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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-10-04, Page 23A MONEYMAKING VENTURE Members of the Seaforth Girls Marching Band had a flea market table at Sunday's Ciderfestt Y a moneymaking Project they hoped would add totheir fund to traver to Florida, later next spring. (Expositor Photo) • Countycoon OKAY, 'SO WHAT'S, ALL THE EXCITEMENT • ABOUT. —Young • Brendan Nash of R.R,5, Seaforth obviously wasn't too excited about the bargains offered on flea market .tables at Sunday's Ciderfest. After all, a fella has to get, his rest! (Expositor' Photo). THE LUCKY WINNER Susan White. of R.R.1, Dublin was the lucky winner of the patch work velvet quilt, raffled off by the Van Egmond. Foundation, Here Grace Hussey .of the group 9 P Presents Susan White' with her new . quilt' following Sunday's 's successful Ciderfest activities. (Expositor Photo), Bd. of Ed:. Approves, hall . The Huron county, agreement we may as. board of education isallwell not have a building," for a Goderich township said committee chairman recreation facility on Don McDonald: board property provided . The Brussels:. trustee• it doesn't cost the board said he felt it was the any money, board's duty to draw up a The board gave firm agreement spelling Goderich township the go out who was 'responsible ahead to survey the for what, Holmesville 'School Exeter ' trustee property for the proposed Clarence McDonald hall but made it clear it asked if the management had no intention of paying: committee made it clear for ,any part of the sur- that after the building Vey, The board was asked, by township council to consider permitting the proposed hall on board.. property adjacent to the • elementary school. By doing so the board could take advantage of ' facilites the hall 'offered and the township could tie into services now used by the school. • The board agreed to the survey after its management committee reported that it was necessary to determine exactly where the proposed building would go and how it would affect the school. ' ' The committee also told the board there are several details yet to be worked out with the township pointing out that long before any construction starts that agreement Should be drawn up. "If we don't have an BY JEFF SEDDON Huron county- council. learned Thursday from the county medical of- ficer of health that the number of abortions carried out in 1978 represents a 75 percent increase in the past five; years. Dr. Brian Lynch told council there were 73 abortions carried out • over half of them on girls. between the. ages of 15 and19. Lynch said 53.4percent of .:the abortions per- formed were on girls 15 to. 19 years of age, 23.3 percent on the. 20 to 24 year old age. group and 23.2: percent on' the over; 25 year old age group. He told council the. number of abortions carried out. ,abortions Y g women concerned, him because of theadverse affect the operation may have on their ability to have children later in their lives: Goderich reeve Eileen Palmer . was the only member . , of council' to respond to, the comments by Lynch poihting out to council: that, if'„those figures were to be reduced there .".has to be • a change in attitude toward, sex' education". Palmer suggested that the change come in the schools,in the county. Lynch agreed with Palmer's comment pointing out that the place to, begin . sex educationfor younger people is prior to their.' •entering high school. He sex education said classes are most effective with younger people: He said he did not know how effective present sex education classes are in the county, but pointed out they are "better than nothing". He said the Huron -Perth Separate School system: operated. BY JEFF SEDDON Fatally and Children Services director John Penn's success wrangling money from a stingy provincial government ministry overshadowed his criticism of the province at Huron county council's • September session Thursday. In his report to council Penn spoke in glowing terms of county council and his agency staff but had few kind words for the provincial govern- ment. His criticism, stemmed from the budget restrictions placed on the Huron agency by the ministry of community cii` hears°. facilities was up- the • board may share some operating costs but wouldpay nothing`. for construction. He said if the board was using the building for students at Holmesville. it Should be prepared to pay but it shouldn't pay to put the building up, McDonald. Said the board would probably cost share caretaking costs for the building but that was all. H &. ;N DAIRY SYSTEMS LTD. Sales, Servlice','8 Installation of, pipelines & milking pad lours R.R.4 WALTON 887-6063 • APPLES Excellent quality • MacINTOSH' *SPARTAN svailribil nota' CRUNICAN BROS. 11/2 miles south Of sishif l id on 04 Highway Ih.JLf': • and social services" He told council the Ministry continues to. " int ease r standards and workload's for local agencies "without, +providing the necessary .resources: to complete the task". He told council the budget: allocation for Huron wag "more =realistic than in former years". He explained that the ministry had made far reaching; changes in the responsibilities: of local agencies, He said the province is decen- tralizing services, and shifting accountability and fiscal responsibility Abortion Cour anexcellent family studies course for pre high school students` adding he was unaware of a similar course for public school students. • He pointed out that one of the problems en- countered in sex. education classes is that it is more fashionable to give information to students rather than work on attitudes. • Lynch said he felt most women were unaware of: illeffects abortions can cause. He said many women regard abortion as convenient and easy. He said the Criminal Code made. abortion illegal, unless it was performed for medical reasons but added: that many doctors are in - u rt to agencies. :across the province. He pointed nut that. one such attempt •to ;abaft accountability lies in the death of a child due to. child abuse. The province has issued numerot 5 guidelines and standards agencies can abide by to, prevent suchtragedies but did not back them up with any money to make them operational. He said that in light .of greater demandsthe ministry• made on agencies the; province gave Huron a meagre 1,5 percent: increase over 1978 spending. He said the Huron increase is the lowest in terpreting social reasons as health reasons.. He pointed out that the • abortions on women from Huron county were performed in other counties. He said .abor- tion was a touchy subject pointing out that if one was performed in a small hospital in Huron there would be a great deal of Odds, n' ends. by EiaineTowrishend' Rrekindergart�n A few weeksago a 'misunderstanding. between the London Board of Education o 'th 1'c and a newspaper reporter led e pubto is believe that attendanceat prekindergarten classes for children four years of age might. become compulsory: The misconception was soon remedied but not before some interesting opinions were expressed. ' The Board was concerned with making prekindergarten available in More areas of the city ' rather than making attendance compulsory,; In fact, a representative clarified that, the required age of entry into the organized:school system is six years. Even kindergarten is not mandatory,. but in recent years, ,it has become an accepted. practice: •If parents• want to keep their five -year' -old child • at home for another year, however, they may do so. Attendance. at 'kindergarten or prekindergarten be- comes compulsory only ` after the parents enroll the child, The pros ,andcons of prekindergarten were discussed on a local radio station. One mother explained that her daughter was an only child and had no playmates her age in the neighbourhood Prekindergarten d agapfor her introducing'h r to new fills e friends and teaching her how to interact with her peers. • Another mother had , two boys:, She enrolled the oldest one in prekindergarten when he was. four -years -old. He enjoyed the experience and she belived he bene- fited from it. However, when he entered. kindergarten he found the experiences similar. to those of prekindergartenand soon became bored.. For that, reason, his mother decided not to send her younger son to prekindergarten. ' A third parentof a four-year-old girl said she would send her daughter to prekinder- garten if the child did not have a younger brother at home, The concensus among parents seemed to be that prekindergarten .is invaluable for 'some children but not all children.. Each child is different: ,Some are ready for an organized type of learning at a • younger age than others. To require all. children to enter the system at the tender age of toter 'would be • unfair, • and fortunately leaders in the field of education. seem to agree: • Society tends to stereotype ;people; but let's hope we continue to give children five or six years to grow and develop on their own before weintroduce them to regi- mentation. The modern educational system 'offers a wider freedom of choice than when I attended school: but the bell still rings to announce the beginningand ending of classes, the beginning and ending of lunch hour and recess and the time to go..home. . Most :children willspend at least fourteen years in, school before •theydecide wheffferto continue on to university which is becoming more of a necessity as years go. by. When they enter the work force, many will punch a time clock and listen for a signal for coffee break, lunch break or the end of a working, day. • Life is exciting, especially for the very young, and I can't helpbut think learning y B 8 begins on the day of birth•andcontinues _g even in ' the most unorganized of at: mospheres" Some 'children will' need an educational system at a younger age than others; The important point for adults to remember is not to push children into :at predesigned stereotype. 