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BLUE
RIBBON
AWARD
Second class
mail registratian,
numb ef; )716'
For years now, irk% and the boy a have
sloged through some god -forsaken stream in
the dead of night, snapped the caps off alew
cold ones and regaled each other with tales
of the big One that got away, barely,.
Ws.* spring ritual, called fishing; and this
Pattileeliend the call of nature went out to
thous Os of fisherman, a can summoning
the hearty and foolhardy to the streams,
ponds and rivers of the wilderness in Search
of fish.
It's a call that can be likened to the mating
call of the moose. Animals, by the
thousands, thunder off into the wilderness
ler- days at-- a --timksalyAQ::..-0.21nerge.mith--.
hangovers, lost lures and other assorted
maladies. Few even see a fish, let alone
catch one.
I am not a fisherman, nor do 1 have the
least inclination to stand in a frigid stream
with hundreds of other angling brethren in
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the hopes of eatching suWer. However,
while ia,r/f40004$04
limited, 1 would concede ,
sitting IdlYon a river bank On fl hot samato,
AsY with sufficient refreshing bS4,100;es in
*Ow, does have con* an a certain ethereal
scenario. • - •
One.that I could live.wIthit; at least, •
But on the weekendi I had occasion to
witness the caII of nature or the, -rite of
spring, first hand. tiny stream were barelYvisibje .
as hundreds' of fisherman, visible . .;
from the waist up, rose out of the frigid
waters. Undaunted by the cool rains, they
stood, motionless, their poles protruding .
notieeablyat-oddiniglesr
Fishing, I reasoned, was a sport for
crazies but those closer to the 'past -time
assured me the weather was just perfect for.
the opening of the season. I didn't un-
derstand. Being an avid golfer, I could at
least comprehend the fanaticism, to a
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'orawing from yaat'inaritalCSPeriene0, that - soon changed our outlbok and tha•raiftkeae,
the four nia.,114. fabricated the fishing * carefully fashioned from stretch plastic,
expedition only. to camouflouge a planned was abandoned scant seconds before we.
journey to a nearbiwatering hole. ' entered the hotel for an afternoon of frivolity
And In an exaggerated show to support It , seems that everytime I go fishing it
qever animals, those women,.
and comforting beverages.
our claims, we dutifully and pretentiously, hurts,. , '
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Co-operative effort
Some members of Goderich town council had pointed
and direct words for their counterparts on the Huron
County Board of Education Monday.'
This week the Huron! County Board of Education ap-
proved its 1983 budget which calls for total expenditures of
$35 million a 9.5. per cent increase over the previous
• budget.
• However, the taxpayers share of that budget increased
by 10.5 per cent to $11.6 million compared to $10.5 million
in 1982.
The cost of education has drawn the ire and criticism of
municipal officials and taxpayers considering. the
majority of the tax bill now goes to educate the children of
the county. That was not the case just a few short years
• ago.
The average taxpayer in the town of Goderich now Pays
more for education than municipal purposes. A taxpayer
with a house assessed at $3,000 will pay, $876 in taxes this
$423.51 of which will go for education purposes,
while,$367.39 will be used by the municipality and $85.93
will go the County of Huron.
• Compared to last year, the average citizen will have to
produce an extra $46.11 in taxes, but most Of -that increase,
$37.65, will go to the Huron Board of Education. •
until the budget session Monday, Clifford said they
neglected to alter a thing.
• The board and its teachers and administrators ,willhave
,to abide by the six • and five per cent wage and price
guidelines but most contracts will not be renegotiated
until later this year. Teachers and administrators had
already settled for substantial -increases.
Some councillors suggested it was definitely time to get
tough with the Board of Education and urge them to be
more responsible in their spending habits.
The London Board of Education recently approved a 14
per cent increase in its budget that has city officials there
reeling. Trustees there have now warned that excessive
expenditures Triay force layoffs among the teaching staff
and tougher bargaining measures will be employed:
It is the kind of attitude that will have to become more
prevalent among trustees of boardsOf education if crisis
are to be kept at acceptable levels. •
While municipalities struggle to keep mill rate in -
Creases at a minimum, their budgets are tied directly to
education costs. Goderich taxpayers face an increase of
just over , five percent and considering the economic
climate, thatincrease can, for the most part, be absorbed
by the taxpayer.
n fairness, the trustees of the board have little • However, that doesn't mean that increases should be
flexibility in the budget and much of the $35 million is condoned simply because they are kept under 10 per cent.
eaten up by operating costs and salaries. •This year the town of Goderich will have to pay an ad -
Councillor Bill Clifford suggested to council Monday • ditional $177,394 in education costs to the_Huron board.
that the board acted irresponsibly in passing its budget, That is a significant increase by any stand
claiming trustees simply rubber stamped the document One-sided restraint is not restraint at all. The
which was placed in their hands that very afternoon. municipality, the county and board of education have to
While trustees had not seen the printed copy of the budget act in a co-operative manner. ,
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Hospital is best place
' There has been considerable interest of late in the idea interrupted during a mother's stay in hospital.
