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winghom going ahead with plan
to lower speed limit in town
Wingham is going ahead with
the plan to lower the speed limit
in town to 40 kilometres per hour
(25 mph) from 50 km -h (30 mph).
At its meeting Monday night,
council passed a motion in-
structing town solicitor Robert
Campbell to draw up a bylaw
lowering the limit.
The, bylaw must be approved
by the Ministry of Transportation
and Communications (MTC)
before it can take effect on Jose-
phine Street, since it is acon-
necting link for a provincial
highway, Councillor David Cam-
eron told council. However,
council has the authority to
change the limit on the other
streets'.
Mr: Cameron said the MT
frowns on towns setting their own
speed limits and will probably
come, up with a technicality to
stop the practice if it becomes too
popular.
The objection is based on
revenue loss, he said, since if a
municipality words its bylaw
properly it can retain fines col-
lected for speeding offenses. He
.noted the town, forwarded $973 in
fines to the province during the
six weeks police were using the
"speed gun" here.
Mr. Cameron emphasized the
purpose of the bylaw isn't to
make this a "fishing hole" and
catch all the tourists going
through, but is,to increase safety
by slowing down traffic. through
, the streets.
Council also agreed to draw up
a bylaw prohibiting parking
along the south side of Maple
Street between Josephine and
CentreStreets.
Bob Crawrord • ,iPprOaChed''
council to request the change,
.5iiplaining that Crawford Motors
will be moving its cars to the old
curling rink lot across the street.
This will free the present lot for
Town hires
rec director.
Wingham will be getting a new
recreation director this fall, town
council was told Monday night.
Councillor Ray Walker, reporting
for the recreation board, said
Rene Alexander of Windsor has
been hired effective Sept: 19. He
will be working with interim
director Gary Lisle until the'end
of the month.
Mr. Walker said the selection
committee had narrowed 71
applicant§ to three before settling
on Mr. Alexander. Councillor
Allan Harrison added the com-
mittee members should be con-
gratulated for the enormous
amount of work they did in
selecting a replacement for
James Ward, who left the posi-
tion earlier this summer.
Mr, Lisle, who was appointed to
fill the position until a permanent
director could be found, did an
excellent job this summer, Mr.
Walker told council. It was noted
he carried out an inventory of
arena and other recreational
equipment which the town "has
been after for four years."
Mr. Lisle said he didn't apply
for the director's job because he
hopes to get a teaching position..
"That's where my priorities are
and that's where my degree is,"
he explained. He pointed out
teaching positions are so difficult
to find, "I want to get in as soon
as possible. It won't get any
easier staying out for a year."
New Kin club
foi Belgrave
The organizational meeting of
Belgrave and District Kins-
','"rten Club was held at the East
Wawanosh School at Belgrave on
September 7th.
Officers elected were Lloyd
Miehie, president; Jeff Hurst,
vice-president; Lorne Campbell,
secretary; Ken Hopper, treas-
urer; Bill Stephenson, registrar;
end Bob Taylor, bulletin editor.
The four directors elected were
Paul McKee, Harvey Black,
Glenn Coultes, and Roy Taylor.
Wingham and Mount Forest
Kinsmen assisted in organizing
the Belgrave club which is the
91st club in the association.
customer and employee parking,
he said. He felt creating the no
parking area would ease conges-
tion on the street .and also give
access into the Crawford Motors
lot.
On the question of the David
Street parking lot, Councillor
Angus Mowbray reported back to
council the lot should be able to
handle about 50 cars. Arrange-
ments have been made to have it
surveyed, he said, with Mc-
Tavish, who wants his own lot
surveyed, agreeing to pay half
the .cost.
Council heard from the trans-
port ministry that no schedule
has been set yet for connecting
link work. The MTC said it will be
reviewing its connecting link
program and more information
should be available by the end of
this month.
Meanwhile, municipalities are
asked to indicate which projects
will be ready to start in 1978.
Clerk -William Renwick was
instructed to write to the ministry
that Wingham is proposing this
project for next year.
Council accepted a $12,337
tender from Arnott Construction
for installation of 'storm sewers
along part of Summit Drive and
Manor road in accordance with
the contract prepared by consult-
ing engineers B. M. Ross and As -
DON'T BE MISLED by the numbers, 80 kilometres per
hour won't get you there any faster than 50 miles per hour
did. New metric speed limit signs began going up through-
out the area last week.
New evening courses
offered at high school
Several new and timely
courses, such as metrics for be-
ginners, will be offered this year
at the Evening School Program
of Studies at F. E. Madill Secon-
dary School and the Brussels
Public School.
Tentative planning for 22
courses commencing Monday,
Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. at the schools is
underway.
