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The Huron Expositor, 1975-02-27, Page 14 M adreen Ann Ryan daughter' of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ryan, R.R.2, Dublin, graduated from R.N.A. School in London, as a Registered Nursing Assistant and is presently on 'the staff of Seaforth Community Hdspital. CENTENAIRES GOAL — It looks good but Seaforth Centenaires lost their fifth game with Tavistock Tuesday night. The series stands at Seaforth 3,Tavistock 2., One of Seaforth's three goals (Puck is in left side of net) in Tuesday night's game. Tavistock scored 3 goals in the thirtperiod to Win 5 - 3. (Staff Photo) New column starts this week ssessment for separate. schools up, board finds ear a out station b STRANGE FEBRUARY 'WEATHER — It was very stormy iii town laSt Thursday when the Expositor Photographer took this photo on Main Street - typical. February weather. But by the weekend, mild temperatures had set in and Monday was one of the .,„.. „.,4 .•.•_,..—....,..at.. balmiest February days on record. By press time Wednesday, thmigh, winter was back in the area again and biasses were Cancelled at many local. IWO-- schools. (Staff •14116tO). SEAFORTMCGIRLS IN HOCkEY SEMI FINALS — The Seaforth girls hockey team 'meets Clinton' in the first game of their semi finals here on Sunday at 4:30,. The girls team is made Op of , Left back , Colleen "Murray, Marlyn Murray, 'Mary Beth Downey, Barb Malone y,4: Lauri Sayauge, Cheryl -Seymour, Pat Flannagan, Barb Chesney, and front, Coach, Ginette Nast), Cathy Coombs, Mary To restore kitchen Theresa Nash, Marg, Sills, Deb. McClure, Tracy Baker, Cheryl McClure, Susan •Beuermani and Trainer, Gord Carnochan. When the photographer entered the arena all the girl's dropped gloves and • sticks and made an exit to the dressing room. This marked the first time an Expositor Hockey picture was delayed so the team could brush its hair. (Staff Photo) Van'Egmond Foundation fund rais . rp, Whole No., 5581 116th Year , • 'THE HURON, EXPOSITOR, TH6RSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1975' SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. — 16 PAGES 11P Insurance costs -.up. 3 4,/9 $14,0e., IrOarirrlOieittle0 , Single copy 4 cene§ HPRCSS Daycare •grou question minister in 'Toronto,' Members of Seaforth's Day given money by the'province to Card Committee, • .Mayor Betty construct a whole new building at CArdno ana Town Clerk Erne,si a cost of $100,000. The new . Williams will meet ,next Friday, (Continued from Pagel); • March 7, with the Ontario Minister of Social and Coftmlunity Services., Rene Brunelle in . Toronto. , . Day Care Chairman Sharon Rau said the mayor had requested the meeting with the minister because the group wants to know why the.Seaforth Day Care Centre proposal. , djd , not receive provindial funding. The group is upset 'because work has been underway to get a •Da.3', "Care Centre here for almost two years, Seaforth . was at work,, long before the 100% subsidy for Day Care facilities was announced in October„ on preparing a submission under the province's normal 'aikto day care program Mrs,Rau said, unlike other groups in the area who "Jumped on the. band wagon" when the 100% subsidy was announced and did receive funding under the special program. Meetings about a Day Care Centre here' have been going on since early in 1'974 and the local Day Care Committee was named by Seaforth's Town council early in August.' The group capriot understand why their submission was .turned down while a submission from Vanastra, where the Day Care Centre Comm was named just a month ago bY--- Tuckersmith Council, was given funding. -The group has heard, that the Wingham bay Care Centre, Which applied for money to renovate the second floor of their already -.existing centre, , were .11 The Huron-Perth Roman Catholic Separate. School board approved payment of 'insurance premiums for 1975.which' will cost 34.6 per cent more than last year, at their meeting Monday'night in Seaforth, The Board learned from Finance and Insurante mittee chairman Ron Marcy of Stratford that increases in Work- men's Compensation (up .68 per .10 cent from last year) and property insurance premiums (up 38.9 per cent) account for most of the' increase. The boahl's total annual insurance premium is $16,591.68 up more than $4,000 from 1974. The coverage, for vehicle, property, liability, accident 'and workmen.ls compensation Insurance . was renewed through Leeson-Killer Insurance • Ltd, Stratford. Dublin trustee-Francis Hicknelt commented that he had thought the total insurance costs might have dropped, since the board last year had insurance on an old house in Stratford which has since been torn. down. "The price of lumber is down from last year too", he said. . '0 -HPRCSS Business Adminis- trator, Jack Lane said that .the property insurance provides for full replacement value of most of the buildings, no matter what the cost. The building would not necessarily have to be replaced in its same location, he said. Mr. Lane pointed out that the board again has $2 million i School liability insurance and sa' that this coverage was wi e considering that a board in BC which had illy $1 , -milli° -in liability insurance was sued successfully recently for $1,5 million, the highest award ver in Canada. The board, also on the ecom- mendation of its institan • and finance 'committee, agreed to Pay a premium