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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-01-28, Page 3Board hlghlights are reviewed Change, renewal, commitment and responsibility were words highlighted in the annual report made by Bob Allan, director of education to trustees of, the Huron County Board of Education when they met for the first meeting of the year on January 13. In his report, Allan highlighted some of the major board decisions that were made over the past year of office, from July 1, 19135 to June 30, Education. Later that same year, an 1986. They included: initiative was taken to provide full - 'Gino Giannandrea was appointed year programming at the Bluewater as the board's personnel officer and Secondary School and a motion was chief negotiator. His work commenc- passed to design an experimental ed in mid-October of 1985. school year calendar to accommodate the needs of the students attending the school.. • Contracts wereratified with the custodians, with the secretaries and ' teachers aides. • The board made a commitment to establish the Bluewater Secondary School and an agreement was ratified between the Ministry of Corrections and the Huron County Board of WHAT IS IT? — Hensall Cooperative Nursery School teacher Liz Joy leads a combi ed group of nursery school and kindergarten children in o gameiduring a visit by the kindergarten class from Hensall Public School. County decides against putting bounty on foxes After some study, Iluron County Council has decided against placing a bounty on foxes. Council made the decision at its January session, based on a recom- mendation included in the agricultural and property committee report presented by Tuckersmith Township Reeve Bob Bell. Bell, at a December council meeting. had asked that Huron Coun- .ty give consideration to introducing a bounty on foxes as a measure of con- trol against. rabies. Just prior to that meeting, Bell said his cat and dog had been attacked by a rabid fox and had been placed in quarantine. ' Council decided then to refer Bell's request to its property' and agricultural committee for considera- tion and since that time, Bell was named as chairman of that commit- tee by Warden Brian McBurney. As . a -result of the committee's recommendation, council is instead Agreement is being drafted The formal agreement for cost shari4 of the South Huron rec cen- tre should be in the hands of the three neighbouring townships for con- sideration at their February meetings. Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw, who received council agreement on the terms for the agreement last week, said it is presently being prepared by the town staff. At last week's council session, Shaw said he envisioned no problems in the. area councils approving the agree- ment because the grant figures used are those which had been submitted by Hay, Stephen and Usborne. Those same four municipalities will meet this Thursday to review their agreement as it pertains to the Exeter and Area Fire Board. Stephen and Hay have requested changes in the area to be served in their municipalities by the local fire department. It is expected they may also ask to have the present cost- sharing formula :emended to reflect any boundary changes. At the present time, Exeter con- tributes 52 percent of the budget, Usborne 33, Stephen nine and Hay six. The last change was made in 1982 at the request of Stephen when boundary changes were made. Stephen had been paying 14 percent prior to that. and their five percent decrease was picked up by Exeter and Osborne. considering subsidizing compulsory rabies clinics as a control measure against the disease and, in conjunc- tion, with the Huron County. Health Unit, plans to advertise and promote the idea that county residents should have their pets immunized against - rabies. - During its study, the committee consulted the Ministry of Natural Resources, which suggested a number of points that should be con- sidered before a fox bounty bylaw were to be introduced. Those considerations include: --That any accounting system established to pay bounty would like- ly require the handling of fox pelts by staff and the public and, therefore. any pelts of rabid foxes brought into township or county offices could in- crease the risk of exposure to the disease. --Payment of the bounty on foxes is not likely to reduce fox numbers nor will it solve the rabies problem, since skunks are also a major carrier. -- The $25 -per -pelt bounty could cost the county approximately $35,000 for animals that would normally be taken by trappers or hunters anyway. Cur- rently there are about 1,000 foxes harvested in the district, most taken from Huron County. --The temptation for some to bring pelts from animals caught outside the county boundaries in order to claim the bounty, since none of the surroun- ding counties have fox bounty bylaws at present. Hay Township Reeve Lionel Wilder spoke in support of the committee's recommendation to reject the boun- ties. He said there is already a reasonable return for furs, a factor that should be enough to encourage hunting of foxes. He also agreed that council should be looking toward making the rabies immunization clinics mandatory for dogs and cats within the county. "Skunks are ten times worse than foxes for rabies". he said. "A dog may not be able to catch a foxbut he sure as heck can catch a skunk." -However, he also said that, although he was in favour of making the immunization clinics compulsory, he was not necessarily in agreement that the county should be subsidizing them. - Also agreeing with the committee's recommendation, McBurney told council that statistics compiled following the air drop last fall of fox bait coated with anti -rabies vaccine, indicate the program was a success. Foxes trapped following the drop were found to have high enough levels WINS ESSAY CONTEST Stephen Harburn accepts a medal and che- que from Exeter Optimist club president Mark Heimrich following the recent essay contest at South Huron District High School.T-A photo FLOORING If you're looking for carpet area or an entire house 114 rr - ;T 1' -.411 • !j1. 