HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-06-04, Page 5THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
PAGE FIVE
Library Board
Reports Increase
In Circulation
(by Shirley J. Keller)
The Huron County Library
Board will be purchasing a van -
type delivery truck for use in
the distribution of books to var-
ious outlets. S special meeting
was held Saturday, May 30,
when the tenders were opened.
Library chairman Walter
Sheardown, Goderich, told cou-
ncil the new librarian will com-
mence her duties July 1. He also
reported the book circulation
totals for the first four months
of 1970 were 115, 075 as comp-
ared to 110, 480 for the same
period last year.
Allan Campbell, McKillop,
chairman of the property com-
mittee, told council his commit-
tee would be meeting with God-
erich Town Council officials to
discuss "certain aspects" of pro-
posed improved parking facilities
at the Children's Aid Society
offices,
Council said parking could be
arranged on property adjacent
to the CAS offices, but noted
that this would put an end to
the park -like area that is establ-
ished there.
Campbell also reported that
a new agreement has been forw-
arded to the Town of Goderich
Higher Taxes For
Grand Bend Area
Ratepayers in the village of
Grand Bend will be paying
about twenty-three percent more
in taxes this year than they did
in 1969 according to the mill
rate set by council last week.
The residential rate has risen
from 88 mills to a new high of
108.4 mills and the commercial
levy is up from 95 mills to 117
mills.
Of the overall increase of 20.4
mills, 14.1 mills is attributed to
the public school rate, 1.7 to
high school purposes and .7
mills for the County of Lambton.
While the municipal rate that
obtains monies for use by the
village itself was lowered from
32 mills in 1969 to the present
rate of 30.4 mills, a water rate
of 4.2 mills for fire protection
and a levy of 1.3 for Ausable
River Conservation Authority
purposes have been added.
The main reason for the big
jump in the public school rate
was an underlevy of $10, 763
that remained from 1969.
At Wednesday's meeting of
council when the rate was ap-
proved, clerk Penny Martelle
reported that the taxable assess-
ment for calculation purposes
was $1, 838, 887.
While accepting the tax rate
council authorized the clerk to
send letters to the Lambton
County Board of Education and
Ontario Premier John P. Robarts
protesting the high costs of ed-
ucation.
The letter to the Premier was
actually in answer to one receiv-
ed by council a short time ago
asking councils to hold the line
in spedding. Copies of both let-
ters have been forwarded to
Lambton MPP Lorne Henderson.
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council concerning parking priv-
ileges relative to the Court House,
This matter has been under con-
sideration for some time and
Campbell promised a further re-
port on the matter in June.
Donald Lynn has been engaged
as a caretaker at a salary of
$4, 500 per annum, effective
June 1,
The roof on the court house
has been repaired at an approx-
imate cost of $2, 900. The work
qualifies for a 50 percent subsidy
fromthe province.
County Asks For
Help With ‘CFB
A county development com-
mittee recommendation to ask
the Ontario Department of Ed-
ucation to "give every consider-
ation to using the Canadian
Force Base, Clinton, for educat-
ional purposes" was approved
Friday at the May session of
council.
The committee noted a "cont-
inuing need for expansion of
educational facilities both at
Conestoga College in Kitchener,
and Fanshawe College in London.
That former base, the committee
pointed out, "definitely lends
itself to an educational atmos-
phere."
It is felt that if the base was
used for educational purposes,
it would stimulate the economy
within Huron County as well as
save capital cost required" to
expand facilities in other areas."
Copies of this resolution will
go out to the proper government
sources, the committee added.
As well, the committee gain-
ed council's su'pport to send a
recommendation to government
agencies urging that a policy
similar to the one adopted in the
United States by the Department
of Defence regarding the closing
out of military bases, be given
serious consideration.
A report on the procedure fol-
lowed in the USA when a milit-
ary base closes was presented to
council for study.
Your children aren't going to get
the education you got.
Ontario's way of learning has
changed, because our way of life has
changed. Children today learn mathe-
matics by discovering how numbers
behave and what they mean. They
don't study grammar for the sake of
grammar, nor accept history without
examining all view points. And the
sciences they are taught are the
sciences of the 70's.
The things your child learns
today, will prepare him for the life
style he'll face tomorrow. We'd be
short changing our young people and
our province if we taught them any-
thing less.
Today the province has 16
universities. In the last four years
alone enrolment has more than
doubled, and the total Ontario
Government expenditure for student
awards, scholarships and fellowships
has risen from $5 million to more
than $30 million.
Other forms of post -secondary
education are also growing rapidly.
Example: the colleges of applied arts
and technology are a new style of
Ontario education flourishing from
Sarnia to Thunder. Bay. These com-
munity colleges offer diploma courses
in everything from biochemistry to
naval architecture and from air
traffic control to advanced . elec-
tronics. Starting from zero in 1967
Ontario now has 20 community
colleges with 61 locations and some
38,000 full time and 34,000 part time
students.
If you don't really believe we
need advanced education techniques
to face an advanced world, we'll
give you a selfish reason. Your future.
Ontario's econoiny has grown from
$14.7 billion in 1960 to some $31.5
billion in 1969. Our incomes have
doubled in the same decade. Our
increase in exports is the second
highest in the world. To maintain
this kind of development, we need
well developed people.
Our investment in education helps
bulk! cr better future. But we need a
strong economy to support our good
intentions. One tray you can help:
when price and quality compare,
shop Canadian.
Ontario's quest for knowledge con-
tinues after the sun goes down, with
adults doing most of the studying.
In Toronto alone evening courses
number in the hundreds and thous-
ands of adults study subjects ranging
from carpentry to civics, pottery to
poetry.
Ontario Universities now have an
estimated 104,000 full time students
and 69,000 part time students. Pic-
tured above is one of the newest
Ontario campuses, Trent university
in Peterborough.
Ontario's labour force which topped
3 million last year for the first time
is becoming increasingly skilled and
competitive with other leading in-
dustrial nations. Our annual invest-
ment in manpower education is
designed to continue the upgrading
of skills through Ontario'sprogram
of in -plant training.
Canada's life style of tomorrow presents many challenges. But it's Ontario's style to meet these challenges today.
Government of Ontario
Department of Trade and Development