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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-12-11, Page 30Page 18A Times -Advocate, December 11, 1985 BIBLE FELLOWSHIP PARADES — One from the Exeter Bible Fellowship. of the many floats in Saturday's Santa Claus parade was one T -A photo til Many hurt by insurance Resolution gets iupport Dramatic insurance increases are effecting both municipalities and schools boards, so the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic separate school board is hearing. "We are getting responses," com- mented director of education Bill Eckert at the board's December 9 meeting. It was last month when the school board sent out a resolution calling for the provincial legislature to change or take out existing rules which are responsible for excessive court awards. The board decided to go ahead and pass the resolution to all school boards in the province and local municipalities after its own in- surance premiums went up 98 percent. Insurance companies blame the hugcf claims awarded by the courts as the cause of the increase cost for liability insurance. The local school board has heard from the Stormont, Glengarry, and Dundas board as well as school boards for Hasting, Simcoe, Ottawa and Kent County. Local townships, Hibbert, McKillop and Fullarton, ...including Tuckersmith At its inaugural meeting Tuesday Tuckersmith Township Council en- dorsed a resolution of the Huron - Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board that the legislature be informed, through the office of the Attorney General for the Province of Ontario, to alter or remove existing legislation which is found to be responsible for the ex- cessive lawsuits and court awards, and further that the judicial system by examined to ensure that subse- qnt awards do not adversely affect the availability of insurance nor the premium for such insurance protection. The resolution had been endorsed and circulated by the Catholic school board when it found its recent renewal premium for all its areas of liability insurance had increased 98 percent, and the school bus operators, upon.request for increased limits of liability, have had their premiums in- creased by 100 percent and upwards, resulting in antieipated costly con- tract renewals. In other business the council voted to rent a heated shed from Matthew Haney for the tandem dump truck for $150 per month. Jim Papple of RR 4 Seaforth was appointed as the township represen- tative on the Seaforth and Area Com- munity Centres Board. A request by the Vanastra Lions Club and the Lioness Club for coun- cil approval to enable them to apply for a liquor licence at the Vanastra Recreation Centre for their winter Carnival on Februry 1, was granted. Council gave approval to an ap- plication from the Van Egmond Foun- dation to apply for a BRIC (Building Rehabilitation Improvement Com- mission) grant for the Van:Egmond house. have also indicated their support for the resolution. Superintendent of business and finance Jack Lane, said a -question- naire from the ministry of education had just crossed his desk. He said the ministry is asking for anindication of increased costs for fire and liability insurance. In other business, the board recent. ly approved several salary increases. The secretaries at the board office, the -board office custodian -courier driver and the school secretaries were all given 3.5 percent salary increases. The board office secretaries max- imum salary is now $17,445 and will increase to $19,040 in 1986. The three- year contract provides a catch up pro- vision of $950 in both 1986 and 1987 and $850 in 1988. The driver's salary increased from $15,000 to $15,525. The school secretaries hourly rate increases 26.6 cents per hour over the three years. The minimum rate is now $7 per hour and the maximum is $7.70 per hour. That will increase to $7.03 minimum per hour rate and $8.27 maximum. Mr. Lane said the large increase for the maximum rate is because the current salary rate is over a three year grid, but starting in January will be over a. five year grid. The school board also recently ap- proved hiring the architectural firm of Carlos Ventin of Simcoe to prepare a draft plan with cost estimates for renovating •St. Michael's school in Stratford. The idea is to turn the school into a high school. 