HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-12-19, Page 7THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1974
LURICH CITIZENS NEWS PAGE 7
SISTERS TIIRILL CROWD - The Henderson family of the
Seaforth area thrilled both the residents and visitors at the
Christmas party last Friday night lathe Blue Water Rest Horne.
Left to right are Donna, Darlene and Debbie, all daughters of
Mr. and Mrs, John Henderson. The girls sang and tap danced
to the de'ight of the audience.
t)n Sunday at :1;,.)5 a.tu, a
car driven by Jamie Regier,
R.R, 6, Parkhill collided with
a sign post at highway 83 and
County Road 2. The sign post
received $25. damage. Invest-
igated by Constable 13111 Mc-
Intyre,
On Wednesday at 4:55, p. nt.
a car driven by Howard Lembn
collided with a car driven by
Peter McNaughton on Main
Street, Hensall. Damage to
both vehicles was estimated at
$200 by Constable Ed Wilcox.
On Thursday at 7:35 a. m,
a car driven by Keith Watson,
I<irkton, collided with a hydro
pole. Damage to the hydro
pole was estimated at $200 by
Constable Bob Whiteford and
$1, 000 to the car.
On Friday at 10:40 a.m. a
truck driven by Marten Dykstra
Exeter, collided with a van
driven by Edward Johnson,
London, on Highway -1 at
Highway 84. Ilaluage to both
vehicles was estimated at $150
by Constable Bob Whiteford,
On Friday at 11:15 a car driver.
by Beverly Genttner, Exeter,
collided with a ditch on Iligli-
way 4. Damage was estimated
at $700 by Constable Don Mas-
on.
During this week officers
of the Exeter detachment
investigated three thefts;
total value of property taken,
$165. $85 has been received
and one juvenile has been
charted in connection with one
of these thefts.
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RCSB Board award contract
(by Wilma Oke)
The tender for the construct-
ion of a library resource centre
and equipment at St. Patrick's
School, I<inkora, was awarded
to Don Riehl Construction Liut-
ited, of New Hamburg at a
meeting of the Huron -Perth
County Roman Catholic Separ-
ate School Board last Monday
night. The tender is subject to
approval by the Ministry of Ed-
ucation and the Ontario Munic-
ipal Board.
The Riehl tender, the lowest
of nine received by the board,
was $68,14.1. The highest was
$94, 342.
The board will put 417 feet
of link fence along the property
line of the o acre recently
purchased for St. Marys' School
at 'lesson from Simon Steululler
R,R..1, Listowel, to provide a
better roadway for the school
buses. The fence was one of
the provisions required by tite
Perth Land Division Committee
before approval of severance
was given, in order to safeguard
the children living on adjacent
properties, presently owned by
Ron Poissant and Mr. Stetuntler.
A schedule for implementing;
the Family Life Program was
presented for Board approval
by John Vintar, Superintendent
of Education. It calls for the
program to be planned at meet-
ings in January for the principals
the teachers and the pastors to
instruct the Grade 6 students in
the 15 -week period from Feb-
ruary to May. As it has not been
possible to obtain a co-ordinator
for the program, Mr. Vintar
suggested that the saltie program
as used last term, when it was
initiated, should continue this
year.
A pilot course for Grade 7 wig:
be started at St. James School,
Seaforth, as four of the teachers
at St. James have taken the
course for instructors.
Mr. Vintar was congratulated
by the board members for Itis
recent election as vice-presid-
en of the board of governors
of the Ontario Association of
Education Administrative off-
icials at the 6th annual confer-
ence in Ottawa.
Mr. Vintar said a metric
planning committee is being
formed as Thomas 1�'c11s, Min-
ister of Education has said Ont-
ario is ready to begin implem-
entation of the metric system
in the schools next year with
the aiin that schools will he
fully converted to utetric by
1117.
Mr. Vintar said that classes
for parents on the metric system
will be held as well asthe
classes for teachers.
Assistant Superintendent
Joseph Tokar reported on a
planning meeting, he attended
at St. Lawrence School in Lon-
don last week attended by rep-
resentatives from Elkin, oxford,
London -Middlesex and 1lurott-
Pertit county Rotitan Catholic
Separate School Boards. The
Committee tirade plait.. for
Phase 2 on Focus on Faith which
is to be held on Sunday, Janu-
ary 11) at the St. Lawrence
School. Attending will be the
board chairmen front the four
school boards and their wives,
as well as board members and
their spouses, members of ad-
ministration and their wives
and a Catholic parent couple
which each trustee is to take to
the day -long meeting.
At the meeting in January
the role of the trustees will be
explored by going directly to the
ratepayers, especially the cath-
olic parents to seek guidance
and support in order to provide
the best possible catholic educ-
ation for the students.
Mrs. Patti Kennedy was hired
as a Grade 7 teacher and Mrs.
Catherine McCotter as a teach-
er, both at St. Michael's
School, in Stratford, starting
after New Years.
The board decided against
asking municipalities to pay
school tax levies four times
yearly instead of the present
twice yearly payments in June
and December unless the County
Guards of Education also asked
for the quarterly payments. The
sugge.stinn was made when. one
of the townships asked that the
twice yearly payments be app-
roved.
Following committee of the
whole meeting Michael Con-
, nolly,, hoard chairman said
' that the next regular Meeting
may be held on Lecentber 18.
Mr. 1•,eith Lovell returned
home from the hospital last
Week.
Mrs. W.L. Mellis has return-
ed from a month's holiday in
Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gael: -
stetter visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Jones last Saturday.
THE ZURICH BUST ESS PLACES LISTE
THE FOLL :',s'ino HOURS:
EN TH S ` ri
CLSE T0 s. � ,
* Stade Hardware
Cascho's Dry Gods
Yunghlut's Meat rket
Tasty -Nu Bakery
IDoerr's Superior Store
Oesch Shoe Store
BELO
WILL OBSERVE
F h,t i it , STR Y
TIL 9 P
'yw T 6 P.M.
* Lucky Dogger Food Market
* Heinrich's Lunch & Variety
* Westlake Furniture
* Hess Jewellery Store
* Zurich Pro Hardware
* Loporte
eat Market