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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-10-28, Page 2726 Exeter Times -Advocate Wednesday. October. 28. 1998 Community Rummage sale ,ene Renning of Hensall checks out the selection of children's clothes last Thursday at the Hospital Rummage Sale and Auction_ at the rec centre. According to South Huron Hospital Auxiliary treasurer Vera Armstrong, the sale and auction raised just under $8,000 for the hospi- tal, approximately the same amount as last year's event. Armstrong, who convened the sale and auction along with Mary Jane Taylor, said she was pleased with the response from the public and said the money will go towards improving patient care. - Students at visit the happy Hunting Ground EXETER -- While mak- ing money'through big business t'att sound attrac- tive to children, a program a1 Exeter Public School last Friday taught Gr. 8 students the environment and history o1' the land Must also be. appreciated. That message Was deliv- ered to students through a play in this Shakespeare - On -Wheels program, find= ed • by the Perth Foundation. for the Enrichment ul' Education. The play, gilled • l lappy Hunting (;round, delivered by actors Gail Tricker and Rotharford Gray, educates children about Canadian history, the business :world and the environ- ment. Fricker and Gray act in -a play in ‘vhich.they portray a human resources person and _a__ -worker-- -for Northwest Oil. Students are told infor-. oration about the company. y. and about hew much money they can niake,if they join the company.. . • • Students are then hired to help build -a mock nil rig. which they did in the school's gym. Following construction of the rig, the students learn about land disputes between native Canadians and large businesses when a free band claim the land to be theirs. The students then have to decide whether the oil rig should stay. • Fricker, who wrote the presentation, said she and Gray will be touring 50 Gail Fricker, right, acting in her role as an employee.for an oil company instructs Exeter Public School Gr. 8 students Troy Lavier, left, and Steve Mason, how to build. an oil rig.The oil rig construction was part of Happy Hunting Gro.und, a play per- formed by Fricker and fellow actor Rotharford Gray, which taught students the. importance of the environment and tradition. schools in 11uron and Perth and. says students are shown the negatives of industry. - She said the play leaves students with three ques- tions: Who really owns the land? What can we do to help the environment? Could we survive Without- DO- ithoutoil?. • While the progra)n was finishing its first week of production in Iluron and Perth last week, pricker has presented it before and said reaction from students has been.exc:el- lent. She said 'students are usually divided between which side to choose --- industry or tradition.- She adds that while..the students .usually -know environmental terms like the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer, they often don't know the meanings:- Happy eanings:I,lappy Bunting -Ground attempts to teach students_. - those things. Fricker and Cray will also be presenting their program to students at McCurdy Public School on • Nov: 11 and students at - Stephen and- -Usborne schools on -Nov. 12. Exeter Public School holds Excellence Assembly EXETER - An Excellence. Assembly was held on Friday to .recognize the achieve- ments of our Exeter Eagles.. Bethany Wagler and Justine Clarke were recognized -as Grand Champion and. Runner-up- for their efforts at the Exeter Fail Fair. The Exeter- Public School Cross Country Team has also made the school proud with their excellent achieve- ments at the -Regional- Cross Country Meet held at Stephen Central School on October 9. .The Eagles placed first overall at the meet and many Exeter •students placed within the -top ten.runners for their grade. -.They include Chantelle Elder, Jamie Darling, Sarah Neevel and Karly Pinder. in Grade 8,Maria Dinney, Murray Youmans and Sean 'Ellison in Grade 7, Ashley Ralph, Danae Krahn, Sarah Watson, Shannon Menard and Brent Hackett, Grade 6, Stephanie Masse, Faith Ann Wagler, • Ashley beVries, Jane! Martin, Justin Dionne. Reid Ilalpenny and Jason Neevel in Grade- 5, rade5, and Karolyn Oke, Kathleen Anderson, -Abby Oke, Miranda Mattucci., Kristin Fergusson, Brittany Janke, Ben liodgins, Corey Firth and Jake Ilomuth in Grade 3 and 4. Congratulations to all Cross Country par- ticipants for their hard work and preparation. Every single Exeter student finished the entire course and Exeter took the awards for- both boys and girls in Grades -3/4, 5 and 6. Thanks. go to Mrs: Ellison and Mr. Spittal for their dedication and hard work in preparing the team. Many students are eagerly trying out for an exciting season of intermediate volleyball. .MI students were commended for their gargantuan efforts in the magazine cam- paign which ended last week. The school has outdone its goat and its efforts from the previ- ous years and sold over .$17,000. -worth of sub- sc.riptions with over $5,000. going to the school for special pro- jects, field trips and special purchases. Johnathan Thornton, Carissa Des.lardine and Tammy Coward each sold over $300. in-sub- scriptions n-sub- sc.riptions and were the, top three sellers. Way to go!. l.ucky draws based on magazine sales slips were made throughout the cam- paign with many prizes provided by local busi- nesses.- The final draw' prizes . were for half -a - day as principal or vice principal. Jake llomuth will spend half a day in the Principal's office and Shannon Clark will act as Vice- principal for half -a -day while Mr. Graham and Mrs. Laurie take their piac.es in the class- room. Congratulations! Look forward to our next pizza card fundraising campaign which will be starting in November: Plans for Family Portraits are. being made for November 3 to 5. Early years to Grade 3 were fortunate to attend a Franklin Play at the "Talbot "Theatre in London.• l'hey are currently wrapping up some exciting activities based upon the Franklin -theme. and the excellent theatre presentation, music and costumes helped to make Franklin come alive for the students. Library news The grade 5 and 7s have all -been hooked up to private mail boxes and- are .getting - key pals from Japan. This will last -through- out the year and,may be continued after that if they want to. The idea is to teach the Japanese children bet- ter English and to hopefully make new friends. The Japanese children know a lot better .English than we Canadians. know French because.to get along in their society when they growup, they need fluent English. - Brl Ben Mart yn :The column this year will be -brought to ,you by the I.P.S. News. Team. 1t is, made up of Aaron-Dat-ers, Sean I-1lison, . Jonathon Thornton. Ben Martin, Scott Turkheim, Sarah Neevel, -Jena Baker, Shannon, Baer, Brenna Anstett, and, our super- visor, -Mrs. Laurie. Lucan 4-H club members learn to make Christmas crafts -LUCAN - October 21: the Lucan #1 4- 11 club net at the home of leader Julie Pryce. for their third meeting of "Home for the Holidays". The president opened the meeting with the 4-11 pledge.. The roll call was asked, and this week's question was: "Name one of our favorite holiday -cook- ie or candy recipe". • . After that, the secretary read the min- utes of the last meeting. The club received handouts on differ- ent Christmas traditions observed -by different cultures for the books and each member contributed a recipe to start a recipe section at the end of the books. Upon completion, the group started three crafts. the first being a candy cane reindeer. - The second craft was a candy cane mouse made . of . red and green felt for. Christmas trees. The- final craft was a .reindeer bell. The candy canes for the crafts had been donated by Clarke's Food Mart. The club then made a no -cook recipe of cherry delights. The president closed the meeting with the 4=1 motto.