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Teachers
and board
at odds
STRATFORD - The Perth
County Board of Education and
its high school teachers are bat-
tling over time for administra-
tive duties and salaries accord-
ing to a provincial negotiator.
According- to the St. Marys
Journal Argus, a 24 -page fact
tinder report by Richard Jackson
declares a strike is inevitable if a
settlement is not soon reached.
Teachers are seeking a 1.1 per-
cent -increase in salary and more -
time to perform subject and
classroom administration. •
Last March; the board's policy •
changed resulted in 31 depart-
ment heads and directors losing
one classroom period when they
would normally have done ad-
ministrative work.
Department heads are now re-
sponsible for administrating 32
classes instead of le.
The board reduced 111 direc-
tors, department heads, subject
chairpersons and other positions
of responsibility by 21, equiva-
lent to 5:75 teaching positions to
save $142,275. Posiuons ot`ie-
sponsibility previously cost the
board S355.415 annually.
Peace Park
expanded
GO ERICH - In conjunction
with other towns and cities
across Canada, the town of
Goderich will be expanding its
Peace Park
According to the Huron Ex-
positor, the expansion will be
accompanied by a.ceremony Oc-
tober ti at the park on SL Chris-
topher's Beach Goderich will
join other comae ices m cele-
brating Peace Park Celebration
Day
In addition, the Goderich
Parks and Water Committee will
add a grove of 12 trees to the
pare. representing the provinces
and territories of Canada.
Farmer
caught in
baler
WINGHAM - A 28 -year-old
Morns Township man is in criti-
cal condition in Victoria Hospi-
tal in London alter a farnung ac-
cident last Sunday afternoon.
According to Wrngham OPP,
William Hasungs of RR4 Wing -
ham was baling hay on the Lot
4- Concession 1.farm bee ngwg.
to William Garniss about 4:30
p.m
Hastings was using his foot to
try and clear straw from the in-
take of the baler. While kicking
the straw in, he was caught and
dragged into the machine. On
entering, the slip clutch let
loose, stopping the farmer's
progress into the baler.
Unable to free, himself, Has-
tings remained pinned legs first,
up to the waist until 11:05 p.m:
when Ganuss found and freed
bun
Alter being taken to Winghiam
District Hospital, Hasings was
transferred to London.
Bayfield
h ote l
receives
grant
AYFiELD - The Albion Ho-
tel, a Bayfield landmark since
1840, will widergo extensive
renovations thanks to a $30,000
grant from the Ministry of Cul-
ture and Communications.
According to the Clinton
News Record, the grant, availa-
ble for the conservation of pri-
vately owned commercial and
industrial properties designated
under the Ootario Heritage Act,
1974, was awarded in July to the
Albion, one of three succeasful
applicants.
The original building consist-
ed of a store built in 1840, to
which the hotel addition was
added in 1856. The hotel bas re-
mained largely unchanged since
1902,.srid is now owned by Jack
and Kim Musaynaki.
By Adrian Harte
T -A Rdlitor
TORONTO - The younger broth-
er of Terry Fox, who accompanied
him on his cross -Canada Marathon
of Hope, made his first public
speaking appearance this summer
at an organizer's workshop for the
Terry 'Fox Run.
Darrell Fox spelled out for the
workshop participants the events of
that spring and summer in 1980
when his brother made his attempt
to run across Canada, despite los-
ing his right kg to cancer three
years before.
Darrell left school a month early
so he could join the 21 -year old
Terry on the run. He, Terry, and
van driver Doug Alward were the
only three on the journey for those
first few days after it began in St.
John's Newfoundland on April 12.
"it was clear nothing in his con-
trol would stop him from dipping
his foot in the Pacific in a few
months time," explained Darrell.
"Terry was always one to finish
what he started."
The routine of that first month on
the mad consisted of a 4:30 a.m.
wake up so that Terry could cover
between 12 and 14 miles before an
8:30 or 9 a.m. breakfast, which
Darrell noted, was equivalent to an
average person's daily food intake.
Darrell describes the weeks after
the Marathon of Hope left the Mar-
itimes and entered Quebec as "frus-
trating" because the people they
met along the way were not aware
of Fox's marathon attempt and the
language harrier did little to edu-
cate them.
,Darrell said he can remember
several days while Terry ran along
the shores of St. Lawrence that
they had to use the van as a wind-
break to stop him from being
blown over.
Once the Marathon of Hope
passed the border into Ontario,
everything began to change, ex-
plained Darrell. While increasing
media coverage was beginning to
make the run well-known and de-
veloped huge public support along
the route, speaking engagements
and receptions began to eat into
Terry's rest and sleep time.
With an OPP support car now
joining the run, donations began to
pour in, both from spectators and
donors.
