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No more strippers
says Tuckersmith
It was good-bye exotic dancers at a
recent meeting of Tuckersmith council.
Not that the dancers have been known
to attend council meetings, but they
were guests at stags sponsored by the
Vanastra Lions Club.
Tuckersmith council passed a motion
at last week's meeting giving the men's
club permission to rent part of the
Vanastra Recreation Centre for an
upcoming stag, - but without exotic
dancers.
Councillors told Wayne Ferguson,
who attended as a representative of the
Lions Club, that they had received
complaints about the last stag held at
the centre, about six months ago.
Clerk Jack McLachlan read a letter
from sec centre staff complaining
about damage to the carpets, people
remaining in the building after the 2
am. closing time and rooms being used
which weren't contracted for in the
rental agrement.
Mr. Ferguson said the club "know we
were in the wrong on the last one,"
adding "take our word, it won't happen
again."
He told council exotic dancers have
proved a drawing card at the stag
nights, but said the club could try
something else like a casino night.
Deputy -reeve Bill Brown said he
could see granting permission for the
club to use the hall "but no exotic
dancer." The deputy -reeve said he
heard rumblings after the last stag that
wives were angry at their husbands for
watching the show.
After a brief discussion, the coun-
cillors voted four to one to rent the
centre for the spring event.
Clerk Jack McLachlan reminded Mr.
Ferguson the club must have a
Vanastra Rec Centre staff member in
attendance at the stag to meet LCBO
re gulations.
Elston holds seat....
• from page l
supporters scattered around the com-
mumly centre kept one eye on the two
television sets showing Premier William
Davis heading for a majority government
and the other on wall charts giving the
results from local polls.
Optimism grew as it became clear the
young Wingham lawyer was carrying the
southern end of the riding by a com-
fortable margin. Mr. Harron, a farmer
from the Tara area, closed the gap by
sweeping polls in Port Elgin and
Southampton.
Holding slim lead
With only four polls left to report, the
tally showed Mr. Elston holding a slim,
240 -vote lead, and a brief cheer went up as
he was provisionally declared the winner.
However the mood remained restrained as
people speculated which polls were still to
come, and what they would do to the final
count.
stuck in
the middle
As the hall filled, word finally was
passed that Mr. Elston had won, and a
cheer went up as the final tally was an-
nounced showing him with a 324 -vote
margin. The official count Saturday
reduced this to 224 votes. Then the crowd
got down to the serious business of
celebrating the victory and awaiting the
arrival of their member -elect.
. Later that night Mr. Harron arrived at
the hall to congratulate Mr. Elston, though
he did not concede, pending the results of
the mail count, and Mr. Elston com-
plimented him on his hard but cleanly
foughtcampaign.
While Huron -Bruce will continue to be
represented by a Liberal member, the
outcome was a far cry from the previous
election in June 1977; when Mr. Gaunt
trounced Kincardine developer Sam
MacGregor 17,356 votes to 7,523. The NDP,
represented by Dave Zyluk, garnered 1,754
votes in that election.
shelley
by mcphee.
"Where do you work?" they ask
again.
"In Clinton," I repeat. "It's a little
town east of Goderich. You know, by
Lake Huron."
"Oh that's the place where they make
tires," they reply. '
"No that's Goodrich," I explain. "I'm
talking about Goderich."
So goes a typical conversation with a
"city person," not familiar with any
landmarks west of Hamilton. .
I tell them I work for a weekly
newspaper, that I'm the news -editor,
but they're not impressed.
"Well what do you do at the paper,
why don't you get a job at The Star?"
they question.
Unfortunately, many people are still
living lander the impression that weekly
newspapers are local rags, filled with -
the ads for canned ham specials at the
grocery store, and newsy items about
Mrs. Smith's afternoon tea and bridge
party.
They're living under the Lou Grant
Myth, that all reporters on the big daily
papers are investigating and writing
major news -breaking stories each day.
However, there's more to a daily
newspaper than the front page and
there are many reporters who do
nothing more than retype copy sent in
by the wire or spend eight hours a day
writing obituaries.
I explain that a weekly newspaper is
a far different operation. With our
newsroom of two persons, for instance,
the work and the great variety of
assignments is non-stop.
Unlike the creative photographer on
the daily, we're not able to wait for
hours on end, for that one perfect shot.
Unlike the court reporter, we're unable
to sit through long hours of tedious
hearings and trials, waiting for, a
sensational story to come out. Unlike
the feature writer or the investigative
reporter, we don't have days or even
weeks, to research material and in-
terviewing people to get the in-depth
story.
Instead, working in the weekly
newspaper world requires a great deal
off versatility. At the News -Record, for
instance, we're required to be the social
editor, the police and court reporter,
and the feature writer. We have to
cover the municipal beat, the weather,
the sports news, accidents, fires and
deaths. We're the farm editor, the
religion editor, the education editor, the
food, fashion and home editor. We take
photographs, we write editorials and
columns, we're proofreaders, dark
room technicians, type setters and page
lay -out designers. We help sell the ads,
help deliver the papers. and attempt to
be good public relation officers for our
company.
