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The Huron Expositor, 1975-05-01, Page 10• west elevation PLANS FOR ARENA RENOVATIONS — More change room and toilet facilities will be added if planned renovations to the Seiforth Community Centre are carried out as planned. The addition that is proposed will be to the north of the present building. It is represented in the shaded section of the diagram. ' (Staff Photo) for 180 people and if a hockey game is going on at the same time, which often happens, the teams use the two dressing rooms. This often leaves as many as 600 people with the two inside toilets and the one outside. He said after the Tuesday night meeting that it was a question of "How long do you want to stand in line?" He said it was suggested the arena needed 16 johnny-on-the- spots for the .Guy Lombardo dance, It's a shame to make people in long gowns and formals run outside to 'outhouses. The plan also proposes the rebuilding of four wooden fire escapes which he said are "rotting away". Also the plan provides a storage room for roller skates, a room for the director of recreation and a whole new heating system. Mr.' Bennett said during the Tuesday night.meeting that costs as outlined in the architect's report could be trimmed (fowl. He said the report estimates the cost of door knobs 4t $30- and already they know Other places where they can save inoney. 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Send in your, entry now to 4 Aaron (fxpeteiter' Box 69 Seafoith, Ont. [NOTE: Entries inusi be received not 'Wei than May 16th, 19751 11-,"'"?'"^7,•-•^1, sITQR, NI1AY 1, 1975 ing„ hewt lagu arena change it, I Znow, I'm on council." Right now it's up to the Arena Committee when it will present a motion to council to endorse the plan. Committee Chairman and councillor William Bennett said he didn't know yet when the proposal would be !presented to council for approval. He said no public meetings haile been held to determine public support for the arena plan. ,Before submitting the plan to council, he said, the committee wanted 'to get the feeling of the towftships. province providing about $9,600 in grants for the structural work. Mr. Williams said the council preferred to repair and renovate hesause the cost of a new arena wa ettiMated at $500,000 to $600,000 at that time. This was tot more than the cost of repair estimated then at about $120,000. The interior of the ice rink area is now being painted for the addition to the 25 year-okt ,Centennial and was to be building. completed by Saturday. The last estimate of the cost of Arena Manager Roy McGonigle predicted "there would be lots of discussion before the arena plans went through." George Hildebrand of Hihiebrand Paint and Paper - was ' The history of the arena plan! helping with the work on Monday was explained by the former town add said there are "no plans to They plans for Seaforth's arena hang on' a wall in council's h arn era. , In the fall of last year, council suggested the arena committee appoint an architectural firm to Kepeze plan. The plan outlined by Kyles, ' :Kyles & Garrett of Stratford was. 'finished early this year and proposes the construction of ,an implementing the proposal was S289,000. This includes the architectural firm's fee which is a percentage of the actual cost of construction. Clerk, Ernest Williams who said only a general guideline was given to the architectural firm. The firm was to determine what space was available and was 'told to bring the arena up to "present standards," he said, Mr. Williams said it was "common knowledge" thaTeethe hockey teams were too crowded and the number of 'dressing rooms too few. Inspection of a lady's dressing room on the lower floor showed it contained only one closet-like room with a toilet, one sink in the dressing room and long nails in ' place of coat racks. Mr. Williams said council was told by the county health unit that the number of washrooms was far below the health requirements and if nothing was done, it would become "more insistent." He said: "I don't know when council will deal with it" but said it would depend on how council divided up the tax dollar. Mr. Williams said plans to change the arena started in 1972 ,but because of the cost, nothing was done. He said: "In the past year, the problem has become • more urgent," and he recommended an engineering report be done to determine the safety of the building. Late in 1973, the report was finished and recommended the building be demolished since it said snow conditions could result in a serious overload on building. The report recognized the possibility of reinforcing the structure and this was done last summer, Mr. Williams said. The reinforcement of the arena cost $79,404 and was repaired to meet the standards of the Ministry of Labor with the (Continued from' Page 1) facts about the m:oblems it has been facing." Mayor Cardno asked those present if it would be better to get the surrounding townships involved in the decision-making process and ask for them to help fund the arena. If agreeable, surrounding townships could also get 25 per cent of the,amount they spend on the arena. Rec director Clive Buist and Councillors Charles Campbell felt this could mean long delays and felt it was perhaps better not to stir things up. Councillor Campbell said he felt council would have more success if it went ahead with the project and then tried to get funding based on the present method. It was finally decided to arrange an informal get together this summer to inform the surrounding township councillors of the situation, Clerk Robert Franklin said the town was "actually in good shape as far as" debenturing goes." It has no debentures except the one coming up for the structural repair of the arena last summer. Chairman of the Arena Board, William Bennett chaired the meeting and Lloyd Rowatt, Chairman of the Recreation Committee also attended. Mr. Bennett said 'Tuesday morning "the whole thing could fall through." Its future