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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2004-06-16, Page 7Jason Middleton photo Sumo wrestlemania Tyson Engel takes his turn in the sumo wrestling suit, one of the most popular attractions at the first Family Fun Day at Seaforth Public School which attracted close to 500 people and raised $1,600 on Saturicy. Families enjoyed other attractions including the world's largest dinosaur dig, a survivor relay challenge, a dunk tank, a petting zoo, a bubble station and a remote control race track. Aspiring archeologist, Kate Johnston travelling to dig in the Middle East By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Aspiring archeologist Kate Johnston, of Egmondville, will be spending two weeks in the Middle East this summer on a dig in Jordan. The third year student at Wilfrid Laurier University says the dig is a required course in her program and gives her a chance to meet people in the archeology field. "I'm very excited. I've always wanted to go to Egypt to see the pyramids and archeology is what I want to do for a living," she says. Digging in an Iron Age tell (or buried town) in Madaba, Jordan, Johnston says she'll be looking for pottery shards, copper smeltings and other artifacts left by potters and weavers from 800 B.C. to 300 B.C.E.(A.D.). And, while she knows it won't be anything like an Indiana Jones adventure, Johnston says she's thrilled to be sifting through dirt and using her trowel and paint brush to uncover the past. "We'll be going over everything Kate Johnston with a fine-toothed comb and won't know if something is just a rock or a treasure until we brush it off or look for markings. It's going to he very dusty," she says. "It's not likely that we'll find anything really amazing." A workday on the dig will begin at 5 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. because of the extreme heat with the afternoons spent washing pottery and doing record taking. "It gets very, very hot there. I've been trying not to think about it - I don't want to know the numbers. I'll be taking lots of sun screen," she says. Johnston says the students attending the dig have been told to dre3s sensibly with long pants and long sleeves. And, while the Middle East is a politically volatile area these days, Johnston says she's assured her parents that the area in Jordan is "safe- ish. ' "It's probably the safest place in that area. Jordan is the most pro-Western country in the Middle East," she says. Johnston's university professor's specialty- is Jordan hut someday Johnston hopes to specialize in Egypt and "the really old stuff before the Greeks." Council explores second hospital access By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor After looking at four alternate routes to create a second access to the Seaforth Community Hospital, Huron East council expressed a preference for the route that develops a new road from the North Line north of Middegaal's lane in Christa Eckert's field and extends Centennial Drive to the north to connect with it. "My preference is through Eckert's. It wouldn't interfere with anyone," said Seaforth Coun. Lou Maloney. A committee of Huron East has held four meetings with landowners in the hospital area since early February after receiving a request from the Huron -Perth Healthcare Alliance for a second access route. Four possible routes were identified and two were presented to council at its June 1 meeting. The second choice was to extend Duke Street to the east through the Agricultural Society property and extend Centennial Drive from the hospital to connect with it. However, going ahead with the second choice would only open up half of the Seaforth Community Hospital Trust's land for future development and would create the need to relocate the track. "By the time you connect the track, you're going to lay a lot of road," commented Mayor Joe Scili. In the minutes from the four meetings, a number of landowners expressed concern about the second access going through residential subdivision. They spoke out loudest about a proposed route that would connect Side Street and Alexander Street near Seaforth Public School. "Ken Devereaux thought that it would he a major mistake in planning. With the traffic problems created with the public school and day nursery on Chalk Street. opening Side Street to Alexander would only impact the problems," said the minutes. The route through the Agricultural Society land was seen by Society members as a possible problem for the horsemen who use the track for training purposes. Council's preferred route, through thc Eckert farm. would absorb two acres of the farm and open up all of the land owned by the hospital trust. "Mrs. Eckert called it urban sprawl but could see. the need for it and was not totally against it." said the minutes. Public Works Coordinator Avon -Maitland board hires new education superintendent By Stew Slater Special to The Expositor Pat Stanley, a long-time employee of both the former Perth County School Board and its amalgamated, two -county successor, was named superintendent of education for the Avon Maitland District School Board, with particular responsibilities over curriculum. Stanley replaces Marjatta Longston, who was recently hired to take over the top job in a school board in British Columbia's lower mainland. "We're very pleased to have Pat with us on the team, and look forward to working together with her for the years to come," said Avon Maitland vice chair Randy Wagler, at a regular meeting Tuesday, June 8. Stanley began her educational career as a primary teacher in the former Perth board. She also taught at the junior and intermediate levels before moving on to serve as principal at Falstaff, Hamlet and Anne Hathaway elementary schools in Stratford, and Central Perth elementary school in Wartburg. Shortly after the amalgamation of the Perth and Huron boards, Stanley moved to the new Avon Maitland board's Seaforth headquarters, to serve as a system principal. In that capacity, much of her time has been taken by the administration of Team Read, a program aimed at attracting and maintaining interest in reading among younger students. "We're making headway," Stanley said, referring to Team Read as "a wonderful program of support for young readers." Other initiatives which benefited from Stanley's ►.'nut over the past couple of years include a pilot project exploring different timetabling opportunities under the "balanced school day," and an orientation program for Kindergarten students, operated through partnerships with such community- based agencies as the health units, rural li'hraries, and thc Ontario Early Years program. Commenting on Longston's decision to leave the board, Avon Maitland chair Meg Westley said it had been no secret the outgoing superintendent aspired to serve in a school hoard's top administrative position, and wished her well in her BC job. She credited Longston for skillfully implementing government -mandated initiatives with which she didn't always agree, and with introducing innovative programs with, which some members of the Avon Maitland board didn't initially agree. 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