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Orono Weekly Times, 21 Jun 1989, p. 9

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Great Pine Ridge Kinettes hold annual Last Tuesday along with the Kinsmen the Great Pine Ridge Kinettes held their annual dinner meeting when Janet Oegma was elected president, Ann Arsenault, secretary, Helen Cartier, treasurer and tiev. Stacheruk, registrar. community and stated it was a Councillor Larry Hannah, acting pleasure to be present. Mayor, was the guest speaker for Pictured above are: Vickie bar- the evening bringing greetings from ton, Anne Arsenault, Bev. the Town of Newcastle. He wished Stacheruik, Sam Clark, Helen Car- the clubs a long rich service to the ' tier and Janet Oegema. Report on Concern for Life meeting Members present were given an update on the Morgentaler injunction injunction prohibiting all pro-life activity near the Hardbord Street abor- tuary. Material promoting chaste lifestyle and life-supporting choices is being purchased by the group for donation to local schools. Concern for life had an information information booth at the Courtice and area assoc. Flea Market on June 3. Board of Education notes (Continued from page 8) may. be awarded a scholarship for a further year up to a maximum of four years. Other awards approved last night include a Rotary Club of Cobourg Award for Cp-operative Education, a Canadian"'Forresters' Bursary, a 25th Anniversary Bursary created by the Clàrke High School 25th Anniversary Anniversary Committee^, the Cobourg Legion Merit Award for Cobourg schools, the McDonald's Excellence in English Award for Grafton Public School, and- the Castleton/Colborne Optimist Club French Award for Grafton Public School. School Assemblies Correspondence from the Hastings County Board of Education Education was received concerning thefr •recent resolution on the occupant load of sfftdent assembly areas as set out ih the Ontario Building Code and the Ontario Fire Code. It was moved by Trustee Bob Spooner and seconded by Trustee Wilf Day that the correspondence be referred to the Operations and Finance Comftiittee for review. School opening and dosing exercises Trustees voted last night to support support a resolution from the Timmons Board of Education to indicate to the Ministry of Education that the Timmins Board wishes to see the Lord's Prayer reinstated as the prayer recited in schools as part of the daily opening exercises, and that the Ministry amend its current A presentation of the groups activities activities and objectives will be made to the Woman's Ministries Group at Liberty Pentecostal Church on June 15. Planning is underway to hold booths at the upcoSung Blackstock and Orono Fairs. The next Concern for Life meeting will be held on June 27 at 10:00 a.m. at Karen Martins home, phone 987-5786. regulations on opening exercises to allow local school boards to design opening exercises that reflect the wishes of the local community. The Board nominated Trustee Bob Spooner as a contact person with whom the Timmins Board ^'correspond ^'correspond in establishing a Province- wide network on this issue. Appointments John Reid, currently Principal of Waverley Public School, has been named Superintendent of Instruction Instruction (Special Services) effective 21 August. 1 Reid holds a Master of Education Degree, a' Special Education Specialist Certificate, and a Supervisory Supervisory Officer's Certificate. He started his teaching career in 1966 as a classroom teacher for The Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education and became an elementary Vice-principal in 1970, and an elementary Principal in 1974. He has acted as Chairperson of the Area Elementary and Secondary i Principal's Associations, as a committee committee member on several hiring teams for Vice-principals -and Consultants, Consultants, as a member of the original staff training and development development team for Northumberland and Newcastle, and has served on secondment to special services at the Board of Chairperson of the Special Education Identification, Placement and Review Committee for secondary and elementary panels. Reid has been active in the Oshawa, Whitby, Newcastle United - Way, in the Lions Club, in the Big Brothers Association of Newcastle, and. is a former Regional Councillor for TV Ontario. Wally Pitt, Principal of Courtice Farm crops doing well in area John Findlay, Durham East Agricultural representative, has been quoted to say that he would * now expect 100 percent of the crops in Durham East to survive this year, , barring hail or other mishap. Farm crops over Northumberland Northumberland and Durham East have been progessing well this spr- ing which is somewhat of a change ' from that of last year. Rainfall to this point, has reached that of -the entire summer in 1988. Most crops have passed the critical point, it has been stated. According to Russ Dow, of R.R. 4 Bowman ville, he has never seen in recent year sud) growth in the early part of the spring. 