HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-02-25, Page 4-THE HURON EXPOSITOR, FEBRUARY 25, 1987 Aa
CHECKING THINGS - Employees of the, Seaforth Manor were in attendanceat. an
Open House Saturday, which -detailed plans for renovation of the home. Shown here are
Jannette Stolt, left, and Ruth Nolan rlgrit,•.bdt•h health care aides. With them are Janice
anilChrista Leonhardt. (Mcllwraith photo)
PLANNING;FOR Tag FUTURE — Clare Reith,'a former adminlstratorof the Seaforth
Manor., and his wife Gladys, go over the plans for renovation of the home during an Open
House'held Saturday the Town Hall. Looking on as web Is architect. Joseph P.:Toth. The`
Open House drew a steady orowyl between the hoips of 2 and 5 p.m, Saturday; and
brought a'bevy of suggestions from those who attended. Owners Ed and Carolyn Osimek
said they appreciated the public response and hope toincorporate all the suggestions in
the renovations:: •(Mclfw'raith photo)
Board :of education
approves job variety
• BYSIIEI.LEYMePiIEF IIAIST '
Providing diversification, and
variety for women iii the education system in .
Huron County has again been supported by
trustees here.
At their February meeting the Huron
County Board of Education (KBE) trustees
approved a motion that calls for application to
the Ministry of Education's Affirmative
Action, grant program. ' The board has
received funding from this program for the
past two years.
. The Affirmative Action program in Huron
County was first established in 1985. .At that
time the board of trustees adopted• a policy
statement that read'. "In 'demonstrating its
commitment to achieving employment oppor-
tunity. the board hereby urrdertakes a
program of Affirmative Action for its women
employees in order . todiversify their
occupational distribution within the system
and .to eliminate any identified barriers to
their employment opportunity." •
As. part' of .the establishment of the
•program: a half-time Affirmative Action
Co-ordinator was employed.
FICHE directly. Bob Allan said that since
• the program was initiated in Huron, "The
Huron County Board of Edueation has taken a
very positive approach to employee affirma-
tive action. We have made steady progress
and avoided controversy.,"
At the board's February meeting. Mr.
Allan presented a report from the minister of
education for the province. Scan .Conway,
Mr. Conway reported. •"rhe government is
HPRCSSB to
The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate School Board will study an offer
made by Legion m embers Robert Chapman
and Howard Carroll. both of Goderich,
Monday to carry out a child video identifica-
tion program for the Catholic school children
in Huron County.
Mr. Chapman. Leadership Chairman of
District C.. Royal Canadian Legion, told the
trustees that the Legion is offering to go to the
nine elementary separate schools in Huron
County to make a short video tape of each
child in Kindergarten to Grade 6.
Along with -he photos of each child, there •
will be voice identification by having the child
answer questions verbally. the height noted
and all repeated every three years.
Mt. Chapman said if the board decides to
go forthe program, it will be necessary to get
parental consent. He noted the tapes should
be stored safely at the board office or with the
princippals in the schools.
Witham Merl, Director of Education,
reported that to date 101 students are
registered for the new Grade nine class to
start at St. Michael School in Stratford next
September. Ile said there will be 85 from
Perth County, 3 t from Huron County, four
from Oxford County and one porn Middlesex
County.
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committed to the principle of employment
equity. Nowhere is it more important that this
principle be observed than in the province's
- education systeu: The roleof education and
thevalues it reflects in both human resource
deployment and curriculum is- critical. Mini-
stry of Eduction policy requires that
HERE'S WHAT IS PLANNED — ,Seaforth' Manor owner Caro.Iyn Osimek detail' pians of
the home's renovations to Kathleen Cuthill .and Mary Broadfoot. The two ladies attended
an Open House on Saturday. (Mcllwraith photo)
-students have the opportunity tosge men and
women in a variety of roles. The school T u c k e r s m i t h employees . t o
system must be at the forefront in reflecting -
the changing roles of women and men by •
providing an environment that exemplifies get t h' 1
r
sex equity. both in the role models it provides
and the teaching materials it uses," •
Since Affirmative' Action funding was first -
provided in 1985 g> ant monies..have gone to
• 79 school boards in the province. Mr. Conway
said that in order to sustain the existing
program: and to expand it, the ministry will
continue to offerfinar>,eial support until 1989.