depends on the' participation of surrounding townships and on the province's grant system, he said. The arena plans which were completed in March by an architectural firm suggests an addition to the 25 year-old arena. The proposal also calls for the construction of more washroom facilities and dressing rooms.' Mr. Bennett said "there are certainly not enough." The . plan calls for the installation of 13 toilets and 10 Urinals. Presently there are six tOilett lit the arena —one upstairs, biieln-taeli of the four dressing- ' reeritt, ,two of Which are for players Unit One .cititside:toilet, if there'll§ a dance Upstairs, he •aaid, there may be hely one toilet New New curriculum guidelLines from the Ministry., 9t. 0340 Ott n ftete Grade 1 • 6 dOn't, seem, to differ much in emphasis frOnt the i student centred philosophy now being stressed in the schools, hut the Ministry wants to malte sure that parents and teachers understand that philosophy and a aelp, to get it implemented in the schools, Superintendent 4oSeph Tokar told trustees of the Huron Perth Roman Catholic separate school board Monday night. Mr. Tokar, who attended a Ministry presentation on the new guidelines in Stratford last Tuesday, said the emphasis is on "providing a meaningful learning experience to all the children in a given teacher's charge." Stress'is away from content or course emphasis in favour of the growth and development of a child as a person, he said. The Ministry wants "to make sure, he said, that the guidelines are not just handeout but that their intent is transmitted to the learning activities in the classroom. The Ministry think that six to ten years would be a realistic time limit for the guidelines to be implemented. The guidelines stress continuous progress and teacher made decisions, with some student participation. Student evaluation would be on-going, a co-operative effort between teacher and student. Individual and group wo4 wintid evenly share the school day rarnsainid. g and, the system would be evenly subject and process centrOd,, Mr. T involve going out from -the school into the community. The program will be evaluated by superviiory officials and school staffs, he said. Mr. Tokar said the guidelines are not a radical departure but do make a concerted effort to make people aware bf the philosophy behind what is going on in the schools and to show teachers how they can implement it: The Ministry provides a broad set of objectives, he said. Boards can make these more specific and individual schools'canflesh these out. "What happens in two Grade 5 classes may be very different, for example". But with the extensive exposure to parent groups of the philosophy behind this kind of education, parents may accept these differences, Mr. Tokar said. "I thought there Was going to be a , return to the basics", Stratford trustee Ron Marcy, a secondary school ,teacher said. "And there's nothing about that in this philosophy." A survey of the province has proved that there has not been a departure from the basics, Mr. Tokar replied.There will be more focus on communication and on making the goals of the program clearly understood, he said. - There is a need, Mr. Tokar said, for a fourth basis, the social emotional growth of the child, Too often in the past a focus he content has ignored this and , "zero has happened to hiirU 'as a person." Mr. Tokar said the main document on the junior ,curriculum will be presented at a conference at Talisman Lodge in. Flesherton, June 3 - 6. School boards are invited to send consultants to the meeting, hut since the HPRCSS has no generalist consultant, it will send two principals, Mr. Tokar said. Gary Birmingham of St. Aloysius, Stratford and LarrY Cook of St. Marys, Goderich, will attend. Board Chairman David Teahen of Stratford wondered why principals and not administrators would attend the conference. The Ministry prefers that people who will be involved in the day to day implementing of the program, consultants or principals, attend, Tokar replied. The HPRCSS rep. on the province's Education Week committee, Sam Alberico, wide 1 planning! for Education • • • Tt4stqes though wore, ,more interested Itt :the local picture. "Do all schools (in the system) participate or is it law miss?", trustee Howard • e'SbAVO of Stratford wanted to know,' Director • ofEducation John Vintar said that Mr. Alberico keeps the principals informed and their own Education Week Activities are up 0,, theta. A questionnaire is going-bet to all the schools to find out 'What went on in Education Week hererhe said. Mr. Alberico said that the • Kiwanis Music, Festival cuts into Education Week festivities in the Stratford schools. In spite of, a suggestion from trustee Shantz that the motion was premature, board members approved the use of St. Ambrose School in Wingham for a sumrder school., on religiotijronr July 21. 25.' Father Nolan of Wingham is organizing the school. Mr. Shantz suggested waiting •v Prin9lpal pf Si‘:Miclittel'S School, until Trustee Artnce Youtii3; ;she • Stratford rePOrtetl on the .Ontario was not •at the meeting, could report ort his talk' With,Father ,Nolan before approVing the use'pf the school. lie wondered about 25 - 3Q pupils needing the whole school arid said a change in dates' could conflict with the caretakee,s plans for cleaning the school,. St. Columban area trustee,% Francis' Hicknell reported on' a seminar on Grades, 9 and 10 in separate schobls that he attended ' at the recent .OSSTA convention. There' are fewer pupils per teacher in the public than in the Separate Grades 9 and 10, he said. Experts report no. difference in pupils who leaVe a separate school after Grade 8 or Grade 10, "We don't have enough students to run Grades 9 and 10 feasibly here, I don't think," he said. "But the ones that have it are happy with it." Mr. Vintar commented that while Grades 9 and 10 in the public school system get secondary school grants, the two grades in the separate system get elementary level grants.