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THEWINDSOR STAR, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1983 WINDSOR AREA A5 Star photoTim McKenna OMB' approves move to close Shawnee Road Vjjf- The closing of Tecumsehs Shawnee Road at Highway 2 received provincial approval Monday. The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) approved the closing of what residents feel is a dangerous intersection after no one appeared at a hearing in Tecumseh to oppose it. The hearing was delayed for more than an hour when Chairman A. J. Chapman decided to wait to hear from Dan Alaica, owner of the Shawnee Boblos banking on ad campaign AMHERSTBURG Boblo Island amusement park is off to a moderate start under new owners.

Mike Wild, the parks acting general manager, said Monday about 85,000 people have paid to attend the park this season about as many as this time last year. In what was considered a building year, attendance reached about 550,000 in 1982, shortly before the island went into receivership for failing to meet debt repayment deadlines. Wild said the parks pew owner, the Michigan Automobile Club, is not disappointed with the start, but hopes to improve on last years figures as a late-starting Fantasy Island advertising campaign catches on. OBVIOUSLY, wed like to see more," he said. Its a building kind of thing We want to get people here so they can experience it." The Automobile Association of America (AAA) affiliate acquired the rights to manage the 85-ycar-old amusement park in late March leaving only enough time to clean up the park, and start promotions.

AAA has said it plans to develop the park extensively on a theme in the next several years, as it strives to revive the parks status as a premier tourist attraction. During its peak years in the early 1970s, Boblo was drawing more than 700.000 paid customers. From there, it slid to a low point in 1980, when only 300.000 people paid Meanwhile Boblo is celebrating its 85th birthday Sunday by offering cake and ice cream to all park visitors. Balloons, clowns and music will be featured throughout the day. Tavern who had filed a written objection with theOMB.

Alaica was the only objector to the closing. But 'when the hearing began Chris Tzckas, lawyer for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), said neither Alaica nor his Windsor lawyer Robert Baksi were at the hearing. Chapman lashed out at Baksi, accusing him of professional discourtesy for not telling the board he did not intend to appear. "You can tell your friend from me This type of behavior is highly discourteous, Chapman said. YOU CAN tell Mr.

Baksi the etiquette of lawyers in this province is that they attend hearings." Baksi rushed to the hearing after Tzekas called him and apologized to Chapman, saying his absence had been based on a misunderstanding. He said Alaica did not intend to appear before the hearing, but had filed the formal objection so that he could claim compensation if the closing costs him business. Under Section 22(1) of the Expropri- ations Act, Alaica can seek compensation from the province if he can prove the road closing eroded patronage at his 60-year-old tavern. The closing was proposed by the MTC after local residents complained about the danger the Shawnee intersection poses. Evidence given Monday included a petition from 15 residents of Shawnee Road who want it closed.

BAKSI SAID his client had no intention of fighting the ministry, but merely wanted to let them know" Alaica would be asking for compensation for the road closing. The MTC comes in here with their guns loaded, he said. We dont have any guns loaded at this time." The OMB was told the intersection of Highway 2 and Shawnee is only 750 metres (2,400 feet) from the much-busier intersection at Banwell Road, where the ministry eventually intends to build ab interchange. Ministry engineer Gerald Edwards said the interchange will be built when traffic volumes increase enough to justify it. When it is built, an acceleration ramp for that interchange will end just before Shawnee.

THOSE FUTURE problems aside, Edwards said, residents were concerned an existing curve in the road between Banwell and Shawnee partially obstructed the view of the intersection. Sandwich South Reeve Ray Robinet told the hearing tenders had already been called to construct cul-de-sacs at the two sections of Shawnee which will end at Highway 2, and for an access road which will run the 470 metres (1,500 feet) east to Lesperance Road. The contract for that work, estimated to cost 1 72,400, is to be granted July 1 1. STEVEN WARDLE, left, amateur archeologist, points out the site of his find of skeletal remains to professional archeologist Ian Kenyon Skull likely isolated discovery alerted Sandwich West Police. KENYON, WITH University of Windsor professor Peter Reid and assistant archeologist Neil Ferris, examined the site, uncovering pieces of flint, a handful of human bones, but nothing that would indicate there was a village or burial ground here, Kenyon said.

