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p... 22 - Waterloo Chronicle, mummy, hum-iv 20. 1975 BY THE BOARD The Board offers a wide variety of educational pro- grams other than those that take place in the schools each day. Among these are: Facts from the Waterloo County Board of Education. PROGRAMS OFFERED llcaiunal news and views“ SUMMER SCHOOL .e Summer School is held every year in July and Au- beyond the classroom reall-O/MS----------" ( llllll-allSlllfE)E8/' ""t)tfj"hriillfttjt/' f Sears I EARL McLEAN - Box M," Waterloo, Ont. FOR YOUR FIRST LEISURE OR PERMANENT HOME, WE INVITE YOU TO SEND FOR YOUR FOLDER TO REVIEW OUR POPULAR MODELS. COST $1.00. MEMBER UNITED FL0msTSASSOctA TION F loWers by Sears Fairview Park, Kitchener for every Special Occasion Phone 744-6141 (Ext. 365) THE ELDORADO "Charge It" IQUI mums [OI - "VIN (on m gust (mornings only) at Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute and offers a secon- dary school oriented pro- gram to students and adults. A wide variety of credit courses towards a diploma and upgrading courses for those who need them are available. All are free to Waterloo County residents. During each of the last three summers. over 1,000 people have registered at Summer School. Courses are taught The Night School program is offered for the adult com- munity of Waterloo County and is conducted at Cameron Heights Collegiate, Elmira District Secondary School. Kitchener-Waterloo Collegi- ate, Laurel Vocational School. Preston High School. and Waterloo-Oxford Dis- trict Secondary School from early October to the end of May. As at Summer School, credit, courses towards a diploma are offered as well as many non-credit/ general interest courses. Even though community colleges and other institutions offer similar programs, _ over 1,800 people registered for Night School last year. pay- ing a small fee for each course. Region hires first woman lawyer by qualified teachers. most of whom are employed during the regular school year by The Waterloo County Board of whom are employed dur- ing the regular school year by The Waterloo County Board of Education. Recent- ly, innovative courses such as the following have been instrumentalmusic. GERMAN SCHOOL NIGHT SCHOOL The Waterloo Regional Council has ‘set a first by hiring a woman as an assis- tant to the council’s regional solicitor. A German School on Satur- day mornings was started in September 1973 at Stanley Park and Crestview Public Schools in Kitchener. Darlene Allems. a former resident of Kitchener and a recent graduate from a Tor- onto law school, was hired by the region and becomes the first woman regional solicitor in the K-W area. ,» The Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled has announced a "poster design submission" to obtain a design for an original pos- ter to signify the competi- tions. The Games scheduled for June 19-21 in Cambridge, will involve over 350 athletes. The athletes will include people in wheelchairs. am- putees and the blind. Art instructor Gary Foxall and his studhnts at Park Manor Senior Public School in Elmira. study 'Picasso. 60 Years'. on exhibit at the school on loan from the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Self-explqnatory exhibits such as this one may be borrowed by schools. senior citizens homes and other in- stitutions. The poster stibmission is being used as a promotional send off for the games and is open to anyone in the Region of Waterloo. VOTE 10-7 FOR 140% INCREASE A pay hike amounting to 140 per cent was approved by and for Waterloo c0un- ty board of education trus- tees last week. The in- crease is the maximum sal- ary allowable under the Education Act. Trustees now will re- ceive a stipend of $600 a month and the chairman will receive $900 a month. The design itself must be 11 inches by 17 inches with light blue the main colour. Lettering will be added to the winning design following the judging. Deadline for entries is March 14. All art work should be submitted to 156 Argyle St. Cambridge (Preston). For further in- formation, call 653-1733. Trustees' previous stipend was $250 a month and $375 for the chairman. Rev. Harry Janke of Kitch- ener attempted to amend the rates to $400 a month for trustees and 8600 for the chairman. His amendment was defeated 10-8. Board chairman Doreen Thomas said she expects about 90 per cent of the boards across the province soon will be at the maximum Poster competitions for gameii Incidently, this will be the School trustees get 8600 a month first time all three groups (amputees, people in wheel- chairs and the blind) will participate in the same com- Mr. Cromwell told the board that it should not be voting itself a raise and in the future if a raise comes up. it should be voted to the next year's board to make trustees answerable to the public at election time stipend allowable Trustee Ross Cromwell noted that an Ontario Insti- tute for Studies in Educa- tion study determined that the “social-economic.quali- fications for school board office reduce by 75 per cent the number of people that could serve" Waterloo trustee Lynne Woolstencroft. who voted for the maximum. said that any less would be "both paternalistic and sexist. .. She said that ifis paternal- istic because it would not attract any newcomers Board of health members received the infor- mation without comment. except for Ald. Jim Sutherland of Cambridge. who suggested the townships' contribution might be related to "too many country roads." A rise in the population of the Region had caused the births per 1,000 residents to drop though. from 18.2 to 17.47. _ _- The regional population now is 286,284. It was 257,300 in 1972 and 268.200 in 1973. Preliminary statistics show 5.003 infants were born in the Region last year, including 2,645 males and 2.358 females. The townships led Waterloo Region munici- palities in the number of births per 1.000 popu- lation in 1974. chalking up 19.09 compared with 17.39 for Kitchener. 17.66 for Waterloo and 18.94 for Cambridge. Too many country roads? petitions. Previously. Wheel- chair Games were held which did not include the amputees and blind. with less than middle-class incomes, the composition of the current board, and is sexist because working mothers could not afford to run because of the loss of a second income. Rev. G. R. MacDonald said he could not support a figure in excess of ttev. Jan- ke's motion. "When you put a pie on the table, you‘re not expected to eat it all at once, I don't think that the min- ister (of education) expects us to eat the whole pie ._ Mr. Cromwell said that if members could not ac- cept the whole maximum. they could do what the Ham- ilton board did. Vote the maximum allowable and take the share they want. Two members of the board refrained from voting on the maximum raise