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Editorial
Forcing
teachers
to `volunteer,'
sheer
stupidity
Forcing teachers to "volunteer" is one of the
most insulting and damaging laws the
provincial government has created to date.
A new bill takes effect at the end of this
month that will see principals tasked with
,assigning teachers extra -curricular activities.
Logic would suggest principals will work with
faculty to try and,find appropriate areas of
interest 'so teachers are placed in after school
activities that interest them or are a joy to
them.
But where is the joy in being told something
you have loved to do for years is now
mandatory? ' -
The joy is sucked right out of it.
Funding has been a main issue why extra-
curricular activities fail to exist, not a lack of
teacher support.
And if a teacher isn't interested in being a
coach or club supervisor, it will be a sorry
activity for the students who have to be led by •
someone who doesn't want to be involved.
Ydu can't force enthusiasm but by trying to,
you can force it out.of the ones who do have it.
What's worse, principals will have the right to
order a teacher to give up a weekend to
supervise a student trip or activity.
This is a clear violation of someone's rights,
taking away their free time.
Sure, there are some teachers who don't
volunteer to work with students, but there are
a few employees at every location who don't
offer their very best to their employer.
5o what.
There's enough who do care to go around
that are being damaged more by this new bill
-than they are by the few teachers -who don't
want to volunteer.
You can't force volunteers.
And you certainly can't step all over
someone's rights to a personal life by taking
24-hour a day control over their schedules.
How many more times are we going to have
to say, The government has gone too far this
time," before we actually take a stand on an
issue?
Scott Hilgendorff
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Opinion
Trunk death of children a reminder
of need for people to help committee
To the Editor:
I am writing to ask your readers an important question.
Following the deaths of three young people in Barrie, it is
difficult not to feel sadness and helplessness that such a
tragedy could occur.
Three children suffocated after becoming locked in a
trunk while playing hide and seek.
Indeed, every single day there are injuries that occur and
cause profound suffering for families.
Fortunately, most of these injuries are predictable and
therefore preventable. The question is rather than feeling
helpless, would you like to be part of the solution?
The Huron Perth Injury Prevention Committee started in
1995. You may know us more by our work than by our
name. We are the group who brought you the Ontario
Provincial Police R.I.D.E. Reward Card Program during
the past two Christmas seasons. We also provided a "Safe
Harvest" farm safety and traffic safety campaign last fall
that included an exhibit at the International Plowing Match.
We provide bicycle safety resources annually to our
schools and communities.
Our most recent media coverage has been for the "Please
Help Me, I'm Falling" skits performed throughout Huron
and Perth counties to help Seniors to prevent injuries from
falls.
To enhance carrying on our work, we need new members
as well as businesses and individuals who will support us.
This spring we are particularly keen to recruit people who
wish to lobby for better bicycle safety regulations. We
welcome both ongoing members and those who wish to
work on just one cause or project. Can you help?
The next meeting is June 7 in the Seaforth Hospital board
room at 9:30 a.m. Please contact Marguerite Thomas at
482-3416 or 1-800-265-5184 for further details.
Marguerite Thomas,
Chair
Huron Perth Injury Prevention Committee
Federation awaiting intesive farming report
Ontario farmers are anxiously
awaiting the release of the report
corning from the study recently
completed on "intensive farming
operations in Ontario."
The. study was conducted by a task
force with representatives from the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture. Food
and Rural Affairs and the Ontario
Ministry of the Environment with MPP
Dr. Douglas Galt chairing the public
input sessions.
According to a spokesperson in Dr.
Galt's office, the report is in the hands
of OMAFRA Minister Ernie Hardeman
now, and should be released later this
month. It is expected to discuss what
will or shall be done by farmers to
satisfy rural residents„ be they farmers
or non -farmers, concerned with odors
and other perceived pollutants coming
from farming operations.
A' number of rural municipalities in
the province are also awaiting release of
the report. Some rural councillors are
being pressured by their residents to
take steps to control the expansion of
agricultural operations as a means of
controlling any negative impacts of
those expansions. +
They are hopeful the report will come
up with guidelines that can be followed
to protect the environment from
intensive and negligent farming
operations.
