The Hamilton Spectator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • 22

recent regulations under the Occupa tional Health and Safety Act During the summer the board had to remove damaged asbestos from a boiler room at St Jean de Brebeuf High School (formerly Southmount Secondary) at a cost of about $25000 Board chairman Rev Kyran Kennedy expressed concern about another school to be transferred from the board of education Eliza beth Bagshaw and asked officials to get an update of the asbestos situa tion there Mr Cupido said he expects the public board will repair the dam aged asbestos but not remove it Hie approach to asbestos problems has come under fire from its union but has been approved by the Ministry of Labor By CHRISTINE COX The Spectator A PROPOSAL to spend about $34500 on inspecting Hamilton Went worth Catholic schools for asbestos will go before the board Tuesday Although confident any asbestos in the 50 schools is in safe condition Cupido the superinten of plant operations has recom mended an audit be carried out to confirm that If there are any isolated areas with problems the study will recom mend what remedial action should be taken he said After considering proposals from two leading asbestos consultants the property committee agreed last night that Trevor Harris Partnership Inc should be hired C2 THE SPECTATOR WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1989 Board considers asbestos safely audit The other proposal was from Pinchin and Associates Ltd for a fee of just over $51000 Although the meat of the proposals was about the same they recommended taking 350 samples while Hams suggested only 250 said Mr Cupido Explaining why officials feel the board should retain Harris he said that report would cost less and be available within three months schedule went into the spring Of 1990 Mr Cupido told the trustees the board took very proactive ap to resolving the asbestos problem about 10 years ago Asbes tos was removed completely from some schools But he also said that does not indemnify the board from further ac tion and the requirements of more RC board loses negotiations appeal bid decision was officials dont know yet what the to tal bill will be Because the case had implications for other boards the Ontario Sepa By CHRISTINE COX The Spectator HAMILTON WENTWORTH Catho lic school board has lost its fight against negotiating separately with its elementary and secondary teachers The Ontario Court of Appeal has turned down the bid to appeal a 1988 divisional court ruling upholding a decision by the Edu cation Relations Commission In response to bad faith bar gaining charges levelled against the board the commission ordered it to bargain separately with the elemen tary and high school units of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association At the divisional court hearing Mr Justice James Southey said the ly whatever the legal correctness of the process by which the commission arrived at it The board tried to appeal be cause it believed the commission and the court had erred in interpreting the word as used in the Edu cation Act and legislation governing teacher board negotiations Chairman Rev Kyran Kennedy said the board disagreed with the in ference its identity had changed as a result of Bill 30 which extended full funding to Catholic high schools Although the legislation has given the board the power to operate a secondary system the board main tains it is still one board not two The board faces paying its legal costs and those of the teachers but rate School Association agreed to pay up to 50 per cent of the legal costs for the appeal to a maxi mum of $10000 Eugene McMahon president of the Hamilton High unit of OECTA said the court decision settles one issue that has hampered negotia tions but many others remain unre solved in the current round of talks After going through fact finding the teachers have suggested the two sides ask the Education Relations Commission to appoint a mediator They are awaiting the reply About 500 Catholic high school teachers have been working without a contract since Sept 1 NEWS DIGEST ssmsowth Christened ile picture shows Century Theatre in its heydey Half moon shaped Lyric sign today (DUMOI School burglaries vandalism down US trials leave concerns about AZT side effects Board pays tribute to Air Music Hamilton physician Dr Stephan Landis who treats people with AIDS said he could not comment because he has not received any official information from the min istry of health Earlier this month federal Health and Welfare Minister Perrin Beatty announced that AZT or zi dovudine can now be prescribed to people whonot only have AIDS but to those who appear healthy in the very early stages of the fatal syn drome Ontario going that far with AZT the only licensed drug for treating people with AIDS BURGLARY AND vandalism have decreased in public schools over the past few years In 1988 the total cost was $67400 down from about $160000 in 1981 according to a report by board of education officials Glass breakage which is re corded separately totalled $260 500 last year and is up During the period 1981 to 1987 the cost of broken glass ranged from $150 000 to $211000 GASP to seek cash for submission Centre coming forPLWAs nation just a makeshift effort by the government to try and appease people to make it look like doing he said Dr Landis restricted in his com ments because he had not received official word from the ministry said this an example of the diffi culties we nave PEOPLE LIVING with AIDS will soon have a drop in centre in Hamil ton The Hamilton AIDS Network for dialogue and Support is setting up the centre at its new James Street South offices to offer PLWAs a safe supportive environment says exec utive director Alex Berry lot of PLWAs have jobs and they want something to do dur ng the Mr Berry said will be a safe positive