The Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-16, Page 39k.
Jack's Jotfiogs
'." from Queen's Park
8g Jack NMI IluroQ-Middlesex MPP
A Legislative Committee
after sitting for five days,
decided to delay the parss,age
,of the Family Law Reform
,bill introduced . this session,
until next year. This, they say
will give interested " groups
more time to make sub-
missions.
Attorney General, Mr. Roy
McMurtry said he would have
been delighted to have had
the -new laws in effect before
Christmas but he was con-
, cerned that undue haste
would producea document
somethingless than what
might otherwise be the case..
The Bill will die - op : the
Order Paper next week when
the.House prorogues and will -I
have 'cto be reintroduced by
the Attorney General when
the new session opens.
The Committee agreed to.
advertise for public sub-
missions again 'next year to
give clause -by -clause con-
sideration to the bills in the
committee rather than in the
,, House where-:- the public
cannot take part in the
debate. '
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The Attorney General also
intends, to raise the minimum
marriage age from 14 to 16.
Both Opposition Leaders
called upon the Government
to have an emergency debate
on the Greyhound -Gray
Coach controversy, which
they considered to be , a
matter of urgent public
importance, which should
take precedence over other
matters. ..
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After strong and growing'
pressure in the Legislature,"
the Ontario Cabinet has told
the Ontario Highway Tran-
sport Board to reconsider the
decision to allow Greyhound
Lines of Canada Ltd. to
compete - with the publicly
owned Gr Coach Lines•Ltd.
° As Stuart S ith has pointed
out, this wwod be equivalent
to Ontario handing over a $10.
million public asset to a U.S.
controlled company. '
The Minister of Tran-
sportation and Com-
munications has asked 'the
OHTB to re-examine the
_economic imp a c t_ of the
decision, and determine how
this will" affect bus service to
smaller communities and
Gray Coach finances. T.T.C.
and union officials have
Warned that some 245jobs
could be lost and the company
put in the red by $300,000,
although the president of
Greyhound has=ta`l "'t1Th new
routes tobe granted his
company, would "increase
employment' iri Ontario by at•
least 90 jobs and perhaps as
. many as 130".
According to the Minister,
his decision to ask for the
review is not a reversal of
3k{d
government policy, nor a
hearing of the decision itsetf..
' It is more a review of the
y-,
consequences'of the decision..
Stuart Smith and Stephen
Lewis have attacked the
Minister over statements he
t,x has made about the Board's
decision which indicate, they
say, that he has already made
up his mind. Stuart Smith
maintains that the review is
"an admission of the Board's
failure to deal adequately
with the matter."
The .Provincial Secretariat-
for Social Development, The
Honourable' Margaret Birch,
told the Legislature this week
that Family Court Judges will
no longer have the power to
send children who have
committed no crime to
`<a training schools.
On January 1, 1977, ' an
amendment repealing Sec-
tion 8 of the Training Schools
Act, will be proclaimed..
Section 8 of the Training
Schools Act, allows a Family'
Court'judge to co mit a so-
called unmanage child to
.training school if no other
program was ' appropriate
and if training school was
thought to be: needed.
The Legislature voted to
repeal Section 8 in May, 1975,
but proclamation was
delayed to allow the Province
to study the implication of the
repeal and to allow the
.Province to establish
alternative placement for the
children in training schools
under Section 8.
As of December 3 of this
year there were 786 children.
still in the wardship of the
Minister of Correctional
Services under Section 8 of
the Training Schools Act. Of
this total 103 are in Training
Schools.
Others are in group homes:,
foster'. ... homes, sAecial
treatment centres and their
own homes. Mrs. Birch said,
that after proclamation,,
some will remain where they
are. She said she would place
herself in an unconscionable
position if all of these children
were to have their wardship,
terminated on January 1st,
with no regard for their -care.
Many of them are responding
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Family Law reform •delayed until
positively to the care and.
treatment they are receiving
and it would be irresponsible
to move them from their
community placements.
Of the .103 children still in
training school 42 are ex-
pected to be returned to their
own homes. ' Another
children will beplaced in. the
Ministry'sf group'' homes and
2.6 •will go,to ministry -
supervised . foster homes.
Twenty others will be placed
in' boarding homes, treatment
centres and special facilities.
The aim of the Minisfry of
Correctional Services is to
have moved all Section 8
wards from Training Schools
by September 1, 1977, and to
terminate wardships under
Section 8 just as soon as
suitable alternatives to
wardship can be found.
Mrs. Birch assured the
Legislature that the repeal of
Section 8 is'a necessaryand a
proper action, and that her
Ministry ;is continuing to
"grapple with some of the
large issues surrounding the
problems of those children
who- require special at-
tention." "
Some administrative dteps
egionalLibraries involved
in new
Ontario Outreach
Public libraries in • the
.region -.of Waterloo and in
Perth, Huron and Wellington
counties are sponsoring
performances of some of
Canada's best known artists
through the Ontario•Outreach
program. -
Ja'n ,Rubes,
Czechoslovakian -born opeta
singer, television personality,
writer and narrator, recently
performed • Christmas
programs for children in.
