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Clinton News-Record, 1983-09-21, Page 3Se 1, frat ucati�•' ai.'le r will ^!i servic s for en tally ret A :.de Y STEPHANIE LEVESQUE The Huron -Perth Separate School Board will purchase education services for Catholic trainable mentally retarded students from both the Huron and Perth Boards of Education. The agreement between the three boards goes into effect on January 1„ 1985, the separate school board agreed at its September 12 meeting. "Why are we not educating these students ourseWe ," asked Goderich area trustee Michael Moriarty. Director of Education William Eckert said the public boards of education have been educating these students for a long time. Bill 82, the special education amend- ment to The Education Act, now permits separate school boards to educate its own trainable mentally retarded students, add- ed Eckert. Also, Superintendent of Education John McCauley pointed out that there are ap- proximately 11 such students spread over the two counties. "There are about two students in any geographical area," said the superinten- dent. Both the director and McCauley said it would be expensive for the board to educate these students because facilities would have to be created and transportation provided along with teaching staff. The trainable mentally retarded students previously had been considered secondary school students for grant pur- poses, thereby leaving their education out of the hands of the Huron -Perth Separate School Board which only educates elemen- tary school children. Moriarty said he would still like to see the board provide the education for these students. "Administration feels the same way, if it is possible," said Eckert. It was pointed out that the students will receive lessons in the Catholic faith in the public trainable mentally retarded schools. Parents support proposal for French immersion Interest in a French immersion or French language school at Ecole Ste. Marie in St. Joseph's is higher than he thought Zurich area trustee Dave Durand told fellow members of the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board Aug. 29. Trustees voted in July to keep the three room school open, and to investigate either type of facility there by Sept. 1, 1984. Strat- ford trustee Ron Marcy wanted to know who was doing the investigating. Parents like the idea of partial French immersion, with all subjects taught in French at least 50 per cent of the day, Mr. Durand said. While a French immersion school is open to any children, a French language school where all instruction is in French must be established in an area if at least 25 families with French backgrounds want it. French immersion is fine if everyone in the Ecole Ste. Marie community, plus others, want it, director of education Bill Eckert says. "But it's difficult to establish French immersion just for one area in the two counties." Parents from Stratford to Goderich might want similar access to a French education for their children. A French language school at Ecole Ste. Marie, on' the other hand, would be "legitimate" because of the long establish- ed French community there. The administration will have to in- vestigate the issue, said board chairman Ron Murray: rEcole Stet.,MR* a currently has 75 minutes a day of instruetion in Fren- ch, which hasn't beep opposed by anyone and "I don't see a problem with people from Goderich or Stratford wanting to bus their children to Ecole Ste. Marie." The problem the chairman sees with either French immersion or a French language school is that there is no French high school in either county for children to continue their progress. While Ecole Ste. Marie grads are currently "marginally more skilled" in French than average, that margin disappears after a couple of years of high school, Mr. Eckert said, "because the extra French is not there." Surely the extra French isn't lost, trustee Vincent McInnes said. It's the same as religion, which HPRCSS students study for eight years and then go on to a public high school. "They don't lose it. It's there." Trustee John Devlin, an ex -teacher, agreed. "They wouldn't lose their facility. Give them a couple of months at university (in French) and it would come back." Students would need to get Grade 9 and 10 high school French credits, if they were educated to that point in HPRCSS Grade 8 classes, the director, Mr. Eckert said. In other business the board: — discussed in committee -of -the -whole re- jection of its application for a $700,000 COED grant to do about $1.5 million in capital improvements to a number of schools in the system; — received copies of a booklet on bus safe- ty, developed by Lin Steffler for distribu- tion to every family in the HPRCSS system (part of the board's first in the