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Huron County 00ofatt.,a ion.
The board l d 1Ezobert ' . Mai al alb:
Ireplace retire Superintenddenty�y W.
' Coulter.Mr, „Mity� .. ll Wes ed Y ,� 2 and `.
the ministry APPFeve4 the appointment
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Curriculum consultant for Kindergarten to .
rade 13•for' a Welliw gton Doty Boat,
of Zdiftati+ n He will stat bis new IQl
somettM, a inAugust ata Salary o0 1,
year, ,
In s0(11004 oa ko experience ini hard9rk,.
he has -spent a great deal of time'leathing.:
taught at both . elOmestarY arn'd
secondary levels and has dev.elaped, math
programs for remedial, students, as well as ,
enrichment pyograms for students.
Board rescinds moor n
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By,Cath•Wooden
An aura of confusion surrounded a
motion by Trustee Adm Elliott during a
meeting .of the :Huron County Board of
Education last week to rescind immediate
,,plans for. integration of busing in Hullett
Township in favor of long-range, county-
wide plans
Mr; Elliott said the reasoning behind his
motion ryas that integration of high school
and elementary students travelling on
buses :,to Londesboro and then Clinton
would ,'take in only the centre strip of
Hullett.
He said the same result, the elimination
of:onebus at a saving of about $5,000, could
be achieved another way with less dis-
ruption. One of two express buses which
take 'secondary school students to Clinton
could be . eliminated, since student
population in that area is diminishing; and
the overflow ped upby county drivers,
he suggested.
He said it would Make more sense for the
board to'lookat integration when the *hole
county is .examined..The , management
committee' plans to introduce an 'ongoing.
111 `n for bus route integration of
elmentary'and:secondary school students
s November.
ollovltirllg .a number of ~ attempts to
understand and compare Mr. Elliott's
proposal and the plan fob integrated
busing laid down by Transportation
Manager R. L. Cunninghain, the board
passed the motion to delete one of the
express buses from Blyth to Clinton. .
His main concern about integration, Mr.
Elliott said, is that"whenever you have
high school students hanging around a
public school for more than five minutes,
you have trouble."
He said the time between the arrival of
high school students at the elementary
school in Londesboro and the dismissal' of
the younger children for the ride home is
too long. However he did not know what
times the two schools dismissed.
None of the trustees knew when Hullett
Central School, Londesboro, finished
classes, but Superintendent W. D. Kenwell
said the Clinton high school dismisses
students at 3:15. This triggered a com-
plaint from Trustee John Henderson that
the Clinton school does not provide enough
class tine, with activity periods twice •a
week_
"You see 'two or three hundred of .them
.walking down the road at 2:30 in the after-
' noon on those s -when they can be in
learning somethiing."
- PRETTY GOOD—Lori .Swltze
circus ladies on the swingingrop
Martin and Downs Circus weep;
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"I like the puppiesbest."
LET'S SHARE* ;hifis Elliott, 6J and `Gordon Ver-
ntly et ttb—steeg, 4, decided to Share some popcorn between
d thatt he
circus acts Friday evening. Gordon explained That he
", adding, Was taken to the circus';pecause it was his`birthday on
Friday. Chris ,added that,he'll be seven on June 25.
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STICKY STUFF -Henry and Gerdti •
trine and 12, didn't r- adze bdw- stick,
really is. The two,' taking°.ektra Iairge'fibi
With floss mustaches and beards. ` `
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A local businessman is proposing • to g,,,,
continue the commercial developmentof r
the vacant land at • the south end/
of
Wingham, providing he can convince town
council to sell him the land.
Hans Kuyvenhoven, who put together
the new plaza on, land purchased
previously from the town, came to council
Monday night with a proposal to buy all the
remaining town land behind the plaza, to
be filled and developed within. three years.
No price was mentioned, but both sidese
appeared to realize that because of the'
cost of filling the land and providing
service& no more than a token payment
could be asked.
While councillors seemed to like the
idea, they were unwilling to give a yes or
no answer without considering the matter
further, and it will be brought before the
town.planning board later this month.