It's not that Fm complaining, I love
the diversity that the weekly business
has to offer. That's why I'm here, and
not working on the "glamorous" Star's
secretarial pool styled newsroom.
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Like most of the province, there was a light turnout at the provincial election polls in
Clinton, with about 60 per cent of the voters marking ballots. Two of those who voted
included Lillian and Bert Evans of Matilda Street who get their names checked off by
Elmer Trick and Lee Proctor, who were handling one poll at the Legion. (James Fit-
zgerald photo )
Will strap be banned?
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
When does punishment by a teacher at
school become corporal punishment?
Should teachers ever be allowed to use
the strap on students who seriously
misbehave in class? If so, what conditions
must prevail?
Should students and parents have
recourse against a teacher who uses
physical force to discipline a pupil?
.At --what age • is -a - student capable of
responsible self-discipline?
These are, some questions the members
of the Huron County Board of Education
are asking themselves and the ratepayers
of Huron County during the month of
March.
Director of Education John Cochrane at
last week's regular board of education
meeting in Clinton referred to a memoran-
dum from the Ontario Minister of Educa-
tion Bette Stephenson. In that communi-
que, Ms. Stephenson forwarded for 'reac-
tion and comment' an amendment to the
Ontario regulations governing corporal
punishment in schools.
That amendment would make ittheduty
of a teacher, including the principal
teacher, to refrain from the use of physical
force in disciplining a pupil except to
protect himself or another pupil.
An accompanying reportfrom the
Ministry regarding the legal, moral and
psychological aspects of the questions was
presented to all board members for con-
sideration.
That report has been referred to the
April 6, 1981 meeting of •the board of
education.
Cochrane is hoping that during the
month of March, any teachers, students,
taxpayers or other interested persons in
the county with an opinion to share will
take the opportunity to either speak to
their board representatives concerning the
matter of , corporal punishment in the
schools, or make written submission of
their views either through the . county
weekly newspapers or direc`ly
board office.
In the meantime, Cochrane is getting
data from the county schools to determine
to what extent corporal punishment is
being used in Huron County classrooms.
Cochrane did confess that he felt the
wording of the amendment was a little
vague.
"By physical force, does it mean taking
a kid by the elbow and helping him down to
the principal's office?" asked Cochrane.
"Or does it mean the strap? And if so, why
doesn't it just say the strap?" -
By coincidence, an information report
was attached to the board's regular
meeting agenda concerning nine
suspensions of students from across Huron
County for a variety of misdemeanours at
school.
Of the nine students, eight were male.
Five students were from Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton; two were
from Clinton Public School; one was from
Goderich District Collegiate Institute; and
one was from South Huron District High
School in Exeter. '
CLINTON-NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, MARCH ,1961—PAGE 3
Tuckersmith seeks....
• from page 1
we get is the bill to pay the shot and we're
not happy with that arrangement."
Jack McLachlan said in an interview
later, while council does receive a budget
on costs for the water and sewage system,
they don't receive any monthly statements
on costs in the system. Councillors asked
Mr. Brown how they can tell if repairs to
the system are budgeted items or not.
"Why isn't Mark (Bell) reporting to us
verbally, say in September, that we're
over budgeted..." the reeve asked.
Mr. Brown said for several years the
ministry had been trying to simplify
monthly statements, and recently hired a
statistician to work .on simplifying the
reports. The monthly statements currently
go to superintendents within the system.
John Brownridge asked if someone could
report to council on a quarterly basis how
close the system was to being on budget.
Mr. Brown said, "yes, it could be done."
Reeve Bell said, "Our necks would be in
a noose if our (meaning council's) budgets
went 25 per cent over every year..."
Mr. Brownridge said- council- still`dtdret-
have the answer for the overrun - "except
inflation."
Apologizing for bringing the wrong
briefcase to the meeting, Dick Brown said
he and Mark Bell would attend council's
next meeting and try to answer council's
questions further about the budget
overruns.
Mr. Brownridge, referring to the last
council meeting, said "We've had Mark up
here and he didn't have the information
and now you don't have it."
Council's next meeting is April 7.
Story on barns wasn't right
Contrary to a report in the' March 19
edition of the Clinton News -Record, Fire
Marshal Bob Adams of Mount Forest has
not investigated the. Clinton horse barns.
It was reported that a recent Clinton
Council meeting that Mr. Adams had
looked at the barns and said they were not
a fire hazard. However in his report to
council, Councillor Ron McKay inad-
verantly said that the Fire Marshal had
toured the barns, when in fact he meant
that Clinton Fire Chief Clarence Neilans
had looked at them.
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are subject to editing for length
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