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12 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, December 5,1984 Section Two Guest Speaker Addresses Kinettes Separate Funding Decision Changed Fred Wiener, zone 1 Cystic Fibrosis coordinator, was invited to be the guest speaker at the Kinettes special C.F. night held Wednesday November 21st. Pictured here are (left to right) second Vice-President Lee Cook; C.F. Chairperson, Bonnie McCracken; speaker Fred Wiener, and Kinette President President Cathy Wiener. New Member Welcomed into Kinettes by Tom Grimmer The latest salvo has been fired in what is fast becoming becoming the hottest issue at the Northumberland and Newcastle Newcastle Board of Education: the debate over full funding for the separate school system. system. Trustees recently reversed reversed a previous decision to shelve an administration report on the impact on this board of full separate school funding. That report, which two weeks before had been rejected by many trustees trustees as too extreme in its conclusions, will now be sent to the Ontario Public School Trustees Association Association (OPSTA) to be used in that organization's brief to the provincial government. OPSTA has serious reservations reservations about the announcement announcement in early June by Premier William Davis that separate school systems systems would now be funded right up to grade 13, instead of funding being cut off at grade 10. The organization has solicited impact assessments assessments from all boards in the province, and the voice of the Northumberland and Newcastle board will now join in. The decision to shelve the report -- which concluded that the worst possible impact impact of full separate funding funding would be a loss of 9.6 per cent of the system's high school students -- was made at the November 8th meeting of the board. Several Several trustees and board chairman Ian Wilson were absent from that meeting, however, and a 6-6 tie vole meant the report would not find its way to OPSTA. (Bowmanville's Donna Fairey decided after that meeting to forward the report report as an independent trustee to OPSTA.) The reason many trustees did not like the report is that the projections are premised premised on the assumption that every student coming out of a separate elementary elementary school would attend a separate high school. The ground rules for the impact study were set by OPSTA. But one of the trustees ab- Members Urged to Join Sorority Group The Bowmanville Kinettes officially welcomed a new member, Anna Trudeau, into their club at last Wednesday night's meeting. Kinette President President Cathy Wiener (right) is pictured here with the newly appointed Kinette. Beta Sigma Phi, Kappa Delta chapter is alive and well, living in Bowmanville and area. In keeping with the motto of Life, Learning and Friendship, Friendship, we have all experienced a very interesting fall. Our programs have given us the opportunity to find out about the importance of Child Inden- tification. We have explored the Newcastle Newcastle Village Water Treatment Treatment Plant and learned the secret of our drinking water. "Know your Colours" allowed all of us to find out what "Season" we, as persons, are colorwise and what colours to wear successfully. With Christmas coming, we created corn husk wreaths to decorate our houses as the pioneers did - appropriate in Ontario Bicentennial Year. The chapter held a very successful Rushing Party in September. ' The "Come Dressed as a Painter" theme, brought out the artist or house painter in everyone! A very lucrative yard sale held also in September has helped fill the coffers for our varied Service Projects. These include Stral- haven Nursing Home, Big Brothers, Blood Donor Clinic, Cancer Society, Transition House as well as others. We are all looking forward to our . Annual Christmas Dinner at the Lions Centre in December. This is an opportunity opportunity to get together with the other two chapters in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. For our last meeting before Christmas we are having a Social Evening with a festive theme, lots of fun and laughter, laughter, small gifts for our Secret Sisters and a Craft Auction for Transition House, Oshawa, and of course delicious refreshments! refreshments! Sorority is a wonderful experience for me and many others all over the world. It has opened up new doors of interest and friendship. If you are interested in joining us please contact . Bernice Chambers 623-9270. By Penny Anne Davidson sent from the earlier meeting, meeting, Orono's Bill Carman, made an impassioned plea for the matter to be reopened for another vole by the entire board. Mr. Carman noted that the board had in Sept, voted to support OPSTA, and was now, in effect, turning its back