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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-11-25, Page 8I O YEARS AGO November 23. 1988 Incumbent MI' Murray Cardiff held his Iluron=Bruce riding for the Progressive Conservatives in Monday's federal election. Cardiff gained 20,042 votes as com- pared to 16,629 for first-time Liberal candidate Ken Dunlop. NDP candidate Tony McQuail was third with 7,743 votes and Tom Clarke of the Christian Heritage party had 2,633 votes. 20 YEARS AGO. November 23, 1978 - The 24 area residents . who served. on the various committees involved in the. erection of the South Iluron !tec Centre were honoured ata municipal banquet, Monday night. Dashwood Industries, the top donor for thefund, donated special plaques to the volun- teers. HAUGH BACK IN TIME At Friday's annual banquet of the Huron- -Perth baseball league, five members of the Dashwood Tigers were honoured as most valu- able to their team; They were John Ilayter, Jim Guenther, Bob Hoffman, Barry Baynham and Glenn Thurman. - 35 YEARS AGO November 22, 1963 - SIIDIIS board agreed Tuesday to seek tentative approval from the department of education to erect an addition containing seven rooms. Mrs. Hugh Patterson was named president of the Gordon Evening Auxiliary of Coven Presbyterian Church -ata recent meeting. 40 YEARS AGO Niwember-24, 1958 - Mr. and Mrs. Chester Smith who published the Zurich Herald for 44 years before retiring at the beginning of this year -were presented with a silver 'tray in recog= nition of their contribution to the community by fellow newspaper editors at the annual meeting of the group in Zurich. .J.M.: Southc'ott. made the presentation- Farmers spotted a wild bobcat roaming the woods south of Hensall Saturday. The animal is rare in this area. The newly completed Bice bridge over the • Ausable River at Concession 2 in McGillivray was officially opened Wednesday. The bridge is the largest built in the township in 30 years and is 80 feet long and cost $49,000. SOYEARSAGO , November 23, 1948 = Miss Velma Ferguson of Usborne who won the oratorical contest for Iluron County in the Junior Farmers' Association public speaking also won first place in competition with Perth County at Mitchell, Monday. The fourth class of pilots trained at the Flying '('raining School at Centralia will -receive its wings on Friday. Joanne McCurdy was Daisy Mae land Uel Schroeder was L'il Abner at the Sadie Hawkins dance on Friday evening. 60 YEARS, AGO - November 22; 1938 An advertisement from E.R. Hopper's Furniture Store boasted of a sale price of $76 for a "three -pieced x-rayed chester- field suite" and the local Ford dealer listed a brand new Ford automobile with power-of'8'5 horsepower for. a low $915. 75 YEARS AGO Novemb-e:r 24, 1 23 - Remarkably mild weoth- • er has prevailed for some weeks and some new records have Leen set. Mr. Thomas Coates left last -Thursday for' Detroit to take a course in the Michigan Auto and Electric School. Mr. Roy Webber has purchased a half interest in the creatnery business operated by Mr. Robert Higgins of Ifensall. Mr. Garnet Miners of Usborne made a Very excellent showing at the Royal Winter Fair in ,Toronto with his Yorkshire hogs carrying off a large _number of prizes. 80 YEARS AGO November 24, 1918 - The Canadian Bank of Commerce is offering loans to farmers interested in starting hog production in light of pork short ages. Good markets for some time to come are assured. Exeter Times—Advocate Opinion °' Forum LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Trustees elected to serve the public Dear Editor: The Avon Maitland District School Boar that the Huron/Perth community needs mo for the operation and renewal of its.scho imperative for our community to find tho using options that do not include closing There have been a number of statements and from the AMDSB indicating that all possible administrative spending have already bee This cannot possibly be true. The Board has pointed out that four or fiv administrators have retired from the co Huron and Perth AMDSB. The grapevine rep savings of about $800,000 have. resulted. W may be a -significant amount of money, the have not caused the Board to deflect fro obsession to close schools. The Board has consistently refused to ac edge the possibility that other administrati overhead savings can be realized in addition t from this retirement of senior staff: But consid according to data supplied by the Board, i Huron and Perth's combined spending on non ing salaries, wages and benefits plus spend supplies, services,. travel and equipment rola non -teaching positions was a whopping 12 to 1 lion dollars. Non -instructional spending continued throu January to August, 1998 "Stub Year" at ess the same rate. The Director's March 31, 1998 Report recommending the Adoption .of the Year" budget contains- a telling reference to a tinuation of all employment statuses in place September '1, 1997. The Trustees adopted this get plan in an April 14, 1998 resolution. In doi they voted to protect all overlapping, redundant teaching jobs associated with the administr spending of the Board, while .:setting off to re spending by closing schools. The effect of this sion has been an unnecessary burden of stres the Iluron-Perth community. When the Huron -and Perth Boards amalgam a new school board was created with two compl duplicated sets. of non -teaching staff. Elemen cannot but confirm that this new b must have several extra employees in the doze so twinned administrative departments. The Tor District School Board has announced plans to cu nor -teaching staff by 50 percent yet the AMDSB revealed no plans to cut even a single posit