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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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