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Ads That Pay Yon can place an ad In The Herald Classified pages by phoning Buying or selling The Herald is where yon will find the results you GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District Printing Publishing The Georgetown Herald hat served Georgetown and district as Printers and for over century offering the best In fine printing and coverage Second Clan Mail Roglitered Number GEORGITOUN HIHUD THURSDAY JULY 1071 Return Pottage Guaranteed 50 per year Copy Price Fifteen Cent School Board States Position Contract Offer Rejected Holy Cross Women s League recently donated receiving Adams Photography Photo CATHOLIC WOMEN DONATE SUPPLIES TO OBSTETRICS Catholic blankets and nighties to left are president Mrs Mrs Chris and Mrs the Georgetown and District Alice OB head ihcCVVl Memorial Hospital from Mrs Earldme Robinson and Adams holier iphv Has Apartment Permit But Planners Say Not Satisfied An application by Georgi Thomas to build apartments Mount Road at John Street originally made December was discussed again at council night when Planning Board asked the town to state it is not satisfied with the proposal The Plan Board contends he lot frontage is less than the minimum and the density would be too high The coverage includes a right of way shared by houses which the Planning Board felt should not be included In the acreage They claim the removal of he right of way would increase the density from 44 units per aire to units per In May the court ordered building permit to be issued and this wis done in August However at that time the lift station on John Street needed repair so building could not go ahead The lift station wis last year and Thomas wants to proceed The new pi in Hit and chops one whole floor reducing height by twenty ftet The plan shows underground parking for cars room ind increased ana rncst wondered how the town stands legally since the court had ordered the issuance of a building permit He must feel he is within his rights to do so he added Cr Hyde stated Thomas could go with the old plan with the number of units if council does not approve the new phn The town solicitor will be liked to study the Thomis application the Planning Board recommendation then advise the town of its legal Trophy Honours Shortstop Gerry Nash Winning team in the In ter county Men a Fastball league this year will receive a new trophy Sunday members of the presented the Gerry Nash Memorial trophy to the league It honours one of their players 19 year old Gerry Nipper Nash victim of a motor accident July 10 He was when his car swerved and hit a tree on the Ballinafad The presentation took place before a ball game at Glen Williams which ended in a close 32 win for the Earl Red Cuthbert had composed a poem in tribute to Gerry reading this the teams and spectators observed two minutes silence for the Mets shortstop His parents Mr and Mrs Ken Nash sister Judy and brother In law Dave and younger brother Ronnie were present Time Mr Umpire we re ISH He only 10 but he a fait and he slim And not many balls ever get around him is coming But Nip tags him out and steps back with a grin Oh There a line drive down the third base line But Nip there to cover so everything s fine It gets by third base but Nip on the ball He throws to the plate Out at Home is the call I sorry Mr Umpire he II have to pass We ve got word that he s moved toa much higher class He secured a position for a team in the sky So play good position Little Nip and Goodbye Georgetown Council Briefs Council on authorized Phillips Planning and Engineering to oil for tenders for the reconstruction of from Sirgcnt to Street Fifteen inches of will be applied to strong Avenue from C tracks to and on Sinclair from Todd Road to Armstrong A treatment will also be given Looking well ahead Georgetown District Cuborec asked permission to hold a box derby on Maple Avenue from to Street in June of next year Subject was hired as secretary in the Town Clerks department Planning Board wis iskcd to consider a suggestion Cr Phil Siddall that any of sub division older than a vcirs be deemed not registered plan of subdivision reeve Speight was authorized to attend the Fire Fighters Convention in for one The convention lasts from Julv to August I Council icccpted with regret the resignation of Robert Francis from the Industrhl Commission They also accepted with regret the resigi ation of Mrs Judy Shrubsole from her position as deputyclerk Council gave final reading to by law to expropriate part properly on John Street for a sanitary sewer to connect to the second phase of the trunk sewer system Says ByLaw Could Create Ghost Town Id a letter to council Thursday night Mrs 17 objected to the loitering bylaw which she claimed could turn Miin Street into a ghost town She suggested residents debate whether to slop on Main Slreet since they fear being told to move She chimed the young people say they Georgetown and make a plea for the police to on the side of youth In conclusion she reminded council the ire the town s future citizens Mayor Hill Smith some areas of tin by law need looking into it ind said It would discussed In committee After six months of negotiation of which three months was spent on the salary aspect a salary agreement was reaehed between the Executive of the Secondary Teachers OSSTF negotiator and the Count Board Education This agreement salaries was recommended to teachers of the County by the as an iceeptable package The school teachers of County rejected the salary offer by a very narrow margin per cent of those voting voted to reject After the rejection the D strict President issued press release Unfortunately no copy of the release has been received by the Board from the com in the press it appear that the District President has withdrawn his approval of the salary has enumerated a number of reasons why he thinks the Bo offer wis not accepted and hi converted his member rejection of his recommendation into vote of support The Hoard salary committee feels thai should available both sides of the story For this re son the fallowing I The District President mode the statement that the Board made its proposal at the eleventh hour Negotiations have through sixteen meetings from January to June Many early meetings were spent negoilntions procedure and the teaehtrs request for a signed collective agreement on a aspects of the contract