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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-03-07, Page 20PAGE 12 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1974 RCSS Board discuss insurance (by Wilma Oke) The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board will renew all policies with the Huron -Perth Insurance agents' Association through Leeson -Killer Insurance Limited, Stratford, for the term February 26, 1974 to February 26, 1975. The annual premium is $12, 367. This is an increase of $2, 088 over last year. The board meeting in Seaford last Monday decided it will invite Mr. Killer to a board meeting soon to answer some questions raised by the trustees about coverage. Following a suggestion by Donald Crowley, of R, R.2, Gadshill, the main highways and county roads leading to the separate schools will be added to the brochure that the board is having made up which will outline the availability of sep- arate schools within the Count- ies of Huron and Perth. Mr. Crowley said that having the roads marked would make it easier for newcomers to locate the schools. It will cost the board an extra $25 to have the roads added, raising the cost of a thousand brochures to $223. Joseph Tokar, acting Super- intendent of Education, gave a brief report on the Trustee Faith Celebration held in St. Thomas on February 17, attend- ed by trustee from Elgin, Midd- lesex, Oxford and Huron- Perth Steer This Way BY LARRY SNIDER When visibility is less than perfect, keep headlights on, no matter what time of day it is. If steering or wheel alignment is even a little bit off, you may be wasting gas. 4 If engine keeps running after ignition is turned off, high temperatures and carbon deposits have caused fuel to continue burning (it's called dieseling). Have timing, car- buretor and plug gaps check- ed. In World War It, gas rationing was designed to save scarce rubber, not fuel. There's a car pool in New Jersey that's been going to work together for fiteen years. The group set up a non-profit corporation that owns two sta- tion wagons; all members work in the same building in New York City. If you need a car to get to work, you want one you can depend on. See the smart, reliable models at Larry Sniders, tarry Snider MOTORS LIMITED EXETER 235-1640 LONDON 227-4191 Huron County's Largest Ford Dealer Drive in soon! Counties. He said about 60 attended the day -long session hosted by the Elgin County Roman Catholic Separate School Board. The board voted not to sup- port the Bruce -Grey County Roman Catholic Separate School Board's resolution re Bill 275 that would isolate the principals from the teachers into a separ- ate splinter group such as a provincial principal's organiz- ation. The board said that the principals, belonging to the Teachers Federation, could not be separated from the teachers. The board feels it is important to improve communications between the teachers and the board. The Ontario Separate School Trustee Association Convention to be held in Toronto on April 4 and 5 will be attended by Trustees Francis Hicknell, Donald Crowley, Gordon Ball, David Teahen, Ted Geoffrey, F.J. Vere, Arthur Haid, Pat Carty and possibly more trustees if they are able to arrange to attend. The first seven were named the voting delegates -- half the total number on the board are given voting rights at the convention. William Innes, of Stratford, Attendance Officer for the board will be asked to attend the board meeting on April 8 to give a report on his work. Fred Bergsma and Dan Devlin, both of Stratford, and appointed represenatives of the board on the Stratford Public Library Board, will be asked to attend the same meeting to report on their activities as representat- ives. Invited to attend the.same meeting will be Huron's Separ- ate School member on the Hur- on County Board of Education, Hear speaker (continued from page 1) to the 114 local associations in Ontario. Integration of the handicap- ped child in with the "Normal" children was the theory Mrs. Engel enlarged upon, as this is becoming a reality in more and more nursery and Day School settings. Huron Hope Day School has always been integr- ated into the J,A,C, McCurdy School in Huron Park with great success. Mrs. Engel gave examples of the various ways in which integration could be worked out In our case, due to the lack of a regular day nursery close by in which our children could be gradually integreated, it was recommended that one or two normal children be brought into the Huron Hope Nursery School setting. She mentioned that many times it was the parents of the retarded or handicapped child who was apprehensive about having their child mix with "normal" children for fear their child would be ridiculed or even beaten up by them. Instances were given to show that if the correct ground work is laid by the teachers, and the integration is a. gradual and not just a "dumping" of the handi- capped child in with other children, the different pupil is not only accepted, but prot- ected and looked out for by the other students. As we all know, it is the adult and not the youth of our community who have the old prejudices and fears about things they are unfamiliar with, such as retard -I ation. Charles Rau, and Perth -s two members on the Perth County Board of Education, Len. Feeney, and John Butler. The meeting is scheduled to be held at 7:30 p.m. in St, James Separ- ate School in Seaforth and will be preceded by dinner with the above invited as guests. A liaison committee was named to meet with a similar committee of priests from the Huron -Perth Deanery to discuss common areas of concern. The board members are: Francis Hicknell, Howard Shantz, Ted Geoffrey, F,J, Vere and Don- ald Crowley. Permission was granted Rev. Michael Hughes of the St. Joseph Parish, Stratford, to hold a COR weekend (Christ in Others Retreat) at St. Mich- ael's Schodl, in Stratford on the weekend of May 3-5. Arthur Haid, Oscar Kieffer, Ted Geoffrey, Francis Hicknell, Gordon Ball, Howard Shantz and Vincent Young will attend a meeting in St. Jerome's School, in Waterloo on Febru- ary 28 to discuss in greater det- ail Bill 255 which the board feels infringes on the rights of separate schools. Passage of Bill 255 would result in there being no distinct Ontario Sep- arate Schools Act. Michael Connolly, Board Chairman, Ted Geoffrey, chair man of the Building and Proper- ty Committee; and Ed Rowland, Maintenance Officer for the Board, will attend a workshop on energy conservation, met- rication and updating older schools at Bluevale School in Waterloo on March '7. The board will not send in its ballot to the Ontario Schools Trustees' Council which it voted on and filled in at its February 11 meeting because of a request from the Ontario Separate School Trustees' Association. The Separate School Association will send out its own memorandum sett- ing out its position which the Board will vote on when it is received. The meeting adjourned at 12;25 a, m. Tuesday. Honey Dipped DONUTS REG 950 DOZ 8SG doz. STY ® NO BAKERY ZURICH NOW IS THE TIME FOR PROSPECTIVE HOMEOWNERS TO BUY MATTRESSES We have just received a carload of ti 1 TT E SES 541Y Mattresses AS LOW AS $39 EXTRA SPECIAL EXTRA SPECIAL DAVENPORT & SWIVEL CHAIR only 149 THE STORE WITH MORE QUALITY and SERVICE NGERICH'S Ltd. ZURICH 236-4351 SFAFORTH 527-0290 "GUARANTEED HURON COUNTY'S LOWEST PRICES OR DIFFERENCE RETURNED"