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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-07-22, Page 1s r� NO. 29 FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1971 100 PER COPY DISCUSS MUTUAL AID - Members of the Huron County Mutual Aid for Fire Brigades met in • Zurich on Monday night to discuss some of the problems which they might encounter during the year. Several members of area brigades are seen here as they look at the Zurich fire truck. Left ro right are David Sangster, Hensall chief; Howard Klopp, Zurich chief; Leo Meidinger, assistant chief of the Zurich brigade; and Gerald Martene, Dashwood chief. Set salary schedule (by Shirley J. Keller) While the secondary school teachers' salary dispute with the Huron County Board of Education is still unsettled and the board is unable to offer any indication of whether or not secondary schools in the county of Huron will open on schedule in September, memb- ers of the board , Monday evening ratified an agreement with the Huron County elementary school teachers for the upcoming school year. According to the schedule, the starting salary for teachers in Category I will be $5, 400 with the maximum of $7, 300 reached in six years: Category II, $5, 800 starting to $8, 800 maximum in nine years; and Category III, $6, 300 the starting salary and $10, 500 maximum after 12 years of experience. Ask report on school material (by Shirley J. Keller) Dr. Alex Addison, of Clinton expressed some displeasure at Monday evening's board of educ- ation meeting in Clinton, concern. ing the way in which materials donated by A, V , M, Hugh Camp- bell School at CFB Clinton were distributed to schools in the county of Huron. However, the doctor received little support for his views from other board members who agreed that since the supplies were a gift, there should be no dispute. Director of education, D. John Cochrane said that when the school at the base was closed down, much of the equipment was taken to the school at Camp Borden. A few other supplies such as library books, text books, maps and globes, sports equipment, records, filmstrips and sundry items were distributed in Huron. Principals in the county elem- LONDON GRADUATE Mary Anne Farwell, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Louis Farwell graduated on June 25, from St. Joseph's Reg_onal School of Nurs- ing. Mary Anne is a former grad- uate of South Huron District High School, and will be nursing at St. Joseph's Hospital, London. entary schools received a letter advising what was available and noting that the materials would be given out to the schools in most need on a first-come basis. Dr. Addison asked for a report on where these items had been received. He indicated that the Clinton Public School did not get a fair share of the items for dist- ribution. Cochrane said that all schools in the county - the public schools the Roman Catholic Schools and the Christian Reformed Schools - had shared in the gift. "Right about now I wish they'd taken it all to Camp Borden, " stated Cochrane, A report on the progress of construction at Seaforth showed that the project is moving along on schedule. It was also rioted that a separate contract has been arranged with Cale Doucette of Clinton, for $14, 000 to renovate existing windows, repair existing roof and repaint the existing school. The McKillop schools will be sold by auction with the date for dispersal to be arranged with the auctioneer, Bruce Rathwell, R, R,1, Brucefield. It has been agreed that the school bells will be sold sep- arately from the buildings, with the removal of the bells to be the responsibility of the person who purchased them. Results of the maintenance tenders for schools in Huron County were discussed and showed that painting contracts were costing (continued on page 2) New doctors at Grand Bend After nearly four years of wait- ing and searching for a doctor, Grand Bend now has two of them. Dr. William O'Connor and Dr. Sean Trapp, both graduates of the same medical college in Dub- lin and both 26 years of age, will set up their practices in the new Grand Bend area medical centre as soon as equipment can be inst- alled. The $35, 000 centre, built on land donated by the local Lions Club, has just been completed. The funds to finance the construct- ion were raised in a several months drive which brought in. several large donations and hund- reds of smaller ones. The village's population of something over 700 is swelled to over 30, 000 on some summer weel ends. Thousands of vacationers spend their holidays in nearby Pinery Park. "The need for medical service close at hand is very evident, " says medical centre chairman Bill Sturdevant. Up to now, most of the popul- ation