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WINNERS — A poem written by Andrea Grant, right, took first place
at the local and zone levels in the Intermediate category of the Royal
Canadian Legion Remembrance Day Writings Competition. The poem
of the Grade 9 student now advances to the provincial level. Heather
Morton, left, a Grade 1 1 student at F. E. Madill Secondary School
ad the winning essay locally in the Senior category of the same
ompetition.
Wingham girl's poem
judged best in province
They called the space that lay between the lines "No -Man's
Land",
But war itself, with all its bullets, bombs and mines
Is no man's land.
Rather as a gun -fed inferno, it is hell;
It pays no heed
To past, to present, or to what in future would be well.
But like a steed
It gallops on, trampling wantonly o'er property and life
Consuming all,
Health, happiness, hopes, dreams: such is unbridled strife.
Why then, when the spectre of all war is so horrendous,
Would we want to remember?
Because the cost was so immeasurable, so stupendous
We still pause each November.
We pause in silence, for no words can truly frame
The debt we owe
To those whose sacrifice is etched in stone -¢- each name
Upon some cenotaph
Which stands in city, town or countryside,
A sacred graph.
Bespeaking those who fought and strove and died,
Fired by the hope,
That war one day would end
And freedom have full scope.
—Andrea Grant
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Wednesday, March 16 to Tuesday, March 22, 1988
Wed. Mar. 16 St. Paul's Anglican Church, St. Patrick's Tea &
Bake Sale, 2 - 4 p.m.
Huron County Health Unit, Child Health Clinic,
Nurses Training Centre, Catherine St., Wingham,
9:30 to 11:30. Adult immunization also.
Public meeting to discuss open -space planning pro-
posals for the Lower Town Dam, 7 p.m. at Town
Hall.
Thurs. Mar. 17 Wroxeter UCW, St., Patrick's Noon Luncheon,
Wroxeter Community Hall.
Fri. Mar. 18 Old Time Dance, Gorrie Community Hall, proceeds
to Howick Lions' Swimming Pool.
Sat. Mar. 19 Third Annual St. Patrick's Night Variety Concert &
Dance at 8 p.m. Lucknow Communty Centre, Tick-
ets call 529-7524 or 357-3650. '
Mon. Mar. 21 441 Organizational Meeting ' for Howberry Horse-
man, 8 p.m., home of Rodney VanEnggn, 335-3071.
Shoot Party, Wingham Legion, 8 p.m. Everyone
,welcome.
Ladies' Night Out, sponsored by Salvation Army
Women's Ministry Group, "Colour Yourself
Beautiful". Guests L. Ballagh and C. Schenk, 7:30
to 9:30 p.m. Call 357-1708 or 357-1388, or reserva-
tions. Coffee and dessert served.
Turnberry Township Council, 7:30 p.m., Municipal
Office, Bluevale.
Tues. Mar. 22
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SCREECH OWL
TO BE RELEASED
By Al Harrison.
The- Grade 6-7 students at Eas
Wawanosh Public School soon wil
release a mature screech owl bac
to nature.
Several weeks ago, a. local hunter
Les Thompson of Wingham, cam
across the owl near the town dum
while hunting in East Wawanosh
The owl was dehydrated, mal
nourished.. and unable to maintain its
balance. Thinking it probably was
going to die, he decided to see if it
could be saved. -
I volunteered to assist in the
hopeful recovery of the owl.
However, after a few days of care
the owl appeared to be getting
weaker and services of Dr. Stewart
Leedham, a Wingham veterinarian,
were called upon.
books over the past few weeks for
Olympic reading target. We
t proud to announce that we have
1 our target of 120 books.
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—Jayne Vin
Grace Carmich
Grade 7-8
an student body. They .also received
are Celebration '88 certificates.
hit The school body was divided into
14 Wally, each representing a
Vince
competing country. At the opening
ael ceremonies they marched into the
gym carryuig their flags and for -
is rhes. We were entertained by . a
ac- group of Canadettes, sang songs and
of lit a symbolic torch.
on A games day was held and each
as team competed in seven different
Olympic -related events. As well, a
ng tug-of-war competition was staged.
s- A closing ceremony concluded the
is activities, at which ribbons were
presented to winning countries and
e the torch was extinguished.
The students found the activity
on educational, rewarding and en-
cs tertaining.
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Da . Centre - News
Right now the Grade 7-8 class
, working on detective -mystery
Dr. Leedham, realizing the
creature would require 24-hour care,
enlisted the help of Lyn Hunter of
Sleepy Hollow Rabbitry `near
Whitechurch, Mr. Hunter force-fed
the owl every three hours and within
a few days it was able to eat liver on
its own.
For the past few weeks, my Grade
6=7 class at the East Wawanosh
School has been caring for the owl
and the students:have grown very
attached to the small 'creature.
However, realizing the role it plays
in the balance of nature, they have
decided to release it in the very near
future:
Recently the class placed second
in the Province of Ontario in a junior
conservation competition sponsored
annually by the Ontario Federation
of Anglers and Hunters and the
Ministry of Natural Resources for
the students' signficant contribution
in a variety of conservation -related
activities.
