Clinton News-Record, 1985-5-22, Page 5Student employment opportunities are discussed each Tuesday afternoon at the Clinton
Library. Canada Manpower has set up temporary headquarters at the library for May
and June. Sherry Chuter of Varna is one of the many students who have taken advantage
of the services, offered by Student Placement Officer Dave MacDonald. ( Shelley
McPhee photo)
Scouts plant trees
By Kerri Gingerich
ChrisVeysey from the Bayfield Scouts,
explained the Trees of Canada Program
that 2car place this spring. Each scout
planted 50-75 trees. They started on the mor -
ening of Saturday. April 27. The land owners
.
Kindergarten
By Lisa Faber
On April 29 over 50 pupils signed up for
Kindergarten. This number is up con -
Corner fountain
to be replaced..
• The Dutch Community from Goderich and
the. surrounding area is planning to replace
and rededicate the fountain at the corner of
Victoria and Hamilton Streets in Goderich,
in honor of the 40th anniversary of the
liberation of the Netherlands.
The fountain was built. by area residents
of Dutch ancestry 15 years ago, in celebra-
tioh of the 25th ,anniversaryof the liberation
of the Netherlands -from the Germans dur-
• ing World War II. Work on rebuilding the
f •untain began last week, said Evert Mid -
of Goderich, spokesman for the commit-
tee involved with the project.
The rededication will take place on Fri-
day, May 24, beginning at 7:30 p.m., with the
laying of a wreath at the Goderich
Cenotaph. The party will then proceed to the
fountain for the rededication and the placing
of a new plaque.
A social hour will,follow at the Goderich
Legion Branch 109. " . •
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pledged money to go to the scouting move-
ment.
The scouts of Bayfield planted about 400
red cedar and white pines at Huron Centen-
nial School. Chris's leaders are' Scouter
John and Scouter Bill.
registration
siderably from last year's 39. The pupils will
be invited back May 31 at 9:30 a.m. to be
part of the pre-school program and a school
bus safety presentation by Constable John
Marshall of the O.P.P.
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22,1985--Page.5
Fewer students interested in tech courses
CLINTON - High school students in Huron
County, it seems are lest interested than
ever in taking technical courses. And one
man thinks he knows why.
Joe Wooden, Principal • of Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton, links declining
enrolment in the tech courses to the overall
decline in the -number of students in all
Huron County Schools.
To help solve the problem, Mr. Wooden of-
fers a suggestion: close one of the region's
high schools.
"We have enough students (kpthe region)
for four high schools," he says; ' but not for
five."
He adds that the • problem, "is one of
declining enrolment across the region.
There's been a decline of about one-third
since we first elected a (unified) school
board (in the sixties) ."
The Huron County Board of Education is
now in the process of deciding whether it
should ask the provincial government for
more money to beef up its technical educa-
tion program.
As it stands. only about one-third of the
students in' the region - mostly those in
Seaforth, Clinton and Goderich - have ac-
cess to technical education. Students uI
Seaforth who want those classes are bused
to Central Huron.
Students in the south end of the region
have little. if anything along those lines.
Director of Education Bob Allan says the
fate of Frank Miller's Enterprise Ontario
will determine whether the board gets the
money.
Although he. doubts Premier Miller's
scheme will survive in its present form,
"there is general recognition in all the par-
ties that something needs to happen in the
area of job training." The scheme rccotn-
inended the creation of a job training plan.
During, the provincial' election however,
both the Liberals and the NDP came out
against -Enterprise Ontario,: questioning its
value and calling into doubt its objectives.
With the Conservatives holding onto power
so tenuously, there is some question
whether the plan will survive at all.
. Harry Scott, principal of Seaforth District
High School, is unsure exactly how marry
Seaforth area students are now bused to
Clinton for tech courses. He 'estimates the
number at around 40, out of a total school
pppulation of 375.
NOT PRACTICAL
"SDHS was built to be a small school,"
says Mr. Scott. "We don't have any
technical courses.
-To add those courses, we wouldhave to
build a new wing, and that's just not prac-
tical."
Another problem with tech education in
the county is the equipment students are us-
ing. Much of it is between 20 and 25 years
old.
Mr. Wooden says this whole issue is highly
complex, and declining enrolment in,
technical courses is only part of it. There is
also, in his opinion, a problem with the fact
that many of the teachers - and residents of
the area - are older.
"If you check most of the towns and
villages up here, you'll find that close to 15
per cent of the residents are at least 65.
'!'hat's way above the provincial average of
eight or nine per cent " he says.
indicative of the decline in population
growth across the region, a trend he says
will continue until at least the turn of the
century.
As for the schools in general, he says
Huron's situation reflects what's happening
across the province.
"(The boards of education hi) North York
and Scarborough have also experienced
huge declines," he says. Recent figures in-
dicate that he is right: in the last few years,
very few school boards have reported in-
creases in enrolment.
The long-term solution should appear a lit-
tle more clearly in about six months, he
says. That's when he expects to see a study
on the future of education in the region.
"They're going to have to make some fun-
damental decisions," says Mr. Wooden.
"And they're going to have to learn to lige
Ile sees Ole ieria,14.i with lel h 1•uursta as with them."
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