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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-01-11, Page 3ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS - Students of St. James Sebaratt School in Seatorth had no qualms about the chilly weather the past wees. In fact, they seemed to enjoy it immensely. Here, Jer THE HURON EXPOSITOR. JANUARY 11 14)89 3A r , 4Ch is �1Y■E on Lord's Prayer ban The issue of the Lord's Prayer in schools was again before trustees on the Huron County Board of Education when they met for their first board meeting of 1989 Trustees were confronted by a petition listing the names of 30 Goderich area people from the Port Albert Anglican Church who "are in favor of the Board of Education allowing the Lord's Prayer to be said in our schools." The petition was signed at a December 11, 1988 Christmas service at the Port Albert Anglican Church In replying to the petitioners in Port Albert Director of Education Bob Allan remarked '`It may be of interest to the petitioner t know that this is a matter over which the Huron County Board of Education has no control. The matter became topical as a result of a Supreme Court ruling The Board now awaits new regulations from the Ministry of Education as a result of the previous regulation being struck down." The HCBE also received correspondence from the Peel Board of Education re- questing support for the Peel Board's laun- ching of an appeal in the Supreme Court. The intention of the appeal is to reverse the decision to strike down the repeating of the Lord's Prayer, and Religious Education in the public schools of Ontario. Mr. Allan indicated the HCBE education committee will be dealing with the question of the Lord's Prayer in its January agenda, and said he is expecting to hear from the Ministry of Education concerning this issue any das BOARD RETREAT In early March trustees and superintendents with the HCBE will be meeting in a retreat setting for a two-day concentrated goalsetting exerci e. In 1986 the Board held a two v retreat which resulted in the approval of t follow- ing goals for the term of that board: 1. TO develop the potential of each individual within the school system. 2. To develop an awareness of the positive aspects of the school system within the Huron County Community. 3. To develop a co-operative communica- tions program to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the Huron County School system. It was suggested the retreat gave the 1985-88 board focus for its term of office. The retreat in March is intended to both Marion Kern Bannon get a help up for is JI sown!. trom Nicky familiarize the current board's new trustees with the organization to which they belong. and to once again decide on goals to be met by the board during its term. , TRANSPORTATION Longstaif. Bosman photo The Board received a letter from a Goderich parent who has concerns about transportation, and wanted to know 'what had to be done to get busing for her children, and other children who live a long distance from schools. The parent.lives in the northeast end of Goderich where there is no bus service and her children, aged five and eight, have to walk to school. "The Separate School Board supplies one (a bus 1 for their pupils, and ours have to walk past those kids and continue on over a mile to school," reads the letter. "There really is a need for this and it would be greatly used. There are a number of us who live in this end of town. Perhaps even a smaller version of a bus would serve the purpose -such as the ones that are used to transport students to and from the two public schools for Shop and Home Economics." The board noted it has had this matter brought to its attention in the past, and a survey was doen in the 1970's which in- dicated there are a significant number of students walking over one mile in town to get to school. It was suggested that Ministry of Transportation grants will probably be available in the near future. The Board passed a motion that no action be taken in the short term, but that this mat- ter be referred to the Management Commit- tee for long-term consideration. I�ospita9 expansion is wenn Ori track Work .has been progressing favorably on the expansion to the Seaforth Community Hospital. Don Smith, Chief Executive Officer e ho 'tat, says the warm weather of ecent week made it possible for the construction crew excavate .and as a result, the footings the xpansion are now in place. There will be a break in the activity around the hospital, while the construction crew awaits the arrival of the structural steel. The steel is being fabricated right now from drawings which had to be approved by various government ministries, The steel is expected to arrive with a couple weeks, and will then be bolted into place. "We -.appear to be on schedule and everyone seems to be happy," says Mr. Smith. "We're still shooting for October this year. for completion." ens 1 trio to in itF Initiatives are being seen in the Village of Hensall which may result in the establish- ment of a day-care service there. A committee of four Hensall women has been working on a proposal to put before the Ministry..,oF'Corninintity