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Separate
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BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE
The Huron -Perth Separate School Board
hasn't given up on getting funding for its
$1.5 -million project which would see small
gymnasiums and library rooms added to
some schools.
The board's application for $700,000 in fun-
ding under the Canada -Ontario Employ-
ment Development (COED) program was
turned down in August. The remainmg
amount of $800,000 was to be debentured by
the board over a 10 -year period.
Director of education William Eckert said
a Liberal MP had invited COED applicants
in his riding to reapply for funding.
"We (administration) will make enquiries
to see if funding is available," said Mr.
Eckert.
The director also had a reply from
Townshi council holds
court of revision on drain
Colborne Township Council .net in
regular session at 8 p.m. on Tuesday,
September 20 and the first order of
business was to pass by-law no. 18-1983
amending by-law 3-1983 to authorize the
erection of a stop sign at the intersection of
Dunlop Drive of Sager Subdivision, Plan
578, and the township sideroad ( Deviation
Road).
The treasurer presented the interim
statement of operations for the period en-
ding August 31, 1983 showing that approx-
imately 52 percent of the 1983 taxes had
been collected as of that date and that
$62,800 of the 1982 tax account and $7,259 of
the 1981 tax account are still outstanding.
Court of Revision was held to hear any
appeals against assessment by owners
assessed for costs in the construction of the
proposed Sherwood Municipal Drain.
An appeal by Oswald Marchi that his
assessment was too high was filed and E.
W. Shifflett, P. Eng., drainage engineer,
explained the process of establishing
equitable assessment for outlet and benefit
purposes, allowances provided for damage
to lands and crops and the application of
government grants available to owners of
agricultural land to assist in offsetting par-
tial costs of the drain.
After hearing the explanation, Mr. Mar-
chl was satisfied that his assessment was
in order and the decision of Court of Revi-
sion was that no change be made to the
assessment schedule in the engineer's
report.
a ne road supers a enue:rd , reported that
the reconstruction of the Brindley sideroad
between lots 2 to 4 in concessions 9 and 10,
East Division, was proceeding well and
should be completed, other than some
shouldering work, by the weekend.
A decision on acceptance of a $1,009 pro-
vincial government grant for use in local
1984 Bicentennial celebrations was
withheld until Reeve Kernighan can report
back on an information meeting he attend-
ed.
An application by Canadian Foresters,
Court Fascination, to be granted a license
to operate a lottery at their April 1984
dance at Saltford Valley Hall was approv-
ed.
There were no objections by council to
an application by Stanley and Doris Pa-
quette to convey approximately 49,500
square feet of their property in Part of Lot
16, Lake Road West Concession, the con-
veyance lleing to enlarge a building lot
owned by Raymond Scotchmer, and the
application was ordered to be dealt with as
per questionnaire of the Huron County
Planning Committee.
Discussion of a letter from the Town of
Goderich regarding the Holmesville
Sanitary Landfill was held in abeyance un-
til after a Blueprint for Waste Manage-
ment public forum scheduled to be held in
London' on October 6, which Councillor
Grant McPhee, township Landfill Commit-
tee representative, hopes to attend.
The meeting was adjourned to 8 p.m. Oc-
tober 4.
Society holds meeting
The Annual membership meeting of the
Clinton and District Christian School Socie-
ty was held on Sept. 14.
Members, parents, teachers and board
members were all present to discuss the
budget and business for the 1983 - 84 school
year. President Bert Dykstra opened the
meeting with scripture reading and prayer.
Minutes and the annual report were read by
Auke Bylsma.
Election of board members was held with
Rill Van Rennen and Margie Ridder elected
for Clinton area. Ko Hamming elected for
Blyth area and Bill Jongejan for Goderich
district.
A bylaw presented at the Feb. semi-
annual meeting was accepted and passed.
Henry Drost treasurer presented the
budget for the 1983-84 year totalling $315,550.
The education committee proposed to the
society they felt it necessary to hire an addi-
tional part time teacher in order to ease the
burden of over crowded classrooms on the
existing staff members. The members voted
in favor giving the board approval to hire a
teacher right away.
