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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-06-10, Page 21SS anniversary held at Centralia By MRS. FRED BOWDEN CENTRALIA The officers, teachers, girls and boys of the Sunday School displayed their capabilities Sunday when they conducted the annual Sunday School anniversary service. Leading the services were Norman Wilson, supeeten- dent, assisted by associates, Rob Essery and Alan Powe. A Sunday School choir provided the music and as a special number sang "Hap- py Day Express". The Rhythm Band numiber by the beginner's class was enjoyed by all. The offertory music was a piano duet by Kelly and Debbie Hodgins. The sermon on the Lord's Prayer took the form of a skit "If God Should Speak" and was ably presented by George Tomes nad Jeff Greb. Organ and piano music was provided by Mr. Gill and Penny Smith. The Prelude was piano and guitar music by Penny Smith and her father Harvey Smith. This coming Sunday the church service will be cancelled for the Zion West Sunday School Anniversary. Sunday School in Centralia United Church will be at the usual time. Personals Mrs. Fred Penwarden of Sarnia was a luncheon est at the home of Mrs. Lorne Hicks on Tuesday of last week and attended the funeral of her cousin the late Dick Neil in Exeter. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Neil and her family in their bereavement. The residence of Mr. arid Mrs. Tom Kooy was the scene of great activity on Saturday when they hosted a Garage and Bake Sale for Saintsbury Church. Mrs. Edna Snell of Kingston, Nova Scotia visited for a week with relatives - Mr. and Mrs. George Snell, Centralia. and other members of her family in Exeter. On Sunday a barbecue and family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Snell. Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Fred Cun- nington were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Vogan and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vogan, Listowel. Mrs. Fred Penwarden. Sarnia, and Mrs. Elmer Wilson, Exeter, were weekend gusts and Mr. and Mrs. Stan Love, Exeter, were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Huxtable. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Elliott, David and Lois attended the University of Guelph Con- vocation, Friday Lois graduated with her Bachelor of Applied Science Degree. Sunday Mr and Mrs. Wm Elliott and Lois were guests at the home of Mrs. Elliott's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Everitt Adams in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hirtzel and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Whitehead, Lucan were dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. Don Hirtzel at the Old Mill in Parkhill, Sunday. The occasion was a Mother's and Father's Day celebra- tion. Senior citizens met in the Community Centre Monday for an afternoon of crokinole and cards followed by lunch. Campers J will aid handicap GRADUATE — Nancy Underwood graduated recently with o Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Western Ontario. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Underwood, Exeter. Nancy has accepted a posi- tion withthe Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in Toronto. Nancy received the Physical Therapy faculty prize and the Centennial award which was shared with Mary Rothammer. Kirkton pair celebrate Clarence Switzer and Dorothy Parrish were married at the Motherwell Manse on June 3, 1931. They have spent their married life on the 3rd Concession of Blanshard Township. They have three daughters, one son, 11 grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. Special guests at a family dinner, June 6 at Anderson Hall were Mr. and Mrs. Wes Birchall, Cochrane, Alberta, Mr. and Mrs. Len Switzer, Warkworth, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lewis, Highland Grove, Mrs. Alathea May, Etobikoke and Mrs. Flossie Sgariglia, St. Marys, as well as nieces and nephews. Sunday, an Open House Was held at Kirkton United Church. Pouring tea in the afternoon were Mrs. Isabelle Baird, Mrs. Rita Morley, Miss Ada Thacker, and Miss Jean Copeland. In the evening tea was poured by Mrs. Betty Birchall, Mrs. Audrey Bannerman, Mrs. Jean Ratcliffe and Mrs. Clara Watson. Grand- daughters and a niece, Mrs. Maurice Lewis served the guests. Over 400 guests attended from Cochrane, Alberta, Toronto, St. Thomas, Lon- don, Parkhill, Goderich, Teeswater, Fordwich, Port Elgin, as well as Kirkton and surrounding committees. Canada Day, July 1 Once again. members of the Ontario Private Campground Association will help disabled people en- joy summer activities in their "Catnpers Helping Disabled Campers" program. Their goal this year is to provide vacation for 30 disabled men and women. Now in its third year of operation, the staff and campers at privately owned campgrounds organize special summer events. Funds raised at events such as dances and suppers sup- port vacations at Ontario March of Dimes' camps for physically disabled adults. Special events and ac- tivities are now being plann- ed by campground owners across the province who have registered for the program. The Ontario March of Dimes camping program is operated annually in the summer and winter. Disabl- ed people, who seldom have the chance to enjoy outdoor activities, have the oppor- tunity to try horseback riding, canoeing, overnight campouts, swimming, crafts and much more.