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Volume 134 Number 13 Teachers seek SCC support in labour dispute By Rik Davie Special to the Star Members of school community councils (SCCs) in Durham Region secondary schools may soon be asked to take sides in the ongoing labour dispute between the school board and its 1,280 high school teachers. A document obtained by The Star indicates that teacher repre- sentatives on SCCs in the region have formed a committee that meets regularly at Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) District 13 offices in Whitby. The document indicates that in addition to examining problems at individual schools, the teacher reps have discussed a campaign that would see post cards with a message calling for higher wages and lower class sizes given to individual SCCs for distribution. Teachers in Durham high schools have been locked in a bitter battle with the board oyer wages and teaching time for over a year. An arbitrated contract last year ordered striking teachers back to work, and since that time extracurricular activities have, in all but a few cases, ceased in Durham high schools. The document, an agenda from a meeting of the teacher reps, also states that teachers should encourage SCCs to support the idea of using part of the $160 million borrowed by the board through debentures for new building projects to give teachers a long-awaited pay hike. Shelly Paige, President of OSSTF District 13, said that the SCC teachers' committee is not directly affiliated with the teachers' union. "This is not a group directly affiliated with us, but we are giving Please Turn to page 10 Dumping of carcasses concerns area resident By Chris Hall Port Perry Star A Port Perry man has launched a complaint with the township and the Ministry of Natural Resources over the dumping of the remains of animals trapped here in Scugog. The Old Simcoe Rd. resident, who didn't want to be named, said last week that trappers have dumped the remains of animals in and around the Nonquon conservation and wildlife centre north of town near his home for the past five years. It's located just north of Whitfield Rd. on Old Simcoe Rd. He says his concern is not the act of trapping and killing animals for their pelts, but the dumping of their carcasses after they've been Please Turn to page 12 CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR after- TR EB. RE I A TTR y 3 ah SD" adhe i.