Huron Expositor, 1999-04-28, Page 6ti-TMR MOON EXPOSITOR, Awl, 2S, 1MM
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School to rally against male violence
More than i,000 women murdered
since Montreal Massacre in 1989
By Scott Hilg.ndorff
Expositor Editor
"three to five students in.
even class go:.to bed afraid at.
night their mothers won't he
alive: the next morning.' •
"You're. suffering the same
emotional trauma as kids in
Bosnia. said Ken Hancock
"F )ronin. art organiser of a'.
•Walk against male violence. .
He was at Seatorth.District
)lig School Iasi week as part
tit .i Io('r-ot -most arca schools
promoting `-Men Walking
Against Male .Violence:" A
walk is.pianncd_ May 17 in
Stratford and Hancock is
encouraging students to .raise
pledges and participate. •
The money raised will help_
�uppiirt vvcimen'i.shelters and
u su.,l assault centre -s. across
Ontario- . -
',What is a women's shelter
hui a refugee centre." said
' Hancock. He said the women
iv hn +:o there .are -refugees
Iroto ihcir own homes •and
an'- go hack for fear .they
will he killed_
-I'm not hear to-point,any.
Mergers at any rnalc.`' he said,
. uu :tressed the importance
- '+r men to stand up against
McKillop briefs
Asphalt
tenders
approved
McKillop Township.
. council approved its 1999
: as.phalt projects and
accepted a tender from
Lav'is'Contracting Co.
Ltd. to do the work at an
April 14 meeting.
•Council received two
• quotations for the job
including ba is at $38
per tonne and Yundt
. Brothers Centtrtietiot,
Limited aL,$42.61 per
tonne plus seven per cent
•GST..
Roads to bg paved this
year include Concession
l0/1.1 from County Road
12 to Side Road 10 and
•Concession 4/5 from
West Perth boundary road
to Hullett boundary road.
Sideroad 20/21 from
Highway 8 for 1.600
*linear feet including the
• entrance to , Hensall
District Co-op will also
• be resurfaced.
Policing approved
• McKillop Township
c.olincil agreed on its
April 6 meeting to go
along with Huron County
council and approve
county-w'ide OPP
policing, as long as the
cost allocation is based
on workload and the
levels of service
provided.
Blyth Festival grant
McKillop Township
_eoun cel approved its
annual grant to the Blyth
Festival of $125 at its
April 6 meetirtg.
Severance approved
McKillop Township
council consented to a
request by Thomas !Yash
-and-lames J. Nash Estate
to sever 32.4 hectares (or
80 acres() of land from
Lots. 17 and 18 on
Concession 3 on
McKillop Township.
Clerk -treasurer Marion
McClure said the land
will- still be used for
agriculture.
. Tenders accepted
McKillop Township
council accepted tenders
for gravel and calcium
chloride at its April 6
Meeting. •
Cotttrcil accepted a
tender for S 105,800 for
40,000 imperial tons of
maintenance gravel from
Hanna and Hamilton
Construction Co. Limited
and'a tender from Da -Lee
Must Control for
supplying, delivering and
applying liquid calcium
chloritle at S226.54 per
flake a uivalent imperial
ton.
violence against women.
He said as a teenager. he
can remember listening to the.
sexist jokes and not standing
up against them and said the'
-walk is his way of making up
for lost time: .
• Walks are taking place
across Southern Ontario With,
• education assemblies taking
place in about 100 schools.
Local police and women's
shelter representatives were
at the Seaforth assembly to
support the walk and the
junior boys basketball team
also shared words of support
in the fight against 'violence
against'women.
One of Hancock's own
daughters was . sexually
assaulted at work.
got that phone call you
. never want to get. -lie said.
He used, several example;
of women who have been'.
brutally attacked fly men.
He had all the girls in the
auditorium stand up -and then
said by the time the Grade :11
class comes hack for it:
'senior year: that many
women in Canada will have
been murdered. -
"You will be -coming hack
to an all=male school,:" he
said. - .
Since Montreal
Massacre in 190. when a
gunman shot and•killed 14
univer sty women.- he said
more' than 1.000 More -
women have heert murdered
in.Canada . . •
To give them the dignity of
one minute's ctlence each: he
said would take 17 hours.:
Ile :aid a; many. women in
the world are being killedr,r
-harmed hv. male violence as
by Lancer . .
