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Times Advocate, 1994-04-20, Page 3IN TJ -IF 1\TEWS Villa beds awaiting only a license or Continued from front page. 1993 expansion completed, the to- tal capacity of the home is 65 beds in the apartment -style retirement lodge, and 60 in the nursing hone, and four in respite care (a maxi- mum 28 day stay for seniors who Zurich gets school bus loading zones ZURICH - Motorists in Zurich will be getting a break as the village establishes school bus loading /ones in front of both the Public and Separate schools. Motorists are expected to appre- ciate the new zones because it will allow buses to take on and let off students without having to use their flashing lights. Traffic will be al- lowed to pass on the left sides of the buses, since the students will not be crossing the roadways. Both the Huron Board of Educa- tion and the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board agreed to purchase the "school bus loading zone" signs to post in front of the schools. Village council will be passing the appropriate bylaws to allow the new zones. Dashwood Medical Centre target of vandalism EXETER - Youths are believed to be responsible for the wilful dam- age to windows at the Dashwood Medical Centre on Friday. BB or pellet guns were believed to be used. Police urge parents to control the use of these potentially danger- ous weapons. The OPP are also investigating a number of reported thefts. A snow- mobile trailer was reported stolen, the theft occurred in early March. The -Highway 21 -- near the Bayview golf course, say police. On Tuesday, an AM/FM cassette car stereo was stolen from a parked car on Nelson Street in Hensall. A CB radio was also stolen from a van on Tuesday parked on Brock Street in Hensall. Also on Tuesday, a commercial sump pump was reported stolen from a residential garage in a Hay Township cottage subdivision. Two hundred used tire casings were reported stolen from Veri Trucking in Exeter on Wednesday. Sunday, four chrome hub caps and licence plates were stolen from a Volkswagen Rabbit parked at a residence on Simcoe Street in Exet- er. The provincial seat belt program is in effect from Saturday, April 16 to April 30. Police officers have been instructed to look for seat belt violations both in towns and on the highways. The penalty for not wear- ing a scat belt is a $90 fine and two demerit points. Usborne will help with Exeter arena deficit EXETER - The South Huron Rec- reation Centre, which ran up a defi- cit of $11.332 on its 1993 budget, will be getting some relief from a supporting township. Usborne Township council, at its April 5 meeting, agreed to pay its share of the deficit, amounting to $1,185. That amount is 10.46 per- cent of the total, the same share as the township pays towards the are- na's operating costs each year. At the same meeting, council turned down a request from the Hensall and District Community Centre for a grant to help with its 1994 budget. Council agreed they would continue to support only the Exeter centre. The arena deficit, caused by what Exeter council described as revenue shortfalls and necessary capitarex- penses, was asked to be shared amongst the town, and the support- ing townships of Usborne, Stephen and Hay. Of these Usborne is the largest contributor, paying $15,825 in regular grants each year. Hay and Stephen Townships, however, have declined to pay any- thing in addition to their regular grants to subsidize the arena deficit. normally live with family). With the Villa now comfortably taking up most of its lot, Kan- nampuzha says future expansions have not been ruled out. He points to a storage room that may one day house an elevator. "We can go two more stories eas- Township steps in for centre orContinued from front page. which holds the lease on the college property until July. "It appears they're interest- ed in subletting it to us, and we, in turn, would sublet it out," said Brown. After the OMAF lease ex- pires on the college and its recreation centre, Brown said the township would be nego- tiating with the ODC. Brown said he is trying to get details on the cost to the township for taking over the facility. However, that would mostly include maintenance and utilities, since the build- ing may be sublet for next to nothing. "It would appear neither party [OMAF nor ODCI is interested in lease income from us, but there are signifi- cant utility costs," said Brown. Whether the township views the adopted centre as an opportunity to extend the duties of the arena staff, is to be decided later. "We may lease it on a 'lease as -is' basis," Brown suggest- ed. Although the recreation centre sees its heaviest use in the winter months, the cadets will be using it on a regular basis in the summer, and it does get rented out for large receptions. - ily," he boasts, explaining the foun- dation was built with that in mind. Whether or not such a facility is ever built depends mostly on how the province views future nursing home development, and whether it can afford to subsidize that care. For now Kannampuzha is count- Times -Advocate, April 20, 1994 Page 3 ing on the support of town council, and is hoping to find a home oper- ator willing to sell a license on a few beds so he will be ablee alize the full potential of build- ing as it stands today. Fiddled out Christopher Mullin decided to relax to the music and get a bit of rest in mother Valerie's arms. The two were spending the weekend in Crediton and decided to come out to the jambor: ee. Retirements at local schools lead to staff changes for 1994-95 CLINTON - There will be a few new faces at many Huron County schools this September and it won't just be new students, but principals and vice -principals. Last week, the Huron County Board of Education announced three principals would be retiring and one leave of absence that lead to the shuffle in staff. Mary Moffat, the principal at Hensall Public School will be retir- ing and Margaret Allen who is presently vice-principal at McCur- dy will take over as principal in Hensall. Lorne Rideout, a teachcr at Hensall Public School will be taking over for Allen at McCurdy. Also retiring is Bill Black, princi- pal at Zurich Public School. Patty Brereton, an area resource teacher and night school principal in Gode- rich will be the new principal. At the high school level, Joe Wooden will be retiring as princi- pal at South Huron District High School and Herb Murphy, who was previously principal at F.E. Madill Secondary School and Bluewater Secondary School will take over. Other changes at Huron County schools include: • Dave Brereton, principal at Turnberry CPS to principal at Holmesvillc PS; • Phil Parsons, vice-principal at Howick CPS to principal at Turn - berry CPS; • Helen Crocker, teacher at Vic- toria PS to vice-principal at Walton PS; • Dave Shaw arca resource teach- er to vice-principal of Howick CPS; • Dave Higgins a teacher at Clin- ton PS will be acting vice-principal at the school while Lois Tebbutt is on a one year leave of absence; • Bruce Eccles moves from head of the English Department to vice- principal of Seaforth District High School. Teacher applications exceed handful of possible portions CLINTON - Employment pros- pects with the Huron County Board of Education don't look promising for the more than 1,600 would-be teachers who sent in applications so far this year. Paul Carroll, director of the board said applications for teaching posi- tions far exceed the number usually on hand for this time of year, al- though he didn't have official num- bers for the past few years to use as comparison. "I can remember six years ago we would receive about 600 applica- tions. It's a dramatic change from those days," he said. And at this point Carroll said the board doesn't expect any teaching positions to come available. "We are actually downsizing." he said. "The Social Contract Act requires that the total number of teachers in Ontario be reduced by 4.75 percent. In our case that means about 30 fewer positions overall by the end of the Social Contract." As well, the number of teachers required in secondary schools is down because enrolment is decreas- ing. But it's not all had news. Carroll said some teaching areas are expanding such as Junior Kin- dergarten where some additional staff will be required. Teachers will also be needed to fill some re- tirement vacancies. But of the growing list of appli- cants only about a handful can ex- pect to be offered teaching posi- tions, Carroll said. All applications are entered into a computer database and kept on file for one year just in case a position comes up. 4 Request for Public Opinion on the Proposed Nursing Home Annual Licence ,Renewal of Exeter Villa, Exeter In accordance with the Nursing Homes Act, public opinion is being requested prior to a final decision being made on the above. If you have continents or opinions and wish to bring them to the attention of the Ministry of Health, you may submit thein in writing by addressing them to: Director, Residential Services Branch Ontario Ministry of Health 5700 Yonge Street, 7th Floor North York, Ontario M2M 4K2 (416) 327-7357. by May 25, 1994 Please include the name of the nursing home and quote Project 012-95 on all written submissions. 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