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Wingham Advance-Times, 1977-10-06, Page 1B• n C'; tancieZi 0 II m. LAND EA -AIR PACKAGE TOyRS Butsiness, or pleasure - booknewl 4(' TRAM3E711VI Listowal, Ontario 291411. Coll Toll. Free, 11-800.265-63W:" ° aah, tea. FIRST SECTION Wingham, Thursday, October 6, 1977 Bingle Copy Not Over 31)e Wingham looking into promoting next y�Or'sInt. Plowing Match Some members of the local committee in charge of or- ganizing next year's Inter- national Plowing Match will be invited to the next meeting of Wingham council to discuss ways the town can get involved in pro- moting the match. Councillor Allan Harrison told council he is interested in seeing the town "get behind this and promote it". He visited the plowing match near Kingston last week, he re- ported, and spent a lot of time at the Huron County exhibit. Wing - ham was one of the few towns or villages in the county not rep- resented in the exhibit, he said, and people there expressed con- cern that, with the coming match so nearby, the town appears to be taking no interest in it. Mr. Harrison suggested ban- ners, a special sale or window displays by the merchants as ways Wingham could help pro- mote the match, which, he pre- dicted, will bring money into town. Kingston, about seven miles from this year's site, footed the bill for a $12,000 banquet, he reported, and while Wingham couldn't get involved on that scale, some thought 'should be given to what it can do. He said profits from the plow- ing match are used to benefit the area in which it is held, pointing out the Ontario Plowmen's Asso- ciation donated $36,000 to Bruce County, following the inter- national match in Walkerton last year, BLOCK PARENTS Council decided to endorse a block parent program for Wing - ham after a delegation from the local branch--of--the- Canadian Legion described its operation and purposes. The program will establish a number of persons on each block as block parents, to whom chil- dren can go in case of an emer- gency, Don Farnell and\ Dave Hines told council. They sald'It is a worthwhile system of providing protection for children in town. Mr. Farnell said the action committee of the Legion is spon- soring the progratn, which is still in its formative . stages. The Legion will start the program and fund it, he added, and there should be no 'need to ask council for money. So far the Legion has the names of about 1.15 persons interested in being block parents, he, told coun- cil. It doesn't plan to turn anyone down, but each prospective block parent will be investigated by the police to ensure he or she is suit- able, he said. He also said both John Mann, principal of the public school, and Mrs. Mary O'Malley, principal of the separate school, support the idea of block parents and the schools will educate the children about the program. The idea of such a program ori - London, Ontario, following ginated in about 10 years ago the dis- Damage high in three accidents No one was injured, but almost $5,000 in damage was caused in three motor vehicle accidents in Wingham during the past week. On Monday, police investigated an accident on Josephine Street, where a vehicle driven by Lloyd G. Chappell of RR 4, Wingham, struck a vehicle driven by Brian J. Freiburger of RR 2, Walker- ton. Damage was estimated at $1,200 to the Chappell vehifle, with $150 damage to the Frei - burger car. Three vehicles were involved in an accident on Diagonal Road last Saturday, when a car driven by Karen Potter of Gorrie struck a parked car owned by Murray G. Hunter of Wingham and forced it ahead into a third car, owned by Earl Young of Wingham. Damage estimates were: $400 to the Potter car, $1,000 to the Hunter vehicle, and $300 to Mr. Young's car. The police also investigated an accident on Josephine Street last Thursday in which a car driven by John James Ballagh of Listo- wel collided with a car driven by Ernest Michie of Belgrave. Damage to the Michie vehicle was estimated at $900, with an estimate of $800 to the Ballagh car. appearance of a child while walk- ing home from school, Mr. Far- nell said, and is now widely ac- cepted throughout the area, with a program well underway in Wal- kerton. CROSSING GUARDS Council is still looking into the question of school crossing guards for. Josephine Street. Some councillors reported they contacted Mr. Mann about the proposal and said he feels the Gas leak causes fire Only minor damage is reported in the one fire call answered by the Wingham fire,, department last week. On the afternoon of Sept. 27, the department re- sponded to a fire on the B Line in Turnberry Township, which turned out to be a fuel fire on a bulldozer belonging to Almer James of RR 2, Wingham. The blaze, which apparently began when the machine was started, was already out when the firemen arrived, Fire Chief Dave Crothers