The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-09-07, Page 5Dogs attack joggers
' iti townshi reader says
Dear Editor:
Recently I became an avid
jogger. One weekend per
month and during the sum-
mer I enjoy visiting my
parents in Goderich
Township. While here I at-
tempt to keep up my daily
running schedule but some
canines and their owners
have blade this difficult.
Those dogs can guard
whatever they want on their
property but I'd rather they
leave me alone as I run by on
township property. Due to
flashing teeth and paw
marks on my legs, I now no
longer run to Black's Point
and hesitate running on any
gravel roads near my
parents' residence. If I was a
thief by night, I could
understand the excitement
but I cannot understand that
a dog owner would allow his
dog to terrify innocent jog-
gers.
LETTER
I think I will stick to runn
ing in Toronto along their
parks and streets and take
my chances with the occa-
sional mugger... I doubt if it
would be as stressful as the
Goderich Township running
shoe attackers.
Yours in the
interest of sports,
Christina
Vanden Heuvel.
Thanks for help
Dear Editor,
I would like to take this op-
portunity to say thank you to
all those people who helped
with the Goderich Pro -Am
Cycling Race held Sunday,
August 28.
The event was well receiv-
ed by the bicycling en-
thusiasts who enjoyed the
race route and their visit to
our town.
A special thanks to the
London Cycling Club for
their continued assistance in
helping to make this event a
success!
Sincerely yours,
Jane Netzke,
Director of Recreation.
Hospital turns down heliport
LISTOWEL - Listowel
Memorial Hospital will not
be installing a heliport for an
air ambulance despite.
pressure from the ministry
of health to do so.
The issue came up at the
Aug. 29 meeting at the
hospital's board of trustees
when Hospital administrator
Dr. Frank Elligham
reported on correspondence
from the ministry. The
correspondance indicated
the ministry is encouraging
community hospitals to
develop heliports to tran-
sport seriously injured
patients to hospitals in
Hainilton, Toronto or London
as necessary.
The idea was rejected by
the Listowel Hospital last
year, but at that time, the
ministry was proposing only
a daytime heliport. The
ministry is now prepared to
fully fund the cost of a
lighted 24-hour heliport.
Dr. Ellingham was in
favor of going ahead with the
project. "The ministry is
really pushing for this and I
think it would be foolish of us
to resist."
Civic Corner
A joint committee of the
town and PUC will meet
Thursday, September 8 at
7:30 a.m. in town hall.
The administre.tive
committee will meet
Thursday, September 8 at
8:30 a.m. in town hall.
The Katimavik committee
will meet Thursday, Sep-
tember 8 at 11 a.m. in town
hall.
The Parks and Waterfront
Committee will meet
Thursday, September 8 at 7
p.m. in town hall.
Goderich Town Council
will meet Monday, Sep-
tember 12 at 7:30 p.m. in
town hall.
GODERICH SIGNAJ,STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1983 --PAGE S
Trustee says interest ishigh lel French i:mersion
Interest in a French immersion or French
language school at Ecole Ste. Marie in St. Joseph's is
higher than lie thought Zurich area trustee Dave
Durand told fellow members of the Huron -Perth
Roman Catholic Separate School Board Aug. 29.
Trustees voted in July to keep the three room
school open, and to investigate either type:of facility
there by Sept. 1, 1984. Stratford trustee Ron Marcy
wanted to know who was doing the investigating.
Parents like the idea of partial French immersion,
with all subjects taught in French at least 50 per cent
of the day, Mr. Durand said. While a French immer-
sion school is open to any children, a French
language school where all instruction is. in French
must be established in an area if at least 25 families
with French backgrounds want it.
French immersion is fine if everyone in the Ecole,
Ste. Marie community, plus others, want it, director
of education Bill Eckert says. "But it's difficult to
establish French immersion just for one area in. the
two counties." Parents from Stratford to Goderich
might want similar access to a French education for
their children. A. French language school at Ecole
Ste. Marie, on the other hand, would be "legitimate"
because of the long established French community
there.
The administration will have to investigate the
issue, said board chairman Ron Murray. Ecole Ste.
Marie currently has 75 minutes a day of instruction in
French, which hasn't been opposed by anyone and "I
don't see a problem with people from Goderich or
Stratford wanting to bus their children to Ecole Ste.
Marie."
The problem the chairman sees with either French
immersion or a French language school is that there
is no French high school in either county for children
to continue their progress. While Ecole Ste. Marie
grads are currently "marginally more skilled" in
French than average, that margin disappears after a
couple of years of high school. Mr. Eckert said,
"because the extra French is not there."
Surely the extra French isn't lost, trustee Vincent
McInnes said. It's the same as religion, which
HPRCSS students study for eight years and then go
on to a public high school. "They don't lose it. It's
there."
Trustee John Devlin, an ex -teacher, agreed. "They
wouldn't lose their facility. Give them a couple of
months at university (in French) and it would come
back."
Students would need to get Grade 9 and 10 high
school French credits, if they were educated to that
point in HPRCSS Grade 8 classes, the director, Mr.
Eckert said.
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— discussed in committee -of -the -whole rejection of
its application for a $700,00Q,.COED grant to do about
$1.5 nniliiore in capital improvements to a number of
schools in the system;
— received copies of a booklet on bus safety,
developed by Lin Stefflertdistribution to every family
in the HPRCSS system (part of the board's first in the
province bus safety program, the booklet cost about
50 cents per copy) ;
— learned that the cooperative evaluation team for
the ministry study of the school system has been
selected;
— supported a resolution from the Lincoln County
Roman Catholic Separate School Board asking for
additional funding and recognition for students is who
are severely retarded and developmentally han-
dicapped. The cost per student will be three times the
allowable expenditure for the trainable retarded, the
board says;
--approved the appointment of Don Farwell as prin-
.ci al at Immaculate Conception School in Stratford
effective this month. Mr. Farwell, who was principal
at St. Joseph's, Clinton, requested the move. Jim
McDade, of St. Mary's, Goderich, will be acting prin-
cipal until Dec. 31. The opening at St. Joseph's will be
advertised inside and out of the system.
Social service cases decrease
Government -funded programs have helped to ease
the welfa re burden in Huron County but the number
of families requiring assistance will rise as these
programs conclude.
While social services administrator Jack
MacKinnon had encouraging news on the welfare
caseload at the September meeting of Huron County
Council Thursday, his optimism was tempered.
"The figures have decreased each month and some
of it has to do with the government -funded
programs," he said. "Many people coming off these
employment programs are going back on assistance
and we haven't heard of any new programs being
approved for the county."
Happy
Mom & Dad
[Tom and Evelyn Phillips]
FROM YOUR FAMILY
The report 01 ',ue social services committee in-
dicated that the caseload had decreased for six
consecutive months. For the first six months of 1983
the number of intakes declined by five per cent while
the number of cases and beneficiaries increased by 32
and 24 per cent respectively.
During the month of July, 55 cases were closed and
only 47 opened. Social services committee chairman,
Robert Bell said he was "proud of the decline in
figures over the past six months."
The financial report to July 31, 1983 indicates
revenues and expenditures of $606,351 which is $48,792
under budget. The total for the same period last year
was $476,992. The 1983 figures represent a 27 per cent
increase.
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