Times-Advocate, 1988-06-01, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, June 1, 1988
RIDE program in effect daily
Three accidents on Highway 81
EXETER - Highway 81 was the
site of two collisions and a car fire
last week. Exeter OPP were first
called to the scene Sunday May 22
when vehicles operated by Steven
Miller, Dashwood, and Charles
Dickens, Mount Brydges, collided.
The Dickens vehicle then slid into
another stopped vehicle being driv-
en by Ann Maxwell, Hensall.
There was no damage to the Max-
well car, and moderate damage to
the other two.
The same day a vehicle being
driven by Lorrie Parsons,. London,
was notthbound on Highway 81
when the occupants smelled
smoke. The Grand Bend fire de -
partment was called to extinguish
the fire, which caused moderate
damage.
At noon Monday vehicles operat-
ed by Thomas McHugh, Newfound-
land and Ross Dummer, Cambridge,
collided on the same highway.
McHugh was taken to South Huron
Hospital. Dummer and passengers
Kelly Elder and Richard Reece, both
of London, were also taken to the
Exeter hospital with minor injuries.
Later on Monday the OPP were
called to an accident on County
Road 5 after vehicles operated by
Leonard Ryan, Ailsa Craig, and
John Simms, London, collided.
The Simms vehicle lost control and
skidded. Damage to the Ryan vehi-
cle was listed as light, and moderate
to the' Simms car.
The Exeter detachment investigat-
ed 30 general occurrences during the
week. Officers handed out two 12 -
hour suspensions, laid seven charg-
es under the Criminal Code, one un-
der the Narcotic Control Act, one
under the Compulsory Automative
Insurance Act, 67 under the High- •
way Traffic Act and nine under the
Liquor Licencing Act.
The Exeter OPP wish to remind
the motoring public that the RIDE
program is still in effect in Huron
County, and will be used daily to
' curb impaired driving.
ENTERTAIN DISTRICT - Exeter PUC hosted,the annual dinner and meeting of District 7 of the Municipal Elec-
trical Associations, held in the Exeter Legion on May 25.Talking together before dinner are (left) London PUC
commissioner Charlie Ross, who is also 2nd vice-chairman of the MEA, Exeter PUC commissioner Murray
Greene, chairman of. District 7, guest speaker Ivan. Fleischmann, president of Canadian Intercorp and Barry
Pinch, an. Aylmer PUC commissioner and presid6nt of District 7 of the MEA. -
Low hydro rates gone forever
EXETER - The- days of low hy-
dro rates are past,"David Drinkwal-
ter. told the annual dinner meeting
of District 7 of. the Municipal
Electric Associations hosted by the
Exeter PUC May 25 at the Legion
Hall. Addressing -the -crowd of 95
PUC staff personnel and elected
PUC and municipal officials from_
throughout District 7, the director
of Ontario hlydro's western region
said Ontario l lydro s_ recently -re-
vealed corporate strategy for the
'90s represents a major shift in em-
phasis. •
counsellors in corporate and govern-
ment relations, talked about lobby-
ing.
Noting that: there is some talk of
the relative merits of elected versus
appointed commissioners, Fleisch-
mann urged his listeners to let their
wishes be made known. He de-
fined lobbying as a matter of under-
standing one's own issue, then
forming a coalition of like-minded
groups to ensure that one's .voice is
heard and has an impact on lcgisla_
tion which may affect one's associa-
tion.
The giant power corporation has Fleischmann urged his listeners to
lost thc Ability to reduce rates by establish regular contact with mini -
continual a pansion, •as other, cost stries argragencies like the Ontario
factors mustrbe takeninto account, Energy
Bo
ard. Then, when an issue
Drinkwalt r explained. Ontarioarises w "ich could affect electric
1lydro is focusing on the user rath- utilities, you can react immediately
er thaitthe°system.; and directing and make surc your case is heard
its attention" to ensuring that cus- through -collective action"; _he ad-
tomcrs feelheyare getting good viscd.
value figr thr money. * * *
"We arC adrry we lost sight of At the regular PUC meeting the
the focus- of our existence...Wc followmg:iay, PUC managtrl:-lugh
Davis warned commissioners that
1988 will be a very-cxpcnsivc_year.
