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BARN LOST TOFIRE ..o
RE This. barn
. and its contents on Highway ;96� east� of =lir! ° h`
T®wnah/p, were lost to fire lass •Wednesday,l� e� end in Turnberry
March 16. The Wingham and Area Fir
®n the scene shortly after 3 • . m. but a �t?parfmdrl arrived
Armstrong, p was unable tusava the structure: Owner of teroperty is hViillas►n
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A ItrallotaIdeattlitedia �r
lack the ability to read andt a
lever which is denumdeetod*
be introduced in. Wingham on
Wednesday evenings beginning
Aprii,6.
The reading improvement
ITRIVIM. SPAnoored.:by the Huron
County Board of Education and
includes a series of eight two-hour
sessions to be held weekly at the
Wingham United Church.
An article is the March 1987 issue
of Readers Digest claims, that five
million Canadians — 20 per cent of
the nation's population — are fun-
ctionally
unctionally illiterate. The author of
that article describes this situation.
as a national disgrace and a waste of
human potential and, in addition,
points out that the business costs of
illiteracy are high, and the social
costs molt of sight.
While technological ad-
vancements
d®vane rents in the marketplace are
reducing job opportunities for those
leek r eadinglifid
sere .. • ; ,s a aZ rin �a
8thi ng,';tl `anti Witham, aril
providing financial support to tti
without jobs • is also costly.
Although the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization's standard for func-
tional literacy is ,a Grade 9
education, Noreen Gnay, , co-
ordinator for the Reading
Improvement Program (RIP) in
Wingham, describes functional.
illiteracy as simply. .the inability to
read arid write at a level demanded
in this day and age.„
The Wingham .RIP program will
operate through the Independent
Learning Centre, 'a. department of
the Ontario Ministry of Education
which offers free courses for
English-speaking adults who want to
learn to.read and write, in Toronto
Tie adult basic ;liiteracy courses and
all learning Material — ,including
workbooks andaudio-cassette tapes:
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ism` management plan per
the Stogy of trout o,.
where there are no, nearby -naturae
trout locations, the- annual st4ceitlng
of the Maitland River above, :the
Howson Dam ..in Wim will pot
,take-piacce thiayear.,Ih the past, the
iu� hs1 Opt st Club and ,athe
ministry :v-e.stocked that area in a
joint Wert *1st prior to the meal
derby f area youngsters.
The i consi
_ Kett � " earttt
10 ometr''411ke
.t said.
11 I ur day.
he ase of Wingham, there are
3 a .good trout fi g areas at Belj .eve
Cr ee
Creek, andtothe o tM
and setae e of, the tributaries of:.the.
to 41 Qf
getting` the news
The Currie Block is sold
to commercial developer
The Currie Block, located across
from the Wingham post office,
recently was sold to a developer.
The handsome, red brick struc-
ture had been owned by the. Currie
family since 1943, but the family
furniture business first located there
in 1913.
Andrew Beninger of Wroxeter,
president of 441196 Ontario Ltd., the
company which boughtthe building,
says he hopes torent the block's tour
1,200 square -foot outlets coin-
mercially. The block also includ
two apartments.
Judging from the number of
inquiries he already has 'received,
Mr. Beninger says he is confite t
the prorty 'not be diff `ieult .
rent. He says he deals there ureal
need for . ear*lett*space in the
north end•of
Currie Week
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trim' service and hopes to be able to
offer the property for rent early in.
June.
Built by John `son during the
boom of 1907, it originally was
known as the 'Wilson Block. The
Currie family moved its furniture
business to the block., in 1913. and
bought the building in 1943.
The Curries established
Wingham's first funeral home one' .:.
site in 1948..
Doug Layton and Doug McBurney;
who had worked for the Currie
family for several years, purchased
the funeral home and furniture
businessiii January of 1979, Int:.April
of that year. they bought the S. J.
Walker Ptmeral }come and moved
the funeral .operation to Patrick
Street later that year.
Late
Mr.
• twines
. A
r year Mr; Layton and
d-thei>rirt'v 4.
to Middleton' litre rneti,
'wax• rtipi
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out •ebout is being done byword
of month and through the schools
and:, churches in the area. Already,.
she has ri ved fink telephone calls
from ros tivesstudennts.
p :1��
Those who earl& in theprogram
will be paired On'a one-on-one; basis
,with' a volunteer WO and Mrs.
Gnay is currently busy recruiting
.volunteers for this vital link in the
adult basic literacy program.
"Anyone who ,is prepared totake a
short training session and then
spend ..two hours Weekly, from April
6 to. June 8, please call me, at 357-
3859."
The program is .not necessarily
looking for former teachers as
tutors, She -said, `"Alot of it is just.
pirori►Ydiag ettcouragernent and
support,- and perhaps a little
prodding if the student gets'
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\AF etIO tO '.:ES
Depute' "tan, there
genet c warn;.
the i E program Is a
Ccin ed oaa
A summer workshop for students
who are at risk of leaving school
early received the encouragement
and: approval. of the Huron County
Mrd Of Education at its regular
eeling, trustees indicated
their strfor.a Work -Orientation
Workshop (WOW), scheduled to be
held- at- the South Hurn District
"Secondary .School in Exeter this
,summer.
The, ram- is -directed at ..
a l5 Yea's old, who, are
ShOW thein
are basically work
placements nents witl a job-counsseli g
portent,, .and are similar to the
.al job experience prOgrams
sponsored frequently by the H BE.
pop a of ,.1 r. 14 1 of sal-
Considerable work is ming.; done:
With the trout series and in some,
areas, . smaller fish.are being-
stocked. in local creeks to help
supplement the natural population.
Generally,.. however, the ministry
is not allowing the stocking of
diem - Township :Council ~Mem
her; ave no, objections to an ap-
tkm te sever threelots, just.
southor ing ani
The severance application is for
Eric -W Jden, Let I,, COn.1 of Morris
and allows for three.residental,iots
at the site The application was
,discussed at a meeting of Morris
council heldlast Monday, March 14.
finishes
in black
F'oilowmg a review of its
unaudited 1087 fmanc l statement,
the Huron Board,of Education has
'learned the actual expenditures .for
'fie year represent 9913. per cent
oftheptabudgetcatithates.
in monetary terns, trustees were
told at the regular March meeting,
the net effect is that the board has
underspent the estimates by
$387,320.
In addition, the board's revenue
exceeded preliminary estimates by
approximately $95,000 to create a
surplus of almost $470,000.
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