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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-03-30, Page 8Page 8—The Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, March 30, 1972 otrmetnber-to-se-rve- on executive of MDC Although Huron County Council has agreed to pay its member- ship fee for another year in Mid- western Development Council (NIODA) there was some discus- sion at the March session of county council in Goderich as to the appointments to the board from Huron. The •county development com- mittee, chaired by Ed. Oddleif- son, reeve of Bayfield, recom- mended that Warden Elmer Hay- ter, last year's warden', Jack 4lexander and Oddleifson rep- resent the county on the board. Speaking to the report before ,council, Mr. Oddleifs.on said that Huron County was assured that one of its representatives would be on the executive. He said Jim Hayter, Goderich, formerly of Dashwood, as past president of MDC, would be assured a seat. "We're hoping for additional representation as well," stated Mr. Oddleifson, who said the in- itial meeting of the new board will be April 19. It is understood that executive members will be drawn from among board mem- bers. Charles Thomas, reeve of Grey, who has served on MDC for several years, said that since many decisions are made at the executive level of MDC, it is im- portant that Huron have rep- resentation on the executive. Mr. Thomas also noted that the appointees by council should be persons who will likely stay on the board for four or five years. This continuity, Mr. Thomas felt, would put Huron's -members in a solid position which would-' in- crease their likelihood to serve 'on the executive committee of MDC. The warden noted that since all council appointees will be elected officials, there will be no assur- ance of a continued stay on the board.. Mr. Thomas answered that these persons should be appointed' for three-year terms, for instance, in the same manner as they are appointed to other county committees. Mr. Oddleifson also expressed the hope that Huron's develop- ment officer, Spence Cummings, would attend MDC meetings and perhaps be named a resource person by the board. IT WAS A HAPPY hockey team that won the Listowel Minor Hockey Astociation trophy as top "C" team in the Listowel Tyke Tournament. Ken Cousins of the Brussels Tykes is shown admiring the silverware with his two goalies, Bruce Godkin and Jim Scott. Ken notched a hat trickin the final game against Point Edward which was won by the Brussels boys by a 7-0 count. —Staff Photo P ► ► ► JERRY'S TAXI Is the Only Legal Licensed Taxi in the Town of Wingham Persons riding in unlicensed taxis do so at their own risk G. McLEAN 1 1 • Used Car Savings '69 PLYMOUTH 4 -Door, 8 Auto., Radio '69 CHRYSLER Newport 4 - Door Hardtop, power equipped '68 BEAUMONT 2 -Door hard- , toe, 327 engine, 4 speed transmission, radio '68 CORONET 500 Convert. ible '68 CHRYSLER 4 -Door Se. dan, Power steering, brakes and radio , '68 CHRYSLER Two -Door Hardtop • '68 FALCON 2 -Door, 6 auto. with radio '67 DODGE Monaco 2 -Door Hardtop, 8uto., powet steering,. brakes & radio '67 PLYMOUTH 4 -Door, An- tomctic '67 PLYMOUTH 4 -Door Standard '60 FORD 4 -Door Sedan, a automatic, power steeling with radio ' '65 radio FORD 4-Door, Auto, with CRAWFORD MOTORS PHONE 357.386.4 THE BRUSSELS TYKES won the class "C" finals at the Listowel Tyke -Hockey Tournament last week, defeating the Point Edward team 7-0 in thefinal game. The team in- cludes, from the left, front row, Brian McGavin, Gary Mc-. Arter, Bruce Godkin, Jim Scott, Paul Johnson,•Stuart Car- diff, Bradley Wright; standing, coach Ralph Watson, Mike Watson, Rick Guest, Terry Glanville, Terry McCutcheon, Ken Cousins, Brian Tetip9s, John Stroop, Ken Higgins, Lyle Campbell and coach Jim Prior. —Staff Photo: Committee reports onIac,k of -arts in Huron schools Members of the Huron County Board of Education took a long— and tonging—look Monday after- noon at The Arts. The afternoon began with a stirring concert given by the concert and stage bands ' from Goderich District Collegiate Institute in Huron County and the 110 -voice choir from Mitchell District High School in Perth County, and end- ed with a recommendation from a committee of teachers that the board co=operate with the Huron County Council to build an Arts Centre in Huron. The presentation which. fol- lowed the concert in the gym at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton showed that. the *art subjects—music, drama and art—are of "paramount impor- tance in the development of the whole child!'