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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1997-08-20, Page 12Page 12 Times -Advocate, August 20, 1997 COMM UNITY Ride for MD Brenda Murray of London was one of about 60 riders who braved the heat and thun- derstorms Saturday afternoon to participate in the 5th annual Muscular Dystrophy fund- raiser motorcycle ride. Although the participation was only about half of last year's turnout, the event. raised approximately $3,200. • The 100 -mile ride ran from London, through Dor- chester, Lakeside, St. Marys and ended at Gar's Bar and Grill in Exeter. Restructuring order passes EXETER - Alter several minor amendments Exeter Council adopted a restructuring order regarding the Hay. Township/Exeter boundary. adjust • mens and reconsitution"of the Public Utilities Commission: Support for the order: is anticipated from both Hay and Huron County councils and . will then he submitted to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs forapproval. The order outlines the land; including all ol'.Walper Street, to he annexed by Exetereffective'Jan. 1 1998. The reconstitution of the PUC to "c:reate cost= saving opportunities•"%will be effective Jan. 11999: According to the order employees formerly with the PUC will be employed by the Town of - Exeter or the Hydro -Electric Commission of the Corporation of the Town of Exeter. ' Municipal restructuring • Council will attend a Sept. 18, 7 p.m. meeting at the Camlachie-Optimist- Hall. The meeting is being organized. by Lambton County so municipal . representatives from -Huron andMiddlesex•canmeef in -light of information- from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs indicating Minister Al Leach fd- vors an amalgamation that includes portions of all three counties.. Health Promotion Plan -Kelly Gillis and Janet Hook of the Huron -Perth .District Health Council . attended Monday's meeting to provide information on a report calling .for the integration of health promotion in the community. Although council is interested in creating policies that promote a healthy community. many members fell the DHC'is not dealing with issues such as - Lake Huron wator quality that most directly concern Huron's residents: "To me that's a far more important health concern," said Deputy Mayor-. Dave Urlin, adding the issue should be discussed further at a committee • meeting. "My gut feeling is it (thc HPDHC) puts another group of people between - . the public and the politicians." said Reeve•BillMickle who explained Hu- ron was one of the last regions to get a DHC in order to have access to " funding. , /• Lambton County initiates aid LAMBTON "COUNTY Lamb- ton Warden John Kowalyshyn re- cently announced the establish- ment of Automatic Aid for fire services in Lambton County, ef- fective at midnight Aug. 31. "Automatic Aid•changes the tra- ditional approach in order to short- en the time taken to place fire- fighters at a fire scene. This program will be especially im- portant in areas outside of the City of Sarnia." states Kowalyshyn in a press release. Traditionally the local fire de- partment which -covers -the -area of the fire is dispatched first. When it arrives at the fire scene, it may re- quest _ assistance from adjacent de- partments under mutual aid agree- ments. It is essential to get firefighters to a fire scene as quick- ly as possible because fires spread so rapidly. However; the local fire department may not always be the closest because of fire area boun- daries. Previously there were no othcr alternatives than mutual aid. Now that a system of unified fire :dispatch has been established for Lambton County at the Central Ambulance Communications Cen- tre in Wallacchurg, it is possible for a dispatcher to determine which is the closest fire hall to a tire scene, regardless of the defined local fire Correction 1:X1:'1'1:1( - I.ast week's Question of "the Werk regarding drunk driv- • ing suspensions incorrectly named 1►:►rIIcipanr ',rank Wareing. The mune should have read Bob War- . nip '1tic '1' A :gi►dugmes lin any unr- 1�►•.iior� this i n►ir may have caused, area, and dispatch that fire , de- partment first. Then the " 'home' fire department is dispatched, tak- ing over the management of the fire when its arrives. The program will provide equip- ment andfirefighters; particularly at the • outer extremities of mu- nicilittlities quickly, which is not practical due to limited funding. Automatic Aid is hoped to make the most efficient use of existing resources and save on future costs. The system will not be in .opera- tion withing the City of Sarnia or the -Village -of-=Point-.Edward-and will only apply to structure fires throughout the rest of thc county. It may he possible to expand the program in other emergency re- sponse areas in which the fire ser- vices are