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i wgekehpjery 4a2jijl m julie caspersen staff reporter the slicing of almost a third of the educational assistants from the fall recall list could leave the york region roman catholic separate school board on the receiving end of a law suit from the laid off workers educational assistants eas are banding together in protest of budget cutbacks that will see 75 of this school years pool out of a job with the board in september because the eas dont know who will be recalled anonymity is a must said a richmond hill woman who has taken on the task of organizing a com plaint rosemary warren a month away from her law degree is spear heading the formation of a coalition to take action under the ontario pay equity act and the ontario human rights code theyve got a very strong case if they can get it brought forward war ren said a suit through the pay equi ty act does not need the endorsement of a union and can be filed by an agent representing the complainants she said bernadette kenney president of cupe local 2331 which represents the workers- told the board cuts to eas are not equitable or fair we are not statistics to be played with we ask that our members be given the same respect as others she said charging that trustees did not make cutbacks fairly across the board we will suffer more pain that most across the system in previous years educational assis tants were dismissed at the end of their one year contracts but handed hazardous waste day a hit with stouffville tracy kibble staff reporter more than 30whitchurch-stouf- fville residents travelled to newmar ket saturday may 11 during the first of the regions two spring household hazardous waste collection days all in all more than 1400 regional residents dropped off household haz ardous wastes at the newmarket recreation complex local officials heard last week york regions waste management engineer jeff flewelling said 1700 gallons of paint 1 000 gallons of used motor oil 627 car batteries 162 propane tanks and enough pharma ceuticals pesticides cleaners and other chemicals to fill 243 45galion drums were collected throughout the day however ward 4 councillor wayne emmerson said newmarket residents have an unfair advantage because the collection days are held in their municipality reports show 851 newmarket resi dents the largest number dumped off waste during the day the least num ber of residents two were from vaughan but town public works director paul whitehouse told officials stouf fville doesnt have the facilities to efficiently accommodate 1 500 visi tors to the town the region has picked ideal sites at newmarket and richmond hill stouffville just cant handle that many cars whitehouse said he added there is not another col lection day planned in town because of the regions commitment to hold two days a year whitehouse said he would like to thank the four town staff members and 10 members of the whitchurch- stouffville recycling group that helped out during newmarkets household hazardous waste collec tion day recall notices at almost the same time to confirm their placement in the fall warrensaid r when the assistants are hired for the fall it is with the understanding that the contract is only for that school year there are now 318 eas on staff working with special needs children to keep them in classrooms with chil dren their own age as part of the boards mainstreaming philosophy some are assigned to work in libraries and resource centres the board is changing the criteria for assessing the requirements of spe cial needs students in other years the assigning of assistants has been based solely on the outcome of case confer ences were going to become a little tighter director of education frank bobesich said were becoming cri teriaoriented instead of emotionori ented he said the cuts have brought a sense of objectivity to the placement of eas with special needs students the board is how reviewing all spe cial needs programs and defining the system of allotting eas weve been driven to a more creative decision making process bobesich said he added a criteria reference point is expected by the end of june an unsigned letter to the week ender said some children need a lot of onetoone attention and have of education and the potential that they warren would not disclose the lbca- health needs that a regular teacher could achieve the letter said tion of the meeting because she said doesnt have the time or skill for a meeting is set forearly next week anonymity is crucial but interested because of thefinancial cutbacks for all concerned eas to discuss legal people can call 8818339 a fax num- thesechildren will be suffering quality strategy ber to leave or receive information photosjoerd wttfeveen fla day at summitview presenting three flags whitchurchstouffvilles ontarios arid canadas to the students of sum mitview public school are from left bonnie forfarkingsley donald hodgins cliff aiken ruth kaspick norm dunn ronald allison opp const 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