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The two junior area composite classes from Elizabeth Ziegler public school in Waterloo spent a beautiful day recently fishing at Shade’s Mills Grand River Conservation Area. The students enjoyed their day out thanks to a Friends of the Environment grant from Canada Trust. Every child in the two classes caught at least one fish, and all had a wonderful day. Emmet [mun employees get gin-ahead [or wrongful- dismissal class action soil Former employees of the Waterloo Kmart store have won their first victory in a class action lawsuit alleging wrong- ful dismissal. last week, a Windsor Judge decided that a Windsor woman can go ahead with a class suit that would give wrongfully dismissed employ- ees up to SH million more m added severance pay. The judgement affects more than 4,000 former Kmart employees let go when Hud- son's Bay bought the chain In March of 1998. Hudson's Bay closed most of the Kmart stores, changing the operations to Zellers slates Kmart workers were promised a chance at Jobs at refurbished Tellers store in the area but few found work at the maul chan The class amen lawsuu was filed because for, mer workers ultimately felt they wcrc {Ircd wnhout lusl causc The vulnry was d small vm- (hulmn for Ficlcen Beshara, who worked lor Kmart In Waterloo fowm Square for 28 years She war. one of Ihe local employees who slgncd on lo Ihr Windsor L lass actton sun In hopes of grmng more sever ancc pay "Its great. rm happy about 1hr dunmn," mud Hc‘hara, about the judgcmrnl readied In a Windsor Lnllrlrunm last Wed ncsday Beshara said none ul ihe lull, “mt Kmart employees wrrr offered pnmlmm wuh the newly ‘egpandcd Idlers ’slnrrs Bob Vrbanac Chromc If Staff In town last year, More than no employees fost their tobs when the Waterloo store closed its doors for good m May of last year "Our ages worked against us getting a fuil-time Job." said ikshara, 50. "Hardly any of us could get jobs, especially the old stall that had been with Kmart for years." Most had: had dilflculucs findmg Ml-tune work Since Even the severance package the employees received fell well short of company promises of exceeding govern- ment standards in Ontario. Beshara said the compan/s for- mula shorlchanged her of at least Six weeks of compensa- mm. Beshara hopes the Ontario Superior Court's tudgement will change that She also hopes that more cl the local employees sign on In thc sun, "l lust hope that everybody hears; about it m the Kncherut Waterloo area," said BeJrara. ‘Thrrc's a lot of soil that werent cw“ aware there was a lawsuit agamst Jw company" Beshara said she still tsrt't gelling mu excited about the Judgement because The Bay sllll has 10 days In appeal the (in Ioon, wah mdlmunns that they WI" file hy the end of the month But shr's happy Ihal Ihc big mall grant was milled an the mrpct by the mum for m "alumni of former employ- (TS 'hrn II we dont get (my ilttttg out of ti, Ihnrk lusl the ullsfmlmn that we med nur Jys.ti'.sasABs.t!v.ara, . k . . .v., THIS FEATURED VDLVD VALVE EXTENDED WHILE STDEKS LAST! .r,serttt"t". "It I i If}; VOLVO for life "