Zurich Citizens News, 1971-05-20, Page 1ce(g th)
NO. 19 --FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS
ZURICH. ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1971
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PROVINCIAL HONOURS: At the 4-H Achievement Day held in Exeter on Saturday the following
girls received diplomas for Provincial Honours. Left to right, Judy Guy, Debbie McKinley, Sandra
Webb, Cora Van Raay.
Delay Decision on Medical Examinations
(by Shirley J. Keller)
The matter of health examin-
ations for students entering kind-
ergarten and Grade 9 in Huron
County Schools was tabled again
at Monday's meeting of the
Speciale Group To.
Study Operation
Of Kindergarten
An ad hoc committee consist-
ing of James Taylor, Marilyn
Kunder, Clarence McDonald,
Wilfred Shortreed, Marion Zinn
and Chairman Robert Elliott to
study kindergartens in the county
of Huron received the board's
approval to leave things as they
are at the present time with re-
gard to kindergartens.
Any new kindergartens in the
county will be encouraged to
adopt a full-day every -other -day
program and to provide bus
transportation for kindergarten
pupils only insofar as it is coinc-
idental with bus transportation
schedules for other pupils in the
same school,
To permit the organization
of a kindergarten to be changed,
there must be a request from at
least 75 percent of the parents or
legal guardians of children af-
fected by the proposed change,
but only after the ramifications
of such change,have been exp-
lored in consultation with the
Director of Education or his
delegate, the principal and the
teacher, and provided that such
change does not cause additional
cost to the Board.
John Henderson, McKillop,
was not happy with the decision
of the board.
"1 thought this committee was
going to take a survey of kinder-
gartens in the county, " said
Henderson. "They didn't take a
survey at all. They had a com-
mittee meeting and came up
with a policy."
Henderson made some attempts
to have the committee re -organ-
ized to complete a study of
students, parents and teachers
involved in kindergarten through-
out the county but later abandon-
ed the idea in favor of silence.
Huron County Board of Education
until the Huron County Medical
Association has had an opport-
unity to pass an opinion on the
problem.
Dr. Barry Deathe, one of two
medical doctors on the board of
education, said he doubted that
the medical men in Huron
County would have the time to
adequately examine all the
students who would require phy-
sicals before or shortly after the
opening of school in September.
"I'm not criticising the value
of this, " said Dr. Deathe.
"You're deluding yourselves."
Dr. Alex Addison agreed. He
said that a family physician will
often sign a form for a child ent-
ering school not after a thorough
examination but rather on the
strength of what he has learned
about the child in the years he
has been the family's doctor.
'He indicated that most doctors
just do not have the time to
give a thorough physical for
camp, for school, for swimming
lessons, etc.
Dr. Deathe added that in his
opinion, a doctor could much
better use his time giving period -
teal thorough physical examin-
ations to those students involved
in tough body contact sports,
such as football, hockey, etc.
The suggestion for the physical
examination came from the
Huron County Health Unit through
the.office of Acting Medical
Officer of Health, Dr. Frank
Mills. Dr. Mills felt the policy
could be of value, particularly
in view of the severe health
problems which came to light
only during the great storm last
winter when children all over
the county were stranded in
schools for two or three days.
Hay Township Council Awards Various
Contracts® Move to Control Stray Dogs
A goodly portion of the regul-
ar meeting of Hay township
council held Monday night was
spent in considering tenders for
various projects.
The tender of Lee Jennison of
Grand Bend to supply and apply
liquid calcium chloride to town-
ship roads was accepted. The
Jennison bid, the lowest of four
was for $53.60 per flaked ton.
Armco Canada Limited will
supply two galvanized corrugat-
ed steel pipes for installation at
two Hay locations.
A 56 -foot 12 gauge -48 inch
pipe will be constructed at Con-
cession 12 and 13 on the Datars-
Miller municipal drain.
The second pipe, 60 feet in'
length and 96 inches in diamet-
er, 8 gauge will be installed on
Concession 16 and 17 on the
same drain.
The Armco tenders of $529.20
and $1, 821, respectively were
the lowest of five received.
Tenders were also opened on
McDonald municipal drain. L. H,
Turnbull, Grand Bend will
handle open portion construction
for $795. Two other bids were
received.
The closed portion contract
goes to Roth Drainage of Gads -
hill for $4, 192, the lowest of
six tenders. •
Ted Van Roestel Drainage of
Woodham was the lowest of six
bidders on the Regier municipal
•drain at $950.
