Times-Advocate, 1988-01-27, Page 27Jack's Jottings
Meech Lake committee input
M.P.P. for Carleton East; Manetta
Roberts, M.P.P. for Elgin; Joan
Fawcett, M.P.P. for Northumber-
land; and Walt Elliot, M.P.P. for
Halton North.
The Select Committee is to sub-
mit its report to the Legislative As-
sembly by the end of the Spring
Session, 1988.
13y JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron
The Select Committee on Consti-
tutional Reform chaired by Charles
Beer, M.P.P. for York North, is
asking for oral presentation and
written submissions from interested
groups and individuals. The deadline
for oral -presentations is January 29,
1988 and that for written presenta-
tions is February 29, 1988.
The Committee has been appoint-
ed to consider and report on the
1987 constitutional accord signed
June 3, 1987 and tabled in the
House of Commons in November.
Committee chair Charles Beer said
that the Committee will conduct
hearings in as fair and equitable a
manner as possible. "We will travel
throughout the province to hear
from as many people as possible
and in fact encourage groups and in-
dividuals to appear.''
Other Government members of
the Select Committee include Jo-
seph Cordiano, M.P.P. for Law-
rence; Steven Offer, M.P.P. for
Mississauga North; Gilles Morin,
enduring champion who has earned
world-wide respect. Ron Robillard
shows us how great effort can
overcome great odds and the Russ
Howard rink has demonstrated tre-
mendous achievement through
close teamwork."
The Town of Goderich has recent-
ly received notification that they
will be receiving a grant in the
amount of $8,875 to assist with
preparing a needs study for a water
distribution system. This represents
a 50 percent commitment of total
costs by.the Ministry of the Envi-
ronment under the Lifelines pro-
gram.
The Ministry of Energy has allo-
cated a grant of $10,000 to the Hen -
sail District Co-op under the Grain
Dryer Retrofit Assistance Program,
to assist with the addition of a fully
automatic control system to the
grain drying operation.
Ontario athletes of the
year
Tourism and Recreation Minister
Hugh O'Neil recently announced the
province's annual athletic awards for
outstanding achievement.
Sprinter Ben Johnson has been
named Ontario Athlete of the Year
for the third consecutive year.
Wheelchair athlete Ron Robillard
took top honours as Ontario Dis-
abled Athlete of the Year. The Russ
Howard World Champion Curling
Rink captured the Ontario Team of
the year award.
"These athletes arc splendid ex-
amples of the kind of world-class
athletes Ontario is producing," Mr.
O'Neil said. "Ben Johnson is an
MP tries to revive
Craig turtle wagering
Progress has been as slovr as the
reptile the issue revolves around
but' MP Sid Fraleigh hasn't given
up on parimutuel betting at the Ail-
sa Craig turtle races.
The Lambton-Middlesex Conser-
vative said Wednesday he has a new
angle on reinstating legalized bet-
ting at the turtle races, part of the
village's annual Gala Days in mid-
July. It involves. the use of play
money. . -
Formal betting at the races was
stopped by the OPP in 1984. Gala
Days officials were charged with
gaming offenses under a ruling that
parimutuel betting on turtles was
Illegal.
Fraleigh, who promised in July,
1986, to ask Parliament to allow
betting on the races, said a provi-
sion in the Criminal Code that al-
lows charitable organizations to
hold casino nights might resolve
Bell Atoms
Bell Atoms skated to a 2-2 tie
against Forest Saturday, adding to
what seemed to be a weekend trend.
- Exeter fell behind late in the first
and trailed throughout the second
period. A two goal rally in the third
changed the shape of the game, giv-
ing Bell Atoms the lead for the first
time.
Craig Schwartzentruber opened
the scoring for Exeter with a welt -
placed shot after three minutes of
play in the third. The lone assist
went to Steve Cook.
With 8:54 remaining in the game,
Brent Urlin found the mark, scoring
from Ben Guenther.
Only seconds after Urlin's goal,.
Forest's Mike George scored to tie
the game.
Bombers
Exeter Optimist Bombers and Lu -
can Novices fought to a 1-1 tic in
Lambton-Middlesex action Satur-
da.
Skating through a scoreless first
period, both teams put a mark on
the board in the second period.
