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'.'q\‘\ i A Metroland Community Newspaper _ Vol. 32 No. 149 By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff hirty four hundred Ford workers are being laid off _ ing foul. the week before "We think it‘s grossly unfair. Health Council Chair resigns The Chair of the Halton District Health Council has submitted her resignation a little more than a year after assuming the post. Deanna Williamsâ€"Laws, who has been Chair of the HDHC since November 1993, recently sold her home in Oakville and is relocating to Lorne Park inMississauga.The Chair of the HDHC must reside in Halton Region. Williamsâ€"Laws has served on the Council for almost six years. Her position will be taken over by Cheryl Craig on an interim basis until the annual meeting next June. Craig is a Burlington businesswoman and has been on the Council since February 1993. Decade of PUD strips Hard as it may seem to believe, especially to its creator, Oakville Beaver Art Director Steve Nease, the PUD cartoon strip, which appears on page 7 of the Oakville Beaver, is now 10 years old. The strip originally ran once a week but it then expanded to run in all three issues of the paper. Have things changed with PUD in a decade? "No doubt about it," said Nease. "But there‘s always an endless supâ€" ply of ideas." lives at college Glass blower wins award for his work SPORIS..............s,. BUSINESS......... CLASSIFIED........................ 29â€"31 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS The Bay, Consumers Distributing, Moores The Suit People N. JOâ€"ANN McKINNON B.Sc. D.V.M. MR.CVS. c auke e\ _‘ ~ 338â€"7387 i ..;:"Zwradtfffiet gfl/mal/f; /Vems’/qflef s CCNA Better Newspapers Competition 1993 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1994 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER working overtime," bdld Bill Van Gaal, president, Local 707, Canadian Auto Workers. In fact, said Van Gaal, the Monday after ~the "bomb dropped", workers put in 1.4 hours of overtime. "The members are frustrated," he said. Van Gaal said he was surprised at Ford‘s reason behind the layoff â€"which runs into the Christmas shutdown period â€" as a lack of captain‘s chair back seats. "That catches me by surprise," said Van Gaal. "That‘s not the story the union has been told (which is that) sales have softened up." That message was given to union members by the Industrial Employee Relations Department, continued Van Gaal, who admits there has been a shortage of capâ€" tain‘s chairs but "not enough to shut the plant down." Ford spokesperson Tony Fredo said the reason behind the layoff was partially due to a seasonal slowdown but primarily because "we can only produce so many Windstars per hour with the capâ€" tain‘s chairs." "We have more orders for that particular model than we can build," said Fredo. "There are not enough buildable orders to continâ€" ue production." Fredo said the layoff was "not necessarily" an indication of a Y)ur neighbourhood Tim Hortons would like to thank you for your kind patronage throughout | the year. It‘s been a real pleasure serving you our fresh baked goods and the best cup of coffee this side of the North Pole. We look forward to serving you in the coming year. *\ Wishing you and your family peace and joy this holiday season, and a safe and happy New Year. YOU‘VE ALWAYS GOT TIME. Knds cdfi%an’ra atâ€" 1 § SUUâ€" 32 Pages 75 Cents (GST included) e ~ o e‘ 220uUU I fl I A free preâ€"recorded F message provide by KLDZ BLZ smm t smm ssm Along For The RIDE > 'Clnb director Michael _ Torsney (Ieft) presented â€" Halton Regional Police deputy chief Wayne Jessup and Chief Peter Campbell with 8,500 speâ€" cial keychains _ Wednesday. They will be handed out to people stopped during the RIDE campaign. For story, see page 2. (Photo by Peter McCusker) workers continuing downtime and that "right now" no other downtimes were scheduled at the plant for the new year. f "We were in touch with one of the viceâ€"presidents in Detroit last week to try and convince them to keep the place open before Christmas," said Van Gaal. That, apparently, is not an option, he said.