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Box 69, Seaford., Ontario, NOK 1W0 Member of the Conodian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 Editorial Targeting all a town's schools not acceptable Targeting virtually all of a community's schools for potential closure is an incredibly irresponsible act. - Seaforth District High School, Seaforth Public School, Walton Public School and Vanastra Community School have all been identified to be studied for closure. Numbers and figures may, in an administrative fashion, suggest a logical sense in focussing on those schools. But when the effects are as potentially devastating to one community, there has to be more taken into consideration. The board's focus is strictly on the issue of saving money based on a provincial funding formula. Sadly, the board is under no obligation to look outside its facts and figures on school operations to see how it is threatening the very fabric of this community. This is the only community to face all of its schools being affected plus one on its outskirts in Tuckersmith Township (Vanastra Community School). - While a Toronto-based political decision has led to this situation, it's up to our trustees to take a stand and agree this is wrong. No schools should have to close but it's totally unacceptable for a town to lose all of them. The province should have set geographic or population -based boundaries that would protect municipalities but can't see past the city skyscrapers to realize how potentially devastating their decisions can be. But the local school board should see this. There are alternatives to saving money that don't have to directly affect our children and their education. Sorry folks, but the rumoured $100,000 plus salary of Director of Education Lorne Rachlis should be the first to go. The stress Rachlis undergoes in a school closure crisis can't be nearly as bad as that of a firefighter or police officer who doesn't make nearly -that much income. Heck, there are teachers in the school system who deserve more. Layoffs and paycuts become necessary in corporations to cut costs and other job titles and descriptions are altered to adapt to the loss of some positions. It's time to study that for a little while instead of destroying communities. Trustees were expected to vote on whether or not to accept the list at last night's school board meeting with the results coming too late for press time. If they've accepted the list, they better be prepared for a battle. Barely hours after the list was made public, community leaders were already organizing. Hey Avon -Maitland District School Board! Get ready for a fight because this is a town that really knows how to db it when a crisis like this brings them together. STH Opinion letters High school sends its students to nation's top universities To the Editor: In the two decades following the abolition of high school exit exams, the number of students graduating with an average of 80% or better rose by two -and -a -half times (1) and the scholarship that once rewarded that achievement became meaningless. Now, universities make complex adjustments to put applicants from different schools onto a common scale. In a 1998 form letter, the provost and academic vice- president of the University of Western Ontario told the province's high school principals that the grades of its first year students were. on average. more than 14% below their OAC transcripts and for students from the worst schools the average drop was 20ck . What does all this mean'! Last week, Maclean's magazine came out with their Ninth Annual Ranking of Universities in Canada. 1 has`e sat through graduations at Seaforth District High School for the past eight years as school council chair and a parent. During these years. I have seen our graduates come on the stage and receive their OAC certificates while Their futures are revealed•to the audience. "Attending Waterloo University. McMaster University, Toronto University. Western University. Guelph University, Queen's University. Ryerson University and •Wilfrid Laurier University. - "If you' have read Maclean's magazine you • will see that all of these universities are listed in the top 20 of hest overall universities in Canada. The students of S.D.H.S. are consistently heing accepted at the top Canadian universities. The trickle down effect means that our students entering college and the workforce are very well prepared for their future. Bravo to the staff. past and present. of Seaforth District High School for their diligence and proficiency in preparing our children for their futures. Maureen Agar • Chair .Seaforth District High School 1. Holmes, Mark. 1998. The Reformation of Canada's • Schools: Breaking the Barriers to Parental Choice. Montreal and Kingston: McGill - Queen's University Press. Mini Ontario trade show was just one way of trying to get the Americans to notice This is not an exciting story. It's about going to California on government business and working hard...and having fun. The Ontario government's New York office arranged for my boss to speak at the World Affairs Council. This was quite an honour - previous speakers included Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Kruschev and Henry Cabot Lodge. The speech would take place at a council luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles...and, oh yes - my boss was the Honourable Robert Macaulay, Minister of Economics and Development in the Government of Ontario. He wasn't upset that he was billed as the Minister in charge of trade from Canada...it was the early sixties and that far south many Americans don't know a province from a pronoun...they know less about Canada than Calcutta. California folk are afraid to come too far north and crops over the northern border...for fear of dropping off the Clare Westcott edge. Our P.R. man Don Beeney, who began his writing career at the Stratford Beacon Herald. and 1 were to meet in the Biltmore lobby after lunch. We needed to. kick around ways to get the minister's name and his great speech in the' papers - both in Los Angeles and at home. 1 was late for the meeting for I had brought my mother along on the trip to L.A. My dad had died not long before and except for a trip to Calgary my mother had never been away any distance from Seaforth. This was an exciting day for her. A friend of mine. Jinn Hardintan, publicity director for Screen Gems arranged -for