. , Motley Sanders of South Huron DHS, outlinedthe aims of the creative arts in school. He said they provide the basis for leisure time activities in later life, teach- es students to be critical and dis- criminating in their interests, de- velop a questioning mind and a sense of 'confidence, aid in social and emotional growth and helps correct some of the imbalance of aims within the present school system. "Marks are given for academic abilities but the persons with creative abilities do not get any recognition," explained Sanders. "With creative arts in the schools in Huron County, we feel it shotild help to repair t1Je balance," • Courses Warren Robinson from GDCI discussed courses in theatre arts for secondary schools. He noted that facilities for teaching such courses are practicallY non-exis- tent in the county and added there is a shortage of staff as well. "There are two dangers," Rob- inson went on.."The most serious. is that of saying that we can do nothing because of lack of equip- ment, faeil'ities or teachers' background. Something valuable will come out of the most primi- tive conditions with the most in- experienced teacher as long as he or she is in earnest. The second danger is to allow the first condi- tion to become norm.". Speaking about music i'h»the county schools, Charles Kalb- fleisch, GDCI, said that while vocal is taught in all the elemen- tary schools of the county, and some limited instrumental in- struction, none of the secondary schools has any music instruction either vocal or instrumental. He said that GDCI has a 50 - piece concert band and a 12 -piece stage band but this activity is carried on as an extra -curricular activity. At Seaforth DHS there is a girls' trumpet band which is also operating only in certain seasons of the year as an extra= curricular activity. Kalbfleisch denied that music has been unpopular ,with the stiff= dents in Huron County. He said the music program has not. been "sold" in the same way that the other courses have been sold to the students. He suggested the bands from GDCI could .make a tour of the elementary schools in Huron. County to acquaint the students there with the joys of participa- tion in a band and enrolment in a music coarse: Kalbfleisch noted that while the GDCI bands would not•like to "be sentenced" to a year of playing nothing but elementary schools in Huron County, the students would be happy to participate in a pro- gram to sell music to students coming into high school. "How can a student know if he wants to, play a trumpet if he has - never seen . a. trumpet?" asked` Kalbfleisch'. Hit and Miss The art program in Huron Schools, reported John Talbot, Seaforth PS, is somewhat hit and miss. He said that while most ele- mentary ,.schools have several teachers on the staff wlio have taken one or more art courses which have been made available through the Huron board of edu- cation, and all schools have art WIN TYKE 'C' CONrOLATION—Paul Montgomery of .the Wingham CKNX. Tyke team was presented with the Tyke 'C' consolation trophy by Bill McCutcheon at the annual Listowel Tyke hockey tournament here last weekend, Wing - ham defeated Mount Forest 5.2 in the consolation round. (Photo by Richard Kunder) programs of some kind, there are no art classes in the high schools at the present time. "The problem in beginning an art course as seen by the high schools is that they have no room suitably set up and the difficulty of getting a teacher to teach art part-time and some other sub- ject," said Talbot. A resource centre in the teach- ing of music and art, said Charles Mountford of F. E. Madill SS in Wingham, is vital. A resource centre, he said, would contain books,' magazines, clippings, phonograph records, filmstrips, slides, reproductions of 'works of art etc. and should be well locat ed within the school and made known to the students. "The committee is optimistic that resource centre require- ments will be met in Huron Coun- ty ounty without serious difficulties," said Mountford. Clayton Cober. of Howick Cen- tral PS, outlined the field trips taken by the committee in pre- paring its report and Mrs: .Bessie Hoad, a speech . therapist from the board office, detailed the rec- ommendations : 1. 