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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. Continued from page 3 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 Continued from page 3 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”