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Page 2ZWhItby.Fmo P"es,. Wockiday, Deoembr23,1992 Board, urged to 'improve salary offerý to teachers'. By Miko KowaimkI Durham, Board of Education trustees'may have toý improve Essentially, <we're everything. you need for the next -365 days... Theé,annr AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY Wateh for it! their offer to) obtain a contract settlemeut with secondaay, sehool teachers. hAprovincialfact fimder' rdeport hsonludedthat* the frSds curreut mouetary- pr-opBal is «net sufficiento kreach a collec- tive ogreeot with te tea- ichers. But fact finder Heatho Crisp olsôwarna teachers tha; thei desire 'for a oue-year ontroct may ho risky since e eno ~ic con- ditions "wfll ho worse ne year. A copy of Criap's re ~tou tiatona between th~ board o<is1,476 secondary tachers was releosed early this week. A Toronïto la Cyerap was appointeb h ducat!on.Rela- tions Cm ssion teo ct às a fact finder for the board sud Pistriet 17 of the 'Ontario Secondary School TeachersFi Pderation. mhe teachera have beenî with- out a contract since th4ir pre- vious two-yvear agreement expired Aug.3S1. A hearing involving the board, union sud Crisp« was held Nov. 20. Theý fact finder's responslbility was to offer .opinons ýon issues under negotiation and auggest recommendations for reacIing agreemeut., Her report is- not bmnding. eiig . e flhe union is skn '. e cent -menrease over a 'one-year controct. Thé board has offered' three increass'of*0.5 per' cent overa two-year period., Iu- her report, Orisp recom- monda ,the parties consider a one perenitincrease over one year, basedon 'lsat Junels 0.5 per-cont consumer price index, plus onother0.5 per cent. A secondary teacher in, Dur- heam- with 10 years' experieuco now earns $64,345 perye. AUthughCrs trmdthe bardpsoffe as insuffcient, "par- ticularly over a two-year are SUEPAGE 10 Chrstmas present for WMhitby:o More jobs » An unnamed omaywill ho rigng 40 new ~ manufacturiug jobs to Whitby '~ says Mayor Tom Edwards. He Wou't say- who -the comi- pany i or wheu they're coming to towu. 'Alil I want to do is just get the message out that Santa Claus -and,,our industrial -marketing departinent have'been very effec- "We're ging to have an announcement to make at the, beginning of the new year.~ Edwards stresses that the jobs are not being created at -anothor commuuitys expense. «Wer'renot taldng jobs .away fr-om someébody The announcement ia bemng made now, says <Bdwards, be>us «I *us want to share the good uews bfore Christmas.» RGFARY (IR t - - - - - - - - - CHRISTINE LAEMERS idisplays, her 'Maple Leaf ýPin,' =eonizing her, many years of service with the Cathollo Womns Leaguel. The ayýard i8 the CWL's highest honiour. Photo by Malc Reeso,WVhltby Fre. rMM CWL honour.,for. residènitwho has always 'hAelped out' By UMk Reosr Christine LaSmers says ah. ,wa «sm"loeaftertreevnï 'Mpe Leaf Pin'nreooeizi 'her4 yeara of. service inVte CaholicWomens'eageCW «I was thrown for ga lo;thia in the hig1hest aword you ,can get, 'recaIa Laemer. uthought here I i, hsD )utch kid,. and they picked me out for thia.. 9'hey aay they'vo nover seen me as uiet as that night!»" .Lemrjoud'hoC-I t g 1' sdharovrlooked bock. Shffe?é WorkedI with the Gueardin Angels, was a nurse at, St. BornardPs Convalescnt Hospital in Toronto, .organized. countlesa bazar -1a nd, raft classes, worked for the Korch of Mimes, The Rose oÏf Durham, St. Wmiceut iu Woodbridge ... the lin peeonwho always wants to reach out and, heIn ainother persnu»sa1sLaemer.9 love to'do shareablework.1 'Shaeobl wor incudes teaching people crafta 'or how to. sew or kuit, which Lasmers Baya is very imýportant. «I think if more people kept buay with thoir honda, there wouldn't besos much trouble today.» 8h. urgeé ladies to consider workiug with the CW-L "With the rocession, there's an especially high ueed for people te help OUt. Iere'sa lot iof satisfaction in holping people, notes Laemers"In my belhef,- what youd or others,,you get back; what o. arounid comes arounid.» 1 6 D'S CAR- AFeRDA: E MNHYPYE ~ Moving Systems Bus: Oshawa (416) 728-1603' - .5.- . . . ..-'. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .