PAGE 6, WEDNESDAY, J UNE 3, 1981. WHITBY FREE PRESS GM choir ri to sing at garden The General Motors Choir will be appearing at the Cullen Gardens anti Miniature V'Iige on Monday, June 8 from 7 to 7:45 p.m. andi from 8:15 to 8:45 p.M. Counel Column I I By COUNCILLOR JOE DRUMM East Ward The Mayor's Task Force for the Disabled, which I am chairman, has oeen busy for the past few months. We have eight committees working hard toward presenting a report to Council in Sep- tember. We have committees on accessibility, education, employment, housing, leisure and recreation, special events, services anti tran- sportation. There are 75 persons giving of their time and effort to help that segment of our society which has neyer been in the mainstream. Perhaps the real dividend is, we have the involvement of a great many handicappeti people, and it is this in- volvement which gives alI of us the impetus to give that little extra. Last week council gave approvement in principle to a sub-division agreement with Cozmec Invest- ments. This will be on landis north of Manning andi west of Anderson. There was, with that particular sub-division agreement, a problemn with storm water management. Myseif and Councillor Joe Buggelli met with the planner from Cozmec and Our senior staff met with the staff of CLOCA (the Cen- tral Lake Ontario Conservation Authority), and as a resuit of these meetings, the problem was solved. This means that some time this year sanitary sewers will be as far as the hydro right-of-way west of Elizabeth Cres. The last link for sanitary sewers to Elizabeth Cres. in on property owned by Peterhead Ltd. with whom I have hati a number of conversations but because of ownership of a small parcel of landi east of the hydro right-of-way, I can- not get a definite answer when they will develop. It CONT'D ON PC. 18 Board extends French BROWN' S F OODMA STER BIROOKLIN 655-4521 8:30 arn to 6 pin Except Thurs. & Fni. Nights til 9 prn Pop People Pop CASE 0F 12-30 oz BOTTLES $4.99 & dep. CASE 0F 24-10 oz. BOUTLES $4.49 &dep. ASSORTED FLAVORS Disabled Task Force hard at work --- -- -7 - - -- Il 1 1 1 - - - -- « 7-ý - --v --- ý - qRý Durhamn Board of Education trustees voteti 12-7 in favor of ex- tending the basic Fren- ch language program to Grade 4, bringing the board's program Up to Ministry of Education standards. The new Core French program agreeti upon at last week's board meeting will see studen- ts in Grade 4 through Grade 13 taking 40 minutes of French lessons a day. By the end of Grade 13 students would then have received 1,200 hours of French, the ministry's level for guidelines for basic competency in one of Canada's two officiai languages. Currently, with the program beginning in Grade 8, students are only receiving 780 hours, or two-thirds of the basic competency. Some trustees op- posed the extended program arguing that more French lessons would take away from other subjects. Trustee Ross Irwin said that extension would take away class time from other impor- tant subjects. The report showed that 150 minutes per student per week was lost when French was put in Grade 6. Irwin argued that more time should be dedicateti towards teaching English since Ontario is not officially a bilingual province. As part of ministry regulations, students can now opt out of the core program. That fact did not mat- ter to trustees who wan- ted to know how the ex- tension would affect resources and the budget. A recordeti vote to table the motion was defeateti 12-7. Trustee Linda Carter (Pickering), a suppor- ter of the extension, saiti that members had not stoppeti to worry about cost factors before ap- proving a computui education program to begin next September. Program and curriculum chairman Grant Andrews said that a report on the program's impact would be prepareti later