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St. Anne's principal not so new to the school
Chris Roehrig is former principal, vice principal and teacher at Clinton high school
Jennifer Hubbard
St. Anne's new principal Chris
Roehrig isn't so new.
Roehrig took over the principal's
chair at the local Catholic secondary
school on Feb. 1 after long-time
principal Philip McMillan accepted
a position with the St. Clair
Catholic District School Board.
As a former principal, vice princi-
pal and teacher at St. Anne's,
Roehrig said he expected the transi-
tion period to be "pretty straight
forward."
"There have been some changes,
but it's a matter of getting to know
the new students and staff," he said.
"There's also the reacquainting of
myself with the differences between
elementary and secondary schools."
Most recently, Roehrig was the
principal at St. Mary's elementary
school in Goderich. Prior to that he
was the St. Anne's acting principal
for eight months and vice principal
for just over two years.
St. Anne's vice principal Jodi
Kuran has replaced Roehrig at St.
Mary's. Former St. Anne's teacher
Heather Marcy is the school's new
vice principal.
"I'm really excited to be back,"
Roehrig said, adding that of the four
high schools he's worked at, St.
Anne's is definitely the best.
"We have a young and energetic
staff and as a principal it helps me
to be more enthusiastic about my
work."
Looking ahead to the remaining
2005-06 school year the school's new
Chris Roehrig
administration team plans to "stay
the course," continuing with the
existing student improvement agen-
da arranged by McMillan and
Kuran to minimize disruptions to
the lives of students and staff.
In the longer term, Roehrig said
he hopes to focus on faith founda-
tions, improve the standards of stu-
dent achievement and continue to
work with staff on research -based
teaching strategies.
Business department head Chris
Grace has been appointed to the
position of acting administrator for
four to eight weeks to help Roehrig
and Marcy through the transition.
He will then move on to a similar
position at St. Michael's in
Stratford.
Huron East agrees to town hall fire system
Smoke detector system for $2,27OwiII be added to town hall's security system
Susan Hundertmark
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A tender for $2,270 for a fire
detection system at town hall was
presented to Huron East council at
its Feb. 7 meeting.
The lack of an alarm system was
brought to council's attention by
Tuckersmith Coun. Larry McGrath
two weeks ago after the Seaforth
Fire Department was called to town
hall after smoke was seen coming
from .the garage at the back of the
building but no alarm sounded.
McLachlan said smoke detectors
are not part of the security system
installed recently at town hall after
a break-in to the building.
"I don't know about the alarm sys-
tem - I'd be more concerned about
fire. I don't know why anyone would
want to break in and steal their tax
bill - we'll mail that to you," said
McGrath.
McGrath reiterated that, the "pret-
ty substantial antique collection" in
the Seaforth museum, which is
housed in town hall, needs an early
warning system to protect it from
fire.
"We are not accusing administra-
tion of dropping the ball. We'll go
ahead from here," said Grey Coun.
Mark Beaven.
Beaven said the fire alarm system
will give the town an extra 20 min-
utes warning about any fires in the
building.
Mayor Joe Seili pointed out that
the main reason for smoke detectors
is to wake people at night so that
they can get out of a burning build-
ing.
"And, there's no one here at
night," he said.
Huron East
Fire Chief Marty
Bedard said after
the meeting that
smoke alarms are
not required. in
the town hall and
have never been
used there.
He added that
adding smoke
detectors to the
security system
that is in place is
a good idea.
`Putting in a smoke
detector that no one
can hear at night is no
good but now that
there's a 24-hour call
system, that works,'' --
Huron East
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"Putting in a
smoke detector
that no one can
hear at night is
no good but now
that there's a 24-
hour call system,
that works," he
said.
Council
agreed: to go
ahead and add
the smoke detec-
tors to the securi-
ty system.
The proposal
by Innovative Security Systems will
install 18 photoelectric smoke detec-
tors - two on the third floor, five on
the second floor, eight on the main
floor and three in the basement - at
$95 each.
It will also install five heat detec-
tors - one in the attic, two in the
rear shop and two in the basement
at $50 each and one auxiliary power
supply module to power the smoke
detectors at $160.
Three zone expander modules
that provide information about the
location of the alarm will cost $50
each.
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