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b. 16, 1994 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER ~COMMENT Duality vs. quantity at heart of kindergarten debate [ "The entire issue of the full day M kindergarten sessions boils down to one thing â€" quality us quantity. Taxpayers may very well be getâ€" g more for their money should the hlton school board go along with e program cut which would save p7,400 in 1994 and a total of 31,750 on an annual basis. It may bo work in other boards. And peoâ€" e who work outside the home may ry well see a cut in their child care Sts. But for others, the cost cutting gument doesn‘t hold a lot of water light of what they perceive as the hild‘s best interests. Take Nancy Batchelor who fieldâ€" 1 more than 100 calls from parents )ncerned about the full day, alterâ€" By MAUDE BARLOW [IA PATTERSON bpecial to the Beaver alâ€"Mart is planning a cross border shopping trip to buy 120 Woolcos across anada. We should not welcome this piant retailer. While the company will o doubt attract customers because of ts reputed low prices, Canadians will boon have many reasons to reject Walâ€" art, if it acts as it has in the U.S. Walâ€"Mart is the biggest retailer in e world. Every second day a new alâ€"Mart is opened in North America. When its founder, Sam alton, died two years ago, he left his family the world‘s largest fortune â€" part of the $24â€"billion he mined from small town America in just 30 years. If current growth continues, by the year 2000 Walâ€"Mart will become the argest corporation in the U.S., surâ€" passing Exxon and General Motors. It has accomplished this feat through pricing, employee abuse, shutting down local competition, and perating child sweat shops in the ird World. The megastores avoid downtowns 0 locate near major highways on the outskirts. Just one store may contain as much square footage as a town‘s entire Main Street. Walâ€"Mart canniâ€" balizes small communities by its very size and cutâ€"throat business practices. Prices are strategically set below comâ€" petitors, often below cost, until local businesses are forced under. After Walâ€"Mart has established a monopoly it raises prices back up. It will deliberâ€" ately establish more stores than it needs in an area and then "reâ€"locate" by shutting down redundant outlets once local competition has been se 2 w ) w a W ‘=) ~dFancet>" TOWN HALL MEETING CALENDAR REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING nate day sessions for kindergarten beginning in September. She spoke to me one afternoon last week with the chaos of her kids, Jenny, 4, and Jeffrey, 5, in the background. She fears the child‘s best interests are getting lost in the talk of cost cutâ€" ting. "What is the whole purpose of kindergarten? It isn‘t to shove educaâ€" tion at them, but to make a comfortâ€" able adjustment into school," comâ€" ments Nancy Batchelor. She also questions the actual cost savings of the proposal. She believes the early years to be crucial ones. "It‘s these first years that form the overall feeling about school," she notes. What exactly is the role of kinderâ€" garten? Is it an innocuous one; one killed, leaving a restriction on the building it vacates to prevent another retailer from moving back in. Customers from the retail ghost town are then forced to drive greater disâ€" tances to the now farâ€"away store. Walâ€" Mart has gutted towns all over America. Walâ€"Mart promises jobs. But for every job it creates, 1.5 are lost. Fewer which doesn‘t matter a whole lot either way. Can it easily be dismissed as just a frill, a place where kids stack a few bricks or learn to raise their hand? Or does it play a far more imporâ€" tant role in shaping the attitude of the child for the first years of school. There are those who believe a allâ€" day program is the best way for their children to absorb, to be stimulated, to be amused, to be entertained. For many of these kids, an allâ€"day strucâ€" A Point workers are expected to sell proporâ€" tionally more goods than any other retailer, and the company ruthlessly enforces this principle. Fiercely antiâ€" union, wages are set between $5 and $9 an hour. Benefits, including health and pensions, are said to be unnecesâ€" sary as ""a large portion of your retireâ€" tured program is little different than what they have had as a daily diet for many years. For the parents of these kids, a comfortable adjustment isn‘t as important as scheduling difficulties, bus times, pick up and drop off jugâ€" gling and all the rest. Many of these parents believe getâ€" ting the kids into all day school is the best route ... they are in a learning ‘environment; it costs them less. In other words, to these children, allâ€"day kindergarten is no big deal. And for those parents whose kids get used to all dayâ€"programs in a day care situation, the school day is in fact a shorter one. But there are others, like Batchelor