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It seems the students are at it again: This
time•a�student "IN" struck Victoria Public
School right here •in Goderich.and reports
indicate -there were outside agitators -
involved..
It wasn't a "sit-in.". or a "love -in" or for
that matter, it wasn't an in as we are familiar
with them from the pages of- the V i I l age. Voice.
or the Berkley Barb. At Victoria School -it was
a /'Brush -In" and the outside agitators were
nurses from 'the•Huron County Health Unit who
agitated` the brushes for a special fluoride
teeth .brushing program:
• -There were no raised fists or attempts 'to
kidnap principal John Kane, instead there
were big smiles and looks of anti,cipatron -as
the nurses :moved from desk to desk,. sh i n i ng
up molars, bicuspids and incisors.
For County? Health Unit nurses, Victoria
school was only one stop on a long route whic
•see'sthernf,visit all the. elementary schools in
Huron as well as nursery schools and even
well -baby clinics.
"Under the program, :which. is now in its
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• third year, chidrn between• the age of three
m and those in grade—eight have their teeth
• brushed with the special .cavity ,preventative
formula once •each year," Health ' Unit
Supervisory Nu rse SSad-ra---M-alabar expi a i -n
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