• The emphasis at camp is on what disabled people can do. Because of funds raised last year by the Campers Helping Disabled Campers program, 20 adults (some quite severely disabled) will be attending March of Dimes' camps this Year. "Everyone shouldhave the opportunity to experience the outdoors", says Frances Craig, Executive Director of the Ontario Private Campground Association. "Ontario has some of the finest campgrounds anywhere. Our program 'Campers Helping Disabled Campers' gives disabled people the chance to enjoy many things such as summertime activities and the natural beauty of the province which many of us take for granted. We feel it is a program well worth sup- porting because our visitors can have fun, and help others at the same time". In this International Year of Disabled Persons, fishing derbies, carnivals, dances and barbecue suppers at campgrounds will take on an added dimetision. By enjoy- ing their own outdoor ac- tivities and by showing that they care, thousands of peo- ple will be involved in help- ing disabled men and women enjoy their summer and dis- cover their potential. Among area campgrounds involved are: Birch Bark, Grand Bend; Jellystone, Grand Bend; Windmill, Fullerton; Huron Cliff, Goderich. DESIGN SHOWCASE — Open House at one highlights the Perrin Williams Estate home on terior decoration. of London's oldest mansions continues until Sunday afternoon. Interiors '81 Windermere road. Local designer Debbie Etherington was involved in the in - Parents appeal to SS board Complain about staff The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board held a special meeting Tuesday night to receive a delegation of concerned parents from the Dublin ,school area. Board chairman Ronald Murray of Dublin explained that the meeting was to discuss the teacher tran- sfers, referring to the board's decision at the end of April to relocate 20 teachers to different schools, effective at the new school term beginning the first of Sep- tember 1981. Adrian Olsthoorn, a Mitchell businessman, was the chief spokesman for the five delegates -- Marie Eick- meier and Wilha Van- denberk, both of Dublin; Alice Louwagie of Mitchell and Louis Peters, Monkton. Mr. Olsthoorn questioned moving the teachers and then having to pay mileage costs but he was assured by Ronald Marcy of Stratford that there would be no mileage costs unless a teacher was moved more than 24 miles according to the collective agreement. Mr. Marcy said the philosophy of the board is that with a vacancy in Stratford, rather than move a surplus teacher from Goderich to Stratford, the board feels it is better to move several by short distances. In this way, Mr. Marcy said it did not upset the whole household. Mr. Olsthoorn asked, "Why shuffle them all up?" Mr. Murray replied, "We have to staff the schools with the teachers we have. If we moved one teacher every year that would not be fair. History says a teacher moves about every six or seven years. We are elected as a board. We work within the guidelines of the ministry and we work within the guidelines of the board." Mr. Olsthoorn said his group has a petition with more than 200 names. He said, "The whole community is in an uproar. You have a situation now that is getting a bit out of hand. People are getting involved and won- dering what can be done. This thing can blow wide open to a smozzle. But other questiolis are coming up. Where is it going to end? We need to have an open meeting for the public. The board needs to do something. If a meeting with the public is needed then we should have it and get it out in the open." Chairman Murray replied that the board meetings are open to the public except for certain subjects such as personnel or property. He said teachers are moved for several reasons, one may ask for a transfer, and if we can do it, we do. Teachers who have specific skills in one area such as French, music and special education, may be required to serve any school area which would lack that skill, explained John McCauley, Superintendent of Education; later when talking to the press. The board, too must act to fill vacancies that arise from time to time such as retirements, or opening of new classrooms, or a teacher moving away from the area. He said these are primarily arbitrary transfers that would need to occur due to the teacher -board collective agreement by May 1 in any year. He stated that a transfer by mutual consent can occur at any time. Continuing his explanation Mr. McCauley said the board is appraised of parts and parcels of transfers, especially teacher requests and surplus teachers in one area and a lack in another geographical area, possibly due to shifting population. Administratively, we try to put together a recom- mendation of the above needs and bring the transfer transfers recommendation of those needs before May 1. Then the board votes on the recom- mendation and some trustees may not agree, however, the majority rules in the decision making process. Mrs. Alice Louwagie said she thought the proposed list of teachers to be transferred should be put in the papers so that people could protest before the transfers were finalized. Chairman Murray said, "It would be an ad- ministrative nightmare if we tried to advertise ahead in the paper that we would be moving teachers and then had a public meeting. We are elected as a board to make these decisions. Perhaps some of the teachers being transferred are not happy, and I know some of the trustees are not happy. It was done to meet the needs within the system." Mrs. Wilha Vandenberk asked why the parents were not notified by the board and said she had learned about it from the children coming home from school. Olsthoorn said he felt he understood the board's position. He said he was satisfied with the ex- planation given, and was willing to go back to the petitioners with the board's explanation. He said all he was looking for was an an- swer for those 200 petitioners, "We don't want our school