of $93.94 fo addi- tional insurance to cover aying auditors' fees should a bo d loss occur. The motion passed 3 with one abstention. The Catholic Paren Teacher Association at Mo t Carmel School were given p rmissipn to install and maintai .layground equipment in the schoo d, at ,no cost to the boar ar The equipment, shown .to trustees in 1 detailed sketches whiCh accompanied . the CPTA's request, will include 'a balance log and beam, two chin bars, a stepping post, a log ladder, a Cement pipe and a tire swing. The board's bylaw committee will report at the next meeting on a number of revised policies and on how the board will meet the P Department of Education's new requirements for open school board meetings. Howard Shantz of the board's negotiating committee said that. teacher negotiations have started with the next meeting set for March 5. Mr. Shantz, who • attended the recent Ontario School Trustees conference in Toronto said he felt that the ti majority ' of the trustees who attended supported the OSTC's stand on salary /negotiations to the extent of holding up negotia- Restoration work is well underway at the 19th Century Van Egmond House in Egmond- ville. Work on the main part of the house is going so well that the the CBC radio. network. Some of these are 'long and serious programs for shows like IDEAS. CONCERN, FIVE NIGHTS, but many are short, human interest interviews for THIS Country in the morning, FRESH AIR and for the sports features program REBOUND. . Mr. Schuessler .holds short seminars in writing, public speaking, listening and leader- ship. He has conductsd these seminars at the Ministry of Education. Ministry of Labour. 'The Civil Service, Canadian General Electric: Equitable Life and Dominion Life Assurance Company. • He has just finished leading a seven week discussion group at the Mississauga Library in "Searching for Values" -- a look at our attitti.des and ethical standards. The Schuessler family lives in-a country .church on, the east edge of Brodhagen. Most people in the district know this old yellow brick German Baptist Church as Pete Hinz's Hall". Many will recall attending parties and dances and wedding receptions there in the past. Doug Machan of Mitchell remodelled the church four years ago. Mr. Schuessler, his wife Mary Jane and daughters Laura, 18 and Sarah, 10 live .there, now. Van Egmond Foundation has decided to go ahead with return- ing the kitchen of the house to its post 1860 shape. This will involve replacing modern windows„ Sons S. Luther, 21 attends the University .of Western Ontario where he is studying law; Philip 20. works as an insurance adjuster in Kitchener, AMEN started seven years ago in' the Mississauga Times, At that time Mr. Schuessler was a clergyman in Mississauga. The column is still published in that newspaper as well as the Oakville Journal Record. AMEN ran for two years in the' Stratford Beacon • Hepald. And now AMEN comes close to home in the Huron Expositor an'd the Brussels Post. Two win 125 in car club draw Seaforth Lions Club drew two more ,lucky tickets in Car Drtcy #5. The winners were: 1-Doreen Johnston, Jon :Street: 2. K.A. Scott, Brucefield. ' Each won $25.00. There are eleven more tickets to be drawn between now and next Semptember 6 when the grand draw for a new carWill take place. tions if OSTC were to agree to do so,. He said he did not quite agree with Huron Board of Education negotiating Chairman, Cayley Hill's .assessment of the conference. !CIL, Hill. and fellow trustee Herb Turkheim said at the Hurop ,Board Meeting last week that they diSliked the attitude of the OSTC. • • 1*,vir. Shantz said that policy questions would be coming to the local board from OSTC before any resolutions were formulated. The board will wait until the next meeting to consider a bill from the Town of. Goderich for storm sewer charges there of $I ,349..34, Rend inethe-results .of an appeal by a property owner in the area. Brick between the new addition and the old school at St. Patrick's, Kinkora, will be Closely matched as a result of the'bOard's decision to issue a work order to architects Kyles; Kyles -and Garratt for $479. Existing brick' will be removed back to a window in the old building and brick closely matching the new addition will be put in. Ennis Murphy, principal of the Kinkora school,. atterided, .the 'meeting as an observer. Ted Blowes of 'Stratford North' estern School will be authorized contact Stratford Sera'rate hOol principals to, arrange the anticipation of students in an rbbr Week Tree planting and clean up on April 25. AMEN starts this week in the Huron Expositor and the Brussels Post. We thought you'd like to know who writes AMEN and what he's trying to say in this weekly column. AMEN takes a light look at life right here where it's happening. That can mean the barn. the garden. the kitchen, .the town dump, an auction sale, a tennis court, the theatre, the highway. • Main Street, the church, the class room, the office. Wherever you. live. • AMEN makes no attempt to be profoundly religious, profoundly philosophical, profoundly rele- vant to social and political problems.' In fact it makes no attempt to be profelindly any- thing. 