HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1994-10-05, Page 3Parents want route changes
In a report to the Huron County Director of Education Paul Car-
Board of Education regular meeting
held on Oct. 3, the management
committee slated that the difficul
ties which had arisen with a bus
route in the Blyth area had been
resolved.
A complaint had been received
by the board regarding some very
young students who were required
to ride the bus for a total of almost
two hours per day because of the
first on-last off system used by the
HCBE (and most other boards in
Ontario).
The problem route will remain
the same, however another route at
the north end of the trouble area
will be extended to allow the
effected students to board the bus
last and get off last.
A special management commit
tee meeting, held on Sept. 26, was
attended by parents Brenda Young,
Crystal Taylor, Rose DeBoer, Carol
George and Penny Moore.
The group made a presentation to
the trustees requesting the current
configuration of the route remain.
A second parent delegation, con
sisting of Joy and Tony Roet-
cisocnder and Lisa and Kurt
Whitfield, questioned the commit
tee about proposed changes to the
route.
Co-ops, farmer
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however, that any elevator will
accept donations to the CFB and
these companies will either paper
trade the commodity to the
elevators who are storing CFB
grain or make a cash equivalent to
the organization.
The tonnage collected in this
method will be sent to needy third
world countries along with the
harvest from the growing projects
such as the Blyth/Londesboro
area's own 49 acres. The
Blyth/Londesboro area group has
two separate plots - a 15-acre one
donated by Canadian Agri and a
34-acre spot owned by the Hensall
Co-op. As part of their crop
rotation, soybeans were planted this
year. The Aubum and Belgrave Co
ops donated seeds as well as an
anonymous fanner.
The corn shipped overseas to
needy countries is used not only to
feed starving people, but also
becomes a method of payment in
"make-work" projects explains Mr.
Van Amersfoort. "An African or
Somalian earns about six and half
pounds of grain for every day they
work at such projects as building
roads, irrigation or reforestation.
They can then use it to grow their
own crops which leaches them how
roll says, "The HCBE has been rec
ognized as one of the most efficient
systems in southwestern Ontario as
we have tried to reduce the cost of
busing to the taxpayers."
"We manage 153 routes, owned
and contracted, and safely to the
students is the first consideration,
even b< fore the cost."
"As we continue to work towards
improving the system, safely, con
venience and fairness to the riders
will be considered. With the issue
of equality in everything in the 90s,
the priorities may change," he says.
Trustee for Blyth and Hullett
Twp. John Jcwitt says, "The board
should make the routes fair to all
students, but not jeopardize the
safety of some for equity for oth
ers."
Allan Carter, trustee for Hensall
and Tuckersmith Twp. says, "When
the board makes a decision con
cerning safety on buses, the con
tractors and the drivers should be
asked for input.”
"Parents with children who have
been using the first on-last off sys
tem have come to accept it as the
way things are," says Ashfield, East
and West Wawanosh Trustee Vicki
Culbert."
donate seeds
to be self-sufficient."
From the Blyth/Londesboro
group's small acreage alone, the
harvest will provide payment for
approximately 27,800 days of
work, enough to keep about 76
people busy for an entire year.
Another unique aspect of the
Blyth/Londesboro area group is
that it is organized by members
from five different Christian
denominations - Christian
Reformed, Church of God, United,
Anglican and Roman Catholic.
As an interdenominational group,
Mr. VanAmersfoort believes by
assisting others they are also
helping themselves. "We are
helping people abroad and helping
to bring our community together as
well," says Mr. VanAmersfoort.
"We may have different beliefs but
we are coming together to work
towards the same goal."
For him personally, this kind of
charitable work is very rewarding:
moreso that just handing out a few
dollars from his wallet. "I've held
the CFB bags in my hands and
when I see on the news or
whatever, a Somalian or African
walking around with one of these
bags, I think wow, I might have
been the one to put corn in the
bag."
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1994. PAGE 3.
New leaders
Leaders of Blyth's Guiding movement welcomed some new leaders on Wednesday night at
the Legion. Back row, from left are: new Brownie leader Mary Schultz, new Guide leader
Anita Bromley, District Commissioner Heather Jackson. Front row: new Guide leader Joy
Roetcisoender, Brownie leader Sarah Rouw, Brownie leader Giselle Kelly, new Brownie
leader Anne Elliott, new Brownie leader Debbie Cook. Absent was Pathfinder leader Pam
Chalmers.
Blyth
and Connie, Ian, Nichole.
They also went to Victoria for two
days then returned home by plane.
Nancy was returning by car.
People
Winners from the euchre held at
Blyth Memorial Hall on Sept. 26
were: high lady, Jane Giousher;
high man, Harvey Silib; low lady,
Anna DeJong; low man, Ted
Fothergill; ladies' lone hands, Ruth
Shiell; and men's lone hands,
Millar Richmond.
Bill and Isabelle Craig of RR 2,
Blyth and Nancy Craig of Toronto
motored to Chilliwack, B.C. where
they stayed a week with son Roger
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Where the number of candidates for an office who are nominated
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October 19th, 1994.
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