The Huron Expositor, 1978-01-26, Page 5im••
St. Columban writer
'The forZloWing Sunday Chen He
drove 1.9).-4with • his horse and
buggy, she was waiting for him
with "where were . you last
Sunday?"
"Were wit , mad at me?''.
came the reply. "Yes!"
He took-a book and pencil from
his pocket eve a stroke with the,
pencil and said, "That's another
one off the list!" For Some reason
or another they never did get
married. So I may 'soon'" • be
another off the list as far as
correspondents unless .' shape up.
Personals
• *M rs. Ben Flanagan, Joanne
and Jay, Kitchener, visited, with
us recently. , 4
Mr. Ken Ducharme,
visited his, mother. Mrs. Mary
Ducharrne.
' Mrs. Mary Melady is presently
• spending a 'holiday in Edmonton
with Mr. and Mrs. Ron Betters
Sand family.
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V. J. Lane
' As 1 Stag to write my • colyne
for this week under clear, sun
shiny . skies, there are perfect
driving cOnditions, no snow on
the highway and not all that much
• traffic, I somehow get the urge to
go places.
On ,the other hand, it seems
dif4cult for melt) even do a bit of
writing today per.pap'S I'm getting
-the And that's about all I
need-right now. con,eled with all
, niy other problems. . Which
• teminds .me 'of what I mentioned
in -one of my columns about
famous sayings . by famous
people. '
:Several years ago a bachelor
gentleman also noted for his •"wit
mid humour" living-.T h in this
community was keeping conipany
with one particular . jady for
several years. It so happened they
had a date for a Siptlay night.and
he failed to show up.
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bingo
weekend with Mrs. Rita Gooding
" and Mrs. Catherine' McRae in
London. •
Ditblit .and District. Lions will
organize allaper..dfive.later -this.
.month. Please save your papers
until further notice.' Used glasges
are still needed. •
and there • is no change for kennel have been changed to February 1
licenses for plirebred dogs which and February 13 at 1 pan. Several
_ `continued' at $25:00, - coencillors, plan to .attend some
The more de4s Logan residents , Logan Council set the license fee AssocaitiOn: Since delegates are
have the more 11'18-going to cost for• a sec ltd deg at $12.00 and attending,. the R.O.M.A,
them..' $25.00 for the third and additional' Convention, F,eb. 5.-- 8 and Good
At the meetit‘ last week dogs. The fee fOr the first dog, Roads COvnention Feb, 20 - 22,
male or female, remains at $4.00 the council meetings in February
mo
an wns h • ip in Log
Council decided''td send
membership fees to the following
municipal. organizations:
Assoeiation of Municipal Clerks
and Treasurers, Rural Ontario
Municipal Association, Ontario
Farm Drainage Association,
Association of Municipalities of
,Ontario , and Ontario Good Roads
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sessions of 'the Farm Drainage
Association Conference in
'London, January 25 - 27, weather
permitting.
Approval was given for the
Don MacRae preparation of the proper by-laws
to .re-zone the Orval Parrott
property at Brodhagen to create a
residential building lot. • Dublin Lions Club T.V. Home
Bingo, Channel 12 for last week
January 18. were Mrs. Nornian
Ms. Eileen Spellman, Mitchell.
Winners. on • Mitchell and, , $35.00; Mr. Ferg Campbell,
• ..Jownsend, Mitchell $10.00; Mrs,
Correspondent Shirley Kramers. Dublin $20.00:
Win at Lions
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the.
Board's January meeting that it
has been virtually impossible for
individualized pregrarnming and •
attention to be provided.
In his report to the Board
Superintendent of . Instruttion '
Gordon' Stewart said that in
classes Of su • large numbers
that the children being
deprived of attention, espec Ily
'those youngsters requiring a lit o
extra help.
.TrusteeBEd Dearing
questioned why in " a year of
dedining enrolments and teache
layoffs does the Board need Ro •
Brodhagen, Walten, Seaforth •
and Monkton area. Plans were to ..
go by bits from Mitchell.
