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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2000-05-10, Page 14100110101.6111111,1*.,, May 10, 2000 Si L ndudes GST) local weather Wednesday --Showers and thunderstorms. Cooler High 14.. Thursday --Mix of sun. �.,• :.i cloud; showers. High 23 low 9 Friday --Showers. High 24 Low 13. Saturday--Sun,.cloud, showers. High 24. Low 10. From Environment Canada In brief Historical quilts now displayed Three quilts which share pictorial histories of Clinton, Goderich and Seaforth. and which took some 3,000 hours to complete. were put on public display for the first time this month. The quilt project was started by Town and Country Support Services (TCSS), explained Monica Gingerich, Community Support Service Coordinator with TCSS, when the quilts were put on display for a gathering at Ontario Street United Church last Saturday. "We, started this process in 1998," she said, when the organization found out it would be possible to apply for some funds through the International Year of the Older Person grant application program. Gingerich said that the first thought that sprung to her mind when considering how a grant might be used .would be to create quilts, as they "bring a community together and tell a story." With plans in mind. explained Tammy Antaya, also • a Community Support Service Coordinator with TCSS. Gioria Logan was contacted and told that they wanted the quilts to tell a story in each community. Committees met in each community and shared information on what was important to those areas, and Logan took those ideas to begin designing the quilts. "What you are seeing here today is a lot of hard work by Gloria and the committee," Antaya said, adding that there are about 3,000 accumulated hours of work within the three communities, done by about 100 people. MPP Helen Johns was on hand for the unveiling of the quilts, and she explained that each MPP was given $20,000 to invest in projects for the International Year of the Older Person. Noting that some of this money went towards the quilts, she said, "They are pretty amazing. Someone put a lot of thought and a lot of time into this." By Dave Emslie Acddent sands Moto hospMol.- rti abbe duck tatao- PipT ♦ P tilde bok.- dQItM/oppets heal* Oltrt Scott Hilgendorff photo Finding fish Eugene 'Nolan and son Anthony, .10, of Seaforth deft) wait patientlyfor trout to bite in the tions. Club annual fish derby held Saturday at Lions Park.. (See Page 5 forrnore photos! Conduct code not making the grade Principals fear new legislation is an overreaction to hysteria surrounding school violence By Susan Hundsrtntark -Expositor Staff The province', proposed code of conduct to make Ontario schools safer has an "element of hysteria": that •could be an overreaction to recent violence in schools, such as thehootings •in Columbine Colorado and Taber. Alberta. says Seaforth District High School principal Jim Moore. Local principals seea lot of holes in the proposed ante of conduct. .which will _o before the legislaturethis spring: "The province trumpeting how wonderful it is but much of it is already in :pLice.' says Moore. -.The new cede proposes giving. te:tchers. the right to suspend. • students • and. principals the right to expel them. Currently: principals suspend students and school boardsmust expel them. Moore questions whether . teachers even want the _responsibility of suspending students or whether that right would ithprove discipline in the classroom. "What teachers- want is- a learning environment where ' they can..teach kids without disruption and administration that will deal swiftly and efficiently - with • any disruptiiins." he says. adding :that. for the most part.. that'' what they're'gemng.-, "There's;no Mention of the - fact -that 95 -percent of kids are well-behaved. good kids. Schodls are still one i)f the safest places you can he." he . says. . If there is disrespect =,>r teachers. Moore says :he provincial. government - should look to itself as nne of the sources: ''I don't know Of any See PRINCIPAL, Page 2 Firefighters burned by Squeegee law Safe StreetscAct could prevent firefighters from holding toll roads that raise thousands of dollars for Muscular Dystrophy Association By Scott Higendorff Ontario. it impacts the: national. a toll road at the intersection of organization very significantly." said Highway 8 and County Road 12 to Tracy Simpson. Muscular Dystrophy• collect monev•for the MDA. • The provincial'. government's Association `IDA) coordinator for In • March the: ,,provincial "Squeegee Law" may have Southwestern Ontario. The MDA is government passed the Sate: Streets effectively cut oft the Muscular helping provide research toward a Act. nicknamed The Squeegee Law. Dystrophy Association from the cure Of the fatal disease. that causes in effort to combat a Toronto -bayed benefits of firefighter toll toads that Muscles to degenerate. ' problem with "squeegeekids. raise about 5600,000 each year in "We'd hate:to see the • toll road homeless youth who stand. at • Ontano. taken away because of this law,-" said intersections with abuckets of water That's more thanhalf of the Si fames. Wilbee, last year's Se.4tortlr and squeegees -to clean windshields million that is raised in the province. Fire Department MDA chair:.' of stopped vehicles. Concerns were annually for the association. And_ He said it's a major, worthwhile raised surrounding abuse from the that's half of the $2 miliion.raised ,project tor: the 'department that sees' vouch who, it not paid for their. work. across Canada: members spend Friday evening of the would rip windshield wipers off cars "Even though this law is only in Labour Day long weekend, operating 'or verbally abuse drivers. Expositor Editor Main Street a shortcut for truckers Six hundred trucks a day pass through downtown core By Scott Hilgendorff Expositor Editor With one company alone sending 100 transport trucks a day thnwgh •Seaforth; the town's main street, has evolved into part of an unofficial truck route—a short cut around one of the province's most dangerous highways. "I know that's a very good route through the county,' said Huron County engineer, Sandra Lawson of County Road 12, which becomes Main Street in Seaforth. She said it's a shortcut that avoids the 400 series highways that load to Witor aad Sarnia in ono diodes mod Throw la title other. That stretch of highway. a major truck route linking Ontario with Michigan and Interstate routes used as trade increases under the North American Free Bade Agreement, was the site of numerous fatal accidents last. year including one that killed more than a dozen people and saw a giant crater left in the highway near Windsor. The absence of paved shoulders, narrow lanes and only a short stretch of grass separating north and southbound traffic have been blamed for some of the accidents and have seen drivers start to avoid that See Set Pap However. the. stint wording of the act restricts anyone from approaching vehicles in roadways and soliciting drivers. This law effectively prevents firefighters across•Ontario from holding their boat campaigns for the Muscular. Dystrophy Association tMDA'►. These campaigns. a firefighting. tradition since the formation of the MDA in 1954, are a major source of funds for the organization which does not receive direct provincial funding. The campaign sees firefighters Set up toll roads. traditionally on holiday Weekends.' where they collect donations intheir large boots.: The Seaforth Fire Department has See HOPS, Page Scott Hilgendorff photo Walton Public School principal, Alice McDowell, gives Joe Ctuett, Kindergarten, at white spruce tree. Trees were given to each family with students at the school to be planted at their homes in memory of the school. The school is expected to ChM. June 30 as o cost-saving meosure by the Avon MolMond DiltttiicI School Board As you see your tree • 'grow May you reflect back on your year1 at Walton Public School And may the sun shine warmer The flowers bloom brighter And. may your heart feel lighter, With the special memories you have of Walton Public School. May we experience growth as our white spruce grows. May each new day be a blessing to us all Where ever we may grow. This poem was included with trees given to students Thursday, to be planted and weenie as o memory of their lime arwainfrPvetiticnciar- Your community newspaper since 1860