It's unfortunate those prepared to
blame large operations for pollution
problems in rural Ontario haven't
looked at what Ontario agriculture has
done, voluntarily, in the past decade to
protect the environment.
Thousands of Ontario farmers have
completed the Environmental Farm •
Program, an exercise that allowed them
to identify potential environmental risk
areas on their farms and take corrective
steps. The program provided funding to
assist with the necessary work to
eliminate the risks.
More recently, farmers have been
preparing Nutrient Management Plans
which, when followed, provide
'guidelines that will reduce the risk of
too much manure or other forms of
fertilizer being applied to fields.
Ontario's farmers are recognized
around the world for their efforts to
protect the environment for future
generations with models', of the
Environmental Farm Plan and the
Nutrient Management Plan being
adopted by farmers in other countries.
Like everybody else in the province,
farmers are governed by the Ontario
WaterRepurces Act, the Pesticide Act,
the Environmental Protection Act and
the federal
Fisheries Act, and are therefore unlikely
to knowingly cause any damage to the
environment.
As farming operations expand and
become more intensive as a means of
generating sufficient income to survive,
it is comforting to know how diligent
and vigilant Ontario farmers have been
in safeguarding the environment.
At the same time, it is disconcerting
to learn of municipal councils enacting
bylaws to restrict the growth of farming
operations simply because they may
potentially pose an environmental risk.
Without the ability to expand their
operations, an arbitrary cap is being
placed on the incomes of those farm
families. • -
Hopefully the task force report will
identify what has been -done to protect
the environment, what is still being
done by Ontario farmers, and what role
farmers, municipal councils and the
province, specifically OMAFRA, have
to play in the future of intensive
farming operations in this province.
Ontario farmers want to continue in
their role as good stewards of the land,
but also want to be able to run
economically viable operations. The
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
supports these objectives and the work
of the Ontario Farm Environmental
Coalition. '
Price is iG cents a bushel at lime kiln
May 21st, 1875
A. Nopper, of Seaforth.
Foundry, met with a painful
accident. He was working
with a turning lathe when he
had his hand caught between
a revolving pulley and a bar
of iron, smashing two of his
fingers.
The Seaforth Lime Kiln.
on the farm of Mr. Wilson,
has recently been much
improved. The price will be
16 cents per bushel at the
kiln.
W.H.May, who has
disposed of his harness
business, in Seaforth to
Messrs. G.E. Henderson ,&
Co. has purchased a building
site in Wingham large
enough for two commodious
stores.
Alexander Murchie of
McKillop has shown us an
egg which measured 6
inches one way and 7 3/4 the
other. This egg was layed
by a common hen.
May llth, 1900
As a token of appreciation
of his labours in their midst,
the choir of the Evangelical
Church, Dashwood,
presented their pastor, Rev.
Mr. Sauer, with a purse of
money. He goes to the
Northwest to take charge of
a mission field.
Messrs. W.Kyle and J.
Dietz who have had a big
contract of loading logs at
the station, Kippen, have
completed their contract.
Messrs. Wm. Graham,
James Aikenhead and
Malcolm McEwan,
Brucefield, left with a large
shipment of cattle for the old
country market.
Mitchell, the sister town,
intends laying down this
year cement sidewalks to the
value of $8,500. Clinton is
also moving in the same
direction.
Archibald Wright of town
has removed to Shelbourne
where he intends to join his
son in the electric light
business.
Archibald McKay of
McKillop sold a fine driving
horse to a buyer in Seaforth.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hays
of Chicago are visiting here
at present. He has been
Years agone...
quite ill but is recovered and
will resume his work in
Chicago.
The concert in Cardno's
Hall on Wednesday under
the auspices of the 33rd
Battalion for the benefit of
the volunteers was well
attended and was first class
in every respect.
J.B. Foster of Zurich had
over 30,000 fresh bricks
frozen this week and had to
have them made over again.
