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Al?heimer donation
More than 300,000 Canadians have
Alzheimer Disease and to help families
cope and understand what happens
with the disease, the Huron County
Alzheimer Society has distributed a
video to pharmacies across the area.
local volunteer Fran Hook presents
Shaukat Mangalji of Keating's
Pharmacy with a copy of the video.
Numerous health and well-being
videos are available at the pharmacy
for customers to borrow. The donation
was made as part of Alzheimer
Awareness month and featured
numerous events and fundraisers
across the county in January.
News
Trustee prepares I48 -page package
in effort to change school closure policy
By Stew Slater
Special to the Huron Expositor
Seaforth-area trustee
Charles Smith provided the
Avon Mailtand District School
Board with two "notices of
motion" in 148 -page
packages, dealing with the
future of Seaforth District
High School (SDHS) at the
board's Jan. 22 meeting.
Smith, who spearheaded a
successful legal battle to save
the school last year,
distributed the packages to
board administration, fellow
trustees and the media
following the regular board
meeting.
The information was
accompanied by two groups
of proposed motions, one
group dealing With the board's
amendments to its school
closure policies in the wake of
last year's SDHS court case
and the other tackling the
recent controversy over floor
repair in the high school's
gymnasium.
"You do realize we'll have
to provide copies of all this
information to anyone in the
public who wants •it? asked
board chair Wendy Anderson,
to which -Smith responded in
the affirmative.
The most intricate of the
two groupings was the list of
requested amendments to the
board's school closure policy.
In his set of motions, Smith
seeks 12 separate changes to
Board Policy #29, which was
approved on Oct. 10, 1999 to
replace two former policies.
He also requests that each
of the amendments be voted
on separately.
Among them are attempts to
give greater influence over the
fate of threatened schools to
community-based study
groups, called School
Accommodation Review
Committees in the existing
Board Policy #29.
One motion asks that these
committees be involved
earlier in the process, along
with affected school councils.
Elsewhere, Smith
suggests the
"recommendations and report"
of both the school council and
the Accommodation Review
Committee be considered
more thoroughly at later
stages.
And there's a request to
allow these community-based
groups to look beyond
"currently available and
relevant school district
statistical information" into
the realm of "such other
relevant information as may
relate to the general social and
economic effects on ,the
community."
On the issue of the SDHS
gymnasium floor, Smith's
double-barrelled notice of
motion came in response to
what he believed was a
contravention of his powers as
a trustee during the regular
board meeting of Dec. 13,
2000.
At that time, Smith reacted
to a delegation from
concerned citizens- by
attempting to gain support for
an ad hoc committee to study
the gym floor issue, but his
motion was superseded when
a majority of trustees
supported a request for further
information from staff.
On Jan. 15, Smith wrote
Anderson to complain,
arguing the motion for further
information was out of order
and charging that his "fear that
my influence and power as a
trustee was in danger of
becoming marginalized .. .
found very early justification."
Anderson replied the
following day, defending her
actions, attaching a list of
reasons why she found the
Dec. 13 meeting frustrating,
and advising that "efforts are
underway to organize a
workshop on the subject" of
parliamentary procedure.
The two letters were
included as information for
the Jan. 23 meeting, as was an
update on the gymnasiym.
The floor "started buckling
due to moisture under the
floor boards," the update
states. A laboratory analysis
confirmed the presence of
mould, but results from
further tests to determige the
source and variety of mould
"will not be known for at least
three to four weeks."
Smith's two-part notice of
motion renews his call for the
establishment of an ad hoc
committee, and suggests no
action be taken until the
committee "reports back to the
board." But included with the
notice is a series of points
related to the future use of the
school, and a request that "the
committee's terms of
reference include investigation
of the feasibility of other
options to retain and enhance
the enrollment at Seaforth
District High School."
This is in keeping with the
concerned citizens group's
assertion that the construction
of a new gym could be patt of
a larger plan to ultimately save
the school through
diversifying its use.
Smith's notices of motion
are expected to be dealt with
in February, and he has
requested recorded votes in
each case.
The Seaforth-area trustee
was noticeable for varied
reasons throughout the Jan. 23
meeting, including during
normally routine procedural
matters.
During the approval of
minutes, he offered no
discussion but was the only
trustee to vote against the
motion. The same thing
happened when Smith
provided the only dissenting
vote against a compensation
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agreement with principals, in
a motion brought forward
from closed session.
And later, there was no
discussion but Smith's was the
only vote against cancelling a
regular board meeting during
the upcoming March Break.
In other cases, including the
acceptance of contract
terminations for three teachers
and the approval of a
tendering recommendation on
alterations at Central Perth
Elementary School, Smith
abstained from voting while
all other trustees voted in
favour.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR, January 31, 2001-5
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_HEALTH ON THE HILL_
A Review of activities at
SEAFORTH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
CPR CERTIFICATION Saturday, February 10, 2001 a Heart
Saver Course Certification (1 man cardiopulmonary
resuscitation) for lay persons of the community interested in
knowledge and skills to respond to victims of heart attack, stroke,
sudden accident 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost: $25.00 and Basic Cardiac
Life Support (BCLS)/CPR including 2 man - infant/child/adult 9
a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost: $35.00. For further information and to
register (deadline Thurs. Feb. 8th) please contact Grace Dolmage
@ Seaforth Community Hospital (519) 527-3001. Registration
limited to 10 participants.
J1CLS(CPR Instructor Recertification COURSE including
updated standards will be held at Seaforth Community Hospital
Conf. Rm. 2 Mon. February 26, 2001 14:00 16:00 Hrs.
Registration restricted to maximum of 8 participants. Cost:
$35.00 (no charge if HPHP staff). Pre -registration required by
Fri. Feb. 23rd 527-3001)
MORNING OUT is a Parent Support Group for parents of
newborns in the Seaforth Community Hospital catchment area. A
variety of topics specific to infants ie. nutrition, breastfeeding,
immunization, etc. are offered each Friday morning 10:00 - 11:00
a.m. Childcare can be arranged by registering with Grace at 527-
3001.
WALKING OPPORTUNITY The halls of Seaforth District
High School are being offered to local community residents every
Tuesday and Thursday evening 7-9 p.m. for those who want to
walk indoors for health and exercise. Why not call a friend and
make a date to reap the benefits of stress relief, decreased
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MEMORIAL DONATIONS Seaforth Community Hospital
Foundation gratefully acknowledges recent donations received in
loving memory of the late: Robert Eckert, Orville Workman,
Catherine Phillips, Agnes Murray and Arthur Finlayson.
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Notice of
ANNUAL MEETING
The 125th Annual Meeting of the Usborne & Hibbert Mutual Fire
Insurance Company will be held at the Kirkton-Woodham
Community Centre at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, February 19, 2001 for
presentation of the Annual Report for 2000, to elect Directors and to
transact any business that may rightly come before the meeting.
Nominations will be received for the election of two Directors for a
three year term. The Directors whose term of office expires are
:Morriss Willows and Joe Chaffe, both of whom are eligible for re-
election. •
Notice is hereby given that motions will be presented at our Annual
Meeting amending the By-laws of the Company as follows:
Article 33 - Remuneration
Article 21 - Any person wishing to seek election or re-election as a
Director must file his intention to stand for election in writing with ,
the Secretary Manager of the Corporation at least ten days in
advance of an Annual Meeting or Special General Meeting called for
the purpose of electing Directors.
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