The amount of building._ going on
will necessitate the purchase of "a
lot of three-phase transformer
banks -,'Davis said. A ndrnber of
standard types arc kept in stock, but Eighteen water services have been
Davis said the many different volt- installed -in Exeter so far this year.
start with the customer...a recm-
phasisii who pays all our salar-
ies", Drinkwitcr said.
Guest speaker Ivan Fleischmann,
a lawyer who was chief of staff for
former MP John Roberts from
• 1980 to 1982 and is now -president
of Canadian lntcrcorp, a firm of
ages makes predicting all needs im-
possible.
Another problem is the length of
time between order and delivery,
which currently averages 18 weeks.
• Davis reported that the hydro de-
partment has completed 18 accident -
free years.
Davis, a man who takes nothing
for granted, had an independent anal-
ysis done on the transformer and re-
closure which had been filtered to
remove PCBs. The highest reading
was 32 parts per million, well under
the allowable 50.
Turning to the water department,
Davis said his solution to the prob-
lem at the recently chlorinated
Hicks well had been implemented
after receiving
approval from the
ece g
ministry of the environment. The
trickle of water through the analyzer
was not being carried away through
an engineer -designed dry well as the
clay soil was not absorbent enough.
Davis suggested routing the water
into a nearby test hole.
A -cross-section samp'.c of farm
wells in Usbornc township will be
monitored all summer to ensure that
PUC pumping is not affecting
neighbouring welts.
REP board of
CLINTON - A budget with ample
funds for building projects was.
passed last night at a special meet-
ing of the Iluron-Perth Roman
Catholic Separate School Board.
The board will be spending $17.6
million in 1988; about $13.9 mil-
lion for elementary education and
$3.7 million for secondary schools,
according to Ron Murray, chairman
of the.board's finance committee.
The total amount budgeted has in-
creased approximately S4 million
over last year; a 33 percent increase.
But, as superintendent of finance
Jack Lane pointed out, the figure is
severely inflated due to a $2.5 mil-
lion capital projects works which is
being 85 perccnt government. Mr.
Lane added that without the capital
projects figure, the increase would.
.be closer to 13 perccnt.
The building .projects in the bud-
- . get include S400,000 for portable
'classrooms and $1.00,000 for fire
ed budget passed
marshal requirements throughout
the system.
Reassessment in Huron County.
to 1984 market values -had delayed
the completion and adoption of the
1988 budget.
''It's been a.difficult time for bud-
geting because of the Huron Coun-
ty reassessment. We would have
normally had the budget adopted six -
weeks ago," Mr. Lane attested.
Iluron County has been the first
in this arca to set a common mill
rate for the county. Instead of equal-
ization assessment factors and sep-
arate mill rates, the county now has
one mill rate for secondary school
supporttrs and one for elementary,
Mr. Lane said.
Although Huron County was de-
layed the board was required to set
its mill rates in Perth County to as-
sist the municipalities there in esta-
blishing their budgets.
Perth County elementary separate
Exeter again hosts
Special Olympics
EXETER - Exeter will host the
Special Olympics for the second
consecutive year.
More than 75 handicapped ele-
mentary and high school age stu-
dents from Iluron County wilLcon-
vergc on the playing fields at South
Huron District High school on
Tuesday, June 7.
Special flag raising and opening
ceremonies will get underway at 10
a.m. and thcn the fun begins.
Nowhere can anyone see athletes
try harder than these. The motto for
thc Olympics is ," Let me win, but
if 1 cannot win, let me brave in my
attempt."
As one of the Special Olympic
officials said a year ago, " For
them, and' for us, it is the trying
that matters: If you keep trying,
You always win something, in
drive and determination, in im-
proved fitness,. in confidence and
pride."
The public is invited to come
along to SHDHS next Tuesday
morning and cheer the athletes on.
Vocal support will spur the young
people on to greater heights.
school supporters will pay an eight
percent increase on the mill rate. Its
secondary school supporters will
pay five percent more on the mill
tate.. -
As an example, a taxpayer in the
City of Stratford with an assess-
ment of $3,500 will pay $608 in
educational taxes for both elemen-
tary and secondary schools in 1988,
an increase of $38 over that paid
last year. Due to a change in the
equalization factors introduced by
the Ministry of Education, the rate
of increase varies dramatically from
one municipality to another from a
low of 1.6 perccnt to a high of
about 20 perccnt.
