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ntermediate racers line up for the start of a Friday evening race at the Walton area frock during the weekend's national racing events.
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The Walton track, run by
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spring atter four of the seven
had been closed.
"The final numbers didn't
Cause any of the trustees to
say. 'Wait a minute. What did
we close those schools for?'"
he says.
Smith .found a $200,000
error in the board's estimated
savings from the closure of
SDHS, which became a
major issue in 1 the
community's favour during
the civil case late this spring.
"I. have , la strong
background in business
which should be useful and a
huge_ commitment to the
education system. I've been
to as many board meetings as
the trustees, more than those
who were appointed;" he
says. l
Smith, who owns and
manages the Seaforth boiler
manufacturing business
Boilersmith, is an engineer
with a degree in mechanical
engineering and a lifetime
resident of the district.
If Smith is elected, he
plans to start by looking at
the financial information he.
was not privy to as a'
ratepayer and question such
basic numbers as the
enrolment projections for the
next five.years. .
"We have huge
Kindergarten and Junior
Kindergarten classes in
Seaforth and by the number
of baby carriages in town, I
wonder if they are
underestimating the
numbers." he says.
He says the school closure
issue is representative of the
broader issue of who owns
the schools, the community
or the board.
"I believe that the
fundamental and true
ownership of our schools is
an intrinsic community
ownership, not an artificial,
bureaucratic board
ownership," says a press
release, issued Friday after
he filed his papers and held a
press conference in Clinton.
He adds there's something
wrong with board
adminstrators, with wages
close to. $100,000 each,
telling community members
who make from $20 -
$40,000 a year, that there's
not enough money to keep
schools open.
While Smith says there is
no movement to organize a
slate of like-minded
candidates, a strategy voiced
by communitymembers
behind the scenes during the
past year's school closure
crisis, he says he's aware of
several angry ratepayers
Police hopeful
multiple campaigns
will educate farmers, motorists
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available for projects like the Huron County
Farm and Home Safety Association's plan
and Lo''e,said one of the reasons he thinks
they were found eligible for the funding was
because of the area beinga tourist region.
He said the tourists from the cities end up
travelling through Huron County's heavy
agriculturally focussed region to get to beach
communities with drivers who aren't used to
sharing the road with tractors, leading to
some of the accidents.
But motorists aren't the only ones to blame
for the collisions.
Love said it is still a challenge to get
farmers to use proper lighting on their
tractors.
in one of last July's accidents. the driver of
the tractor had been charged with not having
properlighting, a contributing factor to the
collision.
Love also said the machinery on the roads
is getting wider. Lighting,on the front and
hack of a piece of equipment might show
part of the size but some could extend out of
a passing motorists vision until it's too late
for the driver to swerve out of the way.
Triangular signs placed, on farm equipment
are also not being used properly, contributing
to the problem. said Joe Andrews. a farm
safety consultant at the provincial level of
the association in Guelph.
Despite public education campaigns for
farmers, he said there is still a problem with,
people using the signs and their reflective
design as laneway markers or to warn of
posts or mailboxes.
Andrews said motorists get used to seeing
them on posts and gates.
"Then. when they see them on a slow
moving vehicle. they don't recognize it," he
said.
it's been a law since 1996 that all slow
moving vehicles must have the warning
signs.
"If the sign's in good condition, you'll see
it before you'll recognize what type of
machine it is," said Andrews.
The association distributes pamphlets to
help educate farmers and drivers about the
use of the slow moving signs. •
Coupled with the growth of road signs
warning drivers they are sharing the road
with farm equipment, the association hopes
to reduce the number of collisions taking
place.
There are currently .25 signs. in place along
county roads with 25 more to go before the.
end of September and the busiest part of the
harvest season when the greatest number of
farm vehicles will be on area roads.
Sandra Lawson, county 'engineer. said
priority is being given to roads that enter the
county to warn motorists arriving in Huron
County of the potential danger.
For example, one has been installed on
Staffa Road, where it enters Huron County
from; Perth.
