Times-Advocate, 1978-11-09, Page 31 (2)Stays with present company
Board renews insurance
By JEFP SEDDON
' The Huron County Boar
of Education did not want t
, take the chance that tender
ing for insurance coverage
for board owned And
operated equipment' may
leave it with increased
premiums or no insurance a
all and decided to continue
• -7-buying it3TaVera'ge fromihe
Frank Cowan- Company
Limited.
Colborne township trustee
Shirley Hazlitt suggested
.that the board may save
some money by calling for
tenders for insurance
coverage after the k board
was told its insurance costs
. Would be going up. Hazlitt
said that. if those insurance
costs were going to keep go-
ing up annually.tit may be
wise for the board to call for'
tenders. She added that the
board has not compared
prices through tender. in a
aurftber.of years.
Bodt'd chalet an John
Elliott' reminded Hazlitt
that the last time the board
called for tenders it •h d
previously • hired an . i
surance•ronsultant td deter-
minewhat insurance was
needed. Elliott said the
board would have to.be.very
specific before it called for
tenders or it would get -
tenders "all over the place"
and would have a very dif-
ficult time determining
which was best. •
Hazlitt argued that
superintendent of business
,Roy Dunlop should be aware
of what the board needed
after dealing with 'the
board's insurancJcoverage
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Fitness test
Continued from page 17
acceptable to complete the
full nine minutes.
The strength testjollowed
and here our young assistant
knew he was in trouble when
the hand grip meas ed
something in the 50 rang
Realizing how, badly he
would be over -shadowed he
managed to break the
testing machine. - by strip-
ping the threads on the han-
dle.
The final test was for flex-
ibility. This is measured
through a series of sit-ups
and by pushing a gauge
along a ruler while in a sit-
ting position on the floor. '
Creech entered a protest
when he noticed the lithe
body of the editor moving
the gauge along, with his
slim fingers and decided he.
would have to come up with
a super effort in the sit-ups .
to regain his falling com-
posure.
The test was to see how
many he could do in one
minute. He started out like a
house on fire and was up to
28 in the first 45 seconds and
then he literally collapsed.
managing to force his body
into four more in the last 15
'seconds.
However. he was obvious-
ly still certain he could win
that one and he was gloating
noticeably when the editor
hit the floor to proceed.
We followed his example
and started out at a steady
pace. but managed to main-
tain it to post three more on
our score card than he had.
All that remained was for
the evaluation. the Feal key
being the resting rate of the
heart. The chart indicated a
figure of under 70 indicated
a good physical condition.
'The writer's was listed at
62!
We won't say what Tom's
was. but it is interesting to
note that he now hesitates to
writ�tthe customary "30" at
fiend of his news stories.
Perhaps that number' t
reminds him of holy far t
above the editor's he was?
Oh well. looks can be c
deceiving!
during his tenure at t
d board. She said that Dun
and The board's audij
should be able to do the j
of a consultant.
Dunlop told the board
was very difficult to dete
. mine what insurance tend
t was best adding that he w
"not competent enough
ti itr!lfra re—t-0-'
tenders".
Dunlop told the board th
Frank Cowan handles
great deal.of the insuran
for municipalities in .t
area. He said the firm h
not increased its insuran
- rates but that replaceme
costs for board own
materi 1 has gone up. He e
plaine that the insuran
he education may feel the
lop board was ilguilty of mis-
or management.
ob Seaforth trustee John.
Henderson wondered why
it 'the board carried insurance
r- policies for vehicles the
er board didn't own. The policy
as costs the board about 11,700
in annually.�
rdf1))e i ffiott explained that the
insurance for non -owned
at vehicles covered buses the
a board leased or hired
ce through contract and
he vehicles driven .by trustees
as on board business.
ce "I use my own car and in-
nt sure it myself.' -1 said
ed Henderson. "Why does_ the
x- board have to carry in-
ce surance for that."
cover ge is based o
replac ment value and as i
flation makes that replac
ment costlier then insuran
will go up accordingly.
Hazlitt pointed out that
the board continued to de
• with one firm when purcha
ing insuran2e year. aft
.year it was very easy to g
0 into a "state of status quo"
Dunlop said many boar
had tried to cut insuranc
costs by calling for tende
and have ended up with n
coverage at all. He sa
firms- that deal with th
number of insurance com
panies needed to handle th
board's requirements ar
limited and may not respon
to a tender call. He said h
-*nein that Cowan's polic
was not to respond t
tenders.
• Elliott, who is an in
.surance •.broker, told the
board he v7anted to •be ver
careful of his input into th
discussion because h
wanted to avoid any conflic
of interest. FIe explained tha
to handle the board's in
surance needs a broke
would have to have dealing
with several insurance com
panies. He said no one in
surance company offere
the varied policies the board
purchased and a broker had
to be able to assemble the
quired policies for board
a royal.
