The Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-04-23, Page 8Town crier announces change in ownership
BY SHARON DIETZ
"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Citizens of
Goderich!
Let it be known that the former Cutt's
Iced & White is now under the new owner-
ship of Paul and Louise Rae and is now an
Elliott Marr group store."
Campbellford Town Crier Jack Parsons
let it be known on The Square in Goderich
on Friday and Saturday that the ownership
of one of Goderich's longtime businesses
has changed hands.
Doing it as a favour for his daughter and
son-in-law, the new owners of the business,
Jack takes great pride is his special talent
for town crying.
Appointed by the mayor of Campbellford
three years ago during the Bicentennial,
Jack says he was recruited for the position
because the mayor needed somebody with
a "big mouth" and immediately thought of
Jack.
It's become a parttime career for the
owner of the biggest motel in Camp-
bellford. He will compete at the provincial
cry -off in Collingwood on the Civic Holiday
Weekend in August and hopes to qualify
for the North American Championships in
Kingston in July. He would be proud to at-
tend the International Championships in
Halifax.
As well as competing, Jack lectures at
local.schools on the history of Town Criers
and speaks to various groups and
saiiiiatayn.�,. io He has also spoken to in-
mates at the Warkworth Institute where
the various pins on his costume kept set-
ting off the buzzer on the weapon detection
device. "They told me to keep stripping
until the buzzer stopped ringing and before
I knew it I was down to my underwear," he
laughs.
He doesn't do advertising but will cry for
a new business opening or a change. of
ownership and on the average he makes
cries in Campbellford town square every
other week. "The first of July, that's
mad," he says referring to the Canada
Town Crier Jack Parsons and Paul Rae of EMA Foods
Day holiday when he receives many re-
quests to attend national holiday events.
While he has never bothered with voice
lessons because he comes by the talent for
crying naturally, Jack intends to seek
training from the local high school's voice
coach in preparation for the North
American. Championships this year. vv nen
asked ,if he practises in his backyard, he
says that would create "too much ruckus".
Like the child learning the violin he is
banished to the farthest most room in the
house, which for a motel owner is the unit.
at the farthest end of the motel.
Separate school board budget
increases by 13.3 per cent
The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate School Board approved its 1986
budget of $10.4 million at a special meeting
in Dublin Tuesday. This is an increase of
$1.2 million or 13.3 per cent over the actual
expenses in 1985.
Ernext Vanderschot of St. Marys, chair-
man of the finance committee, . explained
the budget includes costs of $455,500 for the
board's first secondary school which opens
in September for Grade 9 students at St.
Michael School in Stratford.
Included in that amount is $100,000
renovation costs to that school for secon-
dary purposes. Additional grades will be ad-
ded, one year at a time, until a complete
secondary school is implemented.
Vanderschot said other capital items in
the budget include roof replacements of
$220,000 at three Stratford schools, for which
the ministry of education had postponed fun-
ding in 1984 and 1985 and only now has ap-
proved it and the work completed on the
th schools this spring; and $260,000 for
ree
Doctors are being victimized, he says
v
approved educational computers, half of
which will be used for the new secondary
school at St. Michael.
Vanderschot said general legislative
grants will increase by $737,500 to $7.8
million. Provincial contributions will
generate 75.7 per cent of the total revenue
for the board with a further 1.8 per cent
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school program in September, and no addi-
tional tax base on which to levy the secon-
dary school rates, the board is planning to
operate at a deficit of about $300,000' this
year for the first time in the board's history.
Vanderschot said the deficit .is of great
concern and said by the end of the year
some grants may ease that, naming possible
grants for the renovations to St. Michael
generated by tuition fees and other revenue. School, where the new secondary school has
County municipalities will be responsible been established.
for 22.5 per cent of the board's revenue in Jack Lane, superintendent of business
1986. \ and finance, said, "This was perhaps the
The- board has adopted a mill rate in- most difficult budget we have had to deal
crease of 7.8 -percent which 'on average will with, the starting Of 'the secondary school,
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levied in 1985. Included in the budget are teachers'
The board has no reserves, except for a salaries and benefits amounting to "$6.2
capital fund for a planned building project million (87 per cent of total instruction
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• School in Zurich, °arid has neither a surplus million; transportation, $1.1 million; and
nor deficit to bring forward from prior plant operation and maintenance, $1.2
years. With the extension into secondary million.
• from page 5
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