The Citizen, 2006-12-07, Page 21It is with sadness that we view the
closing of the BLYTH APOTHECARY.
We would like to take this opportunity
to wish Dan and his staff a well
deserved rest.
We would also like to invite Blyth area
patients to have their medication refills
transferred to our store in Clinton. To
arrange for a quick and complete
transfer of your records please call us
at 519-482-5037 for details.
Rob Klein Pharmacist
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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2006. PAGE 21.
March Madness has new meaning for school bds.
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
For fans of U.S. college
basketball, "March Madness" means
a dizzying schedule of important
match-ups.
But for school board officials in
Huron and Perth Counties, it has an
entirely different meaning: relief
from the risk of significant draw-
downs on reserve funds.
At meetings last week, both the
Huron-Perth Catholic and Avon
Maitland District School Boards
revealed what were described as
small surpluses in the finalized
paperwork of the 2005-06 school
year. In both cases, credit for those
surpluses went largely to the cluster
of so-called "over and above"
funding announcements from the
provincial government during
March, 2006.
"We received a tremendous
amount of other provincial support
that we didn't know for sure was
going to be there when we set the
budget," explained Huron-Perth
business superintendent Gerry
Thuss, following a presentation to
December's guest artist at the
Goderich Co-op Gallery will be
Lenore Walker. Techniques she
specializes in are glazing, and
layering in oils and acrylics, mural
painting and decorative ornaments.
Walker is an active member of the
Southampton Art Gallery and
teaches at its school. She also
teaches in the winter in Guelph.
A native of Niagara, Walker
continues to be inspired by Lakes
Erie and Ontario and their
surrounding districts. She has
"borrowed" her husband's lake,
Huron and her summer studio is in
Southampton.
Paul Cousteils will be the feature
Goderich Co-op member for
December.
Cousteils first became interested
in drawing and painting at 10 years
of age when recovering from an
injury. His father gave him a set of
oil paints when he was 12.
Cousteils encouraged in his
creativity by his family and an
artistic neighbour took courses and
exhibited in the Channel Islands of
England, especially Jersey. Later he
attended the Ontario College of Art,
switching to acrylic paints when he
became allergic to the solvents used
in oil painting.
Favourite topics include figures,
landscapes, surrealism, portraits, and
animal, sometimes painted in the
abstract manner. Recent awards
include the first prize in the Huron
County Museum show of 2004 and
the first prize in the 2003 Marine Art
Show.
OPP issue
12-hour
• suspensions
This past weekend was a busy for
one for the Huron OPP, with the first
weekend of the holiday season,
RIDE was out in full force.
A total of 1,355 cars were stopped
throughout the whole county,
leading to three roadside tests,
resulting in two 12-hour
suspensions.
Charges laid under the Liquor
License Act counted in at six, two
were charged under the Highway
Traffic Act and one charge was laid
under the Controlled Substance Act.
trustees on Monday, Nov. 27.
At that point, the board's 2005-06
financial statements had not been
audited, but he expected there will
be no alterations before trustees
approve the audited versions, likely
in January.
In creating the 2005-06 budget
back in the spring of 2005, Thuss
had predicted the government would
come through with funds part-way
through the year for some key
initiatives.
But no details were available at the
time, so administrative staff had to
plan for taking as much as $500,000
out of the board's Working' Fund
Reserve.
But thanks largely to what Avon
Maitland business superintendent
Janet Baird-Jackson terms "March
Madness," however, that never
happened. She noted there were a
couple of announcements in
February and separate relief from the
government when transportation-
dependent boards were hit with high
fuel costs, but most of the extra
money flowed in March.
Thuss tallied the amount allocated
throughout the year to the Huron-
He has volunteered many designs
for local theatrical productions.
Artisan's tables can also be viewed
during December and some packs of
the holiday cards featuring
Perth board by the government, over
and above what was initially
provided in the 2005-06 education
grants, at $1.9 million.
"That's very significant," he
stated.
As a result, no funds were taken
from the working fund reserve and
the Catholic board ended up with
another $20,402 (unaudited) after
the year-end of Aug. 31, 2006. In
January, a recommendation will
come before trustees to place that
small surplus into reserves.
At the Avon Maitland board,
where the planned draw-down of the
working fund reserve wasn't as
drastic, the injection of "over and
above" funding translated into a
much larger surplus of $568,480.
After a meeting between the board's
auditors and its finance committee
on Tuesday, Nov. 28, trustees
subsequently approved both the
audited financial statements and the
transferral of that surplus into
reserves.
According to Baird-Jackson, the
board's Working Fund Reserve now
stands at about $1.376 million.
"While that may seem like a big
members' work are still available.
The Co-op is open Monday to
Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and is
always staffed by a working artist.
Call 519-440-0523 for more
number for an individual, it's not
much more than one per cent of our
annual revenues," the Avon Maitland
business superintendent cautioned.
Still, she expressed recognition that
the government eased the pain by
allocating extra funds through the
year.
Alex John Smith
May 18
son of
Mike & Laura
Smith
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