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Page 12 The Huron Expositor • November 25, 2009
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Youngsters shown how to hunt safe
Schwab
Ken Maronets knows that kids
and guns is a delicate issue.
But Maronets, a stewarship co-
ordinator with the Perth Stew-
ardship Network of the Ministry
of Natural Resources, along with
members of the Friends of Hul-
lett and Ducks Unlimited Cana-
da showed for the third year in a
row that with enough education
and training, young people ages
12-16 can learn to be safe and re-
sponsible. hunters.
Thirty hunter apprenticeships
and their mentors from across
southwest Ontario came together
at the Hullett Wildlife Manage-
ment Area for the third annual
Youth Hunting Day on Nov. 21.
The youngsters were all suc-
cessful graduates of the Ontario
Hunter Education Safety Pro-
gram and . received additional
training from a conservation offi-
cer, a member of the Ontario Fed-
eration of Anglers and Hunters
and a member of a rod and gun
club.
After a practice round of trap
shooting, the group traveled into
the fields, under close watch of
their mentors, to hunt for pheas-
ants.
"They have to be prepared ethi-
callyy and intuitively," Maronets
says. "They learn to treat nature.
and landowners with respect.
They are the ambassadors for
hunting in the future." -
Those young hunters who
brought back a pheasant from
the hunt were shown how to field
dress the bird and were able to
take it home to cook.
y
Nick Frlschknecht, 15, from Wingham, is shown how to field dress a pheasant
by mentor Bob Pegg during a young hunter's day at the Hullett Wildlife Man-
agement Area on Nov. 21.
St. James 'in hockey heaven' during recess time
Dan Schwab
The first thing a person might
notice upon entering St. James
School is a heap of hockey equip-
ment piled up high in the corner
next to the front doors. It's there
so students can quickly grab a
pair of goalie pads or a helmet,
put them on and race out to the
cement rink to play what's becom-
ing a popular
recess activity.
"We're in
hockey heav-
en," says prin-
cipal Joanne
Lombardi, who
came up with
the . idea of in-
troducing par-
tial -equipment
hockey during
all three re-
cesses at the
school.
Lombardi
approached
the St. James
Seaforth Community
Hospital Foundation
Fundraising Campaign
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$311,95.00
School Advisory Council
with the idea and the group
immediately got behind it,
the principal says.
The SAC purchased two
hockey nets from a local
sporting goods store and
parents have been donat-
ing hockey sticks and other
equipment to the school.
Lombardi says she's still
looking for more helmets and
any donations from parents
would be appreciated.
Students are also bringing
their equipment to school for
games and bringing it home
with them. after school.
Students in the junior,
primary and intermediate
grades all participate in the
recess hockey league, with
senior students refereeing
or acting as coaches, when .
they're not scheduled to
play.
"It's a neat new way to ap- .
proach recess," Lombardi Students at St. James School are spending every recess these days engaged In a
says. ' partial -equipment hockey league.
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