Kenyon said the human remains, believed to be those of a female native Indian are from 500 to 1,000 years old and may be of Algonquin heritage. But since there are no early records of any particular native band living in the county, we cant say for sure what the ancestry of these remains is. Kenyon explained the site, made up of sandy knolls, was the perfect strategic setting for a passing hunting party or an isolated burial." He does not believe the remains are linked to the discovery, almost 50 years ago, of an ancient burial site in which more than 20 human skeletons, were found buried in shallow graves in the sand. The re By Lynda PowlessStar Staff Reporter Archeologists believe the skeleton of a native I ndian, found in the bush in the 3 1 00 block of Huron Church Road, are the remains of an isolated burial and do not warrant a full-scale dig. Ian Kenyon of London, southwestern regional field arrcheologist with the ministry of citizenship and culture, examined the site Monday where 18-ycar-old Steven Wardle, of Todd Lane, found an almost complete human skeleton Friday.

Wardle, who plans to study history at the University of Windsor this fall, said he was walking along a dirt bike path west of the Grand Marais drain when he spotted a skull sitting on top of the sandy soil. It was just sitting there, so I dug around it and found more remains, he said. Wardle, an amateur archeologist, realized he could have stumbled onto an ancient burial ground so he mains were found in what is now called the Lucier site, cast of Fridays discovery. THE SAME site again came into the limelight five years agowhen area natives protested the construction of an E. C.

Row Expressway interchange. Natives claimed the interchange, on the west side of Huron Church Road and the Third Concession, would desecrate a 1 burial ground. Despite the protests, the area was not designated an historic site. For budding historian Wardle, Mondays search was exciting. Im glad to see the discovery isnt just being forgotten; that it is getting some attention and someone is doing something about it," he said.

Wardle has also found ancient spear heads and arrow heads along the dirt paths, he said. The remains were turned over to Walpole Island representative Dean Jacobs Monday afternoon, who said they would be reinterred with the respect and dignity they deserve." Parents urged to get computerized the boards capital works budget, rather than its budget for employee salaries or school programs. IN AN ATTEMPT to increase computer literacy the board lets pupils, parents and teachers take its computers home on weekends. Murray says this policy will help solve educational problems that will occur when all but the most disadvantaged children have a computer in their home. The board is determined to provide access to a computer to every child regardless of the resources of that childs parents, Murray said.

Like many adults, she was originally skeptical about the use of computers in schools and tended to regard the machines as dehumanizing. That view has been altered by seeing the excitement with which children at school interact with the machines. They work for hours and hours, (even) kids who we often dont think have a long attention span, she said. You cant stop even young tykes from programming." MURRAY SAID that in addition to teaching computer programming, the machines are used for drills in everything from spelling to math; for tutorial work in everything from banking to physics; for simulations that might illustrate, for example, the nuclear problems that led to the crisis at Three Mile Island; and as a tool for thinking in such exercises as creative writing and editing assignments. The computer spares teachers much of the mechanical drudgery of teaching, giving them more time for true human interaction with their students in the learning process, Murray said.

The schools njust train youngsters to live and work in the information society that is replacing the industrial age, said Murray, who later added that she wants to encourage adults to join youngsters in celebrating the new age, rather than resisting it. Its a powerful learning tool that will bring to their finger tips information ranging from stock market reports to the latest news, she said. Computers are Only in their infancy now and theyre getting friendlier all the time, Murray assured the Rotarians. Junior kindergarten study pins cost to Essex board at $220,058 ByPaulMcKeague Star Education Reporter It's time for adults to join school children in the computer revolution, says Dr. Nancy Murray, head curriculum consultant for the Windsor Separate School Board.

