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; A new addition is in the forecast for the Oak Ridge division of |, Penetanguishene's Mental Health Centre. * _Hon. George Taylor, MPP for Simcoe East and Solicitor '.. General for Ontario announced this week, tenders are now being : called for the addition at MHC. Estimated cost, ac- overcrowded conditions provincial maximum cording to Taylor, is in other staff areas. security facility for the $800,000. In making the Oak Ridge is a_ criminally insane. t announcement Taylor ' said, H "TI am_ especially q gratified that this -- project will soon be | A underway, as I feel it is a direct response to the recommendations which I submitted to the Ministers of Govern- ment Services and Health after my visit to Oak Ridge on Nov. 24, 1980". The proposed project will provide a visitors' lounge with refresh- ment servery on the first floor and ac- commodation for plus and counting Red Shield right on target As of press time today, more than $16,000 has ae April patrollers ee ice been raised by Midland Salvation Army's more Safety patrollers of the month of April in court, are, from left, Tom Duquette, Edward patient care area, thus | 'han 200 canvassers during May's Red Shield Penetanguishene, with Constable Tim Vaillan-- --__ Lacroix, John Desjardins, and Jill Duggan. relieving _ presently aie oe Simeoe campaign, reports, Lt. : ay Braddock. oe They want you For example this week nearly $2,000 was 2 ar 1 collected in Penetanguishene by that town's yin the picture. «= | Legion (it expects to raise $3,000 by the end of the Members of the ist month) while $2,000 was collected in Port MeNicoll and px Tal during a series of one-night blitzes. Penetanguishene (Brownies) Guides are planning to hold Operation Snapping. Be prepared, they say Waubaushene is still being blitzed while not all commercial and industrial collections have been accounted for in Midland. Last year the Salvation Army which is marking its 97th year in Midland and its centennial in for more details con- Canada, raised just over $23,000. cerning their photo Chairlady of this year's campaign is former ; by Murray Moore : Forster, who has been representing the teachers contest, in next Friday's Midland councillor Nancy Keefe. Simcoe County's secondary school teachers will --_ since March, said the problem is difficult but it _mewspaper. She held the same post last year as well. not be walking out of the classroom between today and the end of the school year, "'unless something very strange happens," Jim Forster, chief negotiator for the teachers, said yesterday. According to Forster, and Bob Sporring, the Simcoe County secondary school teachers' president, a meeting between the board and the teachers Wednesday was without result. The board's trustees at their Wednesday evening meeting authorized the school board to take the measures necessary to offer as complete. a normal school program as possible i n the event can be solved. = On the main points of contention, staffing ana salaries, the board, Forster said, is fixed, while the teachers are flexible. On staffing, the teachers say that the board and the teachers had settled on a Parent-Teacher Ration of 16.5 students per teacher next year, and a PTR for 1983-84 of 16, but that in March the board raised the PTR figures, to 16.75 and 16.35. Board administrator Irving Harris, reached by telephone Tuesday, when asked a question said, of a strike. "Press releases would be sent out when the board The board also created a strike management ad something to say." ; committee. Teachers also want to settle the issue of staffing when special education, and co-operative education, programs are introduced between 1983 and 1985. The resulting smaller classes will create a need for more teachers, Forster said. Last Wednesday's meeting of teacher and board representatives occurred at the board's invitation, Sporring said, so that the board could find out the teachers exact position. "We didn't get anywhere." The county's elementary school teachers, who are also without a contract, are to meet in Barrie next Tuesday. The teachers' position, Sporring said yesterday, is that the board and the teachers should be able to reach an agreeable settlement between the end of this school year and the start of the new school year. Of Wednesday's meeting, Sporring said, the impression given by the board's representatives was that "if we didn't like (the board's offer) we could hit the bricks." The board reiterated that the offer already voted on, and rejected, by the teachers is its final offer, Forster said. Ministry has no money Board trustee Wendy MacKenzie, who called the decision "a little distressing,' yesterday, also said, "At a time when we are looking at improved secondary school education, to not provide funds to upgrade our schools to keep in step with what is happening in secondary school education is quite deplorable." A committee of the board will be requesting a meeting with the Minister of Education to discuss the lack of money, MacKenzie said. Landscaping's the name... To plant plants at plant? Midland Public Works Committee is to seek quotations for landscaping at the town's newly reconstructed and expanded water pollution treatment plant at William and Bay Street East. The work, planned for last fall, wasn't com- pleted due to poor weather conditions. There is no provincial money for school con- struction in Simcoe County next year, the Simcoe County Board of Education has been informed by the Ministry of Education. Elmvale District High School will go without an addition for at least one more year. An addition to EDHS was at the top of the board's list of projects. An addition to the school has been on the list for a mumber of years, and made it to the top this year town revitalization program currently underway along both sides of King Street will be completed well before the target date of July 1. That was the date that had been originally set for completion of the nearly $200,000 project. And the commissioner of works has been in- structed to have the same two real] estate ap- praisers who completed appraisals of the Edwards property undertake appraisals for property required in conjunction with the con- struction of Bayshore Drive III, west of King Street. Rag Safety first That's Police Chief Ernest Bates, right, holding a new "The Boss" holster one platoon on his force is is The committee is to review the quotations at its next meeting before making any final decision on the matter. Meanwhile the committee has been told by Commissioner of Works Percy Ehler, the down- Adams, left, displays the new holster which comes complete with a number of important safety features. currently testing. Const. Roger Friday, May 14, 1982, Page 3