A larger acreage of flax is
being sown at Hensall. This
will mean employment to a
large number of hands, and
Messrs. McEwan and Geiger
deserve credit for their
enterprise inkeeping their
mills going from season to
season. r
John Consitt of Hillsgreen
is preparing to raise his barn
in the near future.
May 22, 1925
Forty-seven picks and
shovels can accomplish
much in an afternoon if they
are put into action by the
right kind of enthusiastic
human effort. This was
exemplified when members
of the Lions :Club assisted by
a manly bunch of boys from
the Collegiate Institute dug a
trench 300 ft. in length
through loan, clay, gravel
and stone.
Jack, the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. Taylor,
Chiselhurst, had the
misfortune to get his leg
caught in the frame of a
roller receiving a severe
wound.
John Buchanan of Walton
has gone to Seaforth to drive
a Supertest gas truck.
John Rinn of Walton is
having his barns improved
by being raised and cement
foundation placed under
them.
Commencing Tuesday,
R.T.Mclntosh, who recently
returned from Forest Mill
will inaugurate a motor bus
service between Seaforth
and London. His Deluxe
bus will accommodate 16
passengers.
There was a heavy frost
on Sunday night but no very
obvious damage was done.
Messrs. Henderson Smith,
D.L.Reid and Jos. Dorrsy
spent the weekend in the
Niagara district.
The Ladies' Aid Society
of First.Church entertained
the - choir and musical
committee at a banquet
where some 50 enjoyed a
most excellent dinner and
program.
Paul Doig of Tuckersmith,
had the misfortune to have
his leg broken while playing
football.
Thos. Archibald. of
Winthrop has a gang of men
and a number of teams busy
hauling gravel and crushed
stone on the north road.
The school section of
Varna have secured a fine
flag pole to be erected at the
school grounds.
John Rathwell of Varna
has begun the work of
making road tile for the
Township of Stanley.
May 12, 1950
Mrs. J. Hillebrecht was
presented with a silver dish
at the May meeting of the
Women's Institute which
was held at her home. Miss
Clare McGowan was the
guest speaker.
Fire, which originated in a
bonfire at the rear of F.1.1.
Cleary's grocery store might
have been serious if it hadn't
been for the prompt action
of the fire brigade.
A number of interested
tennis players met in the
Town Hall to reorganize the
Tennis Club. John C.
McKenzie was elected
president; Mrs. R.S. Box,
vice president; secretary,
Mrs. Alice Stiles;
Committee, D. Morrison, J.
.Edler, B. Duncan, S.
Dorrance.
During the high wind on
Saturday a barn was blown
down on the farm that
belonged to the late Wm.
Sholdice.
Wilford Shortreed of
Walton met with a painful
accident while trying to
close one of his barn doors.
He was thrown to the floor,
fracturing several ribs.
C. A. Trott has resigned
his position as principal of
Tuckersmith School area,
No. 1 and has accepted a
post as principal of the new
public school at the Clinton
Radar Station.
Following six weeks in
Scott' Memorial Hospital,
death came to Duncan
McKellar, in this 54th year.
Work has commenced on
the redecorating of the Town
Hall at Bayfield. D.A. Kay
and son of Clinton are doing
the work.
Mayor and Mrs. J.E.
Keating were in Toronto
where Mr. Keating attended
the Druggists Convention.
The home of Mrs. G.B.
Dorrance, McKillop was the
scene of a pretty wedding
when Mary . Monota
Dorrance of Kennedy, Sask,
was united in marriage to
Samuel George McClure,
son of Wm. McClure of
McKillop.
Cary B. Joynt, son of T.C.
Joynt. Hensall, now
studying at the Clark
University, Worchester,
Mass. has had his fellowship
renewed.
May 22, 1975
Wilfred Tapscott Teall, a
leading Seaforth
businessman for nearly 35
years. died late Tuesday
night at the age of 69. Mr.
Teall established Seaforth
Motors here in 1940 when
he purchased the business of
the late A. W. Dunlop and
was an active figure in the
community.
Tuckersmith residents will
have an opportunity to say
whether or not they approve
of their township getting
involved in financing
recreation activities for
township people after
Tuckersmith councillors
mailed a questionnaire out
to the 973 property owners.
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