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Catholic teachers
BY DAVE SYKES
Signal -Star Editor
Students and teachers
returned to the classroom in
schools in Huron and Perth
counties Tuesday amid an air
of uncertainty.
While all elementary
schools in the two counties
arc open for business as
usual, the situation in the
secondary schools is not
quite as clear.
Negotiations between the
Avon Maitland District
School Board (AMDSB) and
its secondary teachers broke
off last Friday (Sept. 4)
without an agreement in
place.
Meanwhile, members of the
Ontario English Catholic
Teachers' Association,
representing secondary
school teachers at St. Anne's
Secondary School. Clinton
and St. Michael's School,
Stratford, declared a partial
strike and refused to teach an
extra period as stipulated
under the provisions of !sill
160.
Huron -Perth District
on partial strike
Catholic school • board
executive director Gaetan
Blanchette said the board
would respond to the
teachers' action by deducting
a percentage of pay for those
refusing to work the fourth
period. The money would be'
used to hire additional staff
to cover the instruction.
"We arc compelled to make
a deal within the law and the
teachers who were scheduled
to teach a fourth period this
semester and refuse, will be
deucted a percentage of pay,"
he said. "As a board we have
to implement the legislation
and follow the law."
The board has scrambled to
provide enough occasional
teachers to cover the fourth
period on an interim basis.
He said the situation would
he monitored daily and that
all the instruction time would
remain in place despite
sanctions.
Under the provisions of Bill
160. which prompted an
illegal strike last year by the
province's 126,000 teachers,
high school tcacners must
spend 1,250 minutes or 20
hours and 50 minutes a week
instructing students.
Some school boards and
unions have been attempting
to reach the threshhold by
including cafeteria
supervision, hall Monitoring
and home room duties as
instruction time.
In a letter to the province's
school hoards, Education
Minister Dave Johnson
indicated that instruction
time did not include the
supervisory and monitoring
duties.
Unions claimed the
intervention by Johnson on
Saturday, made it difficult for
hoards and unions to reach
agreements on that critical
issue. He said he was
attempting to clarify the
issue for both teachers and
hoards to pursue a settlement
on the key issue.
Avon Maitland director of
education, Lorne Rachlis
said sccondray and
elementary schools started
normally Tuesday morning
adding that he had not heard
from the secondary school
teachers union since talks
broke.off Friday.
"We hope to reinstitute
talks as soon as possible and
while there arc obstacles to
overcome, we arc hopeful,"
he said. "The teachers have
offered us 24 hours notice in
writing of any action they
might take."
Board chair Ahhy
Armstrong said there has
been no contact with the
union since talks broke off,
but is confident the sides will
get together.
"They will contact us soon
and set up negotiations," she
said. "It was not an
acrimonious situation when
they left the table and I think
we can move toward a
resolution."
The teachers were
Scheduled to meet in
Mitchell Tuesday evening.
Elementary schools opened
without any problems as
talks are progressing well
with both school hoards.
Instruction time is not an
issue in the elementary
systom.
Across the province many
students were faced- with
strikes. lockouts orlon u
that ranged. from a refusal to
tcach extra curricular
Arthritis Society campaign returns
First time in 10 years that campaign has been held in Seaforth
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
A local business is taking it
to the streets of Seaforth next
week, spearheading the first
Arthritis Society canvas here in
a decade.
"It is a worthwhile
organization and on top of that
it's "Arthritis Month" says
CIBC branch manager
Deborah Brindley.
She says the eight employees
of the Seaforth hank hope to
"blitz" all of Seaforth between
6:30 and 9:30 p.m. next
Tuesday night.
Brindley says the branch
plans to now do it on an annual
basis.
Irene Blight volunteer co-
ordinator of the Arthritis
Society for the Grand River
VallcyBluewater regions says
she's excited by thc hank's
local initiative and Scaforth's
first canvas in 10 years.
especially because its the
national organization's 50th
anniversary.
The society also hopes a lot
of people get blue this Friday,
so others get their message.
Officially tagged as the first-
ever "Joint Effort
Day" to focus this
country's attention
on "the number
one chronic
disease in the
nation," the non-
profit organization
that funds "70 per cent of
arthritis research in Canada" is
urging all employees to "Wear
Blue and Give Too."
"It is a cross-country event
that encourages all employees
in any company or
organization to dress in blue,"
a ux;icty press release states.
"From Targe corporations to
small businesses, service
corganizations,,and community
centres - anyone may
participate by wearing
anything blue - from jeans to
blue toe nails! You're limited
only by your imagination and
office dress code!"
Manager Brindley says
Seaforth bank branch
employees
will he
wearing blue
in the spirit of
the day.
Arthritis is a
generic term
for more than
100 painful diseases that the
society expects will affect 21
per cent of all adult women
and 16 per cent of all adult
men.
It consumes "more than 10
per cent of Canada's total
health care expenditures,"
according to thc society, and
"has a direct impact on more
Canadians than heart disease
and cancer combined."
About 600,000 Canadians
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Blyth Fairgrounds, Blyth, Ontario
STEAM ENGINES &
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ANTIQUE TRACTOR
SHOW & PULL
STEP DANCE &
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CLARKSHOME BORDER
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DEMONSTRATIONS
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FRIDAY, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Admission: $4.00 per person
Elementary Student Activity Day
Senior Citizens Day
Admission for Senior Citizens $2.00 (Friday only)
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Admission: $4.00 per person
CHILDREN'S RATES FRIDAY - SUNDAY
Children 12 and under $1.00
Children 12 and under when accompanied by an adult: FREE
are disabled by chronic
arthritis.
In the past half -century the
Arthritis Society has
contributed more than $100 -
million towards research, and
has a research budget of $7 -
million this year,
The disease docs not only
affect thc elderly. Although the
average age of its onset is is
between 41 and 50 -years -old,
children as young as 18 -
months have been diagnosed.
Firefighter Rene Dupuis
collects money at a
volunteer toll road Friday
night at Main Street.
Travellers and community
members donated $3,794 to
the firefighters. The money
goest toward fighting
muscular dystrophy.
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Rev. Robert Hiscox
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Sunday Sept. 13'h
Outdoor Service of
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Cavan
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NORTHSIDE
(Goderich St. Seaforth) 11:00 a.m.
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Classes: preschool Ihru grade 8
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Rev. Hauser 527-2253
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Victoria St., Seaforth
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