WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988, PAGE 9 '8 REVIEW 87 REVIEW '87 REVIEW '87 REVIEW '87 REVIEW SCHOOL RENAMING Hockey Night in Canada host Brian McFarlane was guest speaker at a cerernony to rename a Whitby public school after Leslie McFarlane, a former Whitby resident who was author of the popular Hardy Boys books. The former Whitby Senior School (Gr. 7 and 8) became a kindergarten to Gr. 8 school under board changes. MILL RATE Separate school supporters in Whitby faced a mill-rate increase of 8.5 per cent in 1987 over1986 as a result of the budget approved. The Whitby increase was the second !owest of all the municipalities in Durham Region. Oshawa was the lowest at 7.28 per cent and Brock Township the highest at 9.28 per cent. STRIKE AVERTED The threat of a strike by Durham's 1,200 secondary school teachers was averted at the eleven- th hour and students returned to school on Tuesday, Sept. 8 as scheduled. A tentative agreement was reached at 4 a.m. the previous Saturday morning after a marathon 30 hours of non-stop bargaining. Contract talks had dragged on between the two sides for almost 18 months. Last May teachers in Durham voted 95 per cent in favor of a strike. The teachers received a 4.9-per cent salary increase in each of the two years of the contract retroac- tive to September 1986. They will also be covered under the current Ontario Dental Association schedule and orthodontics has been added to the benefit package. The new contract also calls for the hiring of il new staff members immediately and for an additional* 16 teachers to be hired by the end of the first semester and another 16 by Sept. 1, 1988 for a total of 43 new staff. NEW SCHOOL Ministry of Education school project approval given in 1907 in- cluded a new separate elementary school in Whitby. The school is to be located on lands north of Rossland Rd. will "take the pressure off" enrolment at St. Paul's elementary school. An addition to St. Paul's, located on Garrard Rd., was also completed. Nigel Schilling, Q.C. and Brian K. Evans are pleased to announce the relocation of their law offices to 330 Byron Street, South, Whitby, 668-3392, 686-1808. Over 18 years of service to the community in family law, motor vehicle and other personal injury, wrongful dismissal and other civil litigation. BRICK Durham Board of Education trustees accepted a tender for the construction of Bellwood Public School in the Kendalwood area of Whitby. The tender was $77,000 higher than original estimates because of a Town of Whitby requirement to use brick construc- tion, rather than blocks. Trustees voted overwhelmingly in favor of investigating, opposition to the Town of Whitby requirement before the OMB to determine future ac- tion. HIGH SCHOOL The Durham separate school board announced that, subject to provincial grant approval, two new high schools, one English and one French, were planned to open in Whitby in September, 1989. The schools, to be in one building, would be located north of Rossland Rd. between Garden and Anderson Sts. NEW BOILER A new boiler for Henry Street High School was one of 10 Durham Board of Education projects ap- proved for capital funding in 1988 by the Ministry of Education. The controversy that erupted in 1986 over a proposed medical tran- sfer station for Whitby ended early in 1987 when Decom Medical Waste Systems'decided instead to locate in Etobicoke. The Ministry of the Environment had given approval for either the MIX-UP A mix-up in communications by the ministry resulted in an announ- cement that funding had been ap- proved for an addition to Palmer- ston school in Whitby. However, the board had previously informed the ministry that the Palmerston ad- dition was nô longer a priority due to boundary changes which will see 125 students from Palmerston tran- sferred to Whitby Senior. A com- mittee of Palmerston Piarents maintained that the school should still be expanded as the facilities in the school are outdated. HEADQUARTERS Durham Board of Education in- vited proposals from municipalities for another, larger administration building wanted by the board. In March, trustees gave approval in principle to the acquisition of a new building, saying the existing headquarters was inadequate for staff. WOODCROFT Tia Woodcroft, a Scugog resident who is one of the four represen- tatives for Whitby on the Durham separate school board, was elected as the new chairman of the board for 1988. Sunray St. location in Whitby or Etobicoke to handle 50 tons of waste a day. The decision came as a relief to Whitby's Corridor Area Ratepayers Association, the residents' group which had fought the application. RENOVATIONS Durham Board of Education trustees selected a tender by Ellern & Sons Construction in March for the renovation of four science lab rooms at Anderson CVI. The tender was in the amount of $500,340 and was the lowest of seven received. '87 REVIEW '87 REVIEW Decom locates in Etobicoke iL22