system attacked by our own people. I'm proud of 'this system. I think you are all doing a good job." Mr. Olsthoorn said that if the petitioners were not satisfied with the ex- planation he would like to see a public meeting called for them to meet with the board and get the explanation directly and also have them all to get a better un- derstanding of the whole school system. The people basically did not understand what was happening. Mr. Murray assured the delegates that if they wanted another meeting he would call for one if they returned with a presentation asking for it. At the close of the meeting, the board went to com- mittee -of -the -whole to consider the 1981-82 teacher - board agreement which was later ratified in a general meeting that evening. No details will be released until after the teachers meet to consider the agreement Thursday night, and if they ratify it. Times -Advocate, June 10, 1981 , Page SA Interior designer involved in project An • Exeter young lady is one of 13 designers involved in Interiors '81 an exciting attraction at the Perrin Williams Estate on Two join press group The number of Ontario Press Council member newspapers rises to 21 with the addition of two more weekly newspapersthe Temiskaming Speaker and the Ingersoll Times. They bring the number of weeklies participating in the Council to 11, an increase of six this year. The number of daily newspaper members stands at 10. One. the North Bay Nugget, also joined the Council in 1981. Circulation of The Speaker is about 7.500 and of The Times about 3.- 400. "The remarkable increase in member newspapers this year is highly encouraging." said Council chairman Davidson Dunton. "It il- lustrates that more and more newspapers feel that an independent organization should be available to deal with public grievances about the conduct of the press. and to represent the public in- terest in the freedom of the press in submissions to governments and ad- ministrative bodies. "We extend a warm welcome to these new members and hope that still more Ontario dailies and weeklies will decide to join in supporting the Council in its work." Other weeeklies that join- ed this year were the Exeter Times -Advocate, Kapuskas- ing Northern Times. Perth Courier and St. Marys Journal -Argus. Weeklies previously in the Council are the Alliston Herald, Orangeville Citizen. Shelborne Free Press and Economist, Smiths Falls Record News and Stittsville NPWC FAHM-GUIIJI Now there is a completely new plan to meet all the insurance needs of today's farm owner. With the Farm -Guard policy from The Co-operators you insure your home, contents, outbuildings, machinery, livestock, Verna Gingerich Life • Home • Auto • Business • Travel produce and supplies. Liability coverage is also included. the co -open tots INSURANCE SERVICES 1' Call today for information about the many coverages available with Farm -Guard protection. 32 Nelson St. Exeter Phone 235-1109 A Dramatic Demonstration it's often assumed that people with mental or physical disabilities cannot participate in today's complex society. As a symbolic gesture in this international Year, we've done something out of the ordinary: we've produced a television commercial - just to set the record straight. Consider this. Oldie 68 people involved in our production, 42 arc mentally or physically disabled: among them, the director, the camera- man, the set designer and the carpenters, the electrician, the make-up artist, the sound engineer, the anno timer. many of the n►usi, ion• and the man who ilk. the Huish-. who was deaf -hut is hettei remembered for heinti Beethoven. 1f you've seen the tnnn►er.aal, \•r,ii'r'e seen what happens ►hen we work together. 11 you haven't seen it yet, it's a dramatic l Cnklnstranon Lila single simple point: disabled penile should he thought 01 101 whit they can do, rather than what they can't. Our slogan, created by ,i man with a disability, sum, it up and says it all: "label us abbe" Ontario Margaret Birch William Davis Provincial Secretary for Premier Social Development International Year of Disabled Persons ► Windermere Road in Lon- don. Debbie Etherington has designed one of the bedrooms in the 17 room London north mansion. Fur- niture was supplied by Huston. Furniture in St. Thomas. Debbie has been in the design field for eight years after graduating from Georgian College of Applied Arts .and Technology. She is presently employed by Huston Furniture of St. Thomas and works as their staff interior designer. She specializes in residen- tial design where she tries to capture the clients per- sonality and feelings in their settings. Interiors '81 is sponsored by the London Symphony Orchestra Association and the public is invited to visit daily until Sunday, June 14. The gates will be open Wednesday and Thursday of this week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. A large marquee has been erected on the grounds of the home where lunches and refreshments are offered daily. The elegant Elsie Perrin Williams mansion is idyllically sited on 75 acres of roling woodland in north London. Built just after the turn of the century. the home with its surrounding grounds richly symbolizes the style and fashion of a long gone era. of a quieter. less hectic. less harried world. In addition to a visit to the stately ma ion. each Satur- day is fe�tured by the appearance of an eclectic mix of vintage roadsters and classic sport cars shown by their owners. • The classic car event is in- cluded in the price of general admission of S5 Tickets are available from Debbie Etherington at 235- 1669. Mrs. Daisy Etherington at 235-0726 or Mrs. Mildred MacLean at 471-0791. 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