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16 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, SeNtembet 16, 1986 every Tuesday by Port Perry Star Company Limited P.O. Box 567, Brooklin, Ont. LOB 160 Broa ond Area since 1983 Brooklin Profile ROXANNE REVELER News & Features Editor Phone 655-3637 or 985-7383 -- He's tops Jack Hutchinson is where one can usually find him ... outstanding love of science. Add a compassionate personality and a determination to share that passion with young people and you have a teacher who is worth his weight in gold. Anderson Collegiate has such a teacher in Jack Hutchinson, and his efforts over the years have not gone unrecognized as he was recently awarded the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Canada by the. National Association of Biology Teachers of America. The OBTA program attempts to identify one outstanding teacher in each of the 53 states and one in Canada each year. All life science teachers in grades seven through 12 are eligible for this award. Can- didates are judged on the basis of teaching, ability and experience, co- operativeness in the school and community, inventiveness, in- itiative, and many other criteria. This is the only national award of its kind for biology teachers. These secondary school teachers, nominated by peers, supervisors and students, exemplify a special kind of dedication and excellence in their profession. in the biology lab at Anderson Collegiate. Students at ACVI are even more proud of their science department head than usual this week as Hutchinson was named the Most Outstanding Biology Teacher in Canada. Hutchinson is such a man. He is starting his 19th year at Anderson Collegiate and has been head of the science department since 1977. Although he mainly teaches biology, he has on occasion taught junior physics also. Hutchinson was born on a farm near Lindsay and graduated from Lindsay Collegiate and Vocational Insitutue. From there, he spent a year at Teacher's College in Peter- borough and at age 18 took over the teaching responsibilities in a one- room school in Orange Corners near Peterborough. He moved to this area after two years and spent the next decade teaching elementary school with the Oshawa Board of Education. When the opportunity of teaching science at Anderson Collegiate came his way, he jumped at the chance. He spent his summers and even- ings during the win*er months tak- ing extension courses and graduated from Queen's University with his B.A. majoring in science, with a minor in English. He spent a further nine years upgrading his education and received a specialist degree in biology, also during summer and Highway truck traffic still of great concern to local residents Whitby council will be asking the Ministry of Transport and Com- munication (MTC) to undertake a truck origin and destination survey as quickly as possible in order to try and alleviate truck traffic on 'Highway 12 through Brooklin and the downtown core of Whitby. Earlier this year, council members were approached by businessmen and residents from Brooklin and Whitby who were con- cerned with the ever increasing number of trucks that were using Highway 12. They feared it was on- ly a matter of time before an acci- dent was caused by the trucks, most of whom they said exceeded the - speed limit and tied up the traffic flow. After a meeting with represen- tatives from the two areas, staff held a meeting with MTC represen- tatives and Durham Regional of- ficials to see what might be done to alleviate the situation. The meeting was for the purpose of discussing the possibility of redesignating both Highway 12 and Thickson Road in order that the heavy traffic volume could be diverted. Messrs. P. Ginn and E. Ellard of MTC, both said that the proposal to designate Thickson Road as Highway 12 in replacement of Baldwin/Brock Streets was a reasonable one. They concurred that the Thickson Road is a more direct route from Highway 401 and does not have as much development on it as the Baldwin/Brock route. Their only reservation was that they could not designate Thickson for the use of truck traffic only. Thickson would have to be designated as a highway and this would mean removing Baldwir. 'Brock as a highway. They wondered if the business people of both Brooklin and Anderson teacher outstanding in Canada Start with a man who has an evening classes. A tireless and conscientious worker, Hutchinson has sat on and chaired numerous committees and was a major force in the develop- ment of a region-wide science fair. He also helped devise an evaluation system for an external school review, assists with science cur- riculum projects, serves on the science fair committee and the science subject council. Add to that drama productions, band and fundraising projects within the school and you can see he does not have much spare time dur- ing the school year. During the summer months, Hut- chinson looks forward to puttering in his garden and says he is kep' busy chopping wood to keep his fireplace fed during the winter. Hutchinson and his wife have liv- ed on Athol Street in Whitby