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The Huron Expositor, 1977-03-10, Page 1increase COUNTRY SINGLES FOUNDERS —Thanks to these three ladies, Vicki Horbanuik, left and - Irene Okahashi, both of Clinton, and Betty Cardno of Seaforth, single people in Huron and surrounding,-.-. areas have a• dance of their own that they can go to every Saturday night. About 70 couples who met through the club have been married over the two years Since it started. (Expositor photo) Huron County Board of Education turned down a request from Seaforth town council for support of the town's crossing guard program. Adopting a recornmendation of director of education John Cochrane the board claimed that the , primary responsibility for the safety of pupils crossing highways Jest's with the pupils, their parents and their municipality. ' The town made the request for money at the March board meeting advising board members that it s planned---tcr initiate crossing guards at the elementary • offset the costs for the guaids, primarily 'wages. Mr. Cochrane said the board had adopted a resolution in August of 1975 that set a precedent with regarcl fo-erossing guards. He told the board in his recommendatiOn that prior to that time there were three different • situations in the, county regarding the, employment of crossing guards. The three wereemployed by the board, employment by the municipality and a Shared cam by the municipality and the the the schools. The assistance Was • to board. The resoluti‘on r reduced number of _instances where board participated in crossing guard programs to zero.. Since that tine Wingham and Goderich' have both initiated crossing guard programs without the involvement of the board: In his recommendation to the board the director said that along with the responsibility the municipality has 'with regard• to pupil safety the beard cannot become financial involved in the eireito-Y-friefrtil persons who woric for the miinicipality. WHAT THEY VOATCHING?There Was keen Inter the agyelty.eventS end anOwrnobile redeS Vitt Were held 'in Brodhagen 8aturdaY,as.pait orthe Chambor Of CorriftlerCe'S annual winter dattilval. The carnival had beell,boalpened Once because ,Of bad , weather and although it was cold and windy Saturday a good crowd totiks'parts A dance doped Off -the featiVitlea, Mere ,.h: to and the names of peizo winners are' inside the Expositor. (Expositor Photo). C ' L PORTAGE UP MAIN STREET — Most service club' members will•atranything for their , project and Lloyd EiSler, front and Arnold Stinnissen, rear, are no_exception. The two Optimists portaged up Main st. fro.m Canadian. Tire to the Forge to help promote the foUrth annual Optimist canoe race, starting April 3 from. the Van Egmond House. Tickets on the canoe, which is on display at the Forge, are available now and the draw will be held at the race site. It's the first major canoe . race pf the season and organizers hope the Bayfield River will be navigable by then. (Expositor Photo) r r:4 $11.001 Year in Advance • Single eepy25 cents SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH '10, 1077 -,-26 PAGES Whole No.5687 • '118th Year • • uron B of E (By Len Pizzey) The insistant •beat of a polka Ariffs through air filled with the faint smell' of perfume. •In the centre of the darkened hall, ,couples whirl and swing, carried along with the swift pace of the music. Some talk as they dance, • arid- others- merely smile. At tables arOnnd.,the_aides of ----the •-• dance floor, people sit. sipping quietly at their drinks, watching the dancers. Others talk Intensely to friends and acquaint- ances, heedless of the motldn swirling' by-them. The people range in age from late teens to 70 or more:There are ldng dresses and slacks, men in ties and men in jeans. There is laughter among those who wait at the bar for another drink. And there is a feeling of open friendliness that makes die room seem, sinaller than it ,is. The place is the Seaforth arena, but' he scene would be the same iii .other places on any Saturday night when the Huron' Country Singles get together. ' • Lively Group The Country Singles are a lively group,' and none who come to the dances are livelier than the three women who started the club and who remain its guiding lights. Betiy Cardno, Irene Okahashi 'and.Vicki Horbanuik started the group a little over two years ago.. They had tried a few of the singles dances in London, and as Betty Cardno explaids. "We got fed up with going all the way down there, so we thought We'd start our own." It took a lot of work and a lot of energy, but the three approached the Challenge with the same combination of liveliness and good humour that have become characteristic