Murray McLennan will be
teaching metrics for beginners, a
six week course that is sure to be
useful to all who take it. Another
six week course is in chair caning
techniques to be taught by Jim
Inwood,
T. McQuail, a Lucknow-area
resident, will offer an eight week
course in ,Alternate Energy
Sources, another timely studyJ1.
Langen of Clinton will teach 10
weeks of color phdtography.
A Madill staff member, Rod
Wraith will present two sessions
covering various methods of be-
coming more effective parents.
Nelson Frank of Wingham will
offer a 10 week historical review
of the film industry using silent
and sound films to illustrate the
changes ha film ,production
through the years.
Ten weeks will b offered to
men and women interested in
physical fitness. Gary Lisle will
introduce a men's ,ifitness and
jogging program and Mrs. Merle.
Underwood will be offering a fit-
ness course for women.
Twenty -week courses are to be
offered and their teachers are the
following: liquid embroidery,
Mrs. Phyllis Mitchell; oil paint-
ing, Mrs, J. Perrie, both in Brus-
sels; pilots' ground school, D.
Moir; beginners' upholstery and
advanced upholstery, G. Smith;
practical mechanics, Tim Willis;
sewing, Mrs. Gary Watcher and
woodworking, Arthur Laidlaw.
Ten -week courses and the
teachers are macrame, Mrs.
Beth Payne; spinning and dyeing
for beginners and advanced. Mr.
and Mrs. J. Kerr; typing, Mrs. E.
Davis; bridge for beginners, Mrs.
D. Elliott; hairdressing and
grooming, Mrs. Marlene Henry;
basic bookkeeping for small busi-
ness, Mrs. B. Bell and pottery,
Mrs. Pat Wilson. •
There will also be an eight-
week course in cake decorating
.taught by Mrs. D. Tiffin and
standard first aid, teacher un-
known as yet.
These courses will be offered as
long as the advance registration
is sufficient, Further particulars
regarding fees and enrolment
procedures will be available
soon.
sociates.
COUNCIL SHORTS
Council's decision to draw up a
warrant for a tax sale on •a
property in town for which taxes
are. three years in arrears
prompted one councillor to ask
what can be done about collecting
the $80,000 owed in back taxes by
Lloyd Doors. He was told nOt
Much can be done. The company
is a year and a half behind in its
taxes, but at least three years
must elapse before a tax sale can
be held.
Mayor William Walden report-
ed. Some mothers are requesting
a crossing guard to get kinder-
garten children safely back and
thy g.nd
John. Street intersection, but
council felt it would be difficult to
find someone to take the job. One
councillor suggested the Mothers
Club should look after it while,
Mr. Walden suggested grade
seven and eight students at the
public school could be entrusted
with the task. Councillor Allan
Harrison agreed to discuss the
subject with Principal John
Mann.
Mr. Mowbray reported pians
are to remove the stop logs from
the lower dam on October 11. This
leaves water in the lake for the
October 8 - 10 Thanksgiving holi-
day.
Council has agreed to rent
space in the old post office build-
ing, now being used as a daycare
centre, for use as a school of
music. Paul Stevenson of Clinton,
a man "renowned in the area for
inquiredtabout obtaining
some space to use for teaching
students in the art.
Deputy Reeve Harold Wild has,
been appointed to head up
Wing,ham's sister city associa-
tion. Council word from
Standish that the adoption is now
Official and that city is eager to
get the relationship off the
ground.
Dinner held
for parents
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Heal of
:Wingham celebrated their 55th
wedding anniversary Aug. 30
with a quiet family dinner.
Their son, John, his wife Joyce
of Herisall and their daughters
Julie and Jane ordered a private
dining room for the celebration at
The Little Inn, Bayfield which
bOth Mr. and Mrs. Heal enjoyed
immensely.
The couple married in Sarnia
.and moved to Wingham in 1941,
not really intending to stay. They
had done quite a bit of moving in
former years 'as Mr. Heal worked
for the Canadian National Rail-
way as a 'section foreman.
Although he retired from the
CNR in 1962, Mr. Heal never
,really stopped working, taking on
various jobs until he suffered a
heart attack and decided it was
enough.
Mrs. Heal says she enjoys
pretty good health after 55 years
of 'Marriage but her husband is
quick to jest that she had a lot to
..put uwwith. "I wouldn't say so,".
- site replied.
r .
MR. AND MRS.NORMAN HEAL celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary
Married in Sarnia, they settled in Wingham. in 1941 after several moves about the country,
Mr. Heal worked ..as.a settlOn-tbrerntOkkitt0416MtaittllitntienititRallWaW,ItrtWW: "
treated to dinner by their son John and his family. •
ot many changes reported
as students return to school
With the turmoil of opening day
now safely behind them, staff and
students at area schools are settl-
ing down for another productive
year.
