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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2002-04-03, Page 8*-TME HURON EXPOSITOR, April 18, 2001 News Cloggers surprise Lila Storey with tribute performance By Scott Hilgendorff Expositor Editor Lila Storey was watching her life flash before her eyes before she realized what was really happening. "I'm kind of still in a daze about it,"she said last week after attending the Huron County Cloggers and Friends performance at Seaforth District High School on April 6. Held every two or three years as a fundraising event for cystic fibrosis research, Sherry McCall decided this year to surprise her mother by turning the event into a tribute to her life as a step and square dance teacher in the Seaforth area. McCall said it was about the fourth song when Storey realized they were talking about her life. The subject of the musical performance, that featured step dancing, square dancing, fiddle playing and soloists singing a selection of songs, was kept secret from Storey. 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A student from her first class, Roba (Doig) Lobb, was there to present Storey with flowers and the final performance in the show featured all the students, past and present, who were able to take part in the tribute. "It just seemed right," said McCall about the plan to pay tribute to her mother through the show this year. McCall, who has continued the tradition of teaching step dance and clogging as Huron County Step Dancers and Cloggers, decided several years ago to use the combined talents of her dancers and other area performers, to create a showcase event that raises money for cystic fibrosis research. The idea for raising funds for the disease which, affects children and adults hampering food digestion and causing coughs and pneumonia like symptoms, came through a neighbour who has the disease and was a student of McCall's. "It was something close to home," McCall said. . It was close to home for Storey foo. "Everybody put an awful lot of work into it," she said. • Scott Hilgendorff photo Lila Storey watches as her life unfolds before her in song and dance at a special tribute to her during a variety show. After the performance, Storey had a chance to reunite with former students. "The people who came after took my breath away; so many I haven't seen in years," she said. She was amazed at how well her students could still dance. One of her groups, The McKillop Square Dancers, had won a provincial dancing championship in 1963. The event raised $1,200 this year for cystic fibrosis and McCall hopes to continue the tradition. She generally puts an event together every two to three years. Former student Tracy McLennan portrays Lila Storey as the Huron County Cloggers and Friends raise funds for cystic fibrosis April 6 during a show at Seaforth District High School. Health care aids help Manor staff over dispute with union recognition By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Staff A busload of health care aides from across Southwestern Ontario joined several off-duty employees of the Seaforth Manor to picket the nursing home last Wednesday. The close to 50 members of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 2458 were protesting that 44 Manor employees, whose contract expired in March, 2000, arc not being recognized as members of Mfrsna�ia�' W e s t h• r P r o o Marksman* is the proven choice for early broadleaf weed control in corn. In wet or dry weather, Marksman controls tough, competitive weeds such as velvetleaf, ragweed, or triazine-resistant Iamb's -quarters • and pigweed all season long. For more information on Marksman, call. BASF AgSolutlons" at 1 -877 -371 -BASF (2273) or visit our website at www.agsolutions.ca the CAW by their employer Ed Ozimek, of Windsor. "We're picketing the Manor because Ozimek refuses to recognize the union. He collected union dues for the months of January and February and them gave the cheques back to the employees," said Bruce Dickic., vice president of CAW Local 2458. However, Ozimek's labour relations consultant Malcolm Winter, of Bass Associates, said thc union is being recognized. "A fellow from my office is working right now at setting up dates. The bargaining process is in the works," said Winter. Manor employees, including health care aides and kitchen, housekeeping and laundry staff, voted to leave their former union. thc Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and join CAW last spring. After thc union was certified last May, it sent a noticc to bargain to Ozimek, who came to the bargaining table once in both January and February. said Dickic. "But, he's given us nothing and refuses to bargain," he said. Health care aides arc prohibited under thc Hospital Labour Dispute Arbitration Act to strike so Dickie said thc CAW will be "putting on the pressure, doing whatever it takes," to get back to the bargaining table. "If we have to be here every day. we will. It's so frustrating for these workers who provide hands-on care for the residents that they've been 'working for a year with no contract." he said. With an average wage of $13.93 an hour, the Manor employees arc among thc lowest paid nursing home employees in Southwestern Ontario, said Dickie. "They're about $1 an hour behind most health care aides and all nursing homes arc funded the same by the province so there should he no wagc disparities." he said. Winter said the collection of union dues is part of the first negotiation with a new union. "It's not that unusual for them to wait. There was some discussion of the dues collection process hut the talks broke off." he said. Winter said dues were collected and given hack to employees because of the established practice of collecting dues for thc previous union, SEIU. Winter added that thc wage rate of the Manor employees is a result of years of collective bargaining with their previous union. "Typically, thc cmployccs have ratified 'the contracts," he said. Winter said he expects to return to thc bargaining table sometime in May.