involved. • Two charged with possession GRAND BEND - Police in- vestigated the discovery of con- trolled substances located in a vehicle on Eilber Street in Grand Bend on Aug. 16. - Officers .Checked a vehicle that was being operated.in a sus- picious -manner in the village. The 18=year-old-fetnaledriver- of Woodstock. Ontario, was taken into custody for operation of a vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Police located liquor and suspected drugs in the vehi- cle. - The,driver-and 32 -year-old; passenger from Stratford. Chita- , rio will appear in Sarnia Pro- vincial Court on Sept. 17 to speak to charges of possession of a controlled substance. Huron -Perth director will help restructure education Dr. James Brown is director of policy and research with the Education Improvement Commission in Toronto : By Laura Payton ST.MARYS - Huron -Perth Separate School Board Director Dr. James Brown has taken what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. • Dr. Brown has accepted the position of Director of Policy and Research with the Education Improve- ment Commission (E.I.C.) at Queen's Parkin To- ronto. He left the local board to join the Commission mid- June and will stay at his new job for just over two years, until the end of August 1999. - "It's a special project," Dr. Brown explained in an interview with the Journal Argus. "This is the com- mission led•by Dave Cooke." His expertise in rural education led him to apply for the directorship. . - "I felt that somebody working for this Commission should have experience with the school situation- in rural Ontario,"' he explained. "Otherwise, the danger was that it would all be filled with people from the Metro area who wouldn't really understand what's going on the rural school systems." Dr. Brown, who has a doctorate in. education from the University of. Toronto, brings an abundance of experience to the EIC: • "I've . been a department head, a vice-principal, a principal, an assistant superintendent ... I've been in curriculum, I've been in research, personnel .:. I've - covered just- about all the bases. 1 was a super- intendent when I was in Eastern Ontario, and, of course, a director in southwestern Ontario. . • "I have a lot of experience with policy, obviously, because of my work with the school hoard, and i have a lot•of experience with research, He worked for the Ontario Institute of Education, and was the head of the.research department for the Metropolitan Separate School Board." It's all been focused on education and education' improvement," he noted, _ • Argus. The students in Huron -Perth are still very much a priority for Dr. Brown. "1 haven't lost interest in Huron -Perth, or in Cath- olic atholic education, and I'm certainly still interested in what's happening in the rural areas of the province. I bring all those dimensions here, and hopefully it helps to balance .the perspective that comes from people with a lot of big board experience." - As director of the Huron -Perth board, .Dr. Brown says he and his staff were committed to continuous improvement in education. "I believe very strongly that education can improve .. not to say that schools are doing a bad job, but nobody's doing a perfect job and you can always im- prove." - . _ • So to have a chance to work here at the provincial level in terms of looking at how education can be re- structured and improved, it's a once-in-a-lifetime op- portunity. " Everybody wants to make a difference in whatever we do, so this is a -chance •for me to make a differ ence," he said. - Former superintendent Gaetan Blanchette has' been named the new Director of Education .for the Huron - Perth Separate Board. It remains to be seen whether Dr. Brown will return .to the Huron -Perth Board in 1999. • "I'm seconded, so technically at the end of the two years, I go back. But -at that point I'll have to decide , where my life's going to take me because I.will be ,eligible to retire."' Dr. Dr. Brown was sorry to leave the many people he worked with and for. in Huron and Perth counties during the last seven years. "I'm already missing them, so I:hope that folks will notice that I'm not there, and I .hope people re - 'member -me better than to simply say, `Well, I won- der whatever happened to_old what's -his -name.'" Laura Payton ,is the editor of the St. Marys Journal Township schedules BWR, meeting USBORNE TOWNSHIP - At its Aug. 5 meeting, Usborne Township Council passed a motion to arrange ' for an information meeting to he held f6r township residents at the BluewaterRecycling facility in:Hu- ron Park. ' • The meeting is tentatively sched- uled for Aug. 27. JO -READ SCHOOL OF DANCE L.M.B.A.T.D. Specializing in; • Acro -Gym • Tap • Jazz & Ballet Fully Qualified Instructors Competition Teams with Exeter Dance Club. 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