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AROUND THE SCHOOL BOARD by Bob Willsher, Ward III Trustee, N/N Board of Education ; : The provincial government made recent changes in the payment of Worker's Compensation premiums for students in unpaid work assignments, assignments, Initially, I was concerned that this would have a negative impact on our high school cooperative education education program because some employers employers may not be able,, or willing, to pay for these benefits for students, ii On February 18, 1993, the pre- tnier announced that the provincial government would pay the premium for students involved in unpaid field placements. This is good news for boards as the high cooperative education education program for students has a great tleal of participation and is a valuable 'educational tool. I! Much has been said and printed about education, the cost and quality. We all recognize a need to change. Taxpayers can no longer, afford die duplication of services, be it education education or other forms of government. Local discussions with the Town of Newcastle are important. Although no major changes have been imple- . merited to this point, I am convinced that continued discussions will lead to improvements and cost savings. Our provincial trustee association, OPSBA, is making a concerted effort to provide direction in the effort to reduce education costs. Recently Paula Dunning, President President of OPSBA, said "School boards, like many other businesses, are facing facing rapidly diminishing resources. In order to meet public expectations for a better education system, we must immediately extend cost-saving measures to all aspects of school operations." operations." I agree, but there is considerable considerable frustration in seeing changes implemented. There is an urgent need for. the provincial government to legislate legislate change. Too much of our busi-, ness is regulated by the province or controlled by collective agreements that are difficult to change. Some of the suggestions put forth by OPSBA to the Minister of Education Education include: ^ -, employment of alternative per- | If you are .new to Bowmanville... Would like to call on you with 'Housewarming Gifts and 'Information about your new location. <'•; Call Your Î > ' Hi r Neighbour Hostess ; Mrs. Audrey Kehoe at ! sonnel, such as early childhood education education instructors, teaching assistants, library technicians, youth counsellors, counsellors, and business and industry leaders: leaders: - establishment of cooperative relationships relationships among school boards to provide school program and administrative administrative and financial services: - examination of restructured school operating schedules, such as year-round schooling or staggered school day; and - use of alternative school sites, such as shopping mall or business and industry offices. Clearly things have to change. The operation of two publicly funded systems can no longer be afforded. With a major paradigm shift I am convinced we can achieve this objective objective and still maintain the fundamental fundamental educational objectives of the two systems. But the decision to change must have provincial direction. Both public public and separate systems suffer from "turf protection syndrome". This comes from trustees and administration administration alike. It is an opportunity for newly appointed education minister, David Cooke, to write himself into history and help get the cost of education education back on track. The Canadian publishing firm, McClelland and Stewart Inc., has given given Trent University seven sets of the Contractor Selected For College's New Training Centre Durham College recently engaged the services of Milne & Nichols as the general contractor for the Skills Training Centre, Whitby Campus at 1610 Champlain Avenue. The contractor contractor has an office in Durham Region Region as well as Toronto. The construction contract is ak most $6 million. Milne & Nichols was the lowest bidder. The Durham College Skills Training Training Centre, Whitby Campus is a 150,000 square foot building scheduled scheduled to open this fall. The Centre will enhance the Durham Durham Region's ability to respond to a broader range of training needs in the community. The facility will house pre- apprenticeship programs and apprenticeship apprenticeship programs including, Metal Trades, Industrial Maintenance Mechanic, Mechanic, General Machinist, Precision Metal Fabrication, Machine Shop, Mouldmaker, Tool and Die Maker, Electrical and Plumbing, Electrical and Construction. The facility will also be home to the Ontario Skills Development Office, Office, the Durham Management Centre, Centre, the Productivity Improvement Centre, and the Industrial Training Centre. The Centre will serve about 3,000 part-time students in the beginning and is expected to grow over the next five years to serve over 5,000. _ In addition, all of the tradespeople will be local, as arc the managing architect architect and engineering consultants. Speaking of education costs, the board is making its way through budget budget discussions. Although we haven't reached the point of knowing what the potential tax implication for this year will be, I am not optimistic. There have been a number of employee employee programs implemented, such as pay equity, that will significantly impact our costs. I hope we can get through the process with little or no increase but it would take the elimination elimination of some current programs or services to achieve that goal. For those who have an interest, budget meetings are held in Cobourg. Remaining budget meetings will be held on March 24, April 7, 14, and 21. It is anticipated the board will approve approve a budget on April 29. The school in my area have been busy with many activities. The series of parent meetings have been quite successful. I have noticed more parents parents turning out for the meetings. Please make an effort to participate in your child's education by attending. attending. The next meeting will be the Parenting Parenting Symposium at Kirby Public School on April 6 at 7:00 p.m. There will be representatives from various board and community services to provide provide you with information and answer answer questions, New Canadian Library paperback series. series. The books were donated to the university as a tribute to author W.O. Mitchell and his wife Mema on their 50th wedding anniversary. According to Orm Mitchell, a Trent University English professor and son of the Mitchells, the gift honors honors Mrs. Mitchell as much as W.O. because she made such a significant contribution to W.O.'s work. The McClelland and Stewart New Canadian Library series, established in 1958, spans more than 200-years of Canadian writing. Under the general general editorship of David Staines since 1988, the series features more than 80 titles of authors ranging from Susanna Susanna Moodie to L.M. Montgomery to Mordccai Richler and Margaret Atwood. It is constantly expanding to accommodate the wealth of our literature, literature, with the release of works by such authors as Leonard Cohen and Micheal Ondaatje. McClelland and Stewart are the publishers of W.O.'Mitchell's latest; 1 three books, Ladybug, Ladybug, For Art's Sake, and Roses are Difficult. The firm also published a newly- discovered complete version of Who Has Seen the Wind. Avic Bennett, Chair and President of McClelland and Stewart, says the donation honors an author who, like the scries, represents the best of Canadian Canadian literature. Each of Trent's six colleges and JBC's off-campus Oshawa program will receive a set of the New Canadian Canadian Library scries. Each set consists of 73 books. The books arc to be housed in an easily accessible location location and loaned out on an honour system. system. 