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The Brussels Post, 1977-11-23, Page 10t. Harvest of Values Limited-time savings on Frigidaire! Save now on this Frigidaire Heavy Duty Jet Cone Washer and matching Flowing Heat Dryer. .;/ • The Washer that gets clothes cleaner than the best-selling brand's best Washer -Exclusive up-and-down agitator action • Knits/ Permanent Press/Regular Wash cydles o Mafdhlhg 18 lb dryer- . Gentle Flowing Heat offers Knits arid Permanent Press setting OLDFIELDS -HARDWARE BRUSSELS 88746851 10—THE BRUSSELS POST n NOVEMBER 23, 1977 .P. Separate Board saves During the regular session which got underway at ten o'clock Director of Education William Eckert handed out copies of the board's newsletter which had been completed and was ready for distribution to the Separate school ratepayers in Huron and Perth and other interested persons. The cost of the news- letter was given as approximately $500. It included the board's financial statement, which, if printed in the local weekly newspapers in the two counties, would have cost about $1,100. Mr. Eckert said about 195 persons (including .trustees and their wives, representative groups of principals and teachers Dress or Sport Snowmobile Felt Pac Boots .Insulated Boots H H by Wilma Oke The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board meeting got underway Monday at 10 p.m. when trustees ignored their resolution of September 28 to start their regular meetings at 9 p.m. The meeting was preceded by the board meeting in committee-of- the-whole in camera and a presentation by Mary Litwiller, community school co-ordinator at St. Patrick's school in Dublin. Miss Litwiller, who was accompanied to the meeting by Ronald Ferguson, of the community school executive, outlined her work during her first year. Fresh out of college when she began her duties last winter, she said she started to work with the children in St. Patrick's School and through them she started to know the parents. She said 28 high school students who took her leadership training program completed the course in prograin planning and administration, crafts, quiet games and active games, safety and discipline, drama and story telling, music and special events. The program is being held again this winter. She held a summer program attended by 30 to 35 children with a $2,200 government grant that enabled her to hire three girls for six weeks. She held programs for three days during the spring break for children and hopes to repeat it during the Chiistmas holiday break. She said she is hoping to get craft programs going such as quilting, crocheting...She has ' sports programs in the school during the noon hour and a sports night for high school students once a week and is starting the same for adults. She said she has had no success in getting the senior citizens out for programs. "They are "wishy- washy" just now, but I think possibly this winter they will come to the school to play cards one evening." During the professional development day on November 4, she had 51 children attending a full day activity period in the school, assisted by four Grade 8 students--games, craft, singing and movies, As a voting member of the Dublin Recreation association, she works with the Leo Club members, assisted by the Dublin Lions Club. She said she has applied for another $10,000 grant this year from the Ministry of Education to continue her work for 1978. She said the community school concept had a slow start in Dublin until people understood it rnd her role. Dr. R. M. Aldis, a native of London, Ontario and former head of the Huron County Health Unit, has been named to succeed DR. B.T. Dale as the Medical Officer of Health and Director of the Wel lington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit. . Dr. Aldis is a graduate in medicine from the University of Western Ontario and served his internship at Westminister Hospital, London and Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Aldis was in general practice in Milverton and received his diploma in public health from the UniverSity of Toronto. Following this, he was medical officer of health and sungimm. J.E. LONGSTAFF - OPTOMETRIST - SEAFORTH 527-1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 - 5:30 Wednesday, Saturday 9:00 - 12:00 CLINTON 482-7010 Monday 9:00 - 5:30 By Appointment It is "my job to get people to take more responsibility for the programs and to carry them on when I leave", she said and added government will give the grant for two years only. She said she hopes to know by the middle of December whether they will get it for a second year. She reported that one of the projects she will be working on in 1978, if the grant is received, is the 100th birthday celebration by Dublin on the July 1, 1978 weekend. She is the secretary of the centennial committee and will head up the publicity. director of the Huron County Health Unit'from 1950 to 1966 and medical officer of health and director of the Perth County Health Unit 1966-67. The Palmerston Observer notes that Dr. Aldis is married, his wife Mary is a graduate in nursing from Toronto Western Hospital. The couple have three children. 0 and-their spouses, some parents and some members of the clergy will, be attending the Focus on Faith Day in Dublin. The meeting is to start on. November 20 at 12 noon. A letter from the assistant Bishop John Sherlock stated. Bishop Emmett Carter would be returning from the Vatican and invited representatives to attend a meeting at. Mount St. Joseph in London on December 5 at 1.0 a.in, to hear a report from Bishop Carter. The regular meeting was finished about 11 p.m. when the trustees went into cornmittee-of• the-whole in camera again to. Complete unfinished business. 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