' he discussion arose afte
Dunlop offered the board
some alternatives to in
surance policies to either
reduce costs or add needed
coverage. The recomthen
dations came from Cowan
through Dunlop and the
board dealt with each on an
ittdivOual basis. -
One of the changes was
the insurance coverage on
the North Ashfield School
building. The building was
heavily insured by the board
and according to Wingham
trustee Jack Alexander the
in urance is not necessary.
Cowan recommended that
the board reduce its
coverage oPthe school which
is not being used and is
probably going to be sold by
the board. The present
licy insured the building
at a replacement value of
1216.000 and the contents at
123.000 Cowan suggested
that it be reduced to 850.000
on the building and -110.'000
on the contents.
Alexander said he had
recently been in the building
and told the board that he
"didn't have' to be an in-
surance appraisor to go in
there and tell you 110.000 in-
surance is too much". Alex-.
ander said the cost to carry
the insurance is a waste of
taxpayer's dollars. He
recommended insurance of
the contents be dropped en-
tirely.'
Elliott told the board that
it must consider what jig
gone into the school. H said
the property is_ now valued
at about 140,000 but the
board had to keep in mind
he tax money that was used
o put the school there. He
Suggested that if the board
arried no insurance on the
property the ministry of
n Elliott pointed out that the
n- policy was third party in-
e- surance. He said in case of
ce an accident someone could
sue Henderson and th'e.bioarsk
if of education because the
al trustee was on board
s- - business. He said that policy
er - was primarily to protect the
et board.
- Exeter trustee Clarence.
ds McDonald -said the• consul -
e tant the board hired to ex-
rs. amine its insurance had
o reported that the board was
id getting a good deal from its
e insurance brokers. He
- reminded the board that the
e recommendation from the
e consultant was tlit no
d changes be made.
e. Elliott cautioned the
y board against hiring a con -
o sultant suggesting that the
costs for the consultant may
be more than the board'
would save. He said he felt
y that if the board went Shop-
e ping for insurance it
e wouldn't do better than it
t was doing now.
t -
Fifty at._
roc event"'
d About 50 attended the
Lake Duron Zone of
O.M.R.A.anniial conference
held October 28, in
Goderich.
The C
ce was
✓ chaired by President, Jack
Bird of Ciwen Sound. Jack
- f Riddell, Provincial member
of parliament brought
greetings from the Ontario
- government and Mayor
Shewfelt welcomed
delegates to Goderich. Jim
Chalmers of . Welland spoke
. on behalf of O.M.R.A.
K.W. Robinson R.D.M.R.
(FI of Peterbotough -
presented the keynote ad-
dress on "Who Does What"
in recreation stressing that
bigger is not always better
and the need for factual in-
formation and well orgarliz-
�d business procedures. The
success of a recreation com-
mittee, he said. is dependent
on the decisions made by
that committee and how
they are carried out.
Four participant
workshops covered topics of
(1 i Who Does What in. the
Directed Community. (21
The Real Role of the Non-.'
' Directed Recreation Com-
mittee. (31 Municipal
Recreation and the Arts and
(41 Sharing the Cost - the
Government and You.
Resource people for the
workshops included Dave
Wenger and Elmer Wick of
Mount Forest, Gorft '
McGarvey of Kincardine.
Mike Dymond of Goderich,
Clair Fowler and Bill
Coulter of Port Elgin, Clare
Christie of Owen Sound.
Marg Gavtller and Marilyn
Struthers of Grey Bruce
Arts Council. Ruth Wolfe of
Clifford, Jim Zettel,
Hanover and Bud Batton. Al
Sinclair. Melanie
McLaughlin, Consultants,
Ministry of Culture and
Recreation'.
Attending from Exeter
were Kirk- Armstrong and
Kenley Campbell.
REMEMBER W R DEAD — Master of ceremonies Andy Bierling solutes during the Remembrance Day service at the Exeter
cenotaph, Sunday'Behind him is Legion padre the Rev. George Anderson and Tined up re some of those who laid wreaths on
behalf of government, educational, service and commercial organizations. Staff photo
Large crowd remembers
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Warde6d not just statistics
"Millions were slain in the
wars, but it's real cost can
only come home to us when
we remember that each one
slain wasnot just a regimen-
tal number, a cypher in a
column of statistics. but
someone's? brother,
someone's husband.
someone's father,
someone's son." .com-
rr#nted the Rev. George
Anderson in his address at
the annual Remembrance
Day service held'this year at
Trivitt Memorial Church.
The unseasonably warm
weather attracted one of the
largest parades in recent
years and the church service
• was followed by the wth
laying service at •the
• cenotaph. -
"War cut down the flower
of the nation's youth in both
wars," Rev. Anderson
noted. "The leaders we so
sorely need today were
slain. A terrible waste, and
yet these young men were
bound to be the first to res-
pond to the call of duty and
sacrifice."
