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mm y s tune F € 4 igs ‘@v"! x wl i7 h o en ; C . l wl betite s . . ‘Waterfoo Chronicle] 130th Year No. 25 Ontario separate school trustâ€" aes have taken off the gloves in their defence of full funding. Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff Representatives of the proâ€" vincial separate school trustee‘s association are travelling to eight cities in Ontario on a mission designed to clear up the ‘"‘"untruths‘‘ and ‘*exaggeraâ€" tions‘‘ being reported concernâ€" ing the extension of full funding to grades 11, 12 and 13 in the separate school system. Central to their campaign is a newlyâ€" released information package in which the association responds to seven questions which it sees as central to the issue. Centennial public school student crossing guards were just a handful of those from around the region who spent a day of fun at Kitchener‘s Bingeman Park last week, courtesy of Waterioo Regional Police. The guards perform their service in a school â€" police liaison and the yearâ€"end funâ€"day is the police‘s way of saying themks. Twelveâ€"yearâ€"old Alex Needleman of Waterioo seems to be appreciating the gesture. Mark Bryson photo Separate school caravan comes to defence of funding SLIDE RIDE ‘‘Silence is consent â€" we‘ve listened and listened and lisâ€" tened .. now we‘ve broken our dignified silence. We don‘t want the issue clouded by lies," said trustees association president Joe Duffy at a media conference in Kitchener Monday. Duffy accused public school boards and leaders of the public high school teachers‘ associaâ€" tion of misrepresenting the ‘‘facts‘‘ of full funding. ‘"‘They‘ve said some outrageous things, so we though we should get some facts in front of you," he said. Duffy struck out at Ontario Secondary School Teachers‘ Federation President Malcolm > 4 "It‘s all a numbers game with him (Buchanan). Have you ever heard him once speak of the. children in the class?" said Duffy, noting that 30 per cent of teens attending grades 11â€"13 in the Catholic system attend classes in portable buildings. Duiffy also denied OSSTF claims that 8,000 public high school teachers will lose their jobs as a result of full funding. The Catholic trustees‘ associâ€" ation is spending some $20,000 on its public awareness camâ€" paign, most of which was spent in the preparation of the inforâ€" mation kit. Buchanan, saying that Buchanâ€" an is only concerned about losing union members, and has been ignoring the interests of the students. According to information in the package less than 1.3 per cent of the approximately 32,700 teachers employed in public secondary schools will be afâ€" fected by the extension of full funding. As well, less than 1.3 per cent of the province‘s 545,900 public high school stuâ€" dents are expected to change systems. The kit says that the separate school board has guaranteed to hire any person displaced through full funding, including support staff. Duffy stated that nonâ€"Catholic teachers will be hired by the separate school board and must meet the guidelines set out in the Education Act, as they do now. Catholic teachers, howevâ€" er, are ‘"expected to abide by the teachings of the Church." The trustees‘ group denies the suggestion that the completion of funding will in any way ‘‘harm‘‘ the public system. They note that Alberta, Sasâ€" katchewan, Quebec and Newâ€" foundland all have fullyâ€"funded separate and public systems. Duffy rejected the idea that the implementation of the exâ€" tension be delayed to allow for further public discussion, and added that a change in governâ€" ment should not affect the process since all three provinâ€" cial parties support full funding to Catholic schools. ‘"‘We want to provide true equality of educational opportuâ€" nity for the more than 430,000 students in classrooms in the separate school system in Onâ€" tario," said Duffy. "We wish éanly to serve the best interests of all students." \he _ Chronicle Staff .Waterioo‘s Oktoberfest Heritage Timeteller is finally living up to its name â€" a clock has been added to the $250,000 contraption giving it the ability to tell time with the best of clocks. Friday, almost eight years from the day the Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Oktoberfest Inc. decided it wanted to ‘‘do something‘‘ for Waterloo, officials from that organization and the city gathered in Heritage Park to mark the completion of the project and the official "handingâ€" over‘‘ of the timeteller to the city. Bill Renaud, chairman of the volunteer committee organizing construction of the timeteller, adâ€" mitted in his remarks that his group has been the recipients of a lot of "goodâ€"natured ribbing" over the past few years because of the ‘‘Very gratified" is how committee chairman Bill Renaud feels to have overseen completion of the Oktoberfest Heritage Timeteller. Melodee Martinuk photo Truly a teller of times past delayâ€"plagued timeteller, but he‘s "‘gratified" to see it finally finâ€" Mayor Marjorie Carroll probaâ€" bly best summed up the senâ€" timents of those present in her remarks when she said, "This is quite a day. In fact I‘m almost speechless. I really wasn‘t sure this day would come." The Heritage Timeteller was dedicated last October, but beâ€" cause of mechanical problems with the animated centrepiece, it was not fully operational. Last She extended her personal thanks to Renaud for the added gift of the clock. ‘"Now I can really say it‘s a timeteller." resents a band of beersteinâ€"like characters and musical instruâ€" (Continued on page 4)