HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1971-11-04, Page 2040 GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1971,
:itTinkertownnow,
in some difficulty
Tinkertown;, ' the nursery
school for little tots which began
operatigg in Goderich about...
year ago now, is experiencing,
some difficulty.
Tinkertown is a co-operative
venture requiring parents; to
wgrk with the school supervisor,
Mrs. Jane Lane, in order to keep
costs down to an absolute
minimum, The school's
executive is discovering
-prob-Persia not only with finances
(which were expected from, time
to time), but with loss of morale
among the workers (which was
not 'expected).
.1t --is• Yate •to.•say that the
executive of Tinkertown
losing faith in this community,
Some of the reasons for this, of
Course, rest with such
predictable things as
non=partTcipat.itig' parents• •' r'h
, don't understand '1'lnkertown's
peculiar purpose and problems
in Goderich.
The most •e xaspe rat ing
problem, however, is with
accommodation ' and with
council for the ----Town, of
• Goderich and most particularly,
with the property committee
eltairr by the tcr`wn"s newest
councillor, Mrs. Elsa Hayda,n.
At last Thursday . evening's
meeting of council, two
representatives of ' "Tinkertown
were on hand to,, speak with
\councillors concerning some.
recent ^inte.rference 'with the
workings of the school which
equipment used at Tinkertown,
when the pop cases, the tire and
the old bedstead were actually
removed, by town workmen
from 'the yard at MacKay Hall
and stored in the town shed.
1t also appears that not only
dies Mrs. Ilaydon not know just
who to contact about affairs --at
Tinkertown tate supprvisor or
the board of directors haired by
Mrs, Mona.. Mulhern --- the
- TinkeH wn "people are just as
confused abi5ut who holds sway
at MacKay Hall, Mrs. Ftaydon,
the caretaker or town council as
a whole.
Both sides claim there have
not been proper communica ,
tions made ,,about all kinds of
things. Both charge there have
been half-truths. It seems to be
clearly and simply a matter of
comMurrication breakdown o'f`
the worst kind with nobod\•
ready to accept blame and no
one willing to relent.
This newspaper, through its
Woman to Woman column,
spent, considerable time and
effort in the past two years to
stir up and preserve interest in a,
nursery school for Goderich. We
'were delhighed when 'Mrs:
Mulhern and her staff Of
mothers decided to take on the
project:
We have watched its growth
with interest. We have noted
that quarters at Knox'
Presbyterian Church and --St.
"George's Anglican Church were
, carries un in'MacKay Hall, The— n'Totand ideal fir a variety of°
bl" r I ° ,s s fis; r ` ` iVrr-ha •i ng' to',
of "junk" the picturesque do 'with the very. nature of
word chosen by Mrs. Haydnri to Tinkertown. \ When one is
scribe what the Tinkertown operating a regular school with
•s -p -O k e s m e n' termed regular hours; when .one must
"equipment", have all kinds 'of large and bulky
Involved were some unpainted equipment, some of it not all
pop cases, which had been piled that easily stored; , when one
out behind MacKay Hall for must have inside . and .outside
several days, a large rubber tire; facilities; when one is dealing
and finally, an'old bedstead: The with little children who need
.pop cases were to be sanded and washroom facilities •as well as
, painted for use as -outdoor special scaled-down equipment
" bu"ll'diltig btuc'k5; -the rubbertire when one must satisfy a
was to be filled with sand; and department 'of the provincial
the bedstead, with a .,proper government as ,to premises'and
mattress, was to 'become a finances .and upervisiori and
trampoline. insurance and the:, • whole
Not only was there an spectrum of headaches; there,are.
understandable :delay on • obviously going, to be
council's part to erect a' fence insurmountable obstacles in
:.,around MacKay 'Hall's backyard privately-owned'quarters such -as -
to contain the ezc,uberant young churches tend to be.
citizens of Tinkertown, there That's precisely why the
was an equally understandable Tinkertown organizers went into
delay on the part -,of Tinkertown il• public building. They felt that
executive in getting pop b.r renting a public facility and
cases sanded -. and ••Taai:nted drawing up, a proper agreement,
(probably , too• few dads were at least the problems of housing
interested), 'And becausc,mthe would be understood i and
fence wasn't erected, the -tire worked out` with the minimum
was never filled with sand•. The of hassle' so that the more
bedstead was only in the yard a' important program of education
day or so and had not been could evolve.
utilized either, 'Town council. and the
So what's the problem? property' chairman must. realize
From the discussion at that 'Tinkertown, is not only a''
council meeting last week, one client, like all the other groups
can only assume that Mrs.' which ,,,use MacKay' 111all On a
Haydon and her colleague* regular. basis, it: is a peculiars
agreed • that ° the, backyard of client, having peculiar needs .
