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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1974-08-14, Page 5a 22 ceo, Healy, ueNou Duke, r23 Jeff nnedy, and Ito Ightylo low c Brussels ice BACK FROM CAMP — These Brussels Girl Guides have just returned from Camp Keewaydin, three miles south of Goderich. Pictured are Irina Watts, Debbie Prior, Patricia Haverman, Janet Heibein, Alida Dorcsh, Elizabeth Exel, Annette Dorcsh, Joan McArter and Linda Whiting. (Photo by Pat Langlois) of the city.year. Handbills will be sent through New president is named for Conestoga Feel creative?Art Trek Is coming, Local artists and those with the urge to create take heed, Art Trek is coming to town, Art Trek is a travelling work- shop sponsored -by the Ontario Ministry of Communitynd Social Services and Visual Arts, Ontario. It will be staying in Seaforth from August 23-25. Jane Spanton and Stan Olthius will be offering their services to people who want to try out various techniques. Miss. Spanton is a recent graduate of York University's Visual Arts program and her interests lie in painting, drawing, silkscreen, clay and woodwork. Mr. Olthius is presently studying at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. This is the fourth year since Art Trek was formed and the first time it's been in Seaforth. It is the third year it will be in Goderich. Local artists and art enthusiasts are welcome to bring anything they are working on, and discuss any problems they have encount- ered in their own chosen art field. There is no charge ef. • any instruction or art supplies. Organizers are trying to stress that it is a workshop and not an exhibit. People are invited to participate, not just watch. Art Trek will set up shop in the basement of the library and on the grass behind the building. The sessions will run from FridaY, August 23 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday from 2 p.m• to "7 p.m. They will also visit Wingharn. Organizers hope that many people in Huron County will get a chance to visit one of the sessions. Cable TV for Seaforth area Area television viewers will be pinased to hear (and see) that cable service will be available here soon. John C. Ward, a Listowel chartered accountant was granted a license by The Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) last week to set up a company to service Seaforth, Egmondville; Harpurhey, Dublin, Mitchell and St. Coluniban. Viewers will be able to pick up six Canadian, three non-Canadian, one local and one ' educational TV station. • Earlier this year in Ottawa, installation fees were set at $15 And additional outlets for extra TV sets or FM radio would cost $2.50 a month. Regular monthly fees will be $5.50. The applications for FM radio broadcast distribution in this area, have been deferred by the CRTC. uron-Perth students learn to swim this winter next meeting. On a question from Trustee Crowley, Mr. Vintar said that an evaluation on the Board's pilot Family Life Education project should be available in September. The Board agreed to pass on any information on the history of early education in Stratford to T.J.Dolan who is writing a history Most Grade 3, 4 and 5 students the Huron Perth Roman atholic Separate School system 11 have a chance to learn to in indoors at the YMCA Pool Stratford this winter, following agreement with the Y ratified onday night by HPRCSS board embers at their meeting in aforth. in exchange for a total of 18Q u s of use for students in 16 of 19 schools, the board will allow e Y to use the gymnasium at St. chaels School in Stratford for 2 hours, The pool rental costs 9,50 per hour this fall and 1,00 in the winter and spring, d the gym rents at $6 per hour. No money will change hands, wever, with the, 'V waiving an balance of $378 in the two sts. The board will pay the costs busing the children to the afford pool. Superintendent of Schools, hn Vintar said about 1,000 ddren will receive swimming, struction, Each of the 16 schools swim at the Y for 10 hours era 10 week period. All schools the board's jurisdiction except .Joseph's Kingsbridge, St. atY`a, Goderich and Sacred earl in Wingham will use the 1. Under questioning by trustee award Shantz of Stratford, perintendent Vintar said that at ast one of the three schools ere not using the pool because' distance and that all had made angenients to use outdoor 1s in their own communities in Y and June. "It's up to the ncipal,and staff", Mr. Vintar (I, to decide whether to use the pool or not, Trustee Shantz suggested that e board should perhaps set a icy Oil use of the pool and get the schools to participate: 'Lily throughout the Whole item -should be the board's con", he said.. e. seem to be leaving a lot up the principals", he added. r more discussion the cement was ratified on a lion by Mr. ghantz, Seconded Vere, also of Stratford, classes of HPRRCSS Idren learned to swim at the Y during the 1972-73 school year, according to the board's Physical Education consultant John McCarroll. Many separate school supporters in Huron and Perth are paying higher mill