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The Acton Free Press Wed October OConnor heads leadership bid Terry Connor Hal ton a Conservative MP from to has taken the four months from his practice to be campaign mnmger for Flora MacDonald Miss announced Oct that she Is seeking the leader ship of the Progressive Con party in the up coming leadership campaign Mae potentials and in lead her right to Ministers choir Flora and myself were con to be the red in the when I was he says We were close In thought and when I had to think In terms of Who I might support in the leader ship campaign I decided to She asked me to be her campaign manager and 1 now starting full time on that Conni abilities the Prim Tory organizer lawyer Eddie Goodman is taking charge or the fund raising aspects or Flora campaign Connor explains Instead of Just large corporations we are sending massive mailings to groups and Individuals as many as wish to participate In her campaign One of the approaches is through a Five to Fifty tor Flora mailing which began months ago Media first The campaign is on the road next week with Flora appearing on open line shows and press related events in local medio During the month of November she will travel to every riding in the country talking to delegates and soliciting their support Connor worked executive council and speech writer for Ontario Justice Minister Alan I before becoming MP in 197Z pupils TERRY OCONNOR with Flora MacDonald when she spoke at the annual meeting of the Halton PC s He began this month as her cam manager when she threw her hat in the ring leader of the Progressive Conservative Party The leadership convention is expected to be held February I rid of September mertl figures released day by Hoard of du cation show there are students attending Acton and area schools and a total enrollment increase of more students I iltle School 7 Bennett School and Aetm High School this year hut both ruril schools in I Sptyside experienced enrollment drops Acton Sell Mil ment went up by JO this fir of pupils while Bennett Scliitol hot Is i pupil in lo nix increase I hen an j students it tenting thsses it I Sell ml Ins ihc highest school llment with Hit mil w is lu students It hind In pupil at fi I if students dosses School enrollment dropped with II students In the this Jim who prised as the increase figures wire J to fi stu kilts in grades one through six it Dennett iilsiudL 1 ittk more pupils showed up for classes in the same I rejections indicated there would he any changes In enrollment at 1 an the board under the attendance d School from grades one six flu I Ind expected 1 in students to attend it High School li it gouge the kind of growth a community school system might encounter over a number of years This helped the board plan for expansion of facilities little only four more registrations at 7 Bennett than last year and IS more this year at Robert I iltle I and both showed creases In kindergarten enrollment with both schools experiencing a 14 pupil drop fur Georgetown Denture Clinic Guolph Street N I Post OH No 7 GEORGETOWN ONTARIO J I i civ I J KOHARI DT J NOVAK COMPLETE DENTURE SERVICE 4576725 Doug Logans Masonry STONE WORK Patios Etc R Hills Phone for Free Estimates 8778556 Bodnar suggests Lock out teachers if others strike Georgetown Board of trustee Ernie wonts to be able to lock out teachers when their counterparts In other parts of Ontario go out on strike A motion from call for the province to change Bill 100 allow oil boards to lock out teachers when other boards teachers go out on strike was accepted by Hoard of Thursday The board is going to petition the Minister of Education to make the change and will ask other boards or their support said settlements at boards across the province were based on the contract gains won teachers who went out on strike He noted this tactic of going out on strike winning a huge wage boost and then the precedent being used In negotiations at all boards has been sue and is supported by the various provincial parent bodies of the teachers associations claims the success of his tactic of bargaining on the basis of what has been won by teachers who went out on strike means the tactic will likely continue His motion declared that teachers have set substantial future financial goals which threaten the economic foun dation or the Ontario system and individual boards arc powerless fight the well organized teacher organizations on a one to one Review time off teacher heads The whole subject of teachers being given half time off so thev con conduct federation business will be coming up for review next month it was announced by Board of Education Reflecting a changed at on the part of some trustees since the last teacher contract was settled the board rejected a request from the Flementary fHETA for half time off for Its president The board de cided the time spent away from the classroom by the president be spent working In the school board best interests and would be used to make the teachers position stronger come contract talk time The rejection of the HETA touched off discussion by the board about the possibility of cancelling alt half time off leaves tor teachers con ducting business for the van professional associations Currently the president of the Halton Secondary School Teacher Association and a researcher who works for all the various teachers federations in Hal ton are allowed half time off from their classes for a replacing a teacher who is on leave to handle business for a professional association is paid for by the teachers association basis noted many trustees feel the teacher wage gains are unjustilied He said his suggestion would not destroy the autonomy of individual boards but it will give us the chance to support other boards wh arc struck and break down this pattern in negotiations by using the lock out procedure I would describe this is biting the bullet It is difficult but it must be done if we arc to survive Gains made struel board s are being used as negotiating tools ill other boards stated Nine portables in Acton Almost half of the number of portable classrooms being used in North are in Acton figures released by Halton Board or Education Thursday reveal There are portables being used at schools in North Halton and nine of them are located in Acton Reflecting some crowding and need for more facilities there are four portables use at Acton High School three at M 7 Bennett School and two at Robert I ittle School It is expected the new Acton High School opens in the crowding problem will be solved UNVEIL OF CHRYSLER PRODUCTS Sice EATERS INVITE YOU r TO THE PREMIERE Nil SHOWING Thursday Friday Saturday October 161718 New Yorker Brougham Door Hardtop Chairman should resign Campbell to Evangelist founder of Renaissance Committee Ken Campbell ludv Alexander should resign from her post as Chairman of the Board of Mr Campbell mode that charge during a speech he made in a Milion Sunday night According to Campbell If Mrs Alexander is quoted cor morality of society are willing to accept the same self imposed guidelines for decency in the printed and spoken word which control the medio There a not a newspaper in which will print the material ded at the board meeting he said Campbell predicted that if the board did not respond to she should be asked to the reasonable proposal resign for a total abdication tlculated by the Renaissance of her rtsponsibllitie to the Committee in Its program of people she was elected to re- moderation it will experience present and a complete some disruptive protests illation to the of from more militant groups the public schools by the whod make our civilized bureaucrats cause look like a Sunday Campbell statements and School picnic in comparison legal mas were levelled Vr a group of parents pro tested the use of the book Go Tell Alice in grade nine English class He commented on a report in a Toronto news paper that quoted the chair man as saving that under no circumstance would the board order a book off the shelves Campbell said the use of the book in the school system w as part of the revolutionary strategy aimed at turning the children against the slon of decency and the values of the home and church and society Let these arrogant revolu compete in a com educational market they soon change their serve the interests of borne and society again or fteyd be out of work Campbell said he found it ironic that the schools which supposedly reflect the DANCING Every Saturday pm to 1 am at the Acton Legion OCT 18 SHAYNES Oct Di 4 couple Nov Dance Willi Stachel Band pr Include Food LOOK OVER TOUR NEXT PRODUCT MONDAY TO THURSDAY EVENINGS Till i IT FRIDAY TIL9PM SATURDAY TILL 6