' Ipstead 30 of the group made
it to the train on their own power..
But there were another 30 from
the rural areas. Jim' Alexander
from Seaforth who.. had, brought
some of the travellers to Monk ton
.3 - lead the Way along highway 2 .
ahead of Jack Smith's bus into
Stratford. 'Along the Way he also
Used his four wheel tractor to pull
a-stallertruck: to the side of the
road.! They had a long'wait in
Stratford on the train that was to
leave at 8:55. When it did arrive it
got bogged down just' outside,.1.#1c
station and it was I a.m. bef4re
Mrs, Lai/ern Wolfe charge of Pastor Arthdr Horst •
Correspondent who lead the Bible 'Study. Then
345-2757 the ladies were divided into three
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bauer are groups, each grclup having
among thig,60.• travellers enjoying reporter who interviewed the
Caribbean cruise and a week in others'who were-to represent the
,Barbados. They phoned to the
Bauer home from Antigua lsiand wise .meti
about. their
experiences on _their travel. Mrs.'
to repoit they,a_rriVed safely and rold igsen -was appolnieed7
are all happy -and 'full of in charge of the ;literature
excitement over - their sunny
-.holiday in -The. of .the bad Mrs. Philip Rock whO is, an
weather and,‘„,all 'their problems ...,,honourary member is iresiding at
with' most, of the roads
,
remembered,•blocked the RitZ Villa was rem embered
with the snow and storm before with a greeting card for her 92nd
they left. The travellers hail from birthday, Cengratulaticies • 'ate'
in time.
Mrs. Lois Loyva and Andka
Monkton-Office Open .
Monday flint Stituietay
• Iliont$1414241
• An additional half time teacher
/will be hired to aid instruction of
kindergarten at Anne Hathaway
school in Stratford.
Effective January 30, the extra
half-time teacher will join Mrs. ,
. Kathy Jeffrey at. Anne Hathaway.
• When ' school ' opened.... • in
September 51, .5 'year olds were
enrolled for kindergarten, 6 of
iyhonf were Identified aS' children --
requiring extra instructional
attention.. n lthough kindergarte
-classes are' only a half day long
the 25 morning children and . the
26.in the afternoon were just too •
big of a responsibility.
-Administration• told the Perth
- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnston •
got a pleaSant Surprise when.their
friends and neighbours of the 8th
and 9th .of McK illop atgathered
, their home Tuesday, Jan. 17
.
to
help them celebrate their 25th
Wedding Anniversary. •
Progressive euchre was played
with 1116 winners being High
Lady-Ruth Taylor; Low Lady-
'Olive Little; Most Lone Hands-
, Laurette Regele; High Man-
. • 'Martin Murray; Low Maui-Harold
Pryce;, Most Lone Hands-Harold
Bolton:'; ''Lucky Cup prize-Marie
Bolton, • '
The esteemed couple, were
presented with a bridge set and
'smoking stand. Marion Bolton.'
read the following address to
Harry. and Marie.
"The Story and the Optimist"
I hear these two folks merawhile •
Mitchell, $20,00; ITLF. MOMann,
Mitchell $20.00; Mrs. P. Kraal,
Mitchell $35,00, • „
anon (0.13 ,S T.A.) and the Walt, Mitchell $10.00; Allan • Don MacRae spent . •
of. Brodhagen
$8,504.02.
Neighbours -honour . off. It goes to show where there is
it generated enough power (Slake
• a will, there is -a,way. They -justt
Hcirry, Mar ie Johnston made it to Toronto fortheir flight—A"'
from Toronto are keeping • the
home .fires burning in the Bauer'
. home and Lois is also in charge of
the Batter Travel Service he ,
Monkton , in the absence of her
narent s.-... .
Mrs. Herman Hinz and Mr.
Rodney Hinz have returned to
their home after spending a -week
with Mrs. Gary Hinz and Nicole at
Bobeaygeon and, saicr they had
lovely weather there.