623-0395 McClelland and Stewart Donates Literature Series to Trent University COMMUNITY LIAISON GROUP - SITING TASK FORCE Low-level Radioactive Waste Management •0 GROUPE DE LIAISON COMMUNAUTAIRE - GROUPE DE TRAVAIL Choix d'un site de gestion des déchets faiblement radioactifs PORT GRANBY LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT SEE The Newcastle Community Liaison Group (CLG) wishes residents of the Town of Newcastle, and particularly those living in the Port Granby area, to have as much information as possible about the waste from the Eldorado processing operations now buried at the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Site at Port Granby. To get this information, further studies are being undertaken. Drilling rigs will commence work at the site around (he middle of March. Nineteen boreholes will be drilled at different parts of the site to: • determine if the information from earlier studies is correct; • ensure the information is complete; • obtain more up-to-date detail about the waste buried there; • determine whether or not contamination from the waste has moved - up, down, or sideways; • locate any movement of contamination through the ground water. Some of the boreholes will continue to be monitored to track the ground water as well as any future movement taking place and affecting the land around the site. These will also help to see how effective the clean-up is when finished. The information gathered from these studies will be available to the public. If you have any questions or concerns about this study or any other issue surrounding the Port Granby Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Site, please contact the CLG: Newcastle Community Liaison Group 37 King Street West P.O.Box 20011 Newcastle, Ontario LIB 1 M3 Telephone; 987-7786 Fax: 987-1237 Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, March 24,1993 5 -- Education Young Dance Students Prepare for Annual Competition These happy students from the Jean Simone School of Dance are just some of the young ladies who are preparing for their annual competition circuit. Over 40 eager students hope to win ribbons and trophies trophies in three festivals in Mississauga, Brampton and Niagara Falls, New York. These students are : (front, 1-r) Ashlynn Ostrander, Ashley Schofield, Julien Allin, Joanne Allin, Samantha Gould, and Karen ' Agaton. In the mtdd e row (1-r) are: Jessica Spooner, Laura Patterson, Kelly Churchill, and Jennifer Speck, and in the back row are (1-r): Joy MacPherson, Jenny Patterson, Andra Kent, and Penny Pick Immanuel Christian School Receives by Laura J. Richards Music Festival The Senior Concert Band from Immanuel Christian School recently performed at MusicFest Canada's Southern Ontario Concert Band Festival Festival in Scarborough, Ontario. As a result of their outstanding performance, performance, the adjudicators presented the band with a Silver Award. This award was presented in recognition of the band's outstanding performance performance during their first appearance at MusicFest Canada. The Concert Band features students from Grades 5-8. The adjudicators commented on "how impressed they were with the group's level of musical maturity, at such an early stage in their development". development". The Immanuel Christian School Band Program is under the direction direction of Mr. Dennis R. Ulman. Immanuel Christian School provides provides quality Christian education at the elementary level to over 145 students students from the Oshawa/Whitby area. From she should have if something goes wrong in an abortion? Would that mean that 13-year-old girls would have to have a child by her upstanding and community-minded father/ brother/grandfather? Would that mean sexual assault and wife abuse would be swept under the carpet again? Another thing a CHP government would do is lower the deficit by cutting spending and some social programs, programs, although the party leader docs not specify which ones. Those of us who care about rape crisis centres and women's shelters already already know which social programs would be cut. Within the article, it states Mr. Ca- villa says his party is the only one in Canada that places a high priority on God and moral values. He said other political parties have destroyed the role of the family through their policies. policies. The definition of family has been changing throughout the centuries. Currently, families no longer consist of a husband and wife with three children children living in a bungalow surrounded w Page 2 by a white picket fence. It is no longer a case in which he goes off to work, and she stays at home. These days, one is just as likely to sec the wife going off to work while the husband stays at home to take care of their children and work out of the home. And, as the picture changes, so do the participants. No longer do just men and women raise children. Same- sex couples do too. From what I have witnessed, many of the same-gender families are better off emotionally than those living in stereotypical situations. Mr. Cavilla, with all his one-sided comments, is intolerant of any other viewpoint but his own. The same could be said of myself, although I do strive to see different points of viewi Even his. However, I do not call myself a Christian and then say nothing else but my way of living is the right way to do things. Jesus Christ did not teach intolerance. intolerance. Why should others? AUTO WORKERS (OSHAWA) CREDIT UNION LIMITED ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE HELD 1:00 p.m. SATURDAY, APRIL 3rd, 1993 • McLaughlin Collegiate & Vocational Institute Stevenson Road North, Oshawa, Ontario The By-Laws provide that at this Meeting YOU WILL: Elect Directors and Committees; Consider Proposed Amendments to By-Laws; Receive Board and Committee Reports and Audited Financial Statements DON NICHOLLS, Corporate Secretary Copies of the Annual Report may be picked up at any Credit Union Branch or AutoCash site. I contains all the Reports listed above. Reports will not be mailed unless requested. They must otherwise be picked up.