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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-01-11, Page 8.PAGE EIGHT -, • THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCK IOW, ONT R,IO a ? , HPRCSSB EXECUTIVE William Kinahan; L., R,R.2,-Lu.cknow, was elected vice president of the Huron PerthRoman Catholic School. Board at a meeting in Dublin Monday. ElectedChairman was Donald Cl'owley, of R. R.2,.Gadshill, who"succeeds Mickey Vere in the position. • ed (Photo by Oke) Elects vice-chairman CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 religion Our• priests desire , to increase God's rove in " . the ' children. The board, the teachers desire this. Training in Christian- ity is what our job his.. This is • where the priest comes in, this is what we can do, no one 'else can do it -- getting the children to come on their own is training' in: Christianity." ° Father Laragh took. the .oppor, tunity to list the shortcomings at St. James . School where there is • no ilibrary, no music room, no room for French lessons so that half the school is disrupted when lessons being taught; our gymn is a classroom for religion until early.. in the afternoon. , "We need four more rooms," he stated. "It isn't fair to the teachers, the . principal be the- students we are trying to .help.' Sometimes economy,is not the best solution. I just want you. to .know our needs Local residents insured in car accident , Charles and Ann Anderson, Lucknow were involved in a - two car accident north of Denfield' as they were returning home froma visit with their. son, Ron Gardlae,r' in London last Monday afternd5n, January 2nd, at about 3 p.m. Mr. Anderson is in University Hospit- al, London with broken ribs and his wife was released from hospital on Friday following observation for a possible concus- sion. The . Anderson vehicle .was proceeding north'on County Road' 22 when it stopped..at the stop sign where the County , Road meets. Highway 7. The Anderson vehicle proceeded slowly into the intersection and was struck by a car driven by Jan -Marie Berman,' R. R. 3 Granton : which was headed eastbound on Highway 7. The road conditions were, show packed and the visibility was snow and sleet at the time of the accident. Mrs. Anderson is .staying with her son, Ron, at his home in Addition to 'severances approved In addition to the $50 paid upon application for land severance in Huron County, beginning Janu- ary 1, 1978, . successful applicants will :be paying- an additional $50 administrative fee when the severance is approved` "Although this will still not cover the entire costs involved," said Chairman Roy Westcott in his report, "it is a step toward the principle that the person benefit- ting from the'severance pays the cost." _ In ' speaking to the report, Elmer Hayter, , member of the committee, said' there is .just as , much expense connected with those applications that are" not approved as those applications that are approved, "But the difficulty seems to be to collect the extra administrative fee," said Hayter who poout that when ' a ,land severance is denied, the party or parties applying for the severance are usually • angry and not too co-operative.. -. To date there have been 222 ,applications for severance ' in .1977 The committee is expecting a reductio t in the numner of CO14T1Ntl D ON PAGE 6 at St. James' and this board's responsibility," he concluded. In other business the nominat- ing committee will consist of the chairman, vice=chairman and past -chairman,' Mickey _Vere. .A.'. borrowing by-law for $2 million was approved to meet the ° current expenditures of the board until the current revenue has been received. The regular meeting will be held on January 9. Community Centre Go w London and has planned to return to Lucknow on Monday but- the storm prevented. -her daughter, Mrs.. Doug • MacEwan, from getting to London to drive. her home: Mr. Anderson will remain in hospital while his ribs heal. e -apply Income WEDNESDAY, ,TANUt R .1! 1., 1978 Conty Ioai'd'. elects Elliott chairman R. J. Elliott, the Blyth school board trustee, was elected chair- man of the .Huron County Board' of Education Tuesday, afternoon. at the board's inaugural i'neeting for 1978. Elliott, serving in his fourth year as trustee, was elected' over Marion Zinn, , vice chairman of th board in 1977, Elliott, . who is . trustee for the village of Blyth and the townships pf East Wawanosh and Morris, . appealed to board members in his • inaugural address stressing a need for trustees, to support one another and co-operate during 1978. He said the year would ..be a difficult one for the board and would require every member to devote all _,thir efforts to their` 1 jobs.' .... The chairman said the trustees faced . a very; dif teult :nancial, situation brought on , 'by a reduction in provincial govern-. ment grants for education and declining enrolments. He 'said - the board does not know yet what the province will be giving school boards for operating costs but pointed out that the grants are based on enrolment: and fewer student's would mean less money no matter what the grants were. "Education'costs are going up °and.one source of income is going down. and municipalities in the • county will have to increase taxes to 'pay the difference," he said, "Our problem is to, keep that increase to a Minimum." He; said the trustees will receive many,suggestions on how to trim costs in education butt that they would have to • remember • that their duty is to .provide a sound 'education system for children in Huron. ' He said the board members would have to weigh all those recommendations and make a decision with teachers, students, parents and ratepayers in mind. He- said one of the way' the board could achieve succe's is throughopen channels for coin= munications, .something he was giving top priority in 1978. ,He said the board would- have :to , develop ways to ensue that everyone , affected by a b and decision has an opportunity to have some input into that'decis' n,. before it is made. He added that the board should make an attempt . to explain its decisions and the reasons for them to aid in that communica- tion. He said he planned to visit , schools and :attend all public events he could to let the publidr'_ know what its school