Road Superintendent Karl Hab-
erer was instructed to sign a
petition for a municipal drain at
Lots 15 and 16, Concession 14 to
correct drainage and erosion
problems in the area.
Reports on the Boersma and
Schwalm municipal drains
were received from the engineer
and accepted.
Two tile drain loan applicat-
ions in the amount of $5, 500
were received.
Clerk Wayne Horner was in-
structed to prepare a bylaw to
control dogs in the township.
The move was made after a re-
quest was received for dog rest-
riction regulations from resid-
ents of the Police Village of
Dashwood.
General accounts amounted
to $2, 298.41; drain accounts
were $10, 000 and road expend-
itures amounted to $3, 864.45.
The next meeting of Hay
township council will be held
Tuesday June 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Huron Board Discuss All
Physical Education Aspects
(by Shirley J. Keller)
Members of the Huron County
Board of Education took two and
a half hours Monday afternoon
for an in-depth study into the
physical education program in the
elementary and secondary schools
of the county.
They learned of the aims and
objectives in both the actual
physical education and the health
program taught in conjunction
with the program as well as the
House League inter -school sch-
edules.
Physical education heads from
all high schools as well as sev-
eral physical education teachers
from several elementary schools
were in attendance to make their
presentation to the board and to
answer questions from the board
members.
It was pointed out that the
purpose of physical education in
county schools is to introduce
the students to a wide variety of
sports and physical activity, to
teach the fundamental skills, to
stimulate an abiding interest
in one or more physical activit-
Kitchener Firm To
Repair Roof
(by Mrs. Wilma Oke)
The Huron -Perth County Ro-
man Catholic Separate School
Board meeting in Seaforth
Monday night awarded the cont-
ract for repairs to the roof of
St. Boniface School at Zurich to
Thackery Roofing Ltd., Kitchen-
er.
The Thackery tender of $1, 775
was the lowest of three received.
Trustee John McCann of R, R. 3,
Ailsa Craig, chairman of the
building and maintenance corn-
mittee, reported the repairs
would be started this week, and
Maintenance Committee, report-
ed the repairs would be started
this week.
Pounder Brothers of Stratford
were awarded the contract to
install two panic door sets keyed
to the system at St. Aloysius
School in Stratford for the amount
of $194.25.
The board voted in favour or
re -hiring Miss Frances Conway
on a half time basis to work in
religious education in the Strat-
ford schools. She is employed
half time by St. Joseph's parish
in Stratford. The board and the
parish each pay one-half of her
salary.
John Vintar, Superintendent of
Education, announced Sister
Bernadette had resigned as relig-
iouseducation consultant. She
will go to England for further
study.
Sister Sharon Murphy was ap-
pointed as primary education
consultant.
Trustee Michael Connolly, of
R. R. 3, Kippen, chairman of the
finance and insurance committee
made a motion that a resolution
was required as a result of a
legal opinion regarding the non
owned auto liability policy
whereby the board should enter
into a contract with its employee;
in order to have full protection
under this portion of the liabil-
ity portfolio.
ies, to stress the need for physic-
al fitness, to induce good sports-
manship and to show a student
his limitations and how to accept
them.
The complete health course
from kindergarten to Grade 13
was clearly outlined by the
teachers. It was reported that a
committee of teachers within
the county is now preparing a
co-ordinated course of study in
health for all students in the
county to ensure that all students
will have received the same
access to knowledge about health
The House League programs
in the various schools where
students in one school compete
against one another was shown
to provide mental recreation,
an opportunity to socialize, a
chance to develop co-operation,
good sportsmanship and true
leadership qualities as well as a
continuing obedience to law and
authority.
The inter -school program
which is quite limited at the
elementary school level prov-
ides an opportunity for students
from one school to compare
their skills and their physical
education program with those of
another school and its students.
At least one board member
questioned the advisability of
spending fairly large sums of
money for transporting students
from school to school for a
sports program. The teachers
agreed that the advantages to
such a program far out -weighed
the cost and one physical educ-
ation head went so far as to say ,
that a good physical education
program in school set the "tone"
for the entire student body.
The teachers also advised the
board members that they often
spend many long hours after
school preparing for games by
chalking the field, etc. Some
physical education teachers
stated they personally saw to it
that the grass was seeded and
fertilized, that the track was in
condition etc, by lugging their
own equipment from home and
working evenings and holidays
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Irla Martin, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Martin, R,R,2,
Zixich, graduated on May 6
from St. Mary's School of Nurs-
ing, Kitchener. She received
the award for proficiency in
bedside nursing. She is a gradu-
ate of Central Huron Secondary
School, Clinton.