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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1985, PAGE.31 During this year's municipal elections.... Board asking for referendum on RC funding By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff Whtby voters may get a chance to support or protest separate school funding in a municipal referendumn if town council follows through on a motion passed by the Durham Board of Education Monday night. In a recorded vote the trustees voted 10-5 in favor of requesting each municipality within its jurisdiction ask voters during the November municipal elections: "Do you favor the ex- tension of funding to the Roman Catholic Separate Secondary Schools? " Wo man unhurt after being held hostage in man 's Pickering home A 20-year old Det. Doug King was Pickering man will ap- able to successfully pear i court tomorrow negotiate the victim's morning for a bail release. Laurie Holmes, bearing after being 22, of Dovedale Dr. arrested in connection wasn't injured during withan incident during the incident which wbich a Whitby woman ended peacefully at was held hostage for about 10:50 a.m. last over 10 hours. Thursday morning. Accoding to à Police said tbat no Aordimngfort ha shots were exchanged spokeaman f o h between the suspect and Poicurha ,thegouna the 14 officers on the Poice orc, te yung scene. However, it was woman was picked up reported that a gun by a man Wednesday a!- belonging to one of the ternoon and then driven officers was accidently to is Ballaton Ave., discbarged. Pickering, home. Vincent Joseph It wasn't until about Salvador, 20, is being midnigbt that it was held in the Whitby Jail dlscovered that she was a! ter being cbarged being held at gunpoint in with forcible con- ,the home's basement finement, possession of apartment. The man's a dangerous weapon parents returned to the and breacb of under- residence at about tbat taking. ilme and called police Police siezed a 12- after reallzing whatthe gauge shotgun at the Rituation was. time of bis arrest A second question in- cluded in the motion: -Would you preler a unified enriched public secondary school systemn accessible to aIl?" narrowly failed approval by a vote of 8-7 against. Rev. Stuart McEn- tyre, trustee for Scugog, who made the motion seconded by Oshawa Trustee Gary Kitchen said the proposed referendum would provide the only oppor- 1 tunity for this question co be fairly examined. He said it was not brought forth out of anti separate school feeling, but rather out o! a need to protect the public school system. He said he was op- posed to the process whereby funding could be extended to separate schools by decree without consultation. "Members of provincial parliament know little about educational problems," he said. "In light of the Char- ter of Rights and Freedomns, if one group can be granted preference, any other group can. "Bill 30 is a threat to the well-being of the people of the province. The public school systemn brings together everyone in society. Al bave a place. It is not a systemn for privilege or sectarianism. It doesnt discriminate.A.t doesn't indoctrinate." Kitchen said that not- withst.anding the con- stitutional questions before the court he was concerned the legislation would go ahead. Speaking against the motion, Linda Dionne, Oshawa separate school trustee on the board, said it was not fair to ask a majority opinion on a minority group. Uxbridge Trustee Heather Beveridge said she saw it as a divisive action that would divide candidates for council between Catholic and non-Catholic. She preferred to focus on cost, she said. Chairman of the board, Ruth Lafarga, said many groups -had asked the provincial government for cost analysis, but it was not available. Linda Carder, Pickering trustee, said the situation was already divisive, but as trustees they would have to deal with that. She said the plebiscite might bring before the public somne of the problems the trustees see. Some trustees were concerned there was not enough information available on which the public could mnake a decision. Brock Trustee George McLaughlin said, "lWe should put the heat on the provincial government to release cost figures." Several trustees wan- ted the public to have a say. Cathy O'Flynn, Oshawa trustee, said since all three parties badl supported Bill 30 in the past election, the voters did not 'have a chance to express their preference. O'Flynn said as a Catholic raised in the public school system, she felt she could represent the people best by supporting a request for a referen- dum. Larry Corrigan, Oshawa separate school trustee on the board, said the referendumm idea was a staîl tactic, and that local want to touch it with a 1-foot poe. He said the board needs dialogue with its political coun- terparts to corne up with creative solutions. McLaughlin said be believed Bill 30 was a scheme to get one unîfied school system.