Their guns fell silent in the third,
howcvcr, and both squads went
home with a single point..
Gavin Poole scored for Bombers
with 6:27 remaining in the second.
J.J. Hern drew the lone assist on
the play.
With just 34 seconds left in the
middle period, Ryan Dukeshire
pumped in a shot to score on a pass
from Jennifer Lightfoot.
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Tweens
Exeter Twecns dropped a pair of
games this week in local ringette
action, losing 9-2 to Seaforth and
then emerging on the low side of a
7-2 score against Goderich.
Saturday, Christine Bedard and
Cheyenne Westlake scored Exeter's
only goals of the game. Cheryl Bal-
lantyne drew the assists on both
goals.
Westlake potted a single in
Twecns' match against Scaforth
with assists going to Jill Sararas
and Bedard.
Cathie Wilson was scored Exeter's
second goal from Lisa Forest.
the problem.
Fraleigh's Ottawa researcher and
researchers from the justice division
of the Library of Parliament are in-
vestigating whether a scheme utiliz-
ing play money could be used.
"It's a simple method...," he said,
explaining bettors would buy play
money before the races, place their
wager and cash in the fake money
after the races.
"Any kind of an organization,
IODEs and service clubs, do it," he
said, "and under that system the
club sells play money and they then
use it to gamble with. That appar-
ently covers the law.
"If this organization (Gala Days)
does the same thing and it's play
money that is used to wager in the
parimutuel pool, why isn't that le-
gal? We can't see any reason why it
isn't."
There would likely be a surplus,
or profit, left after bettors exchange
their money and that would go to
the citizens' committee that oper-
ates Gala Days. Fraleigh has insist-
ed any profits from betting must be
returned to the community.
Fraleigh said casino nights are
operated in many communities, in-
cluding Forest, where he lives.
Several alternatives have been re-
jected after researching them with
parliamentary library legal experts.
One idea was to have all money
bet on turtle races end up with a
charity with no monetary gain for
bettors. The plan required changes
to municipal bylaws and, Fraleigh
said, "unfortunately" the idea didn't
"appear to be what the community
would want."
Another proposal would have re-
quired a change in legislation to
eliminate a. government require-
ment to have supervision wherever
there is parimutuel betting. The
MP said it was "too complicated."
The turtle races have continued
without betting since police
stopped the wagering.
Zurich
The Huron Community Industri-
al Training Committee has been
organized to offer training for em-
ployees within the county.
In the next few months, approxi-
mately 400 Huron county busi-
nesses will be surveyed to find out
exactly what training programs
they feel are needed for their em-
ployees.
When the survey is completed, it
is hoped that the identified needs
will be met, with programs offered
right in the county.
At their second general meeting
recently at the Huron County Edu-
cation Centre, the committee's ex-
ecutive assistant Fred Looker ex-
plained what HCITC.is all about.
"The HCITC is a group of vol-
unteers concerned about training
and the upgrading of employees as
well as being concerned about the
lack of skilled labor in the area:
he said.
Mr. Looker went on -to explain
that employers who want to further
their employees training, are forced
to make their employees travel to
get it.
"The key is to get training done
here in Huron County so they.
don't have to travel for five hours
for one hour of training... We're
going to find out what is needed
and try and set it up: There's no
guarantee it will work, but we are
trying."
The second of five speakers to
make a presentation to about 45
people, was Brian Dent of McDo-
nald Restaurants. H!. explained
why training is, or Should be, im-
portant to employers.
"You take training right from the
beginning," he said explaining that
people are _trained' to eat, talk,
walk, when they are at school and
when they go- out to work.
"Training is a means to an end.",
Using McDonalds as an exam-
ple, Dent said they aim to have the
best run restaurants they can have.
They judge their success by the re-
sults.
"How hot arc the hamburgers...
how clean. is the restaurant," he
said. "If the results aren't there, we
change the training."
Dent says there arc two methods
of training at McDonalds. The first
is self taught which means a per-
son uses the knowledge they al-
ready have. The second method is
taught by others.
Dent says that McDonalds takes
training very seriously. In a seven
floor building, two floors are set
aside for training. As well, there is
a university set up for management
training.
