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front awarded to senior citizens to aid bazaar OTTAWA A Newmarket Mnior citizens club has been i federal New Horizons grant to be used to its gardening program to step up preparations for lonprovi Ism to i If November bazaar Club 396 an organization of Eagle St was awarded the Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde According to Ben Harrison spokesman for Club 396 grant represents the total sum applied for by the club Mr Harrison said the grant money will be used to buy a quilting frame for ladies in the apartment building craft supplies for knitting and crocheting projects quilting material and supplies for making dolls and for silk screening All the products of these projects will be offered for sate at the clubs November bazaar In addition grant funds will be used to buy a storage cabinet for film projector now in the building and to buy four new garden plots available to the senior citizens on Church St and some apartment residents have established garden plots Horizons grant is also marked for spades rakes and hoes for these gardens Club has about 50 active members in building said Mr Harrison The New Horizons program Is designed to encourage retired people to undertake worthwhile projects which would be of benefit to them and their communities Since its in troduction in 1972 a total of 4033 projects have been funded for THE Sine NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO JUNE CHAPMAN KEPT OUT OF TALKS Secondary teachers trustees pappy with pacts 25 raise Era News Editor AURORA Chief negotiators for both sides sounded as if they had farmed a mutual admiration society after last weeks settlement of the 197576 contract for York Regions secondary school teachers But there may be as much or more significance in a facet of the bargaining they refuse to publicly discuss They reached settlement without involving Education Director Sam Chapman at a single negotiating meeting trustees team We are extremely pleased and gratified that the trustees involved this year were willing to listen Mr Nixon said The settlement means a cost increase to the board of per Some trustees are privately expressing concern that the agreement will pierce the ceilings in 1976 If the Ministry of Education raises the ceilings according to inflation next year there should be no problem Mr said If the York County Board of Education is going to be in difficulty in 1976 because of the ceilings were going to have a lot of company he said He said he and the board are optimistic that the Ministry will not allow the system of year Mr Newmarket may opt for pay tennis NEWMARKET Pay to play tennis on municipal courts was considered by the parks and committee last week At present there is no charge to tennis players using the courts but time on them is allotted to the Newmarket Tennis Club and to the public on a formula based on the number of paidup club members The recreation department a been encouraging players to join the municipallybacked flub to give it tighter control of I the courts The suggestion for a pay to play policy was made by Commissioner Dan Shannon after the committee was told the recreation department is receiving complaints from members of the public asked to leave courts allotted for club If a game Is in progress officials should ask those playing to move to a court in the Chapman was right hand to John the school boards chief negotiator the contract dispute resulted in a sevenweek teachers strike Rightly or wrongly Mr Chapman and his role in the bargaining process absorbed much of the blame for the teachers disaffection This year the board team the talks When it was all over and the teachers had won an average raise of 25 per cent both sides this years discussions Asked Friday whether the absence of Mr Chapman and of the teachers team told The Era think Ive agreed with Craig not to talk about anything negative Mr also deliberately skirted any direct reference to Mr Chapman and the effect of his absence on the talks We felt It was our responsibility as a team to negotiate the contract and we accepted that respoiisihihly Mr Cribar said in a Thursday ill not force the board above the provincial ex penditure ceilings for fiscal year 1975 Next year what happens is anybodys guess HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW CONTRACT AURORA For the first time since 1970 York Regions secondary school teachers have ratified a new contract before the end of June Here are the highlights A teachers salary is based on qualifications and ex- There are four categories each relating to qualifications by January a teacher will be able to hit the lop of his salary category in Previously reaching the top of the middle two categories took 12 years and Category teacher took Category I On the SeptemberDecember grid a teacher in this category will be paid in a range of 10500 to base pay annually The present contract range is to The JanuaryAiiiHt grid shows a in ge or 11800 to JanuaryAugust id to The present contract range is to Category September December to JanuaryAugust to The present contract range above the August base will be awarded to teachers on a percentageofsalary basis either at the end of December or the end of January I his uvea Hie board the option of paying Roth Mr and Mr Nixon indicated that the hostility which dominated last years talks had vanished All through the negotiations there was regard for each others positio lie based on the December salary Payment will be made at the end of August 1976 Other highlights of the agreement as noted in a release by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation on a in order to be paid his maximum salary All teachers including probationary teachers have tenure No teacher shall he appointed to two positions of I lity such as a department heads or headship time This was a problem in York County the OSSTF release stated A joint committee will investigate staffing and submit Its findings prior to next years negotiations The board will pay per cent of a teachers dental bills j premise