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Times-Advocate, 1985-04-10, Page 1PER COPY Former leader speaks to small crowd NDP pick Zurich their findings. rise in gasoline taxes is another possi- The issues for this campaign are ble issue. "it's going to be an in - organized around five major policy teresting, exciting campaign," Mac - areas. They are: jobs, agriculture. Donald said. the incredible' waste of the Tory The meetings, attended by less than government and people's unmet 50 people was held at the Exeter needs, equality for women, pollution. Public School, and was chaired by and the enquiry in taxes. The coming Valerie Bolton. Paul Klopp, RR 2 Zurich. will be the New Democratic Party candidate in Huron -Middlesex. Klopp was acclaimed on Friday night in Exeter, after being nominated by Paul Carroll of Seaforth. Klopp is a 28 -year-old farmer, a graduate of South Huron and District Secondary School and of Centralia College. He's worked for the United Co-operatives of Ontario in Chatham. and been very active in farm organizations such as the On- tario Federation of Agriculture and the Huron County Federation of Agriculture. Klopp is newly married CROCODILE CLOSE-UP — Children attending the program at the Kirkton librar%i on' eeidangered species presented by Jim Lovisek, director of the Toronto Nature Centre, had a chance to examine a crocodile's tail. No one was anxious to examine the other end, the one with teeth. Parents for French ask Soloman to stay The Iluron County chapter of Cana- dian Parents for French want the school board to keep French co- ordinator Damien -Soloman in that position. Tom Hanrahan of Brussels represented the iluron chapter at the April.1 meeting of the Ituron County Board of Education. "It's critical the position be main• tained," said Hanrahan. The parent organization praised the quality of core French in *Huron schools and gave the credit to Solomon, a resident of Exeter. "We know 11Ir. Solomon has proven his capabilities loth within this coun- ty and throughout the province and we sincerely hope his place in the ad- ministrative staff of the Huron Coun- ty Board of Education will be secure for many years to come.'• said lanrahan }lo vever. director of education Bob Allan said co-ordinator positions are terra appointments for three years. At the end of the appointment. co- ordinators go back to their original positions with the school board. in Solomon's case. effective this Septemlx•r. he .will return to South April conditions fooling drivers April is supposed to bring showers. but it's had more than its share of snow so far. and parr motorists fell victim to poor road conditions last week The Iir•st of the two crashes in- vestigated In the Exeter (IPP occur- red on April F'oal's day at 8:50 p.m A westbound vehicle driven by Sharon :Abbott. (:iielph. slid on ice on 11ighwa} 83 near the County Road 2 junction The vehicle went into the south ditch. hit a tree and flipped onto its roof The tree was imbedded in the rear seal A passenger. William }hicks. RN 4 Arthur. sustained minor injuries - The vehicle was demolished and damage was listed at $8.000. The (wo occupants were both wear- ing seat belts and police say this*ro- hahK• saved them from death or serious injury The other crash occurred on Colin ty Road6 near (aunty Road I I at Ain Chelsea on Wednesday around 7 p a.m. A vehicle driven east on County Road 6 by Cindy b.. Reid. RR 2 Hen - salt. skidded on slush and veered in- to the south ditch and struck a pole. Damage was estimated at $650 to the vehicle The driver escaped injury. and has no children. "The Tory strength is two miles In his speech after winning the wide and one centimetre deep -- it's nomination, Klopp said his priorities mushy," MacDonald told the au- are a fair tax system, better tax rates dience. "We've done some polls and for farmers, and "once we get those one of the interesting things is that a other two areas under control", more lot of people say 'yes it is time for a jobs. "The NDP has some real good change': after 42 years the Tories ideas," Klopp said. "I've seen the could be better.' Liberals and Conservatives listen to About the Liberals, MacDonald what we want, but they don't carry said, "their problem is not that through. The NDP puts our ideas they've had 11 or 12 different leaders. down in their policy papers." it's that they're irrelevant. They of- " I'm not going to call them pro- fer no alternative." MacDonald add- mises, I'm going to call them .com- ed that the Liberals haven't been the mitments," -Klopp said. "I decided government in Ontario since 1905. maybe I should stand up and be "What about Hepburn, you say? Well counted, and I'm going to give it my Mitch Hepburn wasn't really a .best shot." Liberal, he was a member of the Hep - The evening's guest speaker was burn party," MacDonald contended' Donald C. MacDonald, the former On- MacDonald said Bob Hae, the cur- tario leader and agriculture critic of rent NDP Ontario leader, "has built. the NDP. MacDonald was introduced an image of someone reasonable and by Tony McQuail, the provincial positive, and is a great asset to the council alternate, who said he's found party." He continued with advice to a lot of support and interest in Huron- the party faithful, "If you can under - Middlesex for the NDP. pin this with your candidate, you can MacDonald said "this may be a sur- capitalize on it." prisingly volatile election. There's a "I've been involved with the NDP good chance we'll be the official op- for 40 years," MacDonald said, "and position this time." He added that I've never seen any party that.tries Miller's vote -gathering capacity is far so hard to come to grips with issues." less certain than that of Davis. MacDonald went on to outline the "Davis was stronger than the party; caucus task forces that have been Miller is weaker than the party." established in the last few years and Iluron District high school in Exeter as department head. Superintendent of education Arnold Mathers said both the French and junior co-ordinator positions are finished at the end of this school year. They will be replaced by two half- time and one full time co-ordinator. The full-time co-ordinator will cover visual arts programs such as music and library. Current media co- ordinator Dave Rieman will take on computers half-time and the other half-time position will be for basic studies at the Grades 7 to 12 level. The school hoard now has six co- ordinators, three full time and two half-time. Mathers said there are a lot of sub- ject areas. such as technical studies and business studies that will need a co-ordinator in the future. School