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Golfing Legend Tees It Up yeeooeeeoeeereoeee* ^0^ 4 8 icv.©' An Adventure In the Country SUEE r e nee et? **#*»»*«*#■***» see E "U? Seniors 7 Centre Opens to Public NEWS.... *eeeee<?ee*eeeeeee*eeeeeee»**»!«</^w^* 0 ^ V^T? SflJi p \R>- 4 Ü Cl' W W < S Z %' • I ® ss u* ^ Clarington's Community Newspaper Since 1854 A Janies Publishing Community Newspaper Wednesday, September 23,1998 144th Year Issue 38 700 + 50 G.S.T. = 750 Teachers Walk f'- c >? v * \ ; 1 Ar ■Wzv'^R : 'v . "iv'viÇx ■ v)#: ' ' 'i ',/'• ' '•;""" »' : 'kV ; " ' " ■' l ^ ' • xV 1- fit » , . ■' . v .. V • p ):-, T ,4 r ' ■ .•' ■. ',,'.'".v/-. 1 " 1 •' - - WTfr'ty.x*' ' - ,, •- 1 ^ "•', !'"• .■ " , " x .. Kimberly Luckhardt, 10, of Willsona Farms in Tyrone, shows visitors how cows used to be milked - the manual way. Now, the farm is completely automated, using computerized milking machines. Willsona Farms was one of 41 stops on the Durham Countryside Adventure, held, last weekend. People on the lour enjoyed many of the treats of the harvest found this time of year in Clarington. -Photo by Jennifer Stone iwwMnmÊiÊÊKKÊiÊÊÊmmÊÊmKÊÊnÊÊÊÊtÊÊÊÊÊmmRaitKÊÊÊÊÊÊÊmÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊammÊmRBè!&&wimiK*vww*rr.*iW'v{*#m&Tw?&v.'? t - Public high school students in Clarington will not be in classes today (Wednesday, September 23) due to a one-day strike by their teachers. Teachers with District 14 of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation told the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Tuesday they would be on strike at all of the Board's secondary schools, including Bowmanville High School. OSSTF spokesperson Lanny Cooper says this is definitely definitely a one-day-only action. The strike, part of a series of rotating walk-outs province-wide for the union, is simply simply happening "because our turn has come," says Cooper. The rotating pickets began Sept. 14 in York Region. According to a news release prepared by the Board, schools are to remain open today, but no formal instructional instructional programming will be offered. "We share the frustration of our students and parents," said Board Chair Judi Armstrong in the school board's announcement. "The Board believes that this is primarily an issue to be resolved at the Provincial level. However, it is our hope that locally we can find a creative solution. I also hope that this level of disruption to our students will be limited to one day." According to the Board's information hotline, the Board has asked teachers to start negotiations immediately. immediately. Cooper says talks are scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25. He says the union has asked to book the weekend for talks as well, but as of The Canadian Statesman's deadline, deadline, ..the bowl had not responded to the request. ' ■ / "It'S' gtiing to be difficult. We have a number of very, very difficult issues on ,the table," says Cooper. Meanwhile, talks between Focal Catholic High School teachers and the Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board are continuing continuing under a media blackout. Teachers with the board have been locked out of Catholic secondary schools, including St. Stephen's in Bowmanville, since talks broke down Sept. 13. Talks resumed Sept. 17 in Peterborough with the help of a provincially-appointed mediator. Teachers and boards across the province are currently negotiating their first collective agreements under Bill lpO, th'e province's Education Improvement Act. The Lakeridge Health Introduces New CEO by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer The chair of Lakeridge Health's board of trustees says choosing a new Chief Executive Officer for the newly- created corporation was easy when the hiring hiring committee met Brian Lemon. "I was pleased with the significant senior management experience experience he brought to the Lakeridge Health Corporation," said Judith Spring. She added the committee also liked the fact that Lemon had been involved in amalgamations amalgamations of other hospitals. But, she says there was an even simpler reason Brian Lemon they chose Lemon. "We just plain liked him," says Spring. Lemon was introduced last Friday as CEO at a media conference at Lakeridge Health Bowmanville (formerly -- ~ Bowmanville Memorial Hospital). Lakeridge Health Corporation was created in August, following instructions instructions from the province's Health Services Restructuring Commission. The corporation amalgamates amalgamates hospitals in Bowmanville, Oshawa, Port Perry, Uxbridge and Whitby. Lemon brings plenty of experience with him. He was president of the Capital Health authority in Edmonton from 1994 through 1996. Prior to There will nor be a downgrading of Bowmanville. If anythingr, Bowmanville will see an enhancement of services. 