The R.E. Pooley branch
Area churchesp lan
to conduct mission_.
The Reverend Brotherjay Cbristian education and
Launt, O.H.C., will conduct liturgical studies. His in -
five day Mission in tersts also include racquet -
November, sponsored by ball, squash and cooking.
three area Churches -- • (He reportedly cooks "a
Grace Church. Greenway: mean Chili" based on an Air
St. Paul's, Thedford: and St.. Force recipe which feeds
Anne's. Port Franks, The, three hundred. Scaling the
Mission commences recipe down to smaller
Wednesday, November 15. -gatherings requires con -
and concludes Sunday, siderable care. especially
November 19. with the,seasoning. ) Brother
Brother Jay is a life Jay has just returned from a
professed . member of the two-week visit to Israel.
Order of the Holy Cross, a From his work experience
religious (monasti ) order and his nine years as a monk
for men in the Knglican in the Order of the Holy
Communion. Holy Cross Cross. Brother Jay brings to
operates houses in Canada, his ministry a wide and
the United States, West enthusiastic grasp of parish
Africa and the Bahamas. A and diocesan life in the
companion order for ChristianChurch.
women, the Order of St. Readers who are familiar
Helena, operates in the with Missions to foreign
United States and the countries may find the idea
Bahamas. ' of a Mission in Southwestern
A monk for nine years, Ontario rather curious. Mis-
Brother Jay at age 31 is the sion organizers report that
prior (appointed head). of the purpose of MISSION '78
Holy Cross Priory in Toron- is to share and spread the
to. The Toronto priory. es- Christian faith through
tablished In 1973. is the only building a sense of Christian
Canadian -based foundation Community.
of the -Order. Brother Jay By sharing our faith and
has been in charge of the our thoughts. we strengthen
Order's Canadian operations our own faith. and we get to
since November of 1976. know the other participants
A native of southern in a new and closer way.
California. Brother Jay MiSSION '78 promises to be
served a,s a medic in the a truly rewarding ex -
U.S. Air Force in the Philip- perience for all who take
pines and in Texas. His work part in it.
as a medic in the mid to late -- - -
1906's ranged from intensive
care on Vietnam wounded to Good profit
pediatric care of military
dependents. He attended •
Orange Coast College. Costa from sales -
Mesa, California. and the f
University of Texas at A homemaker' service
Austin. - raised more than 11.000
Brother Jay specializes in Saturday by selling old
. household trappings and
*"e home baking in.Wingham.
• . Organizers said more than
500 persons rummaged
through plies of clothes.
books, housewares and toys.
as well as carrying off tasty
treats from the sale, held to
raise money for the Huron
County Town and Country
Homemakers.
Ruperta Milligan, the
group's treasurer,.said the
rummage sale was a greater
success than expected.
Some of the items were
leftovers brought in from
bazaars in Kitchener and
Toronto. said administrator
Jean Young. The
• homemakers received
"tremendous respon3e"
when the group advertised
for donations of unwanted
possessions.•she said. ,
Organizers said the money
will be used to of(pet rateh
charged for the group's ser-
' vices. it employs 71 persons
as cleaners. babysitters,
live-in homemakers or com-
panions.
LAY WREATHS — Reg McDonald, left, who helps organize Exeter's annual Remembrance Day Activities, is flanked by some of
the people who placed wreaths at the event. Staff photo
Legion Padre explaiped that
people often compare the
casualties suffered in
various wars and tend to im-
ply there is nothing to coin -
plain about yvhen fewer are
killed in. one battle than
another. -
"If your husband or your
son is killed in action. does it
•really lessep the blow to
know that only 20.000 others
were killed instead of
40.000?" he questioned.
"I am not attacking the
use of statistics. that would
be foolishness; but I am at-
tacking the kind of mentali-
ty that seeks to play the
numbers game and --yet
forgets to see the iTnpor-
tance of the individual:
"We must see the cost of
war in personal terms, in
the individual lives of peo-
ple. Each casualty is not
just a statistic.- not just
someone's -brother. but your
brother. my brother.
everyone's brother."
He said Remembrance
Day was a tithe to stop and
ask why. but added that "we
must continually ask why
they died lest we forget the
reason for their sacrifice•'.
�yA
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Rev. Anderson told his
congregation they must seek
to understand the purpose
that called forth the courage
of those who fought and
died. "Was that purpose to
make us rich and -comfor-
table? Did they die for the
.kind of world jn which we
now live?"
He concluded by saying
the greatest act of remem-
brance must not be a form of
nostalgia. but rather a
desire to live for God and
you fellow men. a
marchin th into the
future. hand in hand with
our Saviour. wit " the pur-
pose of ensuring that the
sacrifice and courage of our
fallen comrades may live
on. in your life. my )ife. in
all our lives.
