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NEWS SPORTS I ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 2hAnlfliv ESAiy celebrates Triathietes test their Young country singer 1 I 20 years mettie ait Kelso qets record deal M~tl0Pnent PamaicyI Wl ___StE YSQf METROLAND COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER VOL.146 NO.26 !cM9'FRIOAY JUNE 102005 $1 GO (GST included) Z 52PGESUngCmunco tBulBeerC mnte" ,. n deep Mark Burger takes a shot out of the water dur- ing the Daîdre and Friends Foundation golf tournament at Granite Ridge Golf Club Tueaday. Seventy-two golfers teed off and helped raise $7,500. for the founclation. Photo by GRAHAM PAINE ,Teachers/board have tentative deal By JASON MISNER Special ta The Champion New critical Provincial.funding, won't be lost now that a tentative deal has been reached betwveen the public school board and ils unionized elementary teachers. As a resuht. the union's stepped up work--to-rule campaign. which vsas intc ils second sseek. îs over at the 72 public elementary schooils. 'ne Prosvince had threatened to pull the ness dol- lars if a deal wasn't signed by Wednesday night. Tne Halton District Scbool Board and its 1,800 elementary teachers of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario. Halton district reached a tentative contract Wednesday evening following nine bours of negotiations by telephone and fax. Those talks followed the more than 30 hours of dealings that took place over the last fise days as both sides tried to hammer out a contract. The four-year agreement - - retroactive to August 31, 2004 -will expire in August 2008. The deal %vas faxed to, the miunistry Wednesday. Details of the tentative deal sveren't released. Teacbers are to vote on the agreement sometime over the next fesv days. Trustees svill meet Tuesday ai 6 p. m. to vote on the deal. lI's believed Halton's provincial funding share wsiii be enough to, hire 13 new elementary teachers. The Halton public board was une of Oie last remaining boards in Ontario ihat hadn't signed a contract. At stake 'vas Oie board's share of millions of dollars in special funding the prosvince bas set aside. fi svas Oie lack of a contract this late in Oie school year that prompted the Ministry of Education to issue the board an ultimatum on Tuesday that if a deal wasn't signed by Wednesday, it %vould lose access to the money. Education Minister Gerard Kennedy had set June 1 as the deadline for Ontario school boards to reach four-year agreements with the teachers' unions. It's part of a framework agreement the n-tinister made with teachers' federations and the public school boards' association earlier this vear. Local board staff, Oie union and trustees were elated Oiat a tentative deal had finally been struck, hotrever late in coming. They say it provides important labour peuce over the nexi féess years. Dawn Beckent-Morton, the public boards exec- utise officer of human resources. said these nego- tiations n ere more difficult tlsis tîme around than see LOCAL on page 8 0- 0"oNý b Starting at Fa*i. TOYOTA Vomi * 24Hour Roadside Asssan eamNhere inCanada per das or the i.A plus isurancî * Custone r pick-up and retum. Ra dalE thoe 1000 u ome .i5 __ m" 410 Stuuios4 AvII. Miuta (MMu UR TOYota 905875317 beIl-'ochio eit and good tbOgs OM ONEJY ONLYI!f, Thursda june 166 10ma - 9pm 25% off Everything M Conunnt ..........5-7 Dateline .......20-21,33 Classified ........28-32 Real Estate .........34 *FRIOAYJIINE 10 F50w.bN~Iuu a u*e Monk ff iy www.miltontoyota.com