The minister of education reported that by
the end of 1989. "school boards should plan •
to demonstrate evidence of significant
progress towards the achievement of an
environment that exemplifies sex equity, :I
am therefore requesting school boards to
adopt this objective at all levels of the
educational system. with the aim of raising
the number and diversifying the occupational
distribution of women to a minimum of 30 per
cent in all occupational categories by the year
2000,''
"This aim will require ongong trommri-.
ment and study..
• Mr. Allan remarked to
11('RE trustees.
.study offer
On February 10, a tetter went out to the
parents of students at St. Patrick's School,
Dublin and St. Columban School advising
them that re -organization of the two schools
continues with St. Columban being made a
Primary School for Kindergarten to Grade 3
students and Dublin will be a Junior -Inter-
mediate 'school With one classroom turned
into a library resource centre, and a teacher
librarian added•to the staff.
A Roman.1 attiolic high sehiool for Grade 9
students in 1luron County" could open in
September. 1988. in a vacant wing of the
public high school in Clinton.
About '150 Itoriian Catholic ratepayers
attended an t initirmation meeting Tuday
night to discuss the Huron -Perth separate
school boards plan to start its second high
school. The first opened in September at St.
Michael school in Stratford: •
Superintendent of. education John Me-
Cauleysaid at least 60 of 135 pupils in Grade 7
in Huron separate schools must register now
for the proposal to go ahead. He said
classrooms are available in an empty wing et
Central Huron Secondary School. The school
i�� awe rte"_ h fit, a: <R�# :, N • ,
.SAY GOODBYE r& 77NtE Seaforth area y tf1'hs` Mak advantageof the Mild *babel'
"reed" . y i ., el" Eokett
. y g a .., hocks in the Lyons parkinglot, F•3ere, barrel Sunda" o et u a game' a roe '
Odd fo put a back hand Mateen•g`oabetider Rob Van Loon. (McIP ' aith photo)
BYWiIMAOKE
Tuckersmith Township employees wilftet
a three percent wage increase this year
approved• at the council session Tuesday
night.
Che increase, retroactive to January 1,
affects about 20 employees who work in the
township's clerical., roads. recreation and day
care departments.
Under the new salary and benefit schedule
the annual salary for the clerk -treasurer will
be $32'.425 plus $2,500 car allowance; the
road superintendent. $29,993.60: supervisof•
of the day' care centres at Vanastra.
$20.625.52: and the director of the Vanastra
Recreation Centre. $21,608.86.
Other salaries: municipal office secretary:
$15.596.67: aquatics director, $15,809.18:
$eereftary and special needs + director.
$14;`5.11.,Q.7x: assistant day care supervisor,
$14;705,44"day care teacher, $13,591.39:
part-time, day care teacher. $6.32 per hour:
0
of idNentificati
part-time assistant special day care super-
visor, $8.03 per hour: day care cook, $7.75 per
• hour: road grader operator-mechltnia, $10.11_
per hour: junior grader operator; $9.31 per
hour: mower operator. $8,82 per hour and
labourer. 17,05 per hour: and building
inspector. $4,737.49 per year.
• Employees travelling on township busi-
ness will be allowed :35 cent per mile or 22
cents per kilometre.
A request for a tile drainage loan for
520.000 was approved.
A request by Douglas Smith to operate an
automotive dealership on Lot 43 at Vanastra
was granted.
Clerk-treasurer,lack McLachlan and mem-
bers of council accepted an invitation from
Huron County council to attend its council
session in Goderich March 5.
The road„sigps in Vanastra, which have
been und'ekttfdy. are -being changed to meet
present travel needs.
on program
It is expected $t. Columbia will have about
125 students snow 67) and St, Patrick's in
Dublin will have about 125 (currently 169)
and each will have between six and seven
teachers. '
To meet its additional staffing require-
ments next year at St. Michael Secondary
School in Stratford the Humn-Perth Catholic
School Board is inviting voluntary teacher
transfer applications from secondary school
school could
has an enrolment of about 800, but a capacity
for about 1,500 students. •
M. McCauley said students 'tvoitid be
bused. as at St. Michael School, where some
travel as far as 25 miles, For after school
programs, there isa special bus provided to
deliver the students to there homes.
