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Times Advocate, 1997-11-05, Page 22Page 22 Times -Advocate, November 5, 1997 COMMUNITY Lucan Arena provides camp for kids while teachers picket By Craig Bradford T -A Reporter LUCAN - The Lucan Com- munity Memorial Centre is giving many working parents a sigh of re- lief during the teachers strike. The centre,is offering a day camp • for kids froip kindergarten to Gr. 6. The camp costs $10/student/day and includes crafts. movies, skating. hockey, gym time, games, reading, snacks and' more. The camp also pro- vides two hours/day of school lessons taken off the In- ternet. Parents must pack a lunch for their children. The `camp runs Monday -Friday. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (or starting whenever parents can drop their kids off). the program each day. • Not bored. At left: Niki McPhee, 8, front, and Ashley Hodgins, 7, try their art skills on a blackboard at the Lucan Community Memorial Centre's Day Camp last week. At right: Chris Van- Kasteren, left, and Billy• VanPraet, both 9, carve a Halloween pumpkin. The camp gives working parents a place to. send ' their children during the week while the teachers are on strike. "I think it's great," said parent Teresa VanderHoek of RR2 Ailsa Craig. It gives them something to do. I like it because it's structured, supervised and it's inexpensive." VanderHoek plans on sending her three children, Nicole, 9, Kate- lyn, 7, and Allison to the camp on some days during the teachers strike. Centre manager Paul Dykeman• said he came up with the program ,as part of the centre's man- date — "as a ser- vice to the com- munity." • "The working mothers 'needed a place •to send their children ec- onomically and safely." he said. About 30 children are enrolled in "I like it because it's structured, supervised and it's inexpensive." Who will clear the roads this winter? By Chantal, Van Ratty .T A Reporter (,RAND BEND •-- Two items from the Public Service Advisory .. Committed minutes were referred hick to'Public Services. by Grand • Bend Council on Monday night be- cause they didn't contain enough, information.' ' 'The first item; regarded. winter maintenance . of previdus • con- necting link areas, arid- listed three possible options for winter road maintenance. `Fite first Option was that !MOS.. (Integrated Maintenance & Opera- tions Scr► ices) would -do the sand- ' • ing, salting and snow plowing on _ :Hwy. ,2,1 and Hwy. 8I from the main intersection to the Mollard I•.itie for $9.066. The second -proposal stated that I-tun►n County could maintain K I ani) would sand. salt and • w ploHwy.. 2,1- from the main inter- ' •sectilm to Mollard line for $20 per kin. This would cost approxiirtately SttO per trip. • The third optiop stated that Grand I3cnd Public Works maintain both •:Iwy: 81 and Hwy. 21 on an over time call out basis with the rest of the Village being done by the stan- dard operating procedure q recommendation was made that meeting. • 'council accept the. third option, which would allow the Public , Total Optimists Works Department to provide,win- ter • maintenance on the previous' connecting link designated area. . Also referred back .to the Public Works department was the Burn Bylaw which states that social fires are acceptable. but, in order to burn leaves acid tree trimmings a leaf per- mit is required. "How ,does one.know if it's a sq- cial fire or if' its' an illegal one`? Councillor Bob Mann asked. . "Maybe what you should do is put a time of year on .when you can have social fires." Mayor Cam Ivey suggested. "Maybe'you-need an at); propriate container so that •the fire. Bait be put intherc and controlled." , One concern was that people are having illegal fires, and when they are. approached by an officer they throw a hot dog• ovef it and pretend they are actually having a social - fire. •- . it was decided ao refer the. issues of winter maintenance and the burn,. bylaw hack to Public Works for further revjeiv regarding councils concern: Council recognized for 1997. Winter Carnival - David Sheppard, representing the Grand Bend Winter Carnival Board of Directors presented Grand Bend .With a plaque of appreciation at the Lifetime of 'thanks. Qoug Thompson, left, was given a Lu- can Optimist Club life membership and Sue Pike was voted Optimist of the Year by fellow members'at t►te club's recent. annual President's Banquet. Thompson has been a -charter member of the club since its inception in 1982. "On behalf of the children and families who have enjoyed • the Winter Carnival. we would like to give you this plaque to' say thank you," expressed Sheppard. 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