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From Environment Canada
In brief
Day of
Caring
will help
Grade 9s
meet
mandatory-
volunteer
andatoryvolunteer
needs
Close to 2,000
youth are expected to
volunteer their time
May 27, 2000 to help
better communities
throughout Huron
. County during the
first Day of Caring.
Huron Youth. Cares
is organizing a Day
of Caring, Project
throughout the
county. The purpose
of the day is to
mobilize volunteers
to carry out projects
that will better our
communities, such as
cleaning a
community park,
=``piat►ting trees, or
doing yard work for
seniors. The goal of
the project is to have
2,000 volunteers
involved in the day.
Although the Day
of Caring is open to
all Huron County
citizens, Grade 9
students have been
particularly targetted.
New education
requirements states a
student must
complete 40 hours of
community
involvement in order
to graduate high
school, The Day of
Caring is designed to
help the Grade 9s get
started on their 40
hours. This will also
be a positive
experience for many
students who have
not been exposed to
volunteering before.
Students from area
high schools
presented their ideas
for the project to
Huron County
Council last
Thursday and
received their full
support for the
county -wide project.
For more
information about the
project, contact
Huron United Way at
482.7643.
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Community offers options for keeping schools for SDHS, provincial grants of about $6,000 per
the proposal for agricultural prep school in adopted
student could be generated for each of the 25
Public School. moving SPS and Walton students to students the program could accommodate at a total
the high school building where Harpurhey and of $150,000.
Egmondville students who now attend Huron The agricultural prep school proposal, which was
A packed gymnasium of close to 100 people at Centennial would also be transferred to make room being researched by SDHS vice principal Rob Parr
Seaforth Public School last night heard the local for Vanastra students at. Huron Centennial once before he was transferred to Bluewater High
study group ask that Grades 7 and 8 be moved to their school is closed. School, would see urban students billeted in town
Seaforth District High School (SDHS) and that Trustee Abby Armstrong said that Vanastra while taking agriculture -related courses at the high
both Seaforth schools be kept open, closing Walton . parents, while they want to keep their school open, school and gaining experience on farms to
Public School. have told the board they'll agree -to the closureif prepare for university courses in veterinary science
However, education director Lorne Rachlis said the students are kept_ together at one school. and other agriculture -related fields.
that option and a second one favoured by Walton Cost savings of the board's preferred option total Williams added that a fourth scenario, which
parents that would see Walton Public remain open just over $500,000 in operating costs while keeping hasn't been pursued since it was only raised a few
but close SDHS, "just don't save very much Walton open and closing the high school would times, would be to make SDHS into a Kindergarten
money." save close to $300,000 and closing Walton but to Grade 10 school
"Any other option than the one the board keeping the. Seaforth schools open would save only "While it's been asked what guarantee will there
presented fall considerably short in savings," he $121,000. be that SPS will be viable if it moves, it's true that
said after last night's public meeting dealing with However, one-time renovations costs to the high if in fact the numbers became problematic, we
the possible closure of local schools by the Avon school to convert it into a public school are could keep Grades 9 and 10 in the building," he
Maitland District School Board. estimated at $171,744 and to add a daycare centre said.
Rachlis led parents through a presentation of the to the high school are $353,000. - While Alf Ross, chair of the Seaforth cluster
board's argtment to close SDHS, SPS and Walton Also, superintendent Geoff Williams said that if SN STUDENTS, Paan 2
SpencerPaiilin ' m memory•
Name of first baby comes in honour
of father whcr'was killed in accident
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
By Scott.Hilgendorff
Expositor Editor
When Linda Savile brings
her baby home this spring,
she will begin rebuilding a
life she has put on hold since
her husband, Paul, died in a
car accident last August.
Linda, the St. Columban
mother of the area's first
baby of the year, hasn't had a
chance • to deal with
everything that has happened
in the past several months.
"I haven't had a chance to
let things absorb," said
Linda, who expects the
homecoming to be hard.
That's when she figures
the reality of what happened
will hit her, when she is back
among Paul's belongings and
tries to rebuild her life.