There were two baskets of
- flowers in St. Peter's Lutheran,
Church, Brodhagen on Sunday
morning from the funeral of
Wayne 'Driscoll which was held
.on Wednesday with Pastor Arthur
Horst conducting the memorial
- service. N eighboursandrelathss
of little Jeffrey Badley arc
pleased to hear he lias returned'to
his home from St, Joseph's
Hospital, London after he had the
misfortune to be in an accident
here. He is the sour of Reg and
Dianne Badley of Brodhagen.
The family of Mr.' Martin Metz
• gathered at Fain' y Paradise with t
their . good w hes with a
delightful surprise in honor of his
' birthday on Jan. 7th. Wishing
him many happy returns, of the
day.
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L.C.W. Broalfiagen
' '', Thirteen ladies were present at
the L.C.W. meeting at St. Peter's
• Lutheran Church in -Brodhagen.
. In charge of opening &yodel's
' wereo
Harold Elligsen who also
is. Mrs..i. Lloyd Prueter and
Mrs.
closed the meeting 'with some'
p .
The topic of Epiphany was in
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Public School Trustees' Associ-
According , to Director. of
Education, K.er.Self,.although
a lot of money. to spend in a time
of restraint, the memberships are
"Well worth it".
He continued, "The advantage
of belonging to the 0.P.S.I.-A and ,
O.S.T.C. is that the. Board of
EduCation and' trustees have a
'voice with the Ministry' of
Education.'' •
The Association iation and: , Council
are the foremin ‘yhichsesolutions_
coming 'forward from individual
boards are consicleretratid then if
adopted by the 'organizations are
passed on to the proper-author-
hies.
According Self the •
resolutions lye more punch this-
' • __Nyay than if individual boards sent
theni directly to the -Ministry.
By belonging to these trustee
;Organizations the Perth Board has
access , to • centralized services
• such as .assistance in data
concerning negotiations or
gener-Winformation • needed to
carry out flic • Board's admini-
'stration. •••• • •••• • •
The, membership fee is based.
• • on the nitipbcrof teachers a board
employs. The.* Perth Boaiii,
having 671 teachers on staff pays
a:little more tan $8,500 or $12.67,
per teacher.
Mr. Self' said 'this is not
intreas ,nable for by. comparison
the te• clier-federations ask more
than 100 of each teacher for
annual membership.
• He said, "Taking that into.
aceount one can then realize that
the
revenue •. available tat;,„
federations is far in excess t()
generated for trustee An-gal-07a-
. • • .• •
0.0.S.T.A.'s•budget alone is in •
excess of $300,000. That money •is•
used 'for general administration,
office space. and materials as well
as staff .salaries. •
• Mr. S,elf said "One obviously
• can't expect to have data worth
anything it' one doesn't have
analysts and computer .people
who can store. , antilizO and
reproduce significant ,information
for use by boards'," -
Also as part of .• the, Perth'
.Board's renewal as a member of
Trustee Ed Dearing of
Staffa was returned for a second
term as the Board's represen-
tative director on the Association.
hire a half time teacher.
• Assistant Superintendent Bob
Boyce expl ained that sonic of the
children attending kindergarten
at Anne Hathaway are actually
children who were transferred
front the Shakespeare school
which is under construction, He
Said "It might have been possible
to juggle the Comity's, teaching
stag to eleyiate the hiring but at
Ahis point in the: s'eli9o1 year .it
•
'would'disrupt things draStically."
The new .half time teacher will
Start at the end of the' month
when the morning and afternoon
classes were .' Scheduled to ,fiip
anyway:
Tbe.elasses will be reorganized
at that tittle so that there will be
one group . of .approximately 20
atielanOtheL of .3E" ,
The present- teacher would,
have the small group. alone and
the two teacherS would work .
together with .thelarger. group.
The report said, "by judicious
.grouping the 6 yetingsterS who
require considerable help would
e plased in the large group
where by' subdividing into ty,‘:o
small sections, more -iridividuat
attention would be more readily.
