The Citizen, 2010-10-21, Page 34Over 200 people attended the
Western Region Ontario Provincial
Police Awards Ceremony on Friday,
October 15 in Wingham. OPP
Commissioner Chris Lewis,
accompanied by Western Region
Chief Superintendent Ron Gentle,
handed out 93 awards and citations
to OPP officers and civilians from
the western region.
The event took place at the North
Huron Wescast Community
Complex to celebrate “ordinary
people who were confronted by
extraordinary circumstances.”Among those receiving the“Commissioner’s Commendationfor Assisting Police” were our veryown James Schneider and RonPlunkett for their bravery in holdinga suspect until police arrived after
the suspect was observed breaking
into the Auburn Post Office. A
subsequent investigation revealed
that the accused had several arrest
warrants in London.
Congratulations to James and Ron
who are both deserving of this
prestigious award.
Residents of the village are
saddened to hear of the loss of long-
time resident Bernice Anderson. A
memorial service was held at the
Auburn Community Hall on
Saturday, October 16 to celebrate
her life. She had two children,
William Anderson of Fordwich and
Nancy and Greg Park of the Auburn
area. Bernice was always eager to
share her vast knowledge of the
history of the village of Auburn, andwas very active in her communityand church over the years.Condolences also go out to ShirleyAndrews and her family for the lossof her mother Jeanne Brown. Mrs.Brown passed away peacefully on
Friday October 15 in her 88th year.
Her family, including her 20 grand-
children and many great-grand-
children and great-great-grand-
children, will gather to say goodbye
on Thursday, October 21 at 1 p.m.
with visitation three hours prior to
service at McCallum and Palla
Funeral Home in Goderich.
On a happier note, congratulations
go out to Tracy Millian, daughter of
Bill and Shari Millian, and Graeme
Hamilton, who will be married on
Saturday, Oct.23. Anyone in the
community who is interested in
contributing towards a gift for the
happy couple can leave donations at
the Auburn Post Office.
The Knox United congregation
has been invited to attend
Londesborough’s 150th anniversary
service being held this Sunday,
October 24 at 11 a.m. The worship
service at Knox has been cancelled
for this Sunday.
A reminder that on Saturday,
October 30 at 7:30 p.m. Knox
United Church in Auburn will host
“An Evening With Friends.” This
variety concert will feature The
Harbouraires Mens’ Choir from the
Goderich area, Marshall and EthanDurnin playing their violins, andmusical entertainment by MinisterTerry Fletcher and his wife, Mary.Neil McGavin of Walton will be themasters of ceremonies for theevening.
Advance tickets will be $10 for
adults, $5 for children Grade 8 and
under ($12 and $6 at the door). For
tickets, call Cathy Carter 519-526-
7217, Carol McDowell 519-526
7214, Marg Bakker 519-529-7428,
or contact any church board
member.
The Auburn Playground
Committee has announced that they
will have a “Celebrity D.J.” for both
the Family Halloween Night on
October 29 and the Halloween
Dance on October 30. Local radio
personality J.C. Coutts from the
101.7 The One morning show will
be providing music for both events.
For further details for these events,
please contact Juanita at 519-526-
1160, Koreen at 519-526-1060 or
Marcia at 519-526-1065. Tickets are
going fast.
The Auburn Horticultural Society
has changed its next meeting date to
Monday, November 15 at 7 p.m. at
the Auburn Community Hall.
Susan St. Louis and Linda Wilson
will be the guest speakers with a
presentation of seasonal decorating.
Everyone is welcome. There will be
a lunch served and a free draw prize
ticket to anyone who brings a friendthat has never attended aHorticultural meeting. For furtherdetails please call Karen Redmondat 519-526-7633 or Tiffany Craig at519-526-1070.The Horticultural Society would
also like everyone to “save the date”
of December 6, as they are planning
a community potluck dinner at
6 p.m. to celebrate the Society’s 60th
anniversary. They will be providing
cake and refreshments. More details
will be provided after the next
meeting.