To sum up training, Mr. Dent
used a saying. He said, '=When
you're green you're growing, when
you're ripe you rot."
Why is HCITC important
Rick Rompf, who is charge of
training at Champion Road Ma-
chinery, used his experiences with
the company to explain why
HCITC is important.
He said that in order to compete
in their own field, they have to
find training programs in many are
as, such as computers. He said that "But then again, it's an election
there are programs that will assist Year -anything could happen," said
in the training, but they arc located Simpson.
in Toronto or some' other arca Summing up the apprenticeship
which forces the employees to drive issue, Mr. Looker said, "It's not an
a distance: easy subject."
"And that can be expensive, with The question was asked as to why
hotels and travelling costs...," he the survey was being conducted by
aJied phone and Ms. McKenzie said it
Rompf said the other alternative was due to the time factor and the
was to bring the trainer to Champi- distance.
on, "but if there's not enough peo- "They will be making the calls
ple, it's not economical." • •-4- from Waterloo on a WATTS line,"
As a solution, he said, she said.
"Collectively (through HCITC) we It was then suggested that a hard
bowling could bring some of these programs copy of the survey be sent out first,
The Ontario 'Athletes of the Year
awards are presented annually to
recognize excellence and effort
among the province's amateur ath-
letes. Formal presentations will be
made at the Ontario Sports Awards
Dinner on April 15, 1988 in To
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ployees while some with fewer em-
ployees will be selected at random.
The.survey will be conducted over
the telephone with a presurvey call
to set up an exact time for the actu-
al survey.
"They estimate it will take 15-20.
minutes of your time," said McKen-
zie, adding that all the information
will be confidential.
The telephone calls to employers
will begin the first week of Febru-
ary, and if everything gots as
planned, the survey calls should
conclude at the end of the month.
The final report should be available
March 24.
"What will happen to the report?"
McKenzie asked. "It will be given
to the employers".
Summing up what the survey is
all- about, McKenzie said tete
HCITC is going on "a fishing expe-
dition. it.will show us what type of
existing training is in fturon Coun-
ty now and find out what is want -
cd."
What's next
The final speaker was Jim Hayter
Jr. of Jim Hayter. Chcv-Olds. }Ic
said that once the survey was done,
and the areas of training were identi-
fied, all businesses couldtake ad-
vantage of the results.
"Smaller organizations can take
advantage of the results as much as
the bigger organizations," Hayter
pointed out.
As to how employers could hest
use these results, }laytcr suggested
they take a look at their present ern-_
ployces and see- if they can do bet-
ter.
"Let the employees know you
care," he said. "It could help keep
employees if we show interest in
their education."
Question period
During question period, it was
asked if agriculture would be includ-
ed in the survey. Looker explained
that the listing 'they have for the
survey that was obtained at the Hu-
ron County Planning Department
didn't include farms, howcvcr they
will be attempting to. get some in-
formation from the farming. section
that includes six or seven employ-
ees.
"We contacted OMAF (Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and 'Food),
but they didn't have a list," said
Looker. "We're still digging."
However, their problem was
solved when Bill Allen of Centralia
College said he had the list that was
being sought.
There seemed to be some confu-
sion over whether apprenticeship
programs would be able to qualify
for funding from the governments
(which is now sponsoring 57 com-
munity industrial training commit-
tees in Ontario, providing funding
for one employee. (In Huron, the
only paid employee of the commit-
tee is Frcd Looker while the others
are volunteers.)
Bob McDougall of the Canadian
Employment Centre said he thought
any length of training could qualify
for funding, while Bob Simpson of
Conestoga College felt the funding
was aimed more at general training.
into Huron County." then when the calls come, the em-
0E-343.5-f'rudy Rooseboom 729, Needs survey ploycr will be prepared.
SM -108.5 -Pat Noakes 481, GG- The meat of meeting was present- McKenzie said that the presurvey
322 -Doreen Browning 646, HG- ed by Linda McKenzie of the Huron call will include some information
265 -Vicky Clarke •551, TCS -374- County Board of Education. She on what the survey is all about. Ex-
Verlyn Huston 678, PP -193 -June spoke on the importance of a train- Flaming, she said that basic compa-
Fisher 628, SL -282.5 -Pauline Mill- ing needs survey. , ny data, current training needs will
er 701, RD -354 -Sandra Dickcrt 853, Explaining why a survey is need- be among the questions.