environ ment where they face discrim HANDS appealing for donations of furniture: couches chairs and end tables HANDS is located at 143 James Street South Suite 900 Anyone wishing to make a dona tion should call 528 0854 At street level other fresher signs announce Lethal Weapon 2 as the feature attraction and Turner And Hooch a dog picture as another a mous Players entertainment Seventy seven years after it opened the rusty Lyric is still holding out smart mammals and trick shootists to the passing crowd tious issue about AZTs side effects on people who appear healthy and draft have symptoms why asking the AAC to look at he said Roy Robb a person with AIDS who works for the Hamilton AIDS Network or Dialogue and Support (HANDS) said decision defeats the purpose of the federal early drug release pregram is to stop people LAMBOROUGH Greensville Against Serious Pollution plans to brainstorm with its lawyer on how to get funding for a submission to an upcoming environmental hearing into the Brow Quarry dump Mark Osborne co chairman of the lamborough group said recently he expects members will speak to lawyer Peter Pickfield in the next several weeks about fund GASP plans to make submissions at an environmental hearing into changes proposed for the industrial dump owned by Steetley Quarry Products Inc Steetley has applied to change contours at the landfill from a shape to a dome It has also applied to include Peel Region and Toronto in its service area estal seats replacing the existing 850 staggered seats installed in 1940 and reducing by more than two thirds the original seating capacity That seating capacity is one of the drawbacks according to Bill Powell the director of Hamilton Wentworth Creative Arts Mr Powell Mr Powell in conjunction with promoter Jim Skarratt made a bid for the Tivoli theatre in hopes of turning it into a 1000 seat mid range community accessible theatre They were bet tered by Mr Sniderman Mr Powell said he would have to do some before taking the plunge and going after the Century And Liz Robinson the executive director of the Hamilton and Region Arts Council said she is not aware of any arts organizations interested in buy ing the building though she said she was aware that Theatre Aquarius and Theatre Terra Nova had previously expressed interest Theatre Aquarius is committed to constructing a new theatre near the Century on King William Street Theatre Terra Nova officials are now un dertaking a complete renovation of their Dundurn Street South facility Ruth Slater public relations director for Theatre Aquarius said that the company consid ered the Century but found its backstage facilities lacking Jon Zemitis the owner of the Broadway Cin ema said that he seriously consider the Cen Safety centre aid unlikely says minister City arenas to get ads on the boards YOUNG Hamilton hockey' players may soon feel more like the pros now that the parks and recre ation approved the sale of advertising space along the boards in city arenas Aiderman Dominic Agostino sail the sale would not only be a gooc source of revenue for the arenas but would also make the youngsters using the rinks feel good since their boards will soon carry the same type of ads as those in NHL arenas When AZT was first available only those who had developed AIDS and had 4 cell counts of 300 or less could get it (T 4 cells are the white blood cells which fight infec tion and a healthy person has a count of over 1000) New Ontario and federal guidelines both raise 4 eligibility counts to 500 But they differ in the area of symptoms The federal government says healthy patients with AIDS or ARC (AIDS related complex) who dont have symptoms can now get AZT Ontario is restricting AZT to pa tients with symptoms such as the AIDS related cancer sar coma Mr Jones said still a conten lines of communication be tween official bodies and physicians seeing and managing HIV prob lems is less than he said Mr Jones said the Ontario gov ernment is still grappling with the financial aspects of providing AZT to more people Ontario pays the total cost of AZT for patients about $7000 per patient a year for a fall dose Last week AZTs manufacturer Burroughs Wellcome Company cut its cost by 20 per cent Seven hundred people in Ontario were using AZT and the new guidelines will expand its use to 1 200 people at a cost of $84 mil lion in 1989 90 to the provincial government tiny when it looked like he might lose his King William street building earlier this year was just too big and had too much extra space we know what to do he said in a great location though especially with the Theatre Aquarius building going up nearby It could be a theatre Mr Zemitis has made arrangements to purchase his cinema and has no interest in tne century now Old sign If you stand across from the Century and look up you can still see a rusty half moon shaped sign Pigeons parade on its ornate ledge If the right you can read the ochre letters: LYRIC By BRIAN CHRISTMAS The Spectator SUPPORTERS the Canadian Centre fra Occupational Health and Safety bet on the provinces coming to its financial rescue Onta labra minister says a longshot just because all of us are under real Gerry Phillips said yesterday when asked if the provinces would consid er funding the centre after its federal support has ended saying to (the federal gov ernment listen the provinces have a bottomless pit of money This is something worked and worked well and you have a respon sibility to continue to make sure it does he said ederal Labor Minister Jean Corbeil announced this summer the government would reduce its $93 million annual commitment so that by 1991 the world renowned store house of workplace health and safety information would be on its own The tripartite council of governors meds in Hamilton next week to discuss a controversial busi ness plan that has been prepared to keep the centre afloat