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Times-Advocate, 1985-02-06, Page 304 YOUR COMPLETE CAR CARE CENTRE Featuring • Binks Oil Undercoating System • Bodywork • Battery Sales Open weekdays 8 to 5:30 Saturdays 8 to 12 Auto and General Repairs RWoodham 229-8818 R& Times -Advocate, February 6, 1985 Remember who won Wolfe-Montcalm war? Door closed on French Immersion Huron County Board of Education closed the door on French Immersion at its February board meeting. The board agreed to leave the Core French program as it will be at the end of this year and will not consider the criteria for a voluntary late French Immersion program in Grades 7 and 8. There was only a handful of ratepayers at the meeting to hear the verdict. Some parents were from a group calling itself the concerned parents for better basic education and others were from the group which asked the board a year ago to con- sider putting French Immersion in Huron County schools. The only reaction from the au- dience came when Clinton area trustee Frank Falconer finished a prepared speech. "To all board members, it is your decision which way you vote, but remember one thing, who won the war between Wolfe and Montcalm," said Falconer. He was applauded by some of those in attendance. He represents the taxpayers in the Tuckersmith and Clinton area and he said there were only about five residents interested in French Immersion. "1 am almost certain when they elected a Scotsman, they were sure they were not going to get French 'Immerse' with his vote," said Falconer. The ad hoc committee recommend- ed the board leave Core French as it will be in September. The board previously approved extending Core French in Grades 7 and 8 from 20 minutes per day to 40 minutes per day. The Grade 7 expansion took place in September of 1984 and the Grade 8 extension will take place September of this year. The school board again agreed to continue with the expansion. The ad hoc committee also recom- mended establishing criteria for late immersion. This was turned down by the school board. Ad hoc committee chairman Tony McQuail said the cost of French Im- mersion in Grades 7 and 8 could range from $1,000 to $90,000. However, he pointed out that the committee was recommending that late immersion only be offered in Huron if it did not cost the board any money. Trustee Joan VandenBroeck said it .r, MR. MCGREGOR'S GARDEN — Greg langendyk, a Grade 2 student at lucan Public School, is proud of his model, inspired by a produc- tion of "Peter Rabbit" held at the school. Encroachment okayed for commercial facility "That's a nice way to do business," . commented local lawyer K.I. McLean after hearing Exeter council quickly - pass a bylaw to allow his client, Len Veri, an encroachment onto town pro- perty for his new commercial com- plex at the corner of Main and Sanders St. "Tell your client that," Mayor Bruce Shaw quickly replied to McLean's appreciation for couricil's action. Earlier in the discussion, Shaw had DRIVE CAREFULL Y DRYSDALE Major Appliance Centre Ltd. Sales With Service The place to buy appliances NEW AND USED Hensall 262-2728 Closed Mondays hinted that council had an easement they would like in return on property owned by one of Veri's companies at the north end of town. McLean explained that the new commercial complex housing the Big V drug store and The Flower Pedlar had encroached onto Sanders St. by about one-quarter of a brick at the east end and half a brick at the west end. He said the bylaw approving the en- croachment was needed for reasons of financing and explained that no mortgage company would handle the deal unless the encroachment mat- ter was straightened out. Building inspector Brian Johnston said the encroachment amounted to one-quarter of an inch at one point and about two inches at the west side: Later in Monday's session, council approved erecting a street light on a pole at the end of Alexander St. E. at a cost of $250. There is some question about the ownership of the land on which the pole is situated. The town has been us- ing the property for -many years, but learned Monday that the ownership is disputed by one of Veri's companies. Councillor Don Winter said the light was needed in the area in view of complaints stemming from the fact it is a "favorite drinking spot" MAPPING CANADA NORTH — Students from McGillivray Central School explored the Museumobile while it was in Ailso Craig. From left to right are Artie Mallard, Marco Pilloli, Kristen Thompson, guide Francine Jobin, and Jason Lagerwerf. - Former resident's