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By John Schedler
Leading off this week's new releases is Heavenly Creatures ****
(Alliance), a superb drama from New Zealand about two school girls
whose pathological attachment leads to murder. Director Peter Jackson
delivers a film of wit, horror and dazzling cinematic style that makes most
of those slick Hollywood thrillers pale in comparison. Heavenly Creatures
is based on a true story. Highly recommended! (Rated R)
Other new and unpreviewed releases on store shelves this week include
Richie Rich (Warner), another attempt to revive kid star Macaulay
Culkin's fading career. This film, in case you didn't know is based on the
popular Harvey comic books. (Rated PG)
Clerks (Alliance) is a low budget film that focuses its attention on one
day in the life of a New Jersey convenience store and the eccentrics who
pass through it. (Rated R)
Keenan Ivory Wayans stars in Low Down Dirty Shame (Hollywood) as
a street smart cop on the trail of a Latin American drug lord. (Rated R)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Alliance) stars Jennifer Jason Lee
as the renowned Jazz age writer and humorist Dorthy Parker. (Rated R)
In The Lade Kidnappers (Warner) Charlton Heston plays an embittered
grandfather whose life is redeemed by two orphaned brothers who come
to live with him. (Rated G)
Fans of Japanese animation will no doubt be interested in several new
releases from Manga Entertainment. This company specializes in high
octane animation action adventures featuring futuristic sci-fi storylines
geared toward the 13 to 25-year-old males and females whose interests
include music, comics, virtual reality, intemet surfing and computer
games.
The titles include Macross Plus which is described as the TOP GUN of
Japanese animation, while Black Magic 66 and Appleseed are more adult
in nature and feature explicit language which is something I didn't care
for.
If you're looking for that elusive movie you have always wanted to see
but have never been able to locate, then a new video reference guide
called Video Hound's Golden Retriever Movie Guide from Visible Ink
Press ($27.99) may be just what you need. This massive volume (1,600
pages) not only includes capsule reviews of over 22,000 videos available
on cassette, laserdisc and CD-I, but also features where to find them plus
an amazing array of indexes which lets you locate favourite actors,
directors, writers, songs and much more.
Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever is worth checking out. You can
win one of two copies courtesy of this newspaper and Visible Ink by
sending a postcard to Video Fax, P.O. Box 28, Wingham, Ontario. NOG
2W0 by May 31. We'll draw two cards and announce the winners in a
future column.
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PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1995.
Hullett Happenings
Band visits Wonderland, sings in Festival
MUSIC SENIOR GRADES
Recently the Grades 6, 7 and 8
wrote raps about Earth Week. They
all had the same beat and they
worked in groups of two to five
people. They were excellent raps.
CHESSAMANIA
By Christine Lapp
On May 18 there was the sixth
annual Chessamania held at Hullett
Central Public School. There were
approximately 60 people that
attended, from seven other schools
in Huron County.
They only play for fun, and it
gives them an opportunity to play a
wider source of students.
There were refreshments there
also. The students had a great day.
KINDERGARTEN A AND B
Kindergarten classes are doing an
under the sea unit. They are
learning about all the sea creatures.
They made rainbow fish and are
being taught how to save our ocean
and earth. They made under the sea
pictures with real sand and shells.
They finger painted them also.
On May 24 the A class will be
visiting the hospital. They hope to
teach the kids that hospitals help
people and they aren't scary.
SUB DAY
Mr. Medd's Grade 7 class had a
sub day. This was their third class
meal of the year. They had to pay
to help supply the materials needed.
They all enjoyed themselves.
50 KM RUN
Mr. Medd's class has been having
a 50 km run. Every five laps around
the track equals one km.
Te-anna Cressman has already
finished the race. Second place is
Ruthanne Huizinga and third is
Lyndsey Haak.
Good luck to all of the runners
and congratulations to Te-anna.
In their English class, the Grade
7 teacher Mr. Medd wanted to
teach the students a little about
acting. The students were split into
five groups. They could basically
do what ever they wanted, but the
skit they had to put on had to fall
into one of these categories,
Drama, Comical or Romance.
Most of the students chose
comical.
The skits were from about five to
10 minutes in length. They were
graded individually and together as
a group.
The Grade 7s said it was hard to
work in groups, but it was fun
learning.
MOTHER'S DAY
By Katie Snell
For Mother's Day, the Grade 7s
made cards and little fridge
magnetS. They had to sew them,
and many found it difficult, but -
fun.
By Carey Elliott
Mr. Medd's Grade 7 class was
auctioned off at the auction held at
our school in April. They were put
into crews of five to do anything
from garden works to picking
stones.
They raised $230 in total.
supplying them with snacks, etc.
during their working time.
BAND TO WONDERLAND
By Julie Cowan
On Tuesday, May 23, the Hullett
Central P.S. band went on a trip to
Canada's Wonderland.
They also went to Walkerton
Music Festival. At the Festival they
played the wrong piece, but the
piece of music they played was
more difficult, so the adjudicator
gave them first place.
3-PITCH
By Julie Cowan
In the past couple of weeks
Grades 6, 7 and 8 have been
playing baseball. Mr. Talbot and
Mrs. Bosman have decided to do
something different this year. They
are letting everyone who wants to
play try out and then they will pick
the all-star team to take to the 3-
pitch tournament at Clinton P.S. on
June 20.
TOO MUCH TRASH
By Katie Snell
The Grade 4, 5, 6 students are
taking part in a National
Geographic telecommunication
project on trash. There are seven
schools from across North America
and one from Hawaii taking part.
Some of the activities to date
include mapping where the schools
are, graphing the trash each room
provides in one day and writing
letters explaining trash collecting in
our school and in your community.
All data_ is sent by modem to
Washington where all participating
schools can phone in to get the
data.
Brussels Public School enjoyed
an excellent track and field meet
organized by Mr. Prior last
Thursday. The sportmanship and
encouragement of students for one
another Was truly outstanding
throughout the day.
Several parents dropped in to
watch the competition, and their
interest was appreciated by both
staff and students.
Champions in the various
divisions included Mite Boys,
Drew Thomas, Brent Wheeler;
Atom Boys, Ryan Mawhinney,
Nolan Krotz; Tyke Boys, Scott
Glitz, Evan Horst; Bantam Boys,
Jason Bowin, Tyler Bragg; Mite
Girls, Candice McLellan, Catrina
Josling; Tyke Girls, Jodi Sellers,
Jenna Krotz; Atom Girls, Amy
Douma, Nicole Lowe; Bantam
Girls, Amanda Van Beek, Sarah
Exel.
On May 19 a group of students
from Grades 5 and 6 conducted a
successful Jump Rope for Heart
Skipathon. The group of leaders
has been training and organizing
for over two months.
In March a visit to work with the
skipping team at Grey Central
School was most helpful.
Refreshments for the skippers was
generously provided by our
Parents' Association.
Special thanks to Mrs. Snider,
Mrs. Pepper and Mrs'. Cardiff for
their assistance.
During demolition of the school
office last Friday, a letter from1966
requesting school records for Kathy
Ebel who had moved to Ingersoll
was found. Mr. Ashton was the
Brussels principal and J.W. Spivey,
principal at Westfield Public
School in Ingersoll. Cost of the
stamp - five cents.
That's history!
Does a heart good
The students of Brussels Public School took a few hours
out of their Friday afternoon last week to Jump Rope For
Heart. Patricia Barfield, Grade 1 does some fancy
skipping while Kelly Coulter, Grade 2, looks on.
Brussels PS news
Skippers raise money