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The P.C. Party under Prime Minister, KIM CAMPBELL, is
committed to a REALISTIC and SENSIBLE approach to
government policies.
In a worldwide recession, Canada is more than holding its
own - but this is not the time for promises that cannot be
kept.
Murray Cardiff
Progressive Conservative
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Wednesday.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1993. PAGE 11.
Brussels P.S. news
Students do well in soccer tournament
By Cheryl Cloakey and
Malinda Exel
Welcome to another exciting
week at Brussels Public School.
Last week Laura Haskins, Tamara
Mason, Derek Passmore, and Jared
Cardiff attended a special
ceremony at the Children's Aid
Society building now under
construction in Goderich. Samples
of student poems from grades four
to six were placed in a time
capsule. This time capsule was
organized for the new building. The
A BUNCH OF GOOD APPLES
Mrs. Bosman's grades one and
two students welcomed a new
student this week. Her name is
Kelly Lynn Marriott from Vanastra
Public School. Kelly was just in
time to go on the class trip to Apple
Park near Goderich on Oct. 5. Mr.
Laithwaite took students on a
wagon ride around his orchard. He
taught the students how to pick an
apple properly and showed them
the statue around his house, built
by his grandfather.
They learned a lot about different
kinds of apples and how to store
them. Apple activities filled up the
rest of the week, and they made a
delicious apple crisp to test the
apples.
The Thanksgiving celebration
was on Friday, Oct. 8. Students
each made a pumpkin pie, and a
handsome turkey to take home for a
STUDENTS' COUNCIL
By Leanne Bell and Christina Black
The Students' Council has been
very busy working on various
activities for Blyth Public School.
The council consists of: Christina
Black, Cappy Onn, Leanne Bell,
Skye Lantinga, April Van Amers-
foort, Erin Roulston and Michael
Courtney.
On Friday, Oct. 15 Council
planned a P.J. Day, for all the
grades. Many children came to
school wearing P.J.'s as did a
couple of teachers. Council has also
planned a Halloween Dance for
Oct. 29, and a haunted house for
Clinton Public Hospital will be
purchasing a new microfilm/read-
er/printer for the Medical Records
Department.
The board of directors approved
the purchase at the Sept. 27 meet-
ing after board member Allan Hall
informed the board that the existing
machine was beyond repair.
The equipment will be bought for
a price of $3,905.
In another report from the
finance committee, board member
Dick Snell advised the board that
the hospital will be required to
install an isolation transformer to
protect the electrical supply to the
newly-located Intensive Care Unit .
He says the transformer is
expected to cost about $3,000
including installation.
The board approved the pur-
chase.
Director of Finance Dan Mei-
dinger reviewed the financial state-
ments for the period ending Aug. 1.
capsule will be opened on Oct. 6,
2011. Jared also had the privilege
of being interviewed by the media
and appeared on the CKNX News.
Last week was also an especially
good week, for grade seven and
eight students on the soccer teams.
Last Friday the school hosted a
mini soccer tournament against
Howick Central School. It was an
afternoon full of fun and
excitement. Both Brussels' teams
won. The girls won 3-0 and the
boys won 2-1. After the games the
centerpiece. Now they're getting a
little excited about Halloween
activities, and have started a few
things.
MEET THE TEACHER
This week two new teachers were
interviewed. One of those teachers
who was interviewed was Mr. Bob
Livermore. He has taught for 24
years and is on his 25th year now.
Mr. Livermore taught at the Grey
Central School for 18 years and
taught in Blyth for six years.
Mr. Livermore is the kind of
person who likes all kinds of
sports. He also teaches the grade
eight class and has always taught
the younger grades.
Mr. Livermore's favourite
subjects to teach are math and
Phys. Ed.
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
On Friday, Oct. 8 the students
from grade five, had an excursion
The hospital has a surplus of $3,
926 for the month of August, bring-
ing the year-to-date surplus to
$80,860.
The board approved the
1993/1994 operating budget with
revenues of $6,148,712 and equal
expenses.
Several personnel issues were
also discussed.
Board Chairman, Michael Fal-
coner informed the board that Dr.
Ray Flowers has agreed to return to
the staff of CPH.
Dr. Tom Wenske's application
. for privileges to the Associate Staff
of CPH was approved by the board
with conditions.
The final decision on Dr.
Wenske's request to conduct cae-
sarian sections will be delayed until
he has had the opportunity to con-
duct 10 while being assisted by Dr.
Ken Rodney. Dr. Rodney will then
submit a report to the Medical
Advisory Committee.
members of the team had a feast of
hot dogs and juice to wash them
down.
This week Mrs. Clark's grade
three class is continuing their study
of the world. The class has been
very busy making maps of the
world and Canada's provinces.
They also each wrote a book about
Canada.
On Friday, Oct. 15 the students
from Kindergarten to grade eight
went to the gym for an assembly.
The purpose for the assembly was
to the East Wawanosh Conserva-
tion Area where they had a chalice
to put their ecosystem unit into
some further research. By the end
of the day the students were able to
establish why abiotic and biotic
things grow and prosper in
meadow, forest and wetland areas.
OUT TO LUNCH
Many students are busy selling
magazines for the company
"Quality Service Programs Inc."
The class with the highest amount
of money raised will win a 30 foot
sundae with toppings and the
highest girl and the highest boy
will be treated to lunch out, thanks
to Mr. Medd.
A RACE TO SUCCESS
Next week there will be a cross
country race taking place at Hullett
Central Public School. The miners
are very busy getting ready. The
race will take place on Wednesday,
Oct. 20.
GRADE ONE/TWO
Grade one/two students enjoyed
doing a play for the "Thank You to
Local Organizations" assembly.
They are starting to read lots of
books. Last week they printed fall
pictures outside on the playground
where they could see beautiful fall
colours.
GRADE SEVEN
Grade seven continues to work
on improving their keyboarding
skills. They have used the
computers to produce good copies
of writing. Some of them have
begun to work on Word Perfect.
Dr. Wenske's privileges for other
obstetric services was approved
with the provision that appropriate
surgical back-up be readily avail-
able.
The board will formally recog-
nize the arrival of Dr. Tom Wenske
and Dr. Edward Turton at an
evening social. The date has not yet
been set.
The auxiliary report from Ber-
nice Jewson noted that Sharon
Veitch has contributed greatly to
the hospital as the convener of the
Teen Volunteer Program.
She is planning on relocating and
the board agreed it would be appro-
priate to prepare a letter of thanks
to be presented to her at the time of
her leaving Clinton.
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your licencegmo Ministry of drinking the Attorney
and driving. W. General
to give out awards for Cross
Country running. The awards were
given to the students who ran the
most kilometres. The awards were
10 km. and 25 km. arm bars. Many
students received more than one
award for their running talents.
The students in grades five and
seven had the privilege of writing
Canadian Achievement tests
otherwise known as CAT tests.
These tests help the students
improve on their reading vocabu-
lary, reading comprehension,
spelling, language, language
expression, mathematics computa-
tion, mathematic concepts and
application and reference skills.
grades kindergarten to three.
Just lately there has been a
fundraiser. The children had a very
successful time selling cookie
dough and Christmas ornaments. --
GRADE TWO
The grade two class spent
September studying snails. They
watched them climb over objects
and saw the trails they left. The
highlight was the snail race.
Now they are learning about
apples, and hope to visit an orchard
and see cider pressed. They have
made apple mobiles.
For Thanksgiving we made
turkey centrepieces out of apples.
Hullett P.S. news
Children visit orchard
Blyth P.S. news
Grade 2's study snails
Hospital gets transformer