HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-06-07, Page 11THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012. PAGE 11.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETINGS
Clinton Public Hospital
St. Marys Memorial Hospital
Seaforth Community Hospital
Stratford General Hospital
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meetings of
the Members of Clinton Public Hospital, St. Marys Memorial Hospital,
Seaforth Community Hospital and Stratford General Hospital will be
held at the Mitchell Golf & Country Club in Mitchell, Ontario, on:
Thursday, June 21, 2012
at 7:00 p.m.
to:
1. Receive Annual Reports of the Board of Directors, including
Financial Statements, together with the Auditor’s Report
thereon. The Financial Statements will be available after June 15,
2012 on the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance website -
www.hpha.ca.
2. Appoint Auditors.
3. Receive the Ad Hoc Nominating Committee Report.
Only members of the Corporation shall be entitled to vote
at the Annual General Meeting.
Members of the public are welcome to attend.
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June 9; Jim Howson, Bayfield and
Ron Howson, Lucan, June 10;
Carson Bromley, Belgrave, June 11
and Scott MacDonald, June 12.
On the holiday weekend the Edgar
Family gathered at the home of Don
Edgar on Browntown Line which is
the home farm. Many relatives
gathered during the weekend.
Sunday night was fireworks which
was enjoyed by everyone. Monday
at noon was hot dogs and
hamburgers and more delicious
food. Special guests were Helen
Stonehouse and Irlma Edgar of
Braemar Nursing Home and Mait
and Mary Edgar of Petrolia. The
weather was beautiful. Many of us
cannot remember having such
gorgeous weather for the whole
weekend. Those attending were
from Alymer, Barrie, Blyth,
Brigden, Clinton, Goderich,
London, Lucknow, Petrolia, St.
Catharines, Tavistock and
Wingham.
Family reunion held at local farm
Beach party
Brussels Public School students got to wear their best beach duds to school on June 1 despite
the rainy weather. Shown enjoying their indoor beach party are, back row, from left: Jaimee
Newell and Joanna Kipfer. Front row, from left are Candace Burnham, Hailey Rehkof, Hannah
Kendry, John Nesbit and Julia VanderMeer. (Denny Scott photo)
Makeup!
Buttons the Clown, left, was on hand to do some facepainting at the Brussels Lions Elimination
Draw at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre on Saturday night. Dana Dolmage,
left, showed off her rural roots with a face design inspired by 4-H. (Vicky Bremner photo)
No support for UWCouncillors at North HuronTownship’s regular council meeting
on June 4 decided that they couldn’t
afford to help the United Way of
Huron-Perth due to fiscal
constraints.
Council was approached by two
members of the organization; Ryan
Erb and Jack Groothius late in 2011
who asked for support from council
and were told then that it would be
discussed later.
Last week Erb dropped by the
North Huron administrative offices
to discuss the issue with Chief
Administrative Officer Gary Long
who put the issue back on council’s
agenda.
Reeve Neil Vincent said that while
he supports several organizations
supported by the United Way, he
said that, personally, he prefers
giving the money directly to them
instead of through the umbrella
group.
“It’s a personal choice and I... pickand choose what I support,” he said.Councillor Bernie Bailey said thatwhile he wasn’t prepared to make amotion during the meeting, he
wanted to discuss the issue.
“I’m not sure we should give them
everything they want,” he said. “But
if we can afford $10,000 for a
student to count the trees and
flowers [referring to a part-time
position council approved during
budget time] I don’t think $500 or
$1,000 is too much to ask.”
Bailey said he would like to see
any amount taken from the council
contingency funds which council
can distribute as they see fit,
however Treasurer Donna
White advised council that wasn’t
wise.
“You’re well over that budget all
ready,” she said.
Councillor Brock Vodden said the
money the United Way asked for
was used for good purposes but that
he believes council should defer the
issue, which they did.
Councillor Brock Vodden, after
reflection, felt that North Huron
Township Council may have erred
when they named a park between
Blyth and Belgrave “Little People
Memorial Park.”
The park, which until last year had
been tied up in legal questions and
red tape, was given to the township
last year by Huron County and
during council’s last meeting they
voted to name the park despite
concerns from Director of
Recreation and Facilities Pat
Newson and members of the gallery.
Vodden moved that council
reconsider the motion and found the
audience he needed to discuss the
issue. Councillor Ray Hallahan,
who had suggested the name,
seconded Vodden’s motion and
opened the discussion on the matter.
“I was the one that came up with
the name,” he said. “In no way did I
intend to offend anyone. I apologize
if I did offend anyone but little
people meant kids when I was a
kid.”
Councillor Bernie Bailey said that
after the uproar started during the
last meeting he begin to rethink the
issue.
Council passed the
reconsideration motion, repealing
the previous decision and decided to
name the park Children’s Memorial
Park.
Several members of the gallery
congratulated and thanked council
for its decision including Blyth
business owner Don Scrimgeour
who said he hoped council would
contact individuals who have lost
people close to them in the
community.
“I would like to see [North Huron]
reach out to those that have lost
loved ones to maybe somehow get
the message out that we would
welcome donations towards the park
to add to it without taxing the
township for the cost,” he said. “I’m
sure people would probably feel the
tendency to contribute if we do that.
They would feel it would be money
well spent.”
Reeve Neil Vincent thanked
Scrimgeour for the suggestion and
Councillor James Campbell agreed
saying he had already seen people
using the park and was glad of that.
NH renames park
By Denny ScottThe Citizen
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
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comparison of the two.
The Grade 3 students in Mrs.
Todd’s math class finished their
EQAO testing with flying colours.
They did great. They are going to be
working on fractions and they are
practising by making pizza fractions.
Mrs. Todd’s Grade 7 students are
apparently the best math students
ever. She claims that most of the
students are great at handing in and
understanding their work. They are
working on how to find the surface
area and volume of 3D shapes.
That is all the news for this week.
Tune in next week to hear about how
we spent our P.D. day and how
Grades 4-8 spent their day at the
regional track and field.
By Kathryn Chalmers
This week the Kindergarten
students were wrapping up their
month-long units. Junior
Kindergarten has been studying the
farm and farm animals. They have
been creating farm animals and farm
objects out of pattern blocks using
triangles, hexagons, diamonds,
rhombus and trapezoids.
They learned about goats and
horses this week. Next month they
will be studying insects as they
prepare to “bug out” of our building
at the end of June.
The senior class has been
furthering their mathematical
studies and working with near
numbers – one more and one less
from any assigned number. Some of
them use a number line to assist.
Next they will be learning about
subtraction where the whole has one
part taken away, leaving the missing
part behind. In science, they have
been measuring their growing bean
plants and learning about the earth’s
rotation to create night and day time.
They have been dividing activities
into either daytime or nighttime
categories.
Their fairytale unit is winding
down and there is just one more tale
left to study, “The Frog Prince! This
sounds be fun. They will begin their
final unit called “Getting Ready for
Grade 1”.
Students prepare to “bug out”