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Usborne & Hibbert
Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Notice of
ANNUAL MEETING
The 129th Annual Meeting of the Usborne & Hibbert Mutual
Fire Insurance Company will be held at the Kirkton-
Woodham Community Centre at 2:00 p.m. on Monday,
February 28, 2005 for presentation of the Annual Report for
2004, to elect Directors and to transact any business that may
rightly come before the meeting.
Nominations will be received for the election of two
Directors for a three year term. The Directors whose term of
office expires are Ron Feeney and Mike 0 Shea, both of
whom are eligible for re-election.
Notice is hereby given that notions will be presented at our
Annual Meeting amending the by-laws of the Company as
follows:
Article 33 - Remuneration
Article 21 - Any person wishing to seek election or re-elec-
tion as a Director must tile his intention to stand for election
in writing with the Secretary Manager of the Corporation at
least ten days in advance of an Annual Meeting or Special
General Meeting called for the purpose of electing Directors.
President Secretary -Manager,
Ron Feeney Sharon Doxtator
Dublin has new parish administrator
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
For six months, St.
Patrick's in Dublin and St.
Vincent de Paul in Mitchell
both have a new member of
their clergy.
Father Gerard Dewan is
now serving as the parish
administrator at St. Patrick's
in Dublin and St. Vincent de
Paul in Mitchell.
Dewan arrived as parish
administrator, on Feb. 1 and
will be staying for a six-
month term as part of a year
of discernment from the
Diocese of Saskatoon.
During his six months in
the area, Dewan will decide
whether to return to
Saskatchewan or transfer to
the Diocese of London.
Parish administrator, is a
priest who is either
temporarily at a church or is
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someone who is a member of
a different diocese.
As parish
administrator,
Dewan will still
fulfill all the duties
of a priest.
Dewan replaces
Father Moe
Charbonneau who
left the two churches
in December for a
posting as pastor in
G a n d e r,
Newfoundland. Charbonneau
served at the two churches
for five and half years.
Before serving in Mitchell
and Dublin, Dewan served as
an administrator at St.
Gregory the Great in
St. Clair Beach, near
Windsor.
Although he
has only been in this
area for a short time,
Dewan said that
people have been
very welcoming.
Growing up in
Lucan, Dewan said
that he is not a
stranger to the area
and his sister and brother-in-
law live in Mitchell with
extended family living in
Kinkora and Lucan.
Some of Dewan's hobbies
include camping and fishing.
Dewan admits that he does
miss some things about
Saskatchewan, mainly the
people from the church.
"You enter people's lives at
key moments — baptisms,
weddings and funerals. So
you become part of their
lives. So there's some people
that I've journeyed with,"
Dewan said, adding that he's
kept in contact with a lot of
his parishioners from
Saskatchewan.
One of Dewan's passions is
helping people find their
spiritual direction and
hospital chaplaincy.
Avon Maitland elementary
teachers in legal strike position
By Stew Slater
Special to the Expositor
Elementary teachers in the
Avon Maitland District
School Board joined those in
most of the rest of the
province on Tuesday, Feb. 8,
voting to enter a legal strike
position.
At a late afternoon
gathering at the Mitchell
Community Centre of the
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Elementary Teachers
Federation of Ontario
(ETFO), 94.7 per cent of
those attending voted in
favour of the motion.
"We're going to reach a
collective agreement. We
always do," ETFO local
president Brian Doubleday
said in an interview. But he
criticized both the Avon
Maitland board and the
provincial education
ministry for standing in the
way of a deal.
The previous agreement
expired Aug. 31, 2004. No
further labour action is
planned, and both Doubleday
and Avon Maitland officials
say negotiations will
continue.
"We've got four dates
planned for meetings, so
we'll move forward from
here," said human resources
superintendent Jim
Sheppard, prior to the
board's regular meeting later
Tuesday evening.
The union local president
said, "we have a lot of .. .
outstanding issues," but
agreed the main sticking
point - and the one being
promoted by many ETFO
locals across the province -
is preparation time.
The most recent contract
allowed for 150 minutes of
preparation time per five
days of work. ETFO would
like to see that increased to
200 minutes by the
conclusion of a projected
three-year deal.
Sheppard took issue with
Doubleday's assertions: that
the Avon Maitland board has
the financial resources to
complete a deal now.
"We recognize the value of
teachers' time but we do not
have the financial resources
under the current funding
model," the human resources
superintendent said.
Doubleday would not
commit to a deadline for a
deal, nor would he speculate
on what type of action might
occur if negotiations break
down.
Top board administrator
Geoff Williams, meanwhile,
expressed confidence a deal
would be reached.
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