The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-06-05, Page 1r i
BrtAnch Litr'9ry
Box 23,2
Blyth, Ont, NOM 1134
Jan. a w 6
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HEAIITSA VER COURSE=Nikki Reavie administers
resu: citation to a "Resusci-Anne" mannequin, with
helpff.r advice from classmates Brad Crawford, ,Ria
Linardatos, Lisa Koyle and Anna Sakasov. These and
other. members of Mr. Lisle's Grade ,8 class at the
Wingham Public School spent a day last week learning
the "Heartsaver" course from instructors Martin
Cretier, Sandi Deslauriers and ,Linda Hickey. The
course trains students in basic forms of cardio-
pulmonary resuscitation.
Tornados wreak havoc
through- western Ontario
By. Derrick McDonald
Residents in Central -
Western Ontario' who com-
plained about last Fridtly's
thunderstorms soon found
themselves lucky to have
merely suffered through a
rainstorm when tornados -left
thousands homeless and kill-
ed 12.
Three tornados wreaked
havoc from Arthur to Barrie.
The tornado closest to Mount
Forest tore through Proton
and Egremont Townships,
skipped down to Cumnoch,'
went„ around Arthur, then
ripped through West Luther
Township to Grand Valley
and beyond.
Just outside Arthur the
tornado crossed Wellington
County. Rd. 16 (the Conn
GRADUATED
At convocation in the Ivor
Wynne Centre, Robert
Edgar Currie received his
degree, in Engineering
Physics from McMaster
University, Hamilton, on
June 1; 1985. He has accepted
a position with Ferritronics
Mobile Data Sy stems of
Richmond Hill. Robert is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Currie of RR 3, Wingham,
Deputy clerk
resigns post
Just four months after the
position was created, the
Town of Wingham finds itself
once again looking for ' a
deputy clerk -treasurer. •
Paul Moody, who was
hired in February to assist
Clerk -Treasurer. Byron
Adams at the Town Hall, has
resigned to take up a new job
with the Department of
Revenue in London starting
on Monday.
Mr. Adams said the town
plans to look for new ap-
plicants to fill the position.
The last time a search
committee started with 40
applicants before edentually
narrowing the field and
bringing its recommenda-
tions to council.
road) and followed the rforth
side of West Luther Con. 2-3.
A strip of debris only about
100 yards wide marked the
path the tornado followed.
Chunks of tin roofing, parts
of farm equipment and other
wreckage lay plunked down
in bright, green fields filled
with spring's fresh new
crops. On the south side of
the road, houses and barns
stood 'unscathed with cows
grazing out 'front. Buildings
on the other- side of'•the
concession were struck by
the tornado. Barns had only
their cement foundations
remaining, windows and
roofs were missing from the
demolished houses and
fallen trees. as big as those
lining 'ergus Street 'were
plucked like garden weeds.
Only, two hours after' the
tornado had passed; the sun
shoneand the air was Warm.
It was difficult to believe
such furious destruction had
recently occurred.
Howie Gorvett, whose
house on the Conn Rd. just
north of West Luther Con. 2-3
was in the path of the for-,
nado, said he listened to
news about the tornado at
work and wondered where it
was going. When he got
home and saw the tool shed
he built a year ago was gone
and his satellite television
dish was crumpled he knew
where it had been.
About 400 yards west of his
house were the remains of
his father Ralph's barn and
to the left of that lay the
ruins of another barn.
He was lucky. His house
was still intact exceRt for
blown out windows and : a
damaged sun deck. After he
had cleaned up most of the
broken _glass, he and Mark
Heffernan, who also lives in
the house, were able to sit
down and have a beer.
Down the concession Dave
Lennox hal no time for a
beer nor a place to sit down
and enjoy it. He lost four
barns, a drive shed and his
house. He was trying . to
round up what was left of his
pigs with the help of
volunteers.
A ° little farther along
people picked through a
..flattened mobile home.
looking ,for the belongings of
the Shiaw family. On the
same farm chickens ran
through the debris and cows
mooed from' the basement of
what was once a barn.
For' relief, ' Frank Miller
announced . the Ontario
government would give $3 of
aid to every $1 raised by
local disaster relief funds.
Former resident -
suffers Toss
One of ` Wingham's more
illustrious former residents
was affected by the tornado
which devastated the village
of Grand Valley last week.
Bert Platt, for many years
the well-respected chief of
police in Wingham, was
featured on the front page of
the K -W Record on Monday,
sitting outside the ruins of
his single -storey home which
had been ripped apart by the
twister.
Mr. Platt, now 81, is.,,
remembered by many here
as a just and fair man who
was also a crack shot with a
pistol, winning many shoot-
ing trophies during the
course of his career. ,
Wood sets record
of 5.10 in pole vault
Doug Wood of Wingham
broke his own Canadian
interscholastic and junior
pole vault record of 4.95
metres by soaring to 5.10
metres at Kitchener
Saturday on the final day of
the , OFSAA West regional
track and field cham-
pionships.
