HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1992-01-15, Page 19THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15,1992. PAGE 19.
Brussels council briefs
Booster Bus transferred to Brussels Lions Club
Ownership of the Brussels Boost
er Bus was transferred to the Brus
sels Lions Club in December,
Brussels Clerk-treasurer Donna
White told village courfcillors at
their first meeting of 1992 on Jan.
6.
East Wawanosh students
backhand very busy
EDITORS:
MS. THORPE-HEARN'S
GRADE 5/6 CLASS
Kindergarten: The Kindergartens
are presently working on a snow
unit. They are working on some
chalk pictures with their grade
three buddies, as well as doing
many different activities like paint
ing snow pictures, making a snow
book, drawing pictures on styro
foam, making paperbag snowmen
and listening to their teacher, Mrs.
Wilson, read a story written by
Ezra Keats called A Snowy Day.
They will finish their snow unit by
making sequence pictures.
Grade 1: Mrs. Brydges' grade one
class is making New Year's resolu
tions. Scott Folkard is going to try
to score more goals in hockey.
Kyle Campbell is going to try hit
ting the puck harder. Paul Gamiss
is trying not to eat as much candy
as he usually does. Leanne Vincent
is going to try not to watch as much
television this year. Everybody else
in the grade one class is ALMOST
perfect!
Grade 2: Mrs. Dodds' grade two
class has a new behaviour modifi
cation system for the remainder of
the year! After every two months of
school, they have an auction and
buy what they can afford, by using
bank books their teacher has
designed especially for the purpose
of recording their good behaviour.
This January, they are learning
many different things. During
Environmental Studies class, they
are bouncing balls. They are also
making winter booklets. They have
already changed their calendar pat
tern to reflect the New Year!
Grade 2: Mrs. Hessels' grade two
class would like to welcome a new
student, Joshua Dunn. Grade two is
playing winter bingo with winter
Man jailed for fondling
young female employees
A Morris township man was sen
tenced Friday to 90 days in jail and
three years probation after pleading
guilty in Ontario Court, General
Division in Goderich to sexual inci
dents involving four young women
working on his farm.
Justice J. F. McGarry told
Charles Shobbrook, R.R.3, Walton
that he was taking into account that
he had admitted his guilt and
sought out counselling on his prob
lem. "Seldom do I see a man seek
counselling," he said. "I always
give them a great deal of credit
when they do."
In a preliminary hearing held in
Wingham in August, 1991, four
young city women who had worked
on the Shobbrook farm under the
Junior Agriculturalist Program of
the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, told stories of being fon
dled while working on the farm
early in the 1980's. Most of the
incidents of touching look place in
a bam on another Shobbrook prop
erty and involved touching on top
of clothing.
During the summer of 1986 a
supervisor for the Junior Agricul
turalist program visited the farm
Councillors learned, at the day
long meeting, that money left in
the Booster Bus bank account was
divided among the Brussels
Legion, Optimists and Lions Club
who had helped launch the commu
nity-owned bus service in the first
words along with making a snow
man out of snowflakes to use as a
classroom decoration. They began
reading Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory to the entire class.
Grade 3: Miss Mather's grade
three class has been learning about
how other people celebrate the
New Year around the world. They
also made crystal ball predictions
of what they will look like in 25
years from now! Three class mem
bers celebrated their birthdays:
Curtis Knight, Robert LaRose and
Myron Hussey. The “Special Me”
person of the week is Julie Hopper.
Grade 4: Fisher's grade four class
has been working on their speech
es, along with studying the fasci
nating topic of “Light” during
Science class. In French, they are
learning how to tell time. It is a
useful skill. In Math, they are
putting their multiplication skills to
good use.
Grade 5: Mr. Kerr's grade five
class is happy to announce that the
birthdays of Melina Hussey and
Wayne Fenton will fall during the
month of January. In their Creative
Writing books, the grade fives are
busy writing holiday stories. They
have voted for their new publishing
company and are publishing books
quickly! In Physical Education
class, they are learning volleyball
skills. The grade fives are planning
to do presentations on their Rodent
research. The “All About Me” per
son this week is Melina Hussey!
Grade 5/6: Our class began the
first week of the new year by con
tinuing on with our “Country of the
Week” centre. This week we are in
England. We also started a few new
units: Fractions in Math class and
Animals in Science class.
and noticed something strange
about the relationship between the
girl working there at the time and
Mr. Shobbrook. He took the girl
aside and asked her what was going
on. She told him the story and he
had her pack her bags and they left
the farm. She didn't tell anyone else
until police questioned her in Nov.
1990 after another of the girls had
complained to police.
Defence Attorney Dan Murphy
told Justice McGarry that Mr.
Shobbrook had a slightly different
story than the women had told but
agreed that the sexual attention was
unwanted. He noted that Mr. Shob
brook had been taking counselling
and continues to take counselling.
In a joint submission with Crown
Attorney McEwan Egner, Mr. Mur
phy recommended the 90 day sen
tence followed by probation with
terms of the probation to include
continued counselling and a prohi
bition on employing teenage girls.
Mr. Murphy noted that if Mr.
Shobbrook was incarcerated the
burden of running the family farm
would fall entirely on his wife so
he asked for day leave from jail so
Mr. Shobbrook could continue to
do the farm work. Justice McGarry
agreed.
place. The bus had been off the
road for more than a year after a
complaint from commercial bus
operators that the bus should have
to have a commercial licence. Now
that the bus is owned by a non
profit organization, it can be used
again, supported by donations to
pay the costs.
In other business, council met in
closed session with Kenneth Dowl
ing, owner of a main street building
undergoing a controversial renova
tion.
Councillors also met with Bill
Beacom, John Exel, Don Bray and
Ralph Rowland regarding the new
development charge effecting their
lots which are serviced by the
extension of Elizabeth St. Council
lors decided to meet with the Public
Utilities Commission and talk to
the village lawyer about the effect
of registering the development
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Councillors met with Keith Mul
vey and Doug Sholdice of Cardiff
and Mulvey Insurance and Dave
Reed from Frank Cowan Insurance
to review the village's insurance.
The base rate for the insurance pro
gram actually decreased by $250
for the year but council decided to
increase the accidental death insur
ance for firemen to $100,000 from
$50,000 at an additional cost of
$420 and increase the insurance for
councillors and staff to pay for
legal fees of charges of some acts
such as environmental legislation
and the freedom of information and
privacy act at an additional cost of
$500. Against this there will be a
saving of more than $400 since the
village no longer owns the Booster
Bus.
Councillors will look at the rental
rates at the Brussels Library
charged to non-profit groups and
reconsider the issue at the February
meeting of council.
A new fire agreement with Grey
township under which Brussels
Fire Department covers houses in
the township close to the village,
plus Brussels Livestock and the
Graham Survey was approved.
Councillors stood firm on their
refusal to pay standby time to the
village's snow-removal operator for
November because councillors felt
the equipment was not ready on the
dates at which standby was sup
posed to have been charged.
Councillors agreed to use $2000
of the PRIDE grant money for
repairs at the Medical-Dental Cen
tre.
The next meeting of council will
be Thursday, Feb. 6 rather than the
regular Monday night because
councillors will be at the conven
tion of the Rural Section of Associ
ation of Municipalities of Ontario
earlier in the week.