The Herald Second Front June Page 11 June Page 11 The fullsize paper reaching more than 12600 homes in Halton Hills Parents see a moral decline withdraw children from school By HANNAH writer Were a Christian family and wo want a Christian education for our children was the reason Mrs A J Lovelace gave for the decision she and her husband made to remove their two children from the public school Mrs Lovelace stresses that they an not dissatisfied with thcschooloritsstaff they arc unhappy with the entire public education philosophy In On larlo at this time Mr Lovelace is a product of the Ontario public school system having been educated in Strectsville and Mrs finished her high schooling In Canada although her earlier education received In and India Mrs Lovelace says the decision to move their children result id in two years of uut thinking about tin EXPERIENCE BUILDS NATURE TRAIL Wrestling with an apparently knotty problem art students Jane Johnston foreground and The two young women part of work party for the Credit Conservation and Experience list wtck tint clcired nature irnls on the island in the Credit just north of the In Clin Williams In the part tree trunk which hid path is John Thomson Other working on tin projiit win Kin graduate from Holy Cross Diplomas were presented to graduates of Hoi Cross separate school en Monday evening follow mg dinner and Holy Cross ihurch Awards for citizenship Jthletlc were presented for the first lime this year The Cross Association donated the Citizenship awards for the boy and girl best demons Ira ting unselfish and service toothirs as well is kiepmg up high standards The winners were Pally Jo and Mar col The Were won by ind Cunningham Awards wire presented to Ibc outstanding male students Paul Iliac km ore had of H percent while Etiilh Ottos average was cent lODt for the showing the most improvement in Expression and Langu Arts went to Joe in from two years ifo and at that time he could speak no ma won a Hilton School of iwnllni competition sponsored by the board Tin certificate wis presented at Ihe griduilion ceremonies by the sihool prinup i irdsforuromotingsLhool spirit went to Mark do Knights of Columhus Award anil I Catholic Women 1 e igui Award were presented to students who had made of their for projects The Milk Mud went to imphill ind Anna Mane Stone look core if milk orders throughout the jnr tthile Diamond was the hip Award for her noon hour duties selling chips I Waters irned the Hollers Award tor principal prep for deposit in I hi school account AS LEGISLATURE PAGE Bill Marchant awaits word on unique job llv ilerotdsUlfwrllrr till I irk SI Georgetown believe the best polities Is to get involved And Ihe best place to gel involved is Park He has applied to be a Page at the legislature for the fall session If chosen the thirteen year old will carry messages bet ween speakers In the bring water for thirsty members and distribute copies of Hansard to delegate Hill s and He realizes that Grade and students will of a possible 200sludents He said If he can hind for the fall session lis quite possible he would be irly enough lo apply Hill wrote a Heed iliclion campaign and told him hit intentions Mr Heed he would help him Bill helped Mr Heed throughout his election him in in into politics His cousin from yle Sutherland will living with the irehint s during his lerm is ige I yle was i the spring session but wis off during Itill visited irk with bis tow for on the nithl budget wis presented Hi liughid is he ling and yelling number that wint on that just a bunch of kids Slid 1 hi iii chosen do not ituntl during their sission but tutor teaches Hum math and history work a to day with lali night Hill s works In Toronto so transportalion is no probltm His mother Ruth wild the family is or the reply from n Park with crossed fingers and toes Bill she said Ins reached point in his his interest Is si ickf he bored Shi s Ihi year as a Page could his interest right up news By ItrSrOV Mr and Mrs Harold and Mr ind Mrs I were guests at Graham Brown wedding at Walker ton on Saturday Professor J I- orris preached I Church on Sunday morning while fliv P Barrow w is guest preaiher at Services at Sunday School children their teachers and a good number of enjoyed a picnic at the noon on Sunday Mrs Ted Mrs Boyle and Mrs Bert Hen Ion were in charge of children sports and Bill Knrn said Grace before lunch Vti regret Ihul Mrs Mitchell his been moved mm in to in Milton where is suffering pneumonia range on property on line ir the he an of the mint mil young was mid to ire bones in a aid were dismissed for summer holidays on Friday but this week I hi rounds will still be in use as ihi will have supirvisul pi iy ground time then 35fh fete for pipeband Georgetown Girl sPipt ind plans to hold reunion dinner and dance on Sept to its nlvers All hand arc invited attend 111 they ore to lei know their In tuitions Aug j tan be had by writing