Richmond Hill Public Library News Index

The Liberal, 5 May 1976, p. 3

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Ian Campbell. chairman; Tike Papas, vice-chairman; Mardi Anderson, alternate vicefhairman and secretary; Larry Fulbert. publicity manager; and Tony Harbert. treasurer. Officers of the group â€" knogvn 55 Promoting the Realization of Oppor- tunities for the Disabled <P.R.O.D.) â€" are: RICHMOND HILL â€" A group of disabled adults from southern York region met at York Central Hospital last week to elect an executive and choose a formal name for their group. RICHMOND HILL â€" Full in- formation on the Block Parent program will be given residents of Walter Scott Public School area at a meeting May 12 from 8 to 10 pm. in the Disabled form group Sponsored by the Navy League of Canada. the local groups are the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps for boys and girls aged 14-19, and the Navy League cadet Corps for boys 11-13. Block parents plan information meeting Tag days will be held Thursday through Saturday, and on Sunday the cadets will parade from the HMCS York at the Toronto reserve base to the HMCS Haida. RICHMOND HILL â€" A weekend tag day and Sunday parade will be held by two local cadet groups in observance of Canada‘s annual Navy Week May 3-9. Cadet Stewart 'I‘aplin of 219 Ruggles Ave.. Richmond Hill. acts as quartermaster of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Patriot. He rings the ship's bell during weekly parade on Monday evenings at the corps’ land-based ship on St. Mary’s Anglican Church grounds. Naval cadets having weekend tag days J Aboard the Patriot School trustee is irked we 'â€" at teachers ’ Impatience Chairman for the local block parent organizing committee, Rosemary Culver of Church Street South‘ em» phasizes the invitation to anyone to come to the meeting. The block parent slogan, she says, is “You don’t have to be a parent to be a block parent Needed are people for telephone work at home. for babysitting for those who are doing door to door canvassing, and anyone interested in ensuring there are havens easily accessible to young children in the neighborhood in an emergency. The purpose of theseâ€"meetings is not only to inform the public. but also to recruit volunteers to help get it under way. ’ Similar meetings will be held in other schools in the community as the committee proceeds with its program to organize school neighborhoods. The meeting has been arranged by the Richmond Hill Block Parent Organizing Committee and is open to all. school The week culminates with Battle of the Atlantic Sunday to honor Canadian sailors and airmen who gave their lives in World War II and subsequent campaigns Navy Week is observed across Canada each year to focus attention on maritime commercial and defence interests. There are 362 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet, Navy League Cadet and Navy League Wrenette Corps throughout the country, from coast to coast and as far north as Mayo in the Yukon. That should “start a bell ringing" with the one who has to authorize payment of such claims, Weller said. For example, figures showed that one employee, although on vacation for two weeks, still managed to pile up 1,900 miles for the month, Weller said. He said the report he had received after first complaining, contained a list of totals for the past two years. but did nothing to explain the high mileage levels. plained that board employees were accumulating excessively high mileage totals, said this week that if the mileage claims are legitimate, then it was costing the board too much to keep people in their cars. His own calculations, based on the highest mileage figures. showed a total of 43.116 miles, which equalled 196 miles daily per person over a 220-day work year‘ the trustee said. AURORA â€" School Trustee Norm Weller of Aurora, who earlier com- Mileage costs repugnant: traShy GORMLEY â€" A Gormley father of criminal side of life for 15. three has written York Countv Board of Dolit‘e officer " Hamiltnn AURORA â€"- Two executive members of Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation were taken to task by Trustee Donald Cameron of Vaughan, for not staying around long enough to be taken to task, at a meeting of York County Board of Education last week. The members, who were not named, had attended the meeting to discuss the matter of pupilâ€"teacher ratio in the schools. The matter was up for discussion on the board’s agenda, but as it was nearly midnight before they got around to it. many of the spectators, including the THESE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF A FULL RANGE OF BUILDING MATERIALS ON WHICH THERE ARE FANTASTIC SAVINGS TO BE MADE DRIVE RIGHT INTO THE FACTORY FIRST COME FIRST SERVED 8 AM. â€"- 5 P.M. Prefinished Panelling Various Thicknesses 4 ft. x 8 ft. sizes $2.50 per foot 2” x 4" x 921/2" Economy Spruce (best offer) $ .99 $4.99 Countertops & Kitchen Cabinets Below. Cost Roof Trusses 49¢ each Hers was the name selected in a draw Sponsored by the town as the new service began rolling this week. RICHMOND HILL â€" Margaret Parker of Lynett Crescent is the winner of a year’s free rides on Richmond Hill's new transit system. Jack Hamilton, a staff sergeant with York Regional Police and lay minister with Newmarket Free Methodist Church, said he was repulsed to think the board would allow such a “repugnant book to be used by 14 and 15-year-olds. “The swearing and profanity is ofâ€" fensive even to me, who has seen the GORMLEY â€" A Gormley father of three has written York County Board of Education asking that the book. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger. be removed from the regional high school English curriculum. Said Cameron: “I stayed so that I It could talk to executive members of the c OSSTF and they walked out. And, any dammit. I'm mad about it"‘ nut Cameron said he felt the board had received a “negative” response from federation officials all along, and asked the teachers to “come our way for two officials. had left Broadloom Remnants Harding â€" West Mills â€" Barrymore â€" Etc. School book called Woman wins free rides 12” 12" Amico Medicine Cabinets w/Mirror $9.95 each $2.25 each 4” x 4” x 10ft. Decorative Cork Panels x 12" Self-Stick x 24" Non-Stick 69¢ each Spruce Brand Name The bus service is using three new Mercedes-Benz 19-seater buses pur- chased by the town at $27,550 each. She was one of some 700 local residents who entered the draw while buses were on display at Hillcrest mall and Richmond Heights plaza over the weekend. 19¢ per sq. ft. It was against the law to use obscene or profane language in public. and children reading the stories would be encouraged to break the law. Hamilton said‘ He is circulating a petition protesting use of the book, whose grammar is also atrocious, he said. Allen, school board chairman. He said he wouldn‘t allow his children, aged 9. 12 and 13‘ “to read such trash or be taught by a teacher to read it in the classroom." criminal side of life for police officer," Hamilu Allen, school board cha $1.99 $9.99 awhile The board plans to meet with the OSSTF executive in camera at a later date. u "nuc. It couldn‘t be just one way. he said. Cameron then added: “I don‘t want any hard feelings, but I think I have to put it on the table." 4¢ - 12¢ per linear foot Various Sizes of Interior & Exterior Doors (seconds) Antique Oak Parquet Flooring Large Variety of Moldings Wood & Vinyl me tor 15 years as a Hamilton wrote Doug THE LIBERAL. Wednesday. May 5. 1976 â€" A 2c per linear foot Cedar Doors from $19.95 each Part of the reason for the teachers' strike two years ago resulted from the board's refusal to negotiate the PTR. the letter said President Walter 'MacDonald siaiidV that if a contract figure wasn't set by September and the 17.15 figure restored. the boa rd could be in violation of the law. According t6 the federation the present _contracted figure is 17.15 to l. AURORA â€" In a letter to York County Board of Education, District 11 of Ontario Secondary School Teachers‘ Federation last week expressed shock to hear that Education Director Sam Chapman had set an interim pupil- teacher ratio figure at 17.55 to l. Pupil-teacher ratio disputed 19¢ each 5/8” x 2/; All Lengths Spruce Tomato Sticks ‘ X 3" x 7ft. Spruce 5¢ each Exterior 1% Solid Sam Chapman ratio questioned

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