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6 The Acton Free Press Wednesday Band members ready for joint concert AcionfirellRhlerswcrecalled twlceon Victoria Day fire the rear of look firefighters a few minutes Some hoc hills were burned a wood bin damaged and the face or the building Chief Mick Holmes attributed the cause children playing with irutche Firefighter were also called In he afternoon lo a chimney fire j John form on Ihe Third Line High school the show joins Sum- Last Friday Acton merfest here at the Highs last dance of the school for a whole day of school year look place art work demonstrations This Sadie Hawkins by local artists enter dance where girls lainment in the Bear Pit asked Ihe guys Hie Auditorium and outside dance was very well at- Professional entertainers lended Students were and artists will be on encouraged to dress up hand all day to make up as a hillbilly as a variety the festival This years of contest were on by art show is going to be student council really big and a lot of fun High is so Join in and be part it ing lis Third Annual Art Show on May June 1 and This years show is by all members of our Acton and George town community There will be the regular show contests art and demonstrations on Thursday and Friday Then on Saturday June The annual athletic banquet and dance will take place on May The luring Mirage and The Music City Band in con cert Friday June is the big day so come on out and help make Hock a on 79 a big success Tickets in advance are and tickets at door will be S3 See you by Tim Pollen and Tcggart Last Thursday Julian Heed visited side to talk to the junior school for the dance This grades about the Federal formal event is the high light of the school year so dont miss it by George Terry and Shelley Wong betaking to Niagara Falls in June They held a ear wash last week a bake sale and sold hot dogs orange pop and pizza during rack and field day to raise money Last Thursday we held our irack and field day Most students partici pated and had fun Friday most students came lo school with sore muscles and sunburns The winning learn was Green followed closely by Red then Blue Some of the events were long jump triple jump high jump hurdles shot put and many races The Grand Prix con with Red in first Blue second and Green third The rest of the color house cars are lowing close behind We urge all students to keep their Work neat and cor rect in order gain points for their color houses The classroom base ball games continue Youth disturbs worker Helen Friedman of the Childrens Aid Society would like to see the youth off the streets and doing something constructive In recent visit to town Miss Friedman a summer student with the CAS was shocked to sec number of teenagers hanging out down She has spoken lo various people around town in an effort to get something started for these young people such as a drop in centre Any one with ideas is asked contact her at the CAS Everybody enjoys play ing their own grades The grade eights are going on their trip to Washington next on They are carrying an egg in order lo understand belter responsibilities of having a child to care for the next week If they have to go somewhere to pick us up When we finally got there we saw a show on perception and looked around at the exhibits Yesterday we held a mock election for the them We have a great variety of small bed and dressed up eggs The grade graduation is also fast votes followed by Frank with and Doug Black with 13 had one vote and Karen Need drivers Georgetown and District Red Cross Corp needs drivers IB and up unt formednon uniformed to drive seniors and handicapped to and from in and out of town specialists hospitals etc A five weeks Standard First Aid Course will start Tuesday May from p at Cedarvale Red Cross office up stairs If joining to drive Tor Corps NO charge If not For information call 2093 or GYMNASTIC CLUB TRYOUTS Tho Halton Hills Jills Gymnastic Club ore holding their Annual the 1979- 1980 season on Saturday May 1979 Georgetown District High School Gvml 2I 100 pm 200 pm All interested gins are welcome to tryout for Jills Please wear a gymnastic leotard or shorts Members or the Char will be arriving in Acton day will put Ihe final Friday evening with the Lan District High School Thursday touches on the program High School Band in Ontario Rehearsals later that that will be presented At that concert the two bands will combine forces lo form a ensemble The result should be a musical treat for both the participating musicians and the audience Improving thinking new programs goal Election The students asked Mr Reed a variety of questions about being a candidate and how he got interested in politics On Wednesday the grade sixes made a trip Senior Public School to gel a table of