'That the board approve the necessary alterations and addi- tional instruments to bring the present room and equipment up to standards for the instrumental music course planned for GDCI this fall; 2. That the students should be exposed to musical, dramatic and art presentations by bands - and choirs made up of perform- ers of student age level beginning in September 1972; .D 3. That, when hiring teachers, principals be encouraged to hire teachers with qualifications in the arts so that the present policy Of itinerant teachers can be phased out;• ' 4. That resource centre§ for the arts be set, up in the courtly and that budgets be increased ac- cordingly for library and audio- visual• supplies with persons trained in audio-visual aids to work with them ;,•-• 5. That the barn on GDCI prop- erty adjacent to the school be al- tered for a theatre arts program; 6. That the board adopt a cen- tral audio-visual' system ; 7. That the board initiate the possibilities of co-operating with Huron County Council in the building of an Arts Centie in Hur- on. - fn the discussion during the presentation, the chairman of the board, Robert M. Elliott, asked OPP invesfigate two accidents James B. Button and Peter A. Uyl, both of Blyth, were involved in a motor vehicle accident on Highway 4, south of the CPR crossing at Blyth last Tuesday. Damages were estimated at $300 and provincial police say charges are pending. - Donald E. McLean of Ripley escaped injury Friday when he lost control of his vehicle while ' travelling west on Highway 86 and it ran into a snowbank. Dam- age was estimated at $500. —Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herd and baby son of Kitchener visited on Saturday evening with their uncle, Harold Herd. —Mr. and Mrs. Wilfrid Con - gram have returned home after vacationing for three weeks. in Florida. the teachers if they would agree that a school needs a "spark - plug" for any arts course to be of- fered. • "If it is the staff's fault," ans- wered Warren Robinson, "then it goes back one step further, to the people who hired that staff." Robinson maintained that there is presently a "rosy hiring pic- ture" and persons in charge of : hiring should be encouraged to be on the lookout for persons with qualifications in the arts as well as other subjects. ' "What is it that the board is not doing that is setting the arts pro- gram back in Huron County?". asked Elliott. Robinson said it is' better to be hated than to be ignored.. Mrs. Hoad noted that since the arts have always been taught in H- on as extra -curricular subjects, it is ' difficult to inspire interest among staff; members to teach it—or. to attract qualified per- sons. Lack Facilities Bruce Shaw of South Huron DHS, reminded the•board that art courses often aren't initiated be- cause of lack of facilities. He pointed out that theatre_ art pro- grams, for instance, need a place to work. Music, he continued, needs a special room, t, too, he said, requires facilitie§ which of- • ten do not exist in the schools. Robinson complained that it is difficult to 'find free time in the gym to practice. a .lay tor in, stance, or rehearse a fid', "We're preparing for a regional vatatAodarii4April•IlAsa Robinson, "and our gym is rented for several days this weekend. Often we have to fight with sport- ing events for time In the gym," "We're still job oriented. in Huron County," said D. J. Loch- rane, director 'of education for Huron. "We think if the course doesn't help a student toward employment, it is not useful." "How many employers ask if the student has done well in physical education?" said Robin- son, pointing out that physical education has long been stressed as an important subject in high school. Several members of the com- mitteealso noted that physical education .has been "strongly suggested" to many students who„,. might have preferred to select music or art as one of their sub- jects' , Speaking about his choir, Lorne Dotterer of Mitchell, told the meeting that at Mitchell high school there is a waiting list of al- most 100 students who would like to join his choir. .He said he sees 246 students a day in the music course he teaches in his school. "Choral music is not very ex- pensive," said Dotterer. "My budget is $450, and the town is be- hind the choir. The choir is very - popular with the community." Your own homem leis than rent! Now, when you're making out your income tax return — worrying about budgets --- this is the time to decide to stop paying rent. Get that dream home you want. Own it fOr less than you pay for rent and live in ' your•own home while its value rises through the years. See about a mortgage -- today — at Victoria and Grey. 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The team in- cludes, from the left, front row, Brian McGavin, Gary Mc-. Arter, Bruce Godkin, Jim Scott, Paul Johnson,•Stuart Car- diff, Bradley Wright; standing, coach Ralph Watson, Mike Watson, Rick Guest, Terry Glanville, Terry McCutcheon, Ken Cousins, Brian Tetip9s, John Stroop, Ken Higgins, Lyle Campbell and coach Jim Prior. —Staff Photo: Committee reports onIac,k of -arts in Huron schools Members of the Huron County Board of Education took a long— and tonging—look Monday after- noon at The Arts. The afternoon began with a stirring concert given by the concert and stage bands ' from Goderich District Collegiate Institute in Huron County and the 110 -voice choir from Mitchell District High School in Perth County, and end- ed with a recommendation from a committee of teachers that the board co=operate with the Huron County Council to build an Arts Centre in Huron. The presentation which. fol- lowed the concert in the gym at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton showed that. the *art subjects—music, drama and art—are of "paramount impor- tance in the development of the whole child!'