for the past 24 years where they have rais- ed their four children, now aged 22, 20, 18, and 15. Although Hutchinson's eldest son Lloyd attended Anderson, the rest went to Henry Street High School because of its closer proximity to Turn to page 18 Whitby would be upset when the tourist flow was diverted. They also expressed concern that residents of Thickson Road would not want an increase in heavy traffic flow past their doors. A suggestion was made by the MTC representative that a Truck Origin and Destination Survey might be desirable. This would show how many of the trucks use the Baldwin/Brock Streets as a through route and also show how many of the trucks must enter the downtown areas to make the deliveries. They believed the cost of such a survey would be in the neighbourhood of $20,000 and the MTC, if they can ob- tain approval from the minister, would fund between 50 and 75 per- cent of that cost. The possibility of an interchange at Highway 401 and Lake Ridge Road (Regional Road 23) was also discussed. The immediacy of such an interchange is out of the question according to the MTC represen- tatives as this interchange is not even being considered for the next 10 years and the cost would be in the range of $10 million. It was concluded that if the town wished to proceed with the proposal to transfer the Highway 12 designa- tion from Baldwin /Brock to Thickson Road that they must act as the proponents. First the town would have to approach and request the region that they approve of the transference and the region would then in 'urn apply to the province. Extra regional reps Surprise .. surprise! Whitby will be getting an additional regional councillor after all. On Wednesday, regional council voted to stand by its original deci- sion which was made last July, to in- crease regional representation for Whitby and Ajax by one member each, in time for the 1988 municipal elections. The matter of additional coun- cillors at the regional level has been the subject of great debate since Bernard Grandmaitre's announce- ment that the two towns were eligi- ble just prior to the 1985 elections. On July 16, with three Oshawa councillors absent, regional council voted 14-13 to increase its size by giving Ajax and Whitby an addi- tional seat. Oshawa mayor Allan Pilkey, a strong opponent of the ad- ditional councillors, then threw a monkey wrench into the works by asking to have a reconsideration vote taken at the next meeting. This little used maneuver sent coun- cillors racing to their procedure books, but the ploy was proved to quite legal. All Pilkey required was a one-third majority of council votes, or 10, which he managed. The move meant the subject could not be discussed again until the next meeting, which was not to be until September 10, due to summer recess. The reconsideration vote was nar- rowly defeated 16 to 14, prompting Pilkey to state "it shows there was nota decisive decision made on this issue.' But Mayors Bob Attersley of Whitby and Bill McLean of Ajax were pleased with the outcome. After the 1988 elections Whitby will have three regional representatives, plus the mayor, Ajax a total of three. Atterlsey repeated his stand that he would personally like to see the number of regional reps decreased, but added if representation was to be decided by population, the only thing to do was to add councillors. ~The size of the 1988 council will stand at 32. At the region, the proposal was bounced around for seven months before the decision was made last July. Regional chairman Gary Her- rema at one point said he hoped the province would pass the legislation itself, thereby taking the decision away from council. When the voting did take place, members voted in blocks with Ajax and Whitby taking the affirmative stand, Oshawa the negative. Members from the five other municipalities were split on their decisions. The matter now goes to the pro- vincial monistry of municipal af- fairs which started the debate last January when it asked the region to comment on proposed legislation. Schools jammed Durham Board of Education is canning into problems with too many pupils and nowhere to put them. : The board's operations superintendent, Don Peel, told members of a Board meeting that the prime concern was at the secon- dary school level. "If our secondary school popula- tion goes over 18,000 we are going to have a major accommodation pro- blem,"" said Peel. Between September 6 and September 30 last year, secondary school enrolment escalated by 324 ... from 17,455 to 17,779. As of the end of last week, enrol- ment had jumped to 17,748. Peel says the system can't handle another unexpected jump like the one that occurred in 1985. At Anderson Collegiate, where the majority of students from the North Ward are bussed, enrolment has peaked to almost 1,300. Last year the student body held in the low 1,100 bracket. The additional pupils at the school has prompted officials to cry out for more teachers. There is presently a staff of 70 at Anderson, but the school says it will need at least another three teachers to cope. One Turn to page 19 ANE amos TT TA opie i, Ag