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St. Stephen's
guild holds
Yule party
GORRIE — The Christmas
meeting of St. Stephen's Guild'
took the form of a Christmas
party at the home of Mrs. Harry
King. A delicious dinner served
by Mrs. King was enjoyed by 18
members. All then participated
in a carol sing led by Mrs. Wayne
King, followed by two Christmas
readings, "Song of Isaiah" and
"A Letter to Santa Claus".
The meeting closed with a gift
exchange. The next meeting will
be January 11 at the home of Mrs.
Harold king. Mrs. Roland Ben-
nett will convene the devotions
and Mrs. Merrill Fisher will be in
charge of the program.
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FEARSOME BUT FRIENDLY—Hundreds of children received bags of Christmas candy
at the Armouries following the Santa Claus parade last Saturday. Under these costumes
were three of Wingham's Junior Citizens, the group that did most of the work of organ-
izing the parade. The bear admitted to being Kevin Netterfield but the Tiger and Walrus
couldn't remember their names.
New policy for floodplain land
may let municipalities expand
Municipalities such as Har-
riston and Listowel will be freed
from growth limiting flood -
control regulations by the pro-
vince's new special policy for
floodplain land, said Ian Des-
lauriers, resource manager for
the Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority Monday.
About 40 per cent of Harriston
and large portions of Listowel
have been designated as flood -
control land as a result of the
flood regulations said Mr. Des-
lauriers.
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The province discourages
building on floodplain land, ex-
cept for areas which qualify for
the exemption, he said.
The authority's approval on the
policy in principle last week
paved the way for any of the 32
municipalities in its area to apply
for the exemption.
,Deslauriers said Harriston
town council has approved an
application to the province for the
exemption and Listowel is ex-
pected to do the same in January.
To qualify for an exemption, a
regional storm study has to be
conducted, outlining what areas
should be designated as flood-
plain, land. If the municipality
doesn't agree with the area out-
lined, a remedial measures study
is conducted.
Brussels, Gorrie, Wroxeter and
Fordwich have not completed the
necessary studies, but Des-
lauriers said he thought they
might also qualify.
In some towns, floodplain land
would take up two-thirds of the
commercial property, 'said Mr.
Deslauriers, but if engineering
changes to provide adequate
drainage aren't economically'
feasible the municipality is left
with a substantial floodplain
area. In this case, it may apply
for the exemption so it can build
on the designated area anyway,
he said.
With provincial approval, the
community may build flood -
proofed buildings on floodplain
land.
It is economical to floodproof
buildings, especially if done at
the construction stage.
Risks are high if municipalities
ignore flood regulations, the
resource manager said. But if
flood precautions are taken, flood
damage can be greatly reduced if
not :eliminateed, he added.
In this watershed alone, there
have been four floods in five
years. And, he noted, "every
time flood relief is offered, we all
pay through our tax dollars."
Small details
The Wingham Advance -Times, December 1,4, 9777—Ne ;1
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Ho So students epee ctda , ,i .
(earning about computers
Senior students from F. E. putera, It is taught IP grade 11 at
Madill Secondary School and F. E. Madillschool. Thetractien In
some of their teachers visited the FORTRAN and AM languages
University of Waterloo Dec. 9 and was available to Students having
spent the day learning about some computer background.
computers. g- UW has been oltfi'
In all 218 students from Win y8B these
computer science 400'140 o high
ham, Mississauga, Waterloo, school students for m ore than 13
Glencoe district, Toronto, Elm- years, Last year, 6,000 students
vale, St. Catharines and Beams- from ".176 high schools i n Ontario
ville unthe mpus., -eds it is
Studentsvisited the attendediversity. lectures imvisitedportant tocainform yo ntg people
ing morninand ithe about ' computers , since in-
afternoondurthe. used one g of the n multi- creasingly, society is looking to..
million dollar computers on the the computing profession to solve
UW campus to find their own its information-processing .prob-
solutions, to problems. Those with lem8
sufficient knowledge spent the
entire day working with com-
puters having consultants avail-
able to assist them.
Students with no previous com-
puter science experience
received lectures on problem
solving and actual use of the
computer using a FORTRAN -like
language called TUTOR. FORT-
RAN is a short, precise language
used to give information to corn -
Waterloo also permits high
school students who have com-
pleted grade 12 and who have a
working knowledge of FORTRAN
to enrol in one of ,its courses
(carrying one -hof credit towards
a mathematics degree). Students
wishing to participate in this
course must havethe consent of
their high school mathematics
teacher and their principal.
575,000 darnage
done by electrical fire
A fire at the Vanastra recrea-
tion centre started in electrical
wiring above the women's locker
room and did $75,000 damage,
said Robert Adams of the Ontario
fire marshal's office.
The fire was discovered at 6:30
a.m. • Monday when Debbie
Denomme, assistant director of
the Vanastra day care centre.,
arrived for work. The fire
damaged the business offices,
locker rooms and washroom
areas.
Eighteen members of the
Brucefield volunteer fire depart-
ment were at the scene within
minutes of being , called. The
Clinton fire department also
fought the blaze.,,
Firemensaid the fire had ap-
parently smouldered for several
hours, damaging the men's lock-
er room, before breaking out in
the women's locker room. The
roof over those areas was
destroyed. The main auditorium,
the day care centre, and the
swimming pool area had only
smoke damage.
June Tomkins, assistant
director of the centre, said she
hopes the centre can be cleaned
up in time for Saturday night's
Christmas dance being held by
the Huron County singles club.
Legislature undecided
on Xincard
When Liberal environment
critic Murray Gaunt (Huron -
Bruce) called the Energy
Minister James Taylor to release
the report on •the Kincardine
greenhouse project Monday,
Taylor replied with "frankly, I
haven't read the report yet."
Mr. Gaunt was asking why the
report hadn't been released when
it was completed and was told by'
Mr. Taylor that'while he sees no
reason why the report shouldn't
be made public, the legislature
has not yet arrived at a decision
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on the project.
The project involves using
waste heat from the Bruce nu-
clear plant to heaLgreehouses
and fish farms.
Gaunt said laterthat the steer-
ing committee on the projecthas
apparently received the report,
and he said Taylor's deputy
minister is chairman of the com-
mittee.
"He (Taylor) has got to have it
kicking around somewhere,"
Gaunt said. "He should have had
it' by now."
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