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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-04-20, Page 3WORTH WAITING FOR—While In Zine for take-outs at Cavan Church, Winthrop's ham supper Iasi Wednesday, this group waited on the stairs. From the bottom are Kathy Blake; Dianne Campbell; Pam Campbell; Nellie Blake; Edna Shannon; Linda Beuerman and Elsie Beuerman. (Photo by White) 90% of SDHS .students like the semester system More than 90 per cent of the students at Seaforth District High School are in favor of the semester system. according to a recent survey done by the school's principal. Bruce Shaws review of semestering presented) recently to the Huron County Board of Education discovered that students from grades 9 to 13 found advantages in the new system. They included receiving less homework, having fewer courses to concen- trate on. and changing courses halfway through the year. Students commented positively about semesters saving, "Having the same sub- jects each day is great as you are more involved in the subjects" and "Starting the new semester after a short break makes it feel like a new beginning." Another student said. "1 really like the semester system. At my old school 1 had eight subjects a day. 35 minutes each. You don't learn very much in 35 minutes. All of my subjects have improved at this school." Based on the survey and his own observations, Mr. Shaw says- hat the experiment with the semester stem has been a success. The large number of adults returning to school is one indication. "Semestering has encouraged individuals who lack one or two credits for a diploma to return to Classes while still maintaining jobs or caring for families as they realize that their commitment to secondary education may be MMM GOOD—Paul Dolmage sat beside his grandmother, Anna, at the ham and scalloped potato supper in Winthrop Apr. 13. Several sittings enjoyed the meal, sponsored by the UCW of Cavan Church. (Photo by White) THE HURON EXPOSITOR, APRIL 20, 1983 -- A3 McKillop taxes up10 percent McKillop township resi- dents will pay 10 per cent more on their 1983 township portion of their taxes. An average $8,000, 100 acre farm assessment will see an in- crease of $48 over 1982 taxes of $477.28. The final mill rate cannot be struck until . the end of April when the school board budget is released. Township clerk, Marion McClure, said the six [Hill increase on the township portion is lower than the 1982 increase of 9,25 mills. The increase includes $1$,000 for general municipal purposes, A reserve fund of $61500 has been set up for a landfill site. $16,552 has been budgeted for environmental assessment, for costs of ac- quiring a new landfill site and $9,000 in capital expenditure is planned for the Blyth fire department. The 1982 financial report was accepted as prepared by auditors, Monteith, Monteith and Company. The township realized a surplus of $14,646 which was due to interest on tax arrears, investments and the fact that recreation costs were iwdgeted higher than required. The 1982 interest rate was 11/2 per cent per month, compared to 11/4 per cent in 1983. COUNCIL BRIEFS The road voucher of $15,795.15 was approved. The Pollard Bros. Ltd. tender for calcium chloride was approved. The cost for supply, delivery and applica- nun w roads 15 $171.25 per flake ton. Five tile drainage loan applicatiogs atnounting to $57,215 of the total estimated cost of the work was ap- proved. No appeals were received at the court of revision for the Nash municipal drain. Parker and Parker Ltd. were award- ed the tender of $3,664.50 to construct the closed drain. The tender of Frank Kling Ltd. of $3,674 was approved for the Eckert municipal drain. There were no appeals at the court of revision concerning the open drain. No appeals were received concerning the Lawrence and Box Municipal drains. The tender for the open portion of the drain was 'awarded to Opening tickets are scarce Plans have been pretty well finalized for the official opening of the new Seaforth and District Community Cen- tres on Saturday. June 4. Opening chairman, Ken Coleman, says the ribbon cutting will be done during the afternoon program. '.Tickets for the official opening barbecue and dance went on sale Mar. 30. "We apologize to anyone who's had a problem getting tick- ets.'Mr. Coleman says. Tickets were allotted to the Live participating municipali- ties according to their per- centage involvement in the project. they are being distributed by those who canvassed for the arena fund. "We wanted to be sure everyone who nail a chance to buy tickets before throwing the sale open to the general public," Mr. Coleman ex- plains. Tickets