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PROCLAMATION
NURSES' WEEK
May 6-12
WHEREAS, men and women in health care
have for centuries ministered to alleviate
suffering and illness, and promote health;
and
WHEREAS in the Province of Ontario nurses
have made very realisto efforts as member of
the health care team to serve all dtaens; and
WHEREAS In this community nurses have
maintained a record of dedicated service; and
WHEREAS the College of Nurses has over
108,000 members dedicated to providing
essential health care in hospitals, nursing
homes, chronic care facilites and the
community; and
WHEREAS members of the College of
Nurses are dedicated to maintaining high
professional standards In all areas of nursing
practice,
NOW, THEREFORE, the week of May sixth,
nineteen hundred and ninety will be observed
as Nurses' Week in this community and
nationally, during which time recognition of
the many services of nurses may be duly
noted by all community members.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I hereunto set my
hand and have caused the official seal of this
municipality to be affixed.
Hazel E. Hildegbrand,
Mayor, Town of Seaforth
Peer tutoring helps build skills one-on-one
BY PAULA ELLIOTT
Learning by doing, learning by example,
and the benefits of a one-on-one situation
are paying off for a group of Seaforth
Public School students who are being
tutored by Seaforth High School students in
reading and language skill building.
The 18 students, ranging from Grade 3 to
5, are meeting with their High School
counterparts for one hour a day over two
weeks. Working with only one child for
each two-week session, the S.D.H.S. tutors
- senior grade Family Studies students -
are giving the kids a helping hand with all-
important reading and grammar founda-
tions, in ways that a classroom structure
is not always able to.
Carol Hoelscher, learning resource
teacher at Seaforth Public School, is very
pleased with the results of the program.
The first two-week peer tutoring session
took place shortly after the March Break,
and a new group of 18 junior grade
students was selected for this second
session.
"It's excellent," she exhorts. "There has
been a lot of learning, a lot of happy faces
- and even some crying when it's been
over."
The peer tutoring program has been in
place at the Seaforth school, in some form
or another, for close to nine years, The
idea was cooked up by Huron County Lear-
ning Resource Centre's Jill Johnson while
she was working at Seaforth Public School,
and the program has blossomed. Unique to
the county, the peer tutoring has served as
a model for other schools in the Board, but
Mrs. Hoelscher has not heard of any feed-
back from these schools as 'to the success
of their endeavours. She proudly com-
ments, however, that she doubts that they
are doing as well as Seaforth has been.
"These are the kids who will sit in the
classroom, and not raise their hand," Mrs.
Hoelscher points out. The selection pro-
cedure for the public school pupils begins
with an evaluation by the child's teacher,
with an eye to special needs and individual
attention in language skills. After parents
have been approached, an inroductory day
is held for the pupils to meet their high
school tutors, who have previously given
the child a picture and description of
themselves. In this way, the child and
tutor can get to know each other personal-
ly before the teaching is tackled.
"That first day, they're •just kind of
groping in the dark, and finding out where
the child is at," remarks Mrs. Hoelscher.
"And then we take it from there."
The peer tutoring is aimed at giving the
kids a new, refreshing look at reading and
language that will help them to embrace
word skills instead of shying away from
them. Games, cut-outs, flash -cards and
one-on-one sight reading help the child gain
confidence in their reading abilities. With
their tutor there at their side to help them
over the rough spots, they are rising to the
challenge.
"These are kids who would probably
never pick up a book, otherwise," Mrs.
Hoelscher notes, watching the group of
children excitedly tackling the books and
word games. The high school tutors, she
A FRIENDLY GAME OF SCRABBLE helps Seaforth Public School student Daryl!
Young tackle word and reading skills, under the guidance of Janice McIntosh, his
high school tutor. The senior Family Studies students are spending time one-on-
one with junior students over the next two weeks for an hour a day as part of
a peer tutoring program. Elliott photo.
feels, are performing an invaluable service
to the kids.
"This is an exceptional group of
students...some of them would make ex-
cellent teachers."
Mrs.' Hoelscher adds that she was at an
Seaforth sanitation company
BY PAULA ELLIOTT
With an eye to the waste management
proposals being drawn up by municipalities
involved with the Mid -Huron Landfill Site,
Gerry Nobel of Seaforth's Nobel Sanitation
appeared before Tuckersmith Township
counoi1 on Tuesday night to outline details
of a recycling program for the township
and specifically its two hamlets of Har-
purhey and Egmondville.
According to the stipulations of the
agreement drawn up by the Mid -Huron
Landfill Board, each participant
municipality must submit details of a
recycling program, Class 1 (blue box) to
Class 4 (depot system) by June 30. Nobel
Sanitation currently operates a recyclables
pick-up and bin service in Seaforth, drop-
ping off the collected materials at the
Hohnesville site bin. Mr. Nobel pointed out
that exten.• g his service to Harpurhey
and Egmondville, and even out into the
township, would be a natural move and
beneficial move for both parties involved.
The Blue Box system, Mr. Nobel pointed
out to Council, "..is nice, and it's really
recognizable, but it's the Cadillac of recycl-
ing, the way I see it."
"Even if you did have a Blue Box pro-
gram, and made it mandatory (as per the
agreement with Mid -Huron) you couldn't
really enforce it."
He added that the Blue Boxes would cost
each municipality at least eight or nine
dollars apiece, and pointed out that
Seaforth is currently looking into a pur-
chase of pails from the Seaforth Creamery
at a cost of $1 each. Nobel Sanitation
works on a separate bagging system for
their recyclables, and has been operating
with this system for numerous
Tuckersmith households for about nine
months already, including 35 - 40 rural
households. The homes are billed in-
dividually, and Gerry Nobel notes that a
billing system would have to be worked
out if the municipality were to come to an
agreement with him.
