The Citizen, 2008-05-01, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008. Classified Advertisements
Real estate Real estate
Real estate Real estate
Stick With the Classifieds.
If you’re shopping for something special, keep looking
in the Classifieds. Every week, you’ll find a great selection of
listings for everything from apartments for rent to
things to buy and see.
The Citizen
Wanted Wanted
We’re looking for
local entrepreneurs
to be a part of our
unique co-op store
to sell only
Canadian products.
For more information
call Bev 519-523-4323
or email bevjelliott@gmail.comin Blyth
MUST SEE NEW COMMERCIAL COUNTRY
448 Coombs St., Blyth
Completely renovated
inside! You will be
impressed.
$159,000
MLS #080859
274 Dinsley St.,
Blyth
One of Blyth’s most
prestigious homes!
List $199,900.
MLS# 081212
408 Queen St., Blyth
Commercial/
Residential. Start
your own business.
$119,000
MLS# 080882
39985 Winthrop Rd.,
Londesborough.
Shop and house
List $229,000!
MLS# 080488
GREAT VALUE LARGE HOME WANTEDCOMMERCIAL
300 Main St.,
Holmesville
Charming home and
large shop
centrally located.
Only $179,900
MLS #073042
187 Dinsley St.,
Blyth
Bigger than it looks!
Now only
$119,500.
MLS # 073736
Bungalow under
$180,000
with finished
basement in Blyth!
Call for a free
evaluation!
Bayfield Meadows ~ Now building
Freehold retirement town homes
starting at $225,000.
No exterior maintenance.
Broker of Record*** Broker** Sales Representative*
Heartland Realty,Brokerage
Independently Owned & Operated Brokerage
R.R. #1 DUNGANNON
Nine Mile River runs through this 100
acre property. Features scenic view of
River Valley — Privacy — Exceptional
get-away for home or cottage, hunting,
fishing and recreational opportunities.
Vendor holds letter of approval for res.
50+/-ac. suitable for pasture or cropping.
$450,000. Call Fred*** or Rick*
MLS# 80798
R.R. #4 WALTON
58.5 acre farm with 45 workable. The
balance is extractive and is partly lake (8-9
acres). This property will make a prime
building site and would be perfect to build
a trailer park. The lake is spring-fed and
crystal clear. Call for more details.
$350,000. Call Fred*** or Rick*
MLS# 73843
519.482.3400
1 Albert St., CLINTON
www.rlpheartland.ca
Helping you is what we do.
P rim e
B u ild in g S ite!S c e n i c
V i e w !
39571 HULLETT-McKILLOP RD.,
CENTRAL HURON
Fifty acre farm with 40 workable acres
and 3 bedroom brick home with updated
100 amp service and plumbing.
Hardwood bush ready to be logged in
'09/'10. 32'x50' bank barn + 32'x50' lean-
to. Current cow/calf operation.
Call Don A.* $432,000. MLS# 80595
82605 DIVISION LINE,
CENTRAL HURON
Property consists of 75 acres of level cash
crop land. 72 acres workable, approx. 2
acres of mixed bush. Land is tile drained
and is rented for 2008 crop year.
Call Richard Sr.* $430,000. MLS# 72460
50
Acres!
75
Acres!
Parent-based provincial lobby
group People for Education,
announcing the release of its most
recent annual report last week,
enlisted the help of a technology-
savvy Northern Ontario high school
student to highlight the effects of
declining enrolment in remote
communities.
And to describe the effects of
declining enrolment in school boards
dominated by urban areas, they
enlisted the help of the planner from
the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
But when it came to declining
enrolment in boards dominated by
rural and small-town schools, high-
profile People for Education
executive director Annie Kidder took
an extra step: she delivered a speech
in Stratford aimed at inspiring
several hundred employees of the
Avon Maitland District School
Board, she held a news conference at
a school operated by the board,
and she asked Avon Maitland
chair Meg Westley to join her in the
media spotlight.
“Definitely, in our rural areas,
(enrolment has) been steadily
declining,” Westley explained at the
news conference, held Wednesday,
April 23 at Stratford’s Avon Public
School. She cited an approximate 10
per cent decline in student
population across the board over the
past six years.
