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Clinton News-Record, 1966-04-14, Page 2Page 2—Clinton News-Record—Thurs., April 14, 1966 Seaforth, Tuckersmith Request Union School (Continued from page one) walk to Seaforth — but at more cost. He thought buses would pot be needed from Har- purhey .(% mile), but would foam Egmondville (over 1 mile) to Seaforth school, • Mr. Coleman also agreed that publicity in papers airing views of persons in the area, might nqt always have been alto gether true. On re-examination by Mr. Hunter, Mr. Coleman explained that most of the Egmondville children were transported throughout tho township to schools, but that .21 of the Har purhey children already attend ed the Seaforth School. Gordon. Hulley, chief of police for Seaforth, and a resident of Harpurhey, also was one of the petitioners, His Son walks home from Seaforth public school in 15 minutes, getting there before a neighbour’s child that rides •a bus. Even after the Brucefield school Was built, Mr. Hulley said he would prefer to> pay tuition fee and send his boy to Seaforth. His home is 9.8 miles foam the proposed Brace-- field school. Mr, Hulley stated that he had figures from another school board which indicated that 'sch ool buses cost 90-92 cents per day per child to transport them ten miles. “That figures out to $4,600 a year for the 26 child ren in Harpurhey,” said he. Mr. Hulley contended that no bus was needed for the children of his hamlet, since all lived with in one mile of the School. ■ Chief Hulley said S'ehfor th, school was and the -heating plant was large enough to serve 4-5 more rooms. He had no objection to the Brucefield site, but he objected to transporting the children so far, when some lived within 200 feet of the school in Sea forth. “I do know that Tuckersmith and Stanley need a school,” said Mr. Hulley, “but I think it foolish to transport, the child ren from Harpurhey over there. S'oon we’ll have a Whole bus load to go. He felt' that better teachers would be available in town than1 in the country, and predicted that in 10-20 years the Brucefield school would sit half-empty. “Who'll be left on the farms?” he asked. ■Mir. Hulley predicted that if a .Union school section were- fiormed between Seaforth and part of Tuckersmitih, that the public School and separate sch ool bus routes could foe com bined, and thus save costs. Mr. Hulley’s son 'belongs to Explorers, and goes to the meetings from school. “If he went to Brucefield to school, he. would nat foe home in time to ’attend.” Upon questioning from Mr. Hunter, Mr. Hulley pointed out that Brucefield was made up of , several houses, a garage, a hank .and one or two stores, with no hospital, and no accom modation to take care of storm.-. stayed children. In contrast Seaforth has four doctors, a hospital and' accommodation for billeting pupils-if necessary. Questioned on property val ues, Mr. Hulley had nothing concrete to offer, but said he thouiglht all homes in .Harpur hey were now occupied, On . cross-examination by Murphy,. Mr. Hulley said he felt the mill rate would go up in Tuckersmith when the new School wais built — but had no figures on what mill rate in Seafai'th would be if an addi tion to the school were’ built. Mr. Hulley explained that the cost of rural hydro, offsets the extra expense of paying tuition in Seaforth for his Children. He felt that there would be property value chan ges , owing to the proposed school. ‘.'When we’re ready for re sale, people want to know where they’d' send their Child ren,” Said Mr. Hulley. Then he agreed that he was actually saying that the suggested Union School Section would increase property values. He had no evi dence that taxes Would go up in the township If the school is built at Brucefield. Mr. Murphy staled that total cast of (foanslkxrting children’ in the township now is $13,000, and 225 „ children are being transported. Asked if figures (he had given for transporting the Harpurhey children at $4,600 was reasonable in comparison, Mr. Hulley re-affirrtted Ms statement, noting that the fig ure Of 90 cdntS per mile per student Was that approved for • grant pUrphsets by the Ontario Department Of Education. Cleave (tobmbs, A foiiihidiilor of the township, and a part time school bus driver an the township, explained that first pick-ups wore at 7:35 a.m., and that a student picked up then Would get to school at 8:40 He said that, last winter, on ohe occasion, children had! to be bSlelted: iff Seaforth. Seaforth that the modern, Mr. Coombs had been chair man of the Tuckersmith School Area board when the shuttle bus service was inaugurated, and favoured it then. Three years' ago he had been opposed to the idea of Tuckersanitih joining with the town of Sea forth. Mr. Coombs stated that there Were 75 pupils in Egmondville going to township schools, that a bus could pick up 40 at a time lieve such from field, No route would do that.' he said. On re-examinatipn by Mr, Hunter, Mr. Coombs stated that an ■ area around Egmond ville would have to be picked up, and to collect properly you couldn't work on the Egmond ville area alone. Warden Haney, gave his rea sons for objecting to the Bruce field site, as distance, and de lay in picking up 'his 11 year old son after school, to get him home for driving the tractor, and other farm chores during busy seasons.. He reported that the 11 year old attended alt SS 10, and the six year old went to SS 3, leaving at 7:30 a.m. and getting home at 5 