HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-07-06, Page 23This de Havilland IB. iffalo'tran.sport plane landed at Sky -Harbour
Airport in Goderich last Tuesday afternoon before taking off for
Listowel, Kitchener and back to Downsview Airport in Toronto
where it was made. Grant Davidson has been instructing three
Separate school board meets
native Arabs how to pilot, the plane as the United Arabs Emirates
have purchased four of them from Downsview. (Photo by Joanne
Walters)
Will 7end. noon hcurbuses
By Alice Gibb
Declining enrolment,
the sword hanging over
the heads of many school
boards, was a major
factor in the decision to
terminate noon hour
busing for separate
school pupils in Goderich,
St. Mary's and Stratford.
The Huron -Perth
Roman Catholic Separate
School board, on a close
vote at Monday's
meeting, agreed to ter-
minate the noon..._hour
service for urban pupils He said the board must
due to declining, loadings remember the public
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The .board will save hour busing two years
$12,000 annually by ago.
cutting out the service. William Kinahan, 'the
The decision will'affect vice-chairman, said he'
65 pupils in the town of wondered what kind of a
Goderich, 50 in St. Mary's can of worms the board
and 205 pupils in Strat- would be opening up with
ford. St. Mary's and Goderich
In Stratford, the per , if Stratford was exem-
pupil cost of busing is $207. pted- from having their
per year, but this will service terminated.
drop to $171 per year. per
,pupil if only morning and.
afternoon ,'services are
offered, a .;saving of $36
per pupil.
Ronald Marcy, a
Stratford trustee, said
pupil schools in the city
now offer noon hour
busing during the winter
months and "we must
remain competitive."
He' said he felt the
separate schools would
lose, students if they
stopped providing . the
noon hour busing service
for their urban pupils.
David Treehan,
another Stratford trustee,
also spoke against the
motion to terminate the
service, saying there was
quite a , problem in the
city over busing in the
past and separate schools
lost a number of students,
-haven't returned returned to the
separate school system.
the noon hour busing
service since it wasn't
available in other centres
such as Seaforth.
Ronald Marey said
when the busing costs for
Stratford student ere
looked at on a daily ba is,
it was costing the b and
about 15 cents per p it to
send students home for
lunch, which was less
than students would pay
on _the public tran-
sportation system.
He_ __said he felt
recommendation to
.terminate the service in
Stratford hadn't had a
proper study.Ronald
Marcy put forward a
motion to delete the town
of Stratford from the
original motion but this
was .defeated.
Another trustee said he
felt each town should
have been dealt with
separately.
Connolly, said he could
see no reason for offering
lst
mortgages
from
as low as
9j%.
2nd
mortgages
at competitive
rates.
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In a recorded vote,
board members Ronald
Marcy, David Treehan,
7oh'n O'Drowski, M,
Vere, A. Haid and V.
Young opposed the
motion to end the, noon
hour service.
Trustee Ted Geoffrey
asked to abstain from the
vote, which meant
chairman Donald
Crowley had to cast the.
tie -breaking vote. Mr.
Crowley voted to ter-
minate the service. •
Ronald Marcy then
xeque ted a,che.ck..of the
S '�h`WS�'
first "
ascertain if its was legal to
allow a trustee to abstain
from voting when he
didn't have a conflict of
interest or hadn't been
excused from voting on a
vote ofthe board.
The trustees then
passed a motion sup-
porting chairman
Crowley's decision to let
Garden 'Ciub meet
The Goderich Garden
Club enjoyed an in-
spirational ' and in-
structive hour on June 21
when Miss Velduis from
the ' Veldhuis
Greenhouses in Dundas
spoke on the care and
delight of houseplants;
She brought with her a
Large assortment of
plants raised in . the
greenhouses and many in
the audience bought
unusual items on which to
try their skill.
Mrs. Barnett, who has
been the leader of the
Green Thumbers, an-
nounced that Mr. Reg
Riehl will be their leader
for the coming year: She
suggested that Garden
enjoy the Rose Show Public School.
which the junior hor-
ticulturalists were put-
ting on in Victoria School
on June 28 and said that
they had purchased a
two-tier Grow Light for
Maitland Manor. The
patients there are
showing great interest in
it and would welcome any
cuttings which could be
started under the Grow
Light.
The Garden Club's
Flower Show will be in
the Council Chamber of
the Huron County
Courthouse on July 20, 21
and 22.
The next meeting of the
Garden Club will be on'
September 20 in the
Music Room of the
Mr. Geoffrey abstain
from the vote.
The board members
also approved a
recommendationto
reduce the number of
buses which transport
stu-dents to Mount
Caramel School from five
buses to>four.
In°the past, the county
of Lambton has paid the
Huron -Perth board a
tuition fee for Bosanquet
Township students who
attend Mount Carmel, the
separate school closest to
Grand Bend
contracted for their ,own
busing service for the
students.
"Starting in September,
Lambton County will pay
the Huron -Perth board
both transportation fees
and tuition costs. Tis
means the Bosanqu('et
Twsp. students will ride
the same bus which is
picking up Huron County
students in the Mount
Carmel area.
Jack Lane, superin-
tendent of business and
finance, said reducing the
number of buses will
reduce the . costs of
transporting students and
improve the loading ratio
on the buses.
Board members also
agreed to advertise for
school bus which was
used to transport
students to the Zurich
school. The bus has been
replaced with a 1977
model.
GQDERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSD ', Ji„JLY 6,, 197$ . 'AGE 7A.,
ood he th record
"For the-pastiiy�,,e years,
there haven't been any
maternal deaths in Huron
County hospitals.
This is only one of
many statistics contained
in the 1977 annual report
of the Huron County
Health Unit.
In 1977, there were 861
births to residents of
Huron County. Although
there were no maternal
deaths, five babies were
•stillborn; there were five
neonatal deaths (up to 28
days after birth) arfd
three infants (up to one
year of age) deaths in the
county.
The county's birthrate
has.fluctuated constantly
during 'the five years
frorn 1973 to 1977. The
biggest year was 1976
when 900 were born while
the fewest births were the
849 recorded the previous
.,year.
In a report submitted
by Catherine : Walsh,
director of the public
health nursing 6rogram,
Miss Walsh reports
prenatal classes across
the county are in greater
demand and attendance
is.inCrdasing
Other clinics and
classes which attracted
the most attendance
during the year were the
pre-school clinics, and
the dental and health
education programs.
Miss Walsh reported,
"Mental health has in-
creasingly absorbed the
public health nurses'
time."
In 1977, 970 mental
health contacts were
made by the nurses.
direr ox
added, C`los'e 1 ia"ts'd'f` °i'
maintained with the
Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital and
with the London
Psychiatric Hospital and
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The annual report also.
lists the number of
communicable diseases
reported during the year,
none of . which proved
fatal.
Among the diseases
reported were 17 cases of
diphtheria, six cases of
hepatitis, 116 of scarlet
fever_ or streptococcal
sore throat, three newly
diagnosed cases of
tuberculosis, 10 cases of
veneral disease and 16
cases of food poisoning.
Miss, Walsh said most,
if not all the 16 cases
reported in the scarlet
fever and streptococcal
category, would be throat
infections, rather than
scarlet fever.
In the area of rabies
control, health inspectors
investigated "97 coin -
plaints in 1977 and found
16 positive cases of
rabies.
The year before, there
were 109' .reported cases
of;nabies, and only eight
of therse proved to be
positiv .
In 19177, 17 cattle Were
tested 'f'or 'rabies,. and
three positive cases were
identified.
Of the 21- "dogs
examined, only one was
found to be rabid
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