The Huron Expositor, 1997-01-22, Page 5Request tabled
On Jan. 7 Soafordi Council
referred so this year's budget
process a reest from The
Huron Adult Day Centre for
$1.350 to offset its deficit of
510.000. Tke request is
based on 13 clients iron,
Seaford) participating out of
a total of 96 clients in
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This year
is off to a bizarre start
Yes, were off to a ` such lovely sounding names amazing pan of the story is
fantastically freaky start in Williani
like Tupac Atnant,the hundred1997 with early incidentsta Mujahedin, the'Rbntons she blew by several hundcars, driving in their passing
promising a year even Macoutes, and the Eagles of lane and managed to miss
stranger than last year, the Thomas - the Revolution yet the so- every damn one of them. This
one that's in the Guinness called good guys who are is an incredible feat.
Book of World Records, as supposed w destroy thein, 1 say get this woman off the
"the oddest of alt times." like the FBI. have names that highway and on to a
Over the holidays. a 20- sound like feminine hygiene NASCAR racetrack. 1 mean
year-old Vancouver man who products? think about what she could
had been waving a .357 And in the middle of the do sober,:in broad daylight.
Magnum revolver around in a ' night on New Year's Eve we going in the same direction as
street fight, jammed the gun had a young woman from all the other cars.!
down his pants when a police nearby Pon Colborne drive And as if my immediate
cruiser arrived. Ooh, don't 32 kilometers down the QEW- weird little world is not
you hate those hairtriggers'. i highway the wrong way. closing in around me fast
The gun went off blowing According to police. this .. enough, yesterday morning a
away both the man's testicles woman had only a neighbour who lives just
and most of his penis. probationary licence which down the lake from me.
The next day. an Angus + prohibits- her from driving at .knocks on my door. steps into
Reid poli was published night and on major highways. the kitchen and hands me ... I
showing 63% of Canadians Ilrrrr And even probationary swear I'm not snaking this up
believe in miracles. (Make 10 licences don't permit the , • ... an original. un -doctored
that 63.01% Angus. the guyAnother gun.went off in Las bearer to drink under age, •photograph of O.J. Simpson
in Vancouver wasn't homeVegas not long ago killing drink over the legal limit of wearing Bruno Magri shoes.
when you called.,rap star Tupac Shakur. And alcohol or drive over the He asked me what it might
Coincidence'' • almost immediatcf} ... legal: speed limit ... -all things Worth. (Nothing to me. of
And right around the time with which she's since been
that the gun went off. ("Excuse me Miss. I really charged. course. 1 know that phony
wanted the One -Pack Amarowas guilty from day one.)
thousands of miles away. Sunfor Christmas but my wife It's actually safer to hve so Last I heard, enlargements
Yagng. China's last royal. bought me the Two -Pack close to a driver like this had been made and couriered
eunuch died at the age of 93. Amaro. I believe the one 1 because now 1 simply phone to Florida where negotiations
Coincidence? 1 don't think wanted is Semon scented. Du her neighbour to see if her with the National Inquirer
so. you mind if 1 exchange it?" t car's in the driveway. If her were intensifying.
Vancouver surgeon: "Ah the Tupac Amaro took -40(' car's not there. I stay home.: In your wildest. Nyquil-
- Bob. we got'some rather bad political party goers hostage This unbelievable episode enhanced. dreams, did you
news about your ... ahem . • • in Lima, Peru. Coincidence'' has spawned a new branch of ever think O.J. Simpson
you know private pans. Yeah probably. 1 don't see a national organization called might finally be found. guilty
They're no longer members any connection between Los M.A.D.D.D. or Mothers on evidence found here in _
of the immediate. f1 mih'.-Bob' Angeles gang violence and Against Daughters Driving Wainfleet.'Ontario.
if you know what 1 mean. • Drunk. Oh yeah, 1997 is going to
the social unrest in South y g €
_ The good news is...: if youAmencti. (Boy, you're even On top of everything else, be a real beauty alright!
don't mind Chinese food more paranoid than 1 am!)she wound up dead last on
• seven days a week ....we got Have you ever noticed how - 1997 list of Canada's
- a job at the palace waiting for. designated drivers.
some terrorist groups have.Of course, the must
-you.
• Second hand smoke third leading cause of lung cancer
CONTINUED from page 4 . - we can do something about. SHS Pram restaurants and
aiettes - From the -smallest village to bars will help to protect food-.
We.also know that: the largest metropolitan area. - service workers from serious
• a burning cigarette releas- every community will follow health risks. .
es more than 4.000 -toxins a slightly different process to Puhlic approval for smoke -
into the air and more than 43 become smoke-free. Action free places is very high.
of these can cause cancer ' begins with community con -While some people say they
• SHS is the•third leading cern. We need to ict our oppose smoke-free by-laws.
".cause of lung cancer after munccipat representatives municipalities with 100 per
active smoking and indoor know that we support 100 per cent smoke free restaurants
- radon - cent smoke-free public.
and bars report strong public
• bar and restaurant workers places. Creating puhlic support. Speak out on sec -
have a -50 per cent greater awareness of the health risks c►nd-hand smoke and hetpao
risk of lung. cancer because of of SHS and showing our sup- enact by-laws for 100 per
SHS port ftir by-laws that elimi- cent smoke-free public places
• SHS is - the, third leading natc.SHS .from puhlic places in your community by•writ-
cause ,of_preventable death is part of the Canadian ing or phoning your munici-
after active -smoking and Cancer Society's work to pal representative today!
alcohol abuse. - protect -health and save lives. •
Most Canadians - 70 per Protecting non-smokers and
cent choose not to smoke. - children against the health
- But we have no.choice about.. risks of SHS will help to pre- _
breathing second-hand vent cancer. a leading -killer
. smoke. This is one•pruhlem of Canadians. Eliminating
Huron board spends below provincial average
challenge a,td will require
hundreds of hours of deliber-
ations. Board assets. liabili-
ties. collective agreements
with teachers and -employee
groups, board policy and.pro-
cedures. school year calen-
dars. school program offer-
ings like Junior Kindergarten.
etc. must be harmonized' and
rationalized.
Not only do we -not have all
of the answers...we arc still
pondering the questions to
ask'. These questions and
answers will affect every stu-
dent. parent and taxpayer in
Huron County.
Ian Munro
President
Huron-Pertli Unit
Canadian Cancer Satiety
CONTINUED from page 4
School Board. Those elected
representatives will have
-responsibility • without
authority". -The governance
of schools is gradually. being
tamed over to a group of par-
ent volunteers in Advisory
School Councils. The
Minister announced that
these school count:its will
hitvc strengthened advisory
. roles in program offerings.
codes of discipline and
reporting on pupil achieve-
ment. There is no indication
the councils will have any
money to support their deci-
sions..
• The government promises a
fairer and more equitable dis-
tribution of funds to. support
education. This.promisc does
offer some hope to a Huron
Puhlic Education System
which has been, frugal and
underfunded for years. The
Huron Board spends approxi-
mately 54501) on educational
spending -per elementary stu-
dent year. Some boards spend
twice this hfnount. and it is
significantly below the
provincial average. The
Board. the teachers along
with the Board's other
employee groups have nego-
tiated in good faith to keep
•the quality of education high
and affordable in Huron
County.
Rationalization and amalga-
mation with the Perth Board
of Education to form the new
Huron -Perth District School
Board will be -a mono►^.
Paul Dyck.
President, Huron District,
Ontario Puhlic School
Teachers' Federation
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