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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-08-17, Page 9Huron, 1ruc lucators ,..#. Boards of .education In Bruce and Huron Counties have agreed on changes in the boundary' lines of school areas involving the F.E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham, which will also, affect the Walkerton and. Kincardine schools. Under ` the former system, which was in effect prior to the. formation of County School Boards, students in LucknotV, Teeswater, Culross, Kinloss and a .small part :of Greenock attended F.E. Madill School in Wingham. All these -municipalities are under the Bruce County Board of Education and - the Bruce Board was buying the education for about; 500 students, from the .Wingham School which is in Huron County and under the Huron Board of Education. The new lines will put all of -Greenock. Township-- in- -Bruce:- Still going to Wingham will be students from. Lucknow and • Teeswater, Kinloss township Concession students from 8 -South and- -Cu-tress -township- • f Concession -9 South from out . When Huron board 'drew up and approved the agreement it omitted Teeswater, a fact noted by Bruce Trustee Ross MacRae. When Bruce gave approval Teeswater was included. About 50 pupils are now in the area transferred to Bruce. The agreement goes into effect September 1, 1973, for Grade 9 and 10 students. Those in higher grades may continue in Wingham until they finish secondary school but the transfer must be completed by the start of the 197E term, - The boundary • between schools at Walkerton and Kincardine has not been formed yet but it was suggested •Culross pupils and those from the east of Kinloss may be transported to Walkerton. The ,agreement made between Bruce and Huron Boards of Education is ae„ follows: AGREEMENT It Whereas prior to January 1, 1969, certain portions ' of the • County of Bruce, formed part, of the Huron -Bruce District High School Board and the secondary school students from said area attended school in Huron County. And whereas by The Secondary Schools and Boards of Education Amendment Act, 196$, Abe said Huron -Bruce District High School Board was dissolved and The Bruce Board and The Huron Board . were; created.' ' And whereas the parties hereto desire to enter into an Agreement to provide for the continued education of Bruce County students- in the County of Huron... Now therefore this agreement witnesseth that, for valuable consideration, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1r . The Huron County Board of Education hereby agrees to continue to provide secondary Nuclear or thermaI?, Hydro deciding now _-�rhat�uture-awlds-` Ontario Hydro's commissioners' will be, deciding in the next few months on the need for another generating station in Ontario. It will be needed by the late Nineteen S.e ern les to meed deinand"s on .they province's grid system that . are growing by about 7 percent a year. But-- when an analysis of .projected costs and technical data has been completed, 'and the size of unit evaluated, Ontario Hydro officials will then have to decide on what type of generating unit to order — thermal or nuclear. Undoubtedly, Canada's' nuclear authorities, unsuccessful in their efforts to export Canadian technology, °will be anxious to get another sale at home. And they will have a strong case, considering the success' of Ontario Hydro's Pickering generating station. It is thought that the more cautious of Ontario Hydro officials would prefer the utility's next generating station to be thermal, arguing that Ontario already -,-has a.n ambitious Nnuclear program• under way and. that it should be given more time to prove 'itself • before committing ' more capability tothe atom. Three of the(,four' .540,000- kilowatt units aPickering are now operational; .two were • declared to be commercial units this- years Ontario Hydro"s Bruce nuclear power 'station is under construction and will have four 800,000 -kilowatt generating itrforTrtotat,statioiteapacitY,. of 3.2 million kilowatts. The design for Bruce is based on Pickering and there. is no. reason to expect that it will be any less successful than Pickering, where the record is among the best in the world. Yet, should - there' be some major and unfpreseen setback at these plants, causing shut -down, the loss of more than five million kilowatts of generating capability would be critical for the province. rg Some Ontario, Hydro officials want to continue, for some years, the