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Zurich Citizens News, 1976-05-05, Page 1614 Huron -Perth RC school budget -up By Wilma Oke The Huron -Perth County Ro- man Catholic Separate School Board passed a 1976 budget of $3,910,340 that will mean an increase of $464,089. or 13.4 percent over its 1975 expenditure. Stratford trustee, Ronald Marcy, a member of the finance committee, said: "Since we started working on the budget three weeks ago we have de- creased the mill rate by 1.94 mills over what we had originally expected. He said salaries and fringe benefits account for 95.74 per cent of the increase and 68.72 per cent of the total budget for 1976. Mr. Marcy said a breakdown of expenditures reveals increases of 19.97 per cent in instruction, 3.7 per cent in plant operation and maintenance, 14.74 per cent in transportation; while capital expenditure has been decreased by 52.21 per cent. Mr. Marcy pointed out that this year the transportation grant has been reduced by 8 per cent which may mean reductions in transportation in September. He deplored the fact that in 1969 the Ministry of Education encour- aged the county boards of educa- tion, necessitating extra transpor- tation, resulting in high trans- portation expenditures on the part of the county boards, all in the name of equality of education. He said now this year with the cut back in the transportation grant this• will mean an increase in cost to the local taxpayer of an increase of $44,000. He regretted that the cut was all in one year, not a gradual reduction. Mr. Marcy said the board plans • not to replace three of the full time teachers who have resigned already nor does it plan to replace one consultant who resigned recently. Two portable class- rooms will be vacated, one at Seaforth due to declining enrol- ment and one at Kingsbridge where the new I3ruce-Grey 'County sep rate school vw4.l abs pupils • 'l' iastee Fraaoc , 3€i Ytell P;' "S.e.a rtlt ante ;. • ds` .tg1l�. iaeit Lbtlad6'Y7y Pt )! cent i -n 19'5. . �r . .X. s v .11. he required". to dctr b ate '.4 72 per cent to ck a to ittse t of •R'Us� ness Fina •, seated the 1976 4411 rate for the supporting municipalities as fol- lows: Ashfield Township, 36.72; Colborne Township, 36.17; God- erich Township, 33.75; Grey Township, 30.61; Hay Township, 39.66; Howick Township, 30.80; Hullett Township, 30.43; McKil- lop Township, 31.57; Morris Township, 28.24; Stanley Town- ship, 33.49; Stephen Township, 36.44; Tuckersmith Township, 34.25; Turnberry Township, 30.88; Usborne Township, 30.13; East Wawanosh Township, 32.59; West Wawanosh, 28.46; Clinton, 35.17; Exeter, 34.34; Goderich, 38.82; Scaforth, 31.39; Wingham, 37.20; Bayfield, 41,00; Blyth, 33.45; Brussels, 33.54;, Hensall, 31.80; Zurich, 36.54; Blanchard Township, 37.75; Downie Town- ship, 37.19; North Easthope Township, 40.79; South Easthope Township, 35.70; Ellice Town- ship, 32.71; Mitchell, 28.00; Fullarton Township, 30.45; Hib- bert Township, 30.73; Logan Township, 33.20; Mornington Township, 37.05; Wallace Town- ship, 31.46; Stratford, 36,00; St. Marys, 7.30; Listowel, 33,80; East Nissouri Township, 33.75; West Zorra Township, 35,35; Peel Township, 29.67; Kinloss Township, 5.77; Culross Town- ship, 5.90; McGillivray Township, 38.70; Biddulph Township, 33.00; Maryborough Township, 33.30; Wellesley, 37.36. In other business during the meeting which was not adjourned until 1;00 a.m. Tuesday, in a recorded vote with Stratford trustees Howard Shantz and David Teahen against, approval was given to the proposed school year calendar for 1976-77, calling for 9 professional activity days, Mr. Shantz stated that he does not find professional activity days for teachers too worthwhile and sought to reduce the number from 9 to 6 but no one would seeend his motion. The calendar approved has 187 instructional days plus the nine professional days • which include four curriculum days --September 13, December 10, January 21 and June 30, and five county curriculum days --September 24, October 18, November 26, March 7 and June 29. David Zyluck, a Grade 7 and 8 teacher of Precious Blood School, Exeter, was appointed principal of Kingsbridge School. Joseph Tokar, Stratford, Super- intendent of Special Services, had his resignation accepted effective the end of July. Mr. Tokar has been named director of education for Elgin County separate school board and will assume his new position Aug- ust 1. Mr. Tokar has been with the board for the last six years and has been responsible for curriculum program, professional development and special educa- tion. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association will under- write the expense for the next professional development day up to the amount of $500 as outlined in a letter from Terry Craig, president of the association. The board will send $100 to the Catholic Parents Action Group of Ontario to assist that group in its fight for secondary school grants for catholic schools. It was suggested that as the Huron -Perth board did not have a secondary school under its jurisdiction the request for money did not affect the board and only verbal encouragement should be sent. At this point St. Marys board member John O'Drowsky snapped: "If we can support the •eows sorely we can support the t for}1c secondary schools." He refei;ing to a decision in :arch to give $100 to the Perth 13oa.,for its educational grarifGr young people. Ater 'Florence, principal of $t; Patrick's School, Dublin . re- poated orr a recent conference she attended in Toronto held lby the Christian Cuxridu`h m Devel- 'op'tnent Committee. Assisting in the presentation were two Hes- siot? teachers, Florence McDoug- i and Inez Raid. STANLEY TOWNSHIP RECREATION NEWS The Recreation Board met Wednesday evening at the Township Hall for their regular monthly meeting. The Dance and the Variety Night which were both in April, were very successful. The Board wishes to express its. appreciation and thanks to all who took part in the program for Variety Night. It sure showed we have a great lot of talent in this area, from the very young to the not so young. Tickets will soon be available on the quilt, and can be obtain- ed from any board member. Anyone wishing to register for softball may do so up until May 30th. Please write or call the co-ordinator, Ross Whittaker of Varna, to register. Thanks to those who have volunteered their help as coaches. We can still use more volunteers. We have several young ladies and mothers who would like to play for fun once in awhile, and we would like these people to register, too, so that. we can let them know when to get together. We hope more parents will show up for games this year to support the coaches and players. We don't feel the coaches should be responsible for driving the players to other townships and home again, and we would like more support in this area. Citizens News, May 5176-Pa•e 17 SEPARATE SCHOOL PD -Two zones of Huron -Perth separate schools met at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School for Professional Development, Friday. From the left are'Toronto reading clinician Mary McAllis- ter; Clem Steffler, St. Joseph's, Kingsbridge; Esther Rau, Exeter Precious Blood; Lillian Laporte, Ecole Ste. Marie and Aileen Craig, St. Jospeh's, Clinton. News Photo TALK HISTORY -One of the speakers at Friday's Huron -Perth Separate School Professional Develop- ment Day at Mt. Carmel was Steve Blasko of the Waterloo regional office. From the left are Mr. Blasko. Lorne Rideout, Mt. Carmel; Robert Govenlock, St. Marys, Goderich; Sister Louise, Zurich St. Boniface and Mary O'Malley, Sacred Heart, Wingham. ,At the Playhouse lit's.country WHAT'S 4N A' NAME? It fs Huron Country Playhouse: NOT Huron County. Playhouse; people ate on 'a: campaign' to. get the xra te, corrected once and for aii}. kis probably the natural association of 'Huron' and.. "County,' like Huron County Health, Huron County Board, etc. that leads to the common mistake. _. , This has perplexed Playhouse founders from the beginning. But the error occurs as much outside the county of Huron, or more, than in it. CFPL Television once referred to the Playhouse as County, as did Toronto news- papers. But those errors were 1nimcdiately rectified. It's more difficult in other cases. Lastyear the Canadian Theatre Yearbook, carrying • several pictures of the Playhouse Pro- ductions, incorrectly listed it Huron County. London Free Press used to get it wrong. The Goderich Signal Star, certainly in the heart of Huron County, always gets it right. In fact the Signal Star gave the idea to Playhouse officials on how to correct the situation. That is, to drop the import- ance at least temporarily of the word 'Huron'. Therefore, people are likely to begin hearing more references to the 'Country Playhouse'. Unfortunately, the idea was not thought up in time to be printed on the Season brochure which will be coming off the press next week. But what's in the name. Country Playhouse? "It's quite simple", says James Murphy, who created the name. "The Playhouse is in the country, its atmosphere is country, it 1s unlike any theatre in the city, in fact it is a country theatre. But it certainly is not a "County" theatre. Rather the Playhouse has a'.i► News Photo bcconxe 2:.kts Herbert Whittaker,. ..4 nior Aim,Crit'c for ,thc Toront o.. -G16'b and. -ft+ ail, p&intcd 'out, trap. R'cgia tilts Vire re''. The ;Region in ny icstion 4s 'wtha arm .domina'ted by :Lake .Huron whivti Murphy refers to its it mon..,. ..Country. The Playhouse will again serve this same Lakeshore Region with live theatre again this year. Besides taking the cntirc season to Owen. Sound -and Meitford it ;wild Y "T7• y ,rte - •� SpcCxa1 two �vvc�'bJ� �t°,Q�7 0£ �:�xt '115 earl bl s'4x A Wintaito iGra40;twill: aa, ^ "` the..Pla house toiiir f$ Vete ` show ,ilii <iug:hi1^ -i th:� ,� s *.e0,0tn Gptari91 Seatoi th;,.:' Lions s Head "'Sarnia, Fergus. Kincardine and Goderich are some of the cities that have already booked the COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE production.