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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 27,1974 Section Two Board of Education Candidates Prov de Details of Backgrounds It is often said of school because education seems to be board elections that they the one political issue wher consist of "candidates in everyone has an opinion. Sinc search of an electorate". This such a large percentage of th is difficult to understand tax dollar is spent educating BOA RD 0F EDUCATION VOTE FOR EXPî#ERIELNCàWE Former Supervis- ing Principal - Served On Library Board - Recreation Commission - Hospital Board Planning Board Museun Board v ote to Elect THOMPSON, Andrew X For Transportation Phone 623-5635 the young and because school e boards have control over how e the allocated money is spent, e it seerns reasonable that people should be very inter- ested in who is chosen to do the job. And yet the sad truth is that school board seats are often not even contested' and when there is a race, voter turn-out is usually discour- agingly low. Bowmanville is very for- tunate in having four people running for the two available positions on the Northumber- and and Newcastle Board of Education. To help you cast your vote well on Dec. 2, we are printing below the re- sumes which the four candi- dates have submitted. Maurice Prout I was born and raised in Bowmanville and attended Schools here. Worked for several years at the Goodyear Plant in Bow- manville. While at work I was active in Union Affairs, Mem- ber of the Bargaining Com mitte, Vice Presi dent of Local 189. Also a member of Bowmanville Town Council for 9 yrs. including one yr. as Deputy Reeve. I represented Bowmanville at County Council and am a former Member of Bowman- ville Memorial Hospital Board, Conservation Author- ity, member of former Town of Bowmanville Planning Board and have served on various ofher committees. lelecced, will serve ail the people to the best of my ability. Keith Shackelton I am the father of three school age children so I feel I have a definite interest where the largest portion of our tax dollar goes re education costs. (2) In mv twenty-second (22) year at General Motors of Canada Ltd., (office clerk) Oshawa, Ont. (3) Past President of Bow- manville Minor Hockey Asso- ciation having served a two (2) year tera as President 1972-74. To the Electors of Bowmanville i BELIEVE IN: EDUCATION THROUGH Return to Basics and core subjects Controlled costs Better Community use of schools Better Liaison Between Commun- ity and School Consultation with the Town concerning location of schools 1 have served 6 years on the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education and earnestly solicit your support and vote on Monday, December 2nd - Advance poll Saturday, November 23rd. ALANSTRIKE FOR TRANSPORTATION OR POLLING BOOTH INFORMATION PHONE 623-4771 Bowmanv lie Needs A ChangeI Vote and Elect Keith Shackelton for Trustee Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education MONDAY, DEC- 2, 1974 CONCERNED TAXPAYER Father of 3 School-Age Children If Elected I Will Try To: 1 Cut Costs - Largest portion 53 per cent of our tax doilar. 2.Eliminate rubber- stamp operations. 3. Include schools as part of sub- divider's agreement. Active In Church, Minor Hockey And Community Projects. SHACKELTON, Keith PHONE 623-3517 (4) Member of the Official Board and a eider, Trinity United Church, Bowmanviile. (5) Helping to organize an Executive Branch for the St. John Ambulance, Town of Newcastle area. (6) Helping to organize a ratepayers association for the new Town of Newcastle. "Past" (1) Served as Councillor for three (3) terms former Town of Bowmanville. (2) Executive member Bow- manville Kinsmen Club. (3) Former coach Bowman- ville Recreation Department. (4) Taught Sunday School, Trinity United Church, Bow- manville. (5) Chairman, Darlington and Bowrhanville Recreation Committee which were inter- ested re sports complex. Platform. If elected I know this will be a new challenge for me and I hope to persuade the Board to hold monthly meet- ings not just at Cobourg, but throughout the towns of Bow- manville, Port Hope and villages of Newcastle and Hampton so the people can come out to these meetings if interested or if they have any problems to discuss. A month- ly bulletin prepared by the Board listing times, dates and place of meetings and topics on the agenda could be sent to the newspapers so people would have better knowledge of these meetings. I would also try and have monthly letters printed in the Canadian Statesman to keep the people of Bowmanville informed on the Boards actions. Alan Strike I have been involved in education since I was appoint- ed to the Durham County District High School Board which became The Northum- berland and Durham County Board of Education. I have served on the latter Board since its inception in 1969 and was its Chairman in 1971. At present I am chairman of the Non-Teaching and Oral Com- munications Committees and the appointee of the Northum- berland and Newcastle Board of Education as a director of The Ontario Public School Trustees Association. I am particularly interested in curriculum development with a swing back to basics and core subjects from the project and completely free choice a pproach as is eviden- ced by the Board's establish- ment of a Reading Task Force. I also think there should be wider community use of schools and better liaison with municipal plan- ners in the development of the area so that schools are, and connue to be, located in the