Joining in the parade were
members of the Legion.
Legion Auxiliary. Huron -
Middlesex Cadet Corps.
Cubs, Scouts. Brownies and'
Guides.
Wreaths were laid by
provincind civic
' representatives asl well as
members of several local
and area organizations and
businesse' ' -
Times -Advocate, November q, 1978 Page 31
Four pleaduuilt
g y
in Fleck incidents
Four guilty pleas were against Janet Towle, •123.
entered and several charges Empress Ave., Huron Park;
dropped in provincial court Christiane Somann, 435 St.
in Exeter Tuesdayas Judge Lawrence Ave., Huron
Fred Olmstead bei. hear
_Park-Jaas}es•Gelins,.J0 Nu't
Ing' cases s emming from St., London; and Paul I9mile
• the strike at the Fleck Beauline, 76 Braubacker St.,
Manufacturing plant to Kitchener. were dropped.
Huron Park. . • •. Joint charges of possess -
The Fleck workers ,voted ing a dangerous weapon
Aug. 15 to accept a -two-year against Tim Earhart, 215
contract. ending a bitter 162- Erie St., St. Thomas; Joseph
day strike. it was thirst Doherty, -of Augusta Cres -
contract for the newly- cent. London: and Richard
formed United Auto Bartrant, RR - Delaware.
Workers union local -at the were also dropped.
auto parts firm. Charges of blocking a
- Daniel Wilkinson of 470 highway and obstructing'
,Wellington St.. Kitchener. ' police against Rene Mdn-
was fined 1300 after he ad- Lague. UAW plant chairman
mitted breaking windows in at Northern Telecom in Lon -
the plant March 30. don. were dropped last
Pompeo Marchelletta of month. .
162 Calneron St.. Windsor; About 17 persons still face •
pleaided guilty to breaking a charges. including UAW in -
car window during an loci- ternational representative
dent at the plant May 18 and . Al Seymour. Those cases
was fined 1300. have been adjourned gntil
John Edward Coleman of Nov. 23.
18 Stanley St.. Kitchener.
pleaded guilty to a charge of
ARBITRATION
wilful damage stemming Compulsory and bindthg
from- a'May 18 incident in arbitration should be used in
which the windshield of • all public and essential ser -
Fleck vice-president 'rant vice disputes in Canada.
Turner's car was br...4en. He says the Rev. A.C. Forrest,
was fined 1300 editor of The United Church
Wayne Randolph of 510 Observer.
Randolph St.. Windsor. was Strikes and lockouts
finded 1400 when he pleased "seem more and more to
guilty to assaulting -a plant hurt the people they• are
security guard May 18. meant to help". the editor
Olmstead also ordered says in the . magazine's
,Wilkinson. Marchelletta and Novehiber issue - which can --
Coleman to make restitution not be delivered until the
for damage present postal 'strike has
Charges of wilful damage "been cleared up.
Admission :tests
Individuals without the
high school credits normally
'required for university ad-
mission. who are over 21
years of age. and who have -
spent at least two years in
• the work force may, still be
able to enrol for university
studies as mature students
The University of Guelph'
enrols a number of such
students each January. May.
and September in its
freshman classes. and many
of them do extremely well in
their university studies.
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An admission test is nor-
mally required prior to
.enrolment in- the B.A.
program in order to gauge
the prospective student's
likelyhood of success This
is an aptitude test and is not
a "knowledge test" based on
prior schooling. and a stu-
dent cannot prepare for the
test by means of advance
studying. The test is not
designed to intimidate can-
didates.
Admission tests are held
throughout the Year at the
t:niversity of Guelph for
mature students. The next
tests •will be held on Satur-
day. October 21 and on
Saturday. November 18
Anyone interested in enroll-
ing as a mature student at
the University of Guelph
should•contact Penny
Dukelow •in the Admissions
section of the Office of the
Registrar. • Pennv's
telephone number is 824=
4120. extension 8714. or you
,may write' to her at the
University of Guelph.
Guelph. Ont.. NIG 2W1.
NEW TEACHERS IN HURON —, A number of new teachers attended the'fofl banquet of the Huron Unit of the Federated
Women Teachers Association of Ontario held recently. Above, director of region -1 Mrs. Nessie Moore of London talks with
Darlene Templemon, Exeter; Barbara Lade, Goderich Victoria; Barbaro Rose!, Windham; Janet Fillingham, StudentT SeArvphotoices:'
Debbie Down, Holmesville and Mary Lou Atthill, JAD MECurdy.
INTENT ON LEARNING — Members of the Saturday morning gymnastic doss appear to be listening carefully to their instruc-
tor. From the left are Cindy Moore, Marcia Ellison, Ronolynn Bell, Pamela Zanth,Koren'Wells, Michelle Ellison and Suso f
).roman.T-A photo
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