hoard chairman Eugene F'rayne told the parent organization the board will consider their con- cerns. The county's French teachers will be making a presentation to the board at the May 6 meeting. A full time co-ordinator receives an allowance of $4.444 per year over their regular teacher's salary. NDP CANDIDATE GETS WORDS OF WISDOM — Paul Klapp, -the can- didate for the NDP in Huron -Middlesex, is seen speaking to Donald C. MacDonald, former Ontario leader of the NDP. 1m -es dvocate & North Lambton Since 1873 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Twelfth Year EXETER, ONTARIO. April 10, 1985 Price Per Copy 50 Cents Parents air views, questions on Catholic secondary school The planning committee has told its side of the story, and now it's time for ratepayers and parents to make their views known on the proposed Roman Catholic separate scondary schools set to open in Huron and Perth coun- ties in September of 1986. The Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board's (HPRCSS ) planning committee has been presen- ting its findings and forecasts to parents at meetings throughout the two counties for the past two weeks. Last night (Tuesday) -they were in St. Boniface School, Zurich, and on Thursday they'll be at Precious Blood School, Exeter, the last stop on the tour. The committee has been at work for the last six months devising pro- grams, touring the province to ex- amine separate secondary schools elsewhere, and planning staff ar- rangements for the proposed schools. Huron and Perth counties are the on- ly area in Ontario where separate secondary education is not available. The separate school board sent a survey out to ratepayers and parents in both Perth and Huron counties April 4. The survey opens with three paragraphs of information on the. the planning committee's work so far, PRINCIPALS TRANSFER Three vice -principals from Huron County elementary schools have been transferred. The Huron County Board of Educa- tion approved the transfers at its April meeting. Exeter public school vice-principal Larry Black will be going to Vanastra public school. Niall Straw, a teacher at Usborne public school will become vice- principal at Exeter public school. Louise Wilson, teacher at Victoria public school in Goderich will become the 'vice-principal at Roherstron Memorial public school in Goderich. All appointments are effective September 1. and asks respondents 11 questions. The questions are aimed at finding out if respondents are ratepayers. if they have children in school, what transportation they expect for their children if the proposed school is laun- ched, and whether they are willing to sit on an advisory committee. "it's a fair range of questions," said Separate School Board Superinten- dent of Education John McCauley. "We're giving people an opportunity to voice their concerns and comments." The Separate School Board expects the survey to he completed by April 20. The findings will form part of the planning committee's recommenda- tions to the separate school board. Ratepayers and parents had their own questions for planning commit- tee members at the various meetings. McCauley said the subjects which Please turn to page 2 DAFFODIL CANCER CANVASSERS Joon Morgan, Ver la Russell and Linda Johns,representing the three Exeter chapters of Beta Sigma Phi, are gearing up for Daffodil Day on Friday. Len Veri of the Flower Pedlar is helping out by donating space for preparing the flowers Thursday night. Not happy separation County, family group split . Huron County Council and the Family and Children Services of Iluron County are now "divorced" and some county councillors aren't A DELICATE TASK Christopher Genttner (left), Jeff Kinsman and Megan Ratcliffe examine some day- olc,chicks brought to the Henson Nursery School by Megan's mother. The chicks come from McKinley's Hatchery. happy about the situation. An association between the agency and the municipal group which has - existed for over 73 years was severed by the province effective the beginn- ing of 1985. Deputy clerk -treasurer Rill Alcock said all the records of the Family and Children's Services. Formerly known as the Children's Aid Society. are looked after by the county clerks - treasurer's office. This is the same procedure used for the Huron Coun- ty Health Unit. the county library and other county departments. The county charged a nominal fee. as it does to all those departments for maintaining the hooks. However. Alcock said no other Children's ,lid Society in the province has a similar arrangement with a municipality. The deputyclerk-treasurer said the county looked after the agency's payroll and accounts. Now that task is handled by the agency's director John Penn and its business rr:.onager Alcock said there was a meeting with former community and social services minister Frank Drea but nothing was accomplished. "Council's feeling was that the Iwo o Mr. Drea and the ministry's deputy minister r were siding with the regional program supervisor.- said Alcock The regional program supervisor Mark Roberts was "adamant" about having the records removed from the county office said Mr. Alcock. Huron County pays 20 percent of the Family and Children's Services budget of an approximate 1984 budget of about $1 million. the pro voice paid $800,0o0 and the county paid $200.(K10. 'fhe deputy clerk -treasurer said council has and will continue to have four representatives to the agency's hoard of directors This year. those members are Warden Paul Ateckle, Exeter Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller. Zurich Reeve Isadore LaPorte and Hay Deputy Reeve Tony Bedard. Alcock said that he personally was elected as a member -at -large to serve on the hoard of directors. Ile served as secretary -treasurer since he was first elected in 1975. He said he chose not to be the secretary -treasurer this year and was not re-elected to the board. Alcock said it was handy In have the records al the county office. but he was not representing the county while Fami- ly and Children Services secretary - treasurer. it's upsetting to have the long-time close relationship severed Said Alcock. • HEAR CANDIDATES The Iluron County Federation of Agriculture will be sponsoring two all - candidates meetings on Tuesday, April 16 al 8:30 p m f'aul Klopp, the NDP candidate. Jack Riddell, Liberal candidate. and Bryan Smith, P(' candidate will he answering your questions in the Lucan ('ommunity ('entre for the Huron -Middlesex riding. The Wingham Town (fall will be the meeting site for the Huron -Bruce riding. with the three candidates: Murray Elston. Liberal. Norma Peterson. NDP. and Mike Snohelen, PC