wants complete education in french available in halton the eight young children of french anadians mr and mrs roger dupas are perfectly bi lingual and thats the way the couple want to keep it but their french is suffer ing dupas claims byt fending the holy cross elemen tary school here the school las a bilingual section but this not good enough dupas said an interview 8 it was at this school a few fears ago that a weeklong sit- n protest was staged by the tenchcanadiao families lfor the children to maintain eir french dupas said they fteed a completely frfench on- ttronment not just a few bi lingual classes at an otherwise englishspeaking school french is extremely import ant to the dupas family they peak it in the home all the tune the music coming from he record player has french lyrics the radio is tuned into the french speaking stations there are more than 100 trench speaking families in georgetown and french ir as important m their homes as in bat of the dupas family the young children attend the bi lingual section of tjie holy ross separate school but there fs no bilingual secondary school in this area and the older chil dren must go elsewhere if they want to keep up their french and they all do dupas bought a special van o transport about ten students t io a bilingual secondary 6chool n toronto on his way to work every morning the school is je charbonnel locatodlat baj yiew and lawrence in toronto and although it turned out to be an expensive undertaking driving the students there ev ery school day dupas feels it fc necrssarv if the students are to maintain their rrench dupas asked the new haltofl fregion separate school board to ielp pay foi transporting these students to the french school jn toronto but the board has refused j the board cannot be respon fiblc for transporting students to a private school sad coun ly chairman peter watters of oakville dupas said he began taking jhe students to toronto at jhe start of the september term fter parents in georgetowns jyench community didnt want their children losing their french by attending the local english speaking secondary cchool he said he has recei yed no cooperation or sympathy from the county board and cri 4icizcd their poor attitude t theres no reason for this attitude dupas said it is a 3bad situation we have here and jts been going on for years he said the school board has jnevervshown any interest in jthe french community and al though they added a few bilin watters in reply said that dupas wont be happy unless he gets an entirely french school in georgetown and i am not in favor of unihngual schools the school board chairman said waltjmg arhn is himsfilf bl- roger dupas gual classes to the holy cross elementary school anything you ask for now is automatical ly refused dupas added he will not be able to keep transporting the students to the toronto school indefinitely because of the cost in money and time he works as an advertising mana ger for a toronto firm when he is forced to curtail the pnv ate bus service he is not sure where the children will conti nue their education but if it is at an english school there is no doubt their french will suf fer he said closed mind the school board has a clo sed mind when anv request from georgetown s french fam llics comes before them he said noting that the poor attitude of the old school board has been inherited by the new county board lingual said the board is very co of the needs of the georgetown french community and realizes that biiingualism is a tremendous asset the board is prepared to lis ten to any application for a bilingual school xn the area and would support that application alters said but a completely french school creates a separ atist situation watters said the children are growing up in an english- speaking province they cant be educated entirely tn french dupas can see no reason why they cant have pa truly biling ual elementary school in georgetown replacing the un satisfactory holy cross school with its bilingual section and a bilingual secondary school lo cated at some central point in halton county no good the holy cross setup is no good dupas explained because english is the dominant lang uage and the 175 or so french students keep going over into english during play periods and other tunes when the actual bil ingual classes are not being held the french students need a french environment at school not an english one said dupas teachers discourage parents from enrolling their children in the bilingual section dupas said telling them that the sec tion is falling apart board chairman walters said that they may enlarge the bil ingual section of holy cross he said the difficulty with bil ingual schools is getting the teachers because according to education department require ments the teachers in each classroom must be completely and fluently bilingual and these are not too available watters said chargex salesmen begin enrolment town merchants me and no recourse chargex representatives be gan this week to call upon bus inesses in georgetown hamilton st catharines welland port colborne and niagara falls where introduction qf the new allpurpose chargex credit card planwas recently announc- to those providing goods and ories chargex credit cards merchants who join the char gex plan will now be able to offer credit without the head aches and expense of checking billing special bookkeeping collections or credit losses in addition the chargex credit plan offers immediate payment nervlcesht more than 2b0categ unlik u that can take from 6 to 12 weeks to pay will bea businessbuilding boon the lowest possible discount no by june there will be ever 230 1 annual membership fee a mo- teachers consultants add 100000 to school budget the hiring of thirteen addi uonal teachers and consultants estimated to cost sioooo a year in salaries was approved last week by the halton county separate school board the positions which will be advertised immediately include two vice principals one for the new st raphaels elementary schol in central burlington and the other for holy rosary school in milton each school now has more than 16 class rooms and the board said that vice principals are needed when schools increase to that size the teachers and consultants will bewred for the next school year starting in september some trustees questioned spending 100 000 on the new educators before knowing how much the board will be receiv ing in grants next year the board estimated it will cost about 35000 in salaries from september until the end of this year school hoard chairman peter watters said i realize there is a lot of money involved but if we want to get anyone we vc got to advertise now he added the recommends tion for the extra staff came from superintendent j h ho- gan and we have to rely very heavily on the good advice of our chief executive officer watters said he found it says mystery bird red tailed hawk a resident on the 6th lane of esquesing north of highway 7 has positively identified the huge bird which has pets keep mg one eye on the sky as a redtailed hawk mrs bu told he herald this week she was able to move to within a few feet of the bird on one occasion and checked its identification in an illustrated bird book she said he recently saw six such birds near erin the book states they range throughout the u s and southern canada mrs van patter of rr 1 ge orgetown said she recently not iced what looked like a golden eagle in a tree near the 401 which raises the possibility that more than one kind of huge bird is responsible far the rash of lost and slashed pets in he surrounding rural area though the golden eagle is rarem ontario a burwash trap per recently caught one in a trap the trapper found the 15 pound eagle in a snare beside a beaver carcass which he was using as bait for wolves all the big bird sightings started a couple of months ago when area farmer ed osborne discovered an unidentified lar ge bird had been responsible for the loss of a few pets and damaging some small livestock concrete gravel building sand road gravel fill and top soil garnet bud haines gltn wlliams 1773302 encouraging to hear so much caution among the trustees it shows we are concerned ior the taxpayers he said in addition to the two vice principals the board will ad vertise for two more teacher librarians and a speech correc tion teacher the additional consultants include one each in the fields of muic religious doctrine art physical educa lion guidance audiovisual aids speech correction and two for junior education the job of the consultants is to travel to the several elem entary separate schools in the county and coordinate the ef forts of the teachers the chargex plan also offers tremendous tourist dollar vantages particularly to those in the hotel restaurant enter tainment arid retail merchandise fields because of interchange agreements the four canadian banks have reachei with banks hr o c cbargex- credit cards are totally inter changeable with the us bank- americard british barclaycard japanese sumitomo card and by this summer with mexicos new bancomer card merchants participating in the chargex plan can therefore accept any of these cards as well as any of the well over one million chargex cards presently in use by montreal toronto quebec city levis ottawa hull and sherbrooke residents speaking on behalf of some 25000 canadian businesses d w railing general manager of the retail merchants associat ion of canada inc called the chargex plan the answer to many credit problems for most retailers he said that the movement of four canadas leading chartered banks into the chargex operation is a most commendable effort to make it possible for retailers of all sues trades and services to ex tend credit to their customers ly with charger cardholders the georgetown heral thursday march 27 1969 page 0 j jts spray and frtfttze time fertilize with sogreen for early vigorous growth available in bags 20 lbs up spray 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