He said there would he- nr,
problem finding people'
whiling ii,
support a walk for
cancer but it Is harder to have
peopl: take parr in a walk
against male: '.tolenLC • -
'The time 1j, to i+.i ,; on
this other _ancer .. he said
He told the audcnts 70 per
cent of - maleviolence' begin;
-when thY; arc: highs.:hool-
. aged
''The 'only err1otel,n for
males in this culture r.tge.-
he said. adding rn . aren't
• allowed ii, -show • : rr, or
- other emorror • aren't
•-allowed totalk r,'c: h ether
about their feeltn_i.'
- Fie also ,aid 'more nen
than • sumen.cornmtt-
A .stellar xalk In
Leamington saw five women
leave. abusive hornes
M-:i'.hc that walk sa':ed
;ive li .e^ - he said of the.
lmportar.__ :"l laking part.
Fie said as the 's ilk goes
hy. victims, can see they-. are
not alone and some can find
the -strength !'Ivey need to
leave a ' dangerous
relatlonshtp-or seek- help -hy
seeing -the walk.
"By the time i see.you, to
Stratford. eight more women
will he dead."Hancock :aid.
He asked the students
Lome forward and take par'
in the walk the same w3.
students - prote.te :
discrimination. again,
African Americans in
Alahaina in. the 1960s: There.
he said whole schools were
shut down-- because of
tudents leaving to -take part
in the walk.
(n f)ntarto..he said an.
tntire .school hasn't taken
pan y'et but challenged the
student; to see that ey
of them goes to Stratford „r.
May 17
_Rather than .having ,tr
assembly to talk about walk:
that.' -raise money. fir bullet
proof glass at worsen',
.shelter;. he'd' rather see 3^.
assembly where they can :.:..,
ahc-hut what woMen's shelter,
used to have to do.
•Hs: also told student; he
hopes the girls' In the -
could turn to the hll. , .tri,:
say they can (rust them
; because they walked together
in the march
Former trustee wants board
to present financial review
By Susan Hundertmcrk
Expositor Staff
iFormer trustee Margaret
Erb presented a petition
signed h}• more than .5.50 -
Stratford -area ratepayer;
requesting a financial review
of the Avon Maitland•District
-'chool,Board at the .April -12
board meeting. -a
This. board. spends 5.120:
million of taxpayers' money;
and all we want is some
accountability.' .she Bildt
trustees. adding that the
petition will also . be.
presented.to Perth MPS Bert.
Johnston and the Ministry of
Education and Training.
She said the petition began
last year.after the •Avon;
Maitland hoard "sold- some
property under questionable •
circumstances" and gave "no
really good answers to
questions from the public -
She was refemng to the sale
of the former Perth County
Board of Education board-
office in Strattord.
She also questioned why`
the board- was unwilling to.
give.the province an estimate
of projected revenue last tall
and why figures given to the
public are not the same. as
those given to the province.
-We all decided that an
audit would be a good Idea.
The petition shows the
people are interested to know
hove the hoard's money_ t.
being ;pent and whether the
money is going into the
classroom,- she said
Finance superintendent
Janet Baird -Jackson said she
thinks
hoard
.c ,,-y ear
• ;k. '.,area ern
Huron and
Perth :..•. yuired [r
pro N. 1.1. _ ^ro)ince
bfore arra, -1 She
said there
het .tc:� and
:r. and
drsv;t;ep.anc, ;r. Fumhers
depending :;•y. what
•'snapshot. of the'ud_et.one
chooise to look at aurins yt
Corti �_
esum.::
year.-
'Vl4'e. have been audited and
everything Was ne -and 1
don't have have any probient-
with'b in_ audited .igain..v,Vt
have the •n:Je. .he
said.. -
W'hile.Erh'.s Notion Is the
til -;t call - or An audit by a
Stra'tford group.- Baird-
Jackson said other gtoups in
Huron COt.ur ty have .alav
made the same.irequest.
-'1 think it's a ca;c of not
understanding the Lundin_
-inixlcl�'_shc..isaid adding that
even the province novo
understands that funding
school boards using per pupil
benchmark.; is. unf.ttr to.
smaller hoards and is now
adding a bale. grant in
recognition of the tisCdl cots•
hoards share no matter what
.their sire.
"The government was
using the benchinark to say .tt
ss•a. treating •ever:v•board
equally but the _funding
tkirmuia was 'so sensitive to
e nrolittent that- it ss as a
challenge. for smaller boards
ju-.t t eu's e r the basic costs
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