'North and South Public Schools, , has been named Principal Designate for the proposed new school in ■•Courtice Heights. The Board decided decided to name a Principal Designate to enhance community involvement in the planning staggs of the school. Sebastian'Reisch has been appointed appointed to the new position of Computer Resource Teacher for a three year term starting in mid- August. Sébastian is Head of Mathematics for Clarke High School, afrd, during the 1988-89 school year, has been the computer liaison person for the Board under a special financial arrangement with IBM. Salary Increases ' The Board approved a fifty cent an hour increase for instructors for non-credit courses, bringing the rate tor $48 per four for 1989-90. The rate for principals for noncredit noncredit courses will remain the same - $105 for the first five courses and $80 per course for the remaining cost. Driver's education salaries will remain at $24 an hour while student fees for the courses will* rise from $180 to $200. The charge for noncredit noncredit courses will remain at $2 an hour. . The Board approved *an overall 4.5 per cent increase in salaries for administrative and educational support support staff beginning in September. ' V 'A Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 21, 1889-9 Women Into Trades Fifty participants of the Women Into Trades and Technology (WITT) program and Re-entry Cabinet Making for Women program program gathered together for certificate certificate presentations Friday, June 9, at Durham College. The keynote speaker was Kathryn McKenzie of the Apprenticeship Branch of the Ministry of Skills Development who' congratulated the participants on their achievements. The WITT program is an 18 week coursetiiesigned to give women ex- posurè to various skilled trades programs programs and provide math and generic tool skills. Many ' participants participants go on to further training programs while others go into the workforce. The Re-entry Cabinet making program is' a 32 week course for women re-entering the workplace. In addition to woodworking skills participants are taught time and stress management, entrepreneur- ship, decision making, math and blueprint reading. The course also includes eight weeks spent at local companies to, gain work experience. Most of the participants have been offered positions. The program was made possible through the Canadian Canadian Jobs Strategies program. The Cabinet making program made a contribution of $1,200 to the Durham College Scholarship and Bursary Fund. The money was raised through the sale of cabinets made by the participants. During the program Richard Snowden, Director of Student Success, accepted accepted the donation on behalf of the college. Participants from Bowmanville area were: Carol Passant; Terry Peterson and Monique Tolfo; from Cobourg Heather Knippell; from Newcastle Shirley MapeS. Affordable Dream Vacations! • Free Vacation Planning Services • Discount Cruises e Charter Vacations • Airline Tickets • Honeymoon Packages • Hotel and Car Reservations 4 PERSONAL & CORPORATE TRAVEL SERVICES travel Agents International fVt 're with you all the way 68 KING ST. E., BOWMANVILLE . Over 300 Agencies in North America 623*6600 THE T LUNG ASSOCIATION DURHAM REGION WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE MEMORIAL DONATIONS RECEIVED IN REMEMBRANCE OF Ruby Aldsworth Mr. Bert Amey » Mr. Murray Arsenault Mrs. Bette Brick Mr. Archie Brown Mr. Dutch Butler Mrs. Richard Butler Mr. William Cane Mr. William Clarke Mr. Thomas Connelly Mr. Lloyd Currell Mr. Ernest Davis Mr, Lloyd Derusha Mr. Donaid Dowderi Mr. George Edwards Mr-. Alfred Evans Mr. Sydney Evans Mr. Geprge Findlay Mr. Richard Glanfield Kaye Hare Mr. Bert Hill Mr. Frank Jacques Mr. John Kehoe Mr. Donald Kemp Mrs. Clara Kleinfelder Mr. Josef Ligenza Jennie Locke Mr. Harry Lott Mr. Jim Love Mr. William Mason Mrs. Ada Matthews < Mr. Dan Matthews Srir. Mr.'Thomas McClurg Mrs. Elizabeth McGurk Mrs. Muriel Morris Mr. Bill Mulholland Martha Ness Mr. Sidney Nobbin • Mr. William Norris Mr. Vincent O'Neill June Paulter Mr. f Cecil Rahm Mr. William' Ralston Mr. George Smith Mrs. Mildred Sullivan Mrs. Ethel Walker Mrs. A. Ward Nancy Wilson THÈSE THOUGHTFUL CONTRIBUTIONS HELPED FUND PROGRAMS TO ASSIST LOCAL RESIDENTS SUFFERING FROM ASTHMA, LUNG CANCER, AND EMPHYSEMA • ' "If one life has breathed easier • ' because you have lived, you have succeeded" Ralph Waldo Emerson

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