that York teachers were as good as the teachers in the rest or the province Other boards settled for higher teacher salaries but Yorks teachers are satisfied Mr Nixon said Weve come pretty close to the top ones we feel he Bald Were quite happy It was ratified pretty well unanimously Mr Nixon said the vast majority of teachers will get a 2025 per cent pay increase along with a cost of living allowance The contract provides for a twostep pay hike One raise will be effective from September through December the other from next January through August ironically after the York settlement was ratified early last week Education Minister Thomas Wells told a meeting of education directors that they should not be directly involved in contract negotiations He said directors should serve as backup advisors for the negotiating trustees but should stay out of direct negotiating The York talks took months and 15 meetings Both Mr Cribar and Mr Nixon in dicated they wouldnt go through it again Joining Mr on the board team were Trustee Bill Joy of WhilchurcbStouffvllle and Dorothy of King All but Mr Cribar are firstterm trustees The teachers team Included Mr Nixon Wayne Houston Community centre may charge for rooms NEWMARKET A small fee may be charged soon for use of the meeting rooms In the Newmarket Community Centre the parks and recreation committee was told last week Commissioner Dan Shannon said at least three meetings a are held in the centres and the fee would be used over maintenance costs He did not specify the light 34 YEARS A TEACHER After years as teacher Holland Landing Public School Jacques Is retiring At a reception tar her Saturday she was presented with a silver watch a purse of money il carnations and this memory book signed by many of her former students Another surprise for Mrs Jacques her son Danny Ilew In from Vancouver for the party Separate school budget hits 74AA taxes go up 23 of the proposed fee RICHMOND HILL After trimming more than from original staff requests York Region separate school trustees last week approved a budget of million The total is an increase of million over last years million budget and million higher than he boards estimated 1974 actual spending total of million For separate school sup porters the 1975 budget represents an average mill rate increase of 23 per cent over last On a home assessed at the average separate school tax payment will in crease from last year to this year According to separate school figures the public school mill rate is an average of 13 per cent higher than last year Separate school officials explained last week that the imbalance between the two increases is created through a disparity In funds available to separate and public school difference available for taxation between the public and separate the grant structure director of education John said in his budget report to trustees The separate school mill rate increase includes an allowance of or half a mill per supporter for new programs scheduled to be in- Grits NDP to hold nominations candidates in York North next week to contest the election expected next fall King Township Mayor Margaret is the front- runner as the York North Provincial Liberal Association heads into its nomination meeting In Aurora on Tuesday Although association of ficials stress that potential candidates can be nominated from the floor Mayor is the only declared candidate to at a nomination meeting in There are two declared candidates for the nomination Wally York Simcoe NDP candidate in the past two federal elections and Bob Lewis who finished second behind Progressive Con in September The largest single increase in the new programs category is the 364 mill allowance for the establishment of York Regions first Roman Catholic junior high school Another first that the board embarks on in September is junior kindergarten a project that will cost a total of or 096 of a mill for each separate school supporter Hockey celebrities headline Festival THORN ILL Newmarket legion OldTimers hockey club will face off against the March of Dimes Ability Fund The hockey game is part of a threeday schedule of events being billed as the York Region Spring Festival It is being held in the Thornhill Community Centre at Ave and John St The Legion club will be piped to what it hopes will be a victory over the NHL by members of the Newmarket Pipe Band Other big names par ticipating in the Festival which starts Friday at pm and runs until Sunday include the Ellis and Climax Jazz bands the York Region Police and Redskin hockey teams Eddie Shack Scott Carpenter Bobby Orr and many others High school students from all over York Region will par ticipate in a Satur day and there will be pleasure skating exhibits a fashion show a cocktail party and dances THEY LEFT A FLOWERING CRAR tsar hutting with tradition established several front the Prospect St school Above graduates their names on rocks to be used lor a garden I permanent reminder around the tree From left Mono Nesbltt Karen Srta last week Karyn and Kampen chose a flowering crab and planted it li TO BE GUEST SPEAKER Club offers night out or involvement members who are looking for that kind of escape or It will offer the opportunity for members to become more deeply involved in community projects Tomorrow evening guest speaker at the Club meeting Ihe Community Centre will be Mayor Bob Fortran and the evening will around ihe roles of regional and local municipal governments The club wont a speaker at every meeting said Mrs Watson who along with Patricia Montgomery started the club last March On the agenda for next fail for instance is a com munications workshop aimed at producing a cable television program If it succeeds it could lead to a regular feature program on women activities on to the Newmarket community station Another possibility being considered as an autumn project is a scries of art exhibitions perhaps featuring local artists Its all very open right now until we get more people to discuss it said Mrs Watson She and Mrs Montgomery decided Newmarket needed a see NEWMARKET page 2