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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-05-22, Page 1Oiroulaton C1r5. ?r: •4',. U I #I UNITY INVINI9IPAPIOR IN CANADA 9 olo.o A. Better Newspaper Competition 198,4 137 YEAR --.21 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1985 50 CENTS PER COPY Flying high! Katharine Murphy of the Goderich and District Collegiate Institute track and field team was flying high as she cleared the hurdles in the junior girls 80 metre • event at the Huron -Perth meet here Wednesday. She finished second in the event and • qualified for the WOSSA meet, which is also being held in Goderich Wednesday and Thursday. The GDCI track team was also flying as it won the Huron -Perth team championship for the second conseetitive year. Several local athletes won individual championships and set records in .their respective events. More details and pictures from the meet appear in the Recreation section..(photo by Dave Sykes) Town wants 45 acres of land for industry Goderich Township will not stand in the way of a possible development of 45 acres of land east of town behind Sheaffer Pen Co., Reeve Grant Stirling told several representatives of Goderich council at a township council meeting on Monday night. Mayor Eileen- Palmer, Clerk - Administrator Larry McCabe, Works Commissioner Ken Hunter and Cowl. Bob Cornish attended the meeting to ask about the possibility of annexing 45 acres. from the township. The land in question is now owned by Donald Crich. The town is in the preliminary stages of negotiating with an unnamed. company. "It's a complex situation and it will be a while before the whole situation will unravel. We don't even know the name of Saturday was Museum Day at the Huron County Pioneer Museum in Goderich and the after- noon program sponsored by the volunteer committee gave children a first-hand glimpse -of life in the area as it used to be. Children learned about many aspects of pioneer life including clothes washing and rug hooking. ( photo by Dave Sykes) Rt the company; we're dealing through an in- termediary," said Mayor Palmer. Reeve Stirling said since the township could not afford to service an industry, it would be willing to annex the land to the town if it was successful in attracting an industry. But, he said he does not want to give the town land if it isn't going to be used. They i Goderich council) didn't plan the industrial park well. The land is ,ptioned and sitting idle," he said. After a lengthy closed session at Goderich council on May 13, council in- structed the town's solicitor, ad- ministrator, mayor, comrnissioner of works and tourism/industrial promoter to proceed pursuant to the closed committed session concerning industrial and real estate matters and report back to council. Goderich gets green light for local Junior C team Junior. C hockey in Goderich received the green light treatment from the Ontario Hockey Association, on Friday, May 17. Don Larder, spokesman for the local group heading the bid for an OHA Group Two Junior C franchise, announced Tues- day i yesterday) the group has received a telephone call confirming the acceptance of their application. Larder said the group is expecting a letter of confirmation from the OHA at any time. The group made their bid official last March. when they sent a letter of applica- tion to the OHA. At that time, the group ha11 el$ln,nnn in pledged support from local businesses for the team. No one has yet been named to coach the team but -Larder says the group has two prospects in mind. He also said that an organizational meeting will be held within the next week and that a public meeting will follow, at a date to be announced. Meanwhile, the Clinton Mustang fran- chise, which operated in OHA group two last season, has applied to drop down to the Junior D level. The Mustangs have not dropped out of the Junior C league, pen- din_g_approval of t,'reir_Junior D applica- tion. The Goderich entry will compete against existing teams in the group, including Kin- cardine, Port Elgin, HanoverWalkerton Wingham and (tentatively i Clinton. Teachers will vote on_ school board's last offer Huron County high school teachers will vote on May 28 to either accept a contract offer or strike action. A press release issued May 16 to the Huron County Board of Education stated the teachers, represented by Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation ( OSSTF ) District, 45 filed notice they are requesting the Education Relations Commission supervise a vote on the board's last offer and at the same time, a vote on possible strike action. • If the teachers turn down the board's offer, the strike ballots will be counted. If, however, the teachers accept the board's offer then a collective agreement is in place. The board's press release says June 5 is the earliest date possible for a strike, but Shirley Weary, chief negotiator for District 45, said "that's the board's date, not ours." "After 28 months of negotiations and no collective agreement we had no recourse but to take this action," said Mrs. Weary when asked what prompted the action.` The OSSTF representative .said the two sides have been negotiating since January 198-3. The board maintains it has only been negotiating since 1984. Mrs. Weary is including the provincial financial restraint year in which collective agreements were increased by five per cent. "The board ignored the whole 1 negotiation) process,' • said Mrs. Weary, She maintains the outstanding difference between the two sides is not money. "It's the removal of items from the collective agreement," she said. Saying one of the main changes in the _proposed contract is wording changes, Mrs. Weary declined to comment further because she said she does not want to negotiate in the press. "It's far more the idea of negotiating by decree than money," said Mrs. Weary describing relations between the board and teachers. "We don't want meetings for the sake of meetings, but meetings to discuss." Superintendent of Personnel, Peter Gryseels, said speaking for the board, its position hasn't changed much since the fact finders' report last fall. "On the monetary side, it's almost the same - and the same as his recommenda- tion," said Mr. Gryseels. After the notification of the votes, the board delivered an offer to its high school teachers on May 14. In salary, the board is offering a maximum teachers' salary of $44,120, while the teachers want $45,600. The board is offering a maximum principals' salary of $59,000 and they want $61,087. Turn to page 2 Madness hits The Square this week Midnight Madness will strike the heart of Goderich again this year as the Shop- pers' Square Association presents its an- nual sale promotion. Midnight Madness, an annual three-day sale event, runs from Thursday, May 23 through Saturday, May 25. Participating stores will be open to midnight both Thursday and Friday. A special 28 page tabloid supplement, produced by the Signal -Star's advertising department,' outlines the details of the three-day sale event. The Signal -Star office was closed Mon- day so employees could enjoy the Victoria Day holiday and subsequently the enter- tainment deadlines were changed to ac- commodate advertisers. The entertain- ment pages, which normally appear in the second section, following the sports pages, will this week,,appear in the first section of the paper. Local woman killed in crash A Goderich woman died Friday night in a Single -vehicle accident, on Hwy. 8, reports the Goderich detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. • Mary Lorene Robinson, 55, 332 Walnut St. S., Goderich, was driving a 1981 Plymouth southbound on Hwy. 8, 2.7 kilometres south of Goderich, when the vehicle veered off the west edge of the roadway and went into the west ditch. The vehicle rolled several times and Mrs. Robinson was thrown from the vehicle. She was the lone occupant of the vehicle, which sustained damage estimated at $4,000.. TV, car stolen in break-in A car and a television set were stolen during a break-in at' a house on Picton Street in Goderich on May 18. Police recovered the automobile the next day, but the television is still missing and no arrests have been made. Police declined to identify the owner of the home that was burglarized. NSD T E S1GNAL—STAR Track and Field meet The GDCI track and field team came out on top at the Huron -Perth meet, held here last Tuesday and Wednesday Ma ' 14 and 15. Goderich athletes combined i :Pellent individual performances to L the ^om- petition during the rain-soa d iiieet. Story and photo coverage in Pecreatinn. Celebrate 50th Norm and Marg olm, of RR 1. Goderich Township will celebrate their 50th anniversary on May 25, at the Maitland Golf and Country Club. The cou- ple recently recounted their memories in a Signal -Star interview. Story arid photo in- side this section. Quest for hire The summer job search for most students is on and has been underway for some time in many cases. • The local branch of the Canada Employment Centre for Students recently announced the hiring of three student placement officers to aid in the quest for hire. Story and photo on Page 7A.