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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1977-10-20, Page 21. 0 0 r Clinton, Ontario --~ Clinton Thursday, ��'«��@ ��n��'u��,'J1977 ews- i eeord ��~� Section Second ° y�=��correspondents l'earn of worth at Clint�n �V�� Over 50 district correspondents and newspaper representatives from tb,e community newspapers in Huron -Perth attended a day long seminar at Wesley Willis United Church in Clinton on Friday, 0 October 14. The seminar. sponsored by the Bluewater Regional Newspapers Net- work, was Nnducted in order toeducate the correspondents in newspaper style and • 4 (4, -•^ procedures d to let them know that their contributions are valued. Barry VVenger, editor and publisher of the Wingham Advanco'Tinneo, opened the seminar with a word of ap- preciation to the correspondents. Be said that the correspondents were not simply self-serving but were providing a service for others. Correspondents said \vpnger, have a sense of loyalty to their communities ' and often keep these com- munities alive with their news contributions. Susan YVhito, editor of the Huron Expositor in Seaforth spoke next giving ideas to correspondents about how to encourage participation among the readers in their areas. She stressed the im- portance of approaching new people in the community and asking for their co-operation. Jim Hagarty, Mitchell Advocate reporter, gave 'tips to the correspondents to help them recognize a special feature on news story. He spoke of the human element .in certain stories as well as the prominence und iminence of the people in the stories. Be urged the correspondents to Call their newspapers with any feature story ideas or news tips. The newspaper staff could then follow up these ideas in greater detail including R.G. (Boa) Shrier, president of the Oofaro Weekly editors and publishers ataspecial oo ndeotm' l Newspapers' Association, and president of Sfgnal-Star held in Clinton last Friday. Mr. Shrier told the correspon- Publlcadoas in Goderich, addressed 54 corrmmpoodeotm,dents they were a valuable part of the paper. (News -Record Board takes beating on� buses • The Huron County Board of Education decided to take what it could get for two -- school buses taken off the road laSt year. The board accepted a recommendation from the budget committee that the two buses be sold as is along with three other buses replaced this year. The board balked at the prices offered for the buses earlier but now decided the vehicles aren't worth much more than what'was offered and decided to seti. The five buses were put up for sale by tender at the end of the !aotycboo\'tnrm w' and the tenders were opened d presented to the board at its September meeting. Prices offered for three of the uses were considered fair but two 0 ., thers seemed low to the board and the matter was turned over to the budget committee to try .to negotiate a better price. l0udget committee chairman R. J. Elliott of Blyth told the board that the five prices for the buses were $1'050' » $925,�505.�25Oand�lUO. _ Wingham trustee Jack Alexander, asked why the committee was recom- mending that the low prices bnaccepted. He said he understood that the bobrd wanted to try for a higher price adding that $100 wasn't very much money. He said the board mabe better to keep the bus since $100 wouldn't buy a window for , a bus and the board may be able to use the vehicle for spare parts. Elliott said that the bus had already been stripped of most valuable parts and was being sold as is. Be said he un- derstood that one bus lacked an engine and another was almost completely stripped. Colborne trustee Shirley BuzUtt said she didn't know if the idea would work but suggested that the board keep the bus to be used at the board display at the plowing mt b to be held in Huron County. She said she didn't know anything about what was planned for the match but was merely asking to see if consideration had been given to it. Wingham trustee Alex Corrigan told Hazlitt that there wasn't mu -ch left of the buses adding that if the people of Huron saw the buses they would .want them "thrown out and good ones put in", Another bus was designated by the budget committee for a pilotprNnotot Goderich, District Collegiate Institute. The bus was to be put at4GDCI for �ne year for use on field trips and ori d athletic events and a record be kept of all costs including supply teachers in donnectionawith the use of the bus. The idea f9r the project was to see if the board could save money by keeping its own buses in service for such ven- tureoyroomachoo}mretbertbonrendngu bus and paying costs for the driver and the vehicle every time the school needed iBoard gives appro..