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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-05-12, Page 1PUP USI*I -D I ...:.. , t-UCKNOSw, ONTARIO VVecinesclay May 12-11993 as :tneittded if ! phis 3"GS r Recreation programs are in place George Gibson, chair of the joint recreation committee, says summer programs are falling into place. Shauna Andrew has been hired as co-ordinator of pool services and will begin her duties May 25. The rest of the pool staff should be hired later this week. Two summer swim sessions will be held this year, with an option of a third for later in August. Soccer The soccer schedule has been completed, the field is looking good and the frames for the netting were delivered Last week. Practices are in full swing. Ball The men's slo-pitch schedule starts this week with the ladies' getting underway next week. The Noisy Ladies have Thursday nights•booked. Some work on the warning tracks has . been completed by Huron Landscaping. Doug Raynard has been hired to cut the grass and maintain the ball diamonds. He will also look after booking diamond time for rained out games, via an answering machine. Rec ball Mr. Gibson said the response to registration for the children's rec ball , program has been tremendous. Over 250 children, agedsix to 15, are registered .for the program. There is also a t - ball team. A scheduling meeting will be held on Monday, 'May 17 in the arena lobby at 8 p.m. Volunteer .coaches are desperately needed to help out with this program. If interested please. attend the meeting. PC's pick delegates. by Cameron Wood With a leadership convention just one month away, the Huron - Bruce Progressive Conservative Riding Association has decided who will represent them whena new leader is chosen. Slightly more than 50•loyalists attended the nomination night held in Wingham last Thursday to pick six senior, delegates and,. three youths. Two Wingham residents will travel to Ottawa for the June 9 to. 13 • convention as youth delegates: Denise Wilkins -Treble and Charles ' Trapp, with Goderich's Paul Steep getting the nod for the third. Alternates in the youth category are Todd Schenk and Brian Treble, both of Wingham. To quality as a youth delegate, a person must be a member of the Huron -Bruce PC Association and under 30 years of age. Riding president Tom Jasper of Goderich, was voted in as an automatic delegate to the con- vention, leaving five remaining •turn to page 2 "Thanks for the memories" was the tkeme for the 1993 Lucknow band concert. Members of the public school band and the concert band pulled together to do their conductor Gordon Cayley proud at this his last concert. Mr. Cayley will retire from teaching and the band in June. Tom Brindley, on the tuba and Ben deBoer on the trumpet, are two members of the public school band. More pictures on page 14. (Pat Livingston photo) Teachers will vote 'on latest contract proposal CIESLEY--Bruce County's 290 secondary school teachers will vote May 17 on the latest contract proposal offered by the board. The teachers' have been without a contract since last fall. They have asked the Education Relations Com- mission to supervise this month's vote, • The offer is the, same one that was rejected after a mediation session April 7. That session ended after two hours without reaching an agreement. No details of the board's offer have been • released,' but a factfinder's report quotes the board as saying it has no money for salary increases. The same report says teachers want improvements' on class size and staffing. The May . 17 vote will give teachers the chance to accept the board's offer or turn it down and call for a strike vote. In an earlier interview, teachers' pathy" for strike action._ But he believes teachers have to fight the "power politi s" of the board and the provinces 'social , contract' talks. Meanwhile, Ciavaglia . asked the board to delay teacher lay-offs until the round of social contract talks between the NDP and the public sector is complete. Four teachers have been declared "surplus" based on.. September's enrollment figures, but Ciavaglia. says the province • has asked employers to defer lay-offs during the talks. Director of Education Paul Mar- tindale said notification of surplus teachers is regulated by the board s spokesman Mark Ciavaglia said, "I collective agreement, not by the don't think we have public sym- province's chief negotiator. A unique situation: what to do with the $ What .to do with $150,000 "al- located for a junior kindergarten program at Port Elgin-Saugcen Central School is -becoming a problem for' 'the Bruce County Board of Education. Trustee Frank Eagleson said at the •board's May 4 session in Chesley that the money is "not enough" to do a proper program, and he wants to know if it should be deferred or spent on another construction program, such as the Walkerton Public School renovations or the new school in_Amabcl. Eagleson pressed educational issues chair Cord Thompson to give the hoard an idea what his commit- tee will recommend for junior kindergarten programs. "All we can do is consider the options,"' Thompson replied, The province recently delayed Jr. Kindergarten until 1997, but has not, • yet the board any information on the change. • "We will be putting Junior ' Kindergarten. in some day," ,,Eagleson said, arguing the classrooms should be built now if the board has the money. Trustee Ray Fenton. agreed that since the $150,000 is earmarked for Junior Kindergarten, "we have to know what way we're going before we spend it". Thompson said the board could end, up 'sending' the money back to the province since Junior Kinder- garten has been delayed. Ile said the board's share of the grant could amount to 590,000 for just one Junior Kindergarten classroom, and asked "how long can we spend (local).moncy to keep (grant) money'?" Family violence does exist Barbara (Evans) .Helm and Mar- guerite Sanderson attended the 1993 Ontario Block Parent Conference. last week. The theme of the 17th annual conference was "The sign of safer times - 25 years and growing." The keynotespeaker was Dr. Peter Jaffe who spoke on the effect of violence on children. He stated that violence is a learned behavior and that. most violence begins at home. Various statistics bring home the realization that we must break ' the silence about family assaults and acknowledge that a problem exists. * Assaults by family members are 13 to 1 more common than assaults by strangers. * In Canada 1 in 8 women are abused' in their own home. * In 1992 over' 150 women were killed by their partners. * The average five year old sees 8,000 acts of violence per week in cartoons. * 94 per cent of all video games portray violence. * 80 per cent of all men who exhibit violent behavior grew up in a violent atmosphere. Dr. Jaffe said the majority of young people want to see an end to violence and all of us must do our part to create a safer community. Mrs. Helm and Mrs. Sanderson also took part in workshops on stress and the volunteer which pointed out the signs to watch for and how to deal with the stress. Constable Judy Ven Huizen led a workshop on protection for women. Areas covered were taking care • of yourself, making your children street smart, ensuring work place security and when to call the police. This was the first conference the ladies have attended and they both found it to be very informative aid worthwhile, Lucknow Block Parents Lucknow is one of 1200 .Block Parent communities in Canada. The 47 Block Parents in Lucknow are a part of over 1 million such parents in Canada who proud)), display their signs to make communities safe for everyone. The Block Parent Program is a non-profit volunteer organization. It brings about safe streets for all citizens in Canada through en- couraging cooperation between citizens, law enforcement agencies, school boards, all levels of government and a host of busines- •turn to page 2 Madill students will host alcohol awareness program The Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving (OSAID) of F.E. Madill. Secondary School will host an Alcohol Awareness Program on May 17, at 7:30.. The program, given by Norbert Georget, will include such topics as Drinking and Driving, Alcohol, Drugs and your .Body, Am I an Alcoholic?, It's Okay Not to Drink - The New Trend, and many others. OSAID is .a non-profit student organization' which is' trying to promote, to both students and the public, the idea that drinking and driving do not mix. There will be two day performan- ces for both senior elementary and high school students. A night per- formance will be , held at the high school at 7:30 p.m: Adults are welcome to this performance as well as any students who missed the day performance. Admission is free. Under the direction of Miss Morton, Brookside Public School students performed Oliver Twist at their ' spring concert. Charlene Burgess portrayed the Artful Dodger (lett) while Nathan Ferguson played Oliver. (Pat Livingston photo)