P -329 -Hazel McEwen 621, AO- ed, McKenzie said, "It goes back to "They (the experts) say the tele -
253.5 -Sharon Campbell 655, JS the committee's foal -encourage Phone method is more effective.
• 155.5 -Zelda Inthout 576, BC -260.5 and promote training in existing and Most surveys end up here," said
Marlene Bedard 617. upcoming jobs." Looker, motioning to the grouted as
High Single, Triple and Average - She next told how this will be if there were a garbage pail there.
Sandra Dickert 350, 869, 235. done, stating that HCITC will act "In Perth they did a Survey by
Tuesday Grand Cove Estates - Sid as a referral as to what is available. mail and had to get people to
Thomson 546, Vicki Taylor 576 "We'll also act as a liaison that is phone. Most of them said they had
(201) HS, Bill Taylor (216) HS, concemed about what the employee thrown it out. They had to do it by
Bud Rhuebottom 548. or employer wants as well as at- phone eventually," said Mr. Simp-
Tuesday C.A.P. Group - Rick tempting to initiate training in Hu- son.
McCann 79, Tom Masse.65, Max- ron County," said Ms. McKenzie. - About the HCITC
ine Elliot 108, Aleida Kats 29, H. "The survey will determine what is The HCITC was started in Janu-
Coach - Donna Jones 171, H. ' needed" ary of 1980 with activities dying
Coach - Wendy Marison 158. The needs survey will be conduct- down in 1984 due to a lack of man -
Tuesday Nite Mens League - VH- ed by Small Business Consulting power.
Frank Palen 803-24 pts., R -Jim Service at Wilfrid Laurier Universi- At that .time, there was no fund -
Bedard 786-23 1/2 pis., FA-011ie ty with eight students and one ing for a paid position, and the
Edwards 776-20 pis., TT -Carl Zim- teacher doing the work. A subcom- business people were too busy to
mer 64819 pts., NC -Kirk Smith mittee consisting of Dent, Rompf devote the time that was needed.
653-21 pts., DT -Leo Hoffman 665- and McKenzie will also be looked However, now that the government
25 pts., GC -Vic Gallager 677-21 after the survey. is supplying some funding, the fu -
pts., K -Luke Mornmersteeg 728-10 As to who will be surveyed, ture of the HCITC is looking
pts., HR -Cor Vandenberk 598-9 McKenzie said approximately 400 brighter.
pts., D -Alex Osgood 608-5 pts.,BB- businesses in Huron County will be The HCITC's office is located at
Rob Mennon 537-6 pts., PR -Pete polled. The majority of these busi- 50 South Street, Goderich and can
Smecken 663-6 1/2 pts. nesses will 'have 10 or more em- be reached at 524-7722.
A RUNNING BALLOON - Karla -Jo Tr:idgen is shown in a balloon relay -.
race -at a recent Cub meeting game at the Lucan Scout Hall. .
Cougar Column
Zurich Public School
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hinde.rgar ten. - We lire stlittying: about the \Vintcr.
Onc.night while WC w.'rc fast asleep) Olympics- \\c did Geography pro:
TV, old year went a'. ay. jeers about the cuuntrtes participat-
it can't come hack again beta -use ing in the :1988 Winter Olympics.
A -new -one's here to.stay hit.-p.he grade eight students did graph
Our- class. in kindergarten have ing about medal 'distribution in
been.(h:;cussinr; ti►n. months, Math class. In Communications we
w'ecks, day and hour: imporu m Ili t1:41 crossword puzzles, word search -
our day. What -iii Ui ! happen if we e`, and many -more activities. We
didn't ha��c chicks?.
I will be daing more activities related
We Made (,dr 119;:,8 resolution:. to the Otumpt.-•• during the next few
weeks.
For the .past two weeks, students
aced 11 1'4 have. been practicing
l:a,kcihall (t!tii Sh(noting at noon
hour. The winner~ are Chris Sem- .
pie. Cory (+inuerich, Ad._nt Lovic,
Jason -Schiibe, Chris- (iingerich,
Jared Siehcrt, Darcy Scott, Jamie
Ramer, Cam Rader. Joel l)iebert,
Jamie \nn. Foreman, Paula
We are coing 10 sec if.we tali t;s
hard to stick to them. •.