Darrell said the extra miles added
to the route to include London and
Kitchener to the marathon were
lined . with spectators and it all
blurred into his memory, as "one
long day".
After returning to Toronto before
heading into Ontario's north, Dar-
rell said his older brother became
obsessed with mileage and began
to refer to 'going home" despite
the thousands of miles left before
the Pacific. in retrospect, Darrell
said he knew something was
wrong.
"1 always feel guilty for not say-
ing something, but I guess 1 was
just a kid and I believed Terry
Darnell Fox, younger brother of Terry Fox, makes his first pub-
lic appearance as a guest speaker for an organizers workshop
of the Terry Fox Run in Toronto.
could overcome anything," said
Darrell.
Just outside Thunder Bay on Sep-
tember 1, Darrell said he was wbk-
en up to be told his brother was tak-
en to the hospital. The return of
cancer in his lungs had been con-
firmed.
Ten months later, despite treat-
ment with interferon and chemo-
therapy, Terry Fox, the youngest
Companion of the Order of Canada,
died in New Westminster, B.C.
Darrell told his audience that he
was left with a feeling of "what
now?" More than 10 years later he
said he can finally answer that
question and has decided this year
to take on the job as a provincial di-
rector of the Terry Fox Run in Brit-
ish Columbia.
Terry Fox Runs, held in tribute to
Terry each year since 1981, have
raised millions of dollars, all of
which goes directly to cancer re-
search. The Terry Fox Foundation
became independent of the Canadi-
an Cancer Society in 1988. Last
year, nuns across Canada and in
several other countries raised $7.5
million for research, S3.2 million
from Ontario alone.
In the South Huron area this year,
there are Terry Fox Runs in Exeter,
Zurich, Clinton and Seaforth, all on
September 20. The Exeter run
starts in MacNaughton Park at 12
noon. The Zurich run leaves the
Zurich Community Centre Park at
2 p.m.
Sponsor sheets can be found at
many local businesses and offices
displaying the 1992 Terry Fox Run
poster.
Date still
to be set
for bank
fraud trial
GODERICH - A date has yet
to be set for a trial for a Parkhill
woman accused of defrauding
an Exeter bank's customers of
thousands of dollars.
A pre-trial hearing held Friday
afternoon for Leona McIntosh of
RR4 Parkhill determined that
the date fora trial will be set in
Assignment Court on September
15 at 2:30 pan.
The former Bank of Montreal
employee was charged last No-
vember with four counts of
fraud exceeding $1.000. The in-
vestigation involved one full -
tune officer with the Exeter Po-
lice and the OPP ani -rackets
squad. •
At the tune of the arrest, po-
lice would not discuss how the
alleged frauds took place nor
how much money was involved.
Lucan to observe special waste reduction week
LUCAN - Council of the village
of Lucan will be declaring the week
of September 27 to October 4 as
Waste Reduction Week.
Local council will be joining
more than 100 other Ontario mu-
nicipalities and organizations in
this one-week Ontario -wide envi-
ronmental blitz mended to chal-
lenge people to learn .more about
and practice the three R's more ef-
fectively. The three R's are reduce,
reuse and recycle.
At the September 1 meeting,
councillors quickly thrugh their
support behind the Waste Reduc-
tion Week.
Reeve Toni Mclaughlin said. "
This will give us a great opportuni-
ty to start hammering away at resi-
dents to reduce the amount of gar-
bage they put out for collection".
McLaughlin added, "In recent
months the amount of garbage coi-
lectd in Lucan has increased by
about 30 percent".
Deputy reeve Harry Wraith sus
gested the three area elementary
schools should be utilized for pro-
motion of garbage reduction and re-
cycling. He continued, " Promo-
tional brochures are available. This
is a great time to go to the schools".
Councillor Rob Brady suggested
a poster contest for the students at
Lucan and Biddulph Public Schools
and St. Patrick's Separate School.
In conclusion ,:McLaughlin said,
" The schools have proven very
positive in their approach to this
subject, it's the adults we have to
get after to reduce the amount of
garbage they throw out"
Brady added, " Before you
throw it out, think".
Councillor Bryan Smith , a mem-
ber of the joint stewing committee
on waste management with the
townships of London, Lobo and
West Nissouri said his group
would be promoting recycling at
the ldtrton Fair on October 2 and
3.
He said composting is increasing
in the village with 10 compostors
sold in the last three months. One
compostor will be given away as a
prize at 'Merton.
Smith reporting on a recent joint
recycling meeting said costs were
increasing. He added, "Our only
problem is paper. We can't fad a
proper market for it and it's costing
us $17.50 a ton to get rid of. I'm
wholeheartedly behind recycling,
but we have to do something about
paper"
The Lucan councillor reported
that OMMRI is trying to find an
outlet for paper. OMMRI stands for
Ontario Multi Materials Incorporat-
ed, a consortium of manufacturers
including those of soft drinks.