province bus safety program, the booklet cost about 50 cents per copy); — learned that the cooperative evaluation team for the ministry study of the school system has been selected; — supported a resolution from the Lincoln County Roman Catholic Separate School Board asking for additional funding and recognition ,forstudents who are severely retarded and developMentally handicap- ped. The cost per student will be three times the allowable expenditure for the trainable retarded, the board says: — approved the appointment of Don Farwell as principal at Immaculate Con- ception School in Stratford effective this month. Mr. Farwell, who was principal at St. Joseph's, Clinton, requested the move. Jim McDade, of St. Mary's, Goderich, will be acting principal until Dec. 31. The open- ing at St. Joseph's will be advertised inside and out of the system. Teachers study computers The September 23 profes- sional activity day for Huron and Perth separate school teachers entitled, "Com- puters in the Classroom", will be held at St. Michael's School, Stratford. Teachers will be able to select from a number of workshops that will provide both a "hands on" session with a micro -computer, as well as a more theoretical session. The system -wide profes- sional development day, devoted entirely to the im- plementation of micro- computer courseware into the classroom, follows very closely on a number of other activities related to corn- puters in education. Over the summer, a wide selection of computer educational pro- grams were obtained from sources including the Lon- don Board of Education, the University of Western On- tario and the Canadian Micro Computer Project. From these sources, the best programs currently available were selected and were made available to in- dividual schools this September. In addition, a number of new programs were developed by board personnel. During the fall of 1981 and the winter of 1982, approx- imately 20 percent of the teaching staff participated in a board -sponsored in- troductory course to com- puters, devoted to the im- plementation of micros into the classroom. During the winter of 1983- 84, a large number of teachers enrolled in the TVO Computer Academy. This program was an introduc- tory program delivered by way of television. As well, many teachers have taken in-depth Ministry sponsored computer educa- tion courses this summer. Others have enrolled for Ministry -sponsored courses this fall. It is hoped that the profes- sional activity day will pro- vide teachers with a clearer understanding of what developments have taken place within the system as well as the many educational possibilities on the micro computer that exist when the computer is integrated into the classroom. "A lot of development and training g has already taken place in this area. A board committee has been in ex- istence for almost a year providing direction and we are gearing up to begin the actual task of writing guidelines for teachers in the classroom. We currently hale at least one computer in each elementary school and it is expected the number will increase during the 1984-85 school year," said Director of Education William Eckert. He added, "in terms of hardware, software and pro- gram development, our ef- forts are beginning to show results." "It is of interest to note that ih a number of schools, because of teacher effort and student interest, computer literacy and basic program- ming skills already exist." Fully Escorted Tour AUSTRALIA -NEW ZEALAND TAHITI January 10th, '84 - February 11th, '84 $5,350. per person (Canadian) (Double Occ.) Includes: *Round Trip airfare *Hotel accommodations *Extensive sightseeing program *40 meals plus inflight meals *Taxes and insurance *Return tri nsportati a>n Se forth -Toronto Interested persons come to our special presentation regarding this tour. Seatorth Legion Mail (Sept. 2Sth. 1e$3) ata pm Film shorn and refreshments. BAUER TRAVEL SERVICE 1 Main fit., S.otorth 527-1237 Out of tuum call called An evening of celebration was held at the Clinton, Legion on Sept. 10 when the official opening of teh new games room and the dedication of the addition was held. Steve Maguire, Clinton Legion president, left, joined Lloyd Anderson of Elmira, District Commander for Cl in a ribbon cutting ceremony. Volunteer labor and funds helped to build the new addition and the recently completed games room provides more excellent facilities. The games room is used for darts and cards and can be used for other Legion functions or special events. (Jim Fitzgerald photo) Gordon Hill elected to Economic- Council by Pierre Trudeau Varna's own, cigar smok- ing, out -spoken 56 -year-old, Gordon Hill was appointed to the Economic Council of Canada by Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Pierre