of the dances. First, they had to find out how many single men' there were arnund, and if there • was an interest, in a singles group.' "We Surveyed the single men at the -Curling,C2nI/,, first." they • said. "Then 7ive s nt their-ail . dances,_or went to fewer of theni. letters ..inviting • th m • to, come .Today, there is a lot. of pressure out." They talke to people for • people to go to things in whenever they • ha. the chance, couples, she says, especially to and placed ads in he paper. the fund raising dances which are , - The first .;Huron Country so common. SO the Country Singles dance was held February Singles fill definite need in the - Though -the three-,-don4. keep_ 22, 1975. ' because they had community. ' • figures on the number of people invited so many men, "We were The ,three women .stress that' who have been married because ,afraid -we wouldi4t-have-enough..,.-the daeres_are_noeSimply, . even_ oLthe elute. _they estimate that 70 women." It didn't turn' out that primarily, a place where people couples haVe Met at the dances way thought, and so many people come in search of a wife or a 'and married. came out to the first-dances that husband. "People come thinking • Not Everyone • some had to. be turned away.' 'if it-happens, it happens'. "..they . Not everyone who could benefit •The attendance at the , dances, say, "but basically .everyone-"--from the club has yet given it a try which . ar,e held every Saturday comes just to have fun and . the women say. "Lots of people night in various places in the companionship." , who should be 'coming, don't." county throughout the fall and Still, there are ways to increase "It talkes people a long time to winter, averages 170 people, As your chances of finding the right '• ' get up the nerve to come, There many as.280 people have been at one, One young man, who.says he . are a lot of bachelor farmers who a single dance. The -whole idea has been coming to the dances have , n-ever been out." Vicki has turned out "better than we since they began, explained the Horbanuik says. ' expected" the women say. technique. "You have to pick .a BetWeen 75 and 100 people who Not New good table when you first come attend the dances regularly, and Singles dances are not a new in" he said. "If you pick one in new peoplesome ev,ery.,Saturday idea 'Betty Cardno says. Years the middle of the room, then you night. The $3 ',admission fee ago, dances were much more can see the .people as they walk ,makes y,oli a ,member and there comthon than they are now. by. You can see them at the bar are 1000 names in the record Young people, would come to and when ,,they -ge---to the book. those dances in groups, she says. washroom." He hasn't found the People have come to the dances sometimes pairing off and some- right one yet, but 'he says he'll from far away, and the group times not. But then things keep trying. often gives, a prize to the one who Occasionally, people meet has come from the farthest place. changed; Television came, and a lot of people stopped going to someone interesting, At the first (Continued on 'Page 20) e oard won 't pay guards Huron County b.oard. ethacation adopter A $20,529,864 blidget Monday afterndon approving an 11.2. percent inOease in expenses: over 1976. The , increase Will' m can 'an average five mill increase in the. ,county raising the municipal levy to 34.7 mills. The increasen . mill rate• is an average each munici- pality will have. to face but board chairman Herb Turkheim said not every. municipality will suffer the- sainedate due to the increase. "Some municipalities will be paying. two or three Mills more according to their assessment;" he said, ''.and some will be paying "much, more than fiVe mills:" Business superintendent Roy Dunlop outlined the budget for the board. citing .salaries and benefits as the major, reason-for. the increase. Last year's budget slated $15,917,562 for. ordinary board costs such as salaries while debt Charges, transportation costs and other extraordinary needs required $2,549,548. This year ::-17.3136,000 will be spent on :ordinary items and $3',142,944 on extraordinary. • Mr. Dunlop said _die budget figures 'assumed that the Anti Inflation Board will remain in operatien adding that if the A1130 ,is disbanded the board could be in .. trouble as far' as wage negotia- • tions are concerned. safinhe budget increase for salaries and benefits, which total .74.2 percent of the budget, was based on a '10 percent increase in wages. "Of . all the figures in. the budget that's the one I'm least happy about," said Dunlop. "If the• MB, is intact and.,..we,....are successful in wage negotiations we are all right but if that doesn't, happen quite frankly, we