1111/1 Hopper - Hockey 33S Main S1 • Save Time • See or vinyl for a small • Save Money us First Do it yourself or have our installer Ed Allen do it for ou Ir S_ F.ntnr 235.1990 of the vaccine in their system to "guarantee their immunity against rabies . - The government was pleased enough with the results that it intends to continue with the bait dropping pro- gram, McBurney said. - Although he said -he-was -not in agreement with the committee's recommendation, Bell said he would go along with council's decision. ' • A significant new program was introduced - the Values, Influences and Peers Program to allgrade six classrooms in September, 1986. • A budgetary restraint initiative was taken.. The board asked all groups and individuals who recom- mended allocations in excess of 104 percent of 1985 allocations to identify a corresponding area of reduction from within the scope of their responsibility. ' The Board of Education initiated cooperative dialogue when the Huron - Perth Separate School's Executive committee was invited to a meeting to discuss items of common interest. ' Family Studies and Industrial Arts programming for grade 7 and 8 students in Huron County was ex- panded so that it would be available throughout the system, with im- plementation in the north part of the county in September 1986 and in the south part in September, 1987. • Comprehensive summer school programs evolved when the board agreed to offer programs at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, Seaforth District High School, Bluewater Secondary School, J.A.D. McCurdy Public School, Victoria Public School in Goderich and Wingham Public School. The board. provided transportation from each town to Central Huron, and, ap- propriate arrangements were made for the students to attend other programs: * Vanastra Public School became a full grade school, with the introduc- tion of grade 7 studies in September -1p86 and grade 8 programming effec- tive September 1987. - * The board set its directions for its terms - to develop the potential of each individuals within the school system; to develop an awareness of the possible aspects of the school system within the Huron County com- munity to- develop a cooperative communications program to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the Huron County School system. 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Look Your Bost For Going South Rumor's Unisex Hair Design 414 Main St. Exeter Phone 235-0202 Kindergarten Registration The following schools invite parents of children who will be five years of age on or before Dec. 31 87 to contact the school in their area before February 6, regarding Kindergarten registration. 1. Exeter Public School 2. Hensall P.S. 3. Huron Centennial P.S. 4. J.A.D. McCurdy P.S. 5. Stephen Central P.S. 6. Usborne Central P.S. 7. Zurich P.S. 235-2630 262-2833 482-3330 228-6321 234-6302 235-0331 236-4942 Huron County Board of Education TREAT TIME — Teacher's aide Pam Bell serves apple juice to Alisha Van Giesen (left), Jennifer Masse and Jeremy Allan during a visit by Hensall Public School's kindergarten class to the Hensall Cooperative Nursery School. - - ,els School Continued from front page network. notified the radio stations. and phones the message to the hoard's receptionist. Principals then make individual decisions on keeping their schools open or shutting down. Much depends on what percentage of students come to school by • bus. • On • Friday, Catholic schools in Zurich and Mount Carmel were dos- ed, but Seaforth remained open. The same thing happens in the public system, and for the sante reason. The recent storm eloased most area schools, hut in Clinton the public schoolremained open while the high school was closed. It was business as usual at Exeter Public School oti Friday. Principal .Lim Chapman pointed out that the majority of his students live in town. "We don't close -unless the streets are in very bad condition and the wind chill factor is exceptionally cold. We have a record of closing less than one day a year over the past ten to 15 years". ('hi pman said: SHDHS also stayed open. but an ex- am scheduled for Friday was postponed until the following Monday. Stephen ('entral and Ushorne are In the unique position of having the en, tire student ixxiy bussed in. Stephen Central principal Don Finkbeiner was up early last Friday morning eontac- ting township road crews. school hoard liaison driver Ross Guenther and ('harterways coorindator Ogden to find out how the weather was affec- ting driving conditions. Finkbeiner does not rely sotelon radio to let students know Stephen will be closed. He also starts up a telephone chain by phoning a list of 13 people Each of these makes three or four more calls to others who agiani pass on the message until all 232 children have been notified. Over 60 percent of students atten- ding Zurich Public School come by bus. making principal Don O'Brien decision retalively easy. If the buses aren't running. Zurich closes. However, much of the Zurich route beside the lake is not in the snowbelt area. When a deicison is made to send children home early when fog or snow descend in daytime, the home of each child -up to grade five craning from outside the village is phoned to make sure a paretnt is home. If no one answers, the child stays at the school Some schools have buddy system While ('arroll was principal 01 Seaforth Public School. he paired each bussed -in child with one who liv• ed in town. The out-of-town children knew they had safe havens if stornl- stayed. closings Dave Kemp. principal of Hensall Public School, says the decision about closure is more difficult in a school like his, with a -mix of students from the village and the surrouding area. He gathers as much information as he can, and acts accordingly. He had decided by the 7:00 a.m. deadline to close llensall. What if the benefit of hindsight shows that a prinicpal made the wrong call? That does not Worry education of- ficials. At the heart of all decisions is the welfare of the children. - "Sometimes a school is closed by 7:00. and the sun is shining at Too. but safety is more important thtai miss- ing a day of school". ('arroll affirmed Sport4men's Continued from front page attending the dinner will be eight year-old Jeff Finkbeiner of Crediton who will be representing all handicap- ped children as this year's Timmy. All proceeds from the dinner go to support the Thames Valley Treat- ment Centre in London and area ci;ippled childre Tickets are available frommember of the Exeter Lions. the Scotia Bank. Frayne Chev-Olds, Royal Bank. Anstett Jewellers, Standard Trust and the Time Advocate. Remember: a man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a crippl- ed child. Winter Hours Tues. - Sat. 9:30 - 5:30 Closed Mondays .-- Ready for a New Hair Style? 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