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Director defends
Huron's marks
Citizenship
winners selected
Citizenship award winners
in Seaforth for, 1997 have
been selected by the recre-
ation and parks committee.
The awards will be present-
ed at the local business
improvement association's
Christmas dinner and dance
on Nov. 22.
The winners are: John and
Barb Watt for service to
sports, Olavc Little for civic
service, and Jean and Wilf
Drager for humanitarian ser-
vice.
Enquiries on
Canadian Tire
The secretary of the
Seaforth business improve-
ment association (DIA).
Cathy Garrick reported to its
Oct-. 23 meeting that "in the
last few weeks she has
received enquires about the
old.Canadian 'Tire building, a
bed and breakfast, a fitness
club and a senior's health-
related development,"
according to the minutes.
Leaf pick-up
slow this fall
Leaf pick-up has been
unusually slow this fall,
PublicWorks Superintendent
John Forrest told Seaforth
Council last Tuesday night.
He said this is because "the
leaves are approximately
three weeks behind normal."
Forrest also reported the
department "has installed a
tile and re -asphalted a portion
of the alley by the Town Hall
in an effort to stop water
seepage into the basement."
Where employees to
be placed in Hibbert
The West Perth transition
board announced Oct. 29,
after spending more than an
hour behind closed doors,
where employees of munici-
palities who are members
will be placed at the start of
next year when amalgama-
tion is officially implement-
ed.
In Hibbert Township Pat
Taylor will be clerk, Gary
Kemp foreman and Frank
Elliott and Floyd Johnson
equipment operators.
In Fullerton, Don Feeney is
deputy -treasurer. Shirley
Gettler, part-time secretary,
and Steve Oettler and Bruce
Ovens equipment operators.
The transition board also
stated a compensation pack-
age, yet to be worked out,
would be offered to any
employee of West Perth's
member municipalities taking
a reduction in salary because
of amalgamation,
PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT
SERVICE AT MANOR Major Frank Golding lea the annual memorial service at Seafarer Manor last Thursday afternoon
along with members of Branch 158 and the Ladies Auxiliary. Legion members then proceeded to Maplewood Manor for
another service. The Remembrance Day parade and service were held yesterday at the Victoria Park cenotaph.
Municipal elections '97
Scott upsets Johnston for mayor of Seaforth
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
In the only other ballot in ing home poll.
town, for the Huron -Perth "i am very happy," the
District School Board #8, mayor elect said early
Lynda Horbanuik won the Tuesday morning.
Seaforth has a new mayor. Seaforth polls but lost the It was an understatement.
In his first municipal elec- district vote. Abby "I knew it would be a tough
tion campaign ever, 32 -year- Armstrong is the new district batik against a seasoned and
old David Scott of Ann Street trustee for the public school respected politician like Irwin
un -seated incumbent Irwin system. She finished with a Johnson," Scott said. "I guess
Johnston, an 18 -year veteran total of 1,804 votes to the people of Seaforth were
of Seaforth Council, in the Horbanuik's 1,544 and David looking for change.
vote on Monday night. Hallman's 734. in the vote in "I would like to thank them_
Scott won by 90 votes. He Seaforth, Horbanuik finished "it is going to be a chal-
finished with 426 to the 65- with 229 to Armstrong's 195 lenge for Seaforth in the next
year-old Johnson's 336 votes. and Hallman's 93. three years, and the rest of
Last term, his first as Scott took five of the six the province.
mayor, Johnson was polls in town Monday in his "But i love challenges."
acclaimed. upset win, and the prior nurs-
NEW ZURICH EDITOR
Scott, a playwright and the
editor of The Huron
Expositor for slightly more
than the past two years, won
the nursing home poll, nine
votes to eight, and all the
other polls in town but #6 on
election night.
The voting results were:
Poll #1 - 69 to 48 votes;
poll #2 (A -L) - 53 to 21; poll
#2 (M-Z)-50to22;poll #3-
72 to 70; poll 04 - 62 to 35;
and, poll #5 - 68 to 47 votes.
