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HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1988
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County educators give Riddell message for Queens' Park
Jack Riddell got an earful from Huron Ms. McLay stressed the publicly funded
County educators when the MPP was at the school system is the main vehicle for pro -
Education Centre in Clinton September 30 viding a universal education and equal op -
for a meeting with the Ontario Public portunities for all students regardless of
Education ,Network (OPEN). OPEN race, religion, color, academic ability, or
representatives told Mr. Riddell of the need economic status.
for Huron County public education to get "Private schools teach literacy and many
help with building maintenance, the need to skills taught in the public education system.
get additional funding, and their opposition In the academic sense they may be as good
to private school funding. as the public system but because they set
Nancy McLay, representing the 283 themselves apart from society and declare
members of Ontario Secondary School themselves somehow different they are say -
Teachers Federation who work m Huron ing their students are different and
County, declared OPEN's opposition to the somehow better than students in public
funding of private schools. schools. This is an attitude about which we
. 1 "w t: r ° .
STOCKING AT HULLETT - Robert Gibson a resource technician with the Hullett
wildlife protection area, has been busy in the past weeks regulating the hunting
season, He is shown here releasing one of 2,400 pheasants which will be keep Hullett
stocked for hunters and relieve some of the hunting pressure from the natural stock.
Hundreds of hunters have been hunting pheasants and waterfowl In Hullett since the
opening of hunting season on September 24. For pictures and story see page 3. Cor-
bett photo.
Lisa Preszcator is winner
Over $15,000 in awards and scholarships
were handed out Friday night at a com-
mencement ceremony held for the
graduating students of Seaforth District
High School.
Grade 13 graduate Lisa Preszcator was
the top award winner, with eight awards, in-
cluding the Governor -General's Medal,
given to a graduating student who has
achieved academic excellence. In addition
to being an Ontario Scholar Lisa was also
one of 16 students to share the Janet and
Margrete Snell Scholarship for maintaining
should be careful in a democracy - careful to
see that is does not go so far as to threaten
the basic fabric of society," declared Ms.
McLay on behalf of OPEN.
Many other points were raised, including
the fact the public education system is ac-
countable to the Ministry of Education for
curriculum, and independent schools are
not.
Phil. Parsons, representing 126 members
of the Ontario Public School Teachers'
Federation in Huron, addressed the Huron
County Board of Education's need for addi-
tional funding.
Government initiatives to reduce class
sizes in grades one, two and three, and addi-
tional funding provided for computer
resources and new science programs were
acknowledged. But it was noted that even
with these initiatives the amount of funding
from the provincial government has con-
tinued to decline.
"In 1987, the province provided 60.9 per
cent of the Board's required revenue. In
1988, this is projected to drop to 58.6 per cent
even with all the announced initiatives. It
appears to us that many of these announced
initiatives are really taking the same money
and specifically directing it rather than
leaving it as general revenue. The provin-
cial share of revenue has shrunk and con-
tinues to shrink," said Mr. Parsons.
To back up this statement, figures were
presented indicating a steady decline in pro-
vincial support to Huron County, from 72.8
per cent in 1975 to the 58.6 per cent in 1988.
Flo Keillor spoke for the 269 members of
the Federation of Women Teachers'
Association of Ontario who work in Huron
County public schools, and she made Mr.
Riddell aware of OPEN'a concerns regar-
ding commercial and ind_>trinl tax moneys.
Two asci -dents
Twelve hours was all that separated two
car accidents in the Town of Seaforth on
the weekend.
The first occurred at 9:30 p.m. Friday
night when the driver of a 1968 Chevrolet
Corvette, heading north on Main Street, at-
tempted to make a right turn onto
Goderich Street and failed to yield to traf-
fic coming from the ^a'` 4s a result the
Corvette struct it corner of an
eastbound lin (" pick up truck,
causing it to gu oma" of and strike a
parked vehicle.
There was eatti„. ae to all three
vehicles, and all but the Corvette had to be
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have a safe and enjoyable holiday.
HURON MPP Jack Riddell gives OPEN some of the answers to their questions, and
promises to take their concerns to Queens Park and the Ministry of Education. The On-
tario Public Education Network invited Mr. Riddell to a meeting at the Education Centre
in Clinton on September 30, where he heard the educators plea for increased funding.
and help with building maintenance. Corbett photo.
