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Your Voice in Scugog Vol. 5, No. 39 Tuesday, May 7, 1996 Call (905) 985-6397 CIRC. 13,500 40 pages About 75 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers from the First Port Perry Saturday planting 500 Pine trees at Camp Adamac on Shirley Road south of Port Perry. had a little help from their parents and leaders. In the photo above, clockwise from left, are Scout Bryan Tighe, Scout Greg Greenough, Beaver Cameron Daly, Beaver Robert Forderer, SOU JORIun BAe 2d So0Ut Soom es: Trustee furious as education budget stalled More cuts in the Durham Board of Education budget will have an impact on the classroom, says Scugog trustee Bobbie Drew. A very angry Mrs. Drew made the comments to the Citizen late Monday night after p ge of the budget was stalled when sthree trustees changed their mindgand voted against the $361.4 million budget. »"It was, debpicable, a real urprise We may have made / headlines but this is totally unfair to staff, teachers, students and taxpayers," she told the Citizen. The change of mind was by Oshawa trustee Mike Nichdlson and counterparts Doug Ross (Whitby) and Cheryl Willard, who is vice chair from Ajax. A vote on the 1996 butiget went down to deféat by a margin of 10- 7. Last week, those three trustees indicated they would support the budget. Mrs. Drew said the budget as it now stands is about $5 million 19491 less than last year. Trustees have had to deal with a $10 million reduction in grants from the province and there is just no room for any more cuts, she said. Monday's budget, if passed, would have hiked taxes in Scugog by 3.7 per cent (for ucation purposes) or about $47 on average assessed house. Mrs. Drew said she could have lived with that increase. Now, trustees may have to cut a further $2.9 million which will bring the tax hike down to 1.5 per cent. "Our administration costs are the third lowest of hoards in Ontario. And senior management got hit very hard (in cuts) this year," said Mrs. Drew. The delay in approving a budget could result in lost grants or lost interest revenue on those grants, she explained. "Staff and trustees are stymied at this point. We really don't know where we stand," she said angrily. Nurses dismayed at request for salary roll-backs Ontario nurses are dismayed and angry over a proposal by the Ontario Hospital Association © (OHA) that calls for an 18 per cent cut-back in total compensation or a 20.3 roll-back if applied to just wages. The Ontario Nurses Associati three years and another 10,000 could see their jobs vanish by the end of this year. 8o far; she said, there have no cut-backs to the RN staff at Community Memorial, and there has always been a positive lati the nufses and (ONA) which rep ts about hoanital admin 50,000 RN's in the province has been involved in contract talks after their collective agreement expired on March 31. Bev Brown, a regi d nurse The ONA is bargaining on behalf of nurses at 173 hospitals across the province. Mrs.' Brown said nurses are not ki in salaries at Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry and a member of the Nurses Association Legislative Commijtee for District 8 said talks since broken off in the wi of the proposal by the Mrs. Brown said she expects the matter will go to tration this fall and noted thiat under law, nurses are not all to go on strike. She told the Citizen about 10,000 RN's have lost their jobs in the province over the last Large marijuana operation busted Durham Regional Police have broken a marijuana growing tion in several that would have yielded at least $5 million worth of marijuana. + sing séarch warrants on April 26, Police raided a home*and businesdes in Oshawa, Ajax, marijuana and four pounds of The operation began April 26 when Police raided a home at 724 Aruba Crescent in Oshawa and then at the busi led the Durham Police Drug Squad to further raids at the five other addresses over the next few days. Rolice said the plants sbjzed ranged fi from infant seedlings to 530 Westney Road. h in pho where they seized "a large and and Cobourg and seized more than 7000 plants, 330 pounds of dried Pp ted" indoor marijuana Evidence collected at this address ¢ dding" plants. The premises raided were located mostly in industrial areas which police described as "disguised as industrial units having a front office under company name with the rear unit housing an enclosed, ventilated growing set-up." Durham Police were assisted in the raids by officers from Metro, Peel and York Regions. A spokesman said the value of the equipment\seized in the raids is valued at about $40,000. Gerald McCarthy, 43, of 724. Aruba Crescent in Oshawa has been charged with several counts of HOME AND LEISURE SHOW - SEE PAGES 23 ng any i or benefits, but the issue for them in a new contract is job security. Mrs. Brown said nurses are angry over the OHA's apparent unwillingness to bargain on key issues and the demand for extensive roll-backs in wages and benefits. , / , She described nurses as the "front line workers" in the health care system in this province. The OHA proposals would impede the ability 'of purses to deliver quality care to the people of Ontario. in raids cultivation of marijuana, possession for the purpose of fi Mcking and proceeds of a crime. * Ae remains in custody waiting a bail hearing. ' N Police said the property at Sheltet Valley Road in Cobourg was used for growing plants outdoors in summer months. The investigation continues and more suspects are being sought.