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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-06-07, Page 44 4 wr.4 ,AP +ANNUAL MlDepoeltelneenOWMln tltnite*Aeteeeybibel To'VrMnleeben. 3 t 6 YEAq tSilEAN l'3 t '3049 Y :y1NNUA `CVIPISP i •DAYS e Sen8e9 Ontario since 1976 with 15 local/ons ler vow enrn'PfIprra' Pip 4 N111 Ted &:Emma VanderWouden & Family WHOLESALE •'°R R. 1 Aaytietd .Phone 482-3020 •'RETAIL FarmoMarket — .Garden Centre — Nursery — Greenhouses -Enjoy aunique-experience °where quality and selection are exceptional. Ourrgreenhouses still contain lots of growing ideas -.all *Home Grown! OPEN 7.DAYS A WEEK r beautiful hanging baskets brilliant geraniums ✓ colorful annual bedding plants ✓ striking .tuberous begonias ✓ over 100 varieties of perennials ✓ greenhouse tomatoes and English cucumbers ✓ our own asparagus now available in freezer quantities ✓ large selection of nursery stock A6ederkh Talephone'Ad. Golf Course 113 tuton.County kit tlairrIeld DO YOU REMEMBER LAST SUMMER? it 9s Time lo Buy Air Conditioning - CLIMATE MASTER CENTRAD_ ABR -UMTS ELECTRO H_O!ME WINDOW UNITS (5 YearWarranty) -HURRVO WHLLESUPPLIES..LA'ST VERBERNE ?R°± iL APPLIANCE AND REFRIGERATION "Where..Sales.and: Service Go Hand in Hand" 345226 :Don't:Delay ... ,Can Frank Verberne Today TEACHER RETIRES - After 35 years of teaching in Tuckersmith township Barbara Alexander (second from right) is retiring. Mrs. Alexander is seen here with some of the 275 well wishers who attended an open house at Huron Centennial. Corbett photo. Barbr Mier 'retires " from teaching "We're certainly going to rniss,her, but we know she's devoted 36 years to the field of education and she deserves her retire- ment," said Huron Centennial Principal Pat Soldan on the retirementof Barb Alexander. "She's a well known, well respected teacher in the conununity at large.' Over 275 people -students, parents, former students, and friends- from Stanley and Tuckersmith townships recently attended an open:house at Huron Centennial to wish Mrs. Alexander well in her retirement. Mrs. Alexander has been at Huron Centennial since the Brucefield school was built.23 years ago, and has spent 35 of her 36 years as a teacher in Tuckersmith. She worked her first year, at the age of 19, in Hibbert township, but got married and didn't finish the year. "It really ,started at S.S. number four •T.uckersmith where I spent three years and beganany career,".says Mrs. Alexander. In the onewroona sehoolhouse.she taught about 35 students, "all subjects to all grades." . The teacher says the biggest difference -between then:and•now is that there were no • Growing demand for its package led a computerized municipal .accounting/infor- mation system, to open an office in Seaforth. The ,new office is. located next to the hospital, in the medical centre .on Centen- nial Drive. The "To'ront) Dominion Bank Seaforth Branch is :pleased to announce computers, no photocopiers etc., and she remembers thinking that a hectograph, an early machine for making a limited number .of copies, was "the most marvellous i n v e n t i o n ' "My career has gone from books to the technological age. Technology and teaching methods changed, and teachers had to change -had to adjust to new ways," ex- plains Mrs. Alexander. "The old ways were simpler with straight rows.and order impos- ed by the teacher. Now there is a lot based on ,skill development. Now children can be in groups and learn social skills, which is good of course." One thing that the veteran teacher says hasn't changed in education is the need for children to read and be read to. "One constant is that childrenmust be ex- posed to good literature. There has to be time for parents or grandparents to read to their children or grandchildren. It's impor- tant that children learn to love reading and be able to just lose themselves in a good book." As for the kids she teaches, Mrs. Alex - i for ?locate Started as a basement business in Calgary in 1983, then expanded to Winnipeg, Auto - Administrator Intl Inc. (AAII), was in- troduced to the Ontario market in 1987. Over 15 municipalities in Ontario - including Seaforth, Exeter, Clinton, Brussels and Hensall - are currently on the AAII system. So in May 1989 AAII located its Ontario of- fice in Seaforth. "Seaforth is the perfect place for our of- fice," said AAII president, Rick Hernder. "We've already installed a number of systems in the area and from Seaforth we can'support:those systems better." "We were looking for new office space," commented sales representative Bill Parkinson. "I had .been :working out of my home in Auburn,.and it was getting a bit crazy. We had the attitude.that if small to medium siz- ed towns were .our clients that's .where we should be • situated. Seaforth .provided us ander says they're not much different than they were 36 years ago. "Children today are still children, except a bit more worldly-wise because of •the availability of knowledge." Mrs. Alexander foresees it's going to be hard for her to stay away from school after going day after day for almost 50 years. "I always said I'd.quit while I still enjoyed it. I wanted to still enjoy seeing a child's eyes light up when he learned something new, or go into my class in the morning and think these are my kids... 1 didn't ever want it to get to the point where it was nista job." June 29' will be the last day Mrs. Alex- ander teaches as a full -tune teacher, but she expects she'll be back at the school on occas- sion for volunteer work. Like anyone ad- dicted, she doesn't think she'll be able to quit completelyat first. ' Mrs. Alexander says she is still • unsure about her future' plans, but she does plan to continueliving in Egmondvflie. I will miss this very much. They're a really special group here. 1n Seaforth with what we needed. It' tied a'nice office building, and was relatively central." AAII itself, develops computer software for small to medium-sized. municipalities wishing to step into the future. Its software. package includes a number of programs: general: ledger, accounts payable, taxation, general receipts and utilities, plus 14 other programs. All programs are integrated. At present AAII's package is used by over 140 municipalities and municipal depart- ments such as western gas co-ops, school divisions and ,provincial municipal affairs departments. AAA's smallest client has a population of 175, .and its largest 15,000. Itis -not however,,a retail computer store. It serves ,only;municipalities. The AAII Seafottli office is home to Mr. Parkinson and one computer programmer. Within the next week or so, two more sup- port people Will be hired for the office. 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