p.m. Mr. Haney described Bruce field as a hamlet of 35 homes, 2 stores, a post office and feed mill, and not sufficient accom modation for a Storm stay, com pared with Seaforth. He iden tified two sheets of the petition, ■as being names he had witness ed. On cross-examination, Mr. Haney reported that he had run for council on a platform opposing the new school site, and had lost. He Said he pre ferred (having children in town than at country school, and felt equal education would be received either place. He esti mated an extra half hour to get to school at Brucefield, than at Seaforth. Mrs. James (Marion) Rose is 1% miles from Seaforth, and transports one child to Kinder garten in town each morning. Two other children‘attend Eg mondville school. She objected to the distance to Brucefield, and lack, of opportunity for af ter-school activities, such as Brownies, figure skating and music lessons. Since she shops in Seaforth it is more con venient to pick up the children at the town school. The fact that there was no; doctor, no hospital, nor over-might'accom modation at Brucefield' cerned her. On cross-examination sand She was two miles the Seaforth school, and as sumed that a bus service would be inaugurated if a union sec tion were approved. She prefer red shorter hours for the chil dren, but if hers could go to Seaforth, would accept longer hours. Mrs. Donald (Marilyn) Kun- der, Who lives in Harpurhey, agreed with Mrs. Rose. She said tuition to the Seaforth Public' School Board was $5 per month per pupil. In preferring Seaforth, she gave her reasons as: silly to transport children nine miles, When they live only 2/10 of a mile from the; Seaforth school; feel they’re a part of Seaforth, and Children can take advan tage of extra curricular activ ities; also ’snowbound roads worried her, and she did not want her children uprooted from Seaforth. On cross-examination she ad mitted that if the Brucefield school were 'built, she would continue to send her children in to Seaforth as long as ’they were accepted and was quite willing to pay tuition for them. She agreed that the only reason She was attending the hearing, “Was because of the unlikely happening that Seaforth may not accept your child.” Donald W. Kunder, account ant at Topnotch Feeds, and secretary-treasurer at Seaforth District High School since the first of the year, agreed with ihis wife’s testimony, and said the costt of buis fare could be used to pay for an addition at Seaforth. He refused to confirm or deny a suggestion by Mr. Mur phy that if 192 children could be transported for $13,500 now, the cost of $4,600 to transport the Harpurhey children was Un reasonable. He said he could not answer the question from the information given to him,. Mrs. June Heard, another resident of- Harpurhey, agreed With Mrs. Kunder, noting it was pleasant to hear the school •bells ring, and see the children' at play, and it seemed silly to Send them ten miles away to school. She identified certain names on the petition that she had witnessed. "If taxes stay the same,” said Mrs. Heard, "We would likely continue to ^ehd! the children to Seaforth. Tuition plus Tucker- smith taxes is no higher than Seaforth taxes.” Wiilliatrti ilodgert, chairman of the public school board at. there, but he did not “be-> a bits would ever make a pick up and go direct Egmondville to Bruce- con- she from Seaforth, who owns and .oper- ates a nursing home in the town, read a Tetter dated April 7, “,tx> wham it may concern, ” ^reporting a motion passed by the board saying they had no objectlap to extending the boundaries of the school area tq include township lands, pro viding satisfactory financial ar rangements were made. Mr. Hodgent Said no financ ing had been discussed. He said the 300 children attending Sea forth school had use of 8 class rooms, kindergarten and audi torium, The school was built in 1953, was Steam-heated and coal-fired, and heating system was sufficient for the present. When built, provision was1 made for another boiler, and for coal storage. Of the 300 enrolled, about 25-30 children came from out side town. All class-rooms were over-capaalty, TJie school Was Situated on 7-8 acres of land, large enough for another 150 children. No cost figures on an addition had been Obtained. On cross-examination, Mr. Hodgent said he did not know what the town’s mill rate for school puposes was. Though no investigation of costs had been made, he said the board assum ed costs would be same, if an extra acquired. Mir. Hodgent said passed the motion because they were not closing doors to any one that wanted to attend the school. He said there was no reason for concern by Hiarpur- hey people that their children could not continue tQ attend the school. Chairman Hodgent said that no addition had been consider ed prior to the Union School idea; .that no survey of pro jected enrolment in Seaforth had been made; that no survey of sewerage disposal capacity had, been made. He expected that a four-room addition would be needed to handle the proposed extra area. Mac McKellar, secretary of the public school (board for the past 20 years, had no figures with him. When asked if the Department Of Education could tell the board to decrease the number of pupils per room', he said, “I suppose they could. They have authority to do al most anything. ” Asked what the board would do if the school Were over crowded, and the request came from the Department to cut down the number of pupils per