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Times Advocate, 1995-11-01, Page 26Page 26. Times -Advocate, November 1, 1995 COtvtivtLJ1\TJTY United Way donation Exeter Publk School student council members presented John Hayman, chairperson of the Huron United Way Education Committee, with a donation raised from the Jump Rope for Heart event. Council members are Brad Baker, president, Jennifer Hodder, treasurer, Ben Rader, secretary and Pam Keys, vice president. Your Views Letters to the editor 'No' vote won't .end it "...do not think that this will go away." Dear Editor: The referendum in Quebec is nothing but an insult to the rest of Canada. Bouchard and Parizeau should be tried in court for treason. The rest of Canada has bent over backwards for Quebec especially the last fifty years, giving them the best of everything. Because most of our prime ministers have been from Quebec, all the best federal and military finan- cial contracts have gone there. Official bilingualism has been embraced by all of Canada, except Que- bec, which brings out laws which excludes English all over the province and our bleeding heart federal officials will not crack down on these confrontation- al measures. if there is a no vote, do not think that this will go away. The sovereignist extremists. of which there are many, will begin. if they haven't al- ready, to arm themselves and when they are ready . there will not be a referendum, they will take it by force. The rest of Canada will not he prepared to do anything because our last two prime ministers have made sure civilians are disarmed. On the other hand. the provincial government in Quebec is among the fanatical fifty percent and will assist all they can the extremists. ' Jody Mosurinjohn Huron Park Extra credits mean extra dollars "We must dare to look at some reasonable compromise position." Dear Editor: The recent editorial originating in the Wingham Advance Times, proclaiming a 'travesty of our edu- cation system' if the Board places a limit on the number of credits a student can take is a reasonable position if the recommendation were to restrict edu- cational opportunities for our young people. One must be aware. however, that secondary school graduation currently requires 30 credits. Many stu- dents take more than 30 credits. Two students (as at June 5, 1995) were taking their 41st credits. Even if you agree that students should continue to access more than the minimum requirement, say 32, at the time of our survey, there were about 1,701 credits being taken beyond that level. The additional cost - beyond the graduation requirement +2 more credits for good measure, is costing local taxpayers some- where from a half to three-quarters of a million dol- lars in extra operating costs annually. Another related problem is that students can sign up for a full schedule and can also drop credits dur- ing the year. in recent years this has led to an addi- tional unncecessary staffing expenditure of over . half a tnillion dollars a year. Together. that's a million dollars extra each year. We must dare to look at some reasonable compro- mise position. As the lead educator in the Huron Public Education System it would not be responsi- ble for me not to ask that the Board and the Ministry examine this question in a time of financial crisis and downsizing. Sincerely. Paul Carroll. Director of Education and Secretary -Treasurer Memorandum front Superintendent of Operations Gino Giannandrea At the last Secondary Directions Committee meet- ing I undertook to complete a summary of the num- ber of potential credits which fifth year students might accumulate. The date which I used was that which the Principals provided in March when I re- viewed the individual students and thcir selections for 1995-96. As you can see from this data we have an extremely large number of students who will graduate potentially with 33 to 41 credits. If the Royal Commission's recommendation to re- strict the number of credits to 32 is implemented then obviously this would have an immediate im- pact of eliminating over 1700 credits from our Sec- ondary Schools. It is worth noting that this total does not include any courses which students may have failed in the past or in which they enrolled and dropped in the past. Depending on how you read the Royal Commission Report or better yet on how it might be implemented. the negative impact could be significantly greater than what this summary shows. We will be trying to determine what impact these potential changes will have on secondary schools and staffing levels. 1 hope this information is useful or at least interesting. Volunteers thanked "...some of the volunteers were spit at and cursed." Dear Editor: I would like to thank the Optimist Club and the students from South Huron Secondary School who volunteered their time to put on a Halloween special evening for the kids of the area. I understand that the turnout was excellent. On the downside, after all the effort that was put into the project, some of the volunteers were spit at and cursed. I sincerely hope that the poor behavior and actions of some do not spoil next year for the majority. Jan Barnes Lamp post decorations offend ...1 do not appreciate that my grandchildren have to look at this ugliness." Dear Editor: I am very disgusted and disappointed in the lead- ership of this town, who have approved and allowed witches and ghosts to drape its ugliness over the Tamp posts of Exeter. This is Satanic. it is demonic. God, our heavenly Father certainly is not glorified in this. I tell you, the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, 1 Peter 5:8 and if you aren't careful he will devour this town. I am a Christian. I am born again with the pre- cious blood of Jesus Christ and I do not appreciate that my grandchildren have to look at this ugliness. If you love your children and your grandchildren you will not expose them to this demonic garbage which comes from the pit of hell. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ - clean up this town. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Psalm 150:6. Sue Blommaert Euchre and bake sale planned SAINTSBURY - Congratula- tions to Harley Davis winning 2nd place overall in the 60 cc Moto- cross Fall Series at Gopher Dunes Raceway, then going on the win first place overall in the 80 cc be- ginner class. St. Patrick's Morning Prayer ser- vice was held on Sunday at 10:30- a.m. with Suzanne Davis leading the service from the Book of Com- mon Prayer. Rose Cunningham read the Scripture readings and Margaret Carroll gave an excellent message based on the readings. The Sunday School children's fo- cus was the story about the "Phari- see and the Tax Collector Worthi- ness before God". Sunday November 5. St. Pat- rick's will celebrate the Holy Communion service at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Stanley Jay as offi- cient. Scripture readings to he Haggai 2: 1-9, 2 Thessalonians I: 5-12, Psalm 65: 1-8, The Holy Gospel Luke 19: 1-10. St. Patrick's Harvest Dessert Eu- chre and Bake Sale on Thursday November 2 at 1 p.m. Delicious desserts and home baking and great prizes, also this year we are blessed with the artistic talents of our rectors wife artist Liz Jay who will be doing portrait sketches dur- ing the afternoon. Please plan tp attend. MacNaughton Park damaged EXETER - A plaque was stolen. several lights were damaged and a tree was uprooted in a vandalism spree iu MaNaughton Park last Monday. On Saturday a window was smashed on a van parked at a resi-• dence on Pryde Blvd. Personals Mary Davis was a Sunday eve- ning dinner guest with grandchil- dren Jeffrey and Teresa Young and family. Suzanne Davis visited her moth- er Dorothy Dietrich on Sunday. Brother Richard Dietrich is home on a visit from Alberta. Crystal, Travis and Starr Davis were weekend visitors with Hub and Mary Thiel and taniily at Zu- rich. Best wishes go out to Arnold Cunningham this week who is cel- ebrating a birthday from all your friends from St. Patrick's and com- munity. Ron and Margaret Carroll were Sunday evening dinner guests with the Iredale's Grandson Matthew was celebrating his birthday, also visiting with Aunt Doris Mullinson recently in London. St. Patrick's folk were busy this past week with delivering food col- lections to Daily Bread along with warm winter clothes and hoots and sending their third hale to Prayer Partner Simon Beaver Jr. in North- ern Ontario. ACW members wishing a ride to perch Fall Deanery meeting please meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday Novem- ber 7 at the Davis'.. Chief retires Mayor Ben Hoogenboom presented retiring Fire Chief Gary Middleton with a plaque at the Town Banquet rec- ognizing his many years of service with the Fire De- partment. 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