Fie explained some of the Catholic
secondary sohooi teachers with the Perth
County Board of Education voluntq red - to.
transfer` to the staff of St, Michael school, it
tats a trade off, he said, "as we would hope
would happen in Ruron."'
p
Ile told the principal would be hired to
start in January. 1988. to prepare the school
to be filly operational by September, 1988.
Hydro
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be near the Michigan utilftes. Should
agricultural land have to pay the cost to
have Americans get cheap, subsidized
power that Hydro has in surplus? 1 don't
think it's fair," he said, adding that the
line from London to Nanticoke tt*il1 disrupt
farmland in Kent and Essex Counties.
`However`, he said the Foodland Hydro
Committee may be down, but its certainly .-
not out. He said the cornrnittee Will meet
shortly to "pick up the pieces and find out
Were
`'e e we're going from here."
Tony
Mc@uail, the Cliairrrran of the
Foodland Hydro Committee, amid riot be
reached for comment,
-Accordiltg to-bonne-Prout arr-assistant-
corporate r'elations officer with Ontario
Hydro, the candor through the area was
necessary to fully incorporate the
generating rapacity from the BNPD into
the electrical system se'r'ving Ontario con=
sumer's The line from the BNPD would
also permit the "interchange of electrical
power" between Ontario Hydro(and the
Michigan Electrical Co-ordinated System.
Snowmobile:------
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he hopes to take the season's title. He will
' also 6e competing in the Ontario ckiatnpion""-
ships later this winter.
I have a good time. It is fut. And whet t
like Most about it is that the racers, in-
cluding my toughest competitors, can sit in
a restaurant and have coffee together.
We're the best of friends: S'nowmobders are
pretty easygoing people, always twilling to
help ane another out. 1t someone needs a
part t lend it to them, and if I need a part
tliey lend it to me. It's nide."
teachers presently employed by -the Perth
County Board of Education who have the
potential of being declared redundant.
Appreciation is expressed to the 'Perth
County Board for their assistance in this
matter.
Itis expected that teachers will be required
t • o are qualified in English, French.
Sc' nee. Business Studies. Religion, Mettle -
pen
open inClinto
Parents wereasked'to return surveys to the
school by Monday. February 9, so the board
can decide whether the proposal has enough
slipper!. tie said the board *mild report to
the ministry of education in Match, with a
reply expected in May.
Mr. McCauley said, "We haveasuceessful
thick record in Perth and we will have the
'mune-in Huron to provide a school with a
differene."
Parents also • watched' two videos. one
depicting school lifer at St Michael School'in
Hullett council:
requests no •
parking
At a special' meeting of council Hullett
Township passed a motion requestmg the
county to pass a by-law installing no parking
signs on the north and south side of County
Road:15, from the east side of the horseshoe
a( the lHullett Public School to the east corner
of the school property. `
Council also requested permission frpm:
-the-countyto-close-eounty-Road-1°5-from No: -4-
Highway to Victoria Street on Saturday, • July"
11 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. for Hullett Days:
Motions—were also_passed_to-give_the-
Hullett Federation of Agriculture a grant. •of
$800; to give the 'drainage superintendent
authorization to call on-site meetings' for
maintenance work dope on municipal drains;
to give the road superintendent authorization
to purchase, and have installed;a chain hoist
by Casey Verwey and to 'purchase five town
chain falls from Blake's Welding; to pass' the
tile 'drain loan application on 'Lot 19,
Concession'1:1:,, subject to township by-laws
and availability of funds; to approve the
non -wage portion of the budget• ,pf the
Seaforth and District Community Centres; to
pay deficit to Tuckersmith Day Care Centre
for 19'36: to instruct the engineer to call for
tenders on the Plant Drains a Works to
request the Bank of Montrealgto. collect the
servicecharge from the customer on Hullett
Township taxes 'paid at ,the, bank, and to
instruct the clerk to charge' 5.10 per tax
certificate. '
New transformer
corning soon
The Seaforth.. Public Utilities Commission
reportpplaris to install a new transformer at its
Chalk Street Power Station are progressing
favorably. The new transformer should be in
place by ,the middle of 'April.' it will replace
the current transformer which does not meet
Seaforth PUC specifications.
