Times-Advocate, 1987-10-14, Page 4Page 2 Times -Advocate, October 14, 1987
Public invited to attend events
Alcohol/drug awareness program in five Huron schools
Something good and positive has
come from a tragic, alcohol-related
accident.
In the
spring of 1985 the Huron
LOOKING IT OVER — Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle, Exeter-Usborne
Huron Board of Education trustee Bea Dawson and SHDHS teacher
and A.D.A.P.T. committee member Bonnie Becker look over the
agenda of events which will take place at the Exeter school from
October 26 to November 6.
County Board of Education received
a coroner's report on the death of a
secondary student from a Huron
County secondary school. The report
recommended that the schools
develop a plan to make students
aware of the hazards of drinking and
driving, and the high number of
alcohol-related deaths in Huron
County.
As a direct result of that coroner's
report, one school was selected to
work with the Addiction Research
Foundation and other bgencies to ex-
plore programs which could be
models for the school system. The
Huron Board decided to give moral
and financial support to extend the
A.D.A.P.T. program (Alcohol Drug
Awareness Program for Today) to all
secondary schools in the county.
The A.D.A.P.T. program is design-
ed to make the .whole Community -
students and adults - more aware of
the problems relating to the abuse of
PINNED SHDHS teacher and A.D.A.P.T. committee member Bonnie Becker pins a button on fellow
teacher and committee member Terry O'Rourke while Exeter Police Constable Shawn Armstrong and
Exeter Police Chief Larry Hardy look on during an information meeting at the Huron County Board of
Education office to introduce the alcohol and drug awareness program to the media.
alcohol and drugs, and to achieve
some behaviour modification.
"The commmittee's work is done
and yours has started", A.D.A.P.T.
coordinator Terry Johnson, a teacher
at Seaforth District High School, told
his audience of municipal politicians,
trustees, reporters and student
representatives from the five secon-
dary schools in Huron at an informa-
tion meeting in the Board office. ".We
want the whole community involved
parents, service clubs, trustees, et
cetera. A.D.A.P.T. will be a failure if
only the students have seen' the
program."
Johnston said the scope of the pro-
gram far exceeds the physical boun-
daries of each high school involved.
The A.D.A.P.T. committee wants
everyone to feel they are part of the
program. All schools will be open to
,the public at any time during the two
weeks.
The first eyent at SHDHS will be an
assembly of the entire student body
in the new gym at 1:00 p.m. to hear
from Christine Nash, the mother of a
son who died in an accident. She will
talk about how drinking and driving
affects the survivors. Parents and
•students attending an education night
later that day from 7:30 to 9:00 will
be able to talk to a guidance
counsellor, a public health nurse, a
psychologist and Exeter Police Chief
Larry Hardy, who will be bringing
along a video, a drug kit and an
ALERT machine.
Hardy or another member of the
Exeter force will be back at the high
school the next day with the drug kit
in the old gym' between 11:45 and
12:30. Educational films on alcohol
and drug abuse will be shown in the
old gym Wednesday afternoon for
grade 13 students from 1:00 p.m. un-
til 2:00, and for the grade 12s from
2:10 to 3:15.
On Thursday BACCHUS from
Ryerson Community Centre in Toron-
to will provide a speaker at 11:00 a.m,
in. the theatre room, and films
throughout the morning in the old
gym, both offering alternativies to the
alcohol -drug lifestyle for college and
university -bound students.
The town police will back at lun-
chtime, showing a video "Drugs and
Sports Don't Mix". More films will be
shown in the old gym from 1:00 to 2:00
p.m.
The town police will return on Fri-
day to demonstrate the Alert test in
the old gym from 11:45 until 12:30.
'The following week, on Monday
November 2, grades 11,12 and 13 will
assemble in the new gym to see "Sur-
vival Guide", a musical presentation
by a Toronto group. A mock accident
will be staged in front of the school at
11:45.