And this is the way it was, so '[lie
'saying goes.
Marie told a 'story With a-eute
little twist,
And Harry said "sure it will
• work-I'm 'an "Optimist''.
SO they took their vows oh the
17th of January,.
Neither ere knew the other was
very. wary.
Now the two of them w-6re ready
and, radii'
And along eanie.a girl-the eldest
Sharon.
Sandra and Janie were added to
the clan, '
As was a son Tommy and their
youngest Joanne.
The kids thought , it great to live
on the 9th of McKillop,..
As the walk to the school was just
a short trot. '
They 'used to milk :some cows
which was a' lot of fun, ,
To be sure'things got hectic when
the sap began to run.
They've got, good crops with a
real good yield,
But how? do we get them there
beans off the field?
Marie (also an optimist) ,said,
"DOn't fret: next year is 1478",
"We'll get by,' everything will be
great.
And n@w they've married 1/4 of a
Century.
And everyone will surely agree,
Better neighbours there just can't . be. .
Than the Johnstons- Harry.' and
Marie,.
With all best wishes for the years
to come from your friends and'
neighbours.
N .
extended to her from the group.
-Mrs. Robert Prench invited the
group to her home for the' next
meeting,
Friends Ana 'relatives of Mrs.
aid Bach•Will be sorry to hear
she is a patient in the General
Hospital'S tratford. Wishing, her a
speedy. recovery, • _
Aincere sympathy is extended
to the relatives of Wayne Driscoll
who passed away suddenly in the ,
Seaforth Community Hospital on
Sunday. Especially-to his parents
Mr. and 'Mrs. Boyd' Driscoll and
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There will be another afternoon of
Meeting closed with a hymn and
praYer. -9'he remaining of the.
afternoon was spent quilting.
quilting on January 24. Marion Ritchie Evening Auxiliary
was held on Weclnesd4 after- Six tables were in, play 'at. the
noon January 17 at the borne -Of progressive euchre party
, Wednesday evening sponsored
MTrit Lporrenseidtin
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t°, 'Mrs. Duncan by the Staffa W.1,' Prizes were
SOU, presided and opened with a. . During business, members
were reminded of the Presbytery hymn. Devotions, on the New
Year were taken by Mrs. Carter .annual meeting In Stratfordi Mrs.
Jahn Templeman Was added to Kerslake' with scriptures read-- the . va rds committee.
The trent the Psalms..Ten answered awarded to: Ladies-Mrs.
the roll call with a Resolution and
Elliott, Mrs. John Miller; Gents- the payment of fees.
John Templemak, Pob Laing;
Travelling Lone'-11-lands-Mrs.
Mrs. John TeMpleman had the Lloyd Miller; Most Lone Hands-
topic reading a New Years poem Mrs. Carter• Kerslake; Nearest "My Hope for 1978" followed by Birthday-John Miller.
a recipe for the New Year.
brother Eric. Driscoll, Chatham also attended
sorry to hear•Mrs. Mary Thornton
Relatives and friends -will be
,Wednesday. and spent the rest of
his brother Wayne's funeral on
is confined to the • Seaforth
the week with his parents Mr. and
Community Hospital. Mrs. Boyd Driscoll.
Mr. Lome Seimon and Mr. Carl
Mrs. Ervin Leonhardt enj9yed
Priestap are patrients in the same a couple of weeks with her son in
hospital where the later is law and daughter: Ronald and
Donna Thonfpson and little -undergoing-surgery.
Guests with Mr. and Mrs. Boyd grandson Curtis Trent in London
has returned to her home list " Driscoll and• Eric where Gerald
and Karen 'Rapier from Lucan, week,
Glen and Carleen -polmage on Mf, Donald , Wolfe; Lendon e
Stinday•and attended St. Peter's visited with his mother Mrs. {
Lutheran Church with, them on Lavern Wolfe and Dale on \.,/'
Sunday morning'. Mr. Eric Sunday. •
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