It appears to be a year of few
changes for the schools. Staff
sizes have remained steady 'and
enrolment is virtually the same
as -last year, showing only a slight
downward trend.
Schools are also sticking with
their tried and, true programs. In
the wordsof one principal, it will
be a year of "trying to do better
the things we did,before."
Robert Ritter, principal of F.
E. Madill Secondary School in
Wingham, last week reported
1,203 students have registered for
classes this year. Some late
registrations are expected, he
said, which will bring the total to.
about 1,210 or 1,215.
This will be down about 20 from
last year's enrolment of 1,236 and
Mr. Ritter feels it signals the
beginning of a trend. The pro-
jection shows a sliding enrol-
ment, he said, though he didn't
expect it to hit this year.
He identified two major factors
•as responsible for the decline.
Lower elementary enrolments
are starting to reach the secon-
dary schools and senior students
are responding to employment
pressures by leaving earlier.
Students see that even persons
with university education are
having troublefinding work, he
said, and tend to write off higher
education as being of question-
able value. However, he added,
students at Madill are strongly
counselled to 'continue their
secondary education rather than
drop out, since it plays an import-
ant part in the maturing process
and imparts knowledge that will
be of value in later life.
The staff at Madill is un-
changed this -year — probably the
first time in the history of the
school there have been nu addi-
tions, replacements or retire-
ments, Mr. Ritter said. The
number of staff remains at 72.
No new courses are being of-
fered and while the new "core
program" guidelines from the
Ministry of Education are being
introduced, this will not cause
LOOK WHAT CRAWLED INTO The Advance -Times office last week! It didn't really, ot
course, but the strange blue potato grown by Don Taylor of RR 2, Lucknow, almost looks
as though it could get around by itself.
a
any profound change, he said,
since Most students at the school
have been sticking pretty close to
the basics anyway.
The guidelines require students
entering secondary school this
year to take two' English, two
mathematics, two Canadian
studies (history and geography)
and one science course during
their first two years. There are no
Man treated
after single
car accident
Kenneth Fidom, RR 1, Bel -
grave was treated for neck in-
juries and released from Wing -
ham and District Hospital after
hewas involved in a single car
accident Sept. 10.
The accident occurred on con-
cession 8-9, east of sideroad 15-16,
Morris Township. The vehicle left
the north side of the road and
rolled onto its side in the ditch.
Other reports from the hospital
include a Wilbur Bradley of
Willowdale who apparently fell
off a motorcycle on his father's
farm in Kinloss Township. He
was treated for an injured hand
and released on Sept. 11.
Also on Sept. 11 Murray
Thon.pson of Wingham and
Thomas Barger of RR 3, Luck -
now were admitted to hospital.
Mr. hompson apparently
rolled a go-cart in Kitchener and
he was treated for an injured
back and hips and released. Mr.
Barger was apparently involved
in a motorcycle accident on lot 16,
con. 10 .of Howick TOwnship. He
was admitted for back injuries.
The Wingham Detachment of
the OPP report a new bean wind-
row machine valued at $3,000 was
stolen from the front of McGavin
Farm Equipment, Walton.
The theft apparently occurred
during the past three weeks but
was not reported because of a
mix-up whereby they thought a
prospective buyer had taken de-
livery of it.
curriculum changes for students
in grades 11-13.
Wingham Public School has 357
students enrolled this year, down
'minimally from last, year, Prin-
cipal John Mann reports. A
further 22 are enrolled in the Gol-
den Circle School for mentally
retarded children.
Mr. Mann said the slight drop
in numbers is the continuation of
a trend over the past several
years. He expects it to continue
for another four or five years and
then pick up again.
There are three new teachers
at the school this year: Mrs.
Blossom Phillips. grade one;
Mrs. Shirley Kaufman,, grade
two; and Mrs.' Florence LeGrow, .
who will teach oral French on a
half time basis. Mrs. Ida Martin
and Mrs. Carol Oriold have left
the school.
William Stevenson, principal of
East Wawanosh Public School,
reports an enrolment there of 186.
Please turn to Page 2
Police report
two accidents
The Wingham Police Depart-
inent investigated two car acci-
dents this week in which a total of
$3,100 damage was estimated.
Thedepartment was called to a
single car accident Sept. 4 in
which Raymond B Skinn of
Wingham lost control of his
vehicle and struck a tree.
Mr. Skinn was travelling east
on Alfred Street and damage to
his pickup was estimated at
$2,000.
On Sept. 12 a vohicle driven by
Eugene Conley of Liicriow was
in collision with a vehicle driven
by Murray D Gardner of Wing -
ham
The mishap occurred when Mr.
Conley !turned onto Victoria
Str9et and was struck by Mr.
G&dner who was travelling
south on Josephine Street.
Damage to the .Conley car is esti-
mated at 8500 and damage to the
other car is estimated at Mu,.
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