Mr. Ralph Schurrman gave his report tell-
ing the members that teachers remained
the same as last year. Mr. Ralph Schurr-
man, principal teaching Grade 8; Mr. Uyl,
vice-principal teaching - Grade 7; Mr. John
Huls - Grade 6; Mr. Clarence Bos, Grade 5;
Miss Alice Bakker - Grade 4; Mrs. Eva
Roorda - Grade 2B and 3; Miss Margerat
Guetter - Grade 1 and 2A; Miss Dorothy
Prinzen Kindergarten Mon., Tues., and Fri.
and remedial work on Tues., and Thurs.
Two hundred and three students enrolled
this year with approximately 75 families.
Mr. Schurrman tnanked tioard members
on behalf of the Society for all the work they
do in the administration of the school all
their work is volunteered and many hours
are spent on this during their spare time.
The society demonstrated their apprecia-
tion with round of applause. Several new
families were introduced to the society.
Pedestrian treated
for minor injuries
A pedestrian was treated for minor
injuries at the Goderich Hospital Thursday
after she was in collision with a car.
Bernadina Kinney, 80, of R.R.3
Goderich, was driving north on Highway
21 when Barbara Cunningham, 24, of R. R.6
Goderich, stumbled into the left front
corner of the car.
The accident occurred at 9:15 p.m. one
kilometre north of County Road 25.
Person breaks
out of Met
On the morning of Saturday October 1, a
person who had been hiding in the Met Store,
located in Suncoast Mall, broke out through
• one of the freight doors, according to
Goderich Police Chief Pat King. Nothing
was reported stolen.
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Premier William Davis to his letter sent
during the sunnier on the board's COED ap-
plication.
The premier's letter left the trustees with
more questions.
"Although your board's application was
submitted on Apr. 22, 1983, the initial ap-
plication and federal field assessment were
not received by provincial staff until June
24, 1983. As the board admits, its proposal is
ambitious, and a thorough assessment of the
local labor market was required to ensure
that sufficient numbers of skilled workers
were available for the project. This was one
of the factors which occasioned the delay in
assessment," states the premier.
The two-month delay of the application
from the London regional office of the
Ministry of Labor, which oversees the pro-
gram to Toronto, bothered at least one
trustee.
"Where was it 'til then ( June 24)?" asked
Stratford trustee Ron Marcy.
Superintendent of business and finance,
Jack Lane, said the application was at the
London regional office. He said the regional
office had to find 48 available, skilled
workers for 40 weeks. That, and a change in
the criteria, trom potential laborers who
have exhausted unemployment insurance
claims and are- on some form of social
assistance to workers on unemployment in-
surance, delayed the application further.
"I wonder, if the unemployed people in the
two counties (Huron and Perth I heard that,
if they'd be available?" asked Wingham
area trustee Vincent McInnes, referring to a
comment by Mr. Lane that the Ministry of
Labor had to go to London and Kitchener to
look for enough workers.
The business superintendent said June 15
had been set as the original date to consider
the board's application, but after several
meetings were cancelled the application
was finally rejected on Aug. 10. A ministry
spokesman said the federally and provin-
cially matched dollars for the COED pro-
gram ran out in June.
"I can speak highly of the people in Lon-
don," said Mr. Lane who acknowledged the
proposal is a complex project.
There was however, a definite com-
munication problem. As Mr. Eckert points
out, the board had no indication that the
search for potential employees or the
change in criteria had delayed the board's
application.
Trustees commented on "government ef-
ficiency", particularity on the large dollar
amounts spent in the province under the
COED program.
"Over $200 million was spent in three
months. Even I couldn't do that efficiently.
Damn it, are our schools and kids not that
important? If they (provincial government
had done that four years ago (when the
Tories had a minority government) they'd
have been hung from the nearest tree," said
Mr. Eckert angrily.
"And that's about as political as your
director will ever get," added Mr. Eckert,
relieving the tension in the room.
One trustee commented: "keep it on the
front burner" and the board may yet see
results on its proposal to add rooms to some
of its schools in place of portables.
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