4- In some columns it's only one man's point of view. Or it may be everyman's. Whether it.matches or scratches yours. AMEN welcomes your response in letters to the editor. Karl Schuessler Was in the parish ministry of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod for ten years. lie's earned a -Bachelor of Divinity from Knox College, University of Toronto. He now is a freelance writer, broadcaster arid lecturers He prepares documentaries for Car stolen while police at fight stripping the,floor, taking down a wooden ceiling and restoring the large kitchen fireplace. ' The Foundation is launching a fund raising campaign, according to treasurer David Ring, to help finance the restoration and so that the roof abOve the kitchen cam be repaired. "The'plaster will have to be replaced and a leak proof root is necessary to protect it,- Mr. Ring said. The roof will have to be shingled with cedar shakes. which are quite. expensive he said. The Foundation has so far raised more-than $5.000: The Ontario Heritage Foundation has., provided a 'grant of $7,000 and will donate $7,000 more once the, local Foundation raises $7,000. The Van Egmond Foundation needs only about $1,800 more before they qualify for the additional $7.000 grant, Mr. Ring said.. The Foundation can also qualify for a $5,000 museums grant from the provinc$ci0f0t0he:1•, can raise an 'additional 5, their own. Donations can he sent to Mr. Ring, the Foundation's treasurer. in Set4orth. In addition to their reques.r for • donations. the Foundation has planned a series of fund raising events. ,These include card parties to be held in private homes every week or two, when each guest contributes $1. to the Foundation.' It is hoped that guests at each card party ,w ill then host card games in their own homes, with a different group of guests contributing $1. each. Two people host each card, party. One providces the lunch and the house; the other invites the guests. e hostel is not supposed to know fi identity of her guests ‘unti ;they arrive according to Bett.. Card°. of the Foundation's Whys and' Means Committee. The Foundation is planning a dance at the arena in Seaforth on April 19. Tickets are availabll from Foundation members andfat . the' Huron' Expositor. Samples of woodwork, paint and wallpaper which were taken from the downstairs rooms of the Van Egmond house by the restoration crew ,have been returned from the Royal Ontario IVViiWum in Toronto where they were sent for analysis, Mr. Ring said. The evidence shOws that the woodWork in the house had been covered with a grained (Continued on Page 10) 'Assessment figures tabled' at theHuroU Pertn Roman ,Catholic Separate School board meeting in Seaforth Monday night showed assessment for.. 1975 taxes for separate school purposes up from last year i'n all but four Huron Perth municipalities. The total increase was $564,711 over the two counties. The biggest dollar increase (per capita figures were not given) was in St rat ford, the largest municipality. Fullat'ton and Logan Townships and the Town of Eeter also showed hehithy dollar The growth of'one of Canada's smallest T.V.Station from a local amateur radio transmitter of fifty years ago to a sophisticated television operation was recalled Monday night when Ross Hamilton, a former member of the Club talked to the Seaforth Lions Club. Now general manager of CKNX radio and T.V„ Mr. Hamilton was increases of above $30,000. In Seaforth the assessment for separate school purposes was up $27,515. followed by Tuckersmith at $26,025. The Goderich assessment increased only by $9,303. Clinton by $15,675 and Zurich by $9,415. Wingham was up 6,355, Hibbert Township's assessment increased by $1,685, while McK.illop's was up $1-6.055. In Grey Township, the assessment for separate school purposes rose $5,470 for a total assessment of $124,135. Dublin Ions While ' Seaforth police constables were investigating a fracas at an SDHS dance Friday night, their police car disappeared and shortly, after was discovered abandoned behind the Community Centre. ' The car, which was recovered shortly after a student reported it had been taken, had been left outside the school With the keys in it while the offic8rs went inside to check reports of a fight at the dance. • • Henry Groothius of Seaforth pleaded guilty Mohday.. morning, in provincial court at Goderich to taking the police car and was fined $200, Constabies -David Dale and Fred Burton found a crowd of 75 to 100 people watching a, fight outside the high school when they arrived Friday night and another fight was in progress. inside the school. The officers broke up the fights and diffused a potentially dangerous situation, Police Chief John Cairns said. Chargesfare pending _following an investigation of both fights, the chief said. he added that SDHS principal Lawrence Plumsieel had said there will be" no more school dances this year. introduced by Wayne Ellis and thanked by Robert Spittal who recalled the speaker as a lanky youth in the years before the war when Mr. Spittal had been a bank manager in Wingham. — Mr. Hamilton recalled the • contribution the late W-.T.Doe Cruickshank had made in bringing radio and T.V. to Huron 'Continued on Page 10) trustee Francis Hicknell commented that the assessment ip Grey is away up from. 1969 when the board was,,formed. ( • The assessment in Brussels'is- $6,080 . all residential. There was no residential assessment in Brussels in 1973 for separate school support. North Easthope in Perth County and Bayfield. Usborne and West Wawanosh in Huron are the four municipalities that , have had a decrease in assessment for separate, school support.