"It only makes common sense we would
like it developed," Councillor John
Bateson, chairman of the property com-
mittee commented. "In principle, 'yes',
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buttbere's no way we could come to a
decision by this weekend on a thing like
.that."'..
Mr:'' Kuyvenhoven and his solicitor,.
Robert Campbell, ' told council there
already are' two businesses interested in.
. locating near the new Zehrs supermarket.
"BF having the shopping centre there
it's 11 'ode the property more attractive to
other.':,people as well," Mr. Kuyvenhoven
notedadding the end result could be up to
$150,000 in additional taxes at very little
cost to the town.
Healso pointed out that adding the town
property to the land he already owns along
Josephine Street south of the plaza would
enable him to do a' proper development of
the roads and services for the whole area.
Councillors expressed some concern
about drainage of the area to keep from
running water back onto the existing
businesses, and Mr. Kuyvenhoven agreed
to work with Burns Ross, the town
engineer, to come up with an acceptable
design.-
it
esign.
"First you need to have the property and
then you can begin to work on problems
like drainage," he commented.
Questioned later, he said it is too early to
reveal what types of businesses are in-
terested in locating on the land. However
Mr. Campbell added that both firms
currently interested are . highway -
commercial uses so no zone change would
be required. He also said they are types of
businesses not currently located in
Wingham.
He said the one is also looking at land
along Highway 86 west of town and they
are hoping to sell him on a Wingham site
before he decides to .locate outside the
town.
Earlier in the meeting Mr. Campbell,
acting on behalf of Mr. Kuyvenhoven, had
requested a change in the subdivision
agreement for Maitland Estates to add
some land to lots at the north end
overlooking the river.
A strip of land would be taken from the
propeiaty set aside is parkland along: the
Maitland Diver, adJouimg,Rlverside Park,
to lake the residential Tots deeper.
In return Mr. Kuyvenhoven is offering to
develop that parkland as well as a small
park area at the bottom of Highland Drive
to the satisfaction of the town parks board
and the residents, he said.
Under the terms of the agreement the
town is responsible for developing the land
set aside for parks in the subdivision.
Mr. Campbell noted that removal of the
strip, amounting to about half an acre in
total, would still leave about four acres for
parkland along the river. The land in
question currently is covered with trees
and brush. It would be cleared and sodded
or left as is for a bird sanctuary and nature
area, as had been proposed, he said.
Mr. Bateson asked the developer to
drive some stakes to outline the area in
question, and it was agreed councillors
would go and have a look at it before
coming to a decision at the next council
meeting.
Boating assoc. proposed in respgnse to complaints
Wingham council is hoping local boaters
will form a club to police Their members
and keep it from having to pass restrictive
bylaws.
The proposal to contact the boaters
came up Monday night in response to a
letter of complaint from property owners
$ along the upper pond of the Maitland
River.
The letter, signed by four property
owners, said a high-speed motorboat used
for waterskiing is throwing up a wake
which is creating a hazard for other
boaters and canoeists on the river and is
causing erosion along their properties.
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LIONS PRESENTATION—Lloyd 'Casey' Casemore of the Wingham Lions Club
presented a color flim on glaucoma, a serious eye disease, to Tom Turner of Scar-
borough during the annual convention of Lions International held in Ottawa last
week. Mr. Casemore, who Is sight conservation chairman for the Wingham club,
made the presentation In memory of his wife, the late June Casemore. The film
will be available to all Lions clubs. Mr. Turner Is chairman of sight conservation
and work with the blind for Ontario, Quebec and Labrador. (Wilma Oke Photo)
Local Lion presents
film at convention
By Wilma Oke
OTTAWA — At the annual convention of
Lions international — the Diamond
Jubilee - held in Ottawa last week, Lloyd
'Casey' Casemore of Wingham presented
Tom Turner of Scarborough, chairman of
sight Conservation and work with the blind
for Ontario, Quebec and Labrador, with a
30 -minute color film on glaucoma.