reported. He said there was no serious damage to the machine. problem isn't too serious. Chil- whether it would be interested in- dren are dismissed from kinder- providing volunteer crossing garten at 11:30 so as to avoid guards, since it was feat that heavy traffic, he told them, and hiring persons to work as guards the traffic lights make crossing would be too expensive, at John and Josephine Streets The proposal for the guards relatively safe. was brought to council's attention He is more concerned that side- last month, when Mayor William walks be plowed in the winter so Walden reported he received that the children will not walk on several letters from parents sug- the roadway, council was told. gesting a crossing guard should., Last winter he wrote to council be provided. about the problem of some side- walks being snowed in. COUNCIL SHORTS Councillors suggested the The Ministry of Transportation school should instruct all children and Communications has its law - to cross Josephine Street at the yers busy checking whether it is intersection with John, to take in fact possible that Wingham advantage of the traffic lights, could keep the money cellectedin rather than crossing at the un- speeding fines under a lowered controlled intersection with Pat- speed limit., council heard. Ap- rick Street, and Reeve Joe Kerr parently the ministry's first re - will discuss the problem of plow- action was that the money must ing sidewalks with Mr. Mann. keep going to the province, but a Mr. Kerr and Councillor Jack letter Monday night said it now Bateson noted that many of the has its legal department assigned children tend not to use the side- to the case. walks even when they are clear. Wingharn's return visit to its Mr. Bateson told of driving up sister city of Standish, Michigan, Diagonal Road one morning re- is set for Oct. 29-30. A meeting cently and seeing about 20 chil- will be held Oct. 13 for all persons dren on their way to school. interested in making the trip. Mr. "They were on both sides of the Walden reported the bus will hold street and not one was on the 47 people; about 28 have ex - sidewalk," he said. pressed interest so far. Council also plans to contact In the wake of provincial treas- the Mothers' Club in town to see urer Darcy MeKaangsus budget — d. limits priorities to three major areas 'The -Huron' County Board' of Education made buses, provision of better facilities for trainable -retarded- and elementary in- dustrial and home economics facilities its capital expense priorities for the next two years. The three projects are estimated to cost $755,000 when the board actually undertakes them. The two year projection was done by the board at the request of the ministry of education. Each year the ministry asks pro- vincial boards to submit capital forecasts to allow the province to prepare its own capital ekpenses for the year. The ministry sup- ports each board on capital pro- jects and asks what those pro- jects are to enable it to earmark necessary funds. John Cochrane, director of education, told the board that the exercise was necessary but.prob- ably futile. He said he fully ex- pected the board to say no to the Huron requests just as it said no last year. He said he was unable to tell the board what to do but did say that if he was able to he would ask the ministry for six new buses and funds to update facili- ties at J. A. D. McCurdy School for the trainable retarded and slashing visit last week, Coun- cillor Tom Deyell, chairman of the finance committee, recom- mended council should start taking a look at next year's bud- get "before too long". Mr. Kerr reported that work on Shuter Street has been set back by the continuous rainy weather,. but they still hope to get the base coat of asphalt on this fall. Removal of the stop logs in the two dams should begin as soon as possible, Councillor Angus Mow- bray recommended. At the pre- vious meeting he had announced removal would take place follow- ing the Thanksgiving holiday, but because of the high water he feels they should be taken out "as soon as the logs start to show", to avoid possible complications from further rainfall. Council okayed the purchase of a new tractor for the cemetery if Mr. Harrison can arrange for it to be billed after Jan. 1 so it can go into next year's budget. Mr. Harrison reported he looked into having the present tractor over- hauled, but found it will probably be a better deal to trade it. A new machine with two more horse- power will cost about $1,050 plus tax with the trade. Mr. Harrison also reported the parks board has decided to re- place the roof on the washrooms at the campground. The old roof is leaking. The campground had a pretty good year and can afford to do it now, he. said. They hope the job will be done this fall. Council will look into getting someone to repair and