1 FOR TER EPOSITS Current Rate up to; ,Voitiable Term See your Credit Union Clinton. Community 1:.::RE DIT U..•,•tN .. , • : ye ONTARIO ST. OSD,TOWN HALL WILDING CLINTON iIXETER 45,34.7 '"t,1IS44M f 'THEf southwestern Ontario adding that some neigh- boring agencies received a 10 percent increase for the same period. "Programs: cannot be operated at a satisfactory level if the resources are not available," he warned council,. "Cer- tainly a 1.5 percent bud8et increase ,falls short of the agency's needs," he added- Penn, said the economic policies: used to finance Family and Children's Services "is a sad commentary on this provincial government's: response to the needs of families and: children in 1979, the International year of the Child". But Penn mellowed his criticism by telling. council he had managed to shuffle workers and his own budget allocations to get around the ministry cuts. He said the agency would suffer a S30,000 deficit in 1979 but ex- plained the deficit was in an area the province would pick up. Penn made no attempt to explain to council how he had beat the ministry funding system saying it. was "complicated and hard to believe".' He saidhe had a guarantee in writing from the province that it .-would pick up the deficit if it was not due to salary. Penn said he was able to shift workload around withinhis salary guidelines adding that his: shifting not only meant the government would pick up the deficit: but would give him another worker next year. • O b1 toBEDARDy r' MARIE ELMIRE (EMILY] Mrs. Marie Elmire (Emily) Bedard of R.R. 2, Zurich, died in Seaforth Community Hospital on Monday, Sept. 24 in, her 82nd year. Mrs. Bedard is the wife of the late Theophile Bedard. She is survived by one son, Rosaire of RR 2, Zurich and two daughters, Albena and Del- ores of RR 2, Zurich and one granddaughter, Linda' Ann, She was predeceased by two` sons; Robert(1968) and Ray- mond (1937) and one infant daughter. Marie (1929). She was also predeceased by two sisters, Mrs. Rose Alma Giroux and Siter Marie Alize (Jesus -Mary Order) and brother,, Arthur Chretien . The body is resting at the Westlake Funeral Home; Zurich, until Thursday,' Sept.: 27: Funeral mass will be held- at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, St. Joseph at 11, a.m. Rev. Father Bensette will officiate. Burial will follow: in Sr. Peter's Roman. • Catholic Cemetery, St'., Joseph 's. 110, EXPOSITOR, OCT He told CQW Cil his success at the economic. game was partially due to success the Huron agency, has enjoyed in preventing: child abuse problems He said the preventitive program here' had reduced the :nue ber of children the agency, had in care by 10 this year He added that recent problems some agencies encountered in child. abuse cases made them "jumpy about leaving kids at home", He said the exact opposite was true in Huron. Penn said the funding problem Huronhad this year was; common amongst the 50, agencies in the province. He said it was .a: constant source of '"frustration and con - 44, 1 �2 .rn"' B ut the director *nada it clear **problem was with the province only. Ile, said 00,1mty :. : CP funds 20, percent, of the Huron agency's work and has always. been "sup- portive of our work". He said in many • counties agencies not only have to contend with financial restraint by the province but is. also forced into confrontation; with local politicians.. He said "'despite fiscal. restrains and increasing pressure upon the agency 1 believe that the board of directors and the staff have done an; excellent job providing a wide range of services to families and children. in Huron county."; MATERNITY WEARThe et. Separate Shoppe MAIN CORNER, CLINTON • PHONE 4I2 -7771I (NEXT TO CAMPBELL'S MEWS WEAR): OPEN 1-4 OPEN; 1--4. INSULATION Up, to $500 government grant, on home. • Sprayed in place Urethane ' • New & Older Homes • Blown Insulations • Agricultural & industrial Bldgs. N. VAN MORSEL IISILATNN UR. R.R. 5 Mitchell 5.19449-9376`' K R� K. PEC • LIANCES APP "hi the..heart'ofdowntoWn.Varna" VACUUM CLEANERS • - sales acid Service of most makes,' * CO RADIOS AND` ACCESSORIES *' SPEED QUEEN APPLIANCES; • '* ' MOFFAT APPLIANCES * . 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