are pretty well sold already. but Mr. Coleman says donors who haven't been approached are urged to call him at 527-0398 or -0120 or ticket chairman, Kevin Kale at 345-2908 right away if they want to attend the barbecue. Bylaw authorizes lease of building Seaforth council passed a bylaw at its Although the fire siren atop the town hall is Apr. 12 session authorizing a lease between not sounding temporarily because of wiring the town and Smith Construction for a new' adjustments, the firemen feel the siren is public works building necessary, the mayor reported. Pagers for The lease, on a 4,800 square foot building individual firemen are now in operation and now under construction in the industrial the department hopes to have the siren, park, runs for three years. The town will pay which alerts the whole town, back in $1,000 a month and has an option to renew operation soon. the lease in 1986 for another three years. The fire department's new tanker mal - The new firehall, also in the industrial functioned during a test run, also on Apr. 5, park, is now home to the. Seaforth fire to a tune of $2.000 in damages, the mayor department, mayor Alf Ross reported to reported. The matter is still under investi- council. The firemen moved in on Apr. 5. gation, he said. for just half a year," he says. Mr. Shaw outlines other benefits as the number of students from outside of Seaforth attending SDHS and the opportunity for students to pick up courses they have failed without really "losing" a year. The survey also shows that 83 per cent of the parents and 79.1 per cent of the teachers are in favour of the system. The teachers have found that they enjoy seeing the students each day especially because students are more interested and attentive and have shown a marked improvement in learning. Parents are also pleased with the higher marks and greater interest in school shown by their children. A better balance between hard and easy subjects, a lower exemption mark and more notice for test and assignments are some of the suggestions students and parents made to improve . semestering. Teachers also showed concern that students who miss classes for long periods of time because of weather conditions, illness or school activi- ties may have difficulties catching up to the rest of the class. Results of the survey were included in a newsletter which was sent to the parents of SDHS students. Although no public meeting is planned to discuss the results. Mr. Shaw says that a meeting could be organized before the end of April if parents feel that one is necessary. Lost property, old street lights to be auctioned off An auction of property that's been turned into the Seaforth police department and never been claimed will be a feature of the Business Improvement Area's (BIA) May 6 and 7 promotion. Council last week suggested Chief Hal Claus add the police auction to the other activities the BIA plans. in addition, the public works department will dispose of 40 old street lights through the BIA auction. Councillor Paul Ross, the town's rep to BIA reported the group hopes to have two auctioneers operating on Main St. during the Spring Fever promotion. The BiA discussed asking council to remove parking meters from Main St.. as was done in Clinton recently but didn't make a decision. councillor Rots said. Removing the meters cnuld cause problems if merchants themselves started taking up Main St. parking. he added. The BIA is also discussing some capital expenditures, such as perhaps developing a park in the old Hessen Haus location on Main St., the councillor said. The group will talk to the county planning department about lona range planning downtown. Councillor Ross confirmed with council that interest on money raised through the special BiA levey belongs to the BIA and said there's some dischssion about admit- ting businesses outside BIA boundaries to the group, if they pay a flat membership fee. Past postmaster Orville Oke dies Continued from page 1 The late Mr. Oke was a member of the Seaforth Lions Club. serving as president in 196- and 1%8 and was district governor of the club in 19'1 and 1972. He was a member of Britannia Masonic Lodge 1'0 AF and AM and was a past master, As well, he was past grand superintendent of the Royal Arch Masons. Huron District: a member of St. Elmo Preceptory. Stratfoid„lithe Mocha Temple Shrine Club, LondSi�v and the Bluewater Shrine club. Mr. Oke was a director of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. He was a member of Northside United Church and the Seaforth branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. Friends were received at the Whitney Riney Funeral