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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-10-25, Page 1818 THE WINDHAMADUANCETINES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, October 22-28 ARIES - March 21/April 20 A strange turn of events this week will make you believe in fate - even' if you're the most cynieal Arian. A health concern .should be addressed before it becomes a real problem - no matter how minor it seems. The old saying "prevention is the best medicine" applies. TAURUS - April 21/May 21 A misunderstanding in the workplace could put a strain on a professional relationship. Clear things up before it's too late. A yen for excitement will be satisfied this weekend - espe- cially if you pursue it. A Libran of the opposite sex could lead you to a golden opportunity. GEMINI - May 22/June 21 Not a good time for taking risks or gambling of any kind. This is a week for sticking with sure things. Use diplomacy when dealing with those who are hot tempered - especially Scorpions and Arians. A Leo will play an instrumental role towards the end of this week. CANCER - June 22/July 22 Frustrations in the workplace will only get worse if you give in to them. Fight back and, you will come out on top. A lucky `break on Wednesday could lead you to unexpected income. Use that extra cash to treat a loved one to a special time. A younger family member may need your help. LEO - July.23/August 23 A situation at home that doesn't seem right probably isn't. .Look into it instead of overlooking it. Go the extra mile if you're working on an important project. Hard work now pays off later on. A change in week- end plans gives you the quiet time you've been craving. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Watch what you say to anyone you're introduced to this week. You can't assume that newcomers will under- stand your cutting sense of humor. Remember, first impressions are often lasting ones. A surprise phone call from an old friend could set the stage for a carefree weekend. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Single Librans may be in for a disap- pointment this week. Be on your guard. Don't wear your heart on your sleeve, especially if you're falling for a Capricorn. On the work front, there may be some good news. However, don't divulge any confidential infor- mation to coworkers - no matter who it is! SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 A new project may seem overwhelm- ing at first, but will turn out to be quite enjoyable. Overreacting to a difficult domestic situation will only make matters worse. Be patient when you are handling sensitive issues with those you love. Keep tabs on valuables this weekend. SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Innovative thinking will be essential if you want to get out of a bind early this week. Go beyond "business as usual" and you'll succeed in a big way. If you are a parent, this will be an extra -special week. Quality time together will be just what you need to lift your spirits. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 An innocent discussion with a friend could get out of hand and lead to a full-blown fight. Before this hap- pens, you'd be better off changing the topic. Remember, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. At work, a new approach to an old prob- lem will prove effective. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 A strained relationship will weigh heavily on your mind. You may find that time heals all wounds in this sticky situation. A friend's surprise. visit will lift your spirits this week- end. Sharing your problems with a good friend will help you see things in a different way. PISCES,- Feb 19/March 20 Look before you leap when it comes to financial investments. Something that seems too good to be true proba- bly is. Health-related concerns will prove to be unwarranted. A flirtatious episode in the workplace could put you in an unfavorable light. Resist that type of temptation. YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK The next 12 months: A year of change. A situation that's been stable for some time will final- ly come to an end. This will happen around December. But with one door closed, another will open. and you'll have something very exciting to look forward to in the coming year. Someone from your past will re-enter your' life this year and you could form a much closer and more mean- ingful relationship. You'll see how time brings some closer and makes others drift apart. This coming spring will be a very lucky time for you. This is the time to take risks and make changes. Fitness will be more of a concern than before. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -, 13 14 15 16 17 . 