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TTY » 6- PCRT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 22, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - LOL 187 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 E-Mail: port.perry.star@sympatico.ca Publications Mail Registrations No. 07881 Subscription Rates: 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5 95 GST EDITORIAL: Managing Editor News Reporters BUSINESS OFFICE Office Mgr. .......... Accounting....... Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, Heather Callan Publisher............ General Manager... Don Macleod FAA Gayle Stapley --.. J. Peter Hvidsten PRODUCTION -- Jeff Mitchell en Chnis Hall Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Trudy Empringham, Pam Hickey, Rhonda Mulcahy, Robert Taylor, Barb Bell, Richard Drew, Karen Dynes Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co Ltd - "|. 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont ADVERTISING Advertising Mgr. .......... Don Macleod Sales: Deb McEachern, Ginni Todd, Laurie Thompson, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, Deborah Tiffin Editorial Comment Enough; it's time for action Enough. It's time for the strike that's crippled our schools and delayed the beginning of class- es for thousands of high school students in Durham to end. Unfortunately as of this moment we have entered Week Three of the strike, and it would seem there's little hope for optimism. Durham's separate school high school teachers have rejected an offer put forth by their board, and talks between the public board and its teachers broke off Sunday. Both sides are firmly entrenched in each dispute, and have at the ready compelling arguments for continuing their struggle. Similarly, in both disputes both the teachers and boards express a willingness to talk, and hopes that agreements can be reached locally, without intervention by the province. If there is no movement by the end of this week, however, the province must act. And you know something? That could be according to plans at Queen's Park, anyway. The only winner in such a scenario is the government, which abhors unions and has school boards in its sights. As the strike continues its is easier for the province to portray teachers as ungovernable, and boards as ineffective. Meanhwile the public is fed up, and just wants an end to the disruption. It's time for local action. Immediately. 1868 THE BoY ScouTs MAY GO COED! I FOR ONE DO NOT APPROVE! RNAS A ® ia i 7 " ii A \) Dy oo, Letter Of The Wook 4 bio i ab The old Currie Mill was built in the 1868 and it has withstood a number of potential disasters over its 135 year history, including the destruction of the entire town by fire in 1884. The mill is the town's oldest landmark, and still To the Editor: Many people are no doubt frustrated by the current crisis in Ontario education. It is diffi- cult to know who is right. The teachers' position is that being forced to teach an extra class will have a negative effect on the quality of our children's education. They maintain that the extra workload, shared by fewer teachers, will result in inadequately prepared lessons, less time for individual and extra help, and a reduction in extracurricular activities. The government implies that teachers are currently underworked, that education quality will not suffer if it reduces the number of Remember When? "star Who's right in teachers' strike? teachers, that teachers can teach an extra class with no reduction in the quality of instruction, individual and extra help. ; Who is right? I offer a simple test to help us decide: | suggest we ask ourselves what will be the cost if each side is wrong. [f the teachers are wrong, the cost will be the salaries of a few thousand young, energetic teachers who would otherwise be unemployed. But if the government is wrong, the price will be paid by a generation of Ontario's chil- dren whose education will have been sacrificed in order to pay for a tax cut. Aeneas Lane Port Perry 1998 stands today as a testament to the town's past. The building was owned by a number of parties over the past century, and stopped operating as a mill in 1980. Since then it has been used as an outlet for an auto parts supply store.