. , Motley Sanders of South Huron DHS, outlinedthe aims of the creative arts in school. He said they provide the basis for leisure time activities in later life, teach- es students to be critical and dis- criminating in their interests, de- velop a questioning mind and a sense of 'confidence, aid in social and emotional growth and helps correct some of the imbalance of aims within the present school system. "Marks are given for academic abilities but the persons with creative abilities do not get any recognition," explained Sanders. "With creative arts in the schools in Huron County, we feel it shotild help to repair t1Je balance," • Courses Warren Robinson from GDCI discussed courses in theatre arts for secondary schools. He noted that facilities for teaching such courses are practicallY non-exis- tent in the county and added there is a shortage of staff as well. "There are two dangers," Rob- inson went on.."The most serious. is that of saying that we can do nothing because of lack of equip- ment, faeil'ities or teachers' background. Something valuable will come out of the most primi- tive conditions with the most in- experienced teacher as long as he or she is in earnest. The second danger is to allow the first condi- tion to become norm.". Speaking about music i'h»the county schools, Charles Kalb- fleisch, GDCI, said that while vocal is taught in all the elemen- tary schools of the county, and some limited instrumental in- struction, none of the secondary schools has any music instruction either vocal or instrumental. He said that GDCI has a 50 - piece concert band and a 12 -piece stage band but this activity is carried on as an extra -curricular activity. At Seaforth DHS there is a girls' trumpet band which is also operating only in certain seasons of the year as an extra= curricular activity. Kalbfleisch denied that music has been unpopular ,with the stiff= dents in Huron County. He said the music program has not. been "sold" in the same way that the other courses have been sold to the students. He suggested the bands from GDCI could .make a tour of the elementary schools in Huron. County to acquaint the students there with the joys of participa- tion in a band and enrolment in a music coarse: Kalbfleisch noted that while the GDCI bands would not•like to "be sentenced" to a year of playing nothing but elementary schools in Huron County, the students would be happy to participate in a pro- gram to sell music to students coming into high school. "How can a student know if he wants to, play a trumpet if he has - never seen . a. trumpet?" asked` Kalbfleisch'. Hit and Miss The art program in Huron Schools, reported John Talbot, Seaforth PS, is somewhat hit and miss. He said that while most ele- mentary ,.schools have several teachers on the staff wlio have taken one or more art courses which have been made available through the Huron board of edu- cation, and all schools have art WIN TYKE 'C' CONrOLATION—Paul Montgomery of .the Wingham CKNX. Tyke team was presented with the Tyke 'C' consolation trophy by Bill McCutcheon at the annual Listowel Tyke hockey tournament here last weekend, Wing - ham defeated Mount Forest 5.2 in the consolation round. (Photo by Richard Kunder) programs of some kind, there are no art classes in the high schools at the present time. "The problem in beginning an art course as seen by the high schools is that they have no room suitably set up and the difficulty of getting a teacher to teach art part-time and some other sub- ject," said Talbot. A resource centre in the teach- ing of music and art, said Charles Mountford of F. E. Madill SS in Wingham, is vital. A resource centre, he said, would contain books,' magazines, clippings, phonograph records, filmstrips, slides, reproductions of 'works of art etc. and should be well locat ed within the school and made known to the students. "The committee is optimistic that resource centre require- ments will be met in Huron Coun- ty ounty without serious difficulties," said Mountford. Clayton Cober. of Howick Cen- tral PS, outlined the field trips taken by the committee in pre- paring its report and Mrs: .Bessie Hoad, a speech . therapist from the board office, detailed the rec- ommendations : 1. 