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After a 20 year teaching career (12 at Prince Albert and Raglan Schools) Mae Stark is retir- ing. And last week friends and colleagues held a special tea at Prince Albert School to honour Mrs. Stark. With her in this photo are daughters Albert 3 . i gis wav Sharon Lewis and Janice Harada. Mrs. Stark said she hasn't made any concrete plans for her retirement, other than to "do a little bit of travell- ing." She's teaching grades three at Prince "School this year. Board orders 125 school buses checked for safety (From page 1) at Simcoe Transit's garage staff. - Most, if not all, have been levelled at company 'president, Murray Walker. Driver Kathy Stitt, who along with 'her husband Bob helped organize the meeting, told the Star Mr. Walker has insisted drivers take out what she describes as unsafe buses on runs. Mr. Walker, who was invited to the meeting an hour and a half after it. began, defended the safety record ~ of Simcoe, and said not one school bus has been pulled off the road by the MTC this year. He ako emphasized that buses are inspected regularly by MTC of- ficials, and stated no driver is ever forced to drive an unsafe vehicle. When a bus does need repairs, he said drivers use a spare bus, of which the company has one for every 10 used. Several Simcoe employees disagreed with Mr. Walker, however, and accused him of cut- ting corners when it comes to safe- ty inspection and repairs. The mood of Tuesday's meeting was emotional and charged with anger at times, especially when the Custom Picture Framing 233 GUEEN ST. PORT PERRY -- as 985-2543 'subject of debate turned towards the bitter resignations of three employees over the safety issue. And then on Friday morning, Sim- coe Transit employees received a . newsletter saying Bob Stitt would be "resigning" on June 5 for a remark made about the company and Mr. Walker. Mr. Stitt was part of a small group of drivers attempting to form a driver's association, in order to im- prove thé morale of drivers, the im- age of the company, and bus safety. "I can see a lot of good coming out of this," he said at the meeting. "We don't want to make attitudes suffer. We want to make attitudes improve. All this is going to do is improve our _, lot. Now I don't think anyone can disapprove of that." Mr. Stitt named many specific ideas the association might try to ' implement, but his main objective was to improve safety and morale. By the end of the meeting, some progress was apparently being . made. Mr. Walker agreed to take one employee back, as well as pay- ing the hall rental for the associa- Cn tion's next meeting, set for Tuesday June 9 at 7:30 p.m. He agreed to supply a bus to transport drivers to the meeting. Animal activists go too far After a very emotional debate about the work of radical animal rights and animal liberation groups, delegates to the 63rd Annual Meeting of United Church Bay of Quinte Conference affirmed the biblical concept that animals are a valid source of human food. They disapproved of organized efforts of animal rights activists to confase the public and their use of violent acts to make their points Incidents of violent acts against farms and a retail chicken outlet were related by a member of the committee. Another noted that these movements were increasing the stress already being felt by farmers across the country Since then, however, the oe of the company has deteriorated even more. The latest resignation is just another outburst in a series that has Board of Education representatives wondering what's going on. Local trustee Joyce Kelly said even if the subject isn't on the agen- da of the Board meeting Monday June 8, she will raise it in order to clear up the problem. Jack Upton, meanwhile, said he will report the results of MTC testing at a transportation commit- tee meeting on June 17. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 9, 1987 -- 3 Star recipient of 3 news awards The Port Perry Star is pleased to announce that it has been judg- ed by its peers as one of the top tabloid newspapers in its class (cir- culation 5,000-9,999) by the Canadian Community Newspaper Associa- tion. The Star currently prints and distributes 6,500 copies per week. Your community newspaper was awarded "first prize" for the "Best Front Page" of all those newspapers entered, and received a "second place" for its Editorial Pages. In the Best All-Round Newspaper category the Star was also reci- pient of a second place award, just behind the Leduc, Alberta Representative. During the 1985 competition the Star was the win- ner of first place in this division. Newspapers entering the 'Better Newspaper Competition' are judged on their layout and design, writing effectiveness, feature and ~ news photographs, advertising design, feature articles, news con- tent and classified advertising. The Star is proud to have been honoured with these awards, especially since it was the only Ontario community newspaper in this class to receive any awards. Other winners were from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. ™ "DENT Patrick G. Deegan JRE THERAPY CLINIC ON: 174 Water St. -- Port Perry BY APPOINTMENT onLY! Phone: 985-2916 or 623-4473 (COLLECT) NEW LOC PORT PERRY HIGH SCHOOL "has the following Business Equipment FOR SALE RESERVE BID $15.00 $40.00 17 Electronic/Calculators $15.00 FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT: C.B. 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