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SHREK 111 PLUS Will Ferrell: BLADES of GLORY
PLUS Sat Bonus Film: NORBIT
Gates Open 7:30 PM / Show 9:15 PM
www.starlitedriveintheatre.com • 519-238-8344
FTcKa DOE
for
MICOLE LOWS
Ix MIKE NOBLE
Sat. May 26th
9pm -lam
Brussels Arena • Lunch 11pm 1
DJ: Joe Carter
Tickets $5 advance $7 door
Info/tickets call:
John Lowe 519-887-9799
Amy Douma 519-523-9281
Dinner & Dance for
Don Elliott
& Darlene Norman
Saturday, May 2.6, 2007
at Kinburn Hall
(41588 King St., Kinburn)
6-8pm Pig Roast
After 8 — Entertainment
$io dinner & party — $5 if arriving after 8
Music by DJ — Age of Majority
Call Jenn Norman 519-357-3076
or Rob Sawyer 519-348-8101
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for
TANYA FISHER
MARK (HARRY) MERO
Sat. May 26'
8pm - 1 am
Seaforth Agriplex • Tickets $5
For tickets call
Terry 519-527-2571
Lunch Provided • Age of Majority
Happy 80th Birthday
Grandma - Corry Klaver
OPEN HOUSE
Brodhagen Hall
May 27, 1:30-5pm
Best wishes only
Love from the family
News
photo
Dozens of proud parents, grandparents, friends and relatives gathered at Huron Centennial school Thursday to mark the
institution's 40th -anniversary, as well as to mark the grand opening of the school's outdoor 'green classroom,' which is a
culmination of four years' worth of fundraising and community-based efforts. In a presentation, the students outlined their
plans for the outdoor structure, including using it to read, do homework, and relax. From the right are Mitch Allan, teacher
Megan Scruton, Quaid Preszcator, Colby Preszcator, Claire Allan, Jessie Payne, Sarah Scruton, Jacquelyn VanAltena, and
Molly Rooyakkers.
Fat r & fitends aro invited to the
Buck & Doe for
JOE O'ROURKE
WENDY MTA
Friday, June 1/07
Dublin Pavilion
$8/ticket
Lots of Door Prizes
Age of Majority
Call 519-348.0404
or 519.527-0220
Camp Menesetung
presents
The
Terry Sumsion Trio
Thursday, June 7th
7:30 pm
Saltford Valley Hall
Tickets '15 per person
Available at:
Ernie King's-Goderich;
Tasty Treats & More -Blyth;
Grove's TV -Clinton; Nifty Korners-Seaforth
or call 519-523-4290
Public schools to take 'step down
in terms of staffing,' says official
Stew Slater
For years, slow but steady enrolment
decline has caused financial headaches
for the Avon Maitland District School
Board.
One significant reason is that revenue
decreases student -by -student while the
cost of providing for those students often
doesn't decrease until enrolment has
declined by an entire classrooms worth of
students.
"We've gotten to the point where,
instead of going along level, we're finally
going to be able to take that step down in
terms of our staffing compliment," said
business superintendent Janet Baird -
Jackson during a regular meeting,
'ILesday, April 24.
Baird -Jackson updated trustees on the
GRADUATION
MATTHEW MCGRATH
Matthew, son of Jim and
Sharon graduated on the
President's Honour Roll
with an Information
Technology Technician
Diploma at the
April 27/07 122nd
Convocation of
Westervelt College.
Matthew will continue his
education at Fanshawe
College in London in
Sept. '07 in the Science
Laboratory Technician
Advanced Diploma
Program.
Congriatulatlona, Metol
Love and Best Wishes from your family.
progress of the board's 2007-08 budget,
which is expected to be up for approval at
the end of June.
Her report detailed an already -
announced $4.1 million increase in
Education Ministry grants over the previ-
ous year, including specific envelopes to
cover commitments in collective labour
agreements and the board's efforts to meet
provincial targets for primary class sizes.
That still leaves the board short. If
trustees hope to maintain the current
level of programming in all service areas,
Baird -Jackson said, preliminary calcula-
tions show they'll still need to find about
$2.5 million to add to the 2007-08 budget.
Some savings may result from finally
being able to cut back on the number of
classroom teachers.
Baird -Jackson referred to it as "a step-
by-step" process which may enable the
board to realize some savings next year.
"We're expecting that to help us close
the ($2.5 million) gap substantially, but
not fully," she said.
Education director Geoff Williams
noted "the bulk of the savings" will be in
elementary schools because the gradual
school -aged population decline in much of
the board's territory (outside of growth
areas like Listowel and Stratford) hasn't
yet caused significant effects in secondary
schools.
And he cautioned, `we're going to have
to make some fairly hard decisions about
what it is we can continue to do. If we
decide we want to keep providing some of
these things that have sometimes been
provided through specialized funding
envelopes, then something else some-
where else might have to stop."