HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-11-09, Page 31Stays with present company
Board renews insurance
By JEFF SEDDON
The Huron County Board
of Education did not want to
take the chance that tender
ing for insurance coverage
for board owned and
operated equipment may
leave it with increased
premiums or no insurance at
all and decided to continue
buying its coverage from the
Frank Cowan Company
Limited.
Colborne township trustee
Shirley Hazlitt suggested
that the board may save
some money by calling for
tenders for insurance
coverage after the board
Was told its insurance costs
would be going up. Hazlitt
said that if those insurance
costs were going to keep go
ing up annually it may be
wise for the board to call for
tenders. She added that the
board has not compared
prices through tender in a
number of years.
Board chairman John
Elliott reminded Hazlitt
that the last time the board
called for tenders it «had
previously hired an in
surance consultant to deter
mine what insurance was
needed. Elliott said the
board would have to be very
specific before it called for
tenders or it would get
tenders “all over the place”
and would have a very dif
ficult time determining
which was best.
Hazlitt argued that
superintendent of business
Roy Dunlop should be aware
of what the board needed
after dealing with the
board’s insurance coverage
Fitness test
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acceptable to complete the
full nine minutes.
The strength test followed
and here our young assistant
knew he was in trouble when
the hand grip measured
something in the 50 range.
Realizing how, badly he
would be over-shadowed he
managed to break the
testing machine, by strip
ping the threads on the han
dle.
The final test was for flex
ibility. This is measured
through a series of sit-ups
and by pushing a gauge
along a ruler while in a sit
ting position on the floor.
'"Creech entered a protest
when he noticed the lithe
body of the editor moving
the gauge along with his
slim fingers and decided he
would have to come up with
a super effort in the sit-ups
to regain his falling com-
•posure.
The test was to see how
many he could do in one
minute. He started out like a
house on fire and was up to
28 in the first 45 seconds and
then he literally collapsed,
managing to force his body
into four more in the last 15
seconds.
However, he was obvious
ly still certain he could win
that one and he was gloating
noticeably when the editor
hit the floor to proceed.
We followed his example
and started out at a steady
pace, but managed to main
tain it to post three more on
our score card than he had.
All that remained was for
the evaluation, the real key
being the resting rate of the
heart. The chart indicated a
figure of under 70 indicated
a good physical condition.
The writer’s was listed at
62! •
We won’t say what Tom’s
was, but it is interesting to
note that he now hesitates to
write the customary “30” at
the end of his news stories.
Perhaps that number
reminds him of how far
above the editor’s he was?
Oh well, looks can be
deceiving!
LAY WREATHS —» Reg McDonald, left, who helps organize Exeter's annual Remembrance Day activities, is flanked by some of
the people who placed wreaths at the event. photo
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during his tenure at the
board. She said that Dunlop
and the board’s auditor
should be able to do the job
of a consultant.
Dunlop told the board it
was very difficult to deter
mine what insurance tender
was best adding that he was
“not competent enough in
insurance to appraise
tenders”.
Dunlop told the board that
Frank Cowan handles a
great deal of the insurance
for municipalities in the
area. He said the firm has
not increased its insurance
rates but that replacement
costs for board owned
material has gone up. He ex
plained that the insurance
coverage is based on
replacement value and as in
flation makes that replace
ment costlier then insurance
will go up accordingly.
Hazlitt pointed out that if
the board continued to deal
with one firm when purchas
ing insurance year after
year it was very easy to get
into a “state of status quo”.
Dunlop said many boards
had tried to cut insurance
costs by calling for tenders
and have ended up with no
coverage at all. He said
firms that deal with the
number of insurance com
panies needed to handle the
board’s requirements are
limited and may not respond
to a tender call. He said he
knew that Cowan’s policy
was not to respond to
tenders.
Elliott, who is an in
surance broker, told the
board he wanted to be very
careful of his input into the
discussion because he
wanted to avoid any conflict
of interest. He explained that
to handle 'the board’s in
surance needs a broker
would have to have dealings
with several insurance com
panies. He said no one in
surance company offered
the varied policies the board
purchased and a broker had
to be able to assemble the
required policies for board
approval.
The discussion arose after
Dunlop offered the board
some alternatives to in
surance policies to either
reduce cpsts or add needed
coverage. The recommen
dations came from Cowan
through Dunlop and the
board dealt with each on an
individual basis..
One of the changes was
the insurance coverage on
the North Ashfield School
building. The building was
heavily insured by the board
and according to Wingham
trustee Jack Alexander the
insurance is not necessary.