She has bet:n living in
Kitchener in an apartment
within view of her parents'
home where she can get help
with her new daughter.
Spencer Pauline and her first
born. Alissa, who is turning
four.
The pregnancy and Alissa
have taken all Linda's
attention and have kept her
busy enough that she hasn't
faced losing Paul yet. '
"I'm doing really good.
Better than 1 had expected,"
said Linda. "A lot of people
are amazed at how I'm
handling it."
But focussing on her two
children is what she said she
has to do.
Before. she had Paul to
share in the work and
decision making but now,
she has to take control of it
all
She's been hone once
since she left and has come
to realize just how great her
St. Columban neighbours
ire.
Renovations to the house
are being completed by next
door neighbour Pat Feeney
and people are keeping an
eye on the house for her.
After Paul's accident, she
said people she didn't even
know very well were there to
help if she needed it.
People would stop for
coffee to see how she was
doing and others would offer
to take Alissa for her just so
she could have a break as her
due -date approached.
"They've all been great. It
takes a lot of stress off," she
said.
She has also been
surrounded constantly by her
family and Paul's.
A week before Spencer's
due date at about 2:30 a.m.
Jan. 1, Linda began feeling
some contractions what she
thought was false labour.
Paul's mother, Irene, was
there for her.
• "She wouldn't let me go to
the hospital myself;" said
Linda. who was sure it was
false labour.
It wasn't and Irene stayed
with her all night and
through Spencer's birth.
Before the night was over,
all of Paul's family were
there including three of his
See SPENCER, Page $
Headstones knocked over
Vandals cause $2,000 damage
By Susan Htxdertmark
Expositor Stott —�—
A mystique about death and cemeteries
seems to lead to incidents like the recent
52.000 in damages done to'nine headstones
at the Egmondviile Cemetery, says
Egmondville Cemetery board chair Milton
Dietz.
"There seems to be a fascination with
death that attracts vandals to cemeteries.
There's no monetary gain to be made ,by
this vandalism," he says pointing to several
of the headstones that were knocked from
their bases sometime between Jan. 4 and 6.
The nine headstones, which must be re -
Cemented onto their bases, will be repajrd
this spring after they are set back in grace
by ;he heavy machinery needed to do the
job.
The recent vandalism is the third time
Egmondville Cemetery has had tombstones
knocked over. The first time, 30 stones
were knocked over five years ago and the
second time, four headstones were knocked
over two years ago. No one has ever been
caught.
The first two incidents of vandalism
happened around Halloween.
"It doesn't excuse it but you can kind of
understand the timing of the first two times.
But,,this time is January and 1 don't think it
was Y2K related," jokes Dietz.
"I wish I could sit down with these
people and find out why they do it. I think
if I could invite them to a burial and make
death more real to them they wouldn't do
it," he says.
Dietz says that four flower arrangements
were also stolen from the tops of
headstones over the summer last year.
"And, what would you do with those, put
them on your dining room table?" be asks.
Simi A, Pop
Undo. Alisso and Spencer Savile.
LeBeau receives
her sentence Monday
A close will come in the
Sarah LeBeau case when
the Brucefield woman
receives her sentence
Monday afternoon.
Justice Thomas Granger,
of London, will hand down
his sentence at the Goderich
Courthouse at I p.m., Jan.
24.
LeBeau was convicted in
October of 10 charges
surrounding the accident
that occurred near Varna on
Nov. 24, 1996 killing Neal
Atchison and Pamela King
of Clinton and Brian Hill
and Mark7Webster of
Stanley
p23-year-old
Brucefield woman was
found guilty of four counts
of criminal negligence
causing death, one county
of criminal negligence
causing bodily harm, four
counts of impaired driving
causing death and one count
of impaired driving causing
bodily harm.
At a sentencing hearing
held in Goderich in
December. Crown attorney
Bob Morris asked for an
eight-year prison term with
a Iifehme suspension of her
license. Defense lawyer
Glenn Carey requested a
conditional serseno , . which
would avoid`ail time and
require LeBeau to do
counrnunity service, such as
addressing youth about the
dangers of impabed driving.
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