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(Continued froin page 8) GM over the week-end with a new three-year contract offening 5.5, 5 and 3.5 percen t wage increases over the three year period.' With three years experience a guard will eam $ 17.76 per hour. The guards also receive a lump sum of $1400 on top of their basic salary and an annual vacation bonus of $500., Whitby and Oshawa buses to meet A six mont.h trial bus service coming from both Oshawa and Whitby will meet at the Oshawa Shopping Centre commencing April 22nd. It is the first that the Whitby buses could enter Oshawa. Ridera may transfer at the Centre from one systema to the other if they so desire. Council to Reconsider Additional LACAC Members Hope Township Council has decided to reconsîder its decision not to add three members to its local architectural conservation advisory committee. In January, council tumned down a LACAC request to appoint three additional memnbers for 1991. At the timne, Couricillors said l-imiting the size of the committee would reduce mnileage costs.. At a recent council meeting, LACAC chairperson Kathryn McHolma said the conunittee started 1990 with 10 members. The request that three additional members be appointed was made with the aimn of replacing those who did not reapply to be on the committee this year, she said. McHolmn also said that the best Sway for council to show it ap preciates the work of comînittee memnbers is not by paying for their gasïoline, but by allowing an adequate number on the cornmittee. Council will decide whether to allow the three additional members on the committee at its March 5 meeting. NO Graded Phy-Ed Area high-school students may bc given the chance to take physical éducation courses without being marked for their efforts.' 1The proposal, aimed at encouraging more studeùts to take ph ysical education and develop physically active lifestyles, is being studied by administration at the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education . The report presented to the board's education committee last month said that in the past two years about 55 per cent of high school students were enrolled in a physical education course. It also noted that one Physical Education one credit is compulsory and is usually taken in grade 9 which means if the compulsory course was factored out these percentages would be mucli lower. When the education committee discussed the report at a meeting last month, Cobourg-area trustee Judi Armstrong said that if the purpose of physical education is to teach a ifestyle, marks should not bc given. Trades Courses Now Being Offered Sir Sandford Fleming College is now offering a 12-week Technical and Trades Preparation programn for women which could lead to new opportunities for women in the work force. College principal Dugald McDonald says the program is designed 10 give women introductory practical experience in non-traditional areas of employment such as plumbing, electrical, carpentry, drywalling and other trade skills. Royal Proclamation on Cats Holds'No Ground Port Hope council can legally pass a bylaw to prohibit cats from running free, town lawyer Doug Manin says. In a letter 10 council, Manin said the existence of a lSth century proclamation from King Henry V allowing cats to rua free throughout ail time could not be confirmed. The rumnored regal proclamation bas been standing in the way of anti-littering bylaw proposed by the town which may prohibit animais. including cats, from running at large and depositing their droppings on public and private property. Mann's letter said that even if King Henry did make his proclamation about cats, it could be amended by either the federal or the, provincial govemnment under the 1867 Constitution Acts. The new bylaw would mean cats must stay on their owner's property or be controlled on a leash. Revitalized float your fanny race The 1991 Float Your Fanny Down die Ganny Race, set for Aprîl 6, promises to be a revitalized, streamlined and family-oriented day ending in a camnival atmnosphere at the finish line, organîzers say. The race began in 1981 to commemorate the disastrous flood of 1980 that caused extensive damage in Port Hope and Hope Township. This year will be the first time a committee of the Port Hope and District Chamber of Commerce is organizing the spring itual. Proceedsfrom the day will be used by the Chamber's Beautification Committee., Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 6, 1991-11 *From Around * The Region DrnvcLpn CÀN9 Every year, Canadians throw away 1,500 tons of steel in the forin of food and drink cans. That's enough steel to build 350,000 cars. If lmned up end to end they would form a line from Winnipeg to Toronto. One big user of cans is your cat. Over your cat's 15-year life span, you will open cans of food weighing about one-fifth of a ton - or 40 times the weight of your cat. If piled up the 15-year supply of cans for two cats would reach the top of the CN Tower. Strike Averted A threatened strike by school custodial, maintenance and cafeteria staff was averted as the workers voted to #ccept a new c ontract recently. The negotiating Committees for the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education and the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 1206 had met with a provincial mediator on Feb. 11. An agreement was reached Feb.14. Welcome water contamninated It will take at least two or three years to provide Welcome residents with drinkable water by linking the hamiet to Port Hopes water system, Hope Township Reeve Roger Wilson told residents at a special meeting reoently. Many of the wells in Welcome have been contaminated by saît use and although ten new wells were drilled by the Er.vironment Ministry last faîl, three of them stili have a high saît content Reeve Roger Wilson said the township will not pay to solve the contamination problem caused by the Transportation Ministry. At best he said, the township could only cover 85 per cent of the cost under a provincial grant program and the rest will have to be paid by the Environment Ministry. The township is stili looking into the possibility of laying charges against the Ministry of Transportation over the contamination of the Welcome wells, Wilson said. Talks to start on BFI medical incineration plan 1Talks are to start between the Town of Newcastle and Regional planners on a plan offered by Browning-Ferris Industries Ltd. to construct a biomedical waste incineration in the Courtice area Talks are also to follow betwéén the proponent and the Region and the Minister of the Environmnent, Ruth grier, is expected to hand down a ruling as to hearings before the Environmental Assessment Board. Layoffs continue at Davidson, More people have been laid off from Davidson Instrument Panai Textron since the plant began a shorter work week to preserve jobs. Just prior to Christmas the Company laid off 100 employees, and t' 'en another 100 late in January because of the slumping auto market. Now about another- 30 people have lost their jobs since the union and management agreed to go to a four day work week recently. 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