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Times -Advocate, May 22, 1991
Reach for the Top
- Members of this year's SHDHS team Include,
front from left, Geoff Poole and David Thiel, and standing from left,
Jacob Peterson, Tim Miller, Mark Russell, and Coach Barb Golding.
Missing is Mamie Walker.
Motor vehicle facts
most youORONTO - If
t motor vehicle collisions occur
r
on dark slick roads, you're wrong.
Almost 60 percent of all colli-
sions occur on dry roads, with
about two-thirds occurring during
daylight hours, Ontario Transporta-
tion Minister Ed Philip said last
week as he released the 1988-1989
Ontario Road Safety Annual Re-
port.
The report outlines a broad range
of statistics pertaining to motor ve-
hicle collisions and their causes in
Ontario.
The summer months of June, July
and August can be the most risky
for motorists as almost one-third of
all fatal collisions occurred during
this time, with 40 percent occurring
on Fridays and Saturdays.
In 1988, there were 228,398 re-
portable motor vehicle crashes. In
1989, that number rose to 247,038,
an increase of 18,640 or eight per-
cent.
The number of people who died
in motor vehicle crashes rose
slightly both years to 1,237 to 1988
and to 1,286 in 1989. However, the
overall rate of fatalities per number
of licensed drivers has remained
fairly stable since 1982.
Alcohol continued to be a major
factor in motor vehicle collisions.
Alcohol was present in 42 percent
of the drivers killed in 1988, and
38percent of the drivers killed in
1989, down from 60 percent in
1981. The severity of the crash in-
creased with alcohol involvement.
"The report show we have made
progress," said Philip. "Some may
say that is good because things
aren't getting any worse. To me,
that simply isn't good enough! I
want to see the trends point to even
greater safety on our roads."
Philip made the comment before
presenting a $32,000 grant to the
Ontario Traffic Conference to con-
tinue its work in researching and
promoting traffic safety, in a
speech last night to the OTC annu-
al banquet in Niagara Falls. Dur-
ing his remarks Philip reviewed
many of the trends indicated by
the safety report.
The collision rate increase is due
in part to an expanding population
and a continuing increase in the
number of licensed drives and ve-
hicles. In 1989 there were
6,290,424 licensed drivers and
6,326,436 registered vehicles in
Ontario.
Scat belt use continues to be the
single most cost effective road
safety measure.
Still 6,581 people were killed or
injured while not wearing seat
belts. And most recent statistics
show only 72 percent of Ontario's
drivers use scat belts and less than
half of young children were cor- .
rectly buckled up.
Young drivers continue to be
over -represented in collision sta-
tistics. Drivers in the 16 to 24 age
group comprised 15 percent of all
licensed drivers. The 214 driver
skilled in this age group represent
30 percent of all driver fatalities.
One out of three fatalities was un-
der the age of Z4.
While motorcycles continue to
be•over-represented in fatal crash-
es, the numbers have been de-
creasing over the past five years.
"The most significant factor in
traffic collisions is driver behavi-
our." said Philip. "The most com-
mon driving errors are failure to
yield the right-of-way, driving too
fast and following too closely.
There is no place on Ontario's
public roads for agressive drivers
who feel they have to pass every
other vehicle on the road."
LI
SHDHS Reaches for the Top
By Rhonda these achievements which allow
EXETER VVanndeworrpp at is the Exeter team to join 23
secondary schools at the Provi
the capital of Kenya? cials in May.
In which play would The first level of competition i
you find the character volved a ten -game round rob
named Horatio? Name After calculating
the last player'in the Na_pnumber
tional League to pitch back -to- taking each team scored, whi
back no-hitters. No guesses? �°° into consideration the
Well, it was lightning_speej re-
sponses to questions like these that
led the Reach for the Top team at
SHDHS to place sixth in the prov-
ince.
Reach for the Top is an academ-
ic competition which involves 300
Ontario secondary schools. Each
of these teams compete on a local
1r.
ed level four out of the five
other the Provincials have existeyd. Never
ears t
n- has the Exeter team ranked so high
in n- schools.comparison to the other Ontario
in. "Last year SHDHS was ranked
of 14th or 15th in the province. This
le year's team was our premiere team.