People for Education hosted the
news conference to release
“Declining Enrolment in Ontario
Schools,” an excerpt from the
group’s 2008 annual report on
Ontario’s publicly-funded school
systems.
“Much of the funding that school
boards receive is based on numbers
of students,” states the report.
“People for Education data show
that Ontario’s smaller schools are
less likely to have teacher-librarians,
guidance counsellors, music and
physical education teachers, and
special education support staff.”
Kidder called for an updating of
per-pupil funding benchmarks,
which were established in 1997. But
she also called for revised Education
Ministry policies that might make it
easier for boards to come up with
innovative solutions to enrolment
challenges.
This point was stressed by Stephen
Bedford, a municipal planner from
Niagara-on-the-Lake, who joined
the news conference to share his
experiences trying to work with a
school board he fears is being forced
– by budget constraints and a lack of
creative thinking – into closing the
town’s only high school.
Bedford told reporters a
community-based consultation
committee on which he served
(similar to the committees which
met recently to tackle
accommodation issues in St. Marys,
Goderich and Mitchell) was
“thinking outside the box; we
offered a vision for education in
Niagara-on-the-Lake.”
“You can understand our dismay
when the board staff based their
recommendation solely on a clinical
analysis of funding . . . This
recommendation tells me the board
needs help and direction; they need
more tools and the ability to be
flexible.”
Also in attendance was Waterloo
Region school trustee Catherine
Fife, a vice president with the
Ontario Public School Boards
Association. And joining the
proceedings through a one-sided
version of computer-based video-
conferencing (he could see the
media but the media couldn’t see
him) was Grade 12 student Travis
McArthur from Lake Superior High
School in remote Terrace Bay.
With enrolment having dropped to
about 170 pupils, senior students
seeking university-prerequisite
courses at the school face tough
choices. Some join one or two of
their classmates in taking video-
conference, independent study or e-
mail-based courses taught by
teachers in other towns. Others
commute over 100 km, sometimes
staying the whole week and only
coming home on weekends. Others
simply leave the community.
“It’s hard. I’m not saying it’s
easy,” Kidder said. But she warned
that examples like McArthur suggest
the province’s education system is
becoming split between students
who have access to top-level
opportunities, and those who do not.
Earlier in the day, Kidder
addressed the Avon Maitland board’s
entire workforce at Stratford’s
Rotary recreation centre, as part of a
system-wide professional
development day.
Her speech ranged across many of
the issues People for Education has
tackled over the years. But she
returned repeatedly to the value of
publicly funded education, at one
point receiving applause for noting
that “95 per cent of parents send
their kids to the publicly funded
system. There has not been a flood to
the private system at all.”
She said People for Education is
inspired to pressure the government
“out of a belief that our schools
should be the centre of practically
everything we have in our
communities . . . Not judges, not
lawyers, not doctors – not anybody
else has the capacity to do what you
do. And I think what’s important to
say is that you’re obviously doing it
well.”
People for Education release annual report
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
On April 23 at approximately 4
p.m., a Huron OPP officer stopped
Great Lakes Waste Management
truck on Blyth Road in Carlow. The
garbage truck was caught in a radar
beam travelling at 112 kms. per hour
in a posted 60 kms. per hour zone.
The rules apply to all vehicles on
the highway. As a result of the
investigation, a 58-year-old man
from Clinton was charged with
racing under the Stunt Driving
Legislation and with Fail to Inspect
Commercial Motor Vehicle. The
vehicle he was operating was seized
and impounded for seven days.
In addition, his driver’s licence
was suspended for seven days.
He will appear in Goderich
provincial court on June 5.
OPP
seize
garbage
truck
The Ethel euchre was held on
Monday,April 21, with nine tables in
play.
Winners were: share the wealth,
Joyce Alexander, Helen Cullen; high,
Myrna Burnett, Jim Minielly; lone
hands, Viola Adams, Helen Cullen;
low, Isabelle Craig, Grace Stewart;
lucky tally, Leanne Minielly, Bob
Alexander, Keith Turnbull, Mary
Craig, Judy Hahn, Neil Hatt,
Marguerite Beirnes, Karen Bowles,
Ross Stephenson, Linda Minielly.
The next euchre will be held on
Monday, May 5 at 8 p.m.
9 tables
at Ethel
euchre