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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-03-22, Page 11 Students go back on Tuesday Huron County's five secondary schools will be open March 28, but whether or not there will be any formal classes that day, is up. to the county's, 274 secondary school teachers. The county board of education lifted its lock out of the secondary e school teachers Monday night, in a special board meeting, meaning that the striking teachers can go back to the classrooms to teach if they choose to. The lock out was imposed by the board February 23, afterthe teachers began a - series of rotating strikes February K 15, protesting two unsettled clauses in the. 1977-78 boar_d- teacher contract. - The move by -the board is aimed at getting county secondary school students back in the classroom as well as re -opening contract negotiations which end- ed February 14. Board negotiat- ing team chairman, Cayley Hill, said Monday night that the next move' is up to the teachers. He said he was confident the board's new position opened every aven- ue for a -return .to the classroom and the negotiating table for the two parties] but it remains for the teachers to accept the proposal. The board's move came on the heels of an offer the board made March .13, requesting the teach- er'.s:response`that same-day. That proposal contained alternatives CONTINUED ON. PAGE 8 $10 A Year hi Advance $14 To U.S.A. and Foreign WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1978 Single Copy 25c 28 PAGES Hamilton resigns from Council Councillor W. A. (Bud) Hamilton resigned from Lucknow Village Council during the regular meeting of Council on March 14. Reeve 'George Joynt told Coun- cil that the people of thetown of Lucknow were not misled about the hiring of Robert Symes to do the town's snow removal as indicated in a letter to the_ editor of the Sentinel from. Councillors Bill Crump . and Bud Hamilton. "The writers of the letter were the only ones misled," said Joynt, "and they were misleading themselves." Reeve objected to Council'Iors writing . • Councillor W. A. (Bud) Hamil- ton said Monday that Reeve George Joynt's bitter objections to the letter a written...by himself and Councillor Bill Crump to the editor of the Lucknow Sentinel published in the January 11 • edition has led him to resign as Councillor. Hamilton said the reeve "re- jects a: difference of opinion" between councillors and himself and has been "condemning" Bill Crump and Hamilton for g/ the letter to the editor 'since January. Hamilton said that he told Reeve Joynt on an occasion previous . • to the March 14th council. meeting that if he ever raised ` the subject of the snow removal contract or the letters to the editor, again., that he would resign.. Hamilton said that Joynt can- not accept a difference of opinion between council and the reeve and that disagreements have resulted concerning other council business. Hamilton said he has endeav- oured to do his best since he was elected and does not believe he did anything wrong by speaking out •in the letter to the editor because he felt the ratepayers should know what was going on. The councillors Crump and Hamilton said in the Tette to the editor that Symes was hired in January, 1977, over the bitter objection of Reeve Joynt. At the December, 1977 meetink, 'Joynt voted against hiring Symes again and, told the Sentinel that he did so, because tenders had not been. called.. Councillors Crump and Hanilton pointed out in their letter that after going back through the council minutes to 1968, at no time could they 'find where tenders - had ever been called. Councillors Crump `and Hamil- ton said inthe letter to the editor that they and Councillor Tom Andrew voted in favour of hiring Symes because they wanted to establish the fact that the snow removal crew should be hired until the spring and then they could call tenders for a full winter contract. Saw. Bob and David Ross of R,,,12. 5 Lucknow, north of Whitechurch, have reported seeing -the same. unidentified flying object circling the Whitechurch area seen on March 2 by Charlene MacEwan of R. R. 1 Holyrood. The boys, sons of Mr: and Mrs. Don Ross, said they saw the red flashing light about 11.30 p.m. The object appeared' to have jet engines and they could see an amber light as well as the red flashing light. The object appeared to lower and hover in one spot and then ascend.' Tater rates up. Lucknow- residents will be paying $6.00 more on their April lst water bill. Village Council voted at their regular meeting on March 14 to raise the yearly charge for water from $54 to $60 to offset the capital maintenance costs incurred last year. The "council had decided - to make the necessary repairs to the standpipe which cost. $10,000 and then unexpectedly , $7,000 was required to repair one of the pumps. Because of these main- tenance costs the council had no alternative but to raise the rate, Village Clerk, Alf Herbert, informed Council that water rates in most 'towns in the area including Wingham, Goderich and Kincardine, were between $60 and $'65 a year. Reeve Joynt said that in the past he has made recommenda- tions to council; some were approved, some not. Joynt ob- served that he thought it was an unusual coincidence that the •councillors and the' contractor would send letters to the editor of the Sentinel' in the same week. Joynt said that he supposed, that Crump wrote the letter and then "went up and got Bud Hamilton to sign it too." He said CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 HOLD YOUR CHIN UP! Christina Todd, and her cousin, Keith Todd, were not strong enough to hold this healthy spring Iamb so Christina's father, Wayne, held the lamb's head to keep him from running away. Spring Iambs will soon be bounding about the meadows on.the St. Helens Farms where Hugh and Wayne Todd, Premier Sheep Breeders at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this November, are raising Iambs for the ethnic market at Easter Baby lambs are a sure sign that spring has finally arrived. • CSentinel Staff Photo)