don't • haVe _enough motley pet,Aside to pay the costs.," Salaries in 1976 post taxpayers $14,055,540 and ia 1977 the tiudget committee set aside ;15.243,290 to cover increases for the board's 650 odd employees. The business superintendent said his concern was based on a decision made ..by the budget committee iii 1976. He said the . committee decided to •use about $200,000 in reserves the board had in an effort, to keep the budget in line with 1975 and the move had left the board walk ing a thin line between solvency and deficit. He said he had budgeted $50,000 for this year to be • Wingliam school board trustee Jack Alexander's seat on the' Huron County Board of Education was placed in jeopardy Monday afternoon after• he missed his third consecutive regular board meeting. Mr. Alexander hasteen vacationing in Texas and was absent fOr the January, February and March meetings of the board, At the January meeting, the board reviewed Mr. Alexander'S' absenteeism and voted to grant him permission to miss two meetings and to deduct his pay for those meetings. The move was not necessary according to trustee R.J. who asked that the board re-open discussion on the subject, rescind their original motiottand pass another mnting • Mr. Alexarider perinilSion to be absent front the three meetings. It is the third year in five as a trustee that Ale xandef vacationed • , Mon, hurt 'on snowmobile returned to the reserve fund and hoped it could be built back up without the board having to use it. The budget' calls for munici- palities to turn over $5,609,007 to -the board which includes money needed to correct errors in the last two years' budgets. Mr, Dunlop said in 1975 the committee had overestimated grants by $89,088 and in '1976 by $13,898 leaving the board short those amounts in its requisition' totals. He said the municipalities would have to pay those costs this year to enable the board to clear its books. The other major expense faced in 1977 is the purchase of four new school buses which the board approved at its „. February meeting. The •buses cost a total of $98,000 which showed up in an increase in capital equipment' purchases. Mr. Dunlop said the committee decided lase ,year to keep capital costs at' a bare January meeting however. and Mr. Alexander had started his Vacation" when the rescheduled meeting took place. ' Colborne trustee Shirley Hazlitt said she was not so concerned with Mr. Alexander missing_the meetings as she was with the business held up due too - departure. She said his absence from committee meetings may delay board business ending that his allowance for the months he missed should• be dedeeted as first decided. Board . chairman Herb Turk- helm said that quite often board members are absent due to sickness and pointed out that the member's andwance is an honor- arium based on a year's service to the board. Ashfield trustee . Engem Frayne said • that sickness and vacation cotild.,not be 'compared, adding 'he felt that a year's service to the 'board was 12 . months not nine, He asked if the people of Wittgliarn knew Mr. Alexander missed the time and if they kriew..they,„were not being represented at two or three board meetings a year. Herb Turicheirn said he' felt the • schools in Huron. Central ?limn . in Clinton 'had -the biggest .losses of the year wilt • $6,240 in books miasing. F.E. Madill in Wingham by the:education committee to be passed on to the management Fcirntt-e , P to e-f ,see if the are available. . "Salaries are the number one cost and there is nothing .cae be doneunloapbout them, interjected Mr. Dunlop. "Maybe' there is," said Mr. Henderson. • Inadequate Ashfield trustee Eugene. Frayne suggested that the two Committee systems• maybe was inadequate pointing out that the management committee will base its decision on dollars and cents without being aware of 'the priority involved: He suggested that an important decision-could be wasted despite its importance .,,lf,tbere,,vasn't enough money on -hand to pay the costs. ' • Shirley Hazlitt added that the common answer to;th is problem is that any trustee can go to the meeting of their •choice. She said' (Continued o n Page 3) • people 'of Wingham knew about. Mr. Alexander's absence and showed their approval of his, performance by electing him to another term on the" board. He said the Wingham zpstee faced some good competition in the election and was voted in at the" top of the polls. -They must be satisfied with • him" said Turkheitn: Under board policy adopted in 1975 the, chairman's advisory board is charged with .the task of keeping a record of attendance of board members at regular-aboard =ode , Shirley 1-lailitt said that under the resolution the