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Vol. 1 -1 No 41 Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1995 610 40aST 650
The business of cutting was a job that required a good deal of concentration from Trisha
Arts, who enjoyed a plateful of the delicious fare cooked up for breakfast by the Londesboro
Lions this past Sunday morning.
HCBE letter angers council
Sports
Brussels Bulls
turn it around after
Friday night humiliation
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Community
Blyth Legion Branch
honours accomplishments
of 2 of its own
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Entertainment
The North Huron
itizen Brussels man
waits in jail
for court date
By Janice Becker
The endless battle between
municipal council and the Huron
County Board of Education contin-
ued in the chambers of Blyth coun-
cil on Oct. 16, as members once
again encouraged the board to bud-
get for a zero per cent increase in
property taxes allocated to educa-
tion.
Councillors received information
from the HCBE stating that a 'zero'
increase in the 1996 expenditure
estimates had already been reached,
but that the education share of
property taxes would still rise.
The letter, signed by all the
trustees of the board, said there is a
continuing effort to reduce spend-
ing a further $3 million on top of
the millions which have been cut
over the last two years.
The expected increase to taxes
will come from a phased-in
increase (begun in 1994) in proper-
ty tax assessment values for educa-
tion purposes which will result in a
total rise of 20.7 per cent, another
five to six per cent for at least the
next three years.
"If your house is assessed at
$100,000 right now, it's value will
be changed to $110,000 on Jan. 1,
1996. You will have to pay more
property taxes for education pur-
poses," says HCBE Director of
Education Paul Carrol.
A second component stated by
the letter, says the minimum share
of per pupil grants required from
local taxpayers will increase unless
there are changes to the education
finance system. This is expected to
impact another five per cent.
In non-governmental terms, the
HCBE is being told by the province
that if, for example, the grant is set
at $1 per student, the province will
now contribute only 50 cents of the
cost instead of the previous 55
cents. The taxpayer is then required
to pay 50 cents instead of 45, says
Carroll. "The province tell us the
minimum which taxpayers must
contribute."
Blyth council members were
impassioned in their response to the
board's request for support for
finance reform and with regards to
the explanation of a further
increase in property taxes.
"(The board) will have to delete
service or teachers. There is no
other way," said Councillor Rob
Lawrie. "When I was in school,
there were 45 students in the class
and there are now, what? Twenty? I
don't know if (the students) are any
farther ahead than we were."
"The board has to become more
efficient," said Councillor Doug
Scrimgeour.
"They'll have to make their pen-
cils last longer," retorted Councillor
Lawrie.
Councillor Scrimgeour and
Reeve Mason Bailey agreed that
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The alleged ringleader of several
acts of vandalism in Brussels is sit-
ting in Walkerton jail after being
denied bail at a hearing on Oct. 4.
Jeremy Pasztor, 20, will appear
on several charges, including one
of arson, in Wingham's provincial
court Wednesday (Oct. 18).
According to Wingham OPP,
Pasztor's first charge was laid as
the result of an incident during the
night of Sept. 12, when an explo-
sive substance, believed to be a pop
bottle bomb, was set off in the
street outside Oldfield's Hardware
store. He has also been charged
with regards to an explosion out-
side the Brussels Library on Sept.
19, when a phone book holder was
destroyed and another at the Brus-
sels arena during the fair.
He has been charged with the
torching of the Maitland Valley
Conservation Park public wash-
room on Sept. 20 and with the set-
ting of a bomb outside the Brussels
IGA, which caused considerable
damage to a pop machine.
It is once again the time of year
when head lice become apparent on
many school-aged children. With
the return to school and a few
weeks incubation time, the live lice
and eggs or nits can spread through
a school population.
It is important for parents to
check their children once a week
and take appropriate steps if lice
are found, says Huron County Pub-
lic Health Nurse Sharon Abel.
"Having head lice has nothing to
do with hygiene or where you come
from. It is a waste of energy to
worry where they came from. It is
more important to inform the
school and the parents of your
child's friends so treatment can
begin."
Each school has a team of par-
ents, with experience, who volun-
teer to check school children, but it
Just a few weeks into the new
season, the Brussels Bulls have
named a new coach.
Assistant Coach Mike Henry was
called in to run the bench on Sun-
day afternoon in a game against the
Barons, after Head Coach Jim
Bridges announced he was stepping
down.
Bulls Executive President Bob
Thomas says that Henry has now
been officially named as the new
head coach, while Bridges has
Andy White, 25, of Mill St.,
Brussels, has been charged with
Pasztor for the theft of a picnic
table and damage to a flower
planter at a private residence as
well as mischief to an apple tree
sapling, duck pens and ducks at
another residence.
In addition to the arrest of Pasz-
tor and White charges have also
been laid against a Grey Twp. teen
and some young offenders. Ryan
Newman, 18, along with two young
offenders, has been accused of
breaking 15 windows at The Ark,
as well as the picture window at the
Anglican Church manse on Sept.
27.
A young offender has also been
charged with setting off a pop bot-
tle bomb in an area where a street
hockey game was taking place on
Sept. 18.
White and Newman will also
appear in Wingham's court on Oct.
18, while the young offenders will
appear in YOA court in Goderich
on Nov. 9.
is a community responsibility for
parents to also check so everyone
can be treated at once and the lice
do not continue to be passed
around, says Abel.
Many shampoos are available,
but the specific directions are dif-
ferent so they must be followed
closely.
Nits, which cement themselves to
the hair shaft, can be loosened for
removal by applying a petroleum
jelly product such as Vaseline.
It is not necessary for the entire
house to be disinfected as the lice
require body temperature to repro-
duce, Abel says.
Any parents wishing to learn
more about lice removal or wanting
to volunteer at their local school,
information and training is avail-
able through the Huron County
Health Unit.
offered to continue to lend his ser-
vices in whatever way the execu-
tive sees fit.
Though Henry is only in his sec-
ond year on the coaching staff of
the Junior C team he is no stranger
to hockey, having come up through
the Blyth Minor Hockey system to
play Junior C with the Goderich
Sailors, then serving as coach in
Minor Hockey prior to joining the
Bulls.
Henry and his wife Sandy reside
in Blyth.
Lousy time here
for area students
Bulls name new coach