"Government should increase 'funding needed for the Board's buildings.
while property taxes should be propor- One example of the problems the Board
tionately decreased. If commercial and in- has been having is that it requested
dustrial assessment is removed from local $3,850,287 for building in 1989, but speculates
control, such boards and municipalities it will receive only $150,000. The $150,000 is
could be at the mercy of the government. for roofing at Brookside Public School and
This may result in forcing local the Board hopes it will purchase 27,169
municipalities to increase residential and square feet of roofing.
farm assessment," she said. "...we have a total of 1,117,300 square feet
John Jewitt, chairman of the HCBE, of roof to maintain. If we receive the same
represented the 48,625 public school electors allocation as (we have) in the last two
in Huron County when he made Huron's pro- years, it will take us more than 82 years to
vincial representative aware of, what is
in Seaforth over weekend
towed away from the scene. The driver of
that car has been charged with failure to
yield on a red light.
The second accident occurred at 8:35
a.m. Saturday morning on the corner of
West William and James Street. At that
time a 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix, being
driven west down James Street was hit by
a Bell Canada van heading north on West
William Street
There were no injuries as a
result of the accident, but the 1986 Dodge
Van owned by Bell Canada, had to be tow-
ed away. The driver of the van has been
charged with failure to yield.
Dublin bicyclist hurt in collision'
A five-year-old Dublin boy is back at
school after being the victim of a bicycle -car
accident Wednesday morning.
Douglas Small, son of Mary Lou Small,
was taken to the Seaforth Community
Hospital with what police described as ma-
jor injuries after the accident at 10:30 a.m.,
but after treatment and an overnight stay he
was allowed to go home. Douglas is already
back in kindergarten and suffers only from
cuts and bruises.
The accident occured on Perth County
Road 10, about 100 metres south of Highway
8. John Rowland, 21, of RR 1 Dublin, was
northbound at 40 km/h which is less than the
posted speed limit, when the boy rode his
bike out of a private driveway and collided
with Rowland's vehicle.
Sebringville OPP said no charges are be-
ing laid as the driver was not at fault and
Constable Roger Dumas commented "it
was very fortunate he was going as slow as
he was. The boy came out of a private
driveway and out from behind a parked car,
so he (the driver) had no chance to see
him."
of Governor -General's medal
high marks in Grade 13 English and French,
and a recipient of one of the Elizabeth Scott
Bursaries (given to Grade 13 students going
on to University). Other awards presented
to Lisa included the Anstett Jewellers Fami-
ly Studies Award, the Seaforth Insurance
Math -Algebra Award, the Alumni Memorial
Award (for a graduating student who has
done well academically and has also been
active in school activities) and the Lyons
Food Market Scholarship (for a student with
the highest average in Grade 13). Lisa and
classmate Martha Hook were also in com-
petition for Huron County's Carter Scholar-
ship and finished second and third
respectively.
Ontario scholars Martha Hook and Rhon-
da Farag each picked up seven awards at
commencement, including a share in the
Janet and Margreta Snell Scholarship and
an Elizabeth Scott bursary.
Martha also received the Keating Phar-
macy Chemistry Award, the K.J. Etue
Math -Calculus Award, the Ross Ribey
Math -Functions and Relations Award and
the Lyons Food Market Physics Award.
Rhonda received the Student Council
Citizenship Award (for her contributions to
the school), the Canadian Tire Biology
Award, the Box Furniture French Award
and the Dr. Brady Award, (for a graduating
student going on to a health-related field
who has demonstrated patience,
perseverance and dedication).
Jeanne Saldivar shared the Women's Aux-
iliary of Seaforth Community Hospital
Award (given to a student proceeding on in
a hospital -related career) with Kathy Soon -
hens. and also took the Edmund Daly
Alex Shevchuk
NEW MAINSTREET COORDINATOR Alex
Shevchuk, brings with him 10 years of ex-
perience with the Bayfield business com-
munity. Corbett photo.
new guy at the town hall
Seaforth has a new Mainstreet
Coordinator.
Alex Shevchuck started at his position in
Town Hall on Thursday, September 29. He
will be replacing Tom Lemon, and taking on
all of Mr. Lemon's involvements with
organizations like the Business Improve-
ment Association (BIA), Local Architec-
tural Conservation Advisory Committee
(LACAC), and Streetscape program. He
will also be working with building owners
for facade improvements on Main Street,.
providing information to potential investors
in Seaforth, and generally trying to promote
and improve downtown Seaforth.
