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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-04-05, Page 33Teachers and board vote on agreement 111( JEFF SEDDON' Huron Coimty's 274 high school teachers tentatively •agreed Monday to exchange picket signs for textbooks and g� back to the classrooms Thursday morning. Negotiating teams for the comity board of education and the striking teachers settled their contract differences in an exhausting 33 hour marathon bargaining session over the weekend. Working with provincial mediator Harvey Ladd the two parties ended the marathon Monday morning at 5:45 after non-stop negotiations that begailSaturday morning. The agreement was drawn up and should be ratified by both groups by Wednesday night. The board met Tuesday night to vote, on acceptance of the contract and the teachers plan a mass meeting Wednesday night. The agreement covered both the 1977-78 school year and the 1978-79 terrn. The issues at stake in the 77-78 pact were teacher workload and a sick leave gratuity clause and both those were settled in the marathon session. Wages proved to be the stumbling block inthe 78-79 contract and both parties agreed to third party intervention (ar- bitration) as a means of settling teacher salaries. • _ The marathon session was proposed by the teachers in an open letter to the board April 5. Ron Lane, presidenraDistrict 45 of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation, requested that Ladd set up the marathon $10 A Year In Advance $14 To U.S.A. and Foreign .• a: • • negotiation meeting with the board. Ladd brought the two parties together early Saturday morning and imposed a news blackout on the bargaining. He acted as a go-between during the 33 hour session and refused to allow details of the agreement to be released until after ratification. A spokesman for a negotiating team who wished to remain anonymous said Monday however that the final agreement spelled out the °teacher workload clause much the way the teachers originally proposed it. The clause was written into the contract with the stipulation that it is governed by the pupil teacher ratio. The spokesman said the workload clause set the pupil -teacher contact (PPC) which is . number of pupils a teacher is required to see in 'a ' CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 r 3 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1978 Single Copy 25c 32 PAGES Mary Luanne Clare, R. R. 7 Lucknow, holds the Lions International District A9 Public Speaking trophy, she won. on Friday evening at the District A9 competition in the Lucknow Central Public School. Mary Luanne, has a collection of trophies and awards4the has won since she started speaking in competitions Jn,grade four. She says she likes to express herself in public and doesn't get nervous .beeause-she enjoys tidking to people. She will be competing in the Royal Canadian Legion Area Public Speaking competition in Owen Sound on April 23. See story on Page 8. [Sentlitel Staff Photo] Enjoys speaking in, public • Mary Luanne Clare has a table -top of Public Speaking trophies and awards in her parents' living room. A grade ten student at F. E. Madill Secondary in.Wingham, she hasbeen speaking at competitions since grade four. She won the 1978 Legion zone competition in Goderich and district competition in Harriston. Later this month she will compete in the area final in Owen Sound. She has won four Legion competition trophies in the past. On Friday evening she won the Lions' International Public Speaking Competition, District 9A, for the English Girls' Category in Lucktiow, O'n Saturday evening she competed in the District A competition in Arthur but did not place. In 1976 she won the District A competition and competed in the all Canada finals in Peterborough', She has won the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association Competition in 1976 and this year she won the Oddfellows' United Nation's Pilgrimage for Youth Competi, tion. She will take a trip to New York to observe the United Nations in session in July as her prize, for winning this 1-4 • •i - competition. The trip will also include a tour of Washington and Baltimore. While at the United Nations, the 875 winners of the Oddfellows competitions in the States and Canada will participate in a speak off-. Mary Luanne is competing this year with a speech about The Holy Land, written about her experiences while travelling last summer. She and her parents toured Denmark, Greece, It -Aly, Egypt, and The Holy Land and because of the air strike visited Switzerland and Norway by mistake. Mary Luanne has travelled to the British Isles, Hawaii, Mexico and the Amprican West with her parents in the past, and her.love of travel and speaking in public will be combined in the career she chooses when the graduates. She hopes to be either an overseas reporter or a news broadcaster. She says she likes expressing herself in public and she enjoys being around people soh does not get nervus when public speaking, "I just think, they're not going to bite me," she laughs,. "I'm just talking to them." Lions host speech contest Five high school students participated in the Lions Club District A9 -Public Speaking Competition held at Lucknow Central Public School on Friday evening. Mary Luanne Crare, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clare, R. R. 7 Lucknow, placed first in the English girls categorywith her speech, The Holy Land. Tom Wilson„son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Wilson of Ripley, placed first in the English boys' category, with his speech about Counterfeit Money. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 -K4t4 4 - abid. fox Mlle in Luekiiow Jack Wraith, Lucknow, his informed the Sentinel that a fox he shot near the village on March 30was rabid. Grant Chisholm, Lucknow, spotted the fox coming out to the road, on the county road_north of Lucknow by Mac Conley's property. Grant attempted to drive over the fox with his truck but the fox escaped toward the river. Grant borrowed Jack Wraith's rifle -and tried 'to shoo' the fox but it got away again. . The two men followed the animal to the bridge on Ludgard Street, near the Silverwood Dair building, where Jack shot it. Jack skinned the animal and sent it for laboratory tests which confirmed the fox was rabid. Local residents who own dogs and cats, which may run loose about towri, are advised that the Bruce County Health Unit is conducting a free anti -rabies vaccination clinic for dogs and cats on April 13 from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. in the basementof the town hall, and in the Holyrood Township Hall on April 13 from 9.30 to 12.00 Dixie Cameron speaks at Service Club night • Lucknow's Annual Service Club night was held Saturday night .in the Lucknow Legion. Members of the Lucknow Lions, Lucknow Legion and Lucknow Kinsmen and representa- tives from thc,Lucknow Agricultural Society were joined by their wives fora banquet catered to by the Trinity United Church ladies and a dance with music by Drumlin. Guest speaker for the evening was Mrs. Doug (Dixie) Cameron who showed slides and gave a commentary on her trip to New Zealand and Australia. President Joe Agnew of the Lucknow Lions, President Bud Thompson of the Lucknow Legion, President Evans Helm of the Lucknow Kinsmen and President Russel Irvin of the Agricultural Society, spoke briefly outlining their clubs past achievements. Russel Irvin thanked the ladies for the meal, and Rod McDonagh thanked the guest speaker and presented her with a gift. Chairman for the CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 e A.