He is a Seaforth native from
a family with deep roots in
CONTINUED on page 2
Teachers vowing continued fight on Bill 160
BY TRISH WILKINSON
SSP News Staff
'leachers may be hack in the
classroom for now, but educa-
tors across the province are
vowing that their fight against
Bill 160 is anything but over.
'This phase of the battle
against Bill 160 is suspended,
but the war against Bill 160 is
far from over," John Clarke,
Ontario Secondary School
Teachers' Federation
(OSSTF) District 45 Officer,
stated.
Union leaders from the
county are stating that the end
Sunday of their two week
walk -out has lead to another
phase in their protest against
the government's proposed
education legislation.
"We will begin phase 1t of
our action plan against Bill
160 almost immediately, in
partnership with other mem-
bers of the Huron County
Teachers' Coalition, parents,
students and community
groups," Clarke said.
He stressed that the OSSTF,
which announced Sunday that
they would be joining the
other four unions in their
decision to go back to work,
have only "suspended" their
political action. He stated that
the .walk -out might possibly
he resumed if the government
AM refuses to listen to their
concerns.
"i think we are only back in
the classrooms temporarily,"
Clarke stated. "'There is a
good possibility that we will (OPSTF), agreed that the
have to continue our political public is going to be an
protest." important part of the teachers'
However, for now, the fed- continuing protest.
eration officer stated that they "The torch, to some e
will he depending on commu- is going to have to be carom
nity support to help keep the by the parentsstated.
going.
general
last two week's momentum Pu�,.
going. However, the president of
"We've heard at the forums the Huron Women's
that the parents wanted us to Teachers' Federation, Ala
go back, and that they wanted : Westlake, added besides attic-
to pick up where we left off," ing parents and community
Clarke stated, adding that members to help carry part of
they want every parent in the responsibility, teachers
Huron County “who is car themselves haven't stopped
cerned about their child's their Protest against the bill.
education" to make an h's not a matter of giving
appointment with MPP Helen up or giving in," Westlake
Johns to discuss Bili 160. steed.
Paul Dyck, president of Westlake also added that
Huron's Ontario Public despite the OPSTF. the
School 'Thatchers' FadwatiOn CON'1INUEDet1p 2
SY GREGO* CAMs ILL
Expositor Staff
Director of Education
Paul Carroll says there are
reasons the Huron County
Board of Education did so
poorly in relation to other
area boards in recently -
released Grade 3 province -
wide testing results.
"These are the first testing
results in Huron which have
fallen below the provincial
averages at any grade level
in any subject," he says.
Test results indicated more
than one in four Grade 3
students in Huron, or 28 per
cent, performed at "not
acceptable" levels in mathe-
matics, and the public hoard
here did relatively poorly in
reading and writing, both
again with test results below
the provincial average.
In the local public board
at that time, 18 per cent of
students were receiving spe-
cial education (excluding
gifted) and were assimilated
into other classes. in other
boards these students are in
--^arate claws and woefd
not have been included in
testing. the HCBE education
director says.
CONTINUED on page 3
Obstruction
of justice in
Murray trial
SCOTT HILGENDORFF
SSP News Staff
Three London people
charged in relation to the
Steven Murray second-degree
murder trial, return to
Goderich today (Nov. 12) for
a bail hearing.
Robert Maness, 50 and his
43 -year-old wife, Robin, have
been charged with obstructing
justice by giving false infor-
mation on a sworn affidavit to
Po An 18 -year-old London
woman has been charged with
obstructing justice and perjury
relating to testimony she gave
daring the trial. She cannot be
identified because she was 17
years old at the time of the
offence. Her identity is pro-
tected under the Young
Offe den's Act.
During the trial, the woman
gave tree timosy she met Man
Murray in London a week or
two after police had alleged
Mistie was murdered
She was one of several wit-
nesses who testified they saw
Mimic after she disappeared
front her home.
Murray was found not-
guilty
afet a throe -week trial last
spring. Heaccused
of t emurder
Bade, his dankest alb ties
comma) past 3
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