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December 22, 1999
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By Scott Hilgendorff
Exposit./ :: l
Wehrle ;he airead`, > tl_I
he ci,ming. rine • f )asst, Mnorev;•
1.c.r,urite part,
recei.ing. the ,am.e
that ha, been excha;, e :
her%e!t and a c.iu,ln r
1 firsk tr,r'. ird t,> -that gar
rno re than aria ,x'r;er,.' ,aid
,re,.who .:an re..r(e the .arae
• le h'. heart
Liy Christmas .wash i, ,curs fee
.keep,.
An' .tin `.arra bias tae he
sending it. -
But please :retu:rn the -,:a,rd'tae
ine. '
It's' „e coatiy that t•m just
lending it."
It cost a pickle hut it started a
. Christmas traditionchat ha grown
into a cherished part of !he•sea,+in
A,r M,x re • '
She remember- no her e.+u:i;:
Hugh Campbell loved ro rea•e her
since <he•wa' a.little girl .N; a
• teenager. he <eat him a sill?
Christmas card and. not•to be
outdone h., her. sent that fateful
'card to. her.
Moore hdd mort a+ It and keepir
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Crile t ., the e"as:ern
e insula. se
ya
hack whim the following 'sear
It's ex. h.insed hand:. bei A_ee
her £_mond.ille home and -hi. :n
Bluev,r_Ie eter ,tnce.
For the tir..t 20 :Jr'.. : ie . ;u -t
sq -fried the card but ^e_*.in adding
Irttle .notes that ha`. e „ern :ren
most of the cars) s '.. r;t area
tilJed:%tth.nle.a_ s ':ke •1\asn't
•iure tt I.eould artord .i flee%
en%elope.plu. postage However...
we ;old a r_'e% hen . making tt f-
possible CO sen.! areenne:." Loi • 'usen t:rdermarii :,roto
So* CARD, Page 2 'xis Moore ord -ugn Zampbeil have been excnorging the sarne.cgrd for 50 years.
By Susan Hundertmark
c.posrtyr )loft
•
Liberal Education Critic •
Gerard Kenneds satd he sent
•up a flare' in the -pro. to;Cal:
legislature Manday tntorining
Education Minister Janet .Ecker -
.was done
open. ,aid K:
• :Taking the par;,::•
of this.. commu:i-• :-
through tremendous ars. •
but at the end or'•the .la• :he
1:0. ertlrnta. t 1'. tk+rced to. admit.
the. were wrong
using a Cookie cutter approach
that is lust not fair for rural
. Ontario.':
He •ur,e.i local .people to
concentrate on k,hhytnY
Education \Ilnister Janet Ecker
era •, ,;•_ er-r' 4urn„
r,ecau-e
e 1. ^.lature x`!1
,mat, :: .. x.11 :1.
•
1 _ \von
make it, 1 _ _ "1 +11
school -closure, "1
Feb. • ..
"Every month. more single-.
sch.vol c:.t.nimuntttes aerON,
Ortt:rio are shut down. there is
a bias against rural schools and
the local -!' ,iri stands 'c
vera little money by closing is
.chums." he .said.:
Ho.' e'er. Kennedy said
ratepayers must continue concentrate their,Iobbv-ni
:.rtort, onthe rniniyter •;f
education because the school,
!ward is being forced to make
the decisions it is making by
the province. •
Kennedy -aid there is s huge
difference between the rtiral
S« EDUCATION, Pogo 2
that
will
`u''rrrlJnt.rnlatoua MPP Johns working with committee
„how.. h`p
-We're going to be to the>e • to pre.P.are_ a. school-savin Plan or board
communities lI1 la1lUafy and` ll 1
we're going to continue to raise
this issue and bring pressure
from all• sldcts:" he told rhe ,
Huron Expo.ttor ruesd.o
.iliitrtlttlg •,
Kennedy said he will be
i-.ni l t
Seatorth-at
to -he -named date to January.
was health critic when the
1411
Seatorth .hospital was
bap
threatened and the .ante thing
has to be done now as w hat-
•
Huron -Brine MPP Helen Johns says ,he is
•working cit+.sely with.a Seatorth group that is
deseloptng a propo..al' that.will allow the Awn.
`lattland District School Board to keep open
Seatorth > ,t:hoo1i. • •
the Seaforth group. which is now headed by
fottner Seatorth :may.or. Alf Russ. includes
SDHS council :hair Maureen Agar. SDHS
Student Success Foundation president Charles
Snuth and Seatorth Public School council chair
Susan Arts and former SPS council chair Lisa
('ainpbetl: • •'
• 'l"tn very tied to that committee and l will,
.continue to work_ with it." .says John,.
"Everyone wants w see Seatorth stay a, .t
Mable cuitnnunity."
.Johns say, that the Avon Nina Jw d board is-
receiving more provincial funding this year
than it,dul last year.• •
When asked if the school board should have
-enough money to keep its ,ghouls open. Johns
says. "That •. the issue the board is charged with
deciding