board is doing and to attempt to improve the board's image. "Tough4 year hea • • • The Huron County Board of Education faces a tough year in. 1978, both politically and admin- istratively, . according—to 1977 board chairman Herb Turkheim. Turkheim told= -the board in his final'address'as chairman before turning the gavel over to 1978 chairman John Elliott thatrestric- ted funding by the provincial government. and declining enrol- ment 'would force the board to take a long, hard look at -education, costs in Huron County in the coming years. Turkheim said a reduction in grants from „the province would - cause financial hardship for the board and that declining enrol- ment would add to the problem. He 'pointed out that the province is threatening to cut back grants and aithou h no official f uses g g have been given it appears the cut will be from four to six percent. More than 350,000 ,old age He added that costs have risen by pensioners in Ontario are being that much at least in the past year asked to re -apply for Guaranteed and that the grants are based on a CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Income Supplement as quickly as ---student per capita basis. Declin- possible if they want to continue receiving payments, Health and Welfareofficials in Toronto said this week. Guaranteed income supple- ment is upple-ment'is an income tested assist- ance ssistance program for old age pensioners who have little or no. income outside . of Old Age Security. _ According to W. A. Wright, Regional Director, Old Age Security, annual re-application for the. G.I.S. is essential because the incorrie levels tend to change fairly regularly for a large percentage of retired people. "Our objective is to make certain that they are receiving the proper amount of . Guaranteed Income Supplement if eligible," he said. Mr. . Wright said,. 4th4�,,,,,,t� the regional office in Ontario" has completed the mailing of. the 350,000' re -applications of exist - frig recipients. 'Those who fail to reapply by a March 31 deadline may find, payments have been discontinued," he said. The re -applications . should be completed on receipt and return- ed to Old Age Security, Health avid Welfare Canada, P.O. Box 6000, Station Q, Toronto, Ontario. Bank of Montreal, and the Royal Bank, of Canada, J. A. McDonagh Insurance Agency. Receipts for taxation purposes will be issued for donations of $5.00 or more. Cost of the site preparation by. the contractor has' been rumored to be as high as $35,000, but, the contractor guaranteed the cost would be $10,000 and the building committee has received a paid ,in full receipt from the contractor for this amount. An engineer's report maintains that • the site has excellent building conditions ,and the allocations that more springs had appeared around the site are not true says the building `committee. r , Letters concerning the condi- tions of the building site have been sent to the four municipalit- ies involved in the project by the engineer. ' • ' The,site will. not be left in its preseg�t condition: More work is requirerin the area of the ball diamond and will be completed in the • spring when the working. r Onditions are more favourable. Any questions the public may have concerning the project -May be forwarded,. to any member ' of the building committee.• ing enrolment would mean Huron is . eligible for fewer grants than last year even without cuts in provincial spending. "We. as a board are going to • have to take a close look at educa- tion costs and use a great deal of foresight when we make financial decisions," he warned the trust- ees. Turkheim said that, education costs in Huron have risen dramatically in the past five years and that the board has asked Huron's municipalities to carry those costs. - He said they board's requisition) to municipalities has risen 100 percent since 1973 adding that the board is still not in great financial shape. The past chairman said that the trustees would have to economic in their future decisions but would also have to remain politicians. He said declining enrolment niay make it appear that closing schools will •save the board the money it needs but •suggested that closing choots would not be the answer. He added that the board owes every ratepayer in the county the nigh* to an education sys cin for their., children. He cited the Vanastra Public School , as an exainple`• of the political responsibilities the board -has: He said opening theschool in Vanastra year was a "foolish ,:,move but a political one." He said trustees really' "had no choice" but to open the school because of the reaction from taxpayers in' Vanastra at the time the decision was made. He said Clinton Public School couldn't handle students from Vanastra and the board was considering bussing students to other schools as, an alternative. rn a public meeting the trustees met with "500 ratepayers ready to throw bricks at them if they made ,the wrong decision," he .claimed. Turkheim said that if the board started looking gat schools, in the county with the idea, to close some, one of the first to be considered would "'be Hensall Public_., School, a school in his ` constituency. . He added that Hensall would. only be closed, "`over his dead body". "I would onlyM Hope that ,�,� trustees. put themselves in.;A`the position of the board member in whose area '°:School ' is being 'closed," he said. "A trustee from Wingham should make his'deci- sion considering how, he would feel if the school were in his locality.' Turkheim said that if the board ,was to solve its problems it would have to concentrate on 'cornmuni cations and would have to work as a unit. He said that 'in the past a few trustees have carried the workload for others and that that situation would. have to change. ,He said he didn't feel communi- cations was the problem it was cracked up to be but did concede that the board would have to work together to improve lines of communication with teachers, parents,. ratepayers and municip- al politicians. The past chairman told the. - board that a one year term as board chairman should be consid- ered pointing out that a second year in the chair" is very trying; He said the second term of office is very tiring and that the effective- mness,of the individual is affected by the workload.