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Page THE HERALD Wednesday March An honored group Bob Williams Director of the Board of Education was on hand at Glen Williams School recently to preside at an awards Awards were presented to students for excellence in reading public speaking and academic excellence Mr Williams is pictured at the far left with the recipients of he public speaking awards Back row from left Rachel Kumar Eddie Mid and Krista Ferguson Front row Tara Brooks Alex Merrick and at the head of the winners Jordan Herald photo Shortage of teachers predicted Halton described as the linking pin between Toronto and Hamilton will experience growth and a shortage of teachers in the next three years Peter Baker a Ministry of Education spokesman and a liaison officer for Halton Region said last week that todays teacher shortage will get worse This is just the tip of the iceberg Its going to increase three years from now he said He said growth trends first point to the ring boards of education that surround Toronto boards such as Peel York and Durham They are the ones feeling the pinch he said But he added that Halton would follow suit within the next few years Its new growth its new houses its expansion said Mr Baker The developers he said arejhe key group in determining where the population influx will next take Place First developers move to the northwest of Toronto Then they will niter into Halton he said The Halton Roman Catholic Board of Education is not ex periencing a crunch in staff but Nelson high worked on The Board of Education has approved a million tendei to a Hamilton company bidding or a repair contract for Nelson High School in Burlington Canadian Engineering and Con trading bid million under cutting seven competitors in a sealed tender Six of the companies Time to quit Would you like to stop smoking this spring The Lung Association Halton Region can help The now popular Countdown program is again being offered in Burl ington starting April and in Oakville starting April For par tiapants who are seriously com nutted to quitting smoking ant who attend most sessions tht success rate is around per cent at the end of the program The registration fee is for this sevensession course and enrolment is limited so register now by calling 6328499 bidding were Hamilton based and one was Torontobased says a board report Alterations to the high school s auditorium were completed in 1988 Last May the board an additional 8 million added to the over price tag for Phase One of reconstruction Phase Two of the Nelson High School repairs will bring the total cost up to almost million Funds will go toward construction architects equipment contracts and miscellaneous costs says the board report WE ARE DEDICATED TO SERVICE We have asked our carriers to complete their deliveries as 1 early as possibly each week If your Herald Is not delivered to your home please phone our circulation department CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT HOURS Tor your convenience the Circulation Department is open from 8 30 to m Monday to Friday WELL DELIVER TO YOUR HOME J HOME they say each year they are hiring at an earlier date Superintendent of Curriculum Services Lou said the board was in specific areas of study in eluding French language studies The board has already hired 70 teachers for the school year he said And the Board of Educa tion the public board says a pro active approach to teacher hiring must be taken Superintendent of Employee Services Joanne Zwyme said teachers must be hired early in the present year to ensure enough staff for the following school year But Mr Baker says the number of qualified teachers needed just isnt there Shortages are a result not only of an aging teaching population but of a lack of ex penenced teachers The decline in enrolment is passing but now were looking at a shortage of teachers he said Halton has good value The Halton Board of Education students less than Halton paid leads the way in getting full dollar to to educate value when it comes to educating students last year students says the Boards The Peel Board of Education Superintendent of Business Ser with a population of students vices Pari between 4665 and per Halton remains one of the student The Durham Board of lowest per pupil costs boards Education with a student popula said Jerry Jenkins at a board tion paid to 5293 meeting last week where the 19B9 per student last year budget of 223 3 million was up for Although Halton was at the low review end the scale provincially the Although a large portion of the Lincoln County Board of Education budget is fixed because over was lower paying from 4 190 to per cent goes to paying staff 5416 to educate students last wages anywhere from to year Lincoln County is located will be paid for each of near Niagara Falls said Mr 24000 elementary and Jenkins and has a student popula secondary students in 1989 says a tion of 14500 board report The board of education will ap- Halton compares favorably prove its final budget in the works with other boards Although cost now for five weeks after it increases have been in the seven receives word from the provincial range they are still under government concerning govern costs for comparable school men grants The board has boards calculated monetary needs on the Figures for 1989 have not yet premiss that this years grants will been compiled but in 1988 the similar to those approved last Metropolitan Toronto Durham year Hamilton and Peel school boards But if grant approval is not had higher per pupil costs than received by the end of March the Halton board of education will miss its A student in Metro cost the Ministry April deadline said board public board between and chairman Pat HiUhouse in 1988 compared to the cost of between 4287 and And the Hamilton Board of Education with tremendously high costs for a low enrolment of 22632 pupils about QUALITY STEREO SYSTEMS ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR HOME AUTOMOTIVE RECORDS TAPES CDs sues Unit Georgetown SAVE SAVE SAVE 10 OFF ALL MODELS IN STOCK 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