HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-05-25, Page 3Learning to share and socialize with others is one of the things that the children
Oare taught at the Clinton and area nursery school at the Wesley -Willis Church.
Supervisor Sally McNichol looks on as Judy Lambers, 4, allows little Naomi
Duddy,4, to wash the dishes. (News -Record photo)
Tuckersmith hearr
by Wilma Oke The clerk read a letter from the
ministry of transportation and com-
munications which indicated following a
survey of the Roman Line bridge at Lot
22, concessions 4-5 that it was safe for a
15 -ton load as well as the Plum bridge at
Lot 9, concession 12 which was safe for a
12 ton load and with a few renovations,
up to 15 tons.
Council approved the following ap-
plications for building permits: James
Ross, Lot 36, con. 2, LRS, silo; Douglas
Wallace, Lot 10, con. 5, HRS, shed;
Robert Ste. Marie, lot 18 and 19, con. 3
HRS, granary; Steve Layton, Lot 45,
con. 1., LRS, sow barn; Gilbert
Hazelwood, Egmondville, house siding;
Bert Branderhorst, Lot 5, con. 2, LRS,
broiler barn; Hugo Menheere, Lot 2, con.
7, HRS, pig barn; William Pepper, part
lot 49, con. 1., LRS, house; Glen
McLachlan, Vanastra, house addition;
Cha les Chapman, Vanastra, storage
building.
Council has also agreed to inform the.
ministry of housing that It approves
having the official plan amended to
allow for a zoning change from
agriculture to a mobile home park for
Douglas Morgan on Lot 45, concession 2 -
the back 40 rods which would increase
his present acreage from 31/2 to 15 acres.
The land involved is not considered good
farmland.
Council approved a request from
Margaret Coombs of RR5 Clinton to open
a small antique shop in her residence
providing it does not cause a traffic
problem.
Clerk McLachlan informed council the
Bank of Montreal had accepted its offer
of $19,000 for the former bank building at
Vanastra which the council is now using
as the township office. The deal will be
closed;July 1," he said.
The Seaforth Fire Area Board has
informed council Tuckersmith's
allocation this year will be $5,678.70.
A request from Bruce Brady, an owner
of the Vanastra Arena, was received
asking that the arena be included in the
buildings to be given fire protection by
the Clinton Fire Area Board rather than
the Brucefield Fire Brigade as now. Mr.
McLachlan stated that it was included.
He said the Clinton Board will be taking
over as soon as the agreements are
drawn up and are signed to provide
Three owners affected by the Gibbings
drainage works attended the Tucker -
smith Township Council meeting
Tuesday night -- Leonard Jamieson and
Joe Gibson, both of RR2 Seaforth and
Milton Dale, RR4 Clinton.
They discussed with engineer Henry
Uderstadt his report on the im-
provements to be made to the drain. Mr.
Jamieson was concerned about the
$2,000 cost of the culvert to be located on
his property but in the end he decided to
go along with the report as given. The
total cost of the drain is estimated to be
$5,625. Council accepted the report and
Court of Revision was set for July 4 at 9
p.m.
First and second readings were given
to two land use by-laws for rezoning the
"dome" building on Lot 40, Plan 23, at
Vanastra from commercial to industrial
and a vacant building on Lot 31, plan 23,
Vanastra beside the Base Factory Outlet
from industrial to commercial.
Council approved a by-law with the
Seaforth Lions Club which will enable
the club to apply for grants to cover the
renovation work to the park, the
swimming pool, and the ball diamond.
Clerk Jack McLachlan reported that
he had been informed by road
superintendent Allan Nicholson that
there will be no supplementary road
subsidy this year which will curtail work
planned at Vanastra.
At the suggestion of Hensall council,
Tuckersmith members agreed to invite
the Hensall council to a meeting at
Brucefield at 8:30 on June 6 to enter into
further agreements for garbage disposal
and recreation.
Woman teacher charges bias
by Jeff Seddon
If sex and politics didn't keep Shirley
Weary from receivinga promotion to
vice-principal of Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton then her
prominence in the recent high school
teacher strike may have.
Weary, a commercial teacher at
CHSS, is not entirely convinced those
three factors did not out -weigh her
ability and qualifications when the
promotion was decided on by board of
education administrators.
She felt she had a "reasonably good
chance" of getting the job when she
applied adding that she felt her resume
contained some background the other
candidates did not have. She said she
had experience teaching, had the
necessary qualifications for the job' and
had proven experience in ad-
ministration.
She said she was office manager in a
large Hamilton dairy before taking up
teaching in Huron county and that ex -
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the least bit concerned about a strike at
Fleck," he said.
He said his legislative and con-
stituency duties have suffered because
of time spent on the legal actions, and
that wouldn't help in the next election.
Asked if he had taken a position on the
strike, Riddell said: "I don't think I was
taking a position. I was trying to get as
much information as I possibly could."
He said he hadn't met management
personnel at Fleck before visiting the
plant to talk to strikers, workers still on
the job and management.
Riddell said his remarks were based
on what he had been told by some
workers at Fleck. He said he had a
number of "signed statements con-
virming what they said."
perience could be very beneficial as a
vice-principal. She said quite often
people in education make an "error
assuming that a successful teacher will
automatically make a successful ad-
ministrator". She said what is really
wanted is "both".
