was “no way in the world the schools cari be kept like they were five years ago. We just haven’t the money to do it.” R. M. McVean, plant superintendent, explained that aesthetic maintenance involves things like stripping floors and re-waxing them and other major housekeeping projects. He said there is too much work to be done by the caretakers to permit time to be set aside for those projects. He added that the board owned buildings were not suffering because the jobs could not be done. The budget increases for area municipalities is as follows, with last year’s figure in brackets: Exeter, $455,359, (400,270); Hensall $138,625, ($125,553), Zurich $53,281, ($50,245), Hay, $366,346, ($332,424), Stanle? $287,555, (254,338), Stephen $529,937,. (478,848), Tucker­ smith $282,423 (262,716), Usborne $231,120 (211,175). Investigation is continuing Exeter Police Chief Ted Day reports a quiet holiday week end, although mem­ bers of the local force are still busy investigating a number of wilful damage incidents from the previous week. Exeter schools were again attacked by vandals, with four windows broken at South Huron District High School and two panes of glass broken in the doors at Exeter Public School. 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