rates for their children's education than are public school supporters, according to the comparison including 1972, 73 and 74 presented to the board by Business Administrator Jack Lane. In Seaforth, for example, the pu blic elementary rate is 18.66 mills, down 2 from 1973 while the separate elementary rate is 23.13 the same as 1973 and down 3 from 1972. The 1974 high school rate' is 18.66 mills, up about 3 from 1972 and 1973. "Trustees need this information to meet challenges from tax payers about the public rate being loWer. If it is so, they can tell why it's so.", Mr. Lane said. One mill represents one dollar of taxation for every $1000 of assessment. "We've attempted to identify trends over three years and they are discouraging from our point of view", Mr. Lane said. 80% of the 47 municipalities the board serves are experiencing decreasing mill rates for public elementary schools and increasing rates for the high schools. Public and separate supporters share the high schools which means that the separate supporter is getting hit with two "major kinds of increases", while the public supporter, with the elementary decrease, ends up paying "about the same as before." More information will be available through trustee Arthur Haid's Finance and Insurance Committee, Board chairman Michael Connolly said. A bridge in Hibbert Township just south of St. Coltimban has been condemned arid HPRCSS bus delvers will be instructed not to use it, Trustee lion Crowley reported for the Transportation Comniitte. A hew bridge' is not being built but bus routes do not have to use the old one, Mr. Crowley said. Huron County Council Hiiron's Ijoard of Health, the medical officers of Health of Huron and Perth, Hospital auxiliary and Medical representatives, all oppose the Mustard Report on restructuring of health services in Ontario Trustee Ted Geoffrey and Chairman Connolly reported. They attended, as Boar d representatives, a special session of County Council on Monday afternoon, called to discuss the report and the Department of. Health's request for feedback on it. "I think it's a good idea to support the Huron County Health Unit", Mr. Connolly said, adding that the report, if implemented, could eventually have impact on the schools. The Board decided to send a letter of thanks to the Huron Council for involving them in their discussions. At the last Board meeting in July, trustee Vince Young was asked to approach the Huron County Board of Education on the possibility of tendering together for fuel to supply the boar,ds' properties. On a question from Stratford trustee David Teahen, Mr, Geoffrey said that the Huron ;Board had completed its fuel negotiations for this year and therefore the matter was dropped, A principal, rather than one or two Board members will be sent to a Toronto meeting which is organizing Education Week throughout the province, the Board decided. Trustees Geoffrey and Shantz who have attended these meetings previously both said they felt that sending a principal would accomplish more in getting local participation in Education Week. Superintendent Vintar agreed saying "a principal can get infottnation out to the schools thtough the Principal's Association." Tritstee Vince Young repOrted for the personnel Cornmitte that Barbara Rau has been hired as a tustodian at Bettie Ste Marie and that Michael Denomme will be a new bus driver on one of the routes at the same school. The ova Policy Conimittee asked S minutes to report on the Many "outdated" policies at the the Stratford HPRCSS Schools advising students and parents of a Sports Equipment Exchange being held at the Stratford Y in September. Trustee Shantz asked that board members be informed about when administrators are going on holidays. Mr. Vintar said it could be arranged for next He said he was impressed with the high calibre of people he had met at the college and he said he felt confident that together they could meet all challenges. "My personal view is that Conestoga has an unparalleled opportunity to be of service to the people. The universities play an indispensable role but only about five per cent of those vvho enter elementary school attend university. The other 95 per cent have an equally important need and desire for education," he said. • He said that colleges such as Conestoga had the opportunity to fulfill the requirements of those who do not attend university. Conestoga College of Kit- chener, which has a, campus at Vanastra, the former CFB Clinton, has a new president. He is Kenneth E. Hunter, 51, of Midland. Mr. Hunter, who is married and has four children said at news conference recently that Conestoga has made great con- tributions to the area since its founding six year ago. He said he was aware that there had been considerable discussion about problems at Conestoga, but he was not sur. prised. , "I know of no organization that is without problems-- particularly one that has grown as fast as Conestoga, Mr. Hunt er said. READ and USE POST CLASSIFIED Action Ads DIAL DIRECT 887 -6641 THE Bitt&sides Vogt, Attaugt 14, 1974-4