utility's established pattern of varying its unit types so that it is not reliant on any one type or source_ of fuel. In the .event that the next expansion move , in Ontario's electrical system will be thermal, it ` is possible that Ontario Hydro will opt for an oil -fired station. Such a station ' would probably be a Such, of a plant being built at Lennox, near Kingston, and could even be built at that site. When completed, in • 1977, Lennox willhavea capab litY of two million kilowatts from four 500,000;kilowatt generating units. It may be that Ontarin Hydro school educatioti at the F.E. Madill Secondary School, for those secondary school students who reside -or will reside within. the area of Bruce County 'designated on Schedule "A hereto annexed for a period of not less than three years. ° 2. It is expressly agreed that either Board wishing to initiate steps to terminate or vary this agreement .shall give notice to the other party prior to the 30th of Juste in any year . with effective date of termination or variation to benot before the 30th of June in the following year. . 3. The Bruce County Board of . Education agrees to send the, secondary school students resident in, or who, will be resident in the said area described in Schedule "A" hereto annexed, to the ME: Madill Secondary School comrmencitg, September 1,,,, 19722, until the termination or variation of- this 'agreement and the Bruce Board also agrees to officials "will decide to double ' the size of that plant. They may decide to add only 50 percent to the preRPpt • d sign capacity at Lennox and delay a decision on a" lamer (two million or three • be responsible for the. transportation of . said pupils and to provide'' transpottation facilities comparable to that provided for students attending schools in Bruce County. 4. The 'Huron Board agrees that students residing in that portion of Bruce County that .on December 31, 1968, was under the jurisdiction of the' Huron - Bruce District High School Boardandthat are: not included in the ` area described. in Schedule "A" shall" attend schools in ,Bruce County. 5, .The tuition fees payable by The Bruce 'Board to The Huron Board shall be in accordance with Section 72 of The Schools Administration Actand amendments thereto ' from time to time, or such other. act or regulation as may be in- effects from ,time to -tine.' 6. Effective September 1, 1073;__ students_:livingti.in .$r'ce . County outside the area designated ' in Schedule "Ari' shall be transferred to schools in -t' gotiations suspends indefinitely between Hydro and the union Negotiations between. Ontario of maintenance schedule Hydro and Local 1,000 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees were suspended "indefinitely `ori" Mon'day,August 14 by the provincial- mediator i Victor Scott, mine days after the two parties were called back to the bargaining table by the ' Minister of Labour. Mr. Scott gave no indication when talks. would resume. - During the nine days, the number of ..outstanding items was reduced from 177 to 110.. Of the 67 settled items, 1.6 were changes over the last coritr'act According to Hydro spokesmen, °Hydro conceded on 15 items while the union conceded on one. miijion- Kilowatt piano until later next year. Other than the two Pickering. units, Ontario Hydro this year has added to its system a 500,000 -kilowatt +unit • at Nanticoke, which is a coal-fired station. No other capacity will come on stream in 1972, so the ultility's entire 'capability will remain at 14,850,000 kilowatts until next year, The . demand currently is averaging' 9.4 million kilowatts, with an expected peak next winter of '121970,000 kilowatts. (On June 29, despite a strike by Ontario Hydro employees, the utility sold a record '. 1,305,000 kilowatts of .electricity to utilities in .,,New York and Michigan. The previous export peak, ealier in the ,month had been 1,276,000 kilowatts.) On July 1, Ontario Hydro • increased the price of power to municipal utilities by 8 percent, • having deferred . for..six months an earlier ,decision to introduce increases in the area of 7 percent. The deferral cost Ontario Hydro $12,7 -million in lost revenue, and the utility has said that -annual rate increases over several, years will be needed to recover steadily rising costs. Since the latest rate increases originally were to have taken place last Jan. 1, there is a ;Y.c ssibility that- theAext-, - , annual increases will take place at the beginning of 1973: Rural customers 