The mark is a personal
best for Wood and is the first
time he has managed to top
the five -metre (16.4 -foot)
height.
On his first attempt at five
metres on Saturday, Wood
knocked the bar off with his
arm on the way down. His
second try was„ successful,
but the mandatory remeas-
urement brought the height
down to 4.99, a fraction -under
the mark.
Wood then had the bar
raised to 5.10 metres (16 feet,
nine inches). He passed
under the bar on his first two
attempts, but cleared it on
his third and final try. He
just touched the bar, but it
stayed on.
Pushing it to the limit, the
Grade 13 student from F. E.
Madill Secondary School had
the bar, raised as far as
possible, to an estimated
height of x.18 metres, and
made three attempts using a
longer pole he had just
received that day.
He missed all. three,
running right through the pit
en his first attempt but
coming close on the next two.
He explained later it was the
first time ?l .had used a five -
metre pole thahhad not been
cut down.
While Wood was setting
the senior record, teammate
Sandy MacDonald won the
,junior boys' pole vault with a
jump of 4.05 metres.
Relief stations have been
set up in Arthur, Barrie and
Orangeville. The 'relief
station in Arthur is at the
Arthur Curling Rink. Food
and clothing are pouring into
the area but what,is needed
now a is manpower. Volun-
teer's are being asked to
report to the Arthur Curling
Rink in work clothes and
gloves. d of ike action.
Mount .,sorest District He added that the board
High. School sent volunteers had not yet been asked to
yesterday and other area resume negotiations and that
high 'Schools are being asked no meetings were scheduled.
to do the. same. Shirley Weary, federation
The Mount Forest Public officer with District 45
School will be holding a fund- ( Huron County) of the
raising event for the Red Ontario Secondary School
Cross. This money will go to 'Teachers' Federation, said
the relief effort. A bake sale, the results of the vote "speak
a white elephant sale, and for themselves". As for what
games requiring a donation, will happen next, she said a
will be held on June 21, decision had not been made
Donna McFarlane, a teacher but there was no indication
at the school, said she hopes there would be acti 'a.
parents will donate On the o • e said
generously to the white she fee
elephant sale. per
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Winghatn, Ontario, Wednesday, June 5,'1985
Single Copy 50c
Teachers reject offer,.
authorize strike action
Huron County secondary
school teachers voted by a
substantial margin last week
to turn down the contract
offered by the board of edu-
,vation and to give their
negotiating team the
mandate to call a strike.
In the first of two super-
vised votes taken last
Tuesday, teachers at the five
county high schools voted
197-34 to reject an offer
providing salary increases,
including increment, of 5.1
per cent for the current year.
In a follow-up vote, .the
teachers voted by a margin
of two -to -one, 165-65,m favor
of strike action if an agree-
ment 'is not reached. This
could take the form of work -
to -rule, rotating strikes or a
full-scale walkout.
It is not quite clear what
the next step will be, but it
appears neither side is ex-
pecting any'drastic action in
thenar future.
Peter Gryseels, superin-
tendent of personnel and
chief negotiator for the Hur-
on County Board of Educa=
tion, said the next. move is
really up tothe teachers.
They can give notice to
strike, ask for negotiations to
resume or sit and wait for a
while.
However at some point-
both
ointboth parties will have to sit
down and work out an -agree-
ment, he noted.
-. II(e said the only time the
.' and cat i lock out teachers
is after they take some form
er hand
that the v
t gave the neg
AN APPRECIATION DAY was held June 2 at the
Howick Central School'Jor Principal Bruce Robertson
who will be leaving Howick after 20 years as its prin-
' cipal. Mr. Robertstn was presented„ With a portrait of
himself which is to be hung at the school. He will
assume duties as principal at the Wingham Public
School this fall.
team sufficient mandate to
call a strike if necessary.
(One source, with ex-
perience in labor relations,
had suggested that anything
less than 80 per cent does not
constitute a strong strike
mandate.)
, "The teacher position is
very simple," Mrs. Weary
said, "that if we have to do
that (strike) we will, but we
prefer not to."
She claimed the major
stunibling block to an agree-
ment has been a lack of
negotiation, saying there has
been minimal action in the
last six months.
- The main issue at stake is
"stripping of the contract",
she said, claiming the board
is trying to remove clauses
which have been in it for 10
years. However she declined
to identify the clauses or
discuss what is. in them,
'except to say that some
involve staffing.
"Each clause by itself
might not be too signifi-
cant," she said, "but all to-
gether they are significant."