what it would be like next year Many dents sat in on some of the classes and told us they enjoyed their visit very much We had a very interest- trip to the Ontanu day Everyones looking Science Centre last Fn- forward to the rip with day On the we had a great eagerness flat tire and had to The grade eight girls wail about half an hour are doing an experiment- before another bus have to get an grade five and sixes or take it with came in first with Actonions will welcome their visitors as warmly as they were welcomed in Williamsti forward to a large crowd for their Friday the most common or the This large mottled three curlews found in brown and gray North America They are nests in the northern most numerous along the hemisphere in open tun east and west coasts but dra near fresh water can be seen regularly ponds It measures nearly in land marshes and and inches in length with a lakes during migration four inch downcuned Curlews feed in shallow bill distinguishing as a water on aquatic insects curlew The is Crustacea and program in classrooms The program is refinement of general provincial ministry guideline which Making minds work better underlines the purpose of a new program which Board of Education hopes to launch soon in its schools The boards program superintendent Robert Dixon unveiled a Basic Thinking Skills program which is to be used by youngsters at the last meeting Statistical evidence indicates the program results in significant growth in student per in the skills of classifying ranking and matching according to Dixon Teachers will have to sum without specific use undergo a rigorous in encourage such service program before programs The first year presenting the BTS of the program carries a proposed price tag of The staff re commended the program The threeday band exchange is the second half of a collaboration that began last fall whe expects the leaching of research division of the be funded by the two bonds started such skills Competence by students in these skills is important because they are the mental processes essential for success in school and problem skills throughout ones life wrote Dixon Addressing to the question paying for program Education Director Em Lavender said that as far as he knew the ministry will continue to allocate a Ministry of Education hopes to carry the program for rehearsing their numbers The first combined concert was held in last December when Acton High School Band ALBINOS travelled there for a Totally white threeday visit Both duals of most duck spec- trips were arranged so ies occur infrequently in that the students would Ihe wild These Individ learn about town Ihey albinos lack their were visiting would normal coloring as a make new friends and result of a genetic would grow musically dent when the coloring pigments normally found The first exchange was in feathers are not pro- very successful and Ihe during develop- Acton High School band Such accidents are members have been in long run usually eagerly making prepare- ratal attracting the at- lions this weeks visit of predators They are confident that LEARN TO OPERATE HEAVY EQUIPMENT at the Sheridan College Heavy Equipment School Milton Ontario During a 12week daytime training period you will leam to operate any one of the following machines Bulldozers Rubber Tired Front End Loaders Crawler Front end Loaders Graders Rubber Tired Scrapers Hydraulic ComblnatlonLoaderBackhoes Continuous intake start any Monday Fee For information call 1 6 or 8263098 Sheridan College MM Community Services W Consolidated Balance Sheet as at December 1978 Current AsseLs Cash Investment at cost Accounts receivable 3693672 Prepaid expense Other current assets 126766 Total Current Assets J THE HALTON BOARD OF EDUCATION 1978 Financial Statements Auditors Report NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Total Assets Liabilities Current liabilities Dank and other short term borrowing Accounts payable and accrued liabilities Municipalities Over requisition elementary Over requisition secondary Other Other current liabilities Total Current Liabilities Net long term liabilities Note No Reserve for working funds Note No 2 Equity in reserve funds Unexpended capital funds 4403661 1267726 41246788 STATEMENT OK OPERATIONS I- OR THE ENDED DECEMBER 31 1078 Elementary Secondary Business Administration Instruction Educational Services Attendance Health and Food Services Plant Operation anil Maintenance Transportation Tuition Fees Capital Expenditure allocable Other Operating Expenditure Debt Charges and Capital Loan Interest l Note No Operating Expenditure excluding transfers lo reserves Total Expenditure Of Expenditure 4759429 1111624 30129 4415975 34057685 160100 417229 4 760642 115031 140498 Government of Ontario Tuition Fees and Miscellaneous Government of Canada Individuals Tuition Fees Other Revenue excluding transfers from reserves Total Recovery of Expenditure Expenditure Financ N Expenditure Government of Ontario General Legislative Grants requisition Note No Local taxation raised in the current year Decrease increase reserve forworkingfunds Total To be applied to following years taxation Net over requisition Total 71591 47327 102345 100 21754 10470 1563480 1002569 19718428 17 18605869 17399171 506941 37978796 43438047 CAPITAL FOR THE YEAH ENDED DECEMBER 1918 Capital Expenditure Fixed Assets and Work in Progress Buildings Furniture and Equipment School Sitesand Improvements to Sites Pupil Transportation Vehicles Other Total Less Federal Sales Tax Refund Total Capital Expenditure Capital Finan Unexpended Funds at Beginning of Balance at Beginning of Year permanently financed Elementary Secondary LongTerm Liabilities issued and sold Capitol Expenditure from Revenue Fund Transfer to the Revenue Fund Balance at end of Year not Permanently Financed or Unexpended Funds at End of Year Elementary Secondary Total 505 14363 44265 2836962 131079 1522775 NQTE ACCOUNTING Accrual Accounting The accrual method for reporting revenue and expenditure has been used ith the exception of reporting of charges for net long term liabilities Principal and interesl are not accrued from Ihe due date of payment to Ihe end of the fiscal year Fixed Assets fixed Assets are charged to current expenditure unless financed by long term Principal and Interest charges on net long term liabilities are Included in expenditure in the period due Fixed Assets described as capital outlay to be recovered in future years arc Included on the Balance Sheet only to the extent of the balances of the related net long term liabilities outstanding and of the related temporary financing at the end of the fiscal year Payable in US A Currency Net long term liabilities payable in S A dollars are Mated at par value Canadian dollars The amount outstanding at December 31 1978 is S If the total of tins liability is expressed in Canadian dollars at the exchange rate prevailing at December 1978 the liability is increased by NOTE NO FOR WORKING FUNDS The reserve for working funds at December is applicable to the elementary and secondary school operations of the Board as follows Elementary Secondary 6000 NOTE NO FPU SICK LEAVE BENEFITS a Under the sick leave benefit plan unused sick leave and employees may become entitled to a cash payment on retirement after 10 years of consecutive service with the Board immediately prior to retirement Retirement gratuities paid in Retirement gratuities paid in These accumulated days to the extent that they could be used to determine cash payment to an employee on retirement amount 25500 No provision has been made on account of the sick leave benefit plan NOTE NO STATEMENT OF Adjustments with respect to 1977 and prior years not reflected in the audited under requisition El Secondary 1977 Overlevy per Add i977AdjustmenLs Net Revised 1977 1274250 NO DEBT CHARGES LOAN INTEREST The Revenue Fund expenditure for debt charges and capital loan interest includes principal and interest payments as fallows Elementary Secondary Principal payments on long term 1323416 Liabilities Interest payments on long term Liabilities 1489090 Interest payments on temporary financing of capital projects NOT NO ANTIINFLATION ACT CANADA Under an agreement between the Government of Ontario and the Government of Canada authorized by the AntiInflation Agreements Act remuneration paid by an Ontario school board to its employees is subject to the provisions of the Anti Inflation Act Canada The school board believes it has complied with the provisions of this Act NOTE NO CONTRACTUAL OBI a Contractual obligations contracts for construction of buildings which are significant and which are not reflected on the Boards amount to 532149 AUDITORS REPORT To The Supporters of The Board or Education We have examined the Consolidated Balance Sheet of the Board of Education as at December 1978 the Revenue Fund Statement or Operations and he Capital Fund Statement of Operations for he year then ended Our examination was made in accordance generally accepted auditing standards and accordingly included such tests and other procedures as we necessary In the circumstances In our opinion these financial statements present fairly financial position of the Board as at December 31 1978 and the results of lis operations for the year then ended in with generally accepted accounting principles for Ontario school boards applied on a basis consistent with tlia of the preceding year MacGillivrayiCo CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Municipal licence number The Halton Board of Education as required by Provincial Legislation