Surely the Board can find the two or three: mil dollars it says it is short in that whopping 12 to million dollar overhead budget. It is regrettable that some non teaching jobs must be eliminated, but remember, those jobs are a privi- ,lege not a right. Our schools trust be kept open at all costs. The privilege of the few must yield to the good of the'many. In contrast to the actions of the AMDSB, Huron and Perth's health care sector has made the necessary tough decisions. All of the hospitals have remained open. • Ilow long have the Trustees put us on the hook to protect 1997 administrative expenditure levels? ,Expenditure levels which are grossly excessive for' the now combined Board. It is clear where Huron and Perth can find the operation and renewal funds to keep. all schools open. The public must demand that our -schools be kept open using the option' of substantial cuts in administrative spending and diverting the money so sayed to school-operations---- andrwneW131: The Trustees have, a duty to keep our; schools. open, They were not elected to seri,e the staff, they were elected to serve the public. CHARLES SMITH, P.ENG., President, SIMS Student Success Foundation, 1 Seaforth Wednesday. Noveinber 25. 1199 Principal's note ' slope is definitely not the sante thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainly that something makes sense, regardles's of how it turns out. I think that's what hope's d insists .about. re funds One of the things that makes infinite els. It Is sense to, me is.that educators begin to se funds make more direct; visible, and system - schools. atic use of the specialized . knowledge reports base that exists and continues to grow cuts e. about 'what will improve student DEB n made. achievement. • To disregard what we HOMUTH do know is. equivalent to shooting one- NOTE IPA` s e senior self in the foot. mbined So, what do we as educators know, for certain? repo that. Well, for one think, we know for certain that there are. hile this specific learning strategies that are highly effective savings and do result in increased student achievement. The M their repertoire of those strategies that each teacher can use in 1998 is richer than it has ever been. Research- kno�nl- based practices that directly equate with improved ve and student achievement include the following (to name a o those few): er this: • graded homework: Students_ learn more when- -teach- 1997 they complete homework that is commented -teach- • on and discussed by their teachers. ing on • direct teaching: Students learn more when the ted. to cycle of review, new concept practice,. 3 mil- • feedback and independent seatwork .is regularly used. gh the • co-operative learning:Students learn more when • entially they work in small, self - instructing groups Action• where specific roles are assigned. "Stub • mastery learning:Students learn more when.they con- are asked to master the first step before - as of • they go to the second. bud- • learning styles: Students learn more wh▪ en teach - ng so ers provide assignments that match with non- • students' learning styles. ative I have always been fascinated by the work of duce Howard Gardner on multiple intelligences. In his deet- book Frames of Mind, Gardner talks about the fact s on that intelligence is multifaceted. His point is that .. schools, too often; focus on one kind of intelligence. ated, In order to tap all kinds of intelligence, teachers must etely use a broad range of assignments that allow students ntary to demonstrate their unique intelligence. oard . n or If people, particularly teachers, look at kids and onto say, "I know wnere you're going and the destination isn't positive", then we have to change the forecast t its through powerful teaching. his ion. Powerful teaching relies on research -based strate- gies that work. II' 3 It is hope that gives us the strength to continually try new things. „ It must be research that guides our teaching practices. Block Parents Organization ' says thanks, to paper Dear Editor: Thanks very. much to the Times -Advocate and especially reporter Kate Monk for the great cover- age regarding Block Parent Week activities. Kate's article was well written, informative and helpful for the understanding and the safety of the community. , Yours truly, Lois GODBOLT,CHAIRMAN Exeter & Area Block Parent Program A point to ponder A recent news bulletin' stated, "The Ontario ,government has mandated a new sex education curriculum - starting in Grade 3 with "an expla- nation of reproduction that emphasizes absti- nence as one of the best ways to avoid pregnancy. ' While teachers are free to identi- fy other methods, abstinence must be included at the Grade 8 level as 'a positive approach,' Education Minister Dave Johnson told a Toronto news conference, On the _.other---hand,-the curriculum m es no mention of contraception .REV - 'including condoms - and homosex-NONN ualjty as topics for instruction." DEA VER Some people will likely conclude ETEC that such an approach 'is TABE, A E` Elizabethan and unworkable in 1998. They may not be aware of the g,rowing number ,of teenagers who have. decided to remain virgins until they are married. My hat is off to each and every one. Let's support them aggressively as they take a stand for righteousness. Letters to the Editor The Times -Advocate welcomes letters to the editor as a forum for open discussion of local issues, concerns. complaint, and kudos. ' By mail: P.O. Box 850, Exeter, Ontario NOM 1S6 By fax: (519) 235-0766 By e-mail: editor@SouthHuron.com Please include your name and address. Anonymous letters will not be published. The Times-Advacate reserves the right to edit letters