killer is ruled to be insane she'd killed Carey. "She had killed my child and she planned to kill my other two children. I'm glad I did it". Assistant Middlesex Crown At - An Ontario supreme court jury took five minutes Monday to find Carole Grammatke not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of a former xeter. on Psychiatric Hospital. She is expected to be kept at St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital for an indefinite period. The jury finding came after a trial that lasted less than two hours before Mr. Justice Coulter Osborne, who said the stabbing death of Rosalie Carey of London was "a product of mental illness". Osborne assured the jury that Grammatke, 47, will be kept in a hospital for the criminally insane un- til she has recovered from her diseas- ed mind and is no longer dangerous to herself or others. Grammatke, a Kitchener resident who was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and became a patient at London Psychiatric Hospital in 1980, first showed symptoms of her mental illness when she was 21, the jury was told. The woman told hospital staff and later he couldn't understand the logic of approving the light when council had only recently turned down a re- quest for a street light in an area in the south-west corner of town that had been requested by a citizen. Councillor Tom Humphreys said there was a considerable cost dif- ference between the two projects. The price tag for the light in the south- west had been set at almost $1,000. police she killed her 46 -year-old fellow patient because she feared the Lon- don woman was going to kill her children. ing "a very sad situation". He joined defence lawyer John Getliffe in ask- ing for the verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Psychiatrist Dr. Richard O'Reilly, who assessed Grammatke at St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital after the murder, said the woman suffers from delusions that people have dou- ble identities. At one point, he said, she believed another patient at St. Thonlas was planning to harm her children and she was planning to kill that patient. to the jury revealed Grammatke said she was "glad" she killed Carey ,who had been in the hospital since 1979. Carey, a former teacher and mother of five, had been a permanent patient at the psychiatric hospital after contracting encephalitis, a severe inflammation of the brain. The statement said that about 1:40 a.m. November 1, a hospital nurse found Grammatke in a bathroom washing her arms with a towel that was red with blood. In front of the woman was a knife with a 10 -inch blade. The nurse then followed a series of smudges of blood along a hallway floor to the room occupied by Carey. The victim was found in bed with a "very large wound in her throat and she was obviously dead". While this grim discovery was be- ing made, Grammatke told another staff member she was "not sorry' , Bad Rad? Radiators Repaired, recored or new i Canadian np0.ar Tire 235-0160 ;a F i + 4, 1 1- 1 t kf• t 1. } !- t 1. 4 t. , ,.-I4 , t WIN GAY LEA EVENT - - At the recent Gay lea mixed curling bonspiel, Albert Van Dyken presents the trophy to Gerold McBride, Wendy and Jim Kerslake and Jeanette McBride. Township of Hay TENDER FOR THE SUPPLY OF A 1985 1/2 TON PICK-UP TRUCK TRADE-IN: 1981 '/: ton Dodge Picks -up, Model D-150 Tenders to be in the hands of the clerk -treasurer by 12:00 Noon. Monday, February 18, 1985. M.T.C. tender revised forms available from the Road Super- intendent. Joan M. Duchanne Row Fisher Cleric -Treasurer Road Sup't Zurich, Ontario T -A photo MAKING ICE CREAM - Zurich Public School kindergarten Joyce Preszcator packs some ice cream base just mixed up by Linda Hendrik into a can with snow and salt. The class was taking part' in ecology day activities at the school. would be difficult for the board to not - pick up costs for French Immersion. McQuail said he would vote with the committee's recommendations, however, two other trustees on the committee, Mr. Falconer and John Elliott both said they would vote against the late immersion proposal. "My real sorrow is that this has become a Quebec and Ontario con- frontational issue," said McQuail. Trustee VandenBroeck disagreed. She described the turning down of a late French Immersion program as an "educational dilemma that cannot be met at this time." Budget Rent A Car Low daily and weekly rates Special weekend rote Fri- day 6 pm.. to Monday 10 a.m. $59.95 including 200 free km's. Mensal! 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