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VOL. 125 WIC,. g•
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 1998
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aking plans for stampede
by Scott 1 itgendorl :
Rodeo Committee
The Lucknow Rodeo
Committee is rounding up
its plans•:for its first-ever
Lucknow Sepoy
Stampede.
` 1 thought -it would be
good for this town," said
Teresa Hoist, w`ho, set the
plans in motion.
The rodeo will be. held
Aug. 29 and Aug. 30, and
is expected to draw more.
than 250 cowboys and
cowgirls for traditional.,
rodeo excitement..
Events include calf rop-
ing, barebackriding, sad-
dle bronc riding, steer
wrestling, team: roping,
cowgirl' breakaway roping
and bull riding,touted as.
the toughest Sport in North
America.
Net quite so tough will.
be the addition of .mutton
busting for -the youngsters.
'While rodeos are held
across Ontario,` Hoist
hasn't seen many in this
area and thought the time'
was. right.
She hopes it will.. place
Lucknow inthe lirrtelaght
for that weekend,
Once she started talking
.about the idea around.
town, she said support for
the event grew with peo-
ple excited about the idea. .
Hoist said her tele,.
phone has, been ringing
constantly from people
looking: for more informa-
tion or Wanting to help.
Now,a committee is
riding strong ,tq find the
sponsorship int needs for.
• the event and to. prove that
Lucknow is a rodeo town.
rmpany
operTheating.theodeo evencot is A -K
(pronounced "ay bar tray'}
in which cowboys and
cowgirls Will be eompet-
ins in an independent,.
.series of eight.•rodeos this
summer.. Points : earned at
each of 'these; including
-the Lucknow .event, also
go toward a provincial
championship held later in
September,
Lucknew's event will
be held at Ab Murray's•
farm, east of Lucknow,
with "shows at 2 p.m. on
the Saturday and Sunday,:
The weekend` begins
with a cowboy breakfast at
the Legion where locals
and visitors will have a
chance-t0.meet some of
the cowboys,. travelling
from across. Ontario,, other
parrs Of Canada and the
United States to compete.
The breakfast will be
followed by a parade, from.
downtown to the rodeo
site, about three kilome-
tres east of Lucknow on
Highway: 86. .
Satttrday.'s event will;: be,
followed; by a beef barbe-
cue supper and a dance at
the Lucknow arena; ..
On Sunday :morning,
Hoist said they are trying
to:arrange,sotne children's
events; in addition to the
• See,•'Mutton' page 3
"Okay, boys, this is the, way you dolt," 'says 'Ed Dewittering, the instruc-•
for at the steer wrestling`ciinic:held at the Prince farm, Wingham, on the
weekend: Fifteen young ,men, some with a .little experience, and others
' with no experience, signed up for the two'day clinic, They were taught
the proper :technique from,: the ground. up- using a dummy calf, then the
real thing,. and then On horseback, Some .of those learning how to tyres -
tie a steer Will be competing in the first-ever LucknoW Sepoy Stampede
Aug. 29 and 30. (Livingston photo)
Education news
Everything's ,coming
up. pansles! 'Well,'
maybe not everything,
but these' 'pansies
were picked. from;
their front fiower bed
by Elaine and `Ross
Errington on Feb, 28..
by Gregor Campbell
Next year's March
break might not be as long;
as this year's for' area stu-
dents.
Under recent provincial
government '`; policy
changes; aimed at maxi-
mizing instructional days,•
perhaps the only waythe
annual break might. last •
two weeks is lithe school
year started before
Labour Day, which could
be a -hard sell here in rural
Ontario.
" That's a busy time of.
year on area farms.
Superintendent of 'edu-
cation John McCauley told
the Huron -Perth -Catholic,.
District School Board's
Feb. 23 meeting ° thata
decisionhasn't been made.
yet, but an advisory com-
mittee'
am►-mittee' has been formed,
along with the, Avon -
Maitland District School
Board, tostudy the issue
and advise the respective
boards.
mittee investigates o
:imiz%ng instructionai day
Another cornmittee: o1'
10 has been established; by
this -area's Catholic school .�, a ,.
board to work on impxe . "lead class_" being, this
tnentation; of other recent- " year's Grade 7s,
ly mandated policy . Grade 9 will be
tam
Ontario as of September.
1.99 h' said with the
becomes effective in "This is a bit of an alert
for us" he told` trustees..
McCauley also, said "sci
ence and mathematics"
appears to" h:ave ;imore -
value under" the new: sys-
tem, at- the expense' of
"arts and social science."
He added every course
each student talus. will` be.
changes by the Ontario "streamed" despite con -
government, fiieting: views as to its
No Debate merits. Ontario's Royal
Superintendent Commission on Learning,,
McCauley told trustees the , for instance, advised
board met with :education against it
ministry officials the week ' Thirty, credits, each of
before,` and "there is no approximately 110 hours
room for debate within (although there is some
these new policies... just flexibility'in this area) will
how we can make it be required for a diploma.
work." ----Of these .11, will .be,
Optional subjects will mandatory,
become somewhat limited Fewer Options_ .. . -
in specific That leaves 12 options,
Grade " 9 will ' become but the. Catholic communi-
streamed,; and subjects that ty requires four religious
certain students have tried education credits, which.
again to • get higher marks reduces this. ,number fur -
will bedisclosed on their ther'for students; Options
transcripts under the new could be as few, as, two for.
system among other all of high "school in
changes, McCauley French >immersion, the
reported to trustees. superintendentof cduca-
The new four-year=sys- tion warned
tion
recorded on Grade 11 and
12 transcripts as part of
the, provincial govern-
ntent's new. "full disclo-
sure" policy.
"This board will.. have
to decide what is viable in
terms" of what youcan
offer," the superintendent
concluded:
rear ole n .se�r�ous
condition after
accident in Ashfield
Eighteen -year-old Candace•, VanDamme,_°;-of
Goderich, is in serious condition in Victoria Hospital,,=
:oridon,' after ;a motor vehicle accident in Ashfield
Township on Saturday night.
VanDamtne=was driving a 1986 GMC pickup on
Belfast Road (Ashfield Township. concession 10/11),
,near Lanesville" Line; (Road 3/4 east division). The
truck left the roadway,: enteredthe south ditch, struck
a laneway.and tolled over.
A passenger' in, .the. vehicle,; Aaron Hackett, 21 of
Goderich"-was also taken'to Alexander Marine -and`,
General 'Hospital,.• Godertch.
'Goderich:OPP continue the; investigation.