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On Friday, March 5 at theBelgrave Community Centre thereis a spaghetti supper, silent and liveauction and skating party. All theauction proceeds will go to Haiti
and the supper proceeds being
shared between Haiti and the Youth
Group.
The supper will start at 5:30 p.m.
until 7 p.m. You can pay at the door
and come on in and eat supperevent. No ticket is required. Viewingand bidding on the silent auctionitems will begin at 5:30 p.m. andend at 7 p.m. If there are several
larger items, they will be auctioned
off live.
Please consider donating an item
or a talent to this auction. Just give
Lila Procter a call at 519-887-9638
and she will add you to the list.
There will also be skating
between 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. in the
arena. Entry to the ice will be just a
donation to Haiti. There is a box in
the church for the teddy bear
collection.
CHURCH NEWS
On Sunday, March 7 there is
lunch after church. Please bring
sandwiches, sweets or fruit.
Renewal of Baptismal
Faith/Confirmation of Faith is on
Sunday, March 7 at 1:30 p.m. The
topic will be Justice and Evil.
Newsletter items are also due on this
date.
On March 9-10 help is needed at
Donna Shaw’s on Tuesday and at
the church on Wednesday to finish
the meat pies.
On Friday, March 5 at 2 p.m. is
the World Day of Prayer service in
the Knox United Church basement.
NEWS
FROM BELGRAVE
Supper, auction, skatingparty to aid Haiti
Chris Cottrill of Belgrave, who
attends Fanshawe College in London
and is a member on the Fanshawe
Men’s Varsity Curling team, has just
returned home from a five-day trip to
Sault Ste Marie.
The team was completing in a
provincial college championship
tournament where they played nine
games in three days. They returned
home with the Bronze medal for
their third-place finish. Mike Cottrill
was also able to attend as a spectator.
The Book Club will meet on
Thursday, March 4 and Tuesday,
March 9 at 7:15 p.m. at Rev. Tom
Murray’s residence, 21 Jordan Drive,
Belgrave.
The community extends sincere
sympathy to Amy McCrea and Irene
Lamont and families in the loss of
Ralph McCrea.
SHOOT PARTY
There were five tables of shoot in
play on Friday, Feb. 26.
The winners were: high pink card,
Joann MacDonald; second high pink
card, Mary Taylor; most shoots, Lois
Chamney; high white card, Dorothy
Carter; second high white card,
Stuart Chamney; most shoots, Ross
Taylor.
The next shoot is Friday, March 12
at 1:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
By Linda
Campbell
Call
357-2188
PEOPLE AROUND
BELGRAVE
Go deep
Looking for the deep pass was Garet Smuck, left, while Nick Irwin looks on, last week at East
Wawanosh Public School’s winter activity day. In honour of the Olympics, the school took time
out to participate in activities like curling, scooter ball and many others. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
The timelines for two separate
Avon Maitland District School
Board decisions about school
consolidation and/or closure are
now firmly established.
In both Bluewater/South Huron
and Huron East/North Perth, people
should mark down Tuesday, June 22
as the date they’ll likely find out the
fates of their schools. Final
recommendations from
administrative staff will be delivered
to trustees in late March and,
between then and the planned June
22 trustee votes, there will be
opportunities for residents to make
their feelings known within their
own regions.
This week, the final of six
scheduled meetings of the board-
mandated Accommodation Review
Committees (ARCs) will be held in
each region. The Huron East/North
Perth committee will meet
Wednesday, March 3 at Elma
Township Public School in Atwood.
And the Bluewater/South Huron
ARC will meet Thursday, March 4
at South Huron District High School
(SHDHS) in Exeter.
In both cases, the ARCs –
consisting of representatives from
parents, school administration and
municipal councils – will present
their final recommendations. These
recommendations will be considered
by Avon Maitland staff as the school
consolidation proposals are written,
and will also be provided to trustees
as information during the final
decision-making process.
Both meetings begin at 7 p.m., and
the public is welcome.
One interesting feature of the
online information about each ARC
– available on the Avon Maitland
website at www.yourschools.ca – is
a comprehensive collection of e-
mails exchanged among review
participants. The e-mails date as far
back as October, 2009, and the
collection was updated most
recently in late February.
For the Bluewater/South Huron
ARC, there are 294 pages of emails
listed. Among the more recent e-
mails are a note that “a former
teacher of South Huron District
High School (SHDHS) want(s) to
speak” at the Feb. 25 ARC meeting,
and the following questions from
Hensall Public School advocate
Mary Lynn Macdonald: “Could we
please get the revised number of 7
and 8 (students) proposed to move
into SHDHS for the 2012-13 year?
Also, what number of students are
on buses going to Usborne from
north of Highway 83?”
Administrative staff will present
their proposals to trustees on
Tuesday, March 23 in the board’s
Seaforth headquarters, as part of the
board’s regular 8 p.m. meeting.
Then, during regularly-scheduled
board meetings in April and May,
trustees and senior staff will take
their show on the road, in an attempt
to encourage school community
members to present five-minute
“delegations” in response to the
proposals.
“Last year, we were able to do
these (delegation-themed) meetings,
but we were pretty careful about
how we stacked the rest of the
agenda,” noted chair Jenny Versteeg,
referring to 2008-09 decisions about
potential school consolidation in
South Huron and the Wingham area.
A preliminary schedule for
delegations-themed meetings has
the board travelling to Elma
Township on Tuesday, April 27, and
SHDHS on Tuesday, May 11.
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
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