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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-04-26, Page 10Lifestyle casual in South West Africa ............. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 schools. Russell is a consultant engineer with De Leuw Cather, which does planning and design of roads, municipal works, and traffic studies. A graduate of Lucknow High School, he has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Toronto. He worked with De Leuw Cather in Toronto before being transferred to Durban, South Africa, four years ago. His move back to Canada is a transfer to Thunder Bay where he will be the branch manager of a new office. Rusell's wife, Barbara, died in 1975 while they were living in South Africa. He has married again and his wife, Trixie, was born in South Africa. She lived in Britain after her first marriage where her daughter, Jane, was born and then in Germany where her second daughter, Katie, was born. After her husband's death she +returned to South . Africa, where she had grown up. Russell's two children, Darrell and Cynthia, were born in Canada but, after living four years in South Africa, they have picked up the South African accent to their English which reminds Canadians of the British accent. The family has two dogs, a golden Labrador, Jasper, and a miniature Dachshund, Heidi, which they were allowed to bring with them. Trixie says she ` had plenty of reservations about moving to Canada, mostly because this is her 15th home and she wanted to stay after moving back to South Africa from Europe. South Africa is the most advanced technologi- cally of any of the African states and is a modern industrialized country. Television is. only two years old, though, and there is a. choice of one channel which is on the air in theevening between 6 and 11 p.m. and on Saturday afternoons for sports events. Like Canada, South Africa has twn national languages, Africaans and English. The television viewing time is divided equally with programs in Millrate up .............. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 collected by the board. The 31 day high school teacher strike saved taxpayers in the county $213,959. That amount is the county share of the $653,228 in salaries that weren't paid up to March 31 when the budget was struck. Dunlop explained that provincial grants on teacher salaries pays about 60 percent of the wages. He said the province saved $383,981 up to March 31 and tuition fees paid by neighboring school boards toward teacher salaries totalled $55,288. The tuition fees are for students living outside the jurisdiction of the Huron board but attending Huron County schools. Each municipality in the county will have its share of the $213,959 returned. Goderich gets the lion's share of the return $32,500. Exeter will get $13,019, Wingham $10,424, Clinton. $8,691 - and Seaforth $5,621. The county's five villages and 16 townships will also be getting a return. Dunlop said he was surprised that the budget increase was as low as it was but pointed out that the small increase this year could create problems for next year if trustees are not wary. He said salaries for board employees account for 75 percent of the total requisition and that if trustees are not tough at the negotiating table bargaining on 1978-79 wages the budget could be up considerably next year. The biggest decrease in the budget was under capital projects. Those costs are down 46.9 percent from last year. In 1977 the board spent $225,990 for renovations to Exeter Public School and this year have earmarked $120,000 for work at Goderich District Collegiate Institute and Huron Hope in Wingham. Colborne township trustee Shirley Hazlitt raised the most objection to the budget. She wanted an explanation as to why a chain link fence to be constructed at Colborne Public School was not included in the budget. She said she understood the fence, to border the school playground along County Road One, was put off last year when the road was widened and resurfaced and was to be budgeted for this year. Hazlitt said the board balked at a suggestion from the county to trade a strip of land the board owned that was to be included in thecounty road allowance for .a farm fence to be constructed by the county. She said the board decided then to take the $600 for the land and earmark the money for a chain link fence. She said the chain fence was more desirable for safety reasons. Budget committee member and board chairman John Elliott ..said the budget com- mittee considered all requests from school principals and approved those requests as money permitted, He said the $600 was grouped in with the funds available for school main- tenance and capital projects and that the $3,400 fence was not affordable. both languages. All students study both languages in school. Sports in South Africa are influenced by the British; cricket, field hockey, soccer, tennis and. horse racing. Betting on the horse races is popular. The government controls the off track betting and South Africans can drop into the nearest totalisator and place a bet. Mercedes and B.M.W.'s are a dime a dozen because they are made there. The Mercedes factory is the only one outside of Germany. Toyotas, Volkswagons, and small G.M.C., Ford and Chrysler products are also available. Education is similar to the British system. All students wear uniforms, boys and girls attend different high schools and private education is `common. The family has been visiting with relatives and friends in this area since their arrival in Canada on March 29; staying with Russell's mother, Cora, who lives in Kinlough. They left .for their new. home in Thunder Bay on Monday. Rabid dog CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Duffy said the dog was frothing at the mouth and was as big as a Labrador. It was black with a white collar and chest and front legs and a white tip on its tail. Duffy said that the dog did not bite him, but he believes that if it had been in the mad stage of rabies they may nothave been able to beat it off. Last week a fox was seen running with a dog along the county road north of Lucknow and this may have been the same dog. Kincardine OPP were unable to locate the dog or determine the owner. Parents are urged to advise their children to stay away from the strange dogs and the people of the village, who own dogs, are asked to keep them at home. Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, April 26, 1978—page 9 Shop At Lucknow Home Bakery PHONE 528-2033 CLOSED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS A Community Toy Project - NEEDED: Used toys for the Wingham Hospital Playroom Super -safe toys please - no -small removable parts, sharp spots or brittle plastic. [The Hospital would particularly appreciate a good baby walker] WHERE: Lucknow Public School Office or Energy Conservation Centre WHEN: April 26 - May 3 Kairshea Women's Institute Enquire: Sheila Clarke, 528-2173 Hazlitt said she felt the money would be well spent since the safety of the children was at stake. She said the county road will be paved this ,year and has been widened and flattened which will mean cars will be travellingfaster than when the road was gravel. She said children play alongside the road and the risk or an accident from one of them running onto the road to retrieve a ball was not worth $3,400. Hazlitt said she didn't see the "merits of spending $750 for a 'colour television for the school when the fence was to be left. The budget includes a capital expense: for a television for Colborne Public. The truestee voted against the 1978 budget for those ` reasons pointing out that she felt the ex- pense for the fence was justified. She was the only trustee to vote against the budget. Seaforth trustee John Henderson said he was curious about a request for fertilizer for F.E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham. The request was for $350 for fertilizer for the playing fields a,t the school and Henderson asked if that wasn't a great deal of fertilizer for one school. Dunlop explained that the school fields had not been done for two years and that the money would buy two 'tons of fertilizer. He said he checked files for the last purchase order for the school and it was also for two tons. Clinton trustee Dorothy Williams wondered why there was a $1,400 spread between requests from two secondary schools for calculators when there was only three more machines in the more expensive purchase. She said Central Huron Secondary, School in Clinton asked for five calculators costing $480 while Goderich District Collegiate wanted eight costing $1,840. Dunlop said the spread was caused by the different abilities in the machines. He said the two schools were not asking for the same calculators. Salaries: 74% of budget CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 $980,000 and bus drivers cost $152,506 in wages. The budget, less the salaries, leaves the board with $5,441,099 to operate its education system. That money is used for purchasing supplies for schools, paying legal costs, insurance costs, operation of buses, operation of elementary and secondary schools, debt charges and capital expenses. The cost of wages in the operation of the education system has always been a source of concern for trustees trying to justify annual requisitions to the county's 26 municipalities. CONTINUED ON PAGE 1S Now Available for l sprsng Seed Oats Barley Mixed Grain Also either certified or Canada no. 1 flax contracts Grass Seed Full line of Farm Chemical ANDERSON FLAX PRODUCTS LTD LUCKNOW PHONE 528-3203 Guaranteed Investment Certificates 1/2 (ro interest annually 5 years. $500 minimum. 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