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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-04-28, Page 3It Vanastra ratepayers air • • • M complaints to township Recreation costs, water meters , water and sewage charges, uncleared demolition sites and stray dogs were high on the list of complaints aired at a meeting of the Vanastra community Association and the membe,-s of Tucker -smith Council at Vanastra Tuesday night. Approximately 50 members from the community attended. Called by the Vanastra Association the meeting was chaired by the president Ben Bridges, assisted by a panel of Mrs. ' Bridges, Diane and Barry Black. Stephen Conty, Art Foreer, Vic Evans, Merle Thomas, Sandy Ross and W iilfred Schneider. Bridges presented a suppport petition , to council requesting a grant of $5D0 to help defray the costs of running the association. Among the operating ex- penses Bridges included telephone expenses which he said were ex- traordinary and the cost of mailing out flyers. The council accepted the petition. Mainternance of public property such as the parks at Vanastra should be the responsibility of -council Bridges said. Grass cutting and the supplying of equipment for it should be provided by council he said. The association asked for a bylaw to be established in the township making it mandatory for anyone who demolished a building to clean up the site. Mr. Bridges spoke of potentially dangerous buildings at Vanastra which were partly torn down, but the weak walls Left standing are a menace to children who often play around or in them. "They're extremely dangerous, 'the walls could fall down at any time, and these sites look terrible," Bridges said. Reeve Erwin Sillery agreed and spoke of the serious attempts Council has been making to get • the owners or tJ demolition men to clean up. Bridges said, "We are either going to have a god place here or we are going to have a dumpy''. The reeve said the township lawyer was in the process of drawing up the by- law but added that it could be up to two years before it is explored. Water metering. high rates drew Trilany angry complaints. The ratepayers said the flat rate they were charged was far too high a quantity of water which most said they would never need. Council agreed to r'eview.the rates "We are new at this 'UC business," clerk Jim McIntosh stated. Bridges said he thought it was not fair that some householders got away with refusing to have a meter put in when the rest had to pay for it. Council agreed and will decide on a solution. Vanastra mail boxes are being tipped over- and knocked over according to Bridges. He asked council to provide funds for a building to house the mail boxes. • Reeve Siller-y said this did not come under municipal jurisdiction but federal and advised them to contact the federal representative. Robert McKinley. Bridges noted that his association would like to see the township office and council meeting place moved to Vanastra. Presently the township office is located in clerk Mclntosh's home and the council meetings are held at Cen- tennial School, Brucefield at no charge to the township. Bridges said he expected the rest of the township might not like the -office and meetings at Vanastra but added "we've been crying long enough - maybe it's time they cried.': On page 13 Vanastra to get.. .. (continued from page 1 ) • lack of transportation often unable the people to get to the town agencies." With the help of the Public Health department, County Social Services, Family benefits . a.nd vocational rehabilitation, the Mental Health Unit and Carl Boersrna, the Minister of. the Christian Church, a resource center will be made available. The centre, to be held in the church each Thursday morning beginning May 5, will service a Big Brother and Sister movement, counselling for young people, sports co-ordination for boys and girls, a drop in centre for the disabled and_ senior citizens and a Parents • 0 0 without Partners group. Plans are also underway for a central bulletin hoard to be located in the . Country Market. Library services may be' provided by the county who have offered a hook mobile to come once a week and a hook donation centre is also being considered. A number of volunteers from Vanastra are planning to create a Women's Day Out club to include discussions and physical fitness and a, boy's club, The Beavers. , Vanastra now becomes a member of the Steering Committee which will have their next meeting at the Vanastra Christian Church on Tuesday, April 26 at 1 :30 p.m. `-- i33C'i:. 4 Gayle Horton a grade nine student at CHSS is learning about bedside manners for her new position as candy striper at the Clinton Public Hospital. She along with some 38 other young people will be starting hospital duties on May 1. Barb Clicks, left, is coordinator of the program. (News -Record photo.) Candy stripers start Monday More than 38 candy stripers will be given work schedules at the Clinton Public Hospital. The program, which begins May 1 will allow the volunteers to, work several hours a month with hospital duties. Mrs. Carl Hicks co-ordinator of the project, says that the girls and two boys are very enthusiastic and are anxious to begin their duties. The two boys involved in the program will be called Teen Volunteers. Although uniforms will not arrive until the end of May, the project will commence with the Hospital Auxiliary smocks being used. The auxiliary is sponsoring the program and have or- dered uniforms for the young people. . Mrs. Hicks has been very pleased with the response from the `applicants. Not only will the Clinton youth be in- volved, but some of the stripers are coming from Zurich, Londesboro and Blyth. In this final week before starting work, the stripers have been involved in hospital orientations to prepare them for their various duties. CLINTON NEWS -RE ORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1977—PAGE 3 Separate director resigns By Wilma Oktiy .lohn Vintali:, Director or -Education for the Huron-P4.r'th County Roman Catholic Separate School Board for the past eight years, tendered his resignation at a meeting of the hoard Monday night, effective July :31. • Mr. Vintar, the first director of the hoard when it was formed, will take a position as superintendent of schools with the Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board. The board, took no action on 'seeking a replacement for Mr., Vintar whose resignation was accepted in committee of the whole, following the rregul.ar meeting after 11 p.m. The board was notified by the Sisters of St. Joseph Order that Sister Mary St. Louis. principal of St. James School, Sea forth, will he replaced as principal by Sister Theresa Mader of Windsor, on September 1. She will take up a position with the Oxford County Roman Catholic School Board. Sister Mary has been principal of St. James for the past nine years, coming to Seaforth in 1968. She has been living in Zurich for about five years and com- muting since the St. Joseph convent was closed in Seaforth. Teachers from the order have been teaching in the town for about 63 year's. Trustee Michael Con- nolly of Kippen said The Convent_in Seaforth will re -open at the end of August with four sisters living there including Sister Theresa and Sister Anne also on the Seaforth staff. The Sisters of St. Joseph Order an- nounced the replacement' of Sister Jean Moylan, who has been principal of St. Mary's School in Goderich for the past year by Sister Yvonne Parent, effective September- 1. The board granted a 17 -foot easement to the corporation of the Town .of Goderich on part lot 14-18 at St. Mary's School on the west side of Highway 21 for the purpose .of •constructing and m'ain- taining a sewer. The hoard's contract with the Simplex Corporation of London for servicing clocks will be renewed for another year at a cost of $1 ,080. Business. Administrator, Jack Lane, said the servicing includes a regular annual check=up. Mr. Vintar reported he has in- ter'vicwed three applicants for the two new positions of French teachers for the hoard. No contracts have been signed.as yet. The hoard has at the pjesent time four teachers giving French instruction but with the teaching of French to be in- creased from grade eight this year to grades six and seven next year, the extra two teachers are necessary. Students, teachers back.....:. (continued from page 1) very moral, man helping our fellow man is very moral. I remember this book with utmost pleasure." Calvin Caldwell, English head at Seaforth District High School explained that modern books are needed because they're modern. He went on to ,,say that clasS'ics like Shakespeare are often difficult to understand and through modern literature, the ideas of Shakespeare can be understood easier. beaforth Principal, Bruce Shaw said, "It's unfortunate that more books don't have rrior'e importance to kids. They are not influenced by the vocabulary of the hooks." Shaw does not think that one book, or even two can take away everything that parents have taught their young. Trust, maturity, and intelligence were the main points of each teacher's and student's support. Each felt that if the book contributed constructively to the theme of the course either through time, setting, plot, characters, action or language then they are valid learning structures. Through the amount of applause from the audience after the speeches it seemed that most supported the book selection. 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