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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 3, 1979, p. 25

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CARRIER OF THE MONTH David Fuller David Fuller son of Mr and Mrs Laurie Fuller of Rosemary Rood in Acton has been chosen Herald carrier or the month of September David an Acton High School student has a jO paper route which covers and George Streets He has been a Herald or three years The Fullers came to Acton from four years ago David has a younger sister Gillian Ho goes out or the team and enjoys drawing in his spare time David will receive a McDonald gift certificate for being chosen Herald carrier the month for September Hire assistant director Tilt libit October 19T9 Education director wants changes The director of education for the Ilaiton board of education has p a luring of the senior administration of the board the drat mjjor change proposed since the board a formation ten years ago Mr Lai said there are a number of factors involved which had caused him to examine the senior structure Among arc he vacancy In position of the employee rein assistant the vacancy effective January of the position of superintendent of irstructlon and the Job description or the position of superintendent of instruction lie also said that the school system is contracting and the tion would be one way of coping with that He sold the board should also bear in mind the decision It would make the future as to a new d rector His proposal that the appoint an assistant director could solve the pro blem if thi board shed to re the assistant with the understanding that if his or her satisfactory would be considered for the position of director Mr Lavender said STRUfTUUF Under the revised the position of superintends of instniLtion would be and the pos lions of assistant and director of personnel and employee relations would be created The director of personnel and rtlations would be bit or ens on behalf the board and for administration of the live agreements The as director would be responsible for professional development supervision of instructional staff promo lions personnel and chairman of the council of the executive committee The In structure also calls or the on of one area superintendent position Students difficulties revealed I suggest in time this would serve the board more efficiently and at lower cost Mr Lavender slid Trustee Cam Jackson suggested that the area super for special services posit on should be rotated among school principals It t mean leaving a viluable plum for one of our ghbonng boards to raid from that position he said Trustee Dill La son vice board expres sed his appreciation to the director or giving the board some sense of direction about possible changes in the administration He said he like to sec the board priority to the assistant direct or position should they decide to the new structure He also the salary the assistant director should be related to the director and not the secon school principal salary The proposal will be brought to the next board meeting for Junk food challenge Ontario Health Minister Dennis Timbrcll has issued a challenge to all high schools staff students and school boards to get Junk food out of Ontario schools addressing an of high school students at theSudbury Secondary School Mr announced that prices of would be given out to the schools which are most successful in developing campaigns lo cut back junk in school and during the school year The awards will go to the student councils of the winning schools to be used to develop future health related activities or students Ron Chapman dent of special services In said the board has received official notification the project yet Ha Hon students scored well on tests in arithmetic and French but did more poorly than expected In visual arts problem solving and language arts test conducted by the Hal ton board of education The tests were conducted to fulfill alms included in the board alms and objectives for 197960 which require field testing with tests planned by Ha It on teachers In presenting the teat re sults Robert Dixon super of program made a number of recommendations for changes in program to reflect conclusions drawn from the test results In mathematics tests the students were found to be performing well above the national norm in basic melical operations but they are not doing well in problem solving and geometry Dixon recommended workshops to stress tie deve lopment of problem solving skills In social sciences or grades and students the area of lowest performance was in decision making and problem solving and the was to revise the program to upgrade student abilities in problem solving In testing on Canadian geo graphy in grades and 10 the test resuls Indicate the core curriculum is too demanding Dr Dixon said Trustee Lcn asked why the teachers who wrote the program from ministry guidelines had not recognized this fact In the beginning TEACHFR TEAM Dr Dixon said the team of teachers in who wrote the program were aware the guidelines were legal docu so tended to take it as Is about the results of testing of students in grades and 10 in language arts where per cent of the grade A students per cent of the grode7 students and 50 per cent of the grade 10 students found over onehalf the passages difficult to THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF HILLS MUNICIPAL ELECTION WARD Municipal Election THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF HALTON HILLS NOTICE Hunting Licences Rabbits Pheasant and Fox By law Number of the Town Hills and Sectlon39 of The Game and Fish Act R Chapter 186 as amended permits municipalities to charge a fee and Issue licences for the hunting of rab bits pheasants and fox in the open season FEE RESIDENTS hunting Licences are available at the following stores and go on sale SATURDAY OCTOBER6th normal store hours RESIDENT AND RESIDENT LICENCES Sprts Mill Street Acton North Halton Sport Shop Main Streets Georgetown RESIDENT LICENCES ONLY Rock Shooting Range Acton 853 2 Hornby General Store R R Hornby 3329 Note Rock Shooting Range and Hornby have no Non Resident Hunting Licences In accordance with By law Number Non Resident Hunting Licences are restricted to in total J T Sports will have resident licences to be Issued and North Halton Sport Shop will have 150 resident licences NOTE these licences are Issued on a first come first serve basis and cannot be reserved Grant F Usher Licencing Officer Town Hills TOWN OF HILLS PROCLAMATION led by the Hill r no the post live years lives seriously Imperatively demand Improved tiro prevent on measures be undertaken prevent this economic and tragic loss of In order the Town prosperity may be maintained AND WHEREAS II Is des the attention the public be directed the extend and underlying causes the preventable loss IHe and properly by fire and to the and most practicable means tor Its control and thai a NOW THEREFORE by lor Hilton Hills we and the present year as claim the week commencing ndlng Saturday October 13th FIRE PREVENTION WEEK in found moil practicable REBOOT REALTY LTO FINNH POULSTRUP MANAGER MICHAEL ADAMS REG COOPER REALTOR TRUDY SIMMONS TILLIE HARVEY IRENEZILIO ENDERWICK TORONTO LINE 4534442 Put a smile on your lawn TORONTO LINE 4534442

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