us to goon the set and watch Shirley Booth play the maid in the early TV sitcom "Hazer...and later to have lunch with her and Don Defore. Although she had an even greater thrill the previous night when I took her to a dance that was heing filmed for television. A tall man cut in and whisked mother across the floor and twirled her around,a couple of times...of course she was excited - it was Lawrence Welk. Mother went to her room to rest and Beeney and I tried to think up ways to win us brownie points with the minister. We had so far impressed people like Ginger Roger's husband who just couldn't believe that us northerners could invent and build a machine that could process movie film that travelled on a cushion of air....guaranteeing that the film would not suffer even the faintest scratch. We did and it was on, public display in. the hotel ballroom as part of a mini Ontario trade show We mounted....actually the machine was built in Scarborough by it's German See MOTHER, Page 5 Glanville farm looked at as possible IPM site November 24, 1899 Dr. Hotham of Constance intends to remain in the village as he has purchased a piece of land and intends erecting a dwelling in the spring. The village of Blake has a population between 60 and 70 and there is one large store, one hotel and one of the largest factories in the township. , Robert Allen Jr. of Blake has purchased a new King Bee sausage machine an dis doing a rushing business. Robert Charters of the Mill Road has a very prolific cow. She is ten years old an dhas given birth to ten calves allof which are living. The cow is a thoroughbred in Durham. E. Cash of town has shown us an interesting business relic. It was his cash book with the Bank of Commerce for the year 1865. He did a banking business of $11,000 a month. Miss Jessie McGregor of Tuckersmith has a chrysanthemum which -has -- I40 flowers. November 28, 1924 John Decker Sr. of Zurich has disposed of his fine roadster mare to Wm. Sinclair of Kippen for $185. Leaves fall in the autumn because they lack moisture and not as a result of frost, we are told by Dr. Ernest Bode in the Scientific American. The fowl supper at Cromarty was a large success. Miss Jessie Alexander of Toronto was the entertainer, Messrs. Charles and Malcolm Toms of Bayfield left for Port Maitland to engage in fishing., Stanley School was the In the Years Agone scene of a happy gathering. when a box .social ►r0.s held. Geo. Elliott disposed of the dainty boxes and they realized $8(1 n•hich will pay for an instrument for the school. A number of the friends of Miss Helen Rowelif fe.• London Road, gathered at her home to shower her cot the ei'e of her departure for Detroit. Robert Bell and John Passmore have returned from a hunting trip in Northern Ontario. • Mrs. Sainuel Wallace. one of the few remainin,t, pioneer residents of this district passed away following an illness of only three days from p►u'unurr►io. She was 88 years old. Geo. Ferguson of Toronto is here to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Mr, and Mrs. B. Ferguson'', 501h anniversary. Quite a number of the Waltonites motored to Brussels to help in the grand celebration of the reopening .of the..Methodi.st-_. Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Radford of Walton► hare rented Miss Coleman's house. Mr. Radford has an interest in the chopping mill. November 25, 1949 Firemen poured streams of water on the building owned by I.O.O.: and occupied by the J.A. Baldwin Hardware Store. Fire broke out at 6:45 Monday evening and swept quickly through the building. Damage was estimated at $25,000. Is a cherry tree in .full leaf a sign of an open winter? If it is, Joseph Chapman, RR 1 Walton. predicts little snow and cold because he has such a tree on his farm. F_Izar Mou.sseau of Kippen returned ,from the northern wilds With his allotted quota of venison. Harry J.. Boyle, James Suva Seaforth has written the play,• "The hl/leritance" and it is now being run in Toronto. - ,1/i.ss Shirley Bennett. Donald Youngblut of ltirllon, Pats► Anne Anderson of Belgrave. Elwin Merrill and Benson Carter of Clinton. and Ross ('cncsins of Brussels were in Sault St. Marie attending a Young People's Convention. The Fireside Farm Fortun of Hullett )net at the home of Mrs. Geo. Ho,t,'•t,'arl with nineteen adults and eight children. The followin,r; won at euchre: Lades 1.st Mrs. Ilarl•ery Taylor: Low Mrs. Art Colson: Lone hands, June Dexter: Men's first i:ric Anderson; Low Wm. Dolmag'e: Lone hands . James J0rnieson. November 28, 1974 ', A new winter sport for girls. called ringette, is coating to Seaforth. Ringette, A Canadian .sport. was developed to provide girls with, the chance to play a hockey - like .sport without the sometimes brutal body contact that hockey involves, The Seaforth Recreation Committee has organized 0 three-hour ringette clinic for girls who are interested in learning with qualified instructors front the Ontario Ringette Association. The Ontario government will introduce amendments to the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act dealing with trespass and liability to protect the rights of farmers and other property owners during ,this session of the legislature. itluray Gaunt, MP Huron -Bruce and Liberal farm critic. has pressed for this legislation since the recent Supreme Court rulin,>,' ' which awarded 530.0011 to is .snowmobile,. injured in an accident i 11 the property n/ Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. Sudbury. • Looby Construction Limited of Dublin have been awarded a 52.130.932 contract for the LaCroix Street subway in the city of Chatham. The preserving of ./lowers. leaves and weeds was demonstrated by Jean Durst at the Seaforth Horticultural Society's meeting a1 the Town Hall Wednesday night. The Von Egmond Foundation has received a grant of over 58,000 to get the first phase of renovations underway ut telt historic Van Egn►ond House and has elected a new .slate of_offieers for two year terms. Voter turnout at advance polls on Saturday indicated keen interest in some communities and "1 don't care attil,ltde" in others. Highest area turnout Saturday was in Brussels where 52 electors cast ballots, over 8rl of those eligible to vote. The 500 -acre Ken Glanville farm at RR4 Wilton located 7 1/2 miles north east of Seaford:, was on of four faros inspected by the Ontario Plowmen's Association as a possible • site of the 1977 international Plowing Match.