On Wednesday Trinity Theatre will
present shows and lead small -group
discussions of substance abuse for
grade 9 and 10 students at 1:00 and
2:00 p.m. in the theatre room. That
evening at 7:00 parents are ipvited to
hear Maeve Connell from the Addic-
tion Research Foundation show a film
and lead a discussion on "Drugs and
Booze - Parents and Kids".
Dr. Peter Knight, professor of
surgery at McMaster University and
staff surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital,
Hamilton, will be at the school on
Wednesday to speak to grade 11, 12
and 13 students about road trauma.
This will be held in the new gym,
beginning at 9:00 a.m.
That afternoon at 1:30 in the same
location Exeter Lawyer Randy Evans
will reenact an actual trial where a
stifdent was sentenced to 15 months
for a first offence. All grades will be
attending this event.
On Thursday at 1:00 p.m. in the new
gym, the grade nines will hear from
John Townsend, a dynamic 80 -year-
old retired R.C.M.P. officer who spent
five yearson drug-related duties on
the force, and has made a complete
study of the misuse of drugs, and their
harmful effects on the human body.
The program will conclude with a
dance in Clinton on Friday night.
DISCUSSION — SHDHS teacher Terry O'Rourke, an A.D.A.P.T. com-
mittee member for Exeter, discusses some of the events planned for
the two-week program with student Leigh Soldan, intramural chair-
man who will head the SHDHS student committee helping to organize
the program.
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OSIMMEMANISMINIMINIS
County asks province_ to delegate approval authority
In a recorded vote of 27-4 at its mendation to seek delegation of
regular October session, Huron Coun- authority.
ty Council decided to go ahead with -
plans to ask the provincial govern-
ment to delegate approval, authority
for certain planning and development
functions to the county.
The issue was first proposed to
council at its regular September ses-
sion, but was deferred until this
month to allow member
municipalities time t� get more infor-
mation before their representatives
were asked to vote on the planning
and development committee recom-
Court
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In his defence, Gibbon said he was
talking to a passenger and may have
been speeding. He met a car with high
beams on and flashed his lights to get
it to dim. He saw a flashlight. but
didn't see the officer and didn't
realize he was to pull over.
The accused said ,he looked back
and figured it could have been a spot
check and panicked as he didn't want
his insurance to go up because of a
speeding ticket.
The accused continued by saying he
understands the taw states something
like "being pulled over by a readily
regonizable officer" and he felt the
officer was not readily recognizable.
In approvil. recomni •ndation,
council also adopted a resolution re-
questing the Ontario Minister of
Municipal Affairs to formally
delegate to Huron County: approval
authority for plans of subdivision and
plans .of 'condominium; approval
authority for part lot control bylaws;
approval authority for road closings;
the review of zoning bylaws, including
official plan conformity, minister's
zoning orders and provincial policy.
At the. October session. Exeter
Heeve Bill Mickle again asked coun-
cil to consider allowing more time to
pass before it made any decision on
the recommendation. Ile referred to
a letter which Exeter had sent to alt
members of council which lists a
number of concerns the town has with
the proposal.
In addition to the question of
neutrality, concern was also express-
ed by Mickle that county council may,
as the town's letter states, not be suf-
ficiently competent or interested
enough in the planning mechanism to •
give reasoned and thoughtful con-
sideration to planning matters in any
one municipality. Instead. county
council may decide to further
delegate authority in the future to the
planning and Development depart-
ment or even to the county planning
director.
This is a very dangerous situation
which could be developing here," Mi -
Many people refuse to give secrets ckle said. "It could possible mean
away, but they're usually willing to • establishing the county planning
trade. department as the total authority."
Wayne Caldwell, senior planner
with the planning and development
committee, agreed with Mickle's sug-
gestion that the Planning Act leaves
room for further delegation of
authority by county council, but the
"real question" is whether or not the
department wants that authority.
"Within the department, there has
been no discussion on further delega-
tion nor, in my opinion, is there any
desire for it," Caldwell said.