maintain the clock in the tower of the old post office building. Mr.'Harrison reported he attended a meeting of • leave it at that. The move would, -'vision of -staff, room „and staff, museum executive where con - eliminate one priority for 1978 washroom at South Huron valued cern was expressed that the clock and five for 1979. about $35,000 and. provision of is no longer being looked after. Mr. Cochrane said that the computer facility at South Huron The museum also inquired after or another secondary school an old cannon belonging to the valued at $40,000. town. It was finally determined Seaforth trustee John Render- the town artillery is presently son said he was in favor of the up- rusting away in the town yard grading of facilities at McCurdy near the Howson dam, but there School and of buying the six buses is no indication yet what. its but added that the' board should future will be. try to get money for the industrial Councillor David Cameron arts and home economics facili- urged council to formally protest ties for -the elementary schools. a "load shedding" system worked out by Ontario Hydro that ' Mr. Cochrane told the board could mean unannounced 15 that the updating of the chemis- minute blackouts for Wingham try lab was not a priority now due and other municipalities: Noting to declining enrolment at South that any power failure can be Huron. He said the principal of "close to a catastrophe" for com- the school said that a moderate puter users, he said: "You can improvement would meet the live with it if it's an act of God, night were approved. They go to: school needs and expected to ask but not just deliberately pulling a Paul Rintoul, swimming pool and the board for $3,000 worth of work switch." A computer will shut "'*renovations; John Malick, new reasoning for the request was that last year the same requests were made by the Huron hoard and the ministry replied that the requests would be rejected on the basis that"the province was giv- ing priority to additional ex- penses for more students in growth areas of the province. Last year the Huron board asked that it be considered for assistance on projects valued at $225,000 in 1977. The money was • for three projects, the renovation and updating of a chemistry laboratory at South Huron Dis- trict High School in Exeter, the provision of more adequate facilities at McCurdy school and the purchase of six replacement buses. Listed in the priorities for 1978 were an instrumental room at Seaforth District High School valued at $50,000, home economics and industrial arts facilities at three elementary schools valued at $200,000 each, improvement of music facilities at Central Huron Secondary School at about $20,000, the pro - a„ PRETTY FISHY—This 24 pound 42 inch chinook salmon was pulled out of the Sauble River in Sauble Falls Provincial Park last weekend by a very excited Wingham Advance -Times staffer, John Daneluzzi. He said the catch more than repaid his eight hours casting on Sunday and who knows how many hours on previous weekends. Salary increaseaproved for Brd. secretaries By Wilma Oke DUBLIN — An increase of six per cent was approved for salaries paid to office secretaries in the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board office at a meeting held here Monday, night Sept. 26. The increase, subject to anti-inflation board approval, will be effective from Jan. 1, 1978 to Dec. 31, 1978. Joseph Mills, Superintendent of Education, formerly named Superintendent of • Special Ser- vices, was given an increase in salary from $31,900 to $34,400 plus benefits, and a mileage rate in- crease from 18 cents to 20 cents. The salary contract for Joseph 'Eckert, hired in July as Director of Education at a salary of $37,000 was given final approval by the board outlining all terms of his employment and benefits. William Innes, Stratford, at- tendance counsellor of the board, received a wage increase from $5.00 to $5.50 per hour, effective Sept. 1, to August, and his mile- age allowance increased to 20 from 18 cents. His duties are now to include assisting in searching alpha listings for, Catholic families who are i irecting their taxes to public school system in order to increase assessment to separate schools and to assist in forming zones in unorganized areas. The separate schools in Huron Council approves building permits Nine cations council - building permit appli- submitted to Wingham at its' meeting Monday in the 1978 budget. Cochrane added that the ministry will only consider replacing buses if they are over seven years old or have travelled more than 84,000 miles. The buses are expected to cost $100,000, the facilities for the trainable retarded about $55,000 and the home economics and in- dustrial arts facilities about $200,000 a school. down during a power failure, he explained, and if not turned back on almost immediately will lose its memory and have to be com- pletely reprogrammed. He added that he doubts Hydro is threaten- ing this in larger centres. Mr. Walden agreed to take counciI's objections to the next meeting of the Wingham Public Utilities Commission. 