of Grand Bend has had to depend on medical services at Dashwood, Thedford, Parkhill and Forest, ranging from six to 20 miles away. The recently -completed med- ical centre was designed with the guidance and advice of Dr. W. Copeman of the provincial depart- ment of health, The two young Irish doctors will work under a provincial govern- ment plan which will guarantee them a gross annual income of $26, 000 each. The plan is designed to attract doctors to areas designated by the provincial government as medic- ally under -serviced. One of the main reasons Grand Bend hasn't been able to obtain a resident doctor for some time was the lack of facilities. Both of the doctors voiced ap- proval of their new quarters. "We are very anxious to get the place set up and going, " one of them said. Supply teachers will be paid a per diem rate of $22. The board will pay the greater of 55 percent or the percentage agreed to with the Secondary School teachers of the Ontario Health Services Insurance Plan and the Ontario Hospital Services Commission coverage. As well, both male and female teachers will have available to them a group term life insurance plan amounting to $10, 000 cover- age of which the board will pay ' the greater of 55 percent or the I percentage agreed to with the Secondary School teachers of the premium. Categories 4, 5, 6, and 7 have not been settled to date since these depend on the secondary school teachers' settlement. Elementary school principals' salaries range from a maximum of $14, 000 to a maximum of $18, 000. per annum depending on the number of teachers on staff in a school and the maximum for a vice-principal in any elementary school in the county is $14, 500. Opportunity class teachers, re- medial teachers, teachers of children with specific learning disabilities and teachers of child- ren with specific speech problems will be paid a basic salary accord- ing to the schedule plus an annual allowance of $100 if an element- ary certificate is held: $300 if an intermediate certificate is held: and $500 is a specialist's or sup- ervisor's certificate is held. The same pattern of allowances will be paid to a teacher on the recommendation of a principal to a committee composed of the dir- ector of education, two superint- endents and three elementary school principals appointed by the elementary school Principal's Association. As well, any principal who holds a Master's Degree in the field of Educational Administrat- ion shall be paid an additional allowance of $500. The settlement also provides that following the successful completion of each Department of Education or University Course, up to a maximum of two per year, a teacher will receive the sum of $100 per course. Little opposition to official plan for Huron county The proposed official plan for Huron County received little opposition Tuesday night at the first of three public hearings. The two-year study costing $58.000 was presented by J.A, Nicklom and T. S. Keith of G, V. Kleinfeldt Associates Ltd. of London to about 40 ratepayers at Exeter town hall. Mr. Keith stressed that there was room for local planning under the county -wide plan which wasn't designed "to replace local council but rather to act as a framework of deciding general land use objectives. (continued on page 3) 0 New member for Goderich (by Shirley J. Keller) Cayley Hill, the vice-president and general manager of Dominion Road Machinery Co. Ltd., and the last chairman of the former Goderich Public School Board, has been appointed by the Huron County Board of Education to fill the seat left vacant by Mrs. LW, Wallace who resigned one month ago. Mr. Hill, chairman of the Int- erim School Organization Commit- tee (ISOC) ran against Mrs. Wal- lace in the first elections for school board but was defeated. Mrs. Wallace resigned her position with the Huron County Board of Education following a dispute over the board's stand on the secondary school teachers salary negotiations. At Monday evening's board meeting in Clinton, the resignat- ion of Dr. A , B , Deathe, also of Goderich, was received and ac- cepted without objection. Dr. Deathe also resigned following the dispute concerning teachers' salaries in secondary schools. The replacement of Dr. Deathe will be named at the next regular meeting of the board of education, August 16. 0 WILL TEACH IN KINKORA Donald Farwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Farwell, recently graduated from London Teacher's College. He was a graduate of South Huron District High School, and received his B. A. degree from the University of Western Ontario. He has accepted a posit- ion with the Huron -Perth Separate School Board, and will be teach- ing Grades seven and eight in Kinkora, Ontario.