Glebe Report

SCHOOL NEWS
Carleton University's First Charity Ball
All dressed up but no place
to go? Hang on to those top
hats because the First
Annual Carleton University
Charity Ball is just around
the corner.
Organizers of the event,
to be held on Friday, Jan.
22nd in the Palais des
Congrès ill: Hull, are calling
it the biggest bash ever
for the university. More
that 50 volunteers have been
recruited to help pack the
hall with what organizers
hope will amount to 2,000
people on formal night.
The ball committee chair-
person, Mike O'Neill, a fourth donating the hall for the
year Arts student at Carleton, cause and Mayor James
says he would like to see Durrell is acting as the
everyone in the community honorary chairman of the
participate in the event. event.
Although he says the ball
Proceeds from the ball will
"will highlight the work
go to the CHILDREN'S WISH
students do in our community", FOUNDATION OF OTTAWA-HULL'
tickets will be sold to the a charitable organization
general public.
that grants terminally ill
O'Neill adds he is already children their fondest
getting encouraging support requests.
from Carleton's administra- O'Neill and some friends
tion, Students' Association, were prompted to action by
Alumni Association, the
a similar event held annually
University of Ottawa and
at the University of Western
businesses in the city. Ontario. The "plot was
The Palais des Congrès is hatched" Thanksgiving week-
end he says, and soon after
he was busy recruiting
volunteers from the community.
Tickets for the event,
which will feature two live
bands, are $10.00 per person.
Corporate tables will also
be available at a slightly
higher cost. The Unicentre
store at Carleton will sell
tickets beginning in December.
For more information
about the Charity Ball,
please call 521-1997,
521-0273 or 237-3187.
Preschool Music Academy registration
BY JEAN GOMEZ
The Preschool Music Academy
will be starting its winter
term soon. For almost 300
children between the ages
of two and seven, music
class is one of the highlights
of their week. The
programme encourages children
to explore music through
singing, movement, games and
the use of percussion and
melodic instruments. Classes
are one hour long and the
cost of the ten-week session
Is $80. At present there
are spaces available for
four-, five-, and six-yearolds
on Tuesday afternoons
at our Elgin St. location
and for four-year-olds Friday
mornings at Alta Vista.
The Academy has added a new
class for two-year-olds on
Wednesday mornings in Alta
Vista as well as a class
for Moms and their babies
aged eighteen to twenty-four
months. For information and
BRIAN McGARRY
Trustee
Ottawa Board of
Education
Office
315 McLeod St., Ottawa
233-1143
Home: 235-7549
registration please call
233-1471.
In addition to regular
classes, an English and
French series of special
music workshops is offered
at the National Arts Centre
at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday
afternoons from January
through March. This series
is being sold by subscription.
However tickets for
individual workshops will
go on sale at the NAC Box
Office two weeks before
the workshop date. For
information only, call
238-7270.
By Monica Pine
Provincial Share of Financing Education in
Ontario has dropped from 61.3% in 1975 to
42.7% in 1987. Atthough dollars come from one
source only (us!!) the local tax burden is becoming
unbearable. We need relief from property
taxes ... particularly in Centretown, the Glebe and
Ottawa South. Otherwise many of us will be
obliged to leave Ottawa centre and this would be
the start of urban decay. The present Government
of Ontario has made a commitment to fund
60% of approved educational costs. We look
forward to such in Ottawa centre.
(Ad paid for by Brian McGarry)
17r.
PAY EQUITY
ACT
(BILL 154)
PROCLAIMED
The Pay Equity Act (Bill 154) is effective as of
January 1, 1988.
The purpose of the Act is to remove gender discrimination
from the wage-setting process.
The Pay Equity Act obliges the public sector, and
private sector firms with 100 employees or more, to
develop, post and implement pay equity plans and to
make vvage adjustments where pay inequities are
found.
The following timetable applies:
Group
Public Sector Employees
Private Sector Employers
with 500 + employees
Private Sector Employers
with 100-499 employees
Private Sector Employers
with 50-99 employees
Private Sector Employers
with 10-49 employees
Posting
Date
Jan. 1,1990
Jan. 1,1990
Jan. 1,1991
Wage
Adjustment
Starting
Date
Jan. 1,1990
Jan. 1,1991
Jan. 1,1992
Jan.1,1992* Jan.1,1993
Jan. 1,1993* Jan. 1,1994
(Posting is voluntary for private sector employers with fewer than
1(X) employees.)
The legislation covers full-time and permanent parttime-
employées but does not 'cover casual workers or
students.
Private sector employers with fewer than 10 employees
are exempt.
For further information concerning the Act, please
contact the Pay Equity Commission at:
_Honourable.Gregory Sorbara
MiniSter of Labour
150 Eglinton Avenue East
5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M4P 1E8
Phone: 481-4464 (Toronto area) or
1-800/387-8813
George R. Podrebarac
Commissioner
January 15, 1988 Glebe Report - 23