HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-07-26, Page 21THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1989. PAGE 21.
Morris native wins
teachers’ scholarship
Mary-Ellen Walsh
BY USA BOONSTOPPEL
A Blyth-area native, 38-year-old
Mary-Ellen Walsh has won a
$7,500 doctoral scholarship from
the Federation of Teacher’s Asso
ciations of Ontario to help pay for
her pursuit of education at the
Ontario Institute for Sudies in
Education in Toronto.
“I would say it’s one of the best
moments I’ve had in my career,”
said Ms. Walsh, a teacher and
principal. “It’s nice to get the
recognition as well as the sup
port.” Ms. Walsh intends to get
her PhD in Curriculum Studies.
She has taken a leave of absence
from the Huron County School
Board for which she worked 16
years for the two-year course.
Ms. Walsh has been the princi
pal of the Vanastra Public School
for the past three years and has
taught at various schools around
Huron County for 13 years. Duririg
this time she became interested in
the relationship that develops be
tween the teacher and the student.
“I was teaching on a rotary
time-table where the students
change classes every 40 minutes
and I was concerned that there
wasn’t enough time in that kind of
system for relationships to develop
between the teacher and the stu
dent,” said Ms. Walsh.
These concerns inspired her to
further her education in classroom
tesearch and in particular the
relationships between teachers and
students.
Ms. Walsh herself attended ele
mentary school in Belgrave and
high school in'Wingham when she
lived at R.R. #4, Brussels. She then
received her BA and Masters of
Education at the University of
Western Ontario. She now resides
in Bayfield but will be living in
Toronto while attending university.
The money award will be given
to Ms. Walsh at the Federation’s
annual meeting in Toronto on
August 15. The Federation is
comprised of all the women teach
ers in Ontario and supports women
in the classroom and women furth
ering their teaching careers.
Proposed pesticide regulations
worry province’s municipalities
BY LISA BOONSTOPPEL
Proposed amendments to the
Pesticides Act by the Ministry of
the Environment have raised objec
tions from the Ontario Good Roads
Association (OGRA).
The amendments are about noti
fication procedures for the public
when municipalities are spraying
pesticides which includes most of
the weedspray chemicals. OGRA is
objecting to the regulations be
cause they are affecting roadside
weed spraying.
In OGRA’s monthly pamphlet,
‘tech topics’, OGRA said “the
ministry is proposing amendments
... that would require stringent and
costly notification procedures.”
These procedures (as listed in
the OGRA pamphlet): the place
ment of sigos not less than 100
metres apart of the road allowance
to be sprayed; the placement of
these signs to be in place at least 24
hours before spraying and for 48
hours afterwards, and to be 25 by
35 centimetres containing informa
tion about the pesticide in use, why
it’s being used and who’s using it.
As well, the signs must be erected
at eye level on a post to which no
other signs are affixed, which
means a separate post for each
sign.
The draft amendment does in
clude a clause where a Ministry of
the Environment regional director
piay approve a notice in the local
paper about the spraying one week
before the actual spraying or
approve posting of notification
signs in specified locations in lieu
of the other requirements.
OGRA stated that “the vagaries
of the weather (wind, rain, etc.)
make it all but impossible to
accurately forecast the exact date
and time of spraying. OGRA was
also concerned about the cost to
provide, place and remove signs.
The pamphlet included an estimate
from Huron County that in spray
ing its 500 kilometre road system it
would require up to 10,000 signs
which would cost approximately
Hullett council sets salaries
Hullett council has passed by
law no. 1989 - 14 of the 1989
salaries for the workers and council
in Hullett township.
Remaining the same as last year
are the annual stipends for council.
The reeve’s stipend is $1800, $1600
for the deputy-reeve and $1500 for
the councillors. The stipend is a
retainer for the 12 meetings council
must attend. They receive $50 for
extra meetings which is an increase
of $10 from 1988.
Council will be paid for two
conventions per year which in
cludes $80 per diem, registration
and accommodation for the dele
gates and companion, 25 cents per
kilometre, parking charges and
meals for the delegates only.
Salaries for road crew and office
staff went up. The road superin
tendent will receive $31,500 per
$500,000.
Joe Gibson, the Huron County
weed inspector said “I don’t think
they consider the cost when they do
these things.” He was also con
cerned that municipalities wouldn’t
be able to afford to spray.
OGRA has taken action against
these amendments by requesting
that the July 15 implementation
date be delayed and that the
Ministry reconsider these new
requirements on pesticide spray
ing.
annum while he was paid $11.80
per hour last year. Other wages
are: $11.70 per hour from $11.15
per hour for road employees (based
on a 45-hour work week with time
and a half after 45 hours); $10.70
from $10.15 per hour for part-time
plow operator; $6.30 from $6.00 per
hour for labourers; $10.92 from
$10.40 for part-time office staff and
$50 from $35 for the building
inspector’s office attendance.
The building inspector’s rate per
call will remain at $24 and the
recreation co-ordinators annual
salary will remain at $3,500.
Full-time employees of Hullett
council will receive 100 per cent
premium paid on their O.H.I.P.
and 100 per cent premium paid for
the Huron County Medical Em
ployees Association.
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