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 as a7 40 ' 41 42 43 44 45 a6 as 50 51 52 53 54 55 CLUES ACROSS 1. Compass point 4. Ailments 8. Hebrew month 12. Sense organ 13. - opera 14. Confection with rum ' 15. Actress. Huston 17. Tiny particle • 18. Poetic structure 19. Network 21. Purposes 23. Peach -, dessert 26. Monetary unit 29. Intended to improve 31. Makes computers 32. Goddess of agriculture 33. Quill pen point 34. Expungings 36. Bristly plant part 37. Edvard _. Czech statesman 38. - Bonheur, French. painter 40. Vessels 42. European river 46. This (Spanish) 48. Telephone company employee 50. Has -, no longer a VIP 51. Monetary unit 52. Muhammad _. Am. boxer 53. Requested. invited 54. Condemn 55. Own (Scottish) CLUES DOWN I. Oceans 2. Mentis compos 3. Work units 4. Small land masses surrounded by water 5. One who hangs around aimlessly 6. Resinous insect secretion 7. Box 8. Lessened 9. Time designation I0. Australian native 1 L Round cap 16. Ornamental bag 20. Friends_'Scottish 11. More dried-up 24. Used to lure 25. Sunrise (Spanish) 26. Jacques _• German physiologist 27. Where _ you when...' 28. Flowed from 30. Embryonic germ layer 32. Codlike fish 35. Peaceful 36. Capital of Yemen 39. Wrap 41. Exchanged for money 43. The beehive state 44. Weapon 45. One of the Great Lakes 46. - tibe 47. Large body of water 49. Herbaceous plant Est aanosh Public School studonts involved in many activitios By Amy Barnes,.Matthew Brom- ley, Pam Campbell, Chad Cook, Mike Procter and Paul Walker The Grade 8s are planning a trip to Quebec. They Will be away for four days and will be leaving right after May 24. To raisemoney for the trip, the Grade 8s will be selling cheese. They also picked apples at a. Brussels orchard on Oct. 7, for which the students received $320 toward the cost of the trip. In science, Grade 8 is 'studying animal families and they are com- pleting their poetry unit in language arts by studying Shakespeare. Grade 6-7 Each person has created an origi- nal plan of a community. They pre- sented them to a group which eval- uated their presentations. Nov* groups are creating a three- dimensional tabletop model of the community. These will be present- ed and evaluated by the entire class. There are lots of budding community planners in this class. To raise money for their class trip, 17 Grade 6-7 pupils picked stones at Belgrave for the Kinsmen Club. They also will be selling pop- corn and candy at Wingham Vain - mart this Saturday,. Oct. 28. Hope to, see you there. Fire -Prevention Assembly On Monday, Oct. 12, Harley Gaunt, Wingham fire chief, visited our school to talk about fire preven- tion: He showed a videotape whibh proved how quickly a fire can spread and stressed that we should check the batteries in our smoke alarms twice a year. Also, each family should have an escape plan in place. It is important that each room have two exits, Mr. Gaunt noted. - We thank Mr. Gaunt for visitiirg the school during Fire Prevention Week. Bus-Safey Assembly On Thursday, Oct. 19, Dennis Harris, transportation manager for the Huron County Board of Educa- tion, talked to us about bus safety and evacuation. We watched a videotape, which showed us how to get off the bus safely in case of an emergency. • After the assembly, the students on each bus took turns practising bus evacuation. We learned how to keep calm and the older students were told to stay with the younger ones in case of an emergency. it was a very good experience for the students. Now we know what to do in the case of an emergency. Cross -Country The students representing East Wawanosh Public School had a great day at the golf course on Oct. 10 competing against other North Huron students at a cross-country meet. These are the top EWPS winners in each division; Kerri Meier, 1st; Heather Rochetta, 3rd; Trever Koehler, 4th; Kyle Procter, 4th; De- vin Moffatt, 4th; Kristen Palmer, 4th; Scott Folkard, 6th; Cindy Frei- burger, 6th; Kristyn Gerth, 7th; Ryan Fear, 8th and Michelle Nix- on, 8th. Congratulations to all of the win- ners and the school team partici- pants. Twin Day Recently the students' council held its first special day of the year. It was called "Twin Day" and was a look-alike contest in which stu- dents picked partner from their grades, or the teachers would pick other staff members. The following were winners at Twin Day: staff, Mrs. Vair and Mrs. Robinson; Grade 2, Levi Cook and Mark McCracken; Grade 3-4, Vanessa Wall and Leanne Mullin; Grade 4-5, Nathan Spivey and Scott Folkard; Grade 6, Saman- tha Gibson and Amber Koehler; Grade 6-7, Sherri Robinson and Laura Meier and Grade 8, Colleen VanCamp and Becky Logan. Contribution recognized...lsobel Garniss, centre, of Wingham, was hon- ored recently by the Board of Governors at Wingham and District Hospital. Mrs. Garniss, a for- mer member of the board, has for many years collected newspaper clippings about the hospital and compiled them in a scrapbook. The hospital board has recognized her contribution and she was presented with a certificate of appreciation earlier this month by Lloyd Koch, hospital exec- utive director and Mary Lou Cameron, a member of the board. Morris Township endorses resolution enabling collection of revenues from trailers Morris Township council en- dorsed a resolution from Stanley Township at its council meeting last .Tuesday evening. At the same meeting, Morris Township council made a motion to circulate a resolution of its own to rural municipalities in Huron and Bruce Counties. Council also took no action on a letter from the Huron County Board of Education, regarding the 1996 tax rates. The resolution from Stanley Township was concerning trailer parks and how the Assessment Re- view Board (ARB) is constantly re- moving the assessment from the trailers even though the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has decid- ed that the assessment on trailers is valid. Because the government of On- tario is reducing municipal reve- nues through continuous cutbacks, Stanley