Mr. Casemore, a member of the
Wingham Lions,Club, presented the film in
memory of his wife, the late June
Casemore, on behalf of his family and
himself, to be available to Lions.
In other•, convention business Bruce
Murray, a 47 -year-old St. Marys business-
man, was elected director for Lions Ip-
ternational. He won with 64 per cent of the
votes, defeating Norman Tartre of M'o'n-
treal
Ahighlight of the jubilee celebration was
a 21/2 -hour parade along Ottawa's main
streets Saturday, with floats, bands,
majorettes and clowns. One veteran of the
Ottawa police force called it the longest
parade he'd ever seen.
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• Sandy Orien, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Stan Orien of
Wingham, recently received
her Bachelor of Science in
the Honors Cooperative
Program, Human Kinetics,
at the University of
Waterloo. Sandy will be
attending University of
Western Ontario, Althouse
Teachers' College, in Sep-
tember .
It asked council to take some action to
correct the .problem.
Councillor Allan Harrison, chairman of
the police committee, said that according
to Police Chief Robert Wittig council- has
.three options: do nothing; apply to the
federal department of transport, which
regulates public waterways, to set„a speed
limit, in which case it would have to figure
out how to enforce the limit; or restrict
motorboats from the river altogether.
. He suggested it `would be difficult to
enforce a speed limit on the water without.
buying the police a boat, although other
councillors suggested the police should be
able to usetheir radar gun and nab the
' offender' at the landing dock' when. he.
brings his boat out.
He also said it would be a shame to
restrict all motorboats, since there are
some fishermen who like to motor up and
down the river and don't bother anyone. "I
' don't want to see onespoil it for all.”
As a result he suggested a fourth option:
inviting boaters to police themselves.
Several years ago when snowmobiles
first became popular there were a ldt of
problems, he noted, but since then snow-
mobilers have formed associations which
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police their members and have cleared up
the problem to a great extent.
He suggested it might be possible to
form a boating association which would set •
its own rules and regulations and see that
members abide by them. He said he was
willing to contact a couple of local boaters
and suggest they attempt to do something.
Councillor David Cameron endorsed the
proposal, saying the town doesn't . need.
more rules and regulations, but adding
that " if the boaters can't control the
problem the town will have to act. The rest
of council agreed to give the suggestion a
try.'
E. Wawanosh Twp. stays dry
East Wawanosh remains a 'dry' town-
ship in the wake of the liquor plebiscite
held there Monday.
Voting patterns were quite similar to
those of the liquor vote held in Morris
Township two years ago, with several of
the questions winning a simple majority
but none receiving the 60 per cent af-
firmative vote needed to put them through.
Only three questions were on the ballot
for the East Wawanosh vote, held at the
request of the Belgrave and District
kinsmen Club, and all dealt with sale of
• liquor at community functions rather than
with possible location of beer or liquor
store in the township.
The Kinsmen had hoped to win the right
to sell liquor :at dances and other fund-
raising and entertainment events.
The first question asked whether
residents favored the sale of spirits, beer
or wine where food is available. The vote
on it 'was ,,53.42 per cent' affirmative and
46.58 per cent negative.
On the second question, which asked
whether spirits, beer and wine could be
served with food optional, the vote was a
50-50 split.
The third question asked about serving
spirits, beer and wine with food and en-
tertainment, and here the voting was 53,14
per cent affirmative and 46.86 per cent
negative.
'In the voting by poll, Poll 1 had 67 in
favor and 69 opposed to the first question;
57 in favor and 71 opposed to the second
question and 63 in favor and 67 opposed to
the third question.
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first question. For questions two and three
the' voting was 64-62 and 70-60.
Voting at Poll 3 was 60-50 in favor of the
first question, 61-51 on the second and 65-51
on the third.
The advance poli was 5-1 in favor of the
first question, 4-2 on the second and 5-1 on
the third.
Returning Officer Winona Thompson
reported that 394 of the township's ap-
proximately 900 qualified electors took
part in the plebiscite. Another liquor vote
cannot be held for three years, she noted.
The Belgrave Kinsmen agreed to cover
the costs of holding this liquor vote.
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