710, siding; and another permit for a monument shop; Percy Deyell, windows and insulation; Ray Hallahan, raised bungalow; Fred Porter, roof over patio; Harold Johnston, addition; Brian Met- calfe, family room; and Jack Gusso, storage building. Council also passed bylaws ad- justing the zoning pf the vacant lot on Victoria and William TURNBERRY FLOODPLAIN lives up to its name as a swollen Maitland River finds nowhere to go but up and over. Streets to allow the construction of a number of semi-detached hornes and an eight -unit ,apart- ment building, and declaring the south side of Maple Street be- tween Josephine and Centre Streets a no parking area. A Kincardine developer bought the lot on Victoria and William earlier this summer, at which time council agreed to make any necessary zoning changes. The no parking bylaw must be approved by the Ministry of Transportation and 'Communi- cations before it takes effect. No damage reported as river rises No real damage occurred on the weekend when two days of steady rain brought the Maitland River over its hanks for the second time this year. though the extra water added to the prob- lems of local farmers who are unable to harvest saturated fields. One to two inches of rain fell across the watershed on Friday and Saturday, but the crop cover and the fact it was a steady rain rather than a downpour slowed the 'runoff into the rivers and streams. Ian Deslauriers, re- sources manager with the Mait- land Valley Conservation Authority, said Monday. The river's peak passed through most of the trouble spots on Sunday and Monday, with no' flooding of homes reported. "If the rain had continued Sun- day, we would have had real problems,'• he noted, adding that the watershed is in a vulnerable position for the remainder of the week; zany additional rain could bring the riyer back up , in a hurry. and, Perth will have "What Makes Our Schools Catholic". as the theme for. 1977-78 Catholic". Activity Days. The first will be held on Oct. 17 at St. Pat- rick's. School, Dublin, when Bis- hop Sherlock of London will be the key speaker and he will give each school staff their mandate to teach religion in the schools. Declining enrolment brings many problems. One is what to do with the surplus of desks: Trustee John O'D inwsky ofSt; Malys` asked what each school` was' doing and` wondered if a central storeroom would be necessary as some schools do not have storage room to spare. Jack Lane, superintendent of business and .finance, said there was no doubt a surplus of desks in the system and a report would be prepared on the problem. The Board voted to increase their contribution to the Kiwanis Music Festival to $125 from $100. Trustee John O'Drow'sky will attend the Canadian Catholic Parent-Teacher Association annual convention at Sudbury `Sept. 30. The trustees agreed to try and hold committee meetings on Monday and Wednesday nights only if possible. Three mothers ,in Stratford with children in separate schools • will be -allowed to continue to send them to these schools for 1977-78 at no expense to the family — the $100 charge will be dropped. These are Protestant mothers whose Catholic hus- bands have died. A conferenqe on declining en- rolment at the' -Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in To- ronto will be attended by Jack Lane and Joseph Mills. Trustees'` Will be attending a similar con- ference in December. The decline in separate schools in Huron and Perth is over 160 students this year. A lengthy discussion was held on a series of recommendations for by-law changes and policy changes bef.�re they were finally approved by the board. Included , was "The board when in regular meeting shall not remain in com- mittee -of -the -whole, in camera, past the hour of 9 p.m. unless de- termined by a majority vote of the members present. In the past the press representative, delegations, principalsand teachers attending meetings. and other visitors have been kept waiting up to almost 10:30 p.m. on ,fore the regular meeting started. The following trustees volun- teered to sit on the various curri- culum committees of the board: Art. Chairman Mickey Vere; Science. Ted Geoffrey, Zurich ; Music, Donald Crowley, RR 2, Gadshill: reading, Arthur Haid, Listowel ; Geography, Ronald Murray, Dublin; Kindergarten, David Teahen, Stratford; His- tory• John O'Drowsky, St. Marys. French. Greg Fleming, Crediton; Environmental Studies. Michael Connolly, Kippen: Mathematics, Inter- mediate, Ronald Marcy, Stroh ford; and English. Intermediate, John O'Leary, Staffa. The next board meeting will be held Tuesday. Oct 11.