(, ,recti 1 and 2
In grad,,,s on,e ani.) two eve. h:o c
been busily preparing for the Winter'
Olympic,. ii C;dgar N and learning
why: •we hate the Olympics. We
also have talked about who -can en-
ter the 01)- nipic- , hat anfortunatdY'
none (li-(1 ; tmild \\`e have c n
joye(1 talking aboi.t vhi: h spxirts.arc
in the Winter Olympics and which
sport; are. u . Ju nnlcr Olympics.
\Ve have also i`.'ct: following the
Olympic a h across C'an.nla. \\'e -
are honinc i, r ,riow that stays, so
we can have our Own. Mini Winter
Olympics -
Grades 3and 4
In grade four we havea new- siu-
dc nt: He r name is Vicki Jones. She
carne from London-
. In grades three and .four we are
studying one of Canada's important
natural resources, our trees. We arc
learning host' they are u;,d to mak.
- lumber and paper. We may even be -
conic full-fledged lumberjacks!
(trades 5 and 6
in grades 5 ant! 6, we arc studying
the Olympics. \\'c ha-ve brought in
clippings from the newspapers.
We have been keeping track of the
different cities and towns where -the
torch has been. There was even a
minister carrying the torch on a ski-
doo! We've hccn doing a lot of re-
search on the Olympic Game.
• Mrs. Eagleson, our music teacher,.
said that we could use -the ukuleles
after Christmas vacation.
Everyone is busy preparing their
speeches for the school contest on
February the eleventh. •
(trades 7 and S -
• At the hcginnuig of January, Mrs.
Rosie cants to Zurich Public
School on a teacher exchange from
New Zealand. She was the principal
of her school She seems to he en-
joying her stay here, so far. I also
Think the weather has been -pretty
nice to her. We were hoping to
show her some snow and now we
'can. We hope Mrs. Rosie enjoys
our country, and out- school. V'ei-
comc to Z.P.S. Mrs. Rosie.
Watson. ,1ainu' \i•.'(:1ec, .Bonnie
Swale anti 1ti lt,.:sic gayer. These
students .:t; to th.: competition on
January '"' 1')X11 at St. Boniface.
1"tit tire: ,..ht'ok participating arc
"Luisdii 1 h-n.,il! a±id St. Htmdace.
(ioxxt look to all the competitors!
Hello froni the Villa. We are- ap-
proaching the end of January. Usu-
ally we think of January as a long
winter month. Fortunately this
year it ha> passed quickly and_with
very little ::now. -
Rcv. Teddy .Smits_ of Thames
Road-Elimt ille United Churches,
conducted ,.'ur weekly worship scr-
-vicc. -Rev. Smits accompanied on
the piano during the hymns.
•Students from Mrs. Webster's
class at SI 1 1)1 iS made their weekly
visit.- \Ve always enjoy visiting
with thein.
Ladies in thc-nursing home tried
their hand at hiking sugar cookies.
If the crowd that gathered was any
indication, they were very success-
ful. Of course. the hest part of the
afternoon was the sampling.
Best wishes this- week go to
E:lizaheth real and Florence Rout-
zon. Both of these ladies in the
lodge are •.` lcbrating birthdays. Get
~tell •\ashes to Lynne Rowe.
1.ynnc ic (nic of our nurses'and is
presc.titly lecuperating from sur:
gery. Get well soon - we -miss
you. .
.ife is like a taxi-- the meter•
kct is running whether you arc get -
tin soncwhcre or just standing
still. •
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!��i ;� •stip iF.ti1y.
LABATT.ENTBY - Exeter Gurilng Club's entry in the Labatt Tankard
bonspiel included Alan Powe (lett). Charlie ChAmbors, Alan Hodgert and
the skip Dick Dougall,
CO-OP WINNERS - Mike Armstrong (left), Lorne Rideout, Albert Van-
Dyken and skip Doug Pearson came away as the winners of the Exeter
Co-op and Tuckey Beverage Turkey Bohspiel.
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