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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-12-28, Page 11!,. it, f'i d ltd Etta ":t:'►,{.t" .t::HlItt' I - Ludt/tow Sentinel, Thursday, December 28, 11976—, -Paso 11 March Hamilton resigns from council Councillor W, A. (Bud) Hamilton resigned from Lucknow Village Council dur- ing the regular meeting of Council on March 14, Reeve George Joynt told Council that the people of the town of Lucknow were not misled about the hiring Of Robert Symes to do the town's snow removal as indicated in a letter to the editor of the Sentinel from Councillors Bill Crump and Bud Hamilton. "The writers of the letter were the only ones misled," said Joynt, "and they were misleading themselves." Reeve Joynt said that in the past he has made recommendations to council; some were approved, some not. Joynt observed that he thought it was an unusual coincidence that the council- lors and the contractor would send letters to the editor of the Sentinel in the same _..week. Joynt said that he suppos- ed that Crump wrote the letter and then "went up and got Bud Hamilton to sign it too." He said he also had a suspicion that Crump got Symes to write the letter or wrote the letter for Symes. Crump told the reeve that he had not talked to Symes since the December council meet- ing. It was at this point in the discussion . that Councillor Hamilton wrote out his resignation, handed it to the town clerk, Alf Herbert, and left the council chambers. Crump told the reeve that •tenders had never been called for the hiring of . a contractor to do the snow removal and yet, when the Sentinel reporter asked the reeve Why he voted against the motion to hire Symes,the reeve said it was because the council had not called tend- ers, Crp:mp said he felt the ratepayers should know the reasons for the councillors vote in favour of hiring Symes. Ab Murray, who also voted against the motion, said' he had done so, because the. Openenergy conservation centre. Tony McQuail, R. R. 2 Lucknow, co-ordinator of the Energy Conservation Centre which opened on Campbell Street in the storefront next to the Sentinel office .on March 22, sees the centre playing two roles in the community. "The . first is to make information on Energy Con- servation and renewable en. ergy easily available to the Teachers stay out BY JEFF SEDDON When Huron County's 4,500 secondary school stud- ents left for school Tuesday morning any hopes that • classes would be held were dashed when the county's 270 striking secondary school teachers chose to stay home.. Tuesday was the first day since February 23 that the teachers had an option to return to the classroom and after an Ontario Secondary School. Teachers' Federation District 45 executive council meeting Monday night the teachers elected to continue their 23 day old strike. The teachers were invited back to the classrooms by the county board- of education 'March 20 when the board lifted its teacher lockout on the county's five secondary schools. The lockout proved to be a retrograde step in negotia- tions which had broken off February : 14: The' 'teachers began the rotating strikes the next day and with tip'sigti of settlement . ,the board, ' the following week, removed doubts about whether . schools would be open by imposing the lockout. Both sides were optimistic Good Friday after a series of proposals were shuffled back and forth between negotiat- ing r teams for both parties. The board lifted its lockout • and offered to negotiate two one year contracts with the teachers if they ,would return to the classrooms with the stipulation that no work sanctions would be taken until September of 1978. The teachers countered thrashing out an agreement for the Tuesday morning deadline. Shirley Weary, spokesman for. OSSTF Dist- rict 45, said she was not sure the teachers could return to the classrooms with the guarantee they would stay there for the remainder of theh 1 t Sh 'd th sc oo erm. a sal e board's latest offer prior to_ the start of the marathon. session showed some hope but was not substantial enough for her to be confid- ent an easy settlement could be reached. Cayley Hill, spokesman for the board negotiators, said the , board felt it had done everything possible to open an avenue for the teachers to return to the classroomsand re -open serious negotiations. He said the board was anxious to get students back to school and had lifted the lockout and set the stage for the Good Friday marathon meeting. Weary said .the teachers had made a proposal for .the board to consider at . the marathon session claiming it represented a reasonable salary increase for the 1978- 79 contract year as well as suggestions to end the strife over the teacher workload clause and sick leave gratuity clause in the 1977-78 con- tract. The marathon bargaining session lasted about ' 45 minutes. Of that over half the , time was spent with the two sides huddled in separate corners in caucus meetings. The end result was a total impasse with the situation seemingly worse than it had ever been, All that remained with a proposal for the two ,was for the teachers to parties i to a decide whether or not they marathon bargaining Session would be in front of. classes Good Friday in the , hopes of Tuesday /wining, public," said McQuail. The centre has established a good energy library, with books from 'How to, Build a Solar Collector' to "Canada as a Conserver Society'. The staff 4 4.6L will be available to speak to groups and individuals on energy conservation and they are planning to run work- shops on insulation and solar heating. The second role McQuail sees for the centre is to serve as . a focal point for people who are interested in energy. "There are many individuals around this country who are engaged in projects which are saving them energy and money," observed McQuail. "If this centre can help bring us together so that we can share what we have learned, our progress in energy conservation and the use of renewable energy sources will be easier." "We need to make this transition as easy as we can," added McQuail. Teachers, board vole on agreement Huron Coufity's 274 high school teacheia tentatively agreed Monday' to, exchange picket signs ` for textbooks and go back to the class- rooms Thursday morning. Negotiating teams. for the county board of . education and the • striking teaches settled their contract differ- enees in an exhausting 33 hour marathon bargaining session over the weekend. Working with provincial mediator Harvey Ladd the two parties ended the mara- thon Monday morning at 5.45 after non-stop negotia- tions that began Saturday morning. The agreement was drawn up and should be ratified by both groups by Wednesday night. The board meet Tues. day night to vote on accept- ance of the contract and the g teachers plan a mass meet- ing Wednesday.izi ht. Ministry of Transportation and Communications state that the contract for snow removal should be seasonal andthe council was hiring Symes, by the year. Councillor Murray went on to say that "The business done at ..the Council table should be Council business and personal matters should be kept out of Council business." Councillor Murray made a motion that Council not accept Councillor Hamilton's resignation which was (sec- onded by Councillor Tom Andrew. The motion was passed and carried. Gose encounters An unidentified flying ob- ject was sighted in the Holyrood area a week ago Thursday, March 2. .Char- lene MacEwan, R. R. 1 Holyrood, saw a red flashing object in the sky over her. farm at 10.15 p.m. and thought at first it was an airplane attempting to land in a nearby field. The light flew north in- stead and circled over Tees - water and Lucknow and back MONUMENTS For sound counsel and.a fair price on a monument correctly designed from quality material, rely on SKELTON MEMORIALS Pat -O'Hagan, -Prop. ESTABLISHED OVER SIXTY YEARS ESTABLISHED OVER SIXTY YEARS WALKERTON PHONE 881-0234 ONTARIO over Holyrood. Charlene phoned her neighbours Deb Rhody and Mary, Scott whe also j watched the light and then she phoned her hus- band, Doug, who was at the Lucknow arena watching the Industrial hockey league games,. The Holyrood hockey team accompanied Doug to his farm and watched the flashing light circle the area until 11.45 p.m. when the light flew north until it was out of sight. Charlene said Friday that she could not determine the outline of a space ship ,or airplane. The only thing visible was the red flashing light. HAPPY N YEAR Offer Expires December 29, 1978 For Factory Rebate Don't Miss Out!!!! Now fora limited time only we'll be offering a Factory Authorized $50.00 Rebate on the purchase of a Simplicity automatic washer and full size dryer pair and a $25.00 rebate on a Simplicity automatic washer aid full size dryer purchased separately.