on the organization. "This is probably one of the most important issues to hit this board since its inception inception in 1969 -- and it's too important to shuffle off somewhere," Mr. Carman said. "I really cannot understand understand how trustees who have taken an oath to protect protect the public school board can sit on their backsides and watch the goings on at Queen's Park and not care enough to have any input. I just cannot fathom it..." After a lengthy procedural procedural wrangle, punctuated with several periods of tense silence at the board table, Bowmanville Bowmanville trustee Hal McKnight, who had originally voted to shelve the impact report, made a motion so the issue could be re-opened. Campbellford trustee Doris Linton said it was of little use to try and change the government's mind when a provincial election was on the way. 1 Dr. Wilson said that may be true, but the board should still make it known where it stands "although it may be a losing cause." In a lengthy address to the board, Mr. Carman urged trustees to forward the report report to OPSTA. "The only way we have any weight is through an association and that association is OPSTA." ■ Port Hope's Wilf Day noted that through Mrs. Fairey's action OPSTA already already had what they had asked for. "We have co-operated co-operated with OPSTA in that they have got the information...what information...what they don't have is our support for the idea of complaining about the worst possible scenario before before we know that is the case." Mr. Day voted to shelve the report at the Nov. 8 meeting. He and separate board representative Emmett Emmett Creighton were the only two to remain in oppos ition to the report going to OPSTA, the other trutess changed their minds. Mr. Day said there was a danger of being "inflammatory...the "inflammatory...the danger of being inflammatory is that there are students who are watching watching and listeningto this and living through this. And those students we hope are being brought up in an atmosphere atmosphere of tolerance. We should set an example." He labelled the report the product of "dubious assumptions." assumptions." There are clear lines being drawn up at the board over the issue, and Mr. Carman Carman led the group in favor of OPSTA's critical stance of the provincial action. Mr. Carman noted that "conservative" estimates say the province's education education budget will need to be expanded by $85 million in 1985 and $168 million in 1986 if Mr. Davis's plan goes ahead. "We've got to protect our students...our programs and our human resources, and by this I mean our employees. employees. And we've got to protect the taxpayers." Colborne trustee and Vice-Chairman of the board John Carter voiced similar sentiments, saying even though it may make little difference in the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle board in terms of enrolment, enrolment, the full separate funding plan will have far- reaching consequences for every taxpayer in Ontario. He cautioned trustees against being "parochial" on the question. After the 14-2 vote to send the report after all, Mr. Carman Carman said he was pleased with the outcome of the meeting. He called the vote both a moral and a substantial substantial victory. He noted that although the deadline set by OPSTA to submit reports was passed, the trustees' association association would not be making making its case to the government government commission set up to study implementing the full-funding plan until Nov. 29, and therefore there was still time to have Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle's voice included in the action. action. Mr. Creighton said he did not know why so many trustees trustees changed their minds. "I vote on my conscience -- I guess they vote on theirs. I'm not surprised after that impassioned plea. I just. hope the board is not embarrassed embarrassed down the road some years when all these disasterous impacts fail to come true." ; ■ m Trophy for Supreme Champion Ewe Over All Breeds,: Lloyd Ayre of Ayre Acres, R.R. 4, Bowmanville won the following at the Royal Winter Fair, on his Hampshire Sheep: Four firsts, Champion Ram, Champion Ewe, Government of New Zealand Trophy for the Supreme Champion Ewe over all breeds, Sharon & Ken Bogden Trophy for the Champion Hampshire Ram, Dwayne Acres Trophy for the Champion Hampshire Ewe, Jack & Lois James Trophy for Premier Breeder & Exhibitor of Hampshire Sheep. KEEPING HER IN UNE It's something you may have overheard but will seldom hear discussed. Yet it's a brutal reality. For every year, one woman in ten is abused by her husband. Put down verbally. And beaten up physi- cally-to the point of unconsciousness, hospitalization hospitalization or death. 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