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this tkubune wednesday october 4 1989 p3 students teeth show effects of fluoridefree water tracy kibble staff reporter the water children drink at school affects the quality of their teeth according to dr mary bullen dental direc tor for the regional health department a public school dental health study shows children who drink flouridetreated water at school have better teeth than children who drink untreated water says dr bullen the study performed last year at randomlypicked public schools across the region shows northern children where only a few schools supply treated water have more decayed filled or damaged teeth than children in the southern areas dr bullen told the tribune although other factors contribute to the quality of childrens teeth dr bullen says water is a factor to consider and although the majority of schools in the whitchurchstouf f ville area were not part of the study it was found the school that was tested had no flouride in its water supply according to dr bullen the whitchurch highlands school the only randomlypicked school in the area does not have flouride in the water and results show more decay there than other southern area schools there is a difference in tooth quality with flourida- tion and 34 of schools in the south have flouridated water about 667 per cent of regional schools have flouridated water but only 20 per cent of northern schools supply it the study funded by the regional department of health and the ministry of health involved 54 schools picked from a hat the overall results showed most childrens teeth were in good condition dr bullen says but results showed children in the north of the region had 31 per cent more decayed filled or missing teeth than their southern neighbors and about nine per cent need dental care as opposed to about four per cent for southern area children because the flouride study showed the dental health of children in york region is generally good only seven schools will receive continued treatment a cutback from 54 the program proved not to be cost efficient and although every child in york region schools will still receive tooth education we will be taking our resources and focusing more in areas where children need help the most she says the health department will be setting up mini dental offices in schools to provide treatment for those children whose parents do not have insurance or the money to provide proper dental care plan to share funding has boards at odds with ministry julie caspersen staff reporter the york region boards of education agree that government funding is inadequate but they disagree over the on tario governments plan for the sharing of commercial and in dustrial assessment for boards in york region currently for every 1 raised by the york region roman catholic separate school board 448 is raised by the public board as of sept 1988 the separate board was responsible for the education of 35 per cent of york region students but had ac cess to 21 per cent of the assess ment base the separate board in a sept 26 presentation to the select com mittee of education said sharing assessment with the public board is a major step toward equity in the financing of education in ontario currently urban public boards are considered assessmentrich because of the concentration of an industrial and commercial tax assessment which automatically goes to the public school system in the case of a partnership if only one partner is a public school supporter assessment students take in local town council meeting tracy kibble staff reporter a group of 10 summitview public school students came to tuesday evenings council meeting as part of their human geography course the grade 7 and 8 students studying local community as part of the course took notes and watched intently as council bounded through the business agenda teacher joan mccool says the focus of the project is to examine various issues around the community and to express things they like or would like to change in whitchurchstouf f ville heres what the majority of the youths would like to see in the com munity more activities for young people ie a theatre lights in front of their school a downtone of lights on main st that they say are too bright although the students did not voice these opinions to council there lesson was to observe only the group listened with interest and sometimes confusion to the business at the front of the room mayor fran sainsbury handed out whitchurchstouffville town pins and welcomed the students as they observe local government in action chief brown ready to wage war on fire crime tracy kibble staff reporter whjtchurchsf ouff ville fire chief bill brown was off to col lege last week to learn more about fire crime and the various methods practised in investiga tions and arson detection chief brown packed his bags and books and headed to the gravenhurstbased ontario fire college where he and about 35 other firefighters lived during the fiveday course the last of a threecourse series in fire crime ive been there so often its like going home says the chief the course is a hard one to get into because of its limited capacity for students and features experts from the rcmp bomb squad members of the opp force and lawyers trained in the field lawyers instruct the firefighters exactly what reports and documents are necessary in court to prove arson and other firerelated crime it was very interesting the course puts every step of an in vestigation together in a logical order mr brown says the ins and outs of arson in vestigations and the methods of determining the cause of fire crime will be brought back to the whitchurchstouffville depart ment and the chiefs newly- learned skills will be passed on to his brigade goes to support the public system no matter how many partners are separate school supporters the education ministry has come up with a pooling plan that would redistribute industrial tax assessment more equitably bet ween the two systems public school boards could lose money if the legislation is passed especially if the government does not compensate for funding redirected to the separate board the york region board of education in its presentation to the committee last week and said coterminous sharing would erode its assessment base and seriously hurt our longterm viability as a board the main thrust of both presen tation was the scarcity of provin cial funding for the highgrowth boards since 1981 the regions popula tion has grown from 252000 to more than 409000 the public board reports it taken in an additional 30004000 students each year and is the fastest growing school board in ontario the september 1989 enrolment is 60800 enrolment for the separate board has skyrocketed from 17218 in 1984 to 36748 this year by 1998 the board expects stu dent population to jump to almost 64000 board develops hiring process the york region board of education approved a 33500 ex penditure in 1989 for recruitment and induction of staff the money would pay for a pro motional video in both french and english a staff development director and secretary and a pool hiring process john laughlin human resources superintendent presented the board with a four- year staff development plan last week a consistant interview and selection process for custodial and secretarial staff is recom mended for 1990 under induction laughlin recommended a series of workshops for teachers new to the profession a handbook for teachers new to the board and workshops for potential prin cipals and vice principals in october trustees will discuss the creation of a staff development centre and four themes curriculum and the learner leadership climates for growth and educational environment photobruce stapley tri threat three stouffville motorists were involved in this crackup on highway 47 last wednesday about 535 pm ontario provincial police said a 51 yearold driver was stopped on the highway and another motorist was stopped 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