HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-11-18, Page 19Wednesday. November 18, 1998
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Christmas crafting
Udora Peters, left, and Blanche Boulton, both of.
Hensall. display some of their homemade crafts
they had for sale at the Hensall Minor Hockey-
-Craft Show and Bake Sale on Saturday.Among
their crafts were dolls, air fresheners, angels and -
Christmas trees. -
CWL elect new officers
EX(1't;H - On -Tuesday.
Nov. .l l). .a 'meeting of
the Pret:ions-Blood CWt,
Was held fallowing u
Moss -said by Fr. Paul.
President Mary Koricina
thanked everyone for
their help during the -
very sur; . ssful Fenny
Sale held recently at the
Exeter
Convening
LE3-gion.
Convening next year's
Funny Sale will be
Mariiette Bticki' and
Annette. Uononune. .
Nomination chairper-
sirn
Esther Rau thanked
the outgoing executive
members for their work
and dedication during
the past two years. The
new officers elected fur .
- 1999 are Ceriliu
Mittelhol.tz-President,
Marlene • Munn
Secretitry,-,Loan -Agnew-
Treasurer, Janette
Ducharme-l:irst Vice
President.. Vf'illie .
Verborne-So(iond Vitae-'
Presid+tit. Elected to
cunvenerships are
Marlette Bilcke, Truus
Koen, -Doreen Regier.
Annette l)enottuut• and
Ann Marie Cook.
Flans.were made for
the annual Christmas'
dinner tobe held at.
Trivitt Hall in.
December.
The meeting. lelos ed
with a -prayer.
Weight Watchers
is back in Exeter!
Come and see what
we're all about!
Information/Registration Night
wed., November 25, 1998
t 7:00 p.m. -
Christian Reformed Church
330 Huron St. West. Exeter
For more information call
1-800-387-822.7
Rummage sale raises $7,728 for hospital
• EXETER - yhe South
Huron Hospital Auxiliary
met at 1:3o p.m. on
November 10. Mary
Fisher, president, opened
the mooting with a read-
ing.on Remembering.
Maureen Cole intro-
duced the new C.B.O. of
Huron Perth - Hospital
System, Bonnie :Adamson
who spoke of her future
work. She showed us the
new logo which is in the
form of a 9 -block quilt.
The eight outside blocks
represent the eight hospi-
tals and the centre block
the Central Committee:
Linda •• Finkbeiner
demonstrated the many
uses of scarves. •
Reports of the H.A.A.O.
convention were given by
the three attending - Mary
Rawl -der, Mary Fisher and
Ruth Skinner who had
been honoured with a life
membership.
Routine business fol-
lowed. The treasurer
reported 57,728 realized
from the fall rummage
sale.
Grace Adkins asked for
opinions on the gift bop
hours.
A conunittee was named
to amend and update the
. by-laws and constitution
of the Auxiliary.
Verla Russell reported
on the work of the •doctor
recruitment committee.
School Funding:
Ling -Term Solutions
That Put Kids First
We believe every child.in this province
deserves . an equal chance at life.
hi the bast, school luudn►g was anything but lair
b:canat n was lhISCd n1.part un, how "much seach
School board could rause m Itx lil takes. Now.
thanks to student-h.ised funding. even• child
nt Ontario can have fair access to a litt;h-qualit.'
educattirn, no Matter where they live.
Mote money for classroom education,
less for bureaucratic waste.
I•ur mane years, fi:ucuts complained al'lout .
school board• ti;r l;in nt t , - much uu a* :j' •.:a(
and athtllllistratllri, am, •.,o lit• - ill classiUUti, tictidS.
\tii•asked buacdk to luld savings tri uverlwad and
administration, then apph these luitds'to clasacuuttl_
ueeds. Must buArd• rtspoitded i1i good faith. A few'
didn't. Instead, they threatened to close schools.
- We could not stand by and let them -
- threaten our kids' schools. . -• "
lu'prutee-t •cluldteti (rut) unueetssary school clusurts,
%%t l.illt►l' tip -with -lour diftert7ltt spitutions.•
•
A permanent 2O% top -up grant -
for schools with fewer students.
Kcviou h. a schoul'hulh kir 11)0 studeuu that had
unI►' 80 strident.: enrolled ►. iruid (te. t lust 2.0%
. of its operating budget. Nuw. Sellout• operating at •
less thau.l►dl capat`IU will tecetet a top-►Ip:graut
ut up to 20`,.. to bring -them darer to. urup
tu. •telt operational funding.
New permanent allowances for schools
with non=standard- design features.
Sotut sthoob. have urwsuai design features that
mum additional costs. }or example, main- older
schools have extra -wide hallways that need to*
heated And cleaned. These unique design features
Have. now.' been taken into consideration when
calculating school 1uadtng.
More time for school -boards
to move money into the dassroom. -
lv prt•viin certain board's horn unnecessarily -
. closing sc:llvols. we'it giving thein more time at
4:tucent Lundin levels to find the sayings we know
exist_ Boards facwg fuirdutg lair -eases will receive
their utcreases as originally scheduled. '
Professional third party help to find .
savings in administration and overhead.
• In ..spun.. to a request for Ilt'Ip from the head of .
fix luruilto Ihstrtct Sclt1.10l Huard, t(lt (it>vt nu►leilt
will prof Idt• tltetet, and any oilier hoard requesting it,
with a ttain.ol Itlatlagtltlent experts to help thein
!Ind:ways to Nue -moral in olit•rartorls and_
adnuiustrattun. • . - - -
An equal chance for every -child -
remains our goal. .
,' Vli•'tc IntXt' t.Ull1ltuttt:d than t•rt•1 t., ratsutg•rh
quaility of education for all Outat iu clvldtk It
ISut-t.Vt rl'dh/A .that It will take tItitt for ow
pruaL plt2, 1.0 1./.2....01114.' rt•altt.. Nt)t l.i',wink"!
,i Birk give and take trout everyone. .
Call 1-888-848-5905 and get the facts.
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