Omission made.
in hospital.story
In a story which apeared on page one of
last week's issue of The Huron -Expositor,
concerning discussions which area reeves
had held with the .Seaforth Community
-Hospital Building /committee,- the name of
Marie Hicknell, reeve of M.cKillgp
Township, was inadvertently omitted from
the list of reeves who 'attegded. The Ex-
positor regrets theomission and apologizes
for any embarrassment that may. have
resulted.
SEAFORTH HARMONY KINGS Barber-
shop of the Year Award was presented
recently to Ross Kahle, left of Mitchell.
a 5•President
Making the presentation is 198
Dave Campbell. (Photo submitted)
n in 1988
Stratford and the other showing activity at a
shared school in Cornwall. similar to the
Huron plan.
Mr. McCauley said committees from the-•
separate and public boards have -been
meeting regularly to discuss the proposal in
Clinton.
W 3lliam Eckert, Director of Education, said
later he was pleased with the turnout at
meeting and encouraged there were . no
negative questions asked, regarding a new
high school,
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Wednesday, February 25
9:30-10:30 am, Fittest Fun
1-3 p.r i Moms. and Tots Skating
140-4 p m. Senior Shuffleboard and
Carpet Bowling..
4:30-5:30 p.m. ' een Ringette Practice
5:30-610 p -fur. Atari Practice
6:30-7:30 p.m. Centenaires Practice
8-10 p.m. Volleyball at High School
7:30-9 p m ?.1inor I3roomball
9-11:30 p.m. Ladies Brodrnball
Thursday, February 26
4:15-6:15 p.rn. Atari Prate&
154:15 OSA. Rental practice
6 30-7:30 p tn'. Miner Broomball
7:30.9 pin. Ballroom Dancing
7:20-12.30 0.tn. Mens Broornball
i`lote: Badminton is cancelled for tonight
but will testate On Ma'r'ch 5.
Fades', February 27
9:30-10 30 aril. Fitness is Fun
4-5 p.m Senior tiouseleague
5-6 p.m. Junior Houseleag'ue•
p. ft No*ePradie •
7-8 pain Jr, Belle Ringette Practice
6-9 p.m. Tween Rh -i ette Prattled
Saturday, February 28
1;30-8:30 a.m. forth Stars vs (tilers
8:304:30 a.m. Canadians vs Bumf's
0:30-10:10 strut Whalers vs•Peng`uiirs
...,. .
10.30 - 11 36 a..fn, Leafs vs Jett
11:30-13:30 a.n1'a Flyers vs Flamesr
12:30-1 30 p rna„Mites practice
i 36 2':80 p m Petites Ringette Practice
Saturday cont'd
1 'i0-2 lir Story lint• at the Library
/:311.4 p m Broomball
4-5 pa. Noviee practice
5-6:15 p.m. Atom Practice er game
6:15-8 p.ra. Pee Wee, practice or game
Sunday, March 1 ...
8 a rt to T 1 On. tntere ib Figure Skating
Coiripetit"ton
Monday, March 2:.
4:30-810 p.th figure Skating
Tuesday, March 3 -
ir 80-'&30 pin. Pee Wee
6.30-8 p m I aiitain teams urr)inbwn
8-11 p -m. Ceiitenaires ea Eiteter playoff
game no 4
780 tint Ringette Meeting, t nniittee
room, areha
7:30 anp-m. Public Meeting abut a Jailer
Mid S'en)br baseball Watt, upstairs hall,
Ment
Wednesday, March" 4
0'40-10:30 a:tn. Fitness is Fen -
1 3 p.ir► Moms aid Tots
140-4 phi Senior Shuffl'eb'oard and
Carpet I3owhng. .
Ii.
4 30 5:36 p Tween Ringette Practice
5:30-6:30 p.m Atom Ringette Practice
6:30-7:3'0 p.m. Centenaires' Practice
8.16' p.m. Volleyball at 1igh, Schoof
7:30.9` p m •li(inor Broomball_
4=11:80 p.m: ladies. Broonibal1
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