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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-10-29, Page 2Page 2--LteknoitT Seathiel# Wedneadiy, October Via.1930 challe °from page 1 which is committed to providing 60 per cent of the beard's finances bOt in recent years, grants have only totalled about 50 per cent. Cenanienting on the current strike by leCendari tea:Wets in the cotniV,---Ackert--7- said it invelves two issues, money and working conditions, He said the board has .tried to be fair. He observed that if the dispute is going to go to arbitration anyway, he would prefer it to go to arbitration now, This would get the students back into school and put an end to a prolonged Strike. Alma-Comi-Armstreng-of-Culress-Town--- ship who is challenging Ackert for his seat on the board, told the meeting there is no 4 LuekrioWi.District.C640. will be CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST FOR YEAR END INVENTORY excuse for teacher's in the county working receiving coverage in the daily Toronto without;a contract for 1 1/2 years, She said she papers. wished the board had not waited until now, Mrs. Conn Armstrong said she is proud to If they hadn't she said, the strike could have , be a resident of. Bruce County and , resents been averted.' . ' lidert'S opinion that the county is insignif- She-took-exeeption-ba-Ackert's remark -that—icariLLakesaid,,Ackezt•;.A/*iedh-Y-- the county is insignificant in :the= eyes of the statement the children of the county: were 'daily• press because, the ' strike is , not' not worthy of an education because•tbey are insignificant.. • , Kintois Township ratepayers will go to the pollson November 10 to elect a municipa l and a trustee to the . Bruce County of Education. l .counci Board Reeve Barry Johnston has been acclaimed but there will be an election for the three er council. Councillor Grant Ecken- ' memb swiller declined to run for another term but Eckert- bent councillors George McBride, inaumt David Gib and- and David Eadie are staying on. are being, challenged by Bill Haldenby They and Kay Forster. Leo Murray had been nominated but he withdrew his name. Mr.Haldenby could not attend the rate- s' meeting on October 22 but Mrs. payer Forster did attend. She told the township ratepayers she had asked questions of council in the pastand was pot satisfied with some of the answers given. She said some answers were not up to, standard. She would be asking many questions if elected to serve on council, she stated, Reeve Barry Johnston told the meeting in his comments, he wanted to see the Bruce County road committee expanded from three to five because the present form permits too' much power to be held by only a few people. Ken Houston suggested Kinloss Council look into the possibility of hiring a recreation director to serve the village of Lucknow, West Wavvanosh, Ashfield and Kinloss Townships. He said Bill Hunter who is chairman of the Lucknow Recreation Com- mittee has served faithfully without_ pay. Houston said it is time to pay Hunter to do the job' or hire a fulltime, recreation director. The workload is increasing and Hunter Should not be expected to continue without some remuneration, he obserVed. Houston said:Hunter is haVing a meeting with the. recreation committee of the village and the townships to outline the hockey program for this year, because he prepares the Program Many who sit on the rec committees in the muncipalities do not know the werkload involved said Hpuston. David Eadie of the Kinloss Council replied to Houston's suggestion and stated , he believed too, it was time to pay kunter to do the job or hire a fulltime recreation director. Itelected Eadie said he would look into the • matter with the members of the recreation boards in the three other municipalites. tntert replied to Conn-Armstrong by po•ug utheiivedin Bruce Ackert said if Bruce county was closer to the Metro-Toronto area, if the strike 'were in Peel County for example, the Toronto papers would be carrying daily stories. This yieuld pressure the government to enferce arbitration through an order in council. Ackert explained the county is only insignificant in, the eyes of ihe daily paper and perhaps, the Conservative government. and had raised his children there. He said he. Would not be living in the county and raising his family there if he thought the, county was insignificant. • . 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