��. for teacher exchange, The Huron County Board of Education gave approval in principle to a request from Goderich District Collegiate Institute teacher John Smallwood to take part in a one year educational exchange program in the United Kingdom, Smallwood asked the board in a letter if it would grant him permission to take part in the program and the board did so with some con- cessions. Director of education John Cochrane explained to the bd thtthe exchange program hinged on Smallwood's ability to find a teacher in the United Kingdom 'willing to spend year teaching here. Along with that the Huron County Board would have to pay that teachers wages for the year and the board Smallwood worked for in the United Kimn would pay his wage. CoobrmnA added that the ministry regulation required that the Huron Board set aside $500 to cover any differences in the pays and that the board there make the same amends. Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace told the board that she had discussed the project with Smallwood and understood that he was aware of the N500 and was prepared to pay it himself if the board was unable or unwilling to. The board left the monetary decisions to the education committee to work out with Smallwood. it. At a board meeting recently several trustees suggested that the move would save the board a considerable amount of money in the future as well as being more convenient to the schools. The board also accepted a recom- mendation that the .standard $200 grant for municipalities holding.,' special ca\ebrutiunu, such as centennials, be dropped and that each request for money for celebrations 'betroated separately. The budget committee felt that each request would be different depending on the size of the celebration and that each one should be treated individually. A request for additional lockers for Goderich District Collegiate Institute was tabled until 1978. The high school is short about 50 student lockers accodi to GDCI principal John Stringer who told the board that students are having to double pp in lockers to get around the shortage. The committee felt that the board cNdo't have money this year for additional lockers but advised Stringer that if his school budget could be ad- justed to purchase the lockers this year without asking the board for more money he was free to buy them. The board accepted recom merdations from the budget committee for the purchase of a colour television for J.A.D. McCurdy Public School since the school budget can afford and approved the purchase of a d|noS-bur dlimbing ap- paratus for Hensall Public School under the same auspices. A request for a new piano for Zurich Public School was tabled to see if a suitable used piano could be found. The board also aniended its policy for community use of schools after school hours. The change alters the charge for the use of the facility to a flat rate rather than the present actual custodial overtime charge. The policy also per- mitted school principals, in the interest of good community relations, to lend oqu|pment, oba{rm, tables or other items from the school at no charge un- derstanding that the borrower is rompnny|b|ofor any damnageand that the loan ' is contingent upon the prompt return of the equipment at a time designated by the principal when no overtime charges would be made to the board for ppening the school. photographs. Jim Fitzgerald, editor, of the Clinton Nowo'Rennrd, spoke to the correspondents about the style of writing. He stressed the importance of proper spelling d gram- mar. When writing up mootAngn, he said, irrelevant details like the number of the hymns sung should be left out. Bowover, he told the correspondents to include as many names as possible in their copy. Joanne Walters, Goderich Signal -Star reporter ex- plained to the correspondents what happens to their news copy once it reaches the newspaper office. She said that first the editing marks such as paragraph in- dentations are put on the copy. The news is grouped under headings such as church news and social news.. Cur,eod are made, sonal pronouns are taken out and headlines are written. The copy, she said, then goes to the type setters who type it into )nng.co\umnstrips. These columns are checked by the proof readers for mistakes and are then ready- for pasting up on pageswhicharp photographed and made ready for the press. Bill Bauon, editor of the Exeter 7|n`ee-Advocote, told the correspondents how to handle public reaction when poWe has been printed. • Be tird ^t w . n,fere made in copy. He "spacing problems ' and explained that due to lack of space sometimes news copy must be cut out to make it fit. He showed a page pasted up with news copy so thatthe corroopnndnntm, • could ap' . Wmter wheat insurance crop deadline extend, ° The Ontario Crop Insurance /Commission has announced an extension of the deadline for winter wheat applications and final acreage reports from October 