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w • SINCE 1854 • AMALGAMATED 1999 WITH CLARINGTON THIS WEEK • Prcssrun 21 ,'XHI 54 Pa^ts Wednesday August 15, 2001 To the top of her sport Sports, page 14 Optional 4 week delivery $5/$l newsstand Cadillac's new look Wheels pullout Teachers 'angry' over test plan ». Take test or 'consequences Janet Ecker BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Improving Improving teacher performance in the classroom to benefit students is the point of both the report of the Province's Task Force on Effective Schools and com ments by Education Minister Janet Ecker, who said teachers who refuse to be tested could face "consequences", says the head of the local public school board. In an interview Tuesday, Ms. Ecker said teachers may be penalized penalized if they refuse to complete complete the required tests. "There arc consequences if any employee defies employment employment policies or any government government laws," she said, adding, "This is not about firing teachers, teachers, this is about doing professional professional development." However, Phyllis Benedict, the leader of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO), has said her members will not participate in the government's government's mandatory recertification recertification tests every five years. Ms. Benedict says elementary elementary teachers have voted 97 per cent not to comply with the teacher recertification plan. "What our members are most angry about and will not accept is that their teaching certificate is on the line every five years," said Ms. Benedict at the federation's federation's annual conference in Toronto. "There are other ways to maintain professional development development and give kids what they deserve." The problem is in the delivery, delivery, agrees Patricia Bell Metivi- er, local president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Fed eration. "Teachers are not opposed to having competent people in the classroom, obviously. What teachers oppose is the tactics the government continues to use," notes Ms. Bell Mctivicr, adding teachers constantly find ways to improve their performance performance in the classroom. "Teachers are always taking courses and paying for them," See TEACHERS page 2 PHYLLIS BENEDICT Teachers 'will not accept'certificate 'on the line every five years.' Clarington talent can be found at the CNE Making up for a good time BOWMANVILLE - Richard Toms appears relaxed as Lee- Anne Leslie paints him a new face during the Visual Art Centre's 25th anniversary celebrations Saturday. The VAC hosted numerous events to celebrate its silver anniversary. Hells Angels hold 'business meeting' A large number of Hells Angels Angels from Ontario, Quebec and Alberta spent the weekend in Durham for what police suspect was a "business meeting." Police surveillance teams tracked the bikers' movements and conducted numerous traffic stops. One member of a recently formed Clarington-based Hells puppet club, the 987s, was arrested arrested for breach of an undertaking, undertaking, stemming from his release by police on an earlier charge, police said. About 150 bikers, some who Local folklore will be, part of historic walking tour Saturday DRIVE CLEAN ACCREDITED TEST & REPAIR FACILITY »An official mark of the Province of Ontario used under licence. Whitby - Oshawa 1110 DUNDAS. ST. E., WHITBY, LOCAL (905) 666-1772 homda www. h on da 1 .com rented rooms at local motels, held gatherings at the Oshawa chapter clubhouse,gt),Q,rtono Avenue Avenue and at the dub-owned marina marina compound in the village of Caesarea, on Scugog Island. Unlike a much-publicized large Hells party held at the marina marina property two weekends ago, police were not expecting the visit this past weekend. "We don't believe it was a social social event like the last time. This BY JACQUIE MclNNES was more of a business meeting," Staff Writer said Durham Regional Police BOWMANVILLE - A Sergeant Paul Malik. house of ill repute,'fisticuffs be tween a mayor and a newspaper si editor and the mysterious disap pearance of Bowmanville are some of the secrets of the past to be revealed this Saturday, Aug. uiucde rn Ellin it 18 durin S a walking tour through WnEnE i u rmu 11 the older part of town! Editorial Page .6 The Bowmanville Museum, Classified 9 in conjunction with the Old Snorts 13 Bowmanville Neighbourhood ^ riirc iic » pm ' Association (OBNA) will host a ulVfc Ua A uHLI. walking tour from 2 to 4 p.m. General . . .905-623-3303 The same day the museum Distribution will hold an open house from 1 905-579-4407 t0 4p-m. „ .. u _ "Last year's tour focused on ueain nonces the buildings," explains Bill 905-683-3005 Humber of OBNA, who will co- Sincerely Yours host the tour with museum cura- 1-800-662-8423 tor Charles Taws. "This year it uinh elfn ' will focus on the stories." non site Participants in the. walk will dUmamregi0n.com tje re galed with tales like the one email about the "brouhaha" between a jbobbitt@durhamregion.com tum-of-the-century mayor and FAX 905-623-6161 thc editor °/. thc „ Can , adian Stales " man, says Mr. Humber. Courtice student competes for Ambassador title BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Clarington Clarington residents will get a little glimpse of home at this year's edition of the Canadian National National Exhibition in Toronto. A number of Clarington talents will be showcased at The Ex," which runs from Friday, Friday, Aug. 17 to Labour Day, Monday, Sept. 3. A local animal groomer and trainer and her dogs, the Durham Central Fair Ambassador Ambassador who will be in the running running for the provincewide ambassadorship, ambassadorship, and an area concert band, will be among those participating in the big fair's events. For the second year in a row, Bowmanville groomer and trainer Ruth Ann Miller and her two dogs,, brindle French Bulldog Coco Chanel and cream Standard Poodle Poet, will be taking part in the Info Woof section of the Ex. Info Woof, an area filled with dog experts and their animals, will give visitors a chance to ask questions and learn a little more about various breeds "so they can make a sensible choice about a particular breed of dog," says Ms. Miller, who runs Bow- manville-based And Puppy Dog Tails. Last year, Coco Chanel took part in Eukanuba Super- dogs, a high-energy caninfe performance troupe which provides "the most amazing performances you have ever seen," raves Ms. Miller. She says Coco Chanel will "probably" "probably" take part in the shows, offered several times a day again this year. Ms. Miller plans to be at Info Woof, in Hall C of the National Trade Centre, for part of the Exhibition's first week. Also on hand at the Ex will be Katharine Found, an 18- See CLARINGTON'S page 2 WALTER PASSA RELL/V Statesman photo BOWMANVILLE - Bill Humber of the Old has some interesting yarns for those joining Bowmanville Neighbourhood Association a walking tour of the town Saturday. "Mayor Solomon Cartwright and started a fist fight in the mid- After one heated argument, the die of the street." ■aUEBMIW'X'V Hillier, the first inhabitant of the Strike house (on Beech Avenue) took great exception to something something written in the Statesman," relates Mr. Humber. When the editor of the time, M.A. James, was walking home from the office, office, "Mr. Hillier stopped him HOT SUMMER k SPECIAL! mme; . works! This wasn't the first time a Statesman editor had come to blows with a local politician, he adds. In the mid-1870s the mayor of thc day and the editor both served on the school board and "hated each other's guts." mayor "picked up an ink ball" and tossed it at his opponent. The ink fight continued in the paper as the editor's "blasphemous" editorials were followed up by equally nasty letters to the editor . See WALKING page 2 Older a small, medium « Huge pizza with up in 6 toppings, and ;gri ll) chicken wings wj||j|rod a mimTnbnsco humid