"I am willing to work with you people if
Woos
advantage when it came time to pair each
tutor with a child, as she knew most of the
girls from when they were in public school
themselves. She knew which tutor would
work to bring out the best in each child.
"Everybody needs a time to shine."
Tuckersmith
you want to work towards a plan like that,
towards a recycling program," he offered
Council.
Deputy -Reeve Bill Carnochan,
Tuckersmith's representative on the Mid -
Huron Landfill Board, thanked Mr. Nobel
for the offer but added that Tuckersmith
has not yet committed itself to a plan of
action as far as waste management or
recycling is concerned. Tuckersmith, along
with Goderich and Colborne Townships, is
in the process of ratifying an agreement
with the Board to the effect that their
waste will still have a place. to go should
the larger municipalities settle on recycl-
ing programs which are economically in-
feasible for the smaller ones.
"A lot of the municipalities are in the
same position as ourselves," he told Mr.
Nobel. "We don't know where we're go-
ing."
Attention was directed to recycling pro-
grams which are now in place in Oxford
County, where garbage compactors are
towing trailers behind them to load
Council
recyclables into before transferring them
to a bin at a landfill site.
Councillors informed Mr. Nobel that the
two hurdles facing Tuckersmith as far as
waste management is concerned are the
location of a new landfill site for the Coun-
ty, and pinpointing exactly where the
recycling industry stands. The business is
presently in a flux, with more recyclable
goods collected than the processing plants
can handle. This has resulted in plum-
meting prices and a glut market for glass,
tins and newspaper.
"The big problem now, as 1 understand
it, is that the industry is switching over,"
noted Deputy -Reeve Carnnchan
Mr. Nobel remained optimistic, however,
maintaining that recycling is "..the gar-
bage business of the future. I'm looking
after my own interests, too."
As far as dodgy prices for the materials
is concerned, he stated to Council that "..if
there are people to be lobbied, it should be
you guys that are going after that."
Consolidated Stateme i!t of Operations
for the year ended December 319 1989
Sources of Financing
Requisitions on local municipalities
Grants
Government of Canada
Province of Ontario
Other Municipalities
Other
Investment Income
Fees and service charges
Rents
Miscellaneous
Municipal Fund Balances at beginning
of Year to be used to offset taxation
1989 1998 1988
Budget Actual Actual
$ $ $
6,373,561 6,463,813 5,331,489
280,321 502,539 1,050,513
11,528, 654 11,369, 887 11,282,088
604,080 605,546 183,184
245,000 393,743 199,250
2,824,535 2,905,251 2,846,450
452,000 448,572 456,512
9,920 5,950 4,794
943,633 943,633 512,059
Assets
Cor soLidated Bahr ,Ice Sheet
as at Decer i. giber 319 1989
1989
Actual
$
Unrestricted
1998
Actual
$
Cash on hand and in bank
Accounts receivable
2,452,366
1,150,554
3,602,920
Restricted
Cash on hand and in bank
Investments
Other current assets
1,734,165
1,588,368
3,322,533
305,322
2,313,296
353
2,618,971
Capital outlay financed by long-term
liabilities and to be recovered
in future years
709
1,210,000
497
1,211,206
1,099
6,222,990
12,458
4,546,197
Applied to
Current Operations
General government
Protection to persons and property
Transportation services
Environmental services
Health services
Social and family services
Recreation and cultural services
Planning and development
Capital
General government
Protection to persons and property
Transportation services
Health services
Social and family services
Recreation and cultural services
Planning and devetopment
1,128,979
179,103
8,327,151
131,280
1,875,450
7,183,691
1,331,041
899,249
20,855,944
1,101,273
178,292
7,644,807
113,195
1,876,818
7,057,705
1,337,537
632,079
967,357
165,133
6,885,528
84,228
1,578, 989
7,072,746
1,226,365
531,219
19,941,706 18,511,565
Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Net long-term liabilities
Fund balances at the end of the year
To be used to offset taxation
Reserves
Reserve Funds
87,000
478,000
44,000
35,000
280,000
25,000
949,000
Net appropriation to (from) reserves
and reserve funds
Fund balances at the end of the year
87,368
31,257
478,313
44,398
35,189
390,538
25,496
17,741
78,501
596,342
60,508
18,885
1,371,340
29,918
1,092,559 2,173,235
1,456,760
23,261, 704
1,456,518 237,908
1,148,151 943,633
23,638,934 21,866,339
1,306,016 1,278,900
1,099 12,458
1,148,151
1,167, 099
2,600,625
943,633
1,100,00
1,211,208
6,222,990 4,546,197
RESERVE AND RESERVE FUND OPERATIONS
1989 1988
Actual
$
Revenue 1,598,082
Transfers and expenditures 141,564
Year-end position of reserves and reserve funds 3,787,724
NOTES
1. These financial highlights reflect the operations, assets and liabilities of the County of Huron Including
the following: Huron County Planning and Development Committee, Huron County Library Board, Huron -
view Home for the Aged Committee of Management and the Huron County Board of Health.
2. The Home Care Program administered by the Huron County Board of Health and funded entirely by the
Province of Ontario Is not crrsoliiated. Audited Financial Statements of the Home Care Program are
available in the Clerk-Adminisl','or's office
3. Copies of the audited financial rr• .ort I rom which these highlights were extracted may be examined at
the office of the Clerk -Administrator, County of Huron, Court House, The Square, Goderich, Ontario.
Actual
$
721,723
483,817
2,311,206
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