Township council *ants the . provincial government to amend the Assessment Act to ad- dress this issue and enable the township to acquire the revenues to, which it is entitled. The resolution was also circulat- ed to the Association of Muncipali- ties of Ontario (AMO), Rural Onta- rio Municipalities Association (ROMA), Premier Mike Harris, the Minister of Revenue, and the County of Huron. ' The resolution from Morris Township, regarding the provincial government's Farm Tax Reduction Program, will also be circulated to AM, ROMA, the Ontario Federa- tion of Agriculture, Premier Harris, local MPPs, the Minister of Agri- culture, Food, and Rural Affiars, and the Minister of Municipal Af- fairs, Morris Township is concerned that under the. current Farm Tax Reduction Program there is no stip- ulation existing to ensure that the taxes or a portion of the taxes must be paid, prior to applying. ,for the farm tax rebate. Because there are municipalites in the province that have tax ar- rears for properties that a farm tax rebate has been issued for, the Township of Morris is requesting the government to amend the regu- lations to require a portion of the property tax be paid to be eligible for the rebate. The letter from the board of edu- cation was asking for support in its request for education finance re- form. The board has failed to get any positive response from succes- sive governments. , In the letter, signed by all 16 trustees of the board, the board stated that it has already reached a 'zero' increase in 1996 estimated expenditures: However, it is work- ing to reduce its spending by up to another $3 -million for 1996. The board has already cut millions of dollars from its spending during the last two years, and it has done so without labor disruptions or the closing of any local schools. ,The board stated it is concerned about property tax rates, and even though the board is dramatically cutting costs, the education share of 1996 property taxes will still go up. The letter stated that there are two reasons for the increase. The first is that Huron County is in year two of the phased -in increase in property assessment values for education tax purposes. The 20.7 per cent increase introduced in 1994 has already added about five to six per cent on the tax rates - and will do so for at' least three more years. The second is that unless the new government changes the way education is financed, there will also be another upward adjustment in the minimum share of the per pupil grant required from local property taxpayers. The impact could be another five per cent. The board noted in the letter that these are not grant reductions, but are changes in the minimum amount required from property taxes to pay the local share of the education bill. They are set by On- tario and even though the board has appealed for changes many times, no changes have been forth- coming. HWTA honors Lynda Train for' 25 years teaching service Last Tuesday, Oct. 17, the Huron Women Teachers' Association wel- comed 12 new women into the teaching profession and honored 11 women who have completed 25 years of service to the profes- sion. In the Wingham area, Lynda Train of Wingham Public School was awarded her 25 -year pin and certificate. New teachers to the area include: Steacy Elliott, employed as a resource teacher at Howick Central School; Erla Koch, a vision resource teacher at Wingham Pub- lic School; Janis Creedbn, who has a Grade 5-6 assignment at WPS; Nisa Howe -Lobb, on classroom as- signment at Grey Central School and Pat Evers, returning after many years to teach at Howick Central School. After a period of minimal hiring by the Huron County Board of Edu- cation, the induction of so many new teachers is a significant and re- vitalizing event for the federation and for the county system. A multi -media presentation fol- lowed the ceremonies to honor out- going HWTA President Susan Wyatt. She has been involved in many board and federation initia- tives during her two-year term of office and has been .instrufnental In bringing excellent programs both to the membership and the children of the county. Wyatt has taken a posi- tion in the music department of Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton for one year. Vi Davidson, director of the Fed- eration of Women Teachers' Asso- ciations of Ontario addressed the group on the topic of the Royal Commission on Learning. She reit- erated the commission's belief that teachers are "heroes" who work un- der incredible odds to assist all stu- dents at multiple levels of learning. Davidson also stressed that some of the suggestions of the submis- sions to the Royal Commission are rather idealized. The conservatism and back -to -basics attitude so prev- alent in this time of economic diffi- culty can be backward -looking and nostalgic, she noted. During the annual business meet- ing, the teachers discussed issues relating to education finance re- form, the Sweeney Report on school board reduction, the threat to Junior Kindergarten programs, the implications of the College of Teachers, the current government abandonment of employment equi- ty programs and school councils. Board initiatives in technology and local grievance issues were touched upon. Also discussed were Federation of Women Teachers' in- itiatives in collective bargaining; membership, anti -racism and ethno- culturalism.