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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-10-07, Page 12?-7-9ODERICI-1SIGNAVss'1`AR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1976 • The Goderich Recreation and Community Centre Board decided at its last meeting to take steps .to get , the Arena Building.. Fund drive back in high. gear. The fund is $30,000 away from the -total. amount needed by- the town to ,pay their portion oil the. reconstruction of the Galeria' .Memorial Arena. The rec board reviewed the, fund• raising activitiess that. have been completed and offered some suggestions on future events that could be sponsored to raise the remaining money. The town's share of the $286,000 project was about $100,000 even and about $70,000 of that has been assured . through cash,. donations and pledges. - • Mary Donnelly ,asked what • v' .wants' fund drive boos the possibility was of asking out-of-town •businesses for donations. She cited Bell Canada, Laidlaw Transport and large brewery and distillery companies 'as potential out-of-town donors to the arena:,She claimed the firtxs had made donations • to other condemned arenas and. are also usually convincing the. public the*they are strong, supporters of either sports or community projects. "I'm sure they have a concerning donations eonce g tion a s in situation'slike this. All we, have to do is -write head office and ask," she said." Bob Allen pointed out to the board that the success of the fund raising to date has been due to /he efforts .of the fund raising " committee and suggested• that the board meet with them to make any future plans. 1 -le said • that Committee's chairman, Chris Cavanaugh, should be asked about any activities and polled to see if some of the things called for haven't already been looked after. "We don't want to push him' and his committee over," warned Mr. Allen.... As well 'as out of town companies the board wants to makea' special' drive for donations 'frdm , the professional businesses: in town. Doctors, lawyers and accountants and other specialists all classed as professionals will be. asked for donations to the fund in a special drive handled by other -professionals:. The °--Kenl'Sheltonexplains the workings of this time crock` to hirinother Jean at the GDCI open house held last week. The clock was taken from the highschool -gymnasium in a state of disrepair and given to the students'to fix:' The two were visiting the high school as' a preview for parents and employers to see what the fourth year students do during their school time. (staff -photo). • lHE JWn10 GIFTS AND ANTI©UES ,,BAYFIELD orvr. WE ,1-1AVE A 13rA1)TI Ful._ *urnON t IN oPPE.R AND t3RR55' Ft27M LITTLE PLANTER 12) 1 . , ELEGAW. CANDLEL_•_At '( S .FIRE PLRCE ACCESSORIES , FOR Ti4E LONG WINTER NIG•4115 PEWTER ANC' IDELFT ' .Srrg'NI Era GLASS LRMt uP To 25% io WEt7NESI '1 TCS, Sonic N I I _ S•30 SERVING A spcl AL a ql N CJS Sar. 6 -lo SONO •_I0, MOKI)5-ICJ Toa c�,F6P�SA 1-ri•OAS 665-- 26 76 RED PUN P ReSteloR iNT` "` board is hopeful lawyer Jim raise the $30,000. Chairman Donnelly will head up. the '.'Pete McCauley said he had drive. been asked several. Limes by members of the .clubs what service clubs in the drive -to The members are also they could do to help and hopeful '•they can involve added that maybe. now was the time to tell them. Teacher._, thankful for toaeration The Huron Board of Edacation received a,pat on the back -at its meeting on - Monday afternoon in the form of a letter.from one of its staff members, Maryanne Weiler, head of the Phy ,ical Education . and ". Health Department at Seaforth and District High School. In a letter to Board• Chairman. Herb. Turkheim Ms. Weiler'. noted, "I would like to express my'gratitude to the Huron County Board of Education • fore the ''op- portunities this Board has presented to me and to convey my pleasure teaching for Huron County." "Ln the past few months," the letter noted, "I have been involved• with a number of teacher groups and many of my associates are naturally teachers. .Through..meeting with these teachers,..I have grown to appreciate working in Huron County. There seems • to bea great dealof, animosity •and criticism evident from other teachers Harbor ..Report • and their:. Boards, which I have nonexperienced here:" Ms Weiler went on to say, "I have seldom been denied requests to attend con- ferences and workshops or -to: initiate any projects I felt were 'beneficial to my students or myself. MY ° im- mediate administrator and any from the Board Office have Only been encouraging in their consideration of my concerns. The demands in return have riot been "undue " "Basing my --opinion on my contacts withother teachers,"she said, "the conditions under which they: claim to. work de not, seem - condusive to a good educational . process. I ap- preciate then the system I am working for and would like to say so." In other matters the Board _ r d ie of its members to the Staff Improvement Plan .Com= mittee to; the Chairman's • AdvisoryCommittee. - The • Staff Improvement Committee has been' set up under terms of the Collective. ' Agreement for 1976-77 bet- " ween the' Board and, District • 45 of the Ontario Secondary c Jim Peters added that in many cases donations would be received only by members . of the clubs by virtue of their membership. He said it is always nice to have people .around to knock- on doers where other people `failed-, claiming in some instances '- that is the way the game is played, -The board hopes . to get a' showing from . the -various organizations in town to meet with the- arena fund raising committee to try to formulate A. plan to finish the drive: The urgency is to try to'tirne the completion of the fund raising wjth'the completion of the arena, early in 1977. — Plans for the building have been finalized and tenders called and . Nov.ernber`: 1 starting date- has been set. The committee hoped to raise the funds for the new roof that will extend over the' rink, auditorium and dressing rooms and that along with the . improvements outlined in the engineer's report add a new auditorium floor to the list. e erre appointment of four' WELCOME :SERVICE would like• to call you with "housewarming gifts" and in - ° formation e'bout your rew • .' location. 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