11 1 AN EAGLE DANCE — Dr. Bryce formed o number of Indian dances school. I Taylor of ,the physical education department of York University per - recently for area elementary school students at McCurdy -Huron Hope Osborne Central Update... Assembly November 1 our grade seven class had an assembly about their trip to Camp Sylvan. At the beginning of the assembly there were slides and later there were short skits. One skit was to give a good impression of the wolf . The grade sevens greatly enjoyed go- ing to Camp Sylvan. Barb Tiernan - (=r. 7 Career Week This month the grade eight class has been having visitors from all pro- fessions. We have had a banker, a nurse, an X-ray technician, an OPP officer, a psychologist, a grocery store owner, a recruiting officer. an electrician, a plumber, a business man and a health nurse. The health nurse showed us two films, one on growing up and•one on child birth. The guest speakers told us things about their jobs and helped a few of the grade 8's begin to pick their careers. All of our speakers have been interesting and informative. We have enjoyed them thoroughly. Susan Selves - Gr. 8 Remembrance Day November 11. Usborne Central held their Remembrance Day service. The school went out in front of the cenotaph. There were poems about Remembrance Day. Then they laid the wreaths and flowers in front of the cenotaph. We sang a song and then went back in the school. It was -2 degrees outside when we were out there. Darryl !fern - Grade 6 A Different language November 13, grades three. four, five and six went to a play at McCur- dy School. Matt Maxwell' was sineine French songs. Ile is popular in Quebec. He arrived a little late because he could not find the school. Our French teacher is Mrs. S. Runalls-Lichty. She told us what words mean and thought up activities to do while we waited for Matt to ar- rive. The trip was free. We got on the bus at 9:30 and left the play at 11:50. Matt had many people in the audience come up on stage. For one song he even invited the teachers up on the stage. The audience cheered and ap- plauded whith pleasure. Ile also let some lucky people play the in- struments. After the play he signed autographs. A fun and exciting day was enjoyed by all. Scott Finlayson - Grade 5 Cheese Sales About two weeks ago some of the classes of Osborne Central were sell- ing cheese. The kinds of cheese were Old Cheddar, Medium Cheddar, Mar- ble, Colby. and Mozzarella. All of the classes did very well in selling the cheese. Peter McAlliston - Grade 7 Indian Workshop Tuesday. November 26. after a two hour delay because of the sleet storm. grades one. two. three and seven went to McCurdy School to an Indian workshop. The man's name who con- ducted the workshop was Mr. Taylor. He demonstrated some of the Indian dances and rituals. The grades one and two's were very fascinated by his fire and hoop dances. The older grades also enjoyed it and they learn- ed something new. Barb Tiernan - (:r. 7 Little Stars November 29, Usborne's talented grade ones put on an assembly. They mostly sang songs. Some of the children played the piano. Others acted out the play. I1 was about a gingerbread man running away from an old lady. First the gingerbread man ran into a Wobbly Duck. then he ran into Three -Corner pig. Finally he ran into a cat and then a bird. The bird told him to run home so he ran past the cat and past the three -corner pig, past Wobbly Duck and finally he found his way home to the old lady. Everybody enjoyed the assembly and the grade ones got a crack at show- biz. Michael Strang - Gr. 5 Enrichment This month the grades five to eight pupils' have worked on various ac- tivities planned by the teachers as a followup to the film. "The Year of the Wildebeeste". They included inter- views. art work, research, map work. newspaper articles, a time line and life cycle diagrams. The classes had a sharing period in the gym to show what each group had accomplished. Everyone seemed to enjoy these ac- tivities and the results are being displayed in the hall for others to see. NO INJURIES No injuries were reported in any of the three collisions investigated this week by the Exeter OPP. Two of the accidents were on Fri- day. the first involving vehicles operated by Bona Clark, Hensall, and Douglas Finkbeiner, RR 2 Crediton They collided on Wellington St.. north of King in Hensall. Damage was set a t $800. The other occurred on Highway 4 north of llensall when a vehicle driven by Randy Vere. ('Tinton, went out of control. The vehicle went into the ditch and rolled over. Damage was estimated at $3,000. The third crash of the week was in Hensall on Saturday. Vehicles driven by Stanley Batt, Hensall, and Paul Dockstader, Goderich, collided nn Highway 84 west of Highway 4. A parked vehicle owned by Benjamin Carlile, Hensall, was also involved Total damage to the vehicles was set at $750. Huron board chairman outlines priority items Technical and special