Huron County, on the other hand,
with the uniform mill rate will
have substantial reductions to the
amount otherwise required from cer-
tain municipalities and quite sub-
stantial increases from others. •The
overall assessment revised to mar-
ket value across the county is 20
times greater than it was under the
old system. A taxpayer with an as-
sessment of $65,000 will pay $608
in educational taxes for:both ele-
mentary and secondary schools in
1988. Since this amount is subject
to some provincial subsidy directly
to the municipality, it is possible
to indicate the extent of the educa-
tion tax increase over that paid in
1987.
Other contributing factors to the
increases in this year's budget are
due to the extension of Catholic ed-
ucation to Grade 11 and French im-
mersion to Grade 5. Enrolment will.
increase this September by about
160 students. There will be an in-
crease in teaching staff of 10 teach-
ers at the elementary level and tight
at secondary.
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HONOUR PRINCIPAL -. An Open House was held Sunday at Stephen Central School for principal Don Fink-
beinerwho has been transferred to J.A.O. McCurdy at Huron Park. He has been on the Stephen staff for 22
years, 20 as principal. Above, Finkbeiner receives a plaque from Doug Lightfoot of the Croditon fire department.
At the right are teacher Jay Skillender and Ross Brown, a board member when the school was established in
1966.
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STUDENTS OF THE YEAR - Principal Bruce Shaw presents students of the year Clark Adams and Leigh Sol-
dan (right) to the students and parents present at midnight at the midsummer night's dream formal dance Friday
evening. In the middle is last year's winner Lee O'Rourke.
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Shift in science curriculum
HURON COUNTY - Some scien-
tists have estimated that the amount
of scientific knowledge we have is
almost doubling every year. They
theorize that in 1989 we will be
twice as far ahead scientifically as
we arc now. "Future Shock" and
other such books talk about how
mankind is to deal with all this new
information and the change it ine-
vitably brings on the wide scale,
but the Ministry of Education is
bringing this whole information ex-
plosion into perspective and dealing
with it in practical terms.
The -Huron County Board of Edu-
cation recently received "Science is
Happening I-bere," whichis the in-
troduction to a policy statement for
science in the primary and junior di-
visions, and is a new way of look-
ing at how science can be applied in
our schools.
The trustees reviewed a package
from the ministry outlining policy
toward Ontario's goals in education,
how the learner and the learning en-
vironment will be dealt with, atti-
tudes, skills and knowledge, assess-
ment and evaluation, and the
responsibility for the implementa-
tion of the new curriculum.
The trustees also saw a video
about the new approach to science
which will soon be viewed by all
tcachcrs in the province. The video
introduces the new policy, and the
importance of educators preparing
students for an uncertain future.
The general philosophy is that
science is all around us all the time.
It isn't something that should be
studied for 15 minutes a day as a
single subject, but it is all around
students and should be incorporated
into other classes.
The new science curriculum out-
line in the policy statement will get
rolling in Huron County in the fall°
when specialists will be in the
county to work with teachers on a
one-on-one basis to introduce them
to thc program. During the winter
the program will be adapted to Hu-
ron County, and in tlic spring a cur-
riculum pertinent to the Huron
County setting will be put togeth-
er.
There is something of a shift in
focus in the science curriculum as
compared to the focus in other sub-
jects. The "Science is Happening
Here booklet explains "it is the re-
sponsibility of educators to provide
experiences that will encourage chil-
dren to develop attitudes, skills and
knowledge that they can use both
Child hurt in
Tuckersmith
TUCKERSMiTH - Five-year-old
_Craig Traquair remains in critical
condition in Children's Hospital of
Western Ontario, London, after be-
ing struck by a car while riding his
bicycle on concession 14 in Tuck-
ersmith township on Saturday.
Godcrich OPP said thc boy, of
lot 3, concession 14 in Tucker -
smith just cast of Hensall, was in
the middle of the road at about
, .6:00 p.nl. when he was hit by a
car driven by Suzanne Dallas, 19,
of 46 Princess St. W. Clinton.
The accident is still under inves-
tigation and an OPP spokesman
said charges are pending.
today and in the future."
Another ditterence in the new
science curriculum is the emphasis
which is placed on attitude in the
primary and junior divisions. This
emphasis is on information in most
other subjects.
Students of the science curriculum
will be viewed in a manner which is
cornmon is Ministry of Education
policy today.