Home. Seaforth, where the Lions. Britannia Lodge and the Legion each held memorial services on Friday night. Largely attended funeral services Saturday at 2 p.m. were conducted by his minister. Rev. .lames G. Vanslyke. Cremation followed. As expression of sympathy, donations may be made to the Seaforth Lions Park and Pool fund. CARRYING'CAREFULLY—Young Lindsay Anderson had a piece of pie carefully perched on top of other food at the Cavan United Churchtsupper last week. She was helping her mom take out dinner for the family. (Photo by White) Council briefs Council agreed to a request from the Seaforth Community Hospital board that the town representative be appointed fora term that corresponds to the SCH June annual meet- ing. The SCH rep like most otter council appointments now is named in December. If it can he worked out, Sehf2rth'will join. the "other four owners of the new Seaforth and District Coni- nutnity Centres in a two page ad in the souvenir hook for the June 4 official opening. "We did it jointly: it's a good idea to recognize that jointly." said councillor Martin. Mayor Ross reported from PUC that the utility will seal the old Peerless well in the former firehall and that the watermain on County Rd. 12 will have to be either raised or lowered during construction on the road. The PUC and public works are working together -when excavations are done in town. Reeve Campbell compli- mented the press on its WaterY ualit guidelines too q tough, Huron officials tell environment ministry BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE Water quality guidelines for waste disposal sites are too severe for small rural sites Huron County municipal officials told representatives of the Ministry of the Environment. At the Huron County Municipal Officers' Association annual meeting on April 13 Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong said it is her understanding that the water quality level at the edge of the waste disposal site is to be better than drinking water. Reeve Armstrong was speaking to Doug McTavish, director of the London regional office of the Ministry. Mr. McTavish spoke to the group on Regulation 309 in regards to waste disnosal sites. "There is no change in the regulations, but there is a change in how they can be enforced," commented Mr. McTavish, adding that provincial officers can now present a summons to a municipality for an infraction of the regulations where previous- ly they could not. The issue was brought to the forefront late last year when municipalities received letters from the Ministry outlining the penalties handed out for convictions of guideline infractions. But many municipalit- ies are currently developing landfill site development plans which have to be submitted to the Ministry by July 1 and facing difficulty in meeting the guidelines. Leona Armstrong Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong has been named president of the Huron County Municipal Officers' Association. The Association held its annual meeting in the Seaforth and District Community Centres on April 13, hosted by McKillop Townshio. Reeve Armstrong steps up to the position .from second vice-president and takes over the reins from past president Allan Campbell of RR 1, Seaforth. Past first vice-president, Wesley Ball. clerk -treasurer of Howick Township. was unable to take over as president as he is leaving his duties in Howick to take up a Dennis Wilhelm Excavating, Stratford. Tender price was $13.674. The S25 897.82 ten- der of Robinson Farm Drain- age Ltd. of Ailsa Craig was accepted for the closed por- tion of the drain. A petition was received to extend the drainage area on the Canada Company drain. The general voucher of $43,068.43 was approved for payment. complete reporting of county council sessions and said the county road committee, re- sponsible for 368 miles of roads in Huron. had toured them recently. The road com- mittee nut again with farm- ers on the Bruceticld road and "one more will sell (to allow for roadwidening) but it's not 1,00 per j asst yet. Ho' nefutly'by fall.• From LACAC. councillor Russ reported that architect .john Brock had presented some Main St. heritage dis- trict drawings for information only. At the new arena. council- lor.lohnston said, roller skat- ing will he in full swing Sunday. Tuesday and Friday and possibly Saturday after- noons. Floor hockey has been introduced on Thursdays and soccer practises arc being held itt 11tc arena until playing fields dry up. Frons the hospital board. Joan Parkinson reported Eby letter than the quiet room is now in operation and a telephone hook-up with Uni- versity Hospital allows expert reading of elcctrncarctio• grams. La Leche League in Huron County South welcome all interested women to their Meeting Thursday. April 28. 