sources of money: additional world wide not for sales of the compact disc a fundraising foundation and other ac It has also been suggested the provinces be approached to share the nearly $10 million annualbudget Not enthusiastic But Mr Phillips enthusi astic about that idea The newly appointed labor min ister was in Hamilton yesterday on a whirlwind tour of Ministry of Labor offices the Compensation Board the Occupatiraial Health Clin ic for Ontario Workers and Procter and Gamble Inc The Barton Street East health clinic which specializes in diagnos ing and studying occupational health problems in workers is one of two set up this year on a three year $43 million trial funded by the Labor Ministry The clinic a concept pioneered by United Steelworkers Local 1005 in 1981 is managed by a board of di rectors composed of labra industry government and institutional rep resentatives Directors gave it top marks yes terday for providing a valuable ser vice to workers In the half year the Hamilton clinic has operated about 150 people have visited the centre with a wide variety of complaints Mr Phillips heard Robert Milbourne vice president of manufacturing at Stelco Steel and clinic treasurer fold Mr Phillips it is to teach the entire medical community about the intricacies and nuances of occupatio nal medicine But a clinic staffed by specialists in the field can provide that needed care he said Mr Phillips said later he wants to see how the Hamilton and Toronto clinics pan out after three years be fore deciding if they will be expand ed to other Ontario regions No more facelifts for the Century By WAYNE MacPHAIL The Spectator THE CENTURY Theatre due to close at the aid of this month has changed hands more often than a fondue set in garage sale season also had only slightly less cosmetic surgery than the Solid Gold dancers But local arts organizations some of which have expressed past interest in the Mary Street theatre panting to buy up or make over the building now owned by amous Players Inc The Toronto based theatre chain is giving up on the Century in favor of multi screen theatres The company announced Saturday that its newJackson Square Six Cinemas will open a day after the Century closes In August the chain sold the 113 year old Ti voli theatre to Sam (The Record Man) Sniderman Gilliam Howard the director of public relations for amous Players said riday that the Century is also available real estate not the first time THE UPCOMING retirement of Glenn Mallory the of Hamilton board of education prompted a tribute from Trustee June Deans at a board meeting last week Mr Mallory who retires this June as music coordinator has been with the board 22 years and is conductor of the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra An advocate of music for all chil dren he got the message across tha music was of the anc not a frill said Mrs Deans Down for the count Ontario reluctant to open up use of AIDS drug BySUZANNE MORRISON The Spectator ONTARIO HAS decided not to widen the use of the AIDS drug AZT as much as new federal guieflines permit until more re search answers are available still concerned about the completeness of the US study on which the federal guidelines are said Maurice Jones a spokesman fra the ministry of health He said AZT trials in the UK will now be studied by the Ontario AIDS Advisory medical scientific subcommittee to deter mine complete enough for us to accept them as vi able main concern is the high toxicity of he said Hie theatre was christened the Lyric in 1912 and promised Hamiltonians dean entertain ment of an instructive and educative It was built tty Dominion Theatres Limited and offered patrons up to 2300 per show free telephones and a day care facility with a trained governess in attendance In its two years as a and fool proof vaudeville theatre it featured Trained Seals The GeeJays Human Marionettes and other mind broadening acts on the North Ameri can circuit Broadcast television was still 30 years away It the rally vaudeville theatre in town The Temple gave it a run for its money and in 1914 after Canadian Theatres Limited took over the Maiy Street playhouse the Lyric became the new home of picture shows That left the Temple and later the Savoy to host Jasper The Thinking Dog Mademoiselle a tima The Oriental Dancer and Mademoiselle Obertia And The Girls a electric dance The occasional comic still played the Lyric be fore thp nirtnre started but the smart monev knew that the top billed intelligent mammals said that it takes a theatre with 1000 seats to terpsichorean femmes fatales trick shootists and make concert dates profitable Hindu magicians were to be found elsewhere In ticket prices would be so high that 1922 the Lyne then owned by the Canadian United people like to take advantage of the arts Theatres Company got a $100000 facelift making would be unable to afford he said ll uik ui uic uiUM paiauai cuuuieiiieiii vcuuca ui the according to The Spectator of the day That was just for starters Reborn In 1940 the Lyric was again reborn It was also rebuilt and rechristenei The new Century Theatre now owned by Twentieth Century Theatres featured trained smartly uni formed and luxurious and and first fluorescent carpet The carpet had special dyes in it that glowed like a Hendrix poster when ultraviolet lights shone down on it This made it easy for pa trons to find their seats Wall designs glowed as well But the glowing decor survive until the Summer Of Love In 1967 the Century famous at that time fra running The Sound Of Music for nine months straight was closed down for a month fra another facelift is new but the name We can truly claim to have given Hamilton an all new Century for Centennial said the manager One of the changes was the installation of 700 ped IS SslBr vj hESWMBjMMMBa jA "WM Zt KM MS II Bilt I UM Ml A 5 1 RLIJ Tliil 1 1 I1 TWi'iliftiiTiiiili MB (OUMO I.