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■Mnwu. i ■ (.TitGUHU JW .-tuutjti ■fcmtuajur^r fl • Total Market Coverage ofClaringtonfrom the Publishers of The Canadian Statesman • A James Publishing Community Newspaper Saturday, September 5, 1998 144th Year Circulation: 21,265 Darlington Plant Gets $ 16 Million Office Ground was broken Wednesday on a new office building and training training facility at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. Clarington Mayor Diane Hamrc and Darlington Site Vice President Charles Packer were on hand to put the first shovel in the ground for the new project. The building will accommodate 700 people and will be commercially built by a general contractor. contractor. The offices will house new staff, brought in for Ontario Hydro's improvement improvement initiatives. As well, it will allow staff who have been in temporary offices since the plant's construction construction to move into more permanent quarters. The building will also hold a facility to support new training programs. The building . was approved by Ontario Hydro's board of directors in July, and will be 157,000 square feet. It will cost about $16 million million to construct and will be completed late next summer. Keeping Buzzzzzzy Remy McCoy, Abby McLaughlin and Ashley Fallis try to determine which bee is the queen in a display set up at the Blackstock Fair. The 133rd annual event was held last weekend under near-perfect weather conditions. by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer Local Catholic teachers will meet Monday to discuss discuss their next move. - According to Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association local president Patricia Bell, the union does have a strike mandate from its members. But talks Thursday and Friday, ending after The Independent's press deadline, deadline, would tell the tale on usinessman Carson Elliott, a former regional councillor and longtime Bowmanville businessman, died Carson Elliott Wednesday, September 2. Mr. Elliott was owner of Northcutt Elliott Funeral Home from 1961 to 1988. He served as a Clarington regional councillor councillor during portions of two terms between 1994 and 1997. He was appointed appointed April 18th, 1994 until November of 1994, following following the death of Councillor Ken Hooper. On July 10th of 1995, he was appointed to fill a vacancy left by John O'Toole when he was elected Durham East MPP. On both occasions, councillors councillors appointed the candidate candidate who had received the second-highest number of votes in previous municipal elections. Carson Elliott was also active in numerous charitable charitable and volunteer organizations organizations of Clarington, often providing valuable behind-the-scenes help for local fund-raising efforts. Among his accomplishments accomplishments was helping to found the first Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade in 1961, shortly after he moved to Bowmanville from Belleville, He was a longstanding longstanding member of the Bowmanville Lions Club and a member of St. John's Continued on page 2 what, if any, action will be taken. "We're having meetings (with teachers) Monday to either take a. vastly improved offer (from the Board) for ratification or to discuss what's going to happen Tuesday," said Bell, adding, if talks seem to be making any headway, they could continue through the weekend. But she was quick to point out a strike "doesn't necessarily mean a full- fledged walkout" by teachers. teachers. Bell indicated a withdrawal withdrawal of voluntary services services such as coaching school teams and offering extra after-school help to students might be an initial move. Talks between the Catholic teachers and trustees broke off last Tuesday, just as OECTA Provincial President Marshall Jarvis says an "acceptable alternative was available." Teachers are currently trying to work out collective collective agreements with boards across the province. This is the first collective agreement under Bill 160, the province's Education Improvement Act, which became law earlier this year. Under the Act, teachers' teachers' contracts expired Sept. 1. But, so far, Bell said offers made just haven't been acceptable to the teachers. "This is contract stripping stripping that goes beyond what Bill 160 dictates," she remarked. Educators in the neighbouring neighbouring Durham Board of Education have been on strike since Aug. 21. They met with negotiators from the board Thursday and Friday, but results of those negotiations were not known at The Independent's press time. Main issues for the teachers surround secondary secondary school workloads. The new legislation requires them to teach an additional class each day. According to Jarvis, up until Tuesday, everything could have been worked out. "We could have avoid- Continued on page 2 Student Charged After Incident at High School by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer A Bowmanville High School student is facing charges after an axe was brought to school on Tuesday. The axe was confiscated from a student early in the day by a teacher, says Sgt. Jim Grimley of Durham Regional Police. "There was no threat at that time," says Grimley. But, when the student arrived at the school's main office around 11 a.m. Tuesday to retrieve the axe, staff refused to give it to him. The student "became aggressive," aggressive," says Grimley. BHS principal Joe Hubbard was then allegedly threatened, and the youth made an attempt to overturn a large aquarium. The principal was then allegedly struck in the face. It took three teachers and the principal to restrain the student until police arrived. A 17-year-old male student, of no fixed address, has been charged with assault, causing a disturbance, threatening threatening death, and mischief. He appeared Wednesday for a bail hearing. Under the Young Offenders' Act, he cannot be named. Waiting Game Public Hiah School Talks in "Holding Pattern" by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer Clarington's public high school teachers are still waiting for a meeting with the negotiator for the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board. Teachers' contracts expired Aug. 31 under Bill 160, the province's Education Improvement Act, Union districts across the province are currently negotiating their first collective collective agreements under Bill 160. Teachers with the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board are currently "in a holding pattern," says Dave Nickle, president of the local branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. The Board's negotiator, who recently returned from holidays, has not yet set up meetings with local teachers' teachers' unions. Nickle says the negotiator is also contracted contracted to two other education education boards, which could explain the delay. Students with the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board returned to class last Tuesday. According to Nickle, while "teachers arc fulfilling fulfilling their professional duties in the classroom," the union has withdrawn all voluntary services usu ally provided by teachers. "The voluntary services have been withdrawn reluctantly ... Teachers are fulfilling what is prescribed prescribed in the Education Act," says Nickle, adding educators are arriving for school 15 to 20 minutes before class begins, and leaving 15 to 20 minutes after the end of classes. The major stumbling block so far has been extra teaching time prescribed by Bill 160. Talks with teachers in the neighbouring Durham Board of Education broke down Aug. 21, leaving those teachers on strike. However, talks were continuing continuing Thursday and Friday, ending after The Independent's deadline. Those talks were aimed at getting teachers back to work before students in Durham return to school Tuesday. The union has withdrawn all voluntary services usually provided by teachers Independent Flyers The final race scheduled for the road course at Mosporl Park was held last weekend, as the Canadian Auction Group 300 was the main event. During practice rounds, Scott Maxwell's 1/68 car did a few laps around the course. Proving that practice makes perfect, he won the feature race on Sunday afternoon. 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