arid'SocieServices in hopes the ministry will fund the service. These women, Pam Mallette, Jaki Blair. Cass Bayley and Sue Elder, saw a need for the service in the community, and decided to get involved to see if they could answer that need. Th'e ladies were involved with the Hensall nursery school, and saw a lot of working people who needed to have someone who would be able to. provide care for their children five or more days a week during working hours. Mrs. Mallette used to babysit in her home, and found there were more children needing care than she could handle. She says turning away people who needed babysitters made her see the need for day-care in Hensall. So in January 1988 the ladies formed a committee to investigate the possibilities of getting daycare in the village. Redevelopment to stuy o ,After a little investigation. "we really felt there was a need for the service,' says Mrs. Mallette. The committee looked at twr• need surveys which had been circulated, and at enrolment at the Hensel] Public School - which has gone from 125 students in 1983 to 200. today. "And the demographics of the village show there are a lot of young families in Hensall," says Mrs. Mallette "There's pro- bably a need for (daycare for) 50 to 60 kids. and after' three years it will increase to 60-75 children " All this information reinforced the cone mittee's ideas, and also impressed the Ministry of Community and Social Services. The ministry told the committee to put . together a proposal for a day-care service in Hensall, and it would consider it for funding. The committee is still looking at various aspects of the proposal, and has yet to sub- mit a full business plan. 'But a location has been found for the proposed day-care cen- tre. The Huron County Board of Education has agreed in principal to allow the•eentre to be placed on the Hensall Public School grounds. It is hoped that with ,money from the Ministry of Cgmmunity and Social Services a portable will be pure ed and moved on - .to the site on the schd(tr'board's property Other costs to operate the day-care ser- vice would mclude furnishings for the cen- tre, and hiring of staff. Mrs. Mallette estimates from six to 10 people will be need- ed to operate the centre, and a rough estimate of cost to open the doors of a day- care centre would be $80,000 to $100,000. The committee is hoping to get full ministry fun- ding in order to lower the cost to parents who want to make use of the service, "If we had to mortgage to get a building and equipment, the average person in Hen- sall wouldn't be able to afford day -care. - says Mrs. Mallette. "We have to make it financially viable for the parent." The service the committee is looking at of- fering would start at 6:30 a.m. and would be available until 6 p,m. Three meals would have to be prepared for children through the day, and there would be nursery school type ;pions for Hurorsview on hoisi There's no answer yet, but the senior Girard, a i,undon-based p,uglani super - management of the Ministry of Conununi- visor for the MCSS. ty and Social Services is studying Huron ' Both the Executive Committee of Huron County's proposed plans for the redevelop- County and the Committee of Management ment of Huronview ':with much interest," of Huronview have received letters from said a ministry representative. The MOSS explaining the delay. Both commit - redevelopment plans involve downsizing tees have tabled the correspondence for and rebuilding Huronview. tomorrow's regular County Council meeting. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. The Ministry .has been working on the policy paper for the last two or three years, said Girard. The need for revisions were sparked by home support programs for the One of the reasons the Ministry can't say anything right now is because of an as -yet incomplete revised policy about "how we provide services to seniors," said Linda Brussei.s -n-an -eOected chair -a -n. A Brussels man has been elected chair- man of the Board of Gay Lea Foods Co- operative Limited. That election took place at a meeting of the Board of Direc- tors on December 8. Fred Meier of RR 4 Brussels replaced John Campbell of RR 3 Bayfield, who had held the office for three years. Mr, bell will continue to serve on. the boa director. . Mr. Meier.held the position of First Vice Chairman prior to this election. Also elected to the executive were John Stafford of RR 1 Wroxeter, Vice Chair- man, and George Pinkney of RR 3 Listowel, Second Vice Chairman. Howard Wilson of RR3 Owen Sound, ,who retired this year, was replaced by John Hill of RR 4 Owen Sound. Gay Lea Food Co-operative Limited has operated .f or •30 years in .the Province of Ontario, :.beginning ,operations; in 1958. Its dafryr productsare soldaeross fndaand it is,:owited .by 3;600 ,Ontario 'pro- ducers. ;Its, facilities are located at3iVeston, Guelph, Teeswater, Woodstock; Bndenand Ottawa. In_1988:the Co-operative'a,tlfiertaxearn- ings of .$1.8 ,rntilion ,were „Sjtt tjjar .to•,the .prevlqus year,and.:sales,of;$15$;5341000,in- cr-eased.by three,per cent.Generally ,the Coreperative is:in alsound;f .tion „and ,harehold. ,equity ,increased ,to figure ;one jialf. fgtelosets. 