The Citizen, 2005-03-10, Page 13THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005. PAGE 13.
Hullett school receives education award
The school had been nominated as
from and about Hullett Central one of nine finalists as a result of
Public School
There is exciting news this week
improvement in their annual EQAO
IB. t
test scores, and won!
These tests were begun in 1998 to
evaluate education and pinpoint
areas for improvement for
individual schools. The award won
by Hullett was based on the
improvement in the Grade 3 scores
in the academics category from
1998’s tests results through to the
2003 scores.
This is the first year the awards
had been brought to Ontario. The
Fraser Institute for Research in
Education along with the Garfield
Weston Awards for Excellence in
Education sponsor the recognition.
The Garfield-Weston family, of
Weston Bread, have always included
education as one of (heir charities.
Principal Lois Tebbutt, teacher
Joan Vandendool and SAC
members. Missy Gibbings and Jenn
Fleming attended the event at the
Royal York Hotel in Toronto last
Thursday. Superintendents from the
Avon-Maitland School Board were
also on hand for the gala even
ing.
Along with $3,000 the school also
received an Inuit carving with an
engraved plaque and a framed
certificate. Tebbutt suggested some
of the money may be used to
purchase a data projector, an extra
educational tool for use by both staff
and students.
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Garfield Weston award
Hullett Central Public School was presented with the
Garfield Weston Award for improvement in education. Along
with a certificate and a carving, the school also received
$3,000. Principal Lois Tebbutt sits in a chair, surrounded by
student council members: Kyle Middegaal, president; Krista
Rozendal, secretary; Jenessa Dalton, treasurer; Danielle
Bean, vice-secretary; Sheldon Reid, vice-treasurer and
Tyler Middegaal, vice-president. Standing in behind is
Grade 2/3 teacher, Joan Vandendool. (Jim Brown photo)
Discussion turns catty
at Huron East council
By Mark Nonkes
Special to The Citizen
Huron East council took another
kick at the cat at the March l
meeting.
An emotional Seaforth woman
begged council to do something
about the cats visiting her yard and
using it as a litter box.
“Please don’t wait, it’s driving me
crazy,” Joan Lubbers pleaded.
At the last council meeting in
February, the same woman wrote a
strongly-worded letter that had
Huron East considering cat bylaws
and the role of the animal control
officer.
Seaforth councillor Joe Steffler
renewed his call to set up a cat
bylaw for urban areas.
However, one councillor who was
in favour of official cat regulations
at the last meeting changed his tune.
After talking with other
municipalities about cat bylaws,
Correspondent
Grey ward councillor Mark Beaven
said he was strongly advised to stay
away from the issue.
He told council he learned that the
cost of answering cat calls far
outweighed the income the
municipality would make from
licensing the animals.
“Most municipalities who got into
it wished they wouldn’t,” added
clerk-administrator Jack
McLachlan.
But Mrs. Lubbers was not
impressed. “It’s not the animals, it’s
the people that matter,” Lubbers
responded. “I'm sick and tired of it.”
After visiting the home, councillor
Lou Maloney agreed the cats had
created an awful mess in the yard.
“I’m at the end of my rope."
Lubbers said.
In the end, council agreed to give
her a live trap and when the anima!
was caught to send the animal
control officer, to take it the
veterinarian.
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Continued from page 12
From the back of my mind came
the thought, “Sure, but what will
your family eat?” For the second
news item dealt with the fact that
farmers from Western Ontario were
staging a protest at Queen’s Park.
They are petitioning for help with
their industry suffering from BSE
fallout, low commodity prices,
greenbelt areas, etc. They, too, want
a good life for their families and
were looking for iess money than
the auto workers.
It’s to be hoped Torontonians all
saw the comparison between the $95
cost of ridding their city of a tonne
of garbage and the $91 paid to a
farmer for a tonne of corn. 1 have the
feeling they have no real concept of
life beyond the city limits some
never having a seen a real farm.
Perhaps every city family should
be responsible for moving a tonne of
compost out to a farm. Some have
never been beyond the city limits
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