Huron Expositor, 1999-12-29, Page 3News
THE HURON EXPOSITOR, December 29, 1999-3
Seaforth
on ice...
Free public skating; being
offered during the holiday
season, brought out a small
crowd on Monday where Luke
Willioms lin and with the chair)
had lots of 'support' from .
friends while challenging the
slippery surface Local
businesses and organizations
have sponsored ice time of
the Seaforth and'District
Community Centres to -offer a
little extra for families -to do
during the holiday season •
Car struck
A vehicle parked in the
Seaforth Community
Hospital tot between •
1.15 p.m. and 2.45 p m.
tin Dec. 14 was .truck by
another vehicle that left
the scene.
The vehicle. ,t I999
Ford pickup truck. had
been hacked into. by
another vehicle.
Evidence indicates it was
a 19W2 to' 1,985
OIdsmnhik.
Police are asking
'anyone with information
V> give them a tall
We have plenty of
Debarked Hardwood Maple
or Ash Slab Wood
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Stratford will have
French immersion
By Susan Hundertmark
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1{...,01:1 1' '• horl to
sN, pie ri;he: •r t.,: princip;tl:.
\lane P.uson• tol,t trustees.tt
meeting this Month ot the
A% on \t uj1an:f 1)istri t
School Board
I',,r:ons .;tiJ that while
busine to the -north i•t the
Ji it'it is the mis1 C\111:11,1vc
at.ltui J,ds.of thous.tl,l.
Joll,u:.. et.n busing Fch
ren
immersion • stutleltt. 1
't'Inuon 1'uhli1/4 School -wouiJ
•
• 'It he Hunch less for
'busing in Str.ttiold It tton't
n l.rea.se the costs unlit at all
•'tor a se.onJ,ir bus route:..
,adding that' chi'
JIJn'l_kllut\ ihr rta.t .;tats.
lot busing to St:m1.'1d
-Trustee Vickie Culik•rt said
Ore could not -t t'Le lot_jb,k!
motion -to otter' French
immersion until the husine
t:osts.were made ,t�.ul.iblc to
her and Asa. the lmlt trustee
a1 the. nlect111 10 tote against
. the motion •
Parsons said she .anticipates •
Jt.appointment k.'111 ti 111.011
C01111 parent. tt ho made
strong opposition to ,i hoard -
decision Last teat h' cancel
prinlary .air French to
"hart ttrnvc pragr:anuning •
between !futon and Perth
I'm not sat ing there'. not
sum. tent ento1111e11t for a
Clinton .Ito hut we're looking
at \'t1(l.i)t'i) for busing. I
don't think we had am other
.1101.e.- she said
FJU.anon Jlrtchtr Lorne
Ra.hll, said there Is the
potential ot offering French
innlcrsion at a second site
nest ear.
4
Ile tOld trust:..• that it s
important. to' begirt oitenr
French immersion ,.
pterntrr-�mrr-tt-'-`�ttrmpt�-
ti' staunch the enrolment.
drain to co -terminous hoards
which otter thepritgram
• Frcnch.immer.ion wr11 he
.ottcred at Grade. 1 and
e'nt.rs leseis ssith'•a pos..Ihle
• 'total of three classes..
• Parsons recommended that
the program: start in Stratford.:
'where 19 parents registered
tt'r French immersion last•:
ear when the board curveted
for interested students..1nd .
then till the classest'rorn the
outl> mg areas
"II'J he hesitant to open it
"too wide in the beginning.
\tv one caution i. I wt.uldn't
want tt' end up with so main
we couldn't ,k oininolate the
students." she said
. Parsons, predt. ted that the
first year of French
immersion %%111 not entice too
mans students. • tshr -are
cur�rttntls attenJtn_a� t.jL
immersion with other school
11yard..
"1 don't expect in the first
Vicar parent.- would pull
%indents from. the separate
st stent but preschool parents
clear!) stated that It there's—
French
here's-French Immersion. that'.
where the'11 register their
child. -.she told trustees.
Parsons also said she wants
to set: the .Avon Maitland
hoard start with a a strong
progratn in French immer.ion
but added that stm:e them: i.
.till' a shortage of French
teachers. It- might he a .
challenge to- find three
bilingual teachers
It was ertrernclt ditlicult
to replace some core French
teachers oter the sear but it
might he easier to get French
teachers to came to Stratford
• than an is here else oft the
district." she said. •
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