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News
Playwright
tackles closure
issue, performs
at council forum
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
Sitting at yet -another community meeting to save her Ideal
. school. Ted Johns' character Mrs. Edgar tears up an envelope
as she laments how' the endless fight to keep open her school
is tearing up the lives in her community.
And. after performing three scenes of his play•The Great
School Crisis of '99 to membersof school councils
. throughout the Avon Maitland District on Saturday, Johns
says he's aware that many of the parents in the audience are
engaged in the same "heart -breaking task" of defending their
schools from closure.
"i think people are struggling very hard here on every side.
It's terribly disheartening and 1 hope my performance has
bucked people's spirits up a bit." he says at a school council
forum at Seaforth District High School.
Johns points to the Harris government and its new funding
formula as the ones to blame for the school crisis, a
government he says "is very skilled at deflecting blame to
the boards, teachers and parents."
"This government says its not the government. it says its
here to save us from government. This government has yet to
apologize for anything and its agenda is very ruthless
indeed." says Johns.
Johns, who was horn in Seaforth and attended Mitchell
District High School. says he created the play because he felt
he "benefitted enormously" from public education and now
secs his son earning better results in.university and a
roommate who went to private schools in Toronto.
"Our system'has.been much "maligned. It's quite wrong
that private schoolsare better." he says of the provincial
government's recent move to consider funding private
schools. •'
Johns points to a sign at the entrance of the Avon Maitland
District School Board offices saying. •"corporate
headquarters" and remarks that the provincial government
has turned school hoards into corporations whose only aim is
to turn students into workers. .
During the play, Johns' character Mrs. Edgar tells the
audience that the Harris government rewrote curriculum
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being held to give 'people
an overview' of the
proposed amalgamation
and to allow councillors to
hear j .comments I and'
conc,ernslfrom the public
about any. areas sof the
planned restructuring.
"There will he a question
and answer period." said
.McLachlan. -
This will he the public's
chance to. havc any
concerns heard or to (earn
about how the new
municipality will take
shape. •
A, meeting will als—••6c
held in the •Brussels. Grey
Township arca •and another
in Tuckersmith Township
-where past amalgamation
talks between •Tuckersmith
'and municipalities to the
south became a
• controvcrsial'issue. Much
of the public argued about
whether -an amalgamation
should take place with'
Seaforth or with the
southern municipalities.
Once there is approval
for the amalgamation. a
transition board will be
formed to look at a11• the
restructuring committee
recommendations and
make final decisions on
such outstanding issues as
how Seaforth and Brussels'
public . utilities
cdmmissions will operate.
"There's lots of work the
transition board will have.
to do," said McLachlan.
Also at the meeting, the
public will have a chance
to see a list of possible
.names for , the new
municipality.
About 40 different names
were -recti i s'ed _ as _entries . to.
a contest for naming the
municipality "and a
committee has narrowed it
down to 12.
McLachlan said they
were happy with .the
number of responses to the
contest and the public will
now be able to speak on
them.
The meeting takes place
at 8 p.m. at Seaforth and:
District Community.
Centres tonight. Nov. 24.
•
Dick Burgess Phbto
Ted Johns
lately because they felt the "common" curriculum created by
the previous Liberal and NDP governments .had. some . .
relationship to "communism." •
"Three different People .in the government told me that -
while i was researching the play," he says:
. Johns says he's worried that most people_ sleem
unconcerned that the newly -amalgamated school hoards have
fewer trustees and the newly -amalgamated municipalities
have fewer representatives.
"With all these -changes. the government never says ;its
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cutting representation to the hone and no one is protesting
this lack of representation." he says..
Parade begins at:7 peri.
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will he at the. marshalling arca' at the Do -It Centre on -the
town's south end by 6:30 p.m. at the latest. Marshalling begins
at 5:45.p.m. •
• The parade travels down. Main Street lathe Seaforth and
District Community .Centres where Santa will/visit with
children at The Roundhouse.
Children will .receive a bag of treats and there are hot dog's
and apple cider tbr the public.
Hodgins said the Business Improvement Arca really helps
out with the parade 'each year with a donation that; helps
support the band entries and the treats after the- parade.
While organizers are hoping the recent good weather will.
hold out• Hodgins. said. "it'll be nice to have)a sprinkle of
snow that night."
The parage begins at 7 p.m.
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