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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-02-11, Page 9Times -Advocate, February] I , 1998 Page 9 . .From the Principal's desk By Deb Homuth South Huron District High School Pareflis'of• students in Grade 8 and 9 are invited to South Huron Wednesday. Fehruary 12th from. 7:00 to 9:00. From 7:00 to 7:30 in the large gy ni. we will he discussing the grade 9 program, setons dary school reform. strcarning decisions -in prepara- tion for grade 111 and the grade 9 promotion polio. Parents are encouraged .to attend and.hring.their :grade 8 and 9 students with them. Following the presentation. parents may tour the school and see . Our staff and teaching areas. If you are unahle'to vattend the open house. btu have questions or con= ccrnsahout any, of the issues. please call me at the st huts! -at _11.5.41S8.11 arid" would be• happy to help University applicants have forwarded their applications already. College applicanis must ensure that the Guidance office has their applications by Fehruary: 13th. These invitations and opportunities to plan and prepare li►r the future are important ones. • We"live in exhihtrating times. We are inundated•with messages about change daily and the flexibility: we all need. including schools. in order to he"able to suivivc. Some have called this age cif uncer Iainty, diversity and complexity a•post modern one: In suet] limes. schools cannot afford to he indifferent to the working Jives that . -await our kids. • -Bridges. in; his hook-Jobshift, observes that the way we package work into discrete. well-defined lifelong bundles called jobs. is•itself • a lading phenomenon. Part-time work. teinporary work. contracting• nut are the new ingredients of our graduate: workinglives. Fi►r more and more young people permanent paid work will start Tater and' fin- sh sooner that It did for us. The ehangtng work realities tor this generation of young people means ullimatel_v''"tu us that we cannot, turn the clock hack to simpler schooling for simpler times-' Whitt wiirk will Intik like. how skilled it will he antflidity We pre: .parr young people for it are widely disputed ((Tics. WI it are boil: tu.make of all of This:' Sumac. like the contcrencc Board of ('anada. would have It, prepare studenl> youth%`'cn]ployahi1it\ skill;. that they see iis appropriate fcir the corporate future. Others -would argue lora return 10 a butte liberal eurnculunf which"cdiu•aies stu- ,dents in civic responsibility. Others argue that the job crisis exists because fobs are moving elsewhere where a more cloche labour!. Hirci• exists. It is.•n0l aline in cducation I(,athc taint -hearted. - Student; are certainty as aware as anyone uf'the changing eco- nointc realities. Thee know that diplomas. ccttiticutes and degrees no longer prig ide automatic passports to'cmployment security or success. However. without them the chance to succeed cconomi- , callv.,tn Iodav world is minuscule, ( )ur work becomes clearer then' as teachers and parent: we must encourage our student. to take their education planning :unit decisio -making: vcry'senously. W,cdne day evenin we will talk some more about, those plan' and decisions Deb Homuth Have a news tip? Caddie T -A 235-1331 Teams $mitldP�te in Zurich tournament By Carmel Sweeney Zurich correspondent' : . ZURICH - The, I Mth annual - Bowl for Millions $o raise money for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Association will he held at the Town and:Country lanes in Zurich during the week of March 1 to8 for league howlers. " Thc celebrity howlathon will take place on March K from 1 to" 4:30 p.m. ` Pledge sheets are available, at the - lanes Thc annual hake sale for Bro. Bob Mittleholtf. India. will he held • at.St. Boniface Church hall alter Mass on Fehruary 14 at 8 p.n]: and again on. Sunday morning.' Fehruary 15 at,10:30 a.m.- A dona- tion box will also. he availahlc. _ Tickets are available .for the Zurich and Arca Figure Skating Club Carnival on March M. begin- ning at 2 p.m. The theme will he _ "Ice" Country". The cost will he: adults S4. children six to 12 S I•; under live are free Skating club members have tick- ets or call Carmel at 236-4702. As • a fundraiser the group is also sell-. ing-chocolate covered almonds at $2 per box. , , • • • The management and staff of •-tluee.nsway Nursing Hone -in Hensall •, recently` enjoyed an evening. 01 howling and socialising at the''I'oyvn and Ctiitntry I.anc: m Zurich. • - Twelve members of the •St. Boniface Parish attended the (•.W.1:: Deanery ]nn night in Seafortb last' Wednesday. begin- ning with :t potluck'supper. A volleyball tournament "w•a,, held -on Friday and Saturday in Zurich with 18 teams participating Tw•o, courts 'were used.; at the Community Ce-ntre and Si. Boniface School gy'ni. The World.Day of Prayer will .he- helil at the-Iauheran Church in Zurich on March (i at 2 p.m, • i)og tags in the village of Zurich arc soon'drie. if"anyone•has a new clog since Inst year or have moved' -here recently. phone Carmel Swcenev at 236-4702 as snub a. • pocsihle The Lions Club :will he having their regular- dinner meeting al the • Dominion Tavern on February 11 at 7 p.ni. Fourteen members of the Zurich and Area Figure Skating Club. and 11 front the Exeter Club took part in the Stars unlimited skating com- petition in Emhro on Sunday. Coaches Kathy .Merner and Patty Barnett Offered encouragement Ic their pupils during the enmpetition.• St. Boniface CA)* L. will meet lehntary—I+tt-M-r-m. - A Chamhcr niceting will he held at Dominion -Tavern, on Fehruary 17 at 7.p.m. • Thc Optimist ('luh meeting wily he held at Erb's Country Kitchen on Fehruary 17 at 7 p.m: Roelands nominated for provincial award MOUNT CARMEL - An excep- tional student at Our Lady of Mt. -Car- mel school is the Huron -Perth Roman Catholic Separate School 'Board's nominee for the Ontario Catholic School Trustee's Award.. Bridget Roe- Iands; from near Parkhill. is in Grade 8 and met all the criteria of the award.. Roelands' teachers; school staff, family and community coaches all had input. • They explained . her in- volvement in Catholic leadership., faith and. school philosophy, family -COMM lations, school. and community 'actio ities and her commitment to a,difficuk situation or task. Mrs. Hartman. a teacher at.Mt. Car- mel said the hoard's trustees examine the applicants and choose one 10 rep- • resent the system on a provincial lev- el. Roelands said she is excited and very proud to he chosen to represent the school hoard. - • '• St. Peter's Lutheran Church Ladies met on Fehruary 10. Thc Zurich Scouts had a sunny Weekend tor•their winter camping weekend near Blyth. Leaders of the Youth Group from St. Boni faceParish.attended the Northern Lights Coference - held in Windsor over the weekend.• Cash calendar winners for •the - week of Fehruary 8 10 14 were: 'Michele. King. Dashwood (5100). Bill Ostcrloo, Centralia, Lit Durand, Bavf]eld, Randy I.ovic. -RR--2 . Zurich.. ken'Reichert. ilderton. Leanne Students. RR I Dashwood.- Al Beattie. -1-:xcter (S5O each ►. - Personals Jack and Sandy Stephan spent the weekend in Stratford at the horpe of daughter Kristen and -Mike Schecter *and helped.out with their new granddaughter Bethany Reid,- - who was horn February 5. 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