Mrs Gail II ft I JS5 or by tailing way the moral decline in the public system was affect their children They hid been raised with puhllc system and didn think about the way It was until they returned from spending some time in mediately win struck by the In the altitude and behavior of Canadian youngsters in eoinpirison with their contemporaries At first they told themselves they were overrenting she ind thus they did nothing seeking in alternative for children Two jeirs of watching local youngsters ind to things they hi ibout In slitulions of higher learning in ind ill over Ontario has I them that their eh will lie better off out of tin public school system Mrs feels society has gone downhill fast In the last five years The philosophy that puts children at the cert re of their world rather than God has been going on for a few years and now we are beginning to reap the result she says Our culture suffers when values are no longer taught from a Christian viewpoint The feci thai by not teaching Christian schools are actually leaching iheir opposite When you ignore Christianity It amounts to the same thing as that it doesn t exist Mrs Loveless says and this is an alien philosophy which they would rather not have taught to children The Loveless children will go into Grades and 3 at the Georgetown District Christian school this fall They are being moved now before the hnsllan attitude is picked up SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS Pay cut voted down substitute etchers will not receive a pay cut and the supply teacher group will be retained within the of the board of following a defeat list week of recommendations tolling for sueh A recommendation of teacher ibsentceism com tailing or a Hi per tint decrease In daily rule pud supplv leaihirs was voted down 1 1 look however a tie voli lo invent teachers from lie i removed from the board of educations proposal to remove Ihi salary stale from the present 1 of i Chairman Garv lied tin motion deli itid on a tie following bo policy in dcfi iling those wb do not gain a definite lr How told the lint she Ml III per lent nit mil liking the lb the rid were I isii un no other irintinpiv She fell that mi lie thin whit their it them felt that individual schools be en lo try alternative of reducing relief teacher costs that in service courses be held for relief lhat principals and staffs to monitor leacher absences that personnel department modify as necessary lis current record keeping for and greater efforts be mode to pay relief ichers from the appropriate met Ihe boards vole on the supply teacher Hilary recom the third such attempt to curtail the pay rates of rcilif teachers in the in years No taxes for parking A cost sharing scheme in which the town would pay hall of acquiring off street parking in and Ihe the other half ailed to get the recommendation finance administration torn miltee Monday The town has approved the purchase of s ry for HI and the would be paid back the town by a charge back system from merchants In the Business 1m provement Area H1A Town planner Mario i told the committee hit with legal and demolition costs Is needed to turn site into a parking lot Venditli recommended it a revised assessment roll list be prepared and the Acl be to compute a fair and rile although no one knew what he term means he said He said he had met merch ants in downtown Acton some of whom have provided own not want be charged Ihi same as merchants who haven 1 However these chants would support I hi scheme if they could get rcducled rate he said Off slrcct irking is one of Actons fitit priorities Vcn said and he wilt In prnvid report soon en the pirk needs for the next irs Taking the first step Hi ip prove the scheme is critical lo the development he added Venditli also it the treasury department provide the actual dollar costs of the program theplonn department provide of the designated and hit a bylaw be but held in abeyance until the first our recommmdulions arc com The costs for scheme would be dcbculured for ten years but is up Hie met committee to set the terms of reference sud Jorncommerchlnssi ment of J Hit mirth ml would pay ill per year and he tin r Sill The pi r and the It disagreed on inkrpn I of the Municipal til lhat the acl ineouriKed into sharing to keep downtown cons ilivi felt irge I system is jusl tin could recover money Coon Peter Marks moved tint lown pay half of tost and the merchants the other half and urged the com millet to the so It would get to council Monday for discussion but committee members were loithc use tax dollars to improve parking for mer More info needed before truck ban on Sideroad Works Hike Armstrong Id Jinics represent of risieltnts Hint an alter in be or bylaw prohibiting trucks imposed ihng 17 Side mil from In I Id should be heard the next July engineer Hob sud roiils his been amended and any licensed weight con travel on roads classified us Class Mr Gregson