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16 Independent & Free Press,Thursday, June 23, 2011 WiFi to stay in public schools :\UKH` >VYZOPW H[ ! HT 5\YZLY` HUK 1Y >VYZOPW MVY JOPSKYLU 4HPU :[YLL[ ZV\[O VM 4HWSL ^^^[VNL[OLYH[NHJJVT KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH God's Word for Today's World. www.knoxgeorgetown.ca REV. DR. JAMES COOPER 116 Main St. S., Georgetown, ON 905-877-7585 Chair-lift access available. 'Sunday's Cool' youth ministry program for ages 4 & up. Service Dial-in: 905-702-1629 SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES: 11:00 A.M. GEORGETOWN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH welcomes you! Lead Pastor: Rev. Gary vanLeeuwen Youth Pastor: Brian DeBoer Sunday Worship Services: 10:00 am & 6:00 pm 11611 Trafalgar Road (north of Maple Avenue) www.gcrc.on.ca 905-877-4322 SUNDAY SERVICES · Lord's Supper 10 A.M. · Ministry Meeting 11:00 A.M. · Fellowship Lunch 12:00 P.M. · Ministry Meeting 1:00 P.M. Meeting In: Georgetown Seniors Centre Address: 318 Guelph Street Phone: 905-873-1005 Website: www.haltonhillsbiblechapel.com phones, such as by using a Bluetooth headset allowing the user to move the phone from his or her head. Furthermore, WiFi stations Students in Halton public schools will con- are placed much farther away from people tinue to get access to wireless connectivity and carry about 1-1,000th to 1-100,000th the (WiFi). strength. With a full table, all but one trustee at the "As part of his job, Bruce continues to moniHalton District School Board, voted tor any developments and keep us inrecently against a motion brought formed on all matters in this area," forward by Milton Trustee Nancy said Gillian Tuck Kutarna, HDSB MacNeill to cease the board's opTrustee for Halton Hills. eration of WiFi in its facilities. "(Removing WiFi from schools) "I would never say WiFi is harmwould be extremely limiting and conful because I don't know that that's trary to the way that the board wants true," MacNeill, who voted in fato provide access to technology." vour of the recommendation, said Board chair and Oakville Trustat the meeting. However, she added ee Don Vrooman also disputed the there are studies that suggest WiFi claims WiFi might be harmful. can be harmful, and that it has beVrooman said he is educated in sciGILLIAN come so mainstream because it is TUCK KUTARNA ence and understands the technolconvenient to use. ogy. "The possibility of harm is too "WiFi is not going to cause harm great a risk for convenience," she to our children. It's not going to harm said. our staff. It is a safe technology," he said. MacNeill also pointed to a report released a Furthermore, he added that even if the school day before the meeting, on May 31, the World board stopped providing WiFi, the signals Health Organization (WHO) placed cell phones would still exist in the buildings from outside in its "2b classification", meaning there is some sources. He said his mobile phone picked up level of risk for causing cancer. Because WiFi 26 WiFi signals during the meeting at the J.W. works on a similar electromagnetic transmis- Singleton Education Centre in Burlington. sion, MacNeill said there could be risks with After the motion was defeated, Smith said WiFi. the school board already has procedures in However, the board's chief information of- place for action, in case new information beficer, Bruce Smith, noted WHO said there are comes available that could indicate something ways to mitigate the harmful effects of cell is unsafe, not just WiFi, in the schools. By DOMINIK KUREK Metroland Media Group