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2- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 13, 1998 By ChrisHall 5:38, just after 5:30, and Port Perry Star = Ontario Hydro had it Close to 10,000 resi- back on by 10 p.m.," said dents west of Port Perry Mr. Jones, adding that were left without hydro the commission's answer- for almost five hours on ing service handled "hun- Wednesday evening after dreds of calls from people a transformer was dam- wanting to know what Dave Jones, manager Areas = between of the Uxbridge Hydro. Uxbridge and Port Perry Electric. Commission, on those porth of 8 Over our SALE PRICES! Sale continues until winter stock is... GONE, GONE, GONE, GONE, Gore, co. oc . Wysteria's Ways 235 Queen Street Port Perry, Ontario (905) 985-1598 'BrooKlin Village Shoppe 57 Baldwin Street 'BrooKklin, Ontario (905) 655-3474 il ® 80 Water St., -- including Epsom -- and PIZZA & SUBS "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Rebates could be better spent on schools, say Concerned Citizens of Durham Group urges return of 'dirty money' By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Parents here and across the province are being asked to give at least a portion of the "dirty money" they receive from the government back to schools. The Concerned Citizens of Durham group is sug- gesting that parents donate at least $40 of the $400 they're eligible to receive through a rebate program designed to com- pensate them for expenses incurred during last year's teachers' strike. In a letter to the editor urging parents to direct funds to schools, Concerned Citizens of Durham chair Patrice Gibson-Kirby calls the refund "dirty money". She also decries the fact that the Durham Board of Education wouldn't allow a letter from the group to be sent home from school with students. In an interview last week the Port Perry woman said members of her group are among peo- ple in Ontario who feel the rebate, legislated by the provincial government after the strike, is "Immoral". "Our whole group feels that it's Mike Harris try- ing to buy people back," said Mrs. Gibson-Kirby. "The money should go back to the kids." The Tory government said at the time of the leg- islation's passage that the rebates could be paid out of savings boards amassed by not paying teachers' salaries during the two- week strike last fall. But Mrs. Gibson-Kirby con- tends paying out $400 to all eligible households will use up not just that money, but much more. "It's actually costing the school boards more if we all do claim this," she said. 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Mrs. Drew added that while the board will accept donations from the rebates -- they have to go through the board, which can issue a receipt and then direct the funds to the school and program of the donor's choice -- officials couldn't give permission for letters from the Concerned Citizens of Durham to be sent home from schools with students. "We don't use the chil- dren as couriers of infor- mation of a political nature," she said. "We have to be very careful about that." teachers' Mrs. Gibson-Kirby said the local group is following: the initiative of the Ontario Peoples' Forum, which has issued an appeal for donations called "The First Forty Challenge". It's hoped that fimancially-strapped schools will benefit from the rebate program, which 1s available to parents of pre-teen children who had to scramble for child care during the strike. The Concerned Citizens of Durham was formed as a response to the govern- ment's education reform legislation Bill 160, which also . precipitated the strike. Opponents of the law believe it is an assault on public education, and democracy in shifting much of the decision-mak- ing power regarding schools to the province. Although Bill 160 is now law, it can still be vig- orously opposed, said Mrs. Gibson-Kirby. "We're basically getting together to see what we can do to stop this. It can be done," she said. "Just because it's turned into a law doesn't mean we as a people can't say it's wrong." Having trouble keep- ing those new year's res- olutions? Although you may still be trying to quit smoking or have declared "dieting" a swear word, don't forget to donate that unwanted vehicle to The Kidney Foundation of Canada. You'll receive a tax receipt Here's a resolution: Get rid of junker, help out charity and we'll tow the vehicle away free. 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