proper places. Concerning the possibility of becoming a part 'of the Durham Region Board of Education, I feel that our schools are being well served by the present Board and probably better so than by a I was appointed to the original Board of Governors of Durham College and have served on that Board for seven years. I must commend Dur- ham College for its liaison with industrv and business and with the secondary schools in our area in provid- ing relevant courses and job opportunities on completion of these courses. Andrew M. (Andy) Thompson I am the former Supervis- ing-Principal of Bowmanville Public Schools. During my long career as a teacher and a principal here I have seen the schools expand from two in number (Central and South Ward) to five, by the addition of Ontario St., Vincent Massey and Lord Elgin schools; from fourteen classrooms to forty- eight, and from a school population of four hundred and fifty students to that of fifteen hundred. By 1969, Bowmanville Pub- lic School Board plans had been approved for the con- struction of a Senior Public School on land purchased for that purpose lying immedi- ately north of Vincent Massey School. This project was cancelled by the new Counties Board of Education, when it was established at that timne. The positions of Supervising Principals throughout the Counties were dissolved and transferred to the Board Office in Cobourg where I filled the office of Purchasing Agent and School Liaison of ficer. Having served on many local boards and commnittees my hobbies would appear to have been comnmunity service. I assisted in establishing the Bowmanville Recreation Commission and served on its executive through its early years. I have served on the Library Board, the Hospital Board, as Chairman of the former Bowmanville Planning Board, and amn presently Chairman of the Bowrnanville Museum Committee. I arn a Past President of the Bowmanville Lions Club and closely associated with the Lions Centre. I arn also a member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Members of the Thompson family are my wife, Betty, a former teacher at Bowman- ville High Schbol, David, Marketing Manager with Goodyear Bowmanville, Sheila, a teacher at Grand- view Public School, in Victoria County, and Roderick in Grade 13 at Bowmanville High School. ARENA RATES Arena rates for the Bow manville arena and the Dar lington Sports Centre will be 26 an hour for prime hours and $20 an hour for off hours for locals and $30 an hour for out of town users, Newcastle Council has decided. Celebrated First Birthday Allison Joan Cochrane will be celebrating first birthday on November 25, 1974. She is daughter of Reid and Joan Cochrane, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vagg Mrs. Grace Cochrane, all of Orono. her the and and Variety the Key to Teaching Reading At Lord Elgin P.S. Five year old Sally can't read yet, but she knows about "words." Every drawing and many objects in ber kinder- garten room have word labels. The educational theory is that next year, when Sally is in grade one, that word, "chair", will look familiar to ber. It will be one of the 40 or 50 words that she will have to recognize before ber teacher deems ber ready to begin ber reading "pre-primer". To facilitate this word recognition, ber teacher will build up stories from the student's own ex- periences using these key words. To make the process entertaining and therefore more effective educationally, little drawings will be made of certain letters. For example, a tiny mouse will crouch inside the "e" in the word. WeCýd Sh]apes "Vwill aO ise ep puIplls recegnlize varieus words. However, by November in grade one, individual differ- ences will have asserted themselves. One group of students will be working in the pre-primer and getting pre- pared for the primer. Another will still be working on recognizing the 40 or 50 basic words. Perhaps a few students will be well on into the primer. In fact, Sally's grade one teacher may have as many as four groups working simul- taneously at various levels. As principal Marjorie Couch of Lord Elgin Public School explained, every child has unique learning patterns and no one method works equally well for everyone. At Lord Elgin the phonetic method of sounding the word out is not used exclusively because it requires auditory discrimination. Some child- ren, especially ones from homes where they have not been encouraged to listen or talk a great deal, are not particularly good at distin- guishing one sound from another and other methods work better with them. In fact, Miss Couch feels that the home situation has an intimate connection with children's resistance to or problems with reading. A Task Force set up last year by the Northumberland and New- castle School Board called for increased attention to the problem throughout the system. But without co-opera- tion from the parents, this can only by partially successful. Children learn by imitating. If the parents are avid readers the children are much more likely to read at home, thereby improving their skills. Miss Couch's theory is that parents need some educating. 