Weary said she was concerned that
any onp of the three factors may have
worked against her but suggested that it
may have been a combination of the
three. She said she was "impressed"
with the ministry of education's policy
encouraging women to upgrade them-
selves and apply for promotions but
pointed out that there is no policy written Nurser
suggesting that local boards accept Y goes...
women for administrative roles.
• Weary said she was the only woman in
the Huron County system now holding As for the facilities and the equipment,
the necessary qualifications for vice- the teachers and executive are pleased
principalship. She pointed out that one with the help the Wesley Willis Church
third of the teachers in the province are has offered. Much of the play equipment
women but nowhere near that per- belongs to the church as well the nursery
tentage hold administrative jobs. has full run of two rooms, kitchen and
Her role in the recent 31 day high washroom facilities. Most of the
school teachers' strike in Huron County equipment can be easily stored or left
may also have cost her the promotion out after the completion of the day.
she said. She pointed out that during the Mrs. Hicks added, "The church was
strike she publicly opposed the board very good. They put in new fluorescent
adding that if she were in the board's lighting for us."
position she would not want to justify to It has been through hard work and
the public "appointing someone from the cooperation that the nursery school has
other side". She said she had some been a success through its five year
concerns that her actions during the existence. With more support from
strike would diminish her chances of a parents the nursery will be able to
promotion but added that she wasn't continue as a stable, valuable in -
"prepared to be ought". stitution. Parents' who have children or
"I never have stopped dping the things who are planning to send children to the
I believe in just because they're un- nursery are urged to attend a special
popular," she said, "let's face it who, meeting on Monday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.
runs NDP in this area as many times as I in the Wesley Willis Church. Here more
have and remains popular." questions and answers will be discussed
Weary is a three time loser for the regarding the future co-op nursery at -
New Democratic Party in the Huron tempts.
federal riding and she feels that may
also have worked against her. She didn't
feel her politics had as much to do with
the decision as her sex and strike role
but it probably added fuel to the fire.
She said the board's announcement in
a letter April 24 that Tom Fox, head of
the history department at CHSS, would
be recommended for the job did not
deflate her as much ,as disappoint her.
She said she was not having difficulty
assuming her role as "just a teacher"
after having been in the public eye so
much during the strike.
"I've been through that phase during
elections," she explained. "I don't have
any delusions of grandeur."
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protection to the commercial and in-
dustrial area at Vanastra.
Council will name two members to
attend the Ausable-Bayfield Con-
servation Area tour and official opening
of the Crediton Conservation area on
June 7, when it holds its next meeting.
Council approved providing Glenn
McGregor with a connection to the
Brucefield water system for his new
house within the village limits.
Council decided it should have
someone in the village responsible for
the supervision of connections to its
water system there and will check out
someone able to provide this.
Assistant supervisor Nancy Wise keeps an eye on Jason Boughen, 4, and Gavin
Hunter, 5, as they create architectural wonders with cylinders. The boys along
with the other children, in the class have a chance to play on their own at the
Clinton and area nursery at the Wesley -Willis Church at the start of each class.
(News -Record photo)
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Stuck in the middle: commercials
by Shelley McPhee
It takes a calm, cool, intelligent
forgiving person to objectively watch
television commercials.
I've never been one to run to the
fridge or to the bathroom every time a
commercial comes on. Mainly
because I'm glued to the TV set and
anyways, I never have to use either of
the above mentioned facilities as
often as a commercial comes on.
Instead, over the years, I've wat-
ched commercials and learned to
overcome my intense dislike for
them.
I've learned to forgive the Kraft
Cheese Company for the nauseating
recipes they've been offering
television viewers over the years. I've
learned to take them all in my stride
and I must say that I have a soft spot
in my heart for their caramel apple
commercial that's been shown each
Hallowe'en season for years.
Just as revolting, I can now stand to
watch that poor workman ac-
cidentally step on the nail in the
Workmen's Compensation Board
commercials. tually the water softener, Calgon.
On the other hand, I've never had There's no greater insult to
much trouble resisting Mr. Christie's masculinity than to see the slob, "thin
critics of Bill Cosby and his Jello taste bags Belemins" making a fool of
testers. There's something about a himself.
child that can give a normally boring I don't even mind my intelligence
commercial a fresh, original ap- being insulted anymore, it's not worth
proach and some sense of honesty. the effort. I' don't care why Tina
An original commercial doesn't Louise uses Arrid Extra Dry and the
take long to catch my attention, like phrases fluorocarbon gasses, special
any of the upbeat Coke commercials tormula patent No. 3,786,432 (or some
or the most recent Scrubbies blue such number) or the company's great
jeans plug. knowledge of the ozone layer does not
Although I can't stand impress me one little bit.
discrimination or sexist attitudes, I no I've learned to be calm as well. I no
longer let such com mercials longer hit the ceiling or stamp my feet
aggravate me. From the wife who when right in the middle of the big
leaves rings around her husband's romance scene we have a word from
shirt collar to feminine hygiene Mother. Nature and her can of beans,
commercials, women are usually or .we learn how George relieves his
being put down or used. If the woman suffering from irregularity.
in commercials is not sprawled As the commercial once said, 'I'd
across the roof of a car, she's just rather switch than fight. There's no
finished "stroking her man." point continuing the battle with
Oh, men are getting theirs too and I commercials, they're here to stay and
must admit that I do enjoy watching you'll either have to sit through them
that. There's the "hot shot" husband or carry on with visiting the fridge
whose ego won't let him admit that and the bathroom when the breaks
his "ancient Chinese secret" is ac- come.
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