The Kitchener doctor, however, points out that any
delivery can suddenly become complicated, demanding
skills and equipment which would not be available in the
home. Since our hospitals are prepared to meet all such
emergencies, it makes nothing but sense to provide this
protection -for both mother and new baby.
One of the great blessings of life in a small community is
ospitals have accepted the presence of the father in the the fact that most of them have their own hospitals, by
delivery room if that is what both parents want. Hospital • now well equipped to provide excellent health care. It is
visiting hours have been made a great deal more flexible difficult to understand what real advantage there would
so that family relationships will not be unnecessarily be in refusing to take hilladvantage of our good fortune.
that babies should be born at home. The midwives' •
organization puts forth many arguments in favor of a
child entering this world in its mother's bed. However, a
Kitchener doctor recently pointed out some of the obvious
fallacies in this argument.
That there should be more family participation in the
birth of a baby is an acknowledged fact and most modern
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One's reaction to school boards has the
elements of a love -hate relationship, par-
ticularly at budget times. The Huron County
Board of Education is no exception.
The immense importance of education
stands above any .dispute and there is full
awareness of the god reputation and high
standards of Huron County schools. And yet
- and yet - when the budget figures hit you
and you look at all kinds of things behind
them, the sweetness dissolves quite a bit.
-Attending the Huron County Board's
budget meeting on Monday, I• was
favourably impressed by one change. The
Board appears to be serious in its' declared
desire to seek a greater degree of public
dialogue. For the first time in my memory
the Board's budget discussion took place at
an open meeting, with the trustees actually
asking questions and expressing concerns in
full view of the "ordinary people" present.
In the past the public was admitted to
witness only the formal rubberstamping of
the prepared document, without visible par-
ticipation by the trustees. The new approach
is a step in the right direction. 1 hope that
the next one will be to notify the public
directly in advance, not just the municipal
offices.
Improved as it was, even this yhar's
budget meeting of the Board was essentially
little more than somewhat glorified rub-
berstamping of a document prepared by the
administration and previously processed by
a committee. Most of the trustees seem to
have no real opportunity to dive deeply
enough into the overall magnitude of the
prepared conclusions. No opportunity or no
real desire? Committees working in relative
isolation are not sufficient to provide the in-
tense scrutiny of the entire picture one
would expect. No alternatives were provid-
ed or demanded. A $35 million dollar budget
was passed without one figure being chang-
ed.
As we are constantly renunded, most of
the board's budget consists of fixed items
and the board has control over only 5 per-
cent of its expenditures. Two questions
come to mind - 1) why did the Board get
itself into such a predicament that it is no
longer the master in its own house and what
exactly does the Board control under the ex-
isting conditions? - 2) why have a powerless
board at all?
Some of the large increases caught my at-
- tention. "Staff Travel and Improvement" in
the elementary category increased by 36.3
percent, in the secondary group by 44.7 per-
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ommercial fisherm6n have not caught all
• • Dear Editor: • • •
, My husband is a com-
mercial • fisherman, and
• often times I have heard
people say there are no trout,
because the commercial
fisherman have caught them
all. This is not true, but you
can't seem' to make people
• understand, because they
simply don't want to. '
My husband has offered to
take people on the boat with
him to see what is caught.
Many say they don't have to
because they already know.
They can tell from shore
through their binoculars.
The following is an article
that was in the Toronto Sun
by Outdoors Writer Ted
Gorsline which backs up
what the commercial
• fishermen have, been trying
to tell them and the Ministry
of Natural Resources.
Here's a fisherman
• who hates Salmon
Ernest Schwiebert,
perhaps the best-known fly
and trout fisherman in the
world, was in town last week
to lecture at the Canadian
Fly Fishing Forum.
He has a lot to say about
angling technique (and in
that area he is brilliant) and
he is • outspoken in his views
on splake and coho, chinook
and pink salmon stocked in
the Great Lakes.
TTER
Schwiebert said "the
Great Lakes salmon
programs have been an
economic success but are
destroying trout habitat."
