The Citizen, 1999-12-15, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15,.1999.
Grey gives $2,800 to cemetery
The regular meeting of Grey
Twp. council was held on Dec. 6
and Council approved accounts
totalling $301,529.71 for payment.
Grants of $2800 to the Cranbrook
Cemetery and $25 to the Wingham
and Area Palliative Care Services
were authorized for 1999.
Community deeply angry says Smith
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"The Seaforth community is
deeply angry. Many of the high
school students expected in those
four schools (surrounding Seaforth)
will be no-shows,” said Smith.
“Some will drop out, some will
switch to home schooling, some will
go to private schools, many will go
to the Catholic high schools in
Clinton and Stratford. Why would
the students and parents choose the
old Central Huron Secondary
School when the same bus ride
would take them to the brand
new St. Anne’s high school?” he
said.
Smith said that by closing SDHS,
the board will lose over $6,000 for
each student who chooses to leave
Council endorsed a resolution
from the Town of Fenelon Falls
petitioning the province to allow'
foreign doctors to practice- in
Ontario and to increase the number
of first-year medical school
positions available.
Council also endorsed a
resolution from the Twp. of
the public system and accelerate
other high school closures through
out the district.
“It’s a horribly divisive and self
destructive process and what will be
left is years of bitterness in our
communities,” he told trustees.
SDHS council chair Maureen
Agar told trustees she’s insulted by
the board’s request that parent vol
unteers need to find an alternate but
equivalent reduction of student
spaces and overhead costs and
increase in revenue.
“I never really figured that the
board is too incompetent to find
these themselves and have to get
volunteers to find them for them,”
she said.
Instead, she demanded that on
Middlesex Centre asking the
federal government to consider a
license fee based on square footage
for the playing of music in
community centres and halls rather
than the present system of the
Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
levy per function.
Dec. 14, the board pass a motion to
make no school closures until June
of 2002 and that administration and
non-teaching staff take a voluntary
15 per cent wage cut to be used to
operate all schools in the district.
Agar quoted from a study by Dr.
Al Lauzon of the University of
Guelph’s school of rural extension
studies that says school closures
actually lead to greater costs.
Smaller schools and classes have
superior performance, busing has a
detrimental effect on student health
and family life and busing stops stu
dents from participating in extra
curricular activities.
“Be trend-setters, not home
wreckers and look at all other
options,” she told trustees.
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Dec. 24-9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Dec. 30-9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Dec. 31-9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CLOSED JAN. 1, 2 & 3
Jan. 4-9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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