"Each child should be viewed as
"an active participant in education
who gains satisfaction from thedy-
namics of learning, and' as a self -
motivated, self directed problem sol-
ver..dcriving a sense of self worth
and confidence froma variety of ac-
complishments."
Play or "active learning" is
viewed as a natural way for children
to learn bythe new curriculum.
"Through play children can explore,
ask qucstious, seek solutions, in-
vent, construct, and solve problems.
Play contributes to the development
of the attitudes, skills and knowl-
edge prescribed in this document.
Attitudes which the learning envi-
•ronment provided by the new pro-
gram hopes to provide for arc: con-
cern and care for the environment,
respect for living things, considera-
tion for othcrs, open-mindedness,
objectivity and accuracy, thorough-
ness and perseverance, safety -
mindedness, and curiosity and risk
taking.
At the primary and junior divi-
sions science will not be a separate
subject, but will.bc a component of
a balance and integrated program. At
the intermediate division "science
emerges as a distinct subject, but
the mosaic of biology, chemistry,
physics and environmental science
allows students to experience the re-
ality that scientific processes -and.
principles cross the artificial bound-
aries between the disciplines."
An exact date for the implementa-
tion= of this program has not yet
been given, but the last topic dealt
with the policy statement is the
Ministry of Education, the Huron.
County Board of Education, and all
board employees share thc'responsi-
bility for meeting the expectations
outlined in tide new policy. They are
to bccomc thoroughly familiar with
the policy, promote community
awarcncss of the importance of the
science component of the curricu-
lum, and foster professional devel-
opment and support in-service pro-
grams.
Hearings may be ahead for
five Hay subdivisions
IiAY TWP. - Five Hay township
subdivisions may have to go
through an OMB hearing before wa-
ter distribution systems can be in-
stalled to connect thcm with the
I ighway 21 water main, according
to a regular meeting of Hay council
on May 16.
Schadevicw, Cedar Banks, Bay-
view, Highlands i11, and Elmwood
cottage subdivisions along the lake -
shore in the township each have
one property owncr objecting to the
respective watcr distribution bylaws
passed by council earlier. While
each case is different, most arc ob-
jecting to the amount of assessment
assigned to their properties:
Clerk -treasurer Joan Ducharme
explained that. the township will try
to resolve the objections by meet-
ing.with the objectors and the engi-
neer to either explain or negotiate
the assessments. However, should
this not resolve the problems,
council will have no choice but to
got to die OMB for a decision, thus
delaying water connections consid-
erably.
in other business, council opened
tenders for spraying the roads of
concessions 8-9 and 12-13 in the
township. The Saugcen Road
Spraying Company won the con-
tract with its hid of $97,933 and
' will double treat the roads this sum-
mer.
The Flay township hall diamond
located just cast of Zurich will now
be operated by townshi(f council.
The fundraising account in Bernie
Denomme's name will be turned
over to the township.
At a special meeting held on
Wednesday May 18, council agreed
to help purchase a used fire truck
from the Stratford Fire Department
for use of with the Dashwood, Hay
and Stephen Fire Arca Board.
The 1974 International truck will
cost $40,000 and will 'be refur-
bished at an additional $7,600.
Hay's share of thc total will be 39
percent, in keeping with the •town-
ship's assessment.
Another special meeting was held
on Thursday May 19 to approve
construction of a drainage outlet for
Mr. Gowdy's residence in the La-
porte subdivision south of St. Jo-
seph. Steve Kadlccik will under-
take the construction to assure
proper drainage of the property, and
Hay works superintendent Ross
Fisher will be contacted to inspect
the work.
Council Briefs
Council approved a rcqucst from
the Bean Sprouts Nursery School
who rent the Township Hall. At
their request, the floor will be
stripped, scaled and waxed, but the
full costs will be paid by the
school.
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George Kadlccik Construction
inc. in Grand Bend will receive in-
stallation of telephone Tines- from
the Ilay Municipal Telephone Sys-
tem for his latest development.
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Deputy reeve Claire Dcichcrt will
attend the Association of Munici-
palities of Ontario conference from
August 21 to 24. The conference
will be held at the Royal York Ho-
tel in Toronto. •
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Water project inspector Dick Rau
will now carry a pager leased from
. MacLean -Hunter by the township
to keep him advised of required in-
spections to the distribution sys-
tems from thc Highway 21 water
line.
The ministry of transportation
will be conducting a stress test on
the Black Creek Bridge on the
township side road 15-16.
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