Cowan recommended that
the board reduce its
coverage of the school which
is not being used and is
probably going to be sold by
the board. The present
policy insured the building
at a replacement value of
$216,000 and the contents at
$23,000. Cowan suggested
that it be reduced to $50,000
on the building and $10,000
on the contents.
Alexander said he had
recently been in the building
and told the board that he
“didn’t have to be an in
surance appraisor to go in
there and tell you $10,000 in
surance is too much”. Alex
ander said the cost to carry
the insurance is a waste of
taxpayer’s dollars. He
recommended insurance of
the contents be dropped en
tirely.
Elliott told the board that
it must consider what has
gone into the school. He said
the property is now valued
at about $40,000 but the
board had to keep in mind
the tax money that was used
to put the school there. He
suggested that if the board
carried no insurance on the
property the ministry of
education may feel the
board was guilty of mis
management.
Seaforth trustee John
Henderson wondered why
the board carried insurance
policies for vehicles the
board didn’t own. The policy
costs the board about $1,700'
annually.
Elliott explained that the
insurance for non-owned
vehicles covered buses the
board leased or hired
through contract and
vehicles driven ,by trustees
on board business.
“I use my own car and in
sure it myself,” said
Henderson. “Why does the
board have to carry in
surance for that.”
Elliott pointed out that the
policy was third party in
surance. He said in case of
an accident someone could
sue Henderson and the board
of education because the
trustee was on board
business. He said that policy
was primarily to protect the
board.
Exeter trustee Clarence
McDonald said the consul
tant the board hired to ex
amine its insurance had
reported that the board was
getting a good deal from its
insurance brokers. He
reminded the board that the
recommendation from
consultant was that
changes be made.
Elliott cautioned
board against hiring a con
sultant suggesting that the
costs for the consultant may
be more than the board
would save. He said he felt
that if the board went shop
ping for insurance
wouldn’t do better than
was doing now.
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Fifty at
rec event
About 50 attended
Lake Huron Zone of
O.M.R.A. annual conference
held October 28, in
Goderich.
The Conference was
chaired by President, Jack
Bird of Owen Sound. Jack
Riddell, Provincial member
of parliament brought
greetings from the Ontario
government and Mayor
Shewfelt welcomed
delegates to Goderich. Jim
Chalmers of Welland spoke
1 on behalf .of O.M.R.A.
K.W. Robinson R.D..M.R.
(F) of Peterborough
presented the keynote ad
dress on “Who Does What”
in recreation stressing that
bigger is not always better
and the need for factual in
formation and well organiz
ed business procedures. The
success of a recreation com
mittee, he said, is dependent
on the decisions made by
that committee and how
they are carried out.
Four participant
workshops covered topics of
(1) Who Does What in the
Directed Community, (2)
The Real Role of the Non-
Directed Recreation Com
mittee, (3) Municipal
Recreation and the Arts and
(4) Sharing the Cost - the
Government and You.
Resource people for the
workshops included Dave
Wenger and Elmer Wick of
Mount Forest, Gord
McGarvey of Kincardine,
Mike Dymond of Goderich,
Clair Fowler and Bill
Coulter of Port Elgin, Clare
Christie of Owen Sound.
Marg Gaviller and Marilyn
Struthers of Grey-Bruce
Arts Council, Ruth Wolfe of
Clifford, Jim Zettel,
Hanover and Bud Bitton, Al
Sinclair,
McLaughlin,
Ministry of
Recreation.
Attending
were Kirk Armstrong and
Kenley Campbell.
Melanie
Consultants,
Culture and
from Exeter
REMEMBER WAR DEAD — Master of ceremonies Andy Bierling salutes during the Remembrance Day service at the Exeter
cenotaph, Sunday. Behind him is Legion padre the Rev. George Anderson and lined up are some of those who laid wreaths on
behalf of government, educational, service and commercial organizations. Staff photo
Large crowd remembers
War dead not just statistics
i brother,
i husband,
i father,
son,” com-
Rev. George
his address at
Remembrance
“Millions were slain in the
wars, but it’s real cost can
only come home to us when
we remember that each one
slain was not just a regimen
tal number, a cypher in a
column of statistics, but
someone’s
someone’s
someone's
someone’s
mented the
Anderson in :
the annual
Day service held this year at
Trivitt Memorial Church.
The unseasonably warm
Area churches plan
to conduct mission
The Reverend Brother Jay
Launt, O.H.C., will conduct
a five day Mission in
November, sponsored by
three area Churches —
Grace Church, Greenway;
St. Paul’s, Thedford; and St.
Anne’s, Port Franks. The
Mission commences
Wednesday, November 15,
and concludes Sunday,
November 19.