Exeter Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller
again suggested that council defer
any action until all municipalities
have been briefed on the proposal by
planning department represen-
tatives. "Pguess we could defer it un-
til it goes away, but we are going to
have to make a decision on it sooner
or later," Warden Brian McBurney
said in reply to the suggestion.
Hullett Township Reeve Tom Cun-
ningham said to continue deferring
the recommendation could be con-
sidered as an admission by council to
the provincial government that it is
not capable of handling more
responsibility.
"We keep asking the province to
give us more responsibility," Mr.
Cunningham reminded council.
"Let's get on with it. I feel we should
take that responsibility and do it."
In the recorded vote, those in favor
of the recommendation were: Grey
Township Reeve Leona Armstrong,
Tuckersmith Township Reeve Bob
Bell, Seaforth Reeve Bill Bennett,
Clinton Reeve Bee Cooke, Goderich
Township Deputy Reeve Laurie Cox,
West Wawanosh Township Reeve
OPEN ROYAL BANK FACILITY Thz. new Agriculture Centre of the Royal Bonk in Exeter was opened
Thursday afternoon. Shown cutting the ribbon from the left -are Exeter manager Cliff Shewfelt, area
manager Lloyd Fraser, Huron -Bruce MP Murray Cardiff and the bank's senior manager of agricultural
services George Arnold.
Bank opens Agricultural Centre
The Royal Bank of Canada official-
ly opened its Huron County
Agricultural Centre at 305 Main Street
South.
The centre will provide clients with
specialized account mangement for
all their borrowing and operating
needs including Royfarm credit and
Farmcheck. it will also service secon-
dary agricultural industries in the
area and is expected to attract
agricultural customers requiring
specialized professional account
management.
"With specialized centres like this
one our agricultural customers have
access to the best 01 the Royal Bank's
capabilities and technology
regardlctss of their locations," stated
Shewfelt.
Account managers Chauncey Soder
berg, formerly of Clinton and Jene
Seller, previously in Orangeville, as
well Shewfelt are specialists in bank-
ing for the agricultural community.
Their experietice and knowledge of
agricultural account management
will be completed by the state -of -the
-art business office providing on-line
computer capabilities and the bank's
Royfarm program.
In light of the Centre's ideal loca-
tion it will have a good working rela-
tionship with the OMAF office in Clin-
ton and the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food training school
in Centralia. The Huron County Cen-
tre will also serve as a centre for
agriculture account management
training within the Royal Bank:
While the Centre concentrates oti-
agricultural account management,
customers will continue to conduct
their daily banking%transactions al
their regular branches in Exeter, 118
Main Street North; Clinton, 68 Vic-
toria Street and-Goderich, 158 The
Square.
Cecil Cranston, Mr. Cunningham,
Howick Township Reeve Gerald
D'Arcey, Hay Township Deputy
Reeve Claire Deichert, Zurich Reeve
Bob Fisher, Morris Township Reeve
Doug Fraser, Ashfield Township
Reeve A.J. Gibson, McKillop
Township Reeve Marie Hicknell.
Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston, Col-
borne Township Reeve Russ Ker-
nighan, Wingham Reeve Bruce
Machan, Turnberry Township Reeve .
Brian McBurney, Stephen Township
Deputy Reeve K.J. McCann, Usborne
Township Heeve Gerry Prout,
Stanley Township Reeve Clarence
Rau, Hensall Reeve Jim Robinson,
East Wawanosh Township Reeve Er-
nie Snell, Goderich Township Reeve
Grant Stirling. Stephen Township
Reeve Tom Tomes, Blyth Reeve
Albert Wasson, Hay Township Reeve
Lionel Wilder; Brussels Reeve Gor-
don
ordon Workman.
In addition to Mrs. Fuller and
Mickle's nay votes, Town of Goderich
Reeve Harry Worsell's two nays
brought the total of opposing votes to
four.
Town of Goderich Deputy Reeve
J.P. Doherty was absent from the ses-
sion. The town is the only municipali-
ty with three county council votes.
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