and north Burlington parâ€" ent Douglas Fester, who fear some of View ment benefits will come from Social Security" â€" normally nonâ€"existent for most Americans. These "luxuries" are replaced by "profitâ€"sharing", which the company handbook says can be canceled at any time. Sixty per cent of employees are restricted from fullâ€" time work. A "sales associate" at a kids will fall through the cracks, with the potential of turning off these kids from school at an early age. A half day is all that‘s needed at this stage as an easing into the school system. Batchelor even wonders whether or not many kids are getting stressed out with various pressures in their lives. : "It‘s not as though the day ends with the school day," she says, pointâ€" ing to extraâ€"curricular activities like swimming, hockey and gymnastics. "So these fourâ€" and fiveâ€"yearâ€"olds will put in a full day at school and then go to their swimming lessons and all the rest." "Some of these kids are so stressed, they are closing down comâ€" pletely," she says. Are these four and fiveâ€"yearâ€"old typical U.S. store earns under $9,000 a year. The company demands fierce loyâ€" alty and employees must be willing to work irregular hours and pass drug tests. A typical Walâ€"Mart work days starts with a corporate cheer: "Stack it deep, sell it cheap, stack it high and watch if fly! Hear those town merâ€" chants cry!" The company has been PUD 1. Call 845â€"5585 (touch tone only) 2. When prompted enter the 4â€" digit code from the directory 3. To end your call press * TiME! ) COMMUNITY/NONâ€"PROFIT GROUPS COMPIEtE esns ENTERTAINMENT, Top 10 Weekly Movies...... Top 10 Weekly Videos...... Oakville Symphony Orche: Oakvilie Centre for the Performing Arts... HALTON SPECIAL EVENTS HEALTH FACT.... HOROSCOPE DIRE! JOKE OF THE DAY..... 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WINE LINE.......... children‘s attitudes towards school and their learning capabilities and the very real possibility of being turned off school â€" which is enormously important to them at this stage â€" is this all to be dismissed in favor of economic reasons or just to go along with what other school boards do? By proceeding. with this proposal the school board may in fact be doing what other boards have already done, save some money, and please some parents. But it may also be adding an additional â€" and unnecâ€" essary â€" stress onto kids who cerâ€" tainly don‘t need it. The school board will jeopardize the very thing they claim is all too dear to them â€" the quality of educaâ€" tion. And that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. alâ€"Mart‘s march on Canada is bad news for domestic businesses challenged under the Security and Exchange Commission for violating! legislation on hiring minorities and women. No women are among the firm‘s 11 senior line executives. Aften her husband won the Presidency Hillary Clinton felt it appropriate td resign leaving the 16â€"member Board of Directors without women. Walâ€"Mart has built its reputatio on a "Buy American" policy and boasts that, as a result, it has saved American jobs, cut back the tradd deficit, and helped save free enter prise. It showcases its patriotism i emotional ads featuring the jingld "Bring it home to the U.S.A." Bu NBC‘s Dateline found that, unde "Made in U.S.A." labels, Walâ€"Ma sells merchandise made in Third World sweat shops where children a young as nine work long night shi for pennies an hour. In violation of U.S. law, the AFL CIO believes that Walâ€"Mart is selling shoes and jeans made in Chinesd forcedâ€"labour camps. According to human rights organization, Asig Watch, most denim and magy shoe: (See ‘Chain‘ page 11) FORD DRIVE EXTENSION CORNWALL ROAD TO LAKESHORE ROAD EAST NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY REPORT Early in 1993, the Town of Oakville commenced the study of the Ford Drive Extension from Cornwall Road Monday, February 21, 1994 7:30 p.m. Council Chambers CORGATED CARDBOARD BOXES: Please ensure that your corrugated cardboard boxes placed out for recycling collection are tied or contained in bundles no larger than 30"x30" square by 8" thick. $ NOTICE TOWIi OF OAKVILLE BOARD APPOINTMENTS Applications will be received by the Town Clerk until 4:30 p.m., Friday, February 18, 1994 from any resident of Oakville who would like to be considered for an appointment to one of the following Advisory Boards or Committees. Cemeteries are not exempt from inflation and escalating costs. Your family would benefit by visiting the Town of Oakville Cemeteries to learn what is offered regarding memorial property and then consult together, ahead of time, to decide what is best for all. ‘f To receive your complimentary copy J; â€" of our Oakville Cemeteries brochure, call us at (905) 338â€"4236 or write TOWN OF OAKVILLE CEMETERIES 1225 Trafalgar Rd., Oakville, Ontario L6J 5A6 PUBLIC NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS 1994 Interim Tax Bills have been mailed with installments due February 23, 1994 and April 26, 1994. NUMBER OF Any ratepayer who has not NAME OF BOARD OR COMMITTEE VACANCIES â€" MEETIN HEDULE received a tax bill should contact Citizens Transit Advisory Committee 6 On a Wednesday which is the Tax Department at 338â€"4222. Please note this does not apply to homeowners whose taxes are paid by their mortgage company. Late payments incur penalty in spite of bills not received or payments delayed in the mail. Tax payments are accepted at all major banks and trust companies in Oakville for a nominal charge. Payments are accepted at the Town Hall Finance Office Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For your convenience, a 24â€"hour drop box is located to the right of the main door of the Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road. (3 citizens at large and 3 citizens at large from special transit interest groups) NOTE: Appointments to this committee will be for terms of 1 year, 2 years or 3 years. Please signify your preference on the application form. Halton Region Safety Council 1 (Appointee will also serve on the Traffic Advisory Committee _ which meets the first Wednesday monthly) Special Committee Against Impaired Driving 1 convenient to the Committee members (evening) each month Third Wednesday (evening) each month First Tuesday (morning) each month For further information, please call Pat McPherson at 845â€"6601, Ext. 3136 or Magda Kitteringham at 845â€"6601, Ext. 3161. It is requested that applicants submit the application form which is available in the Clerk‘s Department. Judith Muncaster Town Clerk E. Mathews, B.A., C.M.T.C. TOWN OF OAKVILLE Manager of Revenue/ 1225 Tratalgar Road Tax Collector Oakville, Ontario L6H 2L1 Town of Oakville 1225 TRAFALGAR ROAD OAKVILLE, ONTARIO e L6H 2L1 to Lakeshore Road East in accordance with the Class Environmental Assessment for Municipal Road Projects (Class EA). Following the comprehensive assessment of the problem of local traffic infiltration in southeast Oakville and alternative opportunities for addressing the problem, including consultation with the public and technical agencies, the extension of Ford Drive to Lakeshore Road East has been identified as the preferred alternative. This entails the construction of Ford Drive from Constance Drive to Lakeshore Road East as a basic two lane roadway centred within the existing road allowance including a bank to bank bridge crossing of Joshua‘s Creek, and the reconstruction of existing Ford Drive between Cornwall Road and Constance Drive as a twoâ€"lane facility. Turning lanes will be provided, where required. The Town of Oakville is planning this project under Schedule C in accordance with the Class Environmental Assessment for Municipal Road Projects. An Environmental Study Report (ESR) has been prepared and by this Notice is being placed in the public record for a 30â€"day review period. Subject to the comments received as a result of the Notice and the receipt of the necessary approvals and funding, the Town of Oakville intends to proceed with the construction of Ford Drive in the following stages: * Constance Drive to Devon Road * Devon Road to Lakeshore Road East * Cornwall Road to Constance Drive The ESR is available for review at the following locations and times: Oakville Public Works Oakville Central Library 2274 Trafalgar Adult Information Desk Oakville, Ontario 120 Navy Street L6J 422 Oakville, Ontario or L6J 224 Oakville Clerk‘s Department Hours: Oakville Municipal Building Mon. to Thurs. _ 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 1225 Trafalgar Road Fri. and Sat. 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. P.O. Box 310 Sun. 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Oakville, Ontario LB6J 5A6 Hours: Mon. to Fri. _ 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Dave Bloomer, P. Eng., Manager of Design, Oakville Public Works at (905) 338â€"4423. Interested persons may provide written comment to the Town Clerk (see address above), within 30 calendar days from the date of this Notice. If concerns regarding this project cannot be resolved in discussion with the Town of Oakville, a person may request that the Minister of Environment Energy "bumpâ€"up" this project to an individual environmental assessment. "Bumpâ€"up" requests must be received by the Minister at the following address within 30 calendar days of this Notice. A copy of the "bumpâ€"up" request shall be sent to the Director of Public Works for the Town of Oakville. If there is no "bumpâ€"up" request received by Friday, March 11, 1994, the Ford Drive Extension will proceed to construction as outlined in the ESR. Minister of Environment Energy 135 St. Clair Avenue, 15th Floor Toronto, Ontario M4V 1P5 This Notice issued Wednesday, February 9, 1994. Mr. O.H. Ellis, P. Eng. Director of Public Works Town of Oakville