- Whitby Trustee Ian Brown voted for the first question on the referen- dum, but against the second. He said, as others did, that the second question was ambiguous. Others said a unified enriched school systemn was already accessible to al . through the public system. Whitby Trustee John Buchanan was not present at the meeting. A second part of McEntyre's motion, seconded by Carder, that the board request each public school board in Ontario to do the same, passed. presented the motion as a member of The Coalition for Public Education, made up of members of the church, community, teacher and trustee groups to try to stop implemen- tation of Bill 30 until the courts decide whether it is constitutiorial. Other business before the board inluded ap- proval of the report on appointmnts. Lafarga noted there were 177 new appoin- tments, remarkable since many boards had declining enrolîment and redundant teachers. A sumnmary. of expen- ditures' totalling $180 million to July 31 was filed for audit. The board decided to notify the Ministry of Education of its concern over redefining a full- timne student, and to let the Association of Large Sehool Boards of On- tario handie the matter. 0f Lynde House.... Wmnter supports By JAN DODGE its present location at- Free Press Staff tracts about 500 Whitby's archivist, visitors.) Brian Winter, bas Winter said the declared himself in museumn is swamped by favor of moving Lynde the amount o! repairs House (WhitbY needed now, an amount Museum) to Cullen that bas been growing Gardens and Miniature for the past 13 years. Village on Taunton Rd. It is just not feasible "My reason for doing to try to buy the site," that is because there is he said, referring to the no acceptable alter- cost o! commercial native. We have to be property located in that realistie. area. (It bas been "My motto is, don't let valued at one quarter the unobtainable best million per acre by defeat the obtainable more than one real good.'i estate company.) Winter said that with On that site, Winter the much greater numn- said, we could even- bers o! people seeing the tually see Hwy. 2 museum at Cullen gar- widened and commer- dens, both Lynde House cial buildings built alI and Whitby's history around which would will become well- detract from the known. (In Len Cullens museum. proposaI he bas guaran- 'II don't think we need teed at least 25,000 to have it on the original visitors. Lynde House at site," he said referring plan With the ministry's new definition, a full- Urne student would now require an average at- tendance of 210 minutes a day instead of 151 minutes a day. The effect of this Bruce Mather, director of education, said would be an apparent loss of 32 to 38 students. In fact it would mean the board would get credit for fewer students and thus lose grant money for them. Af ter a review of local developments on the ex- tension of separate school funding, Trustee Corrigan once again asked about the feasibility of having combined meetings with both boards, this time suggesting they meet also with local MPPs. A special meeting to work on the board's protest to legisiative hearings against exten- sion of separate school funding will be held on September 3, in camera. move to the pioneer villages at Black Creek and Upper Canada. The villages whicb are made up o! buildings which have been moved from their original sites, he said, have been enormously successful. 6"I believe the museumn would be enhanced by the move ...!1 think what Cullen bas offered is very good. " In a proposaI, accep- ted by the executive of the Whitby H.storical Society, Len Cullen bas offered to provide a site for Lynde House at Cullen Gardens, to con- tribute $20,000 toward the move, to contribute 25 times the 1984 door admissions of Lynde House per year, and to maintain the site accor- ding to the standards of the gardens. Apple doli making Lynta Irwin, museumn guide at Lynde House, helps Danni Warren at- tach bair to the face o! ber apple doîl, as Ian Kosteren admires is work. This was the third in a series of pioneer craft programs taugbt each Tuesday afternoon throughout August at the Whitby museum FreePress Staff Photo Tory corn huskers Scott Fenneli, (le! t) MP for Ontario riding, assisted by bis campaign manager, Jerry Moskaluk, husked corn in preparation for the corn roast and barbeque given for Conservative party supporters Greenwood Park last Thursday afternoon.' Riding president Rene Soetens said invitations had gone out to aIl those who had expressed an interest in the Conservative party. The barbeque bas been an annual event for the past five years, with the exception o! last year, when they "bad an election to run," Soetens said. rgar~StfPht Free -re --Staf ---ot ýl 1