'They don't know how much help they can give." She also feels that where the school has the support of the parents, the child rarely encounters diffi- culties. At Lord Elgin no alsolute directives are laid down about how much time must be spent in developing language skills but it is estimated that between 60 and 75 per cent of the time in the primary grades is spent in this area. At the junior level at least three quarters of an hour each day is spent on reading and much more when related activities are considered. Thiebasic skills are the fst priority but Miss Couch in- cludes in this, attitudinal development ("the basic skills in human relationships"). "These days the school has had to take on more of the development of moral char- acter,' Miss Couch points out. The Task Force discovered that as the student progressed in school less emphasis was placed on reading. Often the group method was replaced by whole class instruction in the junior grades. This is not the case at Lord Elgin. In grades four to six students work at reading labs which allow them to work ahead at their own speed. Seminar groups, some- times student-led, discuss novels that the children have read for enjoyment. In addi- tion to this, the students still work on their basic readers. Despite these serious ef- forts, Miss Couch is not completely satisfied with the results. She is still interested in new methods which might be more effective. The big pro- biem seems to come back to how much one teacher work- ing with 30 students can accomplish. A Remedial Reading teach- er is employed half time. She works individually for about 20 minutes with 20-25 students who have been referred by their teachers. Thus the most obvious difficulties are dealt with. However, the problem is larger than this bandaid approach can correct, but as Miss Couch says, they are doing the best they can. She welcomes parent inter- est. Asked about the fad of p arents "choosing" a school or their children, she pointed out some of the problems but recognized that as the par- ent's right. "I'm here if they want to interview me," she smiled. START YOUR HOUSEPLANT COLLECTION WITH A CACTUS "A cactus can make a great beginning to a houseplant collection," says R. A. Flem- ing, Ontario Ministry of Agri- culture and Food horticultur- ist. "It is long-lived, with- stands the warm, dry air of most homes well and needs infrequent watering." Be- cause they grow slowly, cacti need repotting only once every two or three years. Their oddity of form and the beautiful flowers some pro- duce make them excellent plants for most homes. During November, Decem- ber, January, and early Feb- ruary, the cactus does not grow vigorously because it cannot get enough light. Keep it in a bright, cool location where the temperature is as low as 40 degree Fahrenheit. Water it sparingly - only when shriveling has begun or the soil in the pot is bone dry. Be sure the soil drains quickly. In late February and March, when the days are warmer and brighter, water- ing the cactus more frequently will encourage it to produce new growth and perhaps a flower or two. Most cacti in full growt benefit from an occasion4l feeding of weak, liquid fertil- zer. When your cactus oft- grows its pot, replant in equal parts of coarse sand and spil For Separate Trusi Re-El EMMETT C on NORTHUMBEI N1EWCASTLE1 EDUCA or December 1 CREIGHTON, School tee lect REIGHTON the RLAND AND BOARD OF TION n 2nd, 1 974, Elmme-tt X Elect With Confidence MAURICE PROUT Monday, Dec. 2 INTEGRITY E L EE P A D E R E P Board of Education IPROUT MAURICE IXI For Transportation Phone 623-5186 Township of Manvers MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS Monday, December 2nd, 1974 Polling Hours: 11 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. - POLLING SUB-DIVISIONS: - L. FOR~ POLLfNG S~UB-DI1VISION No. 1 Location - Orange Hall, Pontypool, Ontario; Description - Lots 1 to 25 inclusive in Concessions 1 to 3 inclusive. 2. FOR POLLING SUB-DIVISION No. 2 Location - Ballyduff Community Hall, Lot 11, Concession 6. Description - Lots 1 to 15 inclusive in Concession 4 to 9 inclusive. 3. FOR POLLING SUB-DIVISL N No. 3 Location - Township Hall, Bethany, Ont. Description - Lots 16 to 25 inclusive in Concession 4 to 9 inclusive. 4. FOR POLLING SUB-DIVISION No. 4 Location - Orange Hall, Janetville, Ontario; Description - Lots 1 to 12 inclusive in Concessions 10 to 14 inclusive. 5. FOR POLLING SUB-DIVISION No. 5 Location -' Harry Shea Residence, Lot 20, Concession 11. Description - Lots 13 to 25 inclusive, in Concession 10 to 14, inclusive. ADVANCE POLL (1 DAY) Saturday, November 23rd, 1974 Township f Manvers Hall, Bethany, Ont. .FRHOURS -11 A.M. TO8P.M. Poils will be held for the following offices: 3-MEMBERS 0F COUNCIL 2-TRUSTEES, TO BE ELECTED BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPOR TERS FOR TUE COUNTY oF VICTORIA BOARD 0F EDUCA TION. PROXY VOTING 1. Persons incapable of attending a polling place for medialeasons and certified as such by a legally qualified medical practitioner. 2. By reason of being absent for attendng an educational institution 'and by reason of such absence expects to be unable to vote at the advance poli or on polling day. 3. Persons who expect t'o be absent by reason of being engaged for hire or reward in the business of transportation. Appointment of a proxy must be made in writing on the prescribed certificate available at the Municipal Office, Bethany, Ontario and an application for such Certificate must be made to the Clerk nlot later than 5 p.m., Tuesday, November 26th, 1974. Any person who is entitled to vote in the Township of Manvers, may be appointed as a proxy for the person voting by proxy. Such person may only act as a proxy for i one person except where the person voting is the child, grandchild, brother, sister, husband or wife of the voting proxy, in which case a voting proxy may act for more than one person. Ross Davidson Clerk & Returning Officer.