The microcomputer, which is transforming the workplace and the education system, will soon appear in most homes, she said Monday. It will have a greater impact than the invention of Henry Fords automobile or Guttenbergs printing press, Murray told a luncheon meeting of the Windsor Rotary Cl ub at the Holiday Inn. Its time for parents to sit down with their children to learn the ABCs of computer literacy, said Murray, who added that for the first time adults and kids can learn together." BY 1985 analysts predict one of every two homes will have a microcomputer, she told the audience of more than 100 Rotarians. Microcomputers only became available to the public in 1978. Since then annual sales in the U.S.

have risen from 35,000 in 1980 to 1.5 million in 1982, with 1983 sales expected to reach 3.5 million, Murray said. Adults may be leery of the new technology, she admitted, but as the price of microcomputers plunges were rapidly running out of excuses not to own one." If the aircraft industry had matched the computer industry in the past 25 years we'd buy a Boeing 767 for $500," shesaid. If the automotive industry had slashed prices as fast as the computer -industry in the same period wed buy a Rolls Royce for $3, Murray added. Two-thirds of all microcomputers sold now cost less than $500, she said, and in January at least a dozen new ones priced under $200 appeared. THE POPULAR Commodore 64 model cost $595 (U.S.) when it came out in September but is now selling in De- troit for just $259 (U.S.), Murray no'ed.

The Windsor Separate School Board has been near the forefront of the move to get computers into the classroom. Since 1981 it has spent about to put 350 microcomputers into its schools. Some parents have recently argued that the board would not be faced with laying off 91 full-time and part-time teachers if it had not spent so much on computers. But urray said the layoffs are unrelated to computer purchases because the money for the purchases was taken from The Newest Look: The same Flair as our TURA glasses with the Faceted Lenses, but the Frame is Faceted, for an exciting variation, which can be made up in almost any prescription. The board is considering the program and isresearching how it could be offered, trustee John Coggans said.

THE ESSEX board wants the widest possible input," on the subject, Coggans said. Public debate on offering the program to four-year-olds in 1 984 will goon as scheduled in September. But county taxpayers just arent as vociferous on education issues as their city cousins, Coggans said following the meeting. Meanwhile, proposals in Windsor for junior kindergarten programs have sparked heated debate. The citys public board is considering a program that could cost $2 million.

Separate school trustees rejected a program after strong taxpayer protest. Coggans said 84 Ontario school boards offer junior kindergarten. That, and the fact provincial support is available, prompted the board to look at the proposal, he said. IN OTHER business the board approved spending $30,000 to wall in an open-concept classroom at an Emeryville school. Walls will go up in one open concept area at Pavilion des Jeunes this year, and depending on budget money, another area will be done next year.

The schools ventilation system was found to be operating under capacity and will be repaired. Earlier this year administration prompted debate on walling in open areas after suggesting similar work for its own offices. Besides the $30,000 for Pavilion des Jeunes, the board will spend $43,000 to wall in St. Louis Separate School in Leamington and up to $25,000 for administration offices at the civic and education centre in Essex. THREE SCHOOLS will still retain open-concept classrooms, hich parents in other areas say are too distracting for children.

The board had thrown open the fssue but had only heard of requests from the two schools. But parents of children at St. Peter Separate School near Tecumseh support the open-concept classrooms, Coggans said. And the board didn't receive similar requests to wall in areas at the other two schools in Kingsville and Stoney Point. ByTedWhippStar Staff Reporter ESSEX A junior kindergarten program would cost county separate school supporters more than $220,000, the Essex County Separate School Board was told Monday.

An initial financial report estimates a program serving 700 children and employing 20 teachers would cost $940,900. But provincial subsidies, covering 76.6 per cent of junior kindergarten programs, would reduce the actual cost to county separate school taxpayers to $220,058. U. ofW. gets grant TORONTO The University of Windsor will get a special I -million provincial grant to renovate the original St.

Denis Hall. The Windsor grant is part of a two-year, $17.1 5-million package of accelerated" construction grants announced Monday by Education Minister Bette Stephenson. She said the construction program at Windsor and 1 1 other uni versifies will create 1 ,300 jobs over the next two years. William Morgan, an assistant vice-president, at U. of W.

said he did.not know how many jobs would be created locally. Structural renovations to the south portion of the building, the first phase of the St. Denis project, will cost 1 00,000, said Morgan. The university plans to move its computer centre from Essex Hall into the south portion of St. Denis.

The move will provide additional research space in Essex Hall for physics, chemistry, and the growing engineering program, he said. The univerisity also wants to renovate the north half of St. Denis but I need more than $1 million," added Morgan. The north half of ihe aging hall could be used for a student recreation area if additional funds could be obtained, Morgan said. The university also will receive $355,800 from the regular 1983-84 capital works plan which has a total allocation of $13.5 million.

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