Trudeau, Sept. 15. Hill is known in Huron for his involvement in many aspects of agriculture local- ly, and farther afield. This former president of the On- tario Federation of Agriculture is one of four new members appointed to the crown corporation for three-vear terms. The others are Roger Beauchemin, 60, a private consulting engineer from Montreal and president of Arrowby Consultants Inc. and Raymond Blais, 48, a chartered accountant and director of the Caisse de deport et placement du Quebec; Peter Podo- voinkoff, 47, a general ac- countant and chief executive officer of the British Colum- bia Central Credit Union in Vancouver. The council is designed to study economic developments in the private sector and to recommend measures to create employ- ment, increase productivity and reduce regional disparities. Hill owns and operates a lit J JT JI �C YOU'RE INVITED! THIS W WE'RE OPENINGEKEND THE DOORS ON OUR 84'S CROP BY OUR OUTDOOR SHOWROOM STARTING AND SEE THE THURSDAY FROM CHEVROLET A�984°S OLDSMOBILE ezete# 6%4 ROW 1f41 iroIet oldsmobile ` CLINTON 4829321NOVA IP 607 hectare (1,500 acre) hog, beef and cash crop operation west of Brucefield with his son, Bev. Hill has successfully held offices in a number of farm organizations since the mid - 50's including the Ontario Farmers' Union, the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Board and the Ontario White Sean Growers' Marketing Board. He also served on the province's special commit- tee on farm income from 1967-69. Hill was also part of the reorganization and revitalization of OFA as president of the organization from 1970-76. CLINTON NEWS• -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 19113—PAGE 3 rov. _l: -4.z ce 1 e p���� c.t 1 icip Ontario municipalities can look forward to continued provincial assistance for com- munity improvement. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Claude Bennett told the annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Municipalities meeting in Toronto, that the provincial government has given the green light to a restructured comrnunity improvement program that, along with on-going in- itiatives, will ensure consistent support for neighbourhood and commercial area upgrading projects for all Ontario com- munities. "Community renewal, improvement and development are not new fields of in- terest for the province. However, the new Planning Act shifts more emphasis to local planning and decision-making in com- munity improvement. The new and the revised programs reflect that changing emphasis," the minister said. "This new emphasis we call PRIDE — programs for renewal, improvement and development of our communites," Bennett added. PRIDE contains three elements: Business Improvement areas, the Ontario Neighbourhood Improvement Program and the Commercial Area Improvement Program. "This latter program, which we call CAIP, takes elements from the former mainstreet and Ontario Downtown ties ent Revitalization programs that since 1976, has seen the province contribute some $60 million to 66 municipalities," Bennett said. He noted that, unlike previous initiative CAIP is open to every municipality and that areas eligible for participation will be broadened to include older commercial areas that had previously been excluded because they were not located in core areas. "This program is designed to assist redevelopment, renovation, conservation and infill development and to enhance the ability of municipalities to attract new economic activity whether it be related to tourism, heritage or industrial develop- ment," Bennett said. He stressed that to be eligible, municipalities must have community im- provement policies in place in their official plans as outlined in the new Planning Act. "This is a major prerequisite and I urge all municipalities to develop community improvement policies as part of their of- ficial plans as soon as possible so they can take advantage of the program," he said. Under the new commercial area pro- gram the province will commit funding up to 50 per cent of the value of the project with the municipality providing the re- mainder. This funding will take the from of both loans and grants, with the grant por- tion not to exceed one-third of the provin- cial commitment - Wuert miss Our Preview Weekend of Fall and Winter 4 days only Wed. to Sat. FOOTW AR VALU "S "SNOW Children's Vinyl Fleece Lined Boots Navy and Brown Sizes 5 - 13 Only $995 2pr. $1 5" OOT SPECIALS' Cougar Boots Ladies $3995 Men's $4595 Our Entire Selection of Dress and Casual Winter Boots 1O%Off 'RAINY WEATHER BOOTS" Children's "Stop and/Go" Rubber Boots Special Purchase, Navy with red trim Sizes 4 - 11 $995 2 pr. $1 595 %�i:+q.•.�t. ''fly `•r:;{:'a.4.r<r.:.,yw J4J .:;,:. 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