Brother Jay is a life
professed member of the
Order of the Holy Cross, a
religious (monastic) order
for men in the Anglican
Communion. Holy Cross
operates houses in Canada,
the United States, West
Africa and the Bahamas. A
companion order for
women, the Order of St.
Helena, operates in the
United States and the
Bahamas.
A monk for nine years,
Brother Jay at age 31 is the
prior (appointed head) of
Holy Cross Priory in Toron
to. The Toronto priory, es
tablished in 1973, is the only
Canadian-based foundation
of the Order. Brother Jay
has been in charge of the
Order’s Canadian operations
since November of 1976.
A native of southern
California, Brother Jay
served as a medic in the
U.S. Air Force in the Philip
pines and in Texas. His work
as a medic in the mid to late
1906’s ranged from intensive
care on Vietnam wounded to
pediatric care of military
dependents. He attended
Orange Coast College, Costa
Mesa, California, and the
University of Texas at
Austin.
Brother Jay specializes in
weather attracted one of the
largest parades in recent
years and the church service
was followed by the wreath
laying service at the
cenotaph.
“War cut down the flower
of the nation’s youth in both
wars,” Rev. Anderson
noted. “The leaders we so
sorely need today were
slain. A terrible waste, and
yet these young men were
bound to be the first to res
pond to the call of duty and
sacrifice.”
The R.E. Pooley branch
Christian education and
liturgical studies. His in-
tersts also include racquet
ball, squash and cooking.
(He reportedly cooks “a
mean Chili” based on an Air
Force recipe, jwhich feeds
three hundred. Scaling the
recipe down to smaller
gatherings requires con
siderable care, especially
with the seasoning.) Brother
Jay has just returned from a
two-week visit to Israel.
From his work experience
and his nine years as a monk
in the Order of the Holy
Cross, Brother Jay brings to
his ministry a wide and
enthusiastic grasp of parish
and diocesan life in the
Christian Church.
Readers who are familiar
with Missions to foreign
countries may find the idea
of a Mission in Southwestern
Ontario rather curious. Mis
sion organizers report that
the purpose of MISSION ‘78
is to share and spread the
Christian faith through
building a sense of Christian
Community.
By sharing our faith and
our thoughts, we strengthen
our own faith, and we get to
know the other participants
in a new and closer way.
MISSION ‘78 promises to be
a truly rewarding ex
perience for all who take
part in it.
Good profit
from sales
A homemakers’ service
raised more than $1,000
Saturday by selling old
household trappings and
home baking in Wingham.
Organizers said more than
500 persons rummaged
through piles of clothes,
books, housewares and toys,
as well as carrying off tasty
treats from the sale, held to
raise money for the Huron
County Town and Country
Homemakers.
Ruperta Milligan, the
group’s treasurer, said the
rummage sale was a greater
success than expected.
Some of the items were
leftovers brought in from
bazaars in Kitchener and
Toronto, said administrator
Jean Young. The
homemakers received
“tremendous response”
when the group advertised
for donations of unwanted
possessions, she said.
Organizers said the money
will be used to offset rates
charged for the group’s ser
vices. It employs 71 persons
as cleaners, babysitters,
live-in homemakers or com
panions.
Legion Padre explained that
people often compare the
casualties suffered in
various wars and tend to im
ply there is nothing to com
plain about when fewer are
killed in one battle than
another.
“If your husband or your
son is killed in action, does it
really lessen the blow to
know that only 20,000 others
were killed instead of
40,000?” he questioned.
“I am not attacking the
use of statistics, that would
be foolishness, but I am at
tacking the kind of mentali
ty that seeks to play the
numbers game and yet
forgets to see the impor
tance of the individual.”
“We must see the cost of
war in personal terms, in
the individual lives of peo
ple. Each casualty is not
just a statistic, not just
someone’s brother, but your
brother, my brother,
everyone’s brother.”
He said Remembrance
Day was a time to stop and
ask why, but added that “we
must continually, ask why
they died lest we forget the
reason for their sacrifice”.
NEW TEACHERS IN HURON — A number of new teachers attended the fall banquet of the Huron Unit of the Federated
Women Teachers Association of Ontario held recently. Above, director of region 1 Mrs. Nessie Moore of London talks with
Darlene Templeman, Exeter; Barbara Lade, Goderich Victoria; Barbara Roser, Wingham; Janet Fillingham, Student Services;
Debbie Down, Holmesville and Mary Lou Atthill, JAD McCurdy. T-A photo
Tiernan.