advisory committee was given the responsibility but suggested "it hasn't been doing its job." She said the committee should review the performance of every board ft-Weber-regularly and asied that it do the review' now, paying particular attention 'to Mr. Alexander's absenteeism. Mr. Elliott said the only way he wouldconsider the motion is if all members were treated the same. The board recognized the, need for• performance review and passed the motion._ is missing$5,482, South Huron it Exeter reported $5,264 worth missing, Goderich District Colle- (Continued on Page 3) . t. Gazette editor . is a fun time paid position. and will mean John will have •to 'take a year off from hik' studies. The Gdtette publishes twice weekly and has a circulation "of at'dut 13,000. John will be returning to the IlitiOn Expositor to Work as a reporter for fife tinnier. The, one ''Yo4t term as editor starts in'' September. • Singles wa place to laug dance they attend. "When, 'they're going steady. you don't see them for,a , while," he women say,, "That's' how you r know, • But they generally come back again ;after a few weeks together. and Mrs. Chesney, Mr."and Mrs. Garry Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Peter. Kling and Mr. "and Mrs. Ron Riley were snovvtriohiling on the Lake Heron be.ach. An ambulance froth- Goderich , which •atisweted a tail for assistance was not ,able to get within, nearly two miles of the accident because Of snow blocked, and made a jilqt,lo parents tip Ambttlattee attendants '~students check around .the assisted In Moto thettiey h.OUSkti&S.010.1f library by streteher and SitoiVitrobild to books '''a7g there. • the ambulance and thett L„„10,. The Vice chairman broke the Seatertit cotriunity l Ytrspitiall. tosses down to the five secondary When the snowmobile he was- meeting and miss only February riding Sunday afternoon dropped and March. fi. storm delayed the into-a--break in the snow ,Glenn ,Chesney, Seaforth,, was thrown B 0 0 serious back injuries. i oss nearly thirty fee-rand sustained The letident occurred north of The Huron County Board of the Kling cottage at Elliott's Education Was a $20,00 victim of Grove as a group including Mr. a combination of poor memories for the two month period: Mr. Elliott cited the Education Act which states that a board member who misses three consecutive' regular board meet- ings , without .the board's permission shall vacate his seat and also states that a . board member can be.grarited a leave of absence for two consecutive regular meetings . without ' the board's permission. Another •'74 section of the act states that the board may deduct a reasonable 'amount from the allowance of a member for meetings missed. The Blyth trustee said that a board member does nbt require a leave of 'absence to ii4ss two meetings and added that he felt that 100 percent of Mr. Alexan- der's allowance for the meetings under discussion is not a reason- able deduction , for' the time missed. Director of Education John Cochrane said the board would-- have to make a decision on the matter or Mr. Alexander's, seat would have to be deemed. vacant. He said the Wingham trustee had planned to be 'at the January antqpick hands in 1975-76 when library books of that value were found missing , from fiye secondary School libraries in the county.' Board vice chairman, Marion. Zinn said at the board meeting Monday that over $20,000 in books had been reported missing • minimum and this year had met with considerable opposition in, that area. He said teachers were Concerned that eqUipment in schools was deteriorating and needed replacement, and urged the Committee to support the increased capital costs. Trustee John Henderson said he felt the board needed more information on the budget before it could make a decision on• it. He said the trustees who sit on the education committee make decisions( regularly no idea what those decisions will cost. He said the board should have all the information possible, claiming in the past they. used to get that material. Shirley Hazlitt supported Mr. Henderson's claim, adding that the deeisions are made with rid- idea as to how they will ultimately affect the budget. • Director • of education John Cochrane said 'the normal procedure is, for decisions made Expositor reporter is • \ - John Miner who worked as a reporter fni the Huron Expositor last summer was elected editor- 'in-thief of the University of -WhtertiOntario student. paper "The Gazette'" on• Sunday. J• ohn is At present newsy editor the 'G'azette and a third yeir 11011611n political science student, He grew up in 1.11borne township, The position of editor-in'-chief Misses 3 meetings, trustee keeps seat totals $20,00