sold Ihe Hon representing residents wishes of prohibiting truck traffic over 10 tons would ive If a Class rind did not represent this Works committee will re more information on the for the committee mecllng Georgetown native now a doctor A Landry will geniril the rLilown Centre l the University of Toronto mtditai foculty In lr inttrnid monies St Jos ph i Ik is i liureiliiwn native hiving eoiiileted it irnson public and Hi ly ross schools He is a of Georgetown and high ind living at Milton lr son of Mi mil Mrs A I Gibbons Place rather than later when the would be more sensitive to the implications of the move their mother said Trie feel that the public education system has been taken out of the hands of parents to the point that there is a rude reaction to parents who try to interfere Maybe the Renaissance people didn approach the board properly she says but She feels that their claims were Justified Mrs Loveless feels that it is unfair thai teachers arc being forced into becoming sociologists because there arc more and more deviate children to handle in the classroom each The parents won take the responsibility or their children s behavior and the principals are afraid to do anything about them such as expelling them she says Meanwhile ihe teachers can i do any leaching because of the problem children Mrs I says thai fees required send their two youngsters to the Christian school will stretch their finances and adds thai its time the Ontario government recognizes parents rights to alternative educational systems the way have In British Columbia and Alberta Hinton keeps promise Hills school trustee II lUtrtl intends to ask his fellow trustees to give up the GOO annual salary Ihey receive for serving on the board of education served notice that he will present the motion at the July board meeting Just as last week board meeting was ending He says he Is fulfilling a promise made to voters during the last election campaign that he would oppose pay for trustees His motion will in elude a clause however to pay trustees or expenses they incur on Ihe Job so thai they won actually lose money Board chairman Rev Gory Morton says that to the of his knowledge are no boards of education in the province whose trustees are notrecuvlngo salary for their I though he hesitated to offer an opinion as what the reaction would be to Mr motion he ad milled that there might well be some board members who would not eel they could so much lime free of charge ind thus would not seek re if the motion passed Morion says his own reac lion to motion will depend on s proposals for expense accounts He says that when he was first elected to the board five ago he did not realize thai wis salary in volved Nor did I realuc thai board work would take up hours a wtek and more since he has become chairman adds Trustees receive their lost salary Increast whith was on Feb I The chairman earns salaries could save the taxpayers a possible innuallj Unless a seconder can be or Mr motion cannot be discussed a board meeting CENTENNIAL PLAYDAY Dennis Lonbro practised dribbling a basketball or an event at Grade and pi a day at Centennial public school on Tuesday competed in a ball throw standing broad jump running broad jump a shoe kicking contest and a juggling contest Gardens nothing but hor doeuvres for groundhog The gardens of two women ind Street in Georgetown ire but for a ground hog mince and id ministration committee heard Mondiy cleared off my flower and Maxim said Last year he ite the Shi slid she id to mike her garden Mrs said that Ihe groundhog work his w i through my peas The lown should hive traps available Mrs s ml yeir she iinpfortwo or three d rum the City of groundhog and one were 1 he ipnnlv immils ind did nut them she I mm members of variuis sun lions on catch i the II 1 1 getting rid of it but dei led finally lo fur i report by deputy administrator French on wild inimols at in the urban areas Roy Booth aid once thi gnundhogs irt caught be field or ravine because form irs would object or ground hog would just makes it way to civilization tor a wolf ihe police have luthonly to shoot it if they can hit he said he women both felt that a pellet gun as suggested was dangerous and could possibly inn children in the next RYDERS TV TOSHIBA QUASAR HITACHI MOORE PARK PLAZA Serving Georgetown Acton MOORE PARK Oca IN GEORGETOWN Delicious meals Friendly courteous staff LICENSED UNDER ILBO NOW AVAILABLE lor all Decisions BANQUET BOOM call 877 DELREX RESTAORANT TAVERN MARKET CENTRE SPECIAl DISCOUNTS During July August On Supplies for Weaving Macrame Knitting Crochet Crofts Books weavers house Pord 1n Wed to Sat NATURES EMPORIUM Brine your own Buy only von AND on quality naturil foods IMS Sim Dried Apricots 159 Jumbo Prunes Delicious Ice Cream Made From All Natural Ingredients Come down on Friday and help us celebrate Canada Day refreshments from our Outdoor Refreshment Booth New Hours SUNDAY NOON J