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LONGSTAFF -OP TOMETRIST- SEAFORTH, GOVENLOCH ST. 527-1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Thursday Evening CLINTON OFFICE,• 10 ISAAC STREET Monday, and Wednesday 482-7010 Phone Either Office For Appointment Huron Board Outdoor education was the topic for the final afterno9n pres- , entation to thp Huron County Board of Education for, this school Year. Meeting with the board Monday in Clinton, the committee chaired by Vincent Elliott of South Huron. District High School, built a strong case for their pro- posal to make outdoor education an integral part of a student's education in this county. The seven-member commit- tee asked the board to consider the possibility of esta.lolishing a centrally located "base camp" for conducting overnight or pro- longed field trips for school stu- dents in Huron. The suggestion was for the board to accept the offer by the Ontario Department of Lands .and Forests to utilize the Stone Farm adjacent to the Hullett Conservation Area for this purpose - on a land use permit costing $1 annually. Although preliminary studies are still going on, the committee told the board the Stone Farm could provide facilities similar to those at Camp Sylvan in Midd- lesex County. At Camp Sylvan where "rustic" conditions pre- vail, many Huron County stu- dents annually enjoy a camping experience with their classmates under the supervision of their teachers. Rates are rising for students on overnight campouts, however, and the committee intimated that money now spent in Middlesex by the Huron Board of Education would be put to better use in est- ablishing a Huron camp. Outdoor education is a "learning experience which takes place in an outdoor setting." A sound outdoor education program provides meaningful experience and factual information outside the classroom; gives opportunity for real life problem solving; develops skills for more produc- tive use of leisure hours; builds strong bodies; makes student more aware of their environment teaches sociability; strengthens relations with friends and the teaching staff; and creates an opportunity to learn about "van- ishing aspects of life in the past" such as handmilking, maple syrup making, historic sites etc. In the elementary schools with all schools in the county having some kind of an outdoor educa- tion course, the program includes outdoor activities on the play- ground, in the fields and woodlots withing walking distance of the school, in sites within Huron County and in some instances, at locations outside the county such as Camp Sylvan , Midland Indian Village and Fort Ste. Marie, the Detroit Zoo and Storeybook Gar- dens in London. Elementary students - kind- ergarten to Grade 8- study every- thing from dairy farming to as- tronomy in an outdoor setting. The committee report pointed up the fact that the variety of outdoor learning experiences camp project er Carl Mills, also a member of the committee inalOng the pres- entation to the board. Mills said he finds that mod- ern-day students refuse to accept responsibility for their problems in life, expect others to care for them and won't, put forth any ef- fort for themselves. The Outers Club, says Mills, puts the students in a position where they must accept respons- ibility and make decisions, take care of themselves and in some cases, proves to them they can do what previously might have been considered impossible. Mills showed slides of the Outers Club members - girls and boys - who camped outdoors in 20 degree below zero weather- ' and came through just fine." Seven further recommenda- tions were made to the board. They were that all schools in Huron be encouraged to develop sound Outdoor Education pro- grams; that a department of ed- ucation course inOutdoor Educa- tion be offered in Huron in the near future, or if this is not fea- sible, that in-service session would be necessary; that a meth- od of co-ordinating an Out-door Education program be considered so that excessive use or over- crowding of an area would be avoided; that each school be responsible for conducting its own program and for determin- ing its own budget figure for that purpose; that Outdoor Edu- cation be a year-round activity not reserved only for warm, pleasant weather; that Outdoor Education be approached as an interdisciplinary subject - not just science by history, geogra- phy, art, language, physical edu- cation, agriculture, etc; and that schools in Huron be encouraged to make use of various areas to suit the subject matter. A Report From . Queens Park by Murray Gaunt,M.P.P. Five Government Depart- cial Auditor, William Groom, pared by private companies so that funds allocated annually can ments have phony invoices pre- Committee. if he supplied information on spending irregularities to the be used up before the fiscal He also said that educational year ends charged an official funds have been recklessly spent of the Provincial Auditor's De- for the sole purpose of using up partment this week when he ap- the allotted appropriations. At peared before the Legislature's the end of the fiscal year money Public Accounts Committee. is hurriedly spent on goods which Thomas Smith, an audit clerk are luxurious or unnecessary. for five years, told the Committee In other evidence submitted that information about the phony to the Committee Mr. Smith said invoices had been suppressed departments have little incentive and in some instances no action to adjust matters because errors had been taken. continue for months, even years, Mr. Smith charged that he after the sources are detected. had been threatened with dis- Mr. Smith said he discovered missal by the Assistant Provin- irregularities first in the Depart- ment of Education. He said he discovered that invoices certify- ing that the Education Department had received supplies were false. In fact, the goods had never been shipped, and were not available. The formal hearings into the Workmen's Compensation Board commenced this week with the major witnesses being Attorney General Dalton Bales and John Cauley, retired Vice Chairman of the Board, who made the orig- inal charges which resulted in setting up the hearing. Attorney General Bales said he was surprised when John Cauley offered to resign during a meeting in 1969. "There were a number of points I wanted to raise and dis- cuss with Mr. Cauley, but shortly after the meeting began he offered to resign and since this was ob- viously on his mind, I felt it was the best thing for him to do", said Mr. Bales. Mr. Bales indicated that as far as he was concerned the $62,000 paid to Mr. Cauley over 28 months was equivalent of salary on the basis of whatever sick and vacation credits he had with the Board, and in line with what was thought to be the general policy of the hoard. THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 26, 1972-3 considers new which occur is liniiteci only by the ingenuity of the teacher. At J.A.D.McCurdy Scho91 in Huron Park, there is an Outdoor club which. IS an extra,-curricu- lar activity. About 60 children turn up after school hours for activities in the outdoors. The committee noted that since the community finds diffi- culty in providing leadership for Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides, the school is finding it necessary to give• the type to training previously offered by those organizations. A side effect has been that leaders for the future are being trained • and already, high school students are helping out with elementary school students for various outdoor projects. In the five county high schools a variety of outdoor education activities are provided, but at South Huron District High School in Exeter, a more concentrated program is offered than anywhere else in the, county. There the total Grade 9 class goes to a science camp for a three-day period under the sup- ervision of their teachers, and the Grade 13 biology class a three-day jaunt to Stokes Bay where the students "live in anoth- er world" and enjoy educational hiking expeditions with a biology flavor. There are other outings for SHDHS classes throughout the year as well, but these jaunts are shorter and less involved. South Huron school also has an Outers Club which is volun- tary - and very popular with the students. They enjoy campouts in the fall and the winter, hikes and canoe trips and have employ- ed various and ingenious methods to raise funds fora fleet of canoes for their members. One of the leading lights for the SHDHS Outers Club is teach-