• He calls the salmon
programs an "en-
vironmental disaster" and
thinks the splake program is
for dum-dums. "Why go to
the bother of creating a new
hatchery fish when you have
so many ready-made wild
strains of fish that would do
the job."
He is not criticizing from
ignorance. He has two
doctorates, his own en-
vironmental planning
company in New Jersey, and
advises government
agencies in areas as diverse
as Alaska and Argentina.
Schwiebert says "the
problem with salmon in
Michigan is that they have
been stocked in such
quantities that when they
return to spawn, they root up
so much gravel making their
spawning beds, that they
destroy the algae which
aquatic insects need for
food."
Once.the insects have been
destroyed, a stream is no
good for resident fish or as a
nursery for young trout.
He says there are so many
salmon in Michigan streams
now that they destroy each
other s eggs, and adds that
fish and game departments
have not been intelligent in
their choice of salmon
strains for the Great Lakes.
"The salmon return in the
fall, and because of their
size, they intimidate
spawning brown trout and
• keep them from ascending
the rivers to lay their eggs.
"There are plenty of
salmon strains in the west
that run in the summer that
could be used. That way, the
salmon and brown trout
would lay their eggs at
different times of the year."
Schweibert claims pink
salmon, the type planted by
the Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources, are a
problem because their
"numbers are not regulated
cent. The expenditures for the Board Ad-
ministration Centre went up 22.9 percent
and stand now at $2,596,486.
I do hope that the "tough and unpoptlar
measures" for the future, alluded to by the
vice-chairman at the end of the budget
discussion, are not intentions to cut services
for our already decreasing numbers_ of
students, whilst these diminished services
would be provided by ever more highly paid
administration, teachers and other staff. -
The Board's financial demands are for-
warded to municipal councils as predeter-
mined apportionments, for inclusion in the
consolidated mill rates, for collection from
local ratepayers and for transfer of the
money in due course. The law makes the
municipalities the collection agencies for
the school boards, without any say what-
soever in the boards' finances and in-
creases. After minute scrutiny of their own
needs and upon keeping their own budgets
down for the services expected of them, the
councils witness the inevitable increase in
they must collect these taxes.
the property taxes and the system says
And yet a and yet - the trustees and ad-
ministrators in school board offices are no
ogres out to get us. I do not agree with some
of their methods and I wonder about the
degree of their determination in some in-
stances, but I do not question their integrity
and earnest desire to do the best in their
view, with what they have within the
system,
The council members' frustrations are
understandable in the circumstances, but
their sabre rattling at the boards does not
address the problem at all. Demands for
changes to the system should be supported
and must be addressed to the Province. Pro-
perty taxes should not pay for the rather
devouring demands of educating people;
these costs should come out of general taxa-
tion. Motions to that effect have been
presented year after year at the annual
meeting of the Association of Municipalities
of Ontario. t have always voted in favour,
but there were never enough of us to see the
motions carried. Perhaps this will change in
the future.
In the meantime you may want to know
that every dollar you pay in property taxes
in Goderich in 1983 is spent as follows: 48.3
cents for Board of Education, 9.8 cents for
County system and only 41.9 cents remain
for supplying all the services for which the
municipal council is responsible.
by available spawning beds
like other fish.
"Their young don't stay in
the stream after hatching
like rainbow and coho. They
leave right after they hatch,
so they can use sterile rivers
for spawning.
"Their numbers are
regulated only ' by the
amount of food in the lake, so
their populations grow to
enormous size. When they
return to spawn, they come
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in swarms and obliterate the
beds of other fall -spawning,
fish like brook and brown
trout."
Since pink *Mon have •
now spread throughout the
Great Lakes, MNR May
unwittingly he , devasiathig
famous trout streams hi both
Ontario and the U.S. •
Yours truly,
Jean Reid,
Varna.
losing of Centre
is not accepted
Dear Editor, The majority oppose it.
In reply to a news item in Parents at Bluewater Cen-
the London Free Press, Fri- tre are still- demanding to
day, April 22, pertaining to know why the Davis govern-
cloSures of Start Centre and mentis planning . to close
Bluewater Centre, I wish to facilities where individual
object 'to 'remarks that care is excellent. Mr. Drea
"there probably now is a has Assured us it is not to
relative degree of accep- save money.
tance."
At Bluewater Centre there
There is no degree of ac- are workshops, two barns,
ceptance by parents of two swimming pools, a camp
residents to the closing of on the brow of Lake Huron.
Bluewater Centre. The auditorium is in use
A small number of parents•
of residents at Start Centre almost every night for floor
hockey, movies and dances. -
may possibly be beginning to A very active Volunteer
accept the planned closure.
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ELSA HAYDON