4were not affected by the latest move, but it is understood that increases in their rates are being considered, and are likely to be ih effect by . the end . of this year. Direct 'industrial customers were not affected either, because they negotiate contracts annually. However, it is certain that their rates will go up next year. "The other 51 items settled on. akteernent by ' both,p'arties to live with the previoti contract." MiditteB.J."Plaice;'mantrger-of--- Hydro's Walkerton area. According to Hydro, local 1,000 changed its across -the/ board wage demand from 11'; percent for a one year cpntt` to nine percent for each of two .years plus a three percent clause throughout both. years. Hydro improved its wage offer *which would have given ' 11 percent over- twoA years plus a three percent cost of living' clause in the contract's' second year. The new offer added one •hall of one percent plus a one .percent pre- payment of the cost of living clause 'in the second year. Hydro officials Maintain Local 1,000 wage and benefit demands would add 40.9 million dollars. to. the "Hydro payroll while Hydro's new offer would be wbrth an increase of 19.5 million per year. While the Commission , did increase its offer, it did not. change the principle of differential wage increases which the, union has identified as one of the Three key issues in ,, the dispute. In the other two key areas cited by CUPE, Hydro has modified its position to limit the application (continental work week) to all elect'fical and mechanical tradesmen hired.' after the signing" of the contract or on a... voluntary basis. -.Shift proposals for weekly salaried employees were withdrawn by the Commission. On ,job security, Hydro offered to' indicate .in a new contract, a clause guaranteeing that if, the Task Force Hydro Report indicates recommendations which may have a significant effect on staff levels during the contract period, assns at d—prublems- would be discussed with•CUPE. The union, ' according to Hydro, did not respond on this - issue. With the strike in its .fifty- sixth day, the • tiniOn li• 12,000 members • off the job " -�.1•u•di-e g.._.. t }�,;...s.i.xt.3�:.�uni.w4... members who had , been working ;l at the Orangeville Service Centre. ri --1 [INLO N STATEMENT as all �,. WI .Bruce ' County in accordance with ° tie pian outlined in Schedule "B" hereto annexed. SCHEDULE "A" Township of Kinloss-= All lots on Concession 1 --- 8 inclusive. Village of Lucknow ° Township of Culross — Lots 1 -- 35 inclusive on Concession 1- 9 inclusive. 'Lots.1-5 inclusive on' Concession A. "' Village of Teeswater. Union information officer Angela •Arkell • told the News Tuesday morning that the union was very angry. Hydro has been playing games with the union, the public and the government mediators:" said Miss Arkell. "Two weeks ago they asked us to ieturn to the negotiating tables so we went back in good faith "and were given the runaround. Hydro's promised flexibility amounted to one half of one percent in the first year with the total. monetary offer over' two years slightly under thirteen and one half percent. Three principals are still not resolved. Hydro is insisting on the split wage; they are pushing for an expanded shift work and there is no job security." she stated. The union, according to Miss Arkell,'has modified its vacation . plan, pension plan and hours. Harbor report. Activity at the Uoderich' harbour remained steady during the week • with three boats docking. At the sdlt mine the R.A. Jodrey was in on August 13 from Bamilton, light, taking, on 15,000 tons. The same day the Kingdoc' arrived fight from Montreal and . took on 6,000 tons. Up, to August 14 the mine ha$ stripped:673,350 tons of salt The Elmsdale also docked at the grain elevators on August 11. ° CONTINUES= -- FURTHER REDUCTIONS ON SUMMER ITEMS • SHORT SLEEVE DRESS SHIRTS • SWIM WEAR — WALKING SHORTS • SHORT SLEEVE SPORT SHIRTS • EXCELLENT SELECTION OF KNITS & TEE SHIRTS • GOOD, SELECTION'OF . SUUTS AVAILABLE AT SALE PRICES SPECIAL. G ROUP OF WASH-AND-WEAR FLARE PANTS 1/2 PRICE eft4ompl The Sim Fit INN CLINTON. GODOICH r U CARDl Ifit SCHE1 VLl . „B>, , `% Effec`tive Sept -ember t., 1973, all students. who have attended secondary school for :one year will transfer to .the appropriate Bruce County. School. All other students (Le, those beginning their third, fourth, fifth or higheryear of secondary school attendance) ' may • continue in attendance at the F.E. 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