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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday Septem ber 17, 2003 - A 7 Educational assistants, Bronte Harvest Fest Saturday public board at impasse No new dates set for contract talks By Tim Whitnell S P E C IA L T O T H E B E A V E R Chamber tickets on sale Tickets are still available for the Oakville Chamber o f Com m erce's 49th Annual President's D inner on Wednesday. Sept. 24. Single tickets cost $95 or $750 for a table o f eight. Making the keynote address at the dinner will be Alan Fotheringham along with special guest emcee Cathy Wegner o f CHTV. The cham ber's annual general meeting will be held at 4 p.m. and is free for chamber members. The networking reception and silent auction begins at 5:30 p.m. with the dinner at 6:30 p.m. The dinner is being held at the Oakville Conference and Banquet Centre. 2515 Wyecroft Rd. Call 905-845-6613. ext. 28. The Halton District School Board and its educational assistants remain at a contractu al impasse after a third mediation session resolved nothing. The president of the Halton District Educational Assistants Association siiid the latest meeting on Wednesday, which includ ed a provincial mediator, resulted in no new proposals from the board. Lynne Gurzi said the board presented the same offer it had in June. She noted that contract proposal was rejected by a 340-9 vote by the LA membership; the same deal was rejected outright by the EA's negotiat ing team this week. There are no new dates for talks. The Halton EAs' contract expired more than a year ago. Educational assistants work primarily with special education students in Halton's public elementary and high schools, although they are also found in JK and SK classes and in large class settings. Gur/.i's group consists of about 400 per manent and contract workers as well as about 120 casual and supply personnel. EAs have been essentially working to rule since the group announced it was put ting 13 sanctions in place effective Sept. 2. Halton board trustees quickly passed a couple of resolutions in response to the sanctions. The board authorized the director of education, its top administrator, to deduct pay from EAs if they don't abide by their contractual duties. The board also gave the education director the power to lock out EAs or even close schools if he deems the safety of students or the security o f board property is compromised bv the sanctions. Dawn Beckett-Morton. lead contract negotiator for the Halton public board, says it has offered a two-year deal that is worth almost 16 per cent in salary and benefit improvements to the majority o f EAs. including a provision that would increase the paid work day to six hours from 5.5 hours. Gurzi said the offer from the board equals a SI.15 per hour increase over two years but that EAs at other boards have been getting raises in the SI .45-SI .55 range. She reiterated her claim that Halton's EAs are the worst paid in the Greater Toronto Area. Beckett-Morton countered by saying Halton EAs' remuneration is almost identi cal to their counterparts in HamiltonWentworth. She said Halton trails Peel Region in EA pay and is likely behind Toronto EAs as well. "But our members don't live in Toronto." she said. Gurzi said the annual income for an EA in Halton is about 5 2 1.(XX) compared to approximately S33,(XX) in the Peel and Kitchener boards and the top salary of S38.(XX) that EAs in Dufferin-Peel get. Beckett-Morton suspects part of the dif ference in pay between Halton and other GTA boards is due to the longer contracted work hour, at the latter. She said none of the Halton board's employee groups is a wage leader and that is a function of government funding available to the board. Gur/i said she has been getting some phone calls about the EA's sanctions. "I've had a couple of calls from parents concerned about the sanctions but not about their kids' safety," she said. "At all costs we do not put kids at risk." Amusement rides, chili tasting and a street dance will highlight the second annual Bronte Harv est Fest on Saturday. Lakeshore Road W est betw een Bronte Road and Nelson Street will be closed for the event. O rganized by the Bronte Village Bia. the festival is from 9 a.m. - 11 p.m. The day begins with a Belgian waffle breakfast at V innie's Cafe. The day will feature a pumpkin dec orating contest starting at about noon. Local artists will be participating in a pumpkin carving contest. Judging will be at about 3 p.m. Local restaurants, including V innie's C afe, T w isted Fork. M ixed G rill Catering. Coach and Four. M anchester. H am pton's and Tin Star, will be partici pating in the Chili C ook-O ff com peti tion. to be judged at 1:30 p.m. Those w ishing to taste the chili at the different locations, starting at about 11 a.m.. can pay $5 at the Bronte Village BIA booth and receive a hand stamp. 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T h e C o m m ittee's m an d ate is to w ork cooperatively w ith P etro-C anada Refinery, in reducing negative en vironm ental im pacts o n the co m -m u n ity and to investigate c o m m u n ity co m p lain ts and to m ake recom m endations concern-ing th e en vironm ental effects o f Petro-C anada's o p eratio n s at the O akville Refinery on the local com m unity. M em bers o f the public are invited to subm it th eir expressions o f interest in serving on the C o m m ittee, accom panied by a resum e o u tlin in g e d u c a tio n a l, b usiness, tech n ical, a n d c o m -m u n itv experience. A pplicants should please n o te that m eetings are held on the fourth T h u rsd ay ot ever)' m o n th , at 3:30 p.m . at the O akville Refinery site. A pplications m ust reach the C lerk's D ep artm en t o f the Tow n o f O akville no later th an 4 :30 p.m . on W ednesday, O ct. 1, 2003. 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The Town of O akville reserves the right to reject any o r all tenders and the lowest price will not necessarily be accepted. Manager. Purchasing Services Missing manfound safe Halton Regional Police have located an Oakville man. who w as the subject of a missing person's bulletin issued on Friday. Police report 40-year-old Darryl Scott Lessels was found with the assistance o f the Niagara Regional Police and Niagara Park Police. Lessels had been missing since Sept. 8. This advertisement may be viewed on the following Town of Oakville approved website: http://www.vaxxine.com/opba 1225 T R A F A L G A R R O A D · O A K V I L L E , O N T A R I O · L6| 5A6 (9 0 5 ) 8 4 5 -6 6 0 1 www.oakville.ca Apology Please be advised that The Oakville Beaver inadvertently ran editorial in the Saturday S ep tem b er 14 edition o f Downtown A m biance that had previous ly appeared in the BIA dow ntow n publication. 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