MacKay Hall was unsightly with all the - while providing a
all this "junk" stored in it; that much-needed and vital service in
the use ,,of the pop cases for the Town -of" Goderich,
building blocks was unthinkable Skeptics ,s who , say that
because they were too heavy for Tinkertown- is just a glorified
children to move ' ° and top babysitting „service 'for parents
dangerous to be piled one On top who won't find, time. for their
of another (evenunder the; youngsters should take a closer
watchful , eye of a trained 'look, Surely the government. of
supervisor); and that everything ,Ontario, just newly re-elected
should be'' removed from the with an overwhelming majority,
yard: • '-would not give approval for a
A letter - was. sent to school with no purpose in this
Tinkertown officials, following . municipality. Ask kindergarten_
theOctoper 14 meeting of .teachers anywhere if nursery
council, advising them to remove school is a bane 'or a blessing to
-the pop cases from the premises. society , and to the', li-ttle/'ones
Tinkertown people were, still who attend. i
musing over the letter and giving • We believe that- coencil for
consideration to council's right the Town of Goderich is in error
• to interfere with the type, Of in this instance. •
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For Youngsters of pre-school age nothing in life is more fun
than make believe and Hallowe'en offers a perfect opportunity
to dress up in all those wonderful cosiumes. Thursday was
•
We ackn'owl dge its concern
for the safety`-isf=-t-he` el4:14,rett- .-
MacKay Hall . but we also
remind them that the children
are well supervised, that they are
fully covered by insurance
provided 'by the Tinkertown
executive, and the town, in the
event' of some terrible disaster
involving the school, is also
protected by its own insurance
policy. •
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We fully doubt that council,
or • its property, chairman, or
anyone else for that matter, has'
jurisdiction to make rules and
regulation's about. ' what Continued'from Page 2B
equipment shall or:shall not • be get this kind of information
used at Tinkertown. 'It is enough of the" schools. There are new
foxes us that Tinkertown has • a ways of doing things now
qualified supervisor working. and new ideas to be tried and
under the direct: supervision of a proce'n.
department of ,.the , Ontario It 'is difficult for parents,
government . , ire much 'the 'graduates and even interested
same -manner Vis, our .day schools persons to assess the new system
are operated. We think it should 'as objectively as we should;' --1
also pacify council. suppose. The fact of the"matter
While the appearance of the remains that when school closes
backyard of a public building is, at the end of the spring term fOr
of utmost importance over the the' summer break, this
long haul,_ we suggest that newspaper receives only the
council acted hastily in this names of the top award winners
instance by removing the^. and that's for all grades, not
Tinkertown "equipment just Grade 13. And rightly or
even though just to the ' town wrongly, that is the (mi` -
shed where it was safe and information which- we can pry
available, upon""request, • Surely out of the school and I'm
� afraid.
y.
some more amicable' storage d raid that same fceling-is carried
arrangement could •-have been over int 6 commencement
made until such a time as the "`- (''reises.
crates were sanded and painted, This year we had Don McGee
the tire filled with sand, and the take pictures of all the' award
bedstead explained: • winners' in the high school who
Further, it would appear that would receive special recognition
either the agreement' i ade with on corrimencement night. .Quite
Tinkertown officials is not .frankly, we gave some
-specific .enough . , or It is not consideration to taking class
fully understood 4ay both the graduation pictures for all
property committee chairman graduating'l°ias'seS" and whether
and -the school committee.'sWe some readers believe so or not,
cannot • believe that iptelligerit all are ,graduating classes whether
people 'desirous of co-operation from the -four year, the five year
could, not work out the term of or the commercial courses and.
the agreement less boisterously,, fully expect to be treated
costume day at Tinkertown :and all the youngsters attending
turned out dressed for the Occassion as devils, tigers, ghosts,
goblins a.nd'all the, other Ha)Iowe'en creatures.,—staff photo
and to the satisfaction of all: — a , pre-school- learning
.:.-W hethee-=-;ehe fatr.l't slier u w,.4:,merle..ta. waste valu setsietsJi_ ,.- .p r o' p .e r..t y-,
over -zealous property chairman fully . comprehended and
. or a Tinkertown_.executive with supported by government in this
meeting,
wi
little working knowledge of province.
municipal facilities, we would The final solution may indeed
doubt this could have a bearing rest „in a' visit ' from Miss
Panal
on. the � outcome if both sides Family and Social Services,
Nursery Schools Branch; .as
suggested by - Mayor Harry
were seri nsly endeavouring to
give t -Eris- community a' nir`"sery
school for its average youngsters
Wotsell at'last week's cnuncil,,.community.
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But we gave up the idea when
we realized the number of
people , that would involve
(about 40 .in what used to be
called Upper School and about
150 from the four-year courses).
We knew we just would not have,
facilities and equipment to do
justice to the job. Our
photographers on Staff here (and
`We've,, rlit TOM arkable Don McGee
who does such fine work for us
at'GDCI) just aren't equipped to
handle such large numbers of
people in a single picture,
You might suggest that
individual •class pictures be taken
'but that, too, is- a difficult and
an almost impossible task. Those
pictures would have to be taken
at the end of June and quite
'naturally, 'there would be people
on those photos who would not
be , graduating' after all the
examination returns are in.
I would like to assure this.
letter writer that complete study
was given to this matter at
commencement time 'and the
course we took seemed like the
best one.
We. classed them all together
because that's the way the
school did it. We didn't have a
class picture because there were
just too many people to be
included.
And with rfall due respect to
the •reader, who complair)ed
bitterly about our coverage of
commencement we. deny there --
was a "blunder" or that we
.committed "so .many disgusting
mistakes." ,
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