education as well as funding to separate school will be addressed next year by the Huron County board of education. So says the board's new chairman Art Clark of Wingham, who was ac- claimed to office at the Dec. 5 in- augural meeting. Originally schedul- ed for Monday, Dec. 2 that meeting was cancelled because of a snow storm. Clark, 41, said one of the first things the new school board will have to ad- dress is the report on technical educa- tion presented by Joe Wooden. Clin- ton's Central Huron secondary school principal presented a report with a list of recommendations at a special board meeting on November 25. "It needs a great deal of discus- sion," said Clark of the report. The new chairman, taking over from Eugene Frayne of RR 3 Goderich, said special education at the secondary school level has to be expanded. The third main subject that will have to be dealt with in the coming year is the results of the Shapiro com- mission. This provincial body made recommendations on the funding of private schools. "We have a lot of private schools in this area. Christian, Mennonite and ART CLARK Baptist. We can't look at just Catholic schools," said Clark. The new chman is an engineer for Maitland Engineering Services of Wingham. 1 He will be assisted by John Jewitt, 46, of RR 1 Londesboro who was ac- claimed as vice-chairman. Jewitt said his role will be to assist the chairman and help make his fellow trustees make good decisions. The Hullet Township resident is in mixed farming. The board's three standing commit- tees and their chairman were named at the inaugural meeting. Joan Vanden Broeck of Saltford was put in as education committee chairman. The members are Dr. John Goddard of Hensall, Harry Hayter of RR 2 Dashwood, Sally Rathwell of RR 5 Clinton and Jewitt. Tony McQuail of RR 1 Lucknow was named chairman of the manage- ment committee. its members are Mary Ann Dempsey of Goderich, Frayne, Brian Jeffray of RR 2 Wingam, and Audrey Triebner of RR 3 Kippen. • Graeme Craig of RR 4 Walton was renamed as chairman of the person- nel committee. The members are Donald McDonald of RR 2 Brussels, John Elliott of Blyth, Dennis Rau of . RR 2 Zurich and Beatrice Dawson of RR 1 Hensall. •er r ODDFELLOWS PARADE — The float parade. entered by the Oddfellows is shown in Saturday's Santa Claus T -A photo 1 projects cash needed by SS board "Money for capijal projects" will be tackled head on by the Huron - Perth Roman Catholic separate school board, says its re-elected chairman. Ron Marcy of Stratford was re- elected at the board's inaugural meeting on December 3. The original meeting date of December 2 was cancelled because of the snow storm_ in the area. The main capital' project to be undertaken by the school board is 1986 is an addition to St. Boniface in Zurich. The provincial ministry of education has denied funding for this project for 1986. "We have to build," said Marcy. The addition is planned to house students from nearby Ecole Ste. Marie which has been earmarked for closure in June of 1987. The school had originally been scheduled to close next June but lack of provincial fun- ding delayed the closing. Marcy expects accommodation will again become a problem in Stratford schools in 1987. Unlike two years ago when initial plans called for the clos- ing of two of the five Catholic schools in that city, Mr. Marcy says the pro- blem will be increased enrolment. No RON MARCY • schools were closed two years ago. The increase in enrolment is direct- ly relaterd to the French immersion program started this past September and the high school program staring next fall. . A mathematics teacher at Strat- ford's Northwestern secondary scool, Marcy sees no problem "titit- wei the Pt'rth County board of education and the Catholic school board over the high school. "I don't think it (Catholic high school) will effect the public high schools," said Marcy. The high schoolteacher defeated Vincent McInnes of RR 4, Wingham for the board's top position. McInnes has served as vice-chairman for the past year. Dave Durand of RR 2 Zurich was acclaimed as the board's vice- chairman. An electrician, he has served on the board for three years. Other committee chairman elected on Tuesday, include Gerald Groothius of Seaforth as personnel committee chairman, Mr. Moinnes of property committee chairman and Ernest Vanderschotl of RR 7, St. Marys as finance and insurance chairman. CHOIR IN ACTION the weekend. The Exeter Pentecostal choir during the Prince of Peace cantata on BARBER SHOP , orturomag�.. Nn • CUBS PARADE - One of the many youfh group floats in Saturday's Santa Claus parade werA photo Ex- eter Cubs.