room, he said the only solution Would toe to build. Mr. McKellar confirmed: that no investigation of costs for an addition had been made, that ■there was no fow sewage dis posal system m the area; that mill rate was about 19 for school purposes, and th'e town debenture debt was $154,000 for schools. ■ Dr. J. C. MacLennan, VS, Seaforth PS Board member for eight' years, confirmed the acre age available at the Seaforth school as 7-8 acres; occupying four town blocks, and enrol ment was from 29-37 per room, plus 20 in kindergarten. Asked what he would do, if industry moved in to Seaforth, bringing more children to sch ool, he said that probably those noit in the school district would be asked to leave. He said the board’s motion regarding expanding the area, came after Someone in Tucker smith had approached a board member. “We felt we should go on record as having no ob jection,” he said. Asked by Murphy if he would favour'an addition to take in a larger area, provided the mill fate in Seaforth went Up five mills as a result of it, Mr. Mac Lennan said he would not. the board about tilie area were TENDERS I Sealed Tenders accepted until May 2 by 6 o'clock. Blueprints available on Monday, April 18, at Amsings Variety Store, 55 Albert Street, Clinton, at $25 each, On Highway 4 — Next to CFB Clinton view Canada's Waterfowl Survivors of the thousands of wild Canadian geese that once the heavens wing their way across the Canadian skies. See “Once darkened . _ ___ Upon A Marsh” on the CBC television network, Wednesday, April 20. This show pre empts Bob Hope, and is the fourth and final program in the series Canada 99. F.S. Ross Milton A new and unique map of Algonquin Provincial Park, lar gest and oldest of Ontario’s 90 or more provincial parks, has just been produced by the de partment of Lands, and Forests, it is No. 47-A and is of special interest to canoeists because be sides being available from the Department at Queen’s Panic on regular map bond at 75 cents it is also available on a plastic ’impregnated waterproof paper at $1.25, a boon to boat ers who- might some time get a ducking. Algonquin Park, 177 miles The Board of the Clinton Calvin Christian Elementary School $g||§ tenders for the construction of a two room addition. i Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted, J. Amsing Clinton Calvin Christian School Society DRIVING RANGE Come out and Hit a Few Practice Drives up to 300 yards • Flight Sergeant W. (Rosis) Milton, an instructor at Radar and Communica tions School, RCAF Clinton, .addressed Ingersoll Lions; Club on March 28. Subject of the illustrated talk was “Signature of a Misdile”, F<S Milton spent some time -With an RCAF Missile tracking detachment at Cape Kennedy, Fla. At present, he is a labora tory superintendent 'at R& CS. During World War II he •served as a navigator on 619- (RAF) Special Duties Squad ron in No. 5 Group and flew 11 operational trips. ..........—.............. .... f Go-Go 4-H Club Learns of Bias The fourth meeting of the Clinton Go-Go accents; was held at Miss Faye Farquhar’s home on Tuesday, April 12. Roll call was answered by 11, members. The girls Were told about the care of accessories and each member blocked petersham rib bon. They learned1 how to join bias. The next meeting will be held at Lois and Barbara Sit. Clair’s' home at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19. north of Toronto, has grown steadily in size since it was established on May 27, 1893 until it now covers almost 3,000 square miles. There are i"ew features un named in the Park, most of those named being manufactur ed bj^ Lands and Forests staff, surveyors and timber company operators of the past. This was regarded as a logical means of identification and indication of the great interest accorded the park area by all who had in any way shaped its history. Great care was taken to as sure that all nomenclature is authentic. The map is on the scale of two miles to ‘ one inch, the format most favoured by map users questioned rather than alternatives which would per mit a smaller map but would require printing half the park on each side of it. 'S An Enforced Announcement i ........... ■ -........................... I...... .. ■! < HIM ■III..mi-IMM ■s ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION CLINTON BRANCH NO. 140 "The Home Paper With The News" Legion Paper Drive Will also be picking up af Adastral Park as well as Clinton Starting at 1:00 p.m. 15b —.z ■s In Canada and Great Britain $6.50 Per Year for United States and Foreign •Huron County School Area No. 1 has interviewed teachers for the 1966-67 school year and has hired three io replace those who have resigned from staff. Chairman of the board Vemi Alderdilce, Kippen, said yester day the board is awaiting ap proval from, the Departmeiit of Education, and from the Ont ario Municipal Board for the awarding of a contract to build a 16-room school near Bruce field. Almost a month ago, the con tract Was awarded by the board to Frank VanBussel and Sons, Ltd., Lucan, at a cost of $698,622, subject to the above approvals. The board has hired a prin cipal for the proposed new school arid had hopes of the building being ready for occu pancy by the end of this year. Nobody’s opinions are worth less. Even d stopped clock is right twice a day! COMING SOON To the Newly Renovated PEGASUS THEATRE, CANADIAN FORCES BASE CLINTON PEGASUS PLAYERS present: “MARY MARY” a 3. 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