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These 10 Huron County students participated in the first annual Ontario Student Debating
Union Junior High School Debating Championships recently. Eight Grade 7, 8, and 9 students
from across the province took part in the tournament, held in Cambridge. Left and second
from left are Bronwyn Dunbar of Grey Central School and Ashley Gropp of Brussels Public
School respectively. Front and centre is Stephanie Erb of Zurich, who finished in fourth place
and will be representing Ontario at the National Junior High School Debating Championships
this May in Halifax.
Students debate at prow. level
100TH BIRTHDAY
Bailie Parrott
You are cordially
invited to attend an
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, March 5, 1995
at
Huronview, Clinton
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
"Best Wishes Only"
40th Wedding
Anniversary
The children and grand-
children of Mery and Gay
Datema Invite you to
celebrate with them their
40th Wedding Anniversary.
This celebration Will take
place at Clinton & District
Christian School on
Saturday, March 4, 1995
from 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Best wishes only.
O
By John Schedler
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other boards. HCBE is already
complying with the policies which
may be legislated, he says.
"We are already one of the low-
est costs per student boards in the
province. Perth shares that position
with us in various categories. There
are no cost savings to be gained."
In a similar reorganization com-
pleted in 1988 in England, it was
recommended that 85 per cent of
the budget go to instruction and 15
per cent to administration, says Mr.
Carroll.
"We are now spending 2 1/2
cents on the dollar in elementary
and 3 1/2 in secondary for admin-
istration."
"With the lowest administration
to student ratio, I don't know what
else we can do."
Board Chair Roxanne Brown
supports the perspective of Mr.
Carroll, adding that co-operation
with the Perth and Huron-Perth
boards with regards to transporta-
tion has led to significant savings
in that area.
"I don't believe that bigger is
always better," she says. "Ministry
statistics have shown that the most
efficient size for a board is 10,000
to 14,000, which is where the
Huron board is."
There have been examples, such
as the London-Middlesex and
Windsor-Essex (amalgamations)
which have proven more costly,
says Ms Brown.
"I don't know where the savings
would be."
The Education and Training Min-
istry has appointed a four-member
task force to redraw the public and
separate school board boundaries to
be released by September, 1995.
The cost of the task force, over 34
months, will be $250,000.
The amalgamations suggested by
the task force are to be in place by
January, 1998, with the previous
fall's elections held in accordance
to the new boundaries.
The Ministry expects to see sav-
ings, due to the economy of scale,
in areas such as purchasing, ware-
housing, transportation, payroll,
administration, reduction or elimi-
nation of duplication of services
and reduction in non-classroom
expenditures.
Ten Grade 7, 8 and 9 students
from Huron County competed at
the first annual Ontario Student
Debating Union Junior High
School Debating Championships at
Jacob Hespeler Secondary School
in Cambridge on Saturday, Feb. 18.
Eighty students from across the
province took part in the tourna-
ment which was held to select
Ontario's junior high school team to
the national debating champion-
ships.
Sixteen intermediate pupils have
been participating in a Linkway
Project based on "The Essence of
Canada." After researching a
particular facet of Canada (present
or past) and its influence on our
lives the pupils are busy preparing
computer presentations on their
topic.
On Feb. 28, Grade 5, 6, 7, 8
pupils will sharpen their skiing
skills at Talisman. They are
looking forward to this activity.
We also will have a Parent
Support Meeting at our school on
Feb. 27.
KINDERGARTEN CLASS
REPORT
February is Valentines month
and time to think about friendship.
Although we are always thinking of
ways to get along with others,we
have been doing some special
activities for February.
In the gym we have been doing
activities with a friend. Sometimes
we choose our own friend and other
times we are each given half a
valentine card and then find a
partner by matching the Valentine
cards. We especially liked making
an upside down heart with our
bodies and making bridges for our
classmates to crawl or walk under.
We also made friendship soup.
Everybody brought a few
vegetables and we put them
together to make a delicious treat to
enjoy after skating at the BMG
Arena. Each class, sent a giant
Valentine to one of the Brussels
Kindergarten classes asking them
to be our friends. We were really
glad when they sent us Valentines
saying "We would love to be your
friends."
We gave Valentines on
Valentine's Day and graphed the
colour of clothes that we wore.
Red was the definite winner.
We are anxiously awaiting our
red amaryllis to bloom.
We have three really special new
Students from Huron County
were chosen at a special workshop
held at Central Huron Secondary
School.
Stephanie Erb of Zurich placed
fourth in the tournament and was
one of six students selected to
represent Ontario at the national
debate, to be held in Halifax on
May 11 to 13.
Other students who performed
well included Bronwyn Dunbar
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centres in our room since
-Christmas. One is the Pizza
Centre. The crust and toppings are
-made with felt. We practise our
social skills and writing skills by
writing down the orders.
The next centre is the Phone
Centre. Thanks to Mr. Tim Prior
and Bell Canada we have two
phones that are connected by a real
switchboard that rings and allow us
to hear a friend's voice. Each
phone has its own number to dial.
"We are practising to be
teenagers," Mrs. Douma says.
Our third special centre is a
wooden car minus the wheels that
our teacher's father, Gerald Gibson
made.
from Grey Central School who tied
for 19th, Sarah McMullin from
Howick Central School who tied
21st, Elizabeth Lutgendorff from
Usborne Central who tied for 33rd,
Meaghan Straw from Exeter Public
School who placed 41st, Jamie
Reaburn from Hensall Public
School who placed 45th, Dan
Hammill from Central Huron who
placed 50th, Ashley Gropp from
Brussels Public School who placed
60th, Jean Paul Leeper from
Central Huron who placed 64th and
Everett Smith from Seaforth High
School who placed 65th.
Teacher Jim Barnes said, "This
was the first debating tournament
for the Huron County students, but
they performed very well against
experienced teams from such
private schools as Ashbury College
of Ottawa, University of Toronto
School, Branksome Hall of
Toronto, and St. Andrew's College
of Aurora, Grenville Christian
College of Lakefield and St. John's
Kilmarnock of Waterloo.
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Carroll says bd.
one of lowest in
cost per student
Grey Central Echo