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Times-Advocate, 1988-01-20, Page 3Tr DOWN A SLOPE - Chad Morgan of Huron. Park makes use of his snow machine to slide down a slight slope. Saturday afternoon. Slow French program Huron County students will not be getting more French instruction time - at least for a while. A motion at the January meeting of the Huron County Board of Edu- cation to extend the French pro- gram to include kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 was defeated in a re- corded vote which showed every trustee opposed. There was some support - six of 14 trustees - for extending French to Grades 1 and 2. Cost of this pro- gram was estimated to be S230,000 of which about 20 percent would have to be raised from Huron Coun- ty taxpayers. - One trustee, Tony McQuail of the Lucknow area, said the board might want to consider using savings from the board's recent energy conserva- tion measures to fund the extended French program. He said current fig- ures show that some savings will accrue as heating bills go down be- cause of improvements that have been made in the schools. Trustee Audrey Triebncr advocated putting French instruction into the curriculum in the lower grades be- cause she felt children would find it more fun then. One report studied by the board showed that in high school at Sep- tember 1987, there were 759 of 812. students taking French in Grade 9, while in Grade 12, only 182 of 887 students were participating in the French program. In Grade 13, 124 of 377 students chose the French credit. "Our students are demonstrating their choice," said Dr. John Goddard of Ilensall who voted against the proposal to extend French instruc- tion in Huron County schools. While Director of Education Bob Allen said there are no hard facts to prove that more French instruction in the schools would be beneficial to the students, he did warn the board that students from Huron County would be competing for college and university entrance as well as jobs with students from oth- er jurisdictions where there was more French instruction given. Statistics offered to the board showed that Huron County is at the low end of the .scale for total hours of French taught in- the elementary schools. Currently, 25 . students from among public school supporters arc attending the French immersion course - for kindergarten through Grade 4 at St. Marys School in Godcrich. The availability of teachers quali- fied to teach French was discussed at a previous meeting. The board learned at its January meeting there are nine Huron elementary school teachers not currently teaching French, who arc qualified to do so. Times -Advocate, January 20, 1988 Grant severances, minor variances Councillor Ben Hoogenboom of the Exeter planning advisory com- mittee. reported on- a number of public hearings for severances and minor variances which were held recently. - A severance and minor variance was granted to Gertrude Penninga at 95 Huron street east. The severance creates a new resi- dential lot on the west side of the present residence and the minor variance allows a reduction in the interior side yard setback. The next hearing involved con- sent to sever applications from Lorne Keller and Knogskilde at ad- joining properties on Thames - Road east. . In the final application, permis- sion was given for a minor vari- ance of reduction in side yard set- back on property owned by August Gregus at 105 James street. Hoogenboom passed on a com- plaint from the committee regard- ing their disappointment in not be - sing notified of a change in planning consultants and and a re- quest that planners from Jean Mon- Page 3 teith Consultants attend planning meetings. He was told by other council members that he and Gaylan Jo- sephson as council and planning members should have passed on the necessary information. Bruce Eccles will be chairman of the planning advisory committee for 1988 and Bob Russell will be vice-chairman. Briefs from Exeter councillors Reeve Bill Mickle reported on :.c- tivities of the Association of Mu- nicipalities of Ontario at Monday's regular meeting of Exeter council. He told fellow councillors, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs would be sponsoring a seminar on the art of politics and leadership styles would be held in London on February 20. The seminar is not only for present elected officials, but for those who may plan to run in the upcoming fall municipal elections. Nominations this year will close four weeks before elections. Mickle added, " This will give an extra week for campaigning". He said this year, any candidates spending more than $1,000 on an election campaign would be re- quired to file an affidavit indicating where the monies came from and how they were spent. On this sub- ject Mickle said, "That's not a problem here with not very much 'being spent on electioneering". While the province is trying to shift the decisions on Sunday shop- ping back to the individual munici- pality, Mickle said store hours are already at the local level. Councillor Dorothy Chapman re- ported the Municipal Police Asso- ciation was meeting this week to work on a brief to the Solicitor GB council briefs Andrew Clarke was chosen from four applicants for the Municipal Training position in the municipal office. "It was hard to make a decision, as all had degrees. We decided to go for affirmative action and give a man a -chance", Councillor Marsha Leinon explained. Clarke will begin his duties as soon as ministry approval is ob- tained. * * * Pay raise_ s for the Grand Bend, Bosanquet and Stephen township fire department were approved. Re- tainers will be S400 for the chief, S350 for the deputy fire chief; S300 for captains and $100 for the firemen. This represents $100 raises for the first three categories, and first-time retainers for the fire- men. The hourly rate for practices and fires was increased SI to S7.50. These are the first raises since 1985. Deputy Reeve Dennis Snider.said that last year the allocation for wages was S12,000, and only S9,700 was spent. The increase of S 1,800 in retainers plus the hourly increase will work out to slightly more than the 1987 budget if there are no fires in 1988. The wage bill is split among the three mu- nicipalities. Council agreed to hold another rabies clinic this year, with April as the most likely time. Last year's clinic attracted 150 regis- trants coming from as far away as Zurich, Parkhill and -Pore -Franks. * * * Works superintendent Jack Stan - lake ordered work stopped on the Barry Robinson house that has been the centre of controversy for some time. Construction of a foundation had begun without the required building permit. * * * The-CNIB was given approval to apply for a specific location from which to sell Nevada Tickets. * * * Reeve Harold Green heartily agreed with the suggestion for an Open House and displays in the council chamber to mark Local Government Week from April 11 to April 16. A definite date will be set at the February session. - "The more I think about it, the better I like it", Green said. General on alternate forms of polic- ing, OPP takeovers and what can be expected. Council /decided against sending chief building official Brian John- ston to a three-day training seminar being presented by the Canadian Wood Energy Institute. The executive committee felt the cost of $285 without accommoda- tion and meals was too high for three days. A letter is being sent to the Ministry of Housing suggest- ing more economical seminars be offered in the future. The public works committee rec- ommended•to council that a letter be sent to 5D Realty and a copy to Huron -Middlesex Engineering and C.A. McDowell, contractors stat- ing the problem of severe settling on service trenches on Rivers Boulevard are to be corrected before the town will accept the boulevar.J. The reply is to include when and how, Rivers Boulevard is to be re- paired. Councillor Peter Snell and Jim Chapman have been added as town representatives on the South Huron Rec Centre Board. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom will join community volunteers 'Joe Darling, Gerald Merner and Bob Spears on the town's impost fees committee. Bill Mickle and Morley Hall of council will be joined by local resi- dent Ross Ballantyne to form the Co-operative Family Housing committee. Councillor Morley Hall reported that Nyle Rudolph of Ontario Mul- ti -Material Recycling Inca will at- tend the February 1 meeting of council to present a talk and slide presentation on recycling. .A1 A SKIING WE WILL $O - Taking advailt..ige of the snow which was left Saturday afternoon are Bryan and Christian Stuckless of Huron Park. itt _ low ��,1 0"7 1111 • miumimpini yam`—..e.e L'w —..-- • . i,. I >, i — 41111111110- .. 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