She said monetary issues
are "not a major problem",
though she admitted there.
are outstanding ' monetary
issues: The OSSTF has been
asking for 8.6 per cent, in-
cluding increment, while the
board has offered 5.1 per
cent. (Excluding increment,
the . movement to a higher
category on the_salary grid,
the figures -dre''7 5 per cent
and four per tent.)
Mrs. Weary said the
federation is still hoping to
negotiate an agreement and
she does not want to discuss
issues publicly so long as
there is a possibility of
reaching a settlement.
Elaine Conkin from OSSTF
headquarters in Toronto is
now in charge of the
Some damage
in truck fire
An electrical malfunction
is blamed as the cause of a
fire in a 1973 Ford"truck last
Tuesday, reports Wingham
Fire Chief Dave Crothers.
The local department
received the call at ap-
proximately 7 p.m. to Con. 12
of Turnberry Township (the
Belmore 'Road), just off
Highway 4. The vehicle is
owned by Bernie McGlynn of
RR 2, Wingham, and" 'the
damage is estimated at $500.
negotiations as a result of a
vote by the teachers in
February to call in a
provincial take-over team.
The teachers and the
board have failed to reach a
settlement on salaries and
working conditions.
The board's offer started
with a teachers maximum
salary of $44,120 and the
teachers want $45,600. The.
board offered a maximum
salary for principals of
$59,000 4nd the teachers
want $61,087.
The board is offering staff-
ing at a nunibr based on
student enroll ent plus 9.5
1,
teaching posit ons' at an est-
imated cosi of $120,000. How-
ever, the teachers want the
base number plus 17.4 teach-
ing positions at an estimated
cost of $3Q9,600.
The board's memo to its'
teachers states, "previous
collective agreements pro-
vided for formula plus 4.5
staff".
'-Under working conditions,
the board is offering average
class sizes ranging from 15
for basic level students to 30
for advanced level students.
While the teachers agree
with the numbers, they want
these as maximum sizes.
IDENTA-KID OGRAM—The Howick"Lions Club recently
sponsored a child identification clinic at the' Howick
Community Centre. Henry" Kym of RR 1, . Fordwich,
helped to fingerprint his daughter Monica. A total of
1 74 children were fingerprinted and a spokesman for
the group said another clinic may be held this fall.
Cardiff presents cheque,
promises help with dams
MP Murray Cardiff
'presented Wingham council
with one cheque. Monday
night and promised to do his
best to return with an even
bigger contribution should
the town decide to go ahead'
with repairs to its dams.
During a brief appearance
at the council meeting, Mr.
Cardiff handed over a
cheque for $10,349 toward
renovations to town
buildings being carried out
under the Canada Works
Program.
Deputy Reeve Patricia
Bailey, who chaired the
meeting in the absence of
Mayor William Harris,
thanked him for the money
and then told him, "I need
310,000 more dollars." •
"When did you want that,
Pat?" Mr. Cardiff joked.
Then, on a more serious
note, he told council that
once it has made up its mind
what to do about the lower
dam he is willing to go to bat
and try to find the money.
He said he has gathered
from reading the newspaper
there is "a wee bit of con-
fusion" about what to do with
the dam, adding the first
step is up to the town. He will
not try -to sway the decision
one way or the other, he said,
but if the decision is made to
go ahead he will do what he
can • to help.
He
also noted it is getting
harder and harder to find
federal funds for such
projects, adding, "I gather
you're not going to be ready
this year."
"If we go ahead with the
lower dam, is there some-
thing there?" Councillor
James A. Currie asked,
suggesting it might help
some members of council to
make up their minds if they
knew grant money was
available.
However Mr. Cardiff told
him there is -no way of telling
what is available until the
town brings forward an
application ,for a specific
project.
"It's up to you to take the
first step."
Mrs. Bailey asked the MP
to "keep us posted", adding
the dam' committee will be
meeting soon to discuss
altenatives. It may decide to
form a non-profit'group'an
try to rebuild the dam on it!
own, she hinted.
She added that she is
confident the town will be
coming to the government
for help with both, upper and
lower dams this fall.
"Whenever you're ready
I'm ready," Mr. Cardiff
responded, saying he could
make no promises but would
do what he could. -
Cotfncil plans . to • place
questions on the ballot
during ,the municipal elec-
tion this fall asking
Wingham residents whether
they are in favor of
rebuilding the lower dam,
the upper dam or both.
The cost of replacing the
collapsed lower dam with an •
earthen weir has been'
estimated at $310,000. So far
there are no estimates of the
cost of repairing or replacing
the upper dam, but council
was told later that an
engineering firm has been
asked to prepare a
preliminary study on the
dam and come up with cost
estimates.
The town has asked for
estimates on three alterna-
tives: a brand new structure,
a partially new structure re-'
taining the existing spillway,
or renovations to the existing
structure, Councillor Bruce
Machan told council.
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