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Chronicle Deborah Crandal! Chronicle Staff A Waterloo mother of three, who has fought since last May to gain information about Waterloo Region Roman Catholic separate school board‘s Langdon Hall retreat, is appealing directly to the provinâ€" cial Freedom of Information (FOI commisâ€" gioner for assistance. Kalita Stemmler has applied to the FOI commissioner to have a $3,440 fee waived â€" the amount the separate board quoted Stemmler goes to the top to get fee waived Board extends a warm welcome to immigrants The Beirdo Brothers and Sister Sheila lead students in a Piedâ€"Piper fashion during the Westvale New Waterloo school opens with a parade of students The Pied Pipers of Westvale school Page 10 | Association offers _help to the little guys in business her for the retrieval of the information she is requesting about Langdon hall and other conferences attended by board staff. A twoâ€"andâ€"aâ€"halfâ€"hour meeting in Toronâ€" to last week with FOI mediator Dwight Jenkins failed to provide Stemmler with any solutions. She has stopped the mediaâ€" tion process and asked Jenkins to forward her appeal to the FOI commissioner. "He (Jenkins) basically wanted us to dwindle our requests down to nothing," Stemmer said of the mediation meeting. Page 26 Waterloo. Onta Business Sports ... Short story Opinion .... Community vvllllll\ll"l’ emmnmmmnn en n n n n n ns Entertainment ............... But Stemmler said she needs that inforâ€" mation to prove, one way or the other, how the board is spending taxpayers‘ money. Stemmler said Jenkins wanted her to eliminate one of her requests â€" a complete list of all conferences, seminars, speaking engagements and retreats attended by trustees, directors, staff, support staff or associates of the board for the years 1989/ 90 and 1990/91. He said retrieving that information would be timeâ€"consuming and thgrefgre very costly. Departments School opening . 10 \_ 13 & 27 Pete Cudhes photo MÂ¥ Advertising supplements delivered with tonight‘s Waterloo Chronicle: Zehrs, City of Waterioo Recreation Guide, Elmira Downtown* *SelaMadâ€"ansas ante Stemmler said she received an anony mous phone call informing her that a We want to know what conferences are being held. And we know for sure there was another one that nobody knew about,~ Stemmler said. "It was at Cleveland House in the Muskokas, I believe in the fall of 1989." Whether she is wrong or whether the board is wrong, the truth will only come out if th_i_s;~ information is provided, she said Sunny, High, 22 C Thursday‘s weather The school containx 14 rex lar classrooms. two kindercar ten rooms. two special educa tion rooms. an environmentall controlled room. a developmen tally challenged progrem. : child care facility. librarvre source centre. a single in mna sium with a mulit purpose roorr attached. administration. gund ance and auxiliary space In an unusual twist of firstâ€" day events, school children were led to school in a Piedâ€"Pipâ€" ered fashion by the Beirdo Brothers and Sister Sheila. The group travelled through the Westvale community, with the school‘s teachers and staff greeting more than 420 stu dents from kindergarten to Grade 6. Prior to coming to Westvale, Osborn was principal of Eli zabeth Ziegler Public School. one of the oldest public schools in the Waterloo region "It‘s really exciting to be able to start up a new school." said Osborn. standing in the school courtyard moments after the students were led into class by their teachers "This is an excellent schao ‘"We were very fortunate to have such excellent weather for this event," said principal John Osborn. facility, but it will make the It wasn‘t your average first day of school. There were few tears and music filled the air Tuesday at the opening of Westvale Public School, the newest school of the Waterloo County Board of Eduâ€" cation. *Selected areas only. . excellent sche s the peopie th difference (Continued on page 11) 191