INTENT ON LEARNING Members of the Saturday morning gymnastic class appear to be listening carefully to their instruc
tor. From the left are Cindy Moore, Marcia Ellison, Ronalynn Bell, Pamela Zantn, Karen Wells, Michelle Ellison and Susan
T!-------- T-A photo
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Rev. Anderson told his
congregation they must seek
to understand the purpose
that called forth the courage
of those who fought and
died. “Was that purpose to
make us rich and comfor
table? Did they die for the
kind of world in which we
now live?”
He concluded by saying
the greatest act of remem
brance must not be a form of
nostalgia, but rather a
desire to live for God and
your fellow men, a
marching forth into the
future, hand in hand with
our Saviour, with the pur
pose of ensuring that the
sacrifice and courage of our
fallen comrades may live
on, in your life, my life, in
all our lives.
Joining in the parade were
members of the Legion,
Legion Auxiliary, Huron-
Middlesex Cadet Corps,
Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and
Guides.
Wreaths were laid by
provincial and civic
representatives as well as
members of .several local
and area organizations and
businesses.
Times-Advpcqte, November 9, 1978 Page 31
■MFour
in Fleck incidents
Four guilty pleas were
entered and several charges
dropped in provincial court
in Exeter Tuesday as Judge
Fred Olmstead began hear*
ing cases stemming from
the strike at the Fleck
Manufacturing plant in
Huron Park.
The Fleck workers voted
Aug. 15 to accept a two-year
contract, ending a bitter 162-
day strike. It was the first
contract for the newly-
formed United Auto
Workers union local at the
auto parts firm.
Daniel Wilkinson of 470
Wellington St., Kitchener,
was fined $300 after he ad
mitted breaking windows in
the plant March 30.
Pompeo Marchelletta of
162 Cameron St., Windsor,
pleaded guilty to breaking a
car window during an inci
dent at the plant May 18 and
was fined $300.
John Edward Coleman of
18 Stanley St., Kitchener,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
wilful damage stemming
from a May 18 incident in
which the windshield of
Fleck vice-president rrant
Turner’s car was br^en. He
was fined $300.
Wayne Randolph of 510
Randolph St., Windsor, was
finded $400 when he pleased
guilty to assaulting a plant
security guard May 18.
Olmstead also ordered
Wilkinson, Marchelletta and
Coleman to make restitution
for damage.
Charges of wilful damage
Admission tests
Individuals without the
high school credits normally
required for university ad
mission, who are over 21
years of age, and who have
spent at least two years in
the work force may still be
able to enrol for university
studies as mature students.
The University of Guelph
enrols a number of such
students each January, May,
and September in its
freshman classes, and many
of them do extremely well in
their university studies. a
An admission test is nor
mally required prior to
enrolment in the B.A.
program in order to gauge
the prospective student’s
likelyhood of success. This
is an aptitude test and is not
a "knowledge test” based on
against Janet Towle, 123
Empress Ave., Huron Park;
Christiane Somann, 135 St.
Lawrence Ave., Huron
Park: James Colins, 10 Noel
St., London; and Paul Emile
Beauline, 76 Braubacker St-
Kitchener, were dropped.
Joint charges of possess
ing a dangerous weapon
against Tim Earhart, 215
Erie St., St. Thomas; Joseph
Doherty, of Augusta Cres
cent, London; and Richard
Bartrant, RR 3, Delaware,
were also dropped.
Charges of blocking a
highway and obstructing
police against Rene Mon
tague, UAW plant chairman
at Northern Telecom in Lon
don. were dropped last
month.
About 17 persons still face
charges, including UAW in
ternational representative
Al Seymour. Those cases
have been adjourned until
Nov. 23.
ARBITRATION
Compulsory and binding
arbitration should be used in
all public and essential ser
vice disputes in Canada,
says the Rev. A.C. Forrest,
editor of The United Church
Observer.
Strikes and lockouts
“seem more and more to
hurt the people they are
meant to help”, the editor
says in the magazine’s
November issue - which can
not be delivered until the
present postal strike has
been cleared up.
prior schooling, and a stu
dent cannot prepare for the
test by means of advance
studying. The test is not
designed to intimidate can
didates.
Admission tests are held
throughout the year at the
University of Guelph for
mature students. The next
tests will be held on Satur
day, October 21 and on
Saturday, November 18.
Anyone interested in enroll
ing as a mature student at
the University of Guelph
should contact Penny
Dukelow in the Admissions
section of the Office of the
Registrar. Penny’s
telephone number is 824-
4120. extension 8714, or you
may write to her at the
University of Guelph,
Guelph. Ont..NlG2Wl.