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The Brussels Post, 1978-11-15, Page 16Zurich board of education woman. from Kincardine, trustee Herb Turkheirn scold, In a letter to the board 'la ed the board's administrative Kayes, co-ordinator of stud, staff for what he called poor ent services, informed the hiring. practices.T.uritheimpt , board that Karen Stewart Of jected to an announcement Kincardine, had been by the board's administrative, hired at $3.70 an hour as Staff that a secretarial posit- secretary for student services,. ion at the board's Clinton Kayes said 53 applications Offices had been filled by a had been. received .for the job and that seven candidates had, been intervjewed.„Sbe recommended that Stewart be given the job, Turkheim said he felt it was "bad for us (the board)." to hire someone from outside the county when so many applications had been .rec- eived from people living in Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Time to remember JUICE Treesweet Grapefruit Orange or Colonial COOKIES FRENCH FRIES ihEfs CREAM CirmilikeeFITERS .89 .59 .89 .79 3/.99 .99 .79 454 grm 907 grm. 2 L. 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For truck, tractor or equipment, Prestolite batteries mean dependability, We have them for every, vehicle • See us first! SEAFORTH 527-0120 16 THE, BRUSSELS POST, NOVEMBER 15, 1978 Hire in Huron,. trustee suggests if this column appears in you , fa , i. community newspaper two .0ays 'to weeks two months after Rcine!, *), tike Day, 6010 :flame me, Blame the 1A.-4 d'fice. As the most arrogant,. nt loxious union i 1.;.1cla is at it again. ft, :tin to her why we had to put them up night. Ur the time I went off to a one-day zone rally with a neighbour, a Great War vet, a charter member of the Legion and a respectable citizen. And we arrived home two days later looking like skeletons and acting like a couple of veterans from the Boer War. But that's not, of course, the kind of thing I can use in my speech. No. I'll have to talk about comradeship, the flag; the Queen, the fallen, throwing the torch, the many scholarships the Legion provides, the lovely dinner prepared by the Ladies Auxiliary, and all that jazz. Lest we forget. What I'd really like to do is discuss topics closer to the hearts of, the average legionnaire: what you could get for a pack of smokes in Antwerp in 1944; how come a colleagUe of mine, who fought with Rommel in North Africa, gets a bigger, war pension from the German government that I do from the Canadian; how many girls there were 'to the square yard in Picadilly Circus on a summer evening; how anybody who belie'ved in democracy and equality could volunteer to serve in such a fascist outfit as the military. But no. That would never do. Not with the Ladies Auxiliary hanging around, drinking in every word: And making sure their spouses drank in nothing except words. I'll probably have tti drop in a few heroic' and imaginary personal experiences, stress the importance to the boys in arms of Those At Home, toss off an anecdote or two about Churchill, speak in hushed and reverent tones of those who got the chop, and belabor the gov ernment for not giving veterans a pension that would put them-within a stone's throw of civil service pensioners. It's going to be tough. I am not a reverent person. I still think it will be a great day for Canada when there are only five legionnaires left in this country, all of them in their nineties, and they get together and sell the 28 million dollars of assets of the Canadian Legion, and squander the whole works on a three-week trip to G:ty Farce. It will mean we haven't been in a war for fifty odd years, And it will probably mean that, after three weeks, there are no more Canadian legionnaires on the face of the earth. But I'll do my best. I can always give the Germans a verbal thumping, and bewail the fact that after being thoroughly licked,. they could buy the whole of Canada tomorrow, if they wished. That should go over. Huron, "Out of the 48 or 49 that applied there had to be at least one qualified enough to be interviewed," said the Zurich trustee. "It's tough to be a representative •in Huron County when we hire outside ,the county, John Cochrane, director of education, took exception to the remarks by Turkheim and told the Zurich trustee that the administration had adhered to board policy. He said Kayes had background in office work and had interviewed the candidates with superintendant Don Kenwell. He said he was confident both were capable of screening applicants and handling interviews and had ace e pted their recommend- ations. The director pointed out that the board's hiring policy states that a certain percent- age of the applicants for any position as non-teaching per- sonnel had to be interviewed. It does not say what that percentage should be nor does it stipulate that a person must live in Huron County to be eligible to work in the county, He said the person hired was an exceptional typist and was a graduate of the one year secretarial arts pro- gramme at Fanshawe Col- lege in London. He added that she was the best of the applicants for that position. Cochrane said he detected "innuendos" from comments from trustees and fie "re- sented the implication that we (administration) pulled some kind of shady deal". He said that "simply didn't happen" adding that if the board wasn't happy with the policy it could "change it and we would follow any policy set down". is, thery):;;:es . have their' 'it' they are so intransigent that the :any vestige they might have , retli -;blic support, .after so many strikt .„, t._-w years. And their erstwhile 'Q: , Monsieur Parrott, was full of crap .then he declared there was union solidarity. Even as he said it, hundrtclsof small town , post office staffs had either not bons )ut at or were back to work, obeying the law. However, that -has little to do with. Remembrance Day, 1978. Unless it.happens to strike a responsive chord in all those -cterans who went to war thinking they were righting for freedom not anarchy. A couple of years ago, I thought I had. coresworn writing • columns about Remcm- ')rance Day. I thought I'd ,.said everything I could about it: the memories, the lump in the throat as The Last Post was played in the chill November air; the swapping of enormous lies at the Legion Hall • after the parade. But this year,. I was a bit miffed when a zealous Zone Commander down in the Brockville area accused me in the - press of "knocking" the Canadian Legion, just because l did not genuflect every time the name came up. I retorted, also in the press, that it was rather odd that a chap who was invited on . an average of twice a year to address Legion branches, should be so accused. Well, it all caught up with me. This year, in a weak moment and harassed by two old buddies who were well into the grape, I agreed to guest speak at the first Legion ,de branch I ever joined, on. Remembrance Day. My wife wasn't that hilarious about the idea. She recalled a few instances when I had been up to no particular good with that branch. Like the night I got home at 4 a.m.. after a turkey raffle, tottered up the stairs, called, "Look what I brought you, sweetie," and flang a thirty-pound turkey, neck, legs, nid all onto the bed beside her. Which. ,romptly collapsed, leaving her on the floor In the embrace of a very cold; very dead turk. As I recall, we dined not on hot turkey, but hot tongue and cold shoulder, next day. Or the time 1 brought home four Indian guys, good legionnaires all, insisted that they'd make me an honorary chief, and tried Forage conference Farmers are reminded of the Forage Conference to be held at the Skyline Hotel, Toronto, December 13th and 14 th, 1978. The Conference, sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food, the Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement As- sociation and the University of Guelph will feature 60 top speakers (30 of which are fariners) from Canada and the U.S.A. on forages. The program will include separate sessions for each producers grottp ; exhibits as well as personnel from corn- panies servicing forage pro, ducers. In addition, a ladies program will be held. A copy Of the • proceddings will be provided to all participants. Further prOgrant details and application forms are available at the Agricultural Office.