Zoning disagreement
Continued from front page
The county's planning and development committee had recom-
mended the application to change the zoning be denied.
It now has to meet the ministry's approval. The property is just off
of Highway 4 and is the old roads department building and property.
"Our council is opposed to it," said Exeter reeve Bill Mickle who
was curious to how the property will be serviced.
Hay Township -reeve Lionel Wilder was upset about Exeter trying
to stand in the way of this zoning change.
"I don't feel one municipality should restrict another if it's reason-
able," said Wilder.
He said that leaving this land as agricultural was "ridiculous".
"We don't warn to build a fence in Huron County for develop
ment," said Wilder.
Exeter reeve elected v p of municipal association
By Adrian Harte
T -A Editor
EXETER - Town council now
has a voice at the top table of pro-
vincial/municipal negotiations. Ex-
eter reeve Bill Mickle has been
elected as one of the four vice-
presidents of the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).
About 700 Ontario municipalities
are members of AMO and use the
organization as their lobby group
for their interests with the province.
Interestingly, the entire AMO ex-
ecutive, which also includes a first
vice-president and the president,
are all representatives from rural or
northern municipalities, but Mickk
pants out that the AMO board of
directors does have members from
the larger urjprt centres, helping to
even out the representation.
Mickle just finished up this
spring a year-long term as president
of one of AMO's sub -groups,
OSUM (Ontario Small Urban Mu-
nicipalities).
"I think it had a lot to do with my
election, because 1 ended up on top
of the polls," said Mackie, but ac-
knowledged that this year of repre-
senting all kinds of Ontario munici-
palities will be difficult, even with
his OSUM experience.
"It's going to be a challeage," he
said. "You speak for a much
broader base now."
But the main issue that concerned
him during his OSUM presidency
is the tame one that follows hits to
AMO.
"My biggest concern is dematan-
giement And how it will affect wu-
.aieilpadities. We .w,ant .to,set the
best .dos ,for towns „like ,iiweer,"
said Mickle.
Disentanglement is the unofficial
term for the province's plan to sep
arate municipal and provincial
finding. Such things as rued works
and welfare are jointly funded by
both municipalities and provinciai
subsidies. Queen's Park aim is to
reduce the duplication of bureau-
cracy in such areas.
Mickle said AMO has proved it
self an effective voice for Ontario s
municipal goverrttneuts. Rather
than deal with .the complaints and
concerns of each Ontario city.
awn, or township, the province
prefers to "deal with one ideotuy'
Consequently, AMO's eAecutivc•
frequently meets with provincial
cabinet ministers to discuss neve
provincial initiates or to argue fur
some that have yet to pass.
When the province began to re-
vise its methods of distributing
grant monies to municipalities, it
was AMO that fought to keep the
distribution . fair when it appeared
large urban centres were receiving
preferential ueanatent and more
money. There is alao an ongoing
battle to try to restore the province's
share of education taxes beck tube
60 percent feuding it used to be be-
fore it slipped to 40 percent.
"Part of tbat is due to provincial
programs gnat are being mandated
without funding." said .
Mickle, pid he would also like to
see the province adopt a _la nicipal
Charter. Believe it or not, there is
no dyne dominant.lbat #polls out
Me definition of aaiimicApality, its
6014 ntsponsibi1ties. duties, or ju-
risdiction.
"There's -oohing ,in jotala ign
that recognizes that," noted Mickle,
adding that without a clear det-tni-
tion, towns and villages can be
treated like "creatures of the prov-
ince".
Mickle said he will be attending
two or three meetings a month and
some of the costs of attending will
be borne by the Town of Exeter.
Council has supported Micklc's ca-
reer with AMO and OSUM, but he
said there is hope that eventually
the expenses of AMO officers will
be covered. out of AMO general
funds.
"I've also picked up some expens-
es out of my own pocket to be
there," said Mickle.
Although Exeter's reeve is there
to snake decisions in the best inter-
OPP seek
information
on thefts,
mischief
EXETER - The OPP are seeking
the public's assistance in three tun -
solved crimes, two of which are
thefts.
On Sunday A 30 police say
a quantity of , valued.at $200
were stole) fium akiWartneent un-
der renovation at 123.itawn in
Boasau. Stolen ,Mara app wArivors,
wreaches and ratchet sots.
On August 28 a par CD/cassette
player was removed from a vehicle
perked at Tawnliae collision in
Saigon Ta siostM,. T%uivai-
est of all provincial mumcipaliues.
town council has said in the past
they have reaped many benefits
r f
from Mickle's expertise and 1 urst-
hand information though his acuvi
lies with AMO and OSUM
ter a) years,
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