Thlswi rejected by the Board on tr grounds that each teacher has signed individual Thus negotiations on salary matter did not start in until March Since March the Hoard proposed a merit phr similar to the one accepted tin Metro teachers The County secondary school teachers rejected this plan without study The teachers requested sixteen month contract which would have caused the contract ycir to run on a yeai rather than a school ytor Thi Board proposed a two year contract similar to the by the Toronto teachers and this also was rejected by the Halton County Secondary School teachers On May Committee took sulary offer to the membership recommending rejection rejected the offer by percentage following this meetings resumed on May 1J and resulted In a offer sitisfictorytoOSSTF and the District This offer wis made on June but the Teachers Executive wis to present it to the membership until June The offer recommended to the by the Executive and by negotiator from the Provincial Organization 21 The President has made the statement that percent of staff gel no increase in the offer This year the minimum silarles remained relatively unchanged This was caused i study undertaken by the Metropolitan Toronto trustees leathers which showed that sehool starting salaries sere equal to or belter thin the of other groups such as engineers Because the did not ibout 10 percent of the iff in their first do not reeeive i special this of iilu Die percent on present number of people In this represi percent of the staff 1 The District President lums the filled to in Provincial Grunt e ceilint imposed by the illows maximum expenditure in Hilton County of J pupil budget when in March showed a proposed expenditure of It lie implied from these figures th it thi Board could have moved tot of times 1 mm students If expenditures hid been increised J mil is suggested by Mr the money w mid fn the ixpiyers Il County and the r ili from the I rovincnl Gov em ment The original budget included for i salary Increase iwcr than the latest offer of the ind therefore the that remains Hie is no longer The stall 111 itni ebb tin ns extended from to June hut discussions on did not mm Ij From rw difficulties IllL the ted by the le did not like into account the and ceilings proposed the senior levels govern mint rid the stile of the ibli time moving the Inehi the Ho s to closer jr ilely ip still sled which 1 1 1 spent rs and ilk nisi ihnt I re has By agreement between Board and Teachers Committees salary was to be negotiated to a conclusion before any discussion look place on working conditions To urge that they now occur simultaneously is to retract unilaterally an agreement already made The Board Committee had every reason to expect that this salary offer which Is acceptable to the O S S T F negotiator and the District Executive would be to the secondary teachers of They regret that the teachers did not have enough confidence to accept he recommendation Mr has stated in the press that he Is unable to reopen negotiations until September The Board Committee is prepared as it always has been to meet and to negotiate the difficulties to a mutually satisfactory conclusion Says Asphalt Plant has Okay Yet Permit Refused ieil hi llii in iv r I lu Hi lr ids Hispid ml pissed on tilt building in Hi Ik unci instructed him not to issue a permit replied MaeDonald Join Smith said council did 1 direct the building inspector but let him know how they felt He pointed Visited Quebec Now 5 Local Girls are Hosts id i M i he ys local his request for Mill Sid ill siidh five lie girls student by the unit if Christians if Mines the ill pi r 1 don Hunk in junsdiel 11 ill 1 is ins ed In r I in id tilkine iii ment Br inch Id hi tin i type of ill id IV till eertifit id st llr iiirMlown Hi iliiini I his the iiithir ion fuse if dm feel it istil in hi lust ink si if the town Ml Minis isinth Fbzihclli f In is with Dcbi ir 1 irli Strut Il Sank is Mill 1 i Sv lie of is with initiu scent liKsdiv the ten girls d il rfelown station to etui by Bill Smith them in French The five local girls had spent two weeks in Quebec where they were liken on tours of famous places such as the Plains of Abraham Zoological Gardens House of Parliament and The week v sit concluded wnn a dance for the girls from all over Ontario and Quebec Escorts had been provided All the girls soy their French is improved by being forced to speak it all the time They were surprised to sec English T V programmes duhbed in French We could follow them but we had seen them before commented New Manager for Downtown CIBC Branch Succeeding Don manager for 15 years of the downtown branch Cinadian Imperii Hank of Commerce Stephenson the new the first of the month Mr Stephenson came to toirn from where he had been m imjer for yeirs His i in his home town of Timmins ind wis inlerrupted for five during World when he enlisted in Ihe and served with 1 1 Bomber in the RAF coastal After the war he was at bank branches in the Timn Porcupine then at Sault Ste Marie and had his first managerial position in Hearst With his wife and family he has moved into bonk house at IS Durham Street Mrs Stephenson is former Dolores Cation of Son Lome Jr will enroll at University this fall lounger son Glen will be in Grade at Georgetown District High school Many Sheridan Grads In Georgetown Area Several from Georgetown and district were in graduating class this year Sheridan College of Aits and Technology Among them were From Georgetown Barlow business division in tensive secretarial David technology con struetian technician Claire Bishop communications ad Andrew Dewhurst honours applied arts arts Deborah Duncan business Intensive secretarial Gary Hamilton visual arts creative Hay technology mechanical drafting Mary Hay computer studies electronic i processing Donna honours applied arts general arts Peter computer studies lelccloronic data Donald Parsons technology technician John honours applied arts urban regional planning community planning Lee Ursel honours visual arts design technical major Peter Walker applied arts general arts From Glen Lawrence Kir by business ad ministration marketing management From Norval Stephen Brown applied arts urban regional transportation Reversing roles five Georgetown girls and their quests from Quebec were greeted by Georgetown mayo when they arrived the Nil here Wed ncsday They will be here improving their English Tor the next two weeks