1 3FREDMEiE': of4lR 4 Brusse.s,icras falecied chairrnarnof the Board of Gaylea Foods Co- gperative Limited. ,4ebt,.incr..ease-eguityand.pay dividends to ita;u+entlberellareders.-F,mphasisin the coming year .,w,n1 continue .towards ,ppu�yylding ,sales volutne, iriSprovipg tecitnplogysend:greSS,Morgin. cari iee s programming available for the children. Children from- babies up to five -year-olds would be able to use the service. The ratio of teachers to children in a day• care centre is 1:5. Children would be divided into three groups according to age, and each group would have a person educated in Ear - village l Childhood Education, • and additional .helpers depending on the number of children. 'Aside from those involved in programtn• ung, staff would also be needed, possibly part-time, for meal preparation, Turn to page 14A - elderly, which, over the past 10 years or so. has allowed thein to remain independent and in their homes longer. And those who do come into institutional residences are looking for a different kind of accommodation than people did 25 years ago. They're older when they come in, Girard said - people used to come into Huronview when they were in their late 60s: now they're in their mid -80's. "That makes quite a difference in what people want," she said. Avid what people want now is a smaller institution and more privacy in their living arrangements. Girard said she had no idea how long it would take to complete the policy paper, but "our understanding is that (it) is to be published imminently." Is the new policy likely to make drastic' changes in MCSS services to seniors? Girard has only seen rough draftg, but said "let me put it this way - the Huronview pro- posal certainly sits within the draft guidelines." LOCAL COUNCIL SCHEDULE Alseron the county agenda is the schedule for local council members to attend county council sessions. These visits are nothing new, said Warden Dave Johnston. "(The visits) give local council members whoare not county council members.an in- troduction to county government, a chance to see .what county council is all.about and how it operates,".he said. Reeves and,depu- ty reeves from local councils are members county council. " The 1989 schedule is as follows: •.March session -Ashfield, Colborne • April session - East Wawanosh, West Wa,wanoah • May session . - Brussels, Hayfield • June - 'Wingham,.Seafortln • October session -Mor- ris, Grey • November - Turnberry,.Howick. •JtEPRBSENTATIVES CHOSEN The .Social ,Services Conuaittee has recommended that ;the following be the municipal representatives.on,thei3,oardof Directors,of,the l aattuflyand Children's;Ser- vicesof-Iluronunty:-Efa ter Reeve=Bill :Weide, $1yth eve .AubertxW.aisson, Tueltererplth,;Reeve George S"rapteipn,and • rW &denDave JOht),ton Olin n>>Eeeve Bee Dyke,ltas, been.-regptT#tneildedras Linty nes ntntive,on;tJ etffBAar ,o :the Iuggn Centre for Children,and Youth. Hif- RCSS to correct inequities BY LOURDES RICHARD The time has come for the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic separate school board to find and correct any inequities that may exist among their employees' salaries. The board, at Monday night's regular meeting, voted in favor of hiring manage- ment consultants Stevenson, Kellog, Ernst & Whinney to develop a pay equity pro- gram for the board. The.appointment, said director of education Bill Eckert, is to meet with provincial government re- quirements which dictate that school boards such as Huron -Perth must have a plan ready by June 1989 to be implemented by January 1990. Pay equity is considered to be equal pay for work of equal or comparable value. Eckert explained that the hired con- sultants will study 13 employee groups within the Huron -Perth system. The job descriptions of every•employee classifica- tion must be evaluated and compared, he said. He further explained that the con- sultants will meet with every employee of the 13 groups to consult about job function. As part of the study, the employees will .is also be asked to rate their particular job function against others on scale. When the study is complete and releas- ed, Eckert said the board will have. to ex- amine and and approve it. He added that the study will hopefully have the support of all parties involved. Eckert doesn't anticipate any "gross in- equities" to surface as a result of the study. While admitting that inequities presently exist he said they're not so great they cannot be cleared up. This is the first move by the board to cor- rect the inequities which exist. Previously the board had been "studying the matter" of pay equity to become familiar with the legislation on it, according to Eckert. Should any admendments in employees' salaries be necessary the government re- quires that they begin next January 1. In the Huron -Perth board Eckert named two groups which have no male employees -secretaries and teacher aides. He added that the board's directors are all male. The study is estimated to take 15 to 18 weeks to complete at a cost of $18,000 to $19,000 for consulting fees. ent 41.10111"rt40008 00l 0111110041 Wed., Jan. 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