8 p.m. at 260 Charchiil-Drive, Exeter. Topic of dt'cussion will be nutrition and weaning For more information call Janis Bisback 262-3505. Mistaken identity One of last week's photo- graphs of the annual Optimist canoe race incorrectly identi- fied Robin Novak as Sybil Miller. At first glance. when the photo was printed. sev- eral people here said,.'Hcy. that's Sybil Miller." After the Expositor was pnblished, someone who had been a spectator at the canoe race saw the mistaken iden - tity. Sybil was in the race. representing the Optimist club. but she was silting in the bow of the canoe. not in the stern as seen in the photo. Our apologies. Ken Campbell named a PC delegate There were over 100 party members in attendance as the Huron -Bruce PC riding association recently elected its delegates to the upconting leadership convention in .lune The senior delegates are Elmer Bell of Exeter, Ken Campbell,. pfRRI. Dublin, Mary -Doti[ elty ul' lodcrich, 'ata Mary _Bcns)rll tt� Wingham. ' The Young Progressive Conservatives (YPC) elected from the riding are, 'Teresa Donnelly of Goderich and Bernie Haines oi' RR4 Wing - ham. Continued from page 2 out when he tried to dismantle Petro Canada that Canadians aren't such free enterprisers as he thought. John Crosby may find out that Canadians really don't trust American businessmen enough to totally let down the borders and bring free trade between the two countries. We've seen too often where American firms which are supposed to be good Canadian corporate citizens, have been ordered by the U.S. Government to help institute American foreign policy. And in a nation that is already made up of a majority of people who have little control over their lives through working for someone else and living as tenants in somebody else's homes, Canadians may not want to become renters of their own country too. Yet there seems to be little choice but a right-wing swing for the Conservatives, Only Joe Clark and, David Crombie represent moderate, centrist views of the leadership contenders. Mr. Clark seems unlikely to be able to stand up to the fact he's already had a crack at the leadership and few give Mr. Crombie a chance. The Tories just may end up with a right-wing leader just at the time the rest of the world is moving back toward the political centre. And the Liberals. picking their leader after the Tories, may win again. Mr. McTavish said the landfill site does have an effect on the water quality arotnd a landfill site. Reeve Armstrong said the intent of the water quality control is good, but the Ministry has to be more flexible for small sites. In her township's case, the Water on the edge of the site does not meet ministry guidelines but the closest well is over a mile away and there have never been any complaints of water contamination. Water quality guidelines were not the only concern of Huron municipal officials. Burning on landfill sites was also raised. "The residents don't mind, but (Ministry) inspectors say we have to cut if off," commented Stanley Township Reeve Paul Steckle. Mr. McTavish said the Ministry has no rules about burning at such sites, but there are guidelines to follow, such as considering weather conditions, segregating plastics and rabbet items and having fire permits (specifically in Northern Ontario and some municipalities in Southern Ontario). He added the Ministry wouldn't stop municipal- ities from burning refuse unless there are complaints or inspectors notice any infringe- ments of regulations. "We legally can't (prevent burning) unless there are complaints," stated Mr. McTavish. Reeve Steckle called for the Ministry to consider each landfill site on its own merit. heads HCMOA similar position in Flos Township in the ( ounty of Simcoe. Other executive members include: Stanley Township Reeve Paul Steckle as first vice-president, Exeter clerk -treasurer Eliza- beth Bell as second vice-president, Tucker - smith Reeve Robert Bell as one-year director. Hullett Reeve Toni Cunningham as two-year director, Morris Township clerk Nancy Michie as three-year director and Huron County clerk -treasurer William Han- ley as secretary -treasurer. The 1984 association meeting will be hosted by Grey Township at the Brussels arena. GREY AND McKILLOP—Grey Township "eeve Leone Armstrong will head the Huron County Municipal Officers' Association for 1983-84. Mrs. Armstrong (right) takes over the position from Allen Campbell (left), former reeve of McKlllop Township. The association meets once a year for a day -long series of seminars. 1