Mr. Shevchuck's qualifications for this job
come from his own association with
business in Bayfield. He has owned Mr.
Woodchuck, a toy store in Bayfield, for the
past 10 years, and has been involved with
the production and marketing of his own line
of wooden toys.
Mr. Shevchuck is also qualified in that he
has completed two years of a four year land-
scape architecture course at the University
of Guelph. He says what he is learning in
this course ties in directly to the type of
work which is being done in Seaforth. In
fact, one of bis first year professors was Ken
W. Buck, the same landscape architect who
was hired to do the design strategy for the
Streetscape program in Seaforth.
In addition to his business experience and
knowledge of landscape architecture Mr.
Shevchuck was on the LACAC committee in
Bayfield for three years.
Mr. Shevchuck admits he is not intimately
familiar with Seaforth, and one of his first
tasks will be to get to know the people here
and find out what's going on. In addition to
this, and at the same time, he will have to
assimilate the practical information related
to his job, and keep up production in the
Mainstreet office.
The new coordinator hopes to be a help
and an asset to Seaforth businessmen, and
Mr. Shevchuck brings with him ideas from
Bayfield business. He admits Seaforth is
currently more of an everyday shopping
place and not a tourist destination like
Bayfield, but says there are a lot of areas,
such as advertising, where ideas from
Bayfield could work in Seaforth.
"A motivator, a liason, someone who gets
things going, someone who helps people
with their problems and gives advice," is
how Mr. Shevchuck describes his new
position.
"Alex is not going to have to reinvent the
wheel, he's going to have to roll it," says Mr.
Lemon, adding most of the people who were
interested in changes when the Mainstreet
program started are now starting to get
things done. There are programs in place,
and Mr. Shevchuk's job will be to see that
they proceed as intended.
Mr. Shevchuk was not originally planning
on taking a year out of his four year land-
scape architecture program, but the arrival
of his and his wife Sally's first child Andrei,
made him want to spend more time closer to
home. Then a job came up in his field of
study, where for one year he could put to
practical use what he has learned in school,
and even be closer to home.
Mr. Shevchuk likes the size and at-
mosphere of Seaforth, and says the
Streetscape project and various economic
development initiatives are encouraging
signs of improvements to come.
I look forward to spending a productive
year here and I hope I can be a help and an
asset to the community."
Friday night
Award (to the student aspiring to a career in
medicine as a doctor or nurse) and the Dr.
Charles Toll Memorial Award (to a member
of the SDHS Girls Band proceeding on to
post secondary education). Kathy was a
recipient of the Janet and Margreta Snell
Scholarship.
Brad Beuttenmiller was acknowledged as
an Ontario Scholar and also as the recipient
of the Touche Ross and Co. Accounting
Award, the Seaforth Lions Club Business
Award, an Elizabeth Scott Bursary and a
share in the Janet and Margrete Snell
Scholarship.
Joan Dodds was an Ontario Scholar, and
won an Elizabeth Scott Bursary, the Huron
Expositor English Literature Award, and a
share in the Janet and Margreta Snell
Scholarship.
Jane Papple received a Leeming
Memorial Scholarship for being the top stu-
dent in Grade 12, and was also the winner of
the McConnell, Stewart and Devereaux Law
Award, and the Huron Expositor English
Award.
Laurie Crocker was another Ontario
scholar who picked up an Elizabeth Scott
Bursary and a share in the Janet and
Margreta Snell Scholarship. She also won
the Sills Hardware History Award.
Peter Vanslyke, also an Ontario Scholar,
was awarded an Elizabeth Scqtt Bursary
and a Janet and Margreta Snell Scholarship
as well. Ontario Scholar Mike Schoonder-
woerd received an Elizabeth Scott bursary.
Andy Ball picked up a Janet and Margrete
Snell Scholarship and the Town of Seaforth's
Geography Award.
Madonna McQuaid took an Elizabeth
Scott Bursary as well as the Mary
(Jackson) Hinton Award (to the student go-
ing on to Wilfrid Laurier University).
Tracy Bedard received a Janet and
Margrete Snell Scholarship, an Elizabeth
Scott bursary and the Brittania Mason
Lodge 170 Award (to a graduating student
who has successfully combined academics