Cambridge and • Stratford,
and 'appeared in the Kit-
chener and New Hamburg
public , libraries last Satur-
day, December 11.
Working with Guelph opera
singer Ann . Linden, Mr.
Rubes traced the develop-)
ment of music. and singing
through a selection of
Christmas songs in many
languages.
The program was part• of
the . singer's efforts to
popularize opera, and this
forms the basis for his
regular television show,
Guess What, as well•as for his
numerous concert and per-
-forrnance appearances
across Canada.
While •opera will always be
something of an "elite" art
form, said Mr:Rubes, there is
•no reasor why children
cannot be exposed to fine
music and singing at an early
age -
"This. is the only way- to
encourage people to develop a
love of rnusic,"- he said in a
recent interview. "While
opera itself is only patronized
by six per cent of the people of
'Germany - the home of opera
- nevertheless there are many
people who have never even
had the chance to think about
music as an art form."
Mr. 'Rubes,' whhose library'
performances are co-
ordinated by the Midwestern
regional library system, also
starred in . the. 'movie "The
Incredible Journey" and has
recently, completed work on
the Canadian film "Lions for.
Breakfast •
Also appearing through the
Outreach grant program is
the Toronto Consort group.
Five regular' musicians,
supported by guest artists,
perform vocal and in-
strumental music of 'the
medieval and renaissance
periods. - . : -
Toronto Consort will ap-
pear at the Kitchener library
'January 20, at the Guelph
library January 21, at the
Palmerston library in
Wellington county January
22, and at the Cambridge
Public Library January 23.
The joy of the new year will
be celebrated in a play by the
°Contact. Theatre group.
Contact Theatre will present
its own . vocal and musical
material by new Canadian
talent'in Cambridge January
15, in Guelph January 22, in
Ayr January 29, and int
Wellington county February
5. Some locations:. for the
performances are still to be
finalized.
HensaiI
couple 0
ciebr•t�
have already been taken. On
November 23rd, the Minister
of Health issued a directive
restricting the circumstances
under which a psychiatric
hiispital can lay charges
against children in their care.
Charges cannot be brought
simply to relocate a child who
is difficult to manage and
each case must be reviewed
by the Minister.
`The Minister of Natural
Resources, Mr., Leo Bernier,
has'stated that his Ministry is
,seeking ways of easing the
Province out of the camping
business. He has . said the
Recently ,the Outreach
Ontario grants, which are
provided by the ministry of
culture and . recreation,-
sponsoredperformances by
George Gray, a London-based.
plumber who has become
nationally ' knows for his
cooking and serving of wild
plants. .Mr. Gray 'runs -the
Nature Bounty School in
London and conducts lectures
' and, correspondence courses
on the selection, cooking, -
preservation and eating of
wild plants. Mr. Gray
recently appeared. at the
Waterloo public library.
All performances under the
Ontario Outreach program
are free. Individual libraries
should be- contacted for
further details.
Mt. and Mrs. Herbert Jones • :V
of Hensall celebrated their t
10th wedding anniversary
with an Open _ House at. _the
Hensall United Church, ;„
Sunday •afternoon:
Mr. and Mrs. Jones were k.
married on the Finkbeiner
homestead at Lot, 11, Con ke
cession 8; of Stephen township
on. December 6, 1916. Mrs.
Jones was the former Lillian
Finkbeiner. •
• After their marriage they
moved to the -family farm at
Lot 4, South Boundary of • ""'
Stanley township and
remained there until moving
to their present home in
Hensall in 1961.
They have one daughter
Mrs. Bernard (Margaret)
Keyes and one son, Harold,
11112 Hensall. They also have
fourgrandchildren and five
great grandchildren.
Mr. Jones recalls the
weather on his wedding day
as being "sunshiny" with no
snow evident.
Mary's
Gift
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Come in and well be glad to demonstrate a
White or Elnafor. you. You'll appreciate
the quality -and expert workmalnship of
these fine sewing machines, and Mom will
appreciate their special sewing featuees.
We're now open 'til 9 p.m. each night.
• SEWING BOXES & BASKETS
' • SEWING NOTIONS
• SEWING MACHINE CABINETS
• PURSES'
• LACE TABLECLOTHS '
• GIFT CERTIFICATES
• HATS (upstairs at our new "Hat shoppe"
Mary's $ewing Centre
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Government would like to
drop the financial burden of
the 21,000 campsitesin 123
provincial parks, whichlast
year attracted more than
1,500,000 campers.
It is estimated that the
campgrounds lose something
like $9:5 million annually, and
the government would like
almost all provincial cam-
psites to be in the hands of
private enterprise corn="
-panies. -
However it would seem that
it could take approximately.
20 years to hand over all the
campsites. The ,Minister
�.1111d1n Hirt
made it clear that any new
provincial parks would not
have. campgrounds •in. them,
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and he indicated that no
campgrour#dS are under
construction at present.
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