By Carlene Bremner,
Isaac Nicholson and Eric Steele
The Kindergarten classes have
been busy exploring this week. The
junior class has explored the primary
colour of yellow and learned about
chicks and ducklings. They painted
huge poultry characters to display in
the hallway that retell the story of
Chicken Little. The senior
kindergartens have celebrated the
secondary colours green and purple
and had fun mixing paints, sorting
and classifying paint chips, creating
AB,AAB ad ABC patterns and taste-
testing green and purple olives,
licorice, jams, jellies, fruits and
vegetables look forward to many
more colourful days ahead.
The school is getting ready for
registration day for children that will
start school in September 2011
(three year olds for Junior
Kindergarten; four year olds for
Senior Kindergarten). Registration
Day will be Friday, Nov. 12 and
appointments are required. Parents
should contact the school (519-523-
9201) to arrange for an appointment
time and an information package.
Teachers are busy preparing report
cards for students. Interim report
cards will go home on Monday, Nov.
1.
Parents and guardians are
encouraged to arrange an
appointment time for parent-teacher
interviews. Interviews will take
place during the evening of
Thursday, Nov. 4 and the morning of
Friday, Nov. 5. Interview request
forms will be sent home with the
interim report cards.
Friday, Nov. 5 is a PA Day to
facilitate Parent/Teacher inter-views,
so no school for students that day.
Also on Nov. 5, the school is
having a dance to raise money for the
Grade 8 graduation and trip.
The Grade 7/8 class looked at the
book “Luba the Angel of Bergen
Belsen” this week, a story involving
a heroic woman named Luba who
helped children survive through a
winter at a concentration camp. Each
student wrote essays on who the
author’s intended audience was. The
students took a look at the trapped
miners incident in Chile. They tried
to understand how the miners dealt
with a lack of privacy and limited
food and water and then wrote pieces
on what the three things they would
want to have if they were trapped in
a mine.
The school’s KGW (Kids Giving
Water) council will meet next
Tuesday and try to pull together
some fundraising ideas to help reach
the goal to build the clean water well
in Kenya. Thanks to Ms Badham, the
students, past group members, and
the support of this community, the
school has raised $2,500 and are
halfway to making the BPS well a
reality.
This week Ms Badham introduced
her web page and blog to her
students’ parents. The Grade 6/7
students have been writing
collaborative descriptive pieces. The
class would also like to start their
own class newspaper.
The Grade 5/6 class has begun to
use their googledocs accounts. This
program can let students do work
and share it with other students.
They have already shared a survey
with their classmates. Oct. 19 is
Junk-O-Lantern day. Please feel free
to come in and check them out next
week.
Last week dental screening took
place at BPS. The dental screening
program provided through the Huron
County Health Unit looks to identify
children with dental problems and
link families with appropriate
services to ensure dental care is
available to all.
The Grade 1/2 class held its long-
awaited butterfly release last week to
much fanfare. In the class’s study of
life cycles, students witnessed
caterpillars spinning chrysalis and
butterflies emerging. This was
certainly a great learning experience.
PAGE 34. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010.Auburn residents honoured at OPP Awards
Exploration by
Blyth PS students
The Friday night euchre at the
Cranbrook hall, hosted by Allan and
Dorothy Martin had six and a half
tables at play. Winners were: share
the wealth, Jean Dewar and John
Subject; travelling lone hand, John
Subject; high lady, Helen Dobson;
low lady, Ruth Bauer; lone hands,
Jean Dewar and Keith Turnbull;
men’s high, Adrian Verstoep; men’s
low, Florence Holmes; lucky tally
winners, Norm Dobson, Dorothy
Dilworth, Orval Bauer, Shirley
Verstoep, Leslie Knight, Yvonne
Knight, Delphine Dewar, Viola
Adams, Neil Hatt and Marguerite
Beirnes.
The next euchre will be on Friday,
Nov. 5 at 8 p.m.
Euchre in
Cranbrook
404 Queen St.,
Blyth
519-523-4792
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Brussels
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