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Huron Expositor, 2001-02-07, Page 3LADIVAk Clarks - Rockport 4$79.95 1 i Learning together Tony Arts and his daughter Natasha were among the parent and kindergarten student teams who took part in a special Family literacy Day program on Jan. 26 at Seaforth Public School. Parents were encouraged to come to the school and read with their children. Students to forge ahead with yearbook despite no sports or clubs this year Students' council taking place of yearbook club By Scott Hlilg.ndorff Expositor Editor Seaforth District High School students' council is looking for a way to have a yearbook this year despite not having any staff advisors to lead them or any clubs and sports in the school this year to represent in the book. "Everyone is concerned about having the memory, especially the grads," said student council co -president Sarah Agar, a graduating student. "Everybody wants to have atyearbook," she said. Teachers across the province have been working to rule this year in protest of changes made by the provincial government that has increased class sizes and the length of time teachers are required to spend in the classroom. Because of the extra .demands on their time, teachers have refused to coach sports, lead clubs or help with extracurricular activities. SDHS principal Jeff Reaburn, said the students' council has done a good job this year putting together school activities on their own, like the recent and popular, "I Wouldn't be Caught Dead in That" day. Students were encouraged to dress in the ugliest clothes they could find and lunch hour games and competitions were held. Reaburn said the council has organized two dances and a number of lunch hour events. Agar said those events are what they hope to draw on for the yearbook. She said they have been taking lots of pictures at the events and other candid photos in the school that could potentially be used for the book. Right now, she and Reaburn said they are still trying to sort out how or what to do with the yearbook. Reaburn said he wants to poll the student body to see how much interest there is in a yearbook this year. He said the only students he has lkeard from this year about this issue are several who would have been in the yearbook club if there were any clubs in the school this year. "I think it's important for them to have something," said Rayburn. "We do want to have something for a momento for the year." Agar said they are still brainstorming about what to do but thinks they might go with a magazine -style booklet rather than a traditional hardcover yearbook. She suggested they could assign each of 14 homerooms in the school to two pages: one with student mug shots Seaforth man owns Clinton home that burns in suspicious fire By Dave analis Clinton News -Record Editor The OPP and the Ontario Fire Marshall's Office are continuing the investigation into a suspicious fire that gutted a house early Monday morning. The fire at a vacant house owned by Ben Fehr of Seaforth, on the corner of William and Victoria Streets, was reported by neighbor Siemen Specimen just after 1 a.m. on Feb. 5. Speelman, who was making sure his children were covered up in bed, said from the window of their room he saw smoke and an orange glow. Taking a closer look, he saw flames coming from the home, and as no fire trucks were on the scene, he called 9-1-1. "As I stood there, windows were popping," said Speelman who got to the house, a rental unit, before firefighters were able to respond to the call. The fire was "pretty much fully involved on our arrival," said Fire Chief Tex VanRiesen, who logged the call at 1:06 a.m. • Firefighters battled the fire using a "defensive attack" - meaning they fought the fire at the vacant home from outside the structure, said VanRiesen, adding that no firefighters were sent inside the house as it was "too dangerous." Members of the Clinton and Area Fire Department were on the scene until about 4:15 a.m., and headed back to the firehall when they believed the blaze had been extinguished. However, when VanRiesen later saw there was still a significant amount of smoke coming from the home, firefighters we,re called back at about 6:30 a.m. to douse spot fires, and were on the scene until about 8:30 a.m.. The house was gutted. VanRiesen said that the Fire Marshall's Office and OPP were contacted , "due to circumstances that came to light after the fire." He pointed out that any suspicious fire has to be reported to the Fire Marshall. The Fire Marshall was on the scene all afternoon, working on the investigation with the OPP, but the chief said that as of Tuesday morning's press time, "There is nothing conclusive at this point. We are waiting for the Fire Marshall's report." Senior Constable Don Shropshall, Community Services Officer with the OPP, said the fire is still under investigation by the OPP's Crime Unit. Smith appointed to policy committee after failed bids to be on chair's group By Stew Slater Special to The Huron Expositor After failing to obtain support in bids to be named chair, vice -chair, and member at Targe during December's inaugural meeting of the new Avon Maitland District School Board, Seaforth-area trustee Charles Smith was granted the final of his sought-after appointments: member of the policy committee. In presentations to the board during the Dec. 13 inaugural meeting. Smith had expressed a desire for voting rights with respect to financial auditing and policy formation. lie was shut out of the audit committee, however, when fellow trustees Wendy Anderson, Colleen Schenk and Meg Westley received majority support for the three positions which make up that committee: chair, vice -chair and member at large, respectively. But, as had been predicted by Anderson following the Dec. 13 meeting, those same three trustees supported Smith in their parallel roles in the Chair's Committee. granting his request to be named to the policy committee. Smith will serve along with Schenk and Donald Brillinger, according to Chair's Committee assignments approved at the board's most recent regular meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 23. Also Jan. 23, it was revealed that Smith made a last-ditch attempt to secure voting rights on the Audit Committee, by writing to the Chair's Committee asking for the special appointment of a fourth voting member. Smith made reference to the letter prior, to voting on the committee appointments, pressuring Anderson to answer his request. "All trustees are welcome to meetings of all committees. There is nothing that is discussed in committees in this board that is not eventually voted on at the full board level," Anderson said, before responding that no special Audit Committee appointment would be made. In other committee appointments, Smith will also serve on a three-member curriculum pool, which involves "short-term projects and work groups such as negotiating teams, liaison committees arising from collective agreements and program work such as designing board implementation plans." And he'll be one of two alternates on the Special Education Advisory Cominittee. and one with candid photos. Student council or other volunteers -from the student body could put together more pages with the candid photos the council has been taking and submissions of material from other students plus the traditional grad photos and comments. "I think it's a pretty big priority for this month so we can get it done by June," she said, adding the student council needs to distribute as much of the work as they can to other students so they still have time to plan other events. "It's a big project for everyone," she said. 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Committees Council will be considering for ratepayer appointments: Seaforth & District Community Centres Brussels Morris Grey Community Centre Vanastra Recreation Centre Brussels Medical Centre Board Brussels Cemetery Board Submit written information by February 12th, 2001 to: Huron East Municipal Office, 72 Main Street South, PO Box 610, Seaforth, Ontario NOK 1WO For additional information contact the undersigned at 519-527-0160. J.R. McLachlan Clerk -Administrator • Usborne & Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance Company Notice of ANNUAL MEETING The 125th Annual Meeting of the Usborne & Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be held at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, February 19, 2001 for presentation of the Annual Report for 2000, to elect Directors and to transact any business that may rightly come before the meeting. Nominations will be received for the election of two Directors for a three year term. The Directors whose term of office expires are Morris Willows and Joe Chaffe, both of whom are eligible for re- election. Notice is hereby given that motions will be presented at our Annual Meeting amending the By-laws of the Company as follows: Article 33 - Remuneration Article 21 - Any person wishing to seek election or re-election as a Director must file his intention to stand for election in writing with the Secretary Manager of the Corporation at least ten days in advance of an Annual Meeting or Special General Meeting called for the purpose of electing Directors. President - Morris Willows Secretary -Manager - Sharon Doxtator \VIft_'rtIl S Shoes it let 1011 111 ��OLll'l lt: �1� {1' Sct:oil(1 StO1 c' Locution ...ill ()1 )111 I Iii s`r 1.1., I.1 `.i,111.:, 1 nt t,. Id. 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