'That the board approve the necessary alterations and addi- tional instruments to bring the present room and equipment up to standards for the instrumental music course planned for GDCI this fall; 2. That the students should be exposed to musical, dramatic and art presentations by bands - and choirs made up of perform- ers of student age level beginning in September 1972; .D 3. That, when hiring teachers, principals be encouraged to hire teachers with qualifications in the arts so that the present policy Of itinerant teachers can be phased out;• ' 4. That resource centre§ for the arts be set, up in the courtly and that budgets be increased ac- cordingly for library and audio- visual• supplies with persons trained in audio-visual aids to work with them ;,•-• 5. That the barn on GDCI prop- erty adjacent to the school be al- tered for a theatre arts program; 6. That the board adopt a cen- tral audio-visual' system ; 7. That the board initiate the possibilities of co-operating with Huron County Council in the building of an Arts Centie in Hur- on. - fn the discussion during the presentation, the chairman of the board, Robert M. Elliott, asked OPP invesfigate two accidents James B. Button and Peter A. Uyl, both of Blyth, were involved in a motor vehicle accident on Highway 4, south of the CPR crossing at Blyth last Tuesday. Damages were estimated at $300 and provincial police say charges are pending. - Donald E. McLean of Ripley escaped injury Friday when he lost control of his vehicle while ' travelling west on Highway 86 and it ran into a snowbank. Dam- age was estimated at $500. —Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herd and baby son of Kitchener visited on Saturday evening with their uncle, Harold Herd. —Mr. and Mrs. Wilfrid Con - gram have returned home after vacationing for three weeks. in Florida. the teachers if they would agree that a school needs a "spark - plug" for any arts course to be of- fered. • "If it is the staff's fault," ans- wered Warren Robinson, "then it goes back one step further, to the people who hired that staff." Robinson maintained that there is presently a "rosy hiring pic- ture" and persons in charge of : hiring should be encouraged to be on the lookout for persons with qualifications in the arts as well as other subjects. ' "What is it that the board is not doing that is setting the arts pro- gram back in Huron County?". asked Elliott. Robinson said it is' better to be hated than to be ignored.. Mrs. Hoad noted that since the arts have always been taught in H- on as extra -curricular subjects, it is ' difficult to inspire interest among staff; members to teach it—or. to attract qualified per- sons. Lack Facilities Bruce Shaw of South Huron DHS, reminded the•board that art courses often aren't initiated be- cause of lack of facilities. He pointed out that theatre_ art pro- grams, for instance, need a place to work. Music, he continued, needs a special room, t, too, he said, requires facilitie§ which of- • ten do not exist in the schools. Robinson complained that it is difficult to 'find free time in the gym to practice. a .lay tor in, stance, or rehearse a fid', "We're preparing for a regional vatatAodarii4April•IlAsa Robinson, "and our gym is rented for several days this weekend. Often we have to fight with sport- ing events for time In the gym," "We're still job oriented. in Huron County," said D. J. Loch- rane, director 'of education for Huron. "We think if the course doesn't help a student toward employment, it is not useful." "How many employers ask if the student has done well in physical education?" said Robin- son, pointing out that physical education has long been stressed as an important subject in high school. Several members of the com- mitteealso noted that physical education .has been "strongly suggested" to many students who„,. might have preferred to select music or art as one of their sub- jects' , Speaking about his choir, Lorne Dotterer of Mitchell, told the meeting that at Mitchell high school there is a waiting list of al- most 100 students who would like to join his choir. .He said he sees 246 students a day in the music course he teaches in his school. "Choral music is not very ex- pensive," said Dotterer. "My budget is $450, and the town is be- hind the choir. The choir is very - popular with the community." Your own homem leis than rent! Now, when you're making out your income tax return — worrying about budgets --- this is the time to decide to stop paying rent. Get that dream home you want. Own it fOr less than you pay for rent and live in ' your•own home while its value rises through the years. See about a mortgage -- today — at Victoria and Grey. 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