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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-11-06, Page 15Rash of'accident.s kp police on go The Ooderich Police Department was kept active during the past week in- vestigating several minor accidents. A two -car collision on The Square on Oct. 27 resulted in .$300 damage to a vehicle driven by Lean,or.Nelson, 148. ,Elizabeth St, Goderich when a vehicle owned by Grace Cranston, 158 Keays `Street ' jumped out of- gear while parked on The Square and rolled backwards into the path of the Nelson vehicle: There was no damage to the Cranston vehicle and there were no injuries. Mrs. William Smith, R.R. 5 Seaforth was taken to Alexandra Marine and General Hospital Nov. 1 for treatment of a broken arm after she had her arm pinned ' in the door as she attempted. to get out of her husband's vehicle and was struck by a car. Kevin Burns; RR 1 Londesboro, was backing out of a parking space at Sun - coast Mall when the rear of his vehicle struck the door of a vehicle. owned by William Smith, whose wife was get- ting out of the vehicle. Dat'nage to the Smith vehicle was estimated at $100 and there was no damage to the Burri's vehicle. A hit andrun accident on The Square November 1 resulted in a total' damage estimate of $225 to vehicles owned by James Cousins, 240 Elgin St. W., Goderich and Bruce Carter, R,R, 1 Hanover. The Cousins vehicle was parked on The Square and was" struck by the. • Carter vehicle'which was driven by David Humphrey of Lucknow who was apprehended two days later. There were no injuries. GO1)F.RICH"SIGNAL -STAR , THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1975 -PAGF5 Professional actIvity no holiday for teaches 19 DEAR READERS Parents ,;orf students in the Goderich area schools might well be curious about the number of days off their c-hildren are , receiving for professional activity days. Ten school days throughout the year are scheduled without students to 'allow teachers in Huron County to participate in professional activities amongst them- selves. The ten days are set aside in the year's calendar by virtue of the Ministry of' Education Act which states under one of its regulations' that teachers will hold professional activities days to "evaluate the progress of pupils, consult'with parents, counsel pupils, evaluate programs and development, and for the professional development ' of teachers attending educational con- ferences". In short tfie ten days could be termed staff meetings both in the individual schools and on a. county ,wide basis. The teachers also use the days to look into educational systems in other counties of the province and may even travel to the United States for a look at the 4merican -system of schooling. • 'Che days are. holidays for the' students but not for the teachers. .For the • teachers they are regular work days requiring their attendance at whatever activity has been planned for the day. The professional activities are basically new to the teachers. They were initiated in 1'97.3 ,by the provincial ministry in an attempt td allow teachers to share their c•las5room experiences, successes and failures and to survey the teachers to. glean information regarding any new curriculum or subject content being introduced to the educational, system. ' The teachers don't have to make use of • ,every professional development day scheduled for them. The Ministry of Education Act 'states.,that there must be,185. instructional days in a school year. This year the calendar contains' 197 school days leaving 12 days open for „tea -cher professional ac- tivities, ten of which are being scheduled.. Some parents are inclined to regard • the ten days as simply long weekends for teachers. The professional activity days are scheduled on Monday`, Wednesday, and Friday this year, the bulk of them falling, on Monday or Friday. This scheduling is done for convenience. By giving the students a' long weekend parents can take advantage of the extra day to visit relatives or have a ,three day family outing without in- terrupting school days. Also the students don't have their school week broken. by a holiday which tends to affect their concentration level for the week. Teachers in general are enthused about the professional days. ONLY YOU CAN -) GIVE THE Gin 41 OF LIFE! (continued from page 4 ) who has lived all his life in the county. He is a self-employed farmer and his wife does not work outside the household (that is, she does not work for pay).."In some cases he has had to rearrange his work, or to-hirehelp; the -report says. _. --TRIM '- or"'not iris"goodto have a majority of reeves of, this type making decisions in Huron County is an in- teresting question. At 50 years of age or more, a man is indeed experienced in manyfacets of living. But a man of 50 also tends to be a bit more satisfied •than his younger counterpart; a little more reluctant to change; a trifle less visionary 'in some instances. As, a self-employed matters.) County during November and businessman' who can December, there should be a • rearrange his work or hire It is interesting, for that small surplus of funds by help, he is a special breed of matter, that according 'to the man' who may or may not be 450 voters who were in.; "year's, end in the Huron -the best representative for terviewed, 40.8 percent felt County road budget. theeo le. The trouble is, bythe most important work of County councillors learned the very nature of the county county council . was the Friday, October 31 in regular system, younger men who are upkeep of roads and, snow session that a surplus would em to ed in 'other fields of removal (which it isn't) and be partly due to some endeavor 'are nearly always . that the next largest group , projects being completed percent) 9 . 17didn't know under the estimates and also'. prevented from running for a ( p ) because a wet fall prevented county office. what council's most im- 3.',„ , F,inall fewer aril fewer portant work was. road crews from trimming up y' It is also interesting that the ditches- and side slopes on women (even farm women) two county projects. This are remaining at home to. while reeves themselves said work will be • completed in care for the house and the their most important work was planning and develop- early 1976. children . More and more p g p But even this good news women are enjoying, careers merit and health and welfare failed to'get the necessary outside the home and while with .road upkeep running the typical reeve has a wife third,- the people of this support of county council CO countydidn't know it. pass the road report in total. who doesn't work, heis not at all typicalThe final clause in the report of the men in the One could very well ask then, if county council really_ which would have authorized • county, many of whom have "making , an 18.4 percent"salary' in - wives who have full or part- is full use -of the' media Or if reeves are crease for road crew . was time employment outside the home. And referred back to committee thisyhay, in some really in touch with con- until other committees have way, put, the typical reeve stituents and available to dealt with their salary slightly out of touch with the them? average Huron County voter. The study stated that reRalph McNichol, chairman "nearly three out of four + + + reeves were against a change to regional government". Of special interest to this The statement might have reporter was the line in the read—nearly three out of foal- section oursection which outlined the rebves were against a profile of a typical reeve in change" .... and not been all Huron. , - „ that ittcorrect. That line reads: • "They The study showed the. •,,„ believe it is important' for a residents of Huron don't want reeve to keep in touch with his ,,to lose the close relationship constituents, by being they feel. with their elected available to .gee people, and representatives. Ironically, by making full use of the that 'cloSe"r'elationship may media.", be just merely^ an illusion. Few reeves and deputy- Certainly Huron County reeves in Huron County are Council refuses to establish "making full use of, the full communication with media": They may think they Huron's - residents. It has County depend on the media (the press and radio) to bring them the county and municipal council news. What tfW people may not know is that they are getting a watered down version of the business of Huron County -Council,.-and tha-t'the.ir__ we11-.- • •"-liked, .,",.eom•�rrurtity°-� °•-minded, - competent, honest' and reliable" representatives rn county council carry on a good deal of the county business in committee where the press is never invited: GDCI school band director Al Mullin felt his band was ready to play the music for a l eatric.al_prod_uc,t onand assembled a pit band for the first musical ever produced by the GDC,I,dra-ma.club: -4.-s ma County roads may have surplus This wiaiter has flogged this ' issue before and asked . time and time again what it is that "county council fears by making all their business, public (except those very 'special and very occasional ouncil fails to approve mittee offer to staf If there' isn't an unusually heavy snowfall in ' Huron are .,. but their efforts are a far cry from what they should be. The report made it clear that the people in Huron failed to open all its business to public scrutiny and end closed committee sessions and confidential committee reports. "May I 'remind you that if the committee.` this was a union agreement, it In other business before would be binding," Warden county council, approval was McKinley said. given -for the hiring of Wayne Chairman McNichol added Lester as assistant ad - that the increases , were ministrator at Huronview, considered by the committee 'effective December 1, 1975 for as a "reasonable scale'. He a probationary period of six said the, committee was' in- months, at a salary of $15,000 'Wrested in keeping the union out' of the road department in Huron. Council was also reminded by 'County Clerk Bill Hanly that 1975 increases 'to some union employees were '"good". "You exercised no control' or had no Control," said Hanly. County engineer Jim Britnell reportedthat Huron's wage scale for road employees was the 'lowest of any county hi Ontario except 'one, and that one is presently negotiating at considerably more than Huron County road committee offered to its employees. Simon P. Hallahan, reeve of West Wawanosh, said of the road committee, ,said , much of the money for county the suggestion of the 75 cent salaries comes from • an hour increase for the road agriculture. department workers (ex- "I'm making a hell of a lot eluding the engineer whose less than that (the offer to the salary will be negotiated road crew)", said Hallahan. separately, had been passed Reeve Allan Campbell, of along to the "crew. The- McKillop told council that the discussions surrounding the' wage spiral has to stop salaries had taken place somewhere. He said that if October 9, five days prior to -- the raises as recommended the federal government's `-by the road committee were imposed salary guideline of approved, it would. mean ,the IQ percent. municipal road crew workers Warden Anson McKinley would be looking for similar advised council that wages . adjustents in salary. for the road crew are nor Thirty; Thirty-six county. road malty set at this time of year, workers are involved in the in order that estimates for settlement. the next year'sbudget may "This offer was made be presented to' the Ontario before October 13," reasoned Ministry of Transportation Reeve Gerry Ginn of and Communication. Goderich Township, "and I believe this council should live by it." 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