20tnOctober 3l,l077. A spokesman for the commission said that in recent years, winter wheat planting has aken place later in the season. The extended deadline takes account of this changing cultural practice. Last year was a record year for winter wheat in- surance with more than 2,700 contracts being sold to 'Ontario producers. Crop insurance ia.. sold through local agents. producerannbyobto|nnnmea and addresses of their 'local agent from county and district agricultural representatives. Applications are also available from the Ontario Crop Insurance Commission, 1200 Bay Streot. Toronto 887AlB7 Were failing eavy rains rLakes drop preciate how easy it is for lines of copy to fall off a page and so they could also see how small the lines of copy are to work with. lyucorrespondent receives negaUye reaction to a news item, said 8otuyn, he should pass the complaint or the complainer on to the editor of the newspaper who is trained to handle such things. OWNA PRESIDENT HEARD Following |unch, the correspondent were ad- dressed by R.G. Gh,icr, president of the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association. Having come up through the newspaper business at the advertising end, he said, he greatly ad- mired people with an ability to write. Be said that good news copy helps to sell, ad- vertising apoco.Booxproesnd his appreciation to the correspondents for their work and said their contributions were of great importance to their ner's After Mr. Shrier's address, the correspondents broke into smaller groupo, each with a discussion leader drawn from the staff of the Huron -Perth newspapers. At that time they were given a ficticious set of circumstances for a story: They discussed 1owto organize the facts they had, wrote a brief news item using those facts and then ex- -Changed— their' x- Chd d-'tboir' u/ofk and snareu|deaa. A tour of the Goderich Signal -Star plant in Goderich completed the seminar. Staff was on hand to provide a thorough look at newspaper production. Those present at the seminar came to ap- preciate the complexity of putting a newspaper together. A tour of the composing room and the giant giapt printing press at Goderich was one of the features of a correspondents ,seminar held for writers from a dozen papers in the Hurno'Pertb'Newmpaper Network last Friday. The seminar delved into a dozen aspects of newspaper work, most of them involving the correspondents'work. (News -Record photo) A rA the Huron -Perth Newspaper Network last Friday was termed an overwhelming success. The seminar, which attracted 54 correspondents, editors, and publishers, was a day -long session at Wesley -Willis United Church in Clinton, and featured a trip to the printing plant in Goderich. Here Barry Wenger of The Wingham Advance -Times explains why the correspondents are a needed part of the community paper. (News -Record photo) Persistent rains during September and late summer appear to have reversed a two-year decline in Great Lakes water levels. Environment Canada and the United States Army Corps of Engineers now predict that should, the excessive precipitation pattern of levelsAugust and ..-'eptember continue through winter, of all the Great Lakes - would by next March exceed this vear's levels. Inthc event of normal rains and snow over the next six montho, the two government bodies say, only Lake Erie would be higher than 1977 \uvo\o, which registered a drop of about 36 centimetres (14 inches) below that of a year ago. Under these conditions, Lake Ontario would reach its long-term normal level, about equal to the levels of this past March, while Lake Huron would drop only slightly, lower than during l07?. Lake Superior, on the other. hand, is expected to remain about five to eight cen- A-B Authority gets timetres above normal with average winter precipitation. Heavy September | broke the dht in the Lake Superior basin, raising the lake by 17 Centimetres. Lake lErie, Lake Huron and Lake Ontario have continued their seasonal doc\inc, although at a much slower rate than had been expected. Lake levels on all the Great Lakes continued to drop during the past year, part of the over-all decline that began in 1975. It was pnly three years ago, however, that water levels op the lakes hit an all-time high for the thircl successive year. � ' �� `�Grantforerosion control A provincial grant of $32.000 to the Ausable- 13a yf| |d Conservation Authority for erosion control work on the Pergel Gully has been approved by Nattiral Resources Minister Frank S. ~~ ^n independent engineering study in 1076 recommended u\uarnat|voe for erosion.. control in three areas affecting the Pergel farm, situated in Hay Township, Huron County. The Authority now plans stream rechanneling and the building of new bank slopes protected by1-$'rap. Total estimated cost of the pro/ect|m$64.O0O. ~ ' 1,1