Kindergarten
Our class really enjoyed the snow
games. We were in teams. We read
books and lit our class torch.
Andrew blew out the school flame at
our Olympic assembly.
We will be making three-
dimensional bear faces and will be
working on other activities about
bears.
We have been playing ABC bingo
to help us learn the alphabet.
Some children in our class have
made up some good puppet plays.
Grade
The Grade 1 class has been
reading ' a lot lately. The. students
read over 150 books for the Olympic
Reading Contest.
Michelle Thompson shared her in
journal with the class about her trip h
to Florida. We wished we were in
Florida with her.
We have a new girl in our class
and her name is Tonya Pehlke. We
hope she • enjoys it here as much as 0
all of the other students do. chos
Jennifer Elston re
Grade 3 fr
The Grade 3s made riddle and joke. M
books with their Grade 7`-8 buddies.
We have started division in math.
We are starting a study of Canada Re
in environmental studies. e
—Brenda White ru
Grade 4-5 Cal
The Grade 4.5 class has been the
improving in its work -power unit. in
We have been getting a lot more rea
people on our work -power expert A
tivties. These activities consist
mystery stories, book reports
Mystery and adventure, as well
detective novels and much more.
With Mr, Bowyer, we are planni
a class party and plan to go cros
country skiing if the weather
suitable.
We are all looking forward to th
March Break holiday.
-- Lana Thomps
Late last month, many studen
from local schools attended the pia
"Ice Time" at the Wingham Publ
School It is about one girl's fight
play on a boys' hockey team. Here is
what some of the students at th
East Wawanosh School thought th
show:
"I think girls should , play on
girls' team, but it if there isn't one
they should be allowed toplay on
boys' team." —Trisha Taylor..
"I think they did good to get rig
down to the point and lots of action.'
Dean Vincent.
"It wasn't very interesting. I don'
like plays that involve a lot of
singing." —Dan Ward.
"I don't think they should have
told her she could play, then write
her a letter and say she couldn't play
when she was better than most of the
boys." -Lorna Humphrey.
"I don't think they (girls) should
be able to play a boys' hockey
team." —Chris Campbell.
"I liked it when the girl stuck up
for herself to get on the hockey team
even though it was for boys. They
shouldn't judge a girl just because
she's of a different sex." —Laura
Munro.
Student Parliament
Our student parliament recently
organized a weird day for the school.
The students and staff had a chance
to dress up as weird as possible for
one day. The winning class got to
watch a movie last -Friday.
We are all looking forward to
getting out for the March Break.
— Darlene Black, Matthew Hussey
by Gloria Workman
a We've had a week full of action-
, packed activities. The Tuesday and
a Thursday groups learned how to
pour ceramic moulds. It is a very
ht interesting process. We are starting
our ceramic program right from the
very beginning stages.
t The Wednesday group spent the
afternoon out at the Maple Keys
Sugar Bush. We learned how the
Indians ' and pioneers used to collect
and boil the sap in comparison to
today's much more sophisticated
methods. When the presentation was
over we were able to purchase some
maple sugar candy and maple
butter. Maple Keys Sugar Bush
(near Molesworth) is owned and
operated by the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority and is used
for educational purposes, as well as
part of the conservation program.
We said good-bye and good luck to
Joelle Reavie, who completed her
college placement term, from
Fanshawe College. Joelle is
studying Recreation Leadership. We
wished her the very best in all her
future endeavors upon graduation
this spring.
The next foot clinics are March 16
and 31'at the Wingham. Armouries
from 1 to 3 pm. Please call 357-1440
to make an appointment.
This week we will continue
pouring ceramic moulds to get
ready for the next stage of the
program. On Thursday afternoon we
will be having a St. Patrick's Day
dance to celebrate the luck of the
Irish. Gordon Wall's Old Tyme
Music will be present to entertain.
Since Gordon Wall is away in
Florida, Joe Tiffin will be here to
take his place on the violin. This will
bring back some memories for
another member of the band. Alex
Robertson and Joe Tiffin used to
play together in a band called The
Gully Jumpers during the 1920s.
(Just some trivia!) Everyone is
encouraged to wear green this week.
On March 20-24, Olive McKay and
I will attend a conference on
Recreation for Older Adults in
Ottawa. Olive is the secretary of the
Wingham seniors' club, The Happy
Gang. The conference is sponsored
by the Ministry of Tourism and
Recreation. We will return with all
kinds of information which we can
hare.
EAST WAWANOSH
OLYMPIC REPORT
By Mr. Harrison
The students of East Wawanosh
Public School recently participated
a number of different events to
elp them understand and ap-
preciate the significance of the XV
Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Initially each grade composed a
poster in art class to promote the
lympics. Three winners were
en from each class and they
ceived Celebration certificates
om Murray Cardiff, our local
ember of Parliament, at our
opening ceremonies.
Each class also participated in the
ad to the Olympics contest. For
ea book a student read, it took our
nner three kilometers closer to
gary on our large map luted in
hall. We easily reached Calgary
time for the Olympics as they
d well over 1,000 books.
number of students also
arched the Olympics, wrote
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nese
peeches and presented them to the ,s
A so, *eh Been readfng a lot of s