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Clinton News-Record, 1983-08-10, Page 3. �., as c 1$y Stephanie Levesque Row upon row of program- med cassette tapes and neat- ly filed farioage arts pro- grams are the net results of the Experience '83 program by the Huron -Perth Separate School Board. Eight students from across Huron and Perth counties have been working out of the board office in Dublin and across the street at St. Patrick's school. Under the leadership of co- ordinator Denise Lane of St. Columban, the students have been putting computer pro- grams on cassettes from disks, cataloguing library cards and compiling various language arts programs. Specifically, Anne Marie Kelly of Dublin and Mary Lee Jansen of Seaforth have been working in the media centre at the board office. The two girls have produced library cards for the board's library consultant Edith Mc- Carroll. Material from past professional development days has been compiled by the pair for distribution among the 19 separate schools in the system. "Kits" for the junior and intermediate reading pro- grams have also been pieced together under the Ex- perience program. A similar kit, following the philosophy putter of Bloom's Taxonomy, has also been prepared for the board's recently approved program for the gifted. Bloom's Taxonomy develops creative thinking along with knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, sym- thesis and evaluation. The remainder of the Ex- perience students are over in the gym at St. Patrick's. There the gym is filled with programmed cassettes and 11 computers. The students, Stephen Lemmon of Mitchell, Peter Frehner and David Bleiker, both of St. Marys, Jayne Delaney of Dublin and Doug Denomme of Zurich have loaded the cassettes with about 4,000 programs. Taking the programs from disks already at the board of- fice as well as from program catalogues .from across the province, the objective is to put these tapes on the casset- tes to be distributed around the separate schools in the two counties. Each school has had an op- portunity to order these cassettes at $1.25 each from 1,000 possible programs. The decision to make the casset- tes available to the schools is simply economical as the cassette attachments for the computer are cheaper than the disk drives necessary for a the disks. There are a . ut three to four programs per cassette and by the end of July the students had completed about 1,200 to 1,300 cassettes. Not only do the students program the computers to "DLoad", the term used for the transferring of the pro- gram from disk to cassette, but they re -check the casset- tes, label and file them for each school. Doug Denomme has even prepared special programs specifically for the students in Huron and Perth. He has adapted a geography pro- gram prepared on Huron County and has done com- parable work in subjects such as history, math and spelling. Denise Lane, who has been working in the Experience program offered by the board for about six years, has organized the project since May. Doug started working in June, while the rest of the students started in July. The project will end on Aug. 19. As in all other Experience programs, this one financed by the Ministry of Educa- tion, the students receive minimum wages. For those under 18 the minimum wage is $2.65 and over 18 the minimum is $3.50 per hour. All students work a 35 -hour week. Chronic care coming to Huron Home care for the chronically ill will be introduced in Huron County on October 15. The announcement was made by Health Minister Keith Norton. "My ministry is placing greater em- phasis on long-term care to meet changing health care requirements and the needs of the growing number of elderly residents across the province," said Mr. Norton. "We already have evidence that with chronic home care elderly patients res- pond more quickly to treatment and are more content when it is received in the home setting." There are now 886,700 people 65 or older in Ontario, but by the year 2002 this figure will increase to 1.38 million. The ministry has set aside $896,400 to cover the costs of the new program during its first full year of operation when it is ex- pected to serve approximately 350 residents. Nursing, homemaking, nutri- tional counselling, occupational therapy and physiotherapy will be provided. These services are already offered on a short- term basis in Huron County and elsewhere in the province under the ministry's acute home care program During 1982 - 83 more than 670 residents of Huron County received acute home care services at a total cost of $540,880. The average length of stay on the acute pro- gram is 30 days; on the chronic home care program the average is 137 days. The ministry's aim is to expand chronic home care to all areas of the province by the end of March, 1984. Thirty-four of a total of 38 programs are already in opera- tion. The home care program enables people to be looked after in the privacy of their own familiar surroundings, providing their doctors recommend this care. The new chronic home care program will be administered by the Huron County Health Unit. Board opposes school... from page 1 gested ( hypothetical) students results in a very insignificant reduction in expenses. Thus the board's only option is to shift a larger portion of its operating cost to the local ratepayer. In a very practical sense, then, every ratepayer in Huron County would end up supporting this school. Therefore, the board feels an obligation to all the ratepayers of Huron County to ap- pear in opposition to this application," said Mr. Allan. Mr. Allan also pointed out the vacant spaces already in Huron County schools. With the potential to house 15,681 students in its 24 elementary and five secondary schools, there was, as of Sept. 30, 1982, only 10,522 students. The secondary schools in Huron could hold up to 5,985 students but in September of last year housed only 3,979 students. Enrolment is projected to decline again this fall. "The Board of Education is of the opi- nion that the best interests of all Huron County ratepayers and, indeed, of all residents of the province