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Around thenegotiatingtable,
• labour harmony arrived last
week between the Avon Mai-
tland District School Board
and its elementary teachers.
In newspapers around Huron
and Perth Counties, however,
a full-page advertisement
from the teachers' union told
an entirely different tale.
"Why do Grade 4-8 students
in the Avon Maitland District
School Board have to sit in the
second largest classes in On-
tario?" asks the ad from the
Elementary Teachers Federa-
tion of Ontario (ETFO). "It's a
disgrace and it's hurting your
children's education."
"They targeted us. The ad
was specifically structured for
the Avon Maitland and Blue -
water (Grey and Bruce Coun-
ties) boards," said Avon Mai-
tland trustee Doug Pratley,
when asked about the ETFO
ad.
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• Hospitals,
clinics taking
precautions
during HI.N1
outbreak
Susan Hundertmark photo
George Zoethout takes a photo of up-and-coming healthcare professionals Nicole Brideau,
• Itayleigh Waringwalpole and Breanna Fleming, of St. Boniface School at the Healthkick
Huron booth at the Huron Perth Career Symposium last week In Seaforth.
Recession brings serious
questions to career symposium
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While more than 1,400 students toured
the Huron -Perth Career Symposium last
week in Seaforth, it was the close to 100
attending adults with the most serious
questions about local employment.
• "The mood totally changed for the
adults. They had some very in-depth
questions about job opportunities. These
are people desperate to stay in Huron -
Perth and it's the desire to stay that; s
pressing them forward," said organizer
Wes MacVicar.
Mac'Vicar said that while the 52 ex-
hibitors are there to inforni students
Perth Counties, he did his best this year
to market the event for adults, as well,
• since so many are facing job losses in the
current recession.
A busload of 50 adults who are be-
ing laid off at the Volvo plant in Goder-
ich and a busload of adults on Ontario
Works from Stratford visited the job
symposium.
- "The sponsors are still there despite
the dark times," he said. "They got it
that we're trying to give hope during the
recession.
With the Huron Perth Healthcare Alli-
ance and the Huron Manufacturing As-
sociation as the event sponsors, MacVic-
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While the receptionist at Sea -
forth Community Hospital is now
dressed in a mask, goggles, gloves
and gown as a precaution against
the current international swine flu
outbreak, no cases of H1N1 influ-
enza A have yet been found in Hu-
ron County.
"We always screen patients for
febrile respiratory illness and we
now have a heightened surveil-
lance at the first point of contact
with the reception staff wearing
personal protection," says site ad-
ministrator Mary Cardinal.
"SARS (Severe Acute Respirato-
ry Syndrome) prepared us for how
to respond in situations like this.
We have very good outbreak and
surveillance routines," she says.
As of Monday, there were 16
known cases of H1N1 flu in On-
tario and more than 100 cases in
Canada.
Local dentist offices, like Tulips
Dental Care in Seaforth, are post-
ing signs asking patients to alert
them to anyone with flu symptoms
or anyone who's travelled recently
to Mexico, where 168 people, 12
of which are confirmed as having
swine flu, have died.
"We're taking the same precau-
tions we did when SARS was a
problem," says Dr. Elizabeth van
Maanen. "The swine flu is conta-
gious via saliva and we're working
in people's.mouths so we are very
careful."
She says the office is following
alerts from the Canadian Dental
Association and the Ontario Den-
tal Association.
"We're trying to take it very seri-
ously," says van Maanen.
Huron County Public Health
Manager Christina Taylor says
that while Mexico is a priority
destination for many Ontarians,
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