Hoisting the flag be 1988 BUDGET Taxpayers dish out 55 for schooling By CHERYL MOODER Herald Staff Take a little over million spend five weeks as a committee reviewing where to spend the money and what do you come up with The school board budget which was presented to trustees at Thursday board meeting The total proposed operating budget for 1988 is 496 an In crease of per cent 1987 ex pendituresof lira 339 Taxpayers will pay out appro per cent more of the dollars for education This is considered a year of minimal expansion said Oak vi lie trustee Patty Wilcox The board Is still grappling with a decrease In provincial funding for education Trustee Wlldox said all requests put forth by trustees could not be realized in this years budget but there were several new programs Implemented by the board These Include the computer long range plan music program education consortium University of Waterloo cooperative education and an increase In altoca Garbage fire chimney blaze garage fire kept the fire depart last week Firefighters responded to a report of a garage fire March at When they arrived at 214 Mill Street East In Acton they discovered it was only a car runn ing- Someone had seen the car ex haust creeping from beneath the garage and thought It was smoke There was no damage in a chimney fire March at 13 p at John Street In Georgetown March 25 at 38 firefighters rushed to Durham Street The smoke filling the house was the result of a burned out fur motor Firefighters responded to a chimney fire March 27 at 1 p at the Slderoad and First Line lota for textbooks Money allocations of school board funds do not change much from year to year said the superintendent of business services Jerry Jenkins In will go to fund the operation of elementary schools which breaks down to a cost of 304 per pupil while w II be used to operate secondary schools at a cost of per pup 1 An Increase of 7 per cent went to fund additional stair salaries and benefits Of the total budget picture salaries and wages Increased per cent from In 1987 to a projected 145 in 1988 Salaries account for per cent of the total budget There was also a large increase of funds allotted to furniture and equip ment In due to the large influx of computers into regional schools as the next phase of the computer plan conies into effect Mr Jenkins said In 1967 SI went to fund new furniture and equipment the proposed budget for 1088 is Transportation contracts and debts were up slightly In 1988 Mr Jenkins sold Trustee Wilcox concluded that the budget remains the lowest per pupil cost when compared with other boards The region 11 faces the problem of minimal increase of provincial government grants she said In answering a question by trustee Jim an to whether or not the low cost per pupil was a good or bad thing Trustee Wilcox assured that it was meant In a positive way Studies done In the States indicate that the lower the school cost the bet ter the students she said SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 8772217 BEST AVAILABLE OUR CRISIS Teen hits the streets with no place to go SECTION A THE HERALD March IMS Page volved explains Ma Mann This is the In a series of five article focussing on the need for emergency shelter and affordable homing In North The cases presented are true cues but the namei have been changed The ar ticles have been prepared by the North Housing Committee of the Social Planning Council The Social Planning Coundl is iron profit Involved In research planning and communi ty development activities In North For more Information call Elaine Eastman at or Cathy has fled to the streets She Is 17 years old works part time and Is a full time student at high school Her life Is broken her hopes are shattered Nobody will help her She has a boyfriend who beats her beats her until she is black And blue She has no father and her has done nothing to stop the beatings She too knows how It feels lo be beaten by the person whom she loves When Cathy her mother fled scenes of drunken Easter week services By Marion Hunter Herald special The congregation of St Johns United Church of Georgetown and Glen Williams fiat just Lenten studies and services ending with a Palm Parade at both services March Good Friday April services will be at 10 am at Knox Presbyterian Church April 2 at m the Georgetown Senior choir is pull tog on the What a Savior Easter Sunday will begin with a Sunrise Service 7 am in the Glen Cemetery followed by breakfast in Glen Church Easter services will be 30 a m In the Glen and am In Georgetown The Fellowship of Faith Commit tee of St Johns Is presenting a Journey of Faith April 2 to pm with guest speaker Robert There will be a variety of workshops with special leaders Registration Is limited to available from the church office St Johns enjoyed Its annual Variety Night in the Georgetown hall Jim Brought on was cbaJrper son and entertainer as well with his guitar There was vocal piano guitar flute violin organ solos ana duets as well as readings recita and comedy Those taking part were the Paul Duval family Andrea and her family Herb Lctkeman Jack KrisUt Ferguson Nancy Knox Carl Schcnk Ashley Johnson Johnson Ferguson Haydn Evans and Johnson The public relations committee has been busy selling good quality sweatshirts with the new St John logo This Is not a money making promotion violence to the dark alley ways of Hamilton streets This Is often the case with bat women says Mann a crisis worker with Adoles cent Support Services This cycle of violence usually breeds a learned helplessness in victims and their children Moreover the abused always feel they are at fault and that they don deserve to be helped Their lack of selfesteem and In securities acquired through their upbringing explain how perceive their situation to normal It s all my fault says Cathy I was such a rotten kid What could my mother What else could my boyfriend do Cathy is Just one of young who requested shelter from ASS last year Not all of the re quests were made by 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their families to overcome these problems I have a client right now who has had to live in a Hamilton shelter because Halton has nothing for turn This situation makes it very difficult for me to arrange counselling ses sions with him and his family and it puts an unbearable amount or stress on him regarding school In fact I don think he gone to school at all this week because of the distance in- LOBSTERFEST COMING JUNE 3rd 1988 HOURS Tuaa Wad 10 Thui Fri Satuday CLOSED MONDAYS 8732233 mi V SALE OshKosh a wm Entire selection of Tshirts Sweatshirts and Overalls Sizes months 6x years Prius In affect MarahlD OLD BANK SHOPS 78 Main St S Georgetown 8732452