Love said they are still trying to get
permission from the Ministry of
Transportation to install some of the signs on
provincial highways like Highway 8 that
comes through Seaforth to Goderich or
Highway 21 that runs along the lakeshore. -
For now,the province has denied
permission to install the signs of the road.
Lawson said part of the problem is that
drivers can't be expected to be able to read
too much signage.
A farm safety committee spearheaded by
the Huron County Health Unit has also been
involved in an education program aimed at'
farmers.
''Many grain elevators have had educational
signs installed reminding farmers of safety
practices and pamphlets are also being given
out to farmers when they unload, including
topics such as the proper use of reflective
tape.
OPP Community Services Officer Don
Shropshall is hopeful the combination of
these projects will help reduce the number of
collisions taking pike.
Detailed statistics on the number of
collisions aren't available from the OPP or
the Farm Safety Association.
Andrews said it is difficult to report
because in some cases, the collisions become
reportable accidents to police because of
injuries or damage and become listed as
highway accidents versus farm accidents of
which the association keeps track.
throughout the Avon
Maitland school district...
He says people are
considering running for
trustee especially in •areas
where schools were closed
such as Stratford's Falstaff
school and south Huron's
McCurdy school.
"It would he a travesty if
existing trustees stood
unopposed. There is no
conspiracy against the
existing hoard but my
platform is out there: I would
be a useful resource for-
anyone
oranyone thinking of running,"
he says.
Smith is angry , at
comments by some existing
trustees that they will wait to
see who comes forward to
run fo.r trustee before
deciding if they will, seek
another term.
"It's no business of the'
trustees to judge the quality
• of who steps forward. The
emperor gets to choose his
successor. not the chair of the
school hoard. That's up to
the voters." he says.
"Please vote." he says to
ratepayers, "If you didn't sec
it before, surely you see now
how important it is."
THE HURON -PERTH CATHOLIC
DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
STUDENT REGISTRATION
JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN -GRADE 12/O.A.C.
Parents of Catholic school age'children who are new to Perth and
Huron Counties may register their children on the first day of
school - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2000, 8:45 A.M.-4:00
P.M., or during the week of August 28 to September 1. 2000 by
contacting their local school.
KINDERGARTEN children need to be 4 years of age on or
before December 31, 2000. Please bring Birth Certificate.
Baptismal Certificate and Immunization Record Card of the
child you intend to register. • -
FRENCH IMMERSION classes -are being offered at Jeanne
Sauve School, Stratford, and St. Mary's School, Goderich.
ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SECONDARY. SCHOOL' is a
Catholic Secondary School serving Stratford and Perth County
and offering programs from Grade 9 to 12L0.A:C.
ST. ANNE'S CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL'• is a
Catholic Secondary School serving Clinton and Huron County
and offering programs from Glade 9 to 12/G.A.C. �,
The CEtholic schools are as follows: - .. --
St. Je6eph's School ' ' Kingsbridge 529.7606
St. Columban School • St. Columban 345-2086
St. Patrick's School : Dublin • ' -345-2033
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Mount Carmel 237-3337
St. Patrick's School Kinkora 393-5580
St. Joseph's School Clinton 482-7035
Precious Blood School Exeter 235-1691
St. Mary's School • - Goderich 524.9901
St. James School a Seaforth 527-0321
Holy Name of Mary School ' St. Marys • 284-2170
Sacred Heart School ' Wingham .357-1090.
St. Boniface School Zurich • 236.4335
St. Mary's School [lesson 595.8929
.Jeanne Sauve School Stratford • 273-3396
St. Ambrose School Stratford 271-7544
St: Joseph's School. • Stratford 27)-4574
St. Aloysius School- Stratford 271-3636
St. Michael Secondary School • Stratford.. 271-0890
St. Anne's Secondary School Clinton 482-5454
Parents who expect that 'their child will enrol in the Optional
• French Immersion Program in Grade 1,in future years. have the
option of enrolment for Junior/Senior Kindergarten at either their
local Catholic School or the French immersion Centre i St Marys
School; Goderich or Jeanne Sauve School, .Stratford . at which
they expect to enrol their child for a French immersion Program.
Bernard Murray. • Gaetan 1.: Blanchette. •
Chairperson of the Board Directorof Education
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