If..�
ber of games played, eight schoo
with the highest scores moved on
the final round.
Coach Barb Golding commen
that the remaining eight teams w
closely matched in regards to e
number of points scored in the pre
vious round of competition. She
extremely proud of their sixth place
vel -- the School Reach League standing Considering they had to
and the local television series, face a couple of schools whit
This year South Huron topped w� private,e advanced -placemen
both of the local leagues by cap- type institutions.
luring the Huron County title and South Huron District High
by winning the competition aired School began offering this program
on CKNX of Wingham. It was 10 Years ago, and since that time,
they have reached the all -Ontario
Salrnonelra-[nfection
OTTAWA - While some foodser- including eggs, and can cause tlu-
vice circumstances may warrant like symptoms The illness can be
special handlingmore serous m the very
consumers and foodservice
most elderly, young, the
°odservice Indus- pregnant women or those
try personnel should be reminded who are sick. ,
operly
that the chane of contractinghandled eggs digested,
monella enteritidis from sal- 88 are easilydigested,
Grade A eggsCanada provide an excellent source of nu-
Giaion, thCis less than one in a CE and add variety to one's diet.
Ing Agency said recently.Eggian Market- mei and foodserviMA ce p rsonthat el fol -
Agency was repersonnel -
low the Agency's handling guide-
Thesponding to lines to reduce the risk of infection.
the recently released Health and
Welfare Canada guidelines for han- According to Dr. John Kellar,
tiling eggs, which recommend Agriculture Canada Associate Di -
avoiding raw or under cooked eggs rector of Disease Control, a 1990
in order to eliminate the risk of sal- analysis of Canadian laying flocks
monellr infection, found the Prevalence of salmonella
Salmonella enteriddies is a bade- enteritidies to be extremely
rial infection found in manyf about 0.7 egg per million eggs
cods, ducal
were ever going to do it, this
Is was the year," claimed Golding.
to Golding knew at the beginning of
the year that this group of students
ted had the potential to be provincial
ere winners. The immediate devotion
th displayed by the members since the
- beginning of the season in Septem-
is ber was one reason for Goldin 's
confidence in the team.
As Golding stated, practice is es -
h sential if one wants a winning
ant team. These six South Huron com- Although she is ex
tem-
petitors were willing to sacrifice porary set -back, the junior team'sa one hour each day for the entire high standingin the junior
school year in order to compete hasa as dingHuron
against one another in a mock- District
ent Champions has Golding
game experience. It was, in fact, potential. team's future
low,
pro -
through these exercises that the per-
manent team was chosen.
Besides practice, quickness to the
buzzer, and brains, one can not ig-
nore the fact that a large part of this
year's success was due to the cumu-
lative experience of OAC students
who have been involved in the pro -
for three or four years. David
lel, Mamie Walker, and Geoff
Poole were three members who
will be graduating this year.
"It takes years for a team to build
up and get to that position. We lost
vital competitors, and it will take a
couple years to rebuild the strength
of the team," Golding stated.
termed minimal
"As with any food product, there the first phase of the
always some risk of contamina_ P ro gram, pin_
'"
is s erry Gamter,
CEMA's General Manager, "but in
the case of eggs, this risk is mini-
mal and must be weighed against
the high nutritional value and ver-
satility of Canadian eggs."
CEMA continues to take steps. to
maintain standards for high quality
eggs and reduce the chance that
someone might eat a Canada
Grade A egg containing salmonel-
la enteritidis in the interior of the
shell.
The Salmonella Control Pro-
gram, gram, designed all
forms of salmonella, was launched
by CEMA in November 1990. In
tion sa G ducers learned how further min-
imize on-farm contamination by
following a Code of Farm Man-
agement Practice. Producers are
rated on their, control practices.
Now the program is being taken
beyond the farm gate to the egg
grading and processing industries.
A comprehensive educational
thrust directed to more than 500
operations is being undertaken in
coooperaand Egg with the Canadian
Processors Coun-
cil l Agriculture Canada. Subse-
to quent phases of the program will
address Salmonella control in the
retail sector, in the foodservice in-
dustry and with consumers.
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