0 that, lie was president of the Children's Health chart will look like. Centre of Northern Alberta, a corporation which amalgamated seven hospitals. Most recently, Lemon worked as transition manager for two Ontario hospitals in Sudbury and Ottawa. Both had undergone restructuring at the direction of the HSRC. While Lemon says his experience experience doesn't mean his new job is going to be "a piece of cake," it will help somewhat. "I do know a bit of what to expect," he admits. Lemon's first step will be to put together an effective management management team. He expects most positions on the management team to be filled internally. The team will be announced in late October or early November. In terms of structure, he says lie hasn't made a final decision as to what the organizational Country "Needs Healing" Ex-PM Tells Oshawa Crowd Joe Clark by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer Joe Clark says lie had a good reason reason for getting back into politics, "If the simple reason lor doing that were to help heal the party, I would not have done that ... I am hack as a candidate because I believe it's not just the party that needs heal ing; it's the country that needs healing," healing," said the former Prime Minister, in Oshawa for a breakfast meeting Tuesday morning. Clark is currently campaigning for the post of federal Progressive Conservative leader. He spoke to a crowd of about 50 at the restaurant of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. First elected to the House of Commons in 1972, Clark assumed the leadership of the federal Tories in 1976. After briefly filling the role of Prime Minister, Clark continued as an MP, serving from 1984 until 1991 as Minister of External Affairs, and then for the next two years as Continued on page 2 "I have a fairly good idea of what I'd like to sec," says the father of three university students. As for Bowmanville's hospital, he says people won't sec a great deal of dramatic changes. "I'm certainly not anticipating anticipating a radical adjustment adjustment ... there will not be in any way a downgrading of Bowmanville," he says, adding, if anything, Bowmanville will see "an enhancement of services." "This facility is used at close to capacity now," adds Lemon, who will have his office at the Bowmanville site. new provincial legislation requires high school teachers to be in class 1,250 minutes a week, an increase of about 25 minutes per day. Most boards have translated the extra requirement into an additional class to be taught each day. Dyed Kitten Discovered On Doorstep by Lorraine Manfredo Staff Writer She doesn't look like it under the veterinarian's orange heat lamp, but little Violet is, well,. .. violet. violet. The near-starved pussycat, her eyes caked shut with infection and some kind of purple dye, turned up Tuesday morning at the door of an Old Scugog Road home in Enniskillen. When 18-year-old Tania Brinn heard mewing outside, she discovered the scrawny kitten -- apparently blinded -- stumbling around the porch with her own family cat nearby and not too impressed. Scooping the pitiful creature up into the house, she and her mother, Deborah Peeters, did their best to clean its face. Its dreadful condition moved them both to tears. Flea-infested, emaciated and with its face and mouth full of dye, they knew the kitten needed immediate medical attention. "It looked like someone took purple ink and sprayed it," says Deborah. To her, it seems a clear case of cruelty. But staff at the Bowmanville Veterinary Clinic, where Violet is being treated, say it could have been a misguided attempt to help the cat fight an upper respiratory infection. They speculate the violet paint may actually be a pharmaceutical spray commonly used to treat minor wounds in large farm animals, such as cattle. cattle. But this three-month-old kitten, weighing under a kilogram, got a "cow-sized dose," says one staffer. Sherrie Azulay, the clinic manager, says while it's nice to be a Good Samaritan, people should find out what they are doing first before trying to treat any animal. "You can do more harm than good -- even kill an animal -- by giving it improper treatment." A couple of hours after being admitted, Violet was wrapped in warm towels, basking in the heat lamp and getting fluids intravenously. She still has a long way to go before she is well, but she is responding to treatment and clinic staff are hopeful hopeful she will pull through. 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