are best served by utilizing this existing space. "It would be unfortunate to allow educa- tional facilities to proliferate around the county and the ratepayers be necessitated to bear a heavy additional tax burden without the Board of Education being allowed to bring this information for- ward," Mr. Allan said, thanking the OMB for the opportunity to speak at the hearing. Dr. Vanderkooy said the site south of Wingham is the "nucleus" off a 50 -mile radius from where the students will come. These students will not only come from Huron County, but from Perth, Wellington and Bruce. CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1983—PAGE 3 Lig'tning+May it sus in $1 ire At 2 in the morning on July 26 Jim and Brenda McIntosh woke up because of the roaring electrical storm outside. They didn't get back to bed that night. Two hours later they got a call that their barn at loot 11, Concession 5 in Tuckersmith Township was on fire. "After the call, we looked out the win- dow and we could see the glow from the fire. We figured there wasn't too much hope then," says Brenda McIntosh. The fire, which the Mclntoshes and the Seaforth fire department suspect was started by a direct hit by lightning, caused over $100,000 in damage including the loss of the barn and the loss of 400 pigs of all ages. "That barn had been empty for two years. We just put pigs into it in the fall and they were just getting to the point when we could sell them. We lost all the ete sows, babies, weaners and nearly marketable pigs," she says. The fire department fought the fire for approximately four hours and then left some men on the scene for three hours more in case it started again. Though the barn and contents were partly insured, you can never be insured enough, says Mrs. McIntosh. The fire started in the high old barn and spread into the new 5 -year-old addition to the barn, destroying it completely. Of three feed bins, one was damaged while the other two are all right, says Seaforth Fire Chief, Harry Hak. "We put a lot of work, new equipment and new machinery into that place and we're really disappointed. We're hoping to just bury the whole thing." The Mclntoshes say they're undecided as yet about rebuilding. Free anti -rabies clinics to be offered in Huron Dog and cat owners in Huron county should take advantage of free anti -rabies vaccination clinics throughout the county starting Sept. 12 to help control the pro- blem in the area, says Dr. W. J. Thomp- son, of the Food Production and Inspection Branch of Agriculture Canada in Seaforth. Since January this year, there have been 54 confirmed cases of rabies, a virus disease which has been a problem in Huron since the mid 50s. Spread from one animal to another or to a human by biting or contact of saliva with a break in the skin, rabies is usually fatal in all warm- , .£.: yy.'. x .. blooded species. Since dogs and cats are in closest con- tact with humans, it's important to have pets vaccinated. says Dr. Thompson. If bitten or scratched by a suspected rabid animal, a person should first wash the wound with soap and water being Conservation authority J.A. Veldhuis of Clinton recently took some time to try out the new talking encyclopedias for the blind at the Clinton Library. Huron County purchased the encyclopedias, which are expected to be shared among all libraries in the county. (Rod Hilts photo) establishes awards The Ausable-Bayfield Con- servation Authority wants to encourage recognition of the efforts of local groups and in- dividuals in promoting con- servation of natural resources. The Conservation Authority has consequently established two,annual con- servation awards. One award will go to the group who makes the most significant contribution to the work of the Conservation Authority while the other award will go to the in- dividual who similarily aids the Conservation Authority in its work. The conservation awards will consist of a certificate and framed print or book. In addition the recipients will have their names added to plaques which will be displayed at the Con- servation Authority's office in Exeter. The Executive Committee of the A.B.C.A. will choose two award winners from among nominations prepared by Conservation Authority staff. The public is encouraged to bring the conservation -related efforts of groups and individuals to the Cons ation Authority's attention Dan'Kennaley, Watershed Planning and Community Relations Co -Ordinator with the Conservation Authority, believes that there will be no shortage of excellent can- didates for the conservation awards. "Many local people have been helping with various Conservation Authority programs each year and we now have a Way of showing our apprecia- tion", says Mr. Kennaley. "It's too bad we couldn't give out fifty awards because we'll probably have that number of deserving candidates." Mr. Kennaley also explain- ed that, since the ac- complishments of a group or individual will be judged relative to the size of the group or the age of the in- dividual, anyone who pro- motes conservation could win. The two conservation awards will be presented in early November at a special Conservation Dinner which will be held for the first time this year. The Conservation Authority will be inviting people to the dinner who have assisted the Authority with its programs. Addi- tional tickets will be available for interested members of the public. A guest speaker, conservation films, and the conservation awards will form the pro- gram for the dinner. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY! AUGUST CLEARANCE SALE matrafrifiS7 i?y#res'k&Rs£eog3Yr�' '"�'37i OUR ENTIRE STOCK 1983 NEW AND DEMOS AUGUST 9 - 20 OPEN SATURDAY TILL 4 • GMAC FINANCING • THEY MUST BE SOLD! NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED! • WE NEED YOUR USED CAR NOW! TOP ALLOWANCE OFFERED AT BROWN chevrolet ldsmobile since1935- CLINTON -1829321 CARS 1983 OLDS 98 REGENCY BROUGHAM 4 door sedan. Air. Demo. Serial No.°880990 1983 OLDS ROYALE 4 door sedan. Air. Serial No. 963253 1983 OLDS CUTLASS CIERA BROUGHAM 4 door. Air. Demo. 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