The Times Advocate, 2005-11-16, Page 7Wednesday,November 16, 2005
Exeter Times -Advocate
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Principal's message
EXETER — The School Council is hosting another ses-
sion in our continuing
"Teenagers: Under the Influence" series tonight (Nov.
16) at 7 p.m. in the school library.
The topic for this month's forum is "Teen Dating:
Control, Obsession, Violence. What's Healthy - What's
Not," and our guest speaker is Pam Hanington from
Women Today of Huron.
Pam has delivered informational sessions on dating to
secondary students and their parents for several years
now. We encourage parents to join us tonight to explore
healthy dating relationships and to get valuable insight
on how to recognize unhealthy relationships and how to
help teenagers recognize the differences between
healthy and unhealthy relationships. Pam will also pro-
vide suggestions for teenagers on how to get out of
unhealthy relationships. If you are the parent of a
teenager, you will already know how important relation-
ships seem to be to young people: this session should
provide you with helpful suggestions on how to cope
with the ups and downs of teenage relationships.
A notice on tonight's forum was sent home with report
cards last Friday. If you didn't see one, then you may not
have seen the report card either. I would
like to remind parents that this first
report card has marks and comments on
only the semestered courses. Therefore,
students in Grade 9 would receive
marks and comments on no more than
two courses, while students in Grade 10
would receive feedback on no more than
three courses. These students will
receive a second report card on their
year-long courses in early December.
After that report they will be asked to
fill out and return the Report Card
Response Form, complete with a parent signature.
Students in Grades 11 and 12 received marks and
comments on all their courses and will be completing the
Response Form this week. We would like to have the
Grade 11 and 12 Response Forms returned to us by no
later than Nov. 25.
Also included with the report cards was a short
newsletter, which contained information about the
report cards as well as a reminder about where to find
information about bus cancellations. Winter will soon be
upon us, and we will no doubt have to contend with at
least a few stormy mornings. When we do have to cancel
buses, the information is sent to the local radio stations
in London, Stratford and Wingham. We recommend that
students and parents listen to CFPL AM 980 or to CKNX
FM 102. Other radio stations will pick up the information
but we rely on these two in particular to get the notices
out as quickly as possible to our students and parents.
The bus cancellation information can also be found on
our school and board websites:
www.amdsb.ca/SHDHS/current/ and
www.yourschools.ca. The information is forwarded to
these websites as soon as the decision has been made to
cancel the buses: so, unless we also have a power fail-
ure, the website information should be up-to-date and
accurate.
The decision to cancel buses is not an easy one and
there is considerable consultation with the bus contrac-
tors before a decision is reached, starting at about 5:30
a.m. However, Mother Nature is not always co-operative
and sometimes the decision is made later than we would
like.
Unfortunately, this can make it difficult for parents of
elementary students for whom childcare arrangements
may have to be made. We do try to make the call by no
later than 7 a.m., but sometimes conditions worsen sud-
denly and we may have to make a late call.
Once we have the students at school where they are
safe and sound, we will not send them back out on the
roads if a storm develops during the day. Sometimes we
have parents calling us to report that they have heard
roads may be about to close and are wondering if we are
sending the students home early. While we appreciate
their concern, we prefer not to risk students' lives by
sending them out into storms. The local roads crews
know our bus departure times and work to ensure roads
are cleared at that time of the day. If we send the buses
home early, the roads may not yet have been cleared,
adding to the danger. Our bus contractors are in regular
contact with the roads crews to ensure the roads are
safe before we send the buses out. If you have any ques-
tions or concerns about our weather cancellation poli-
cies, please contact me at your convenience.
Finally, I would like to commend our staff and students
for two great events this past Friday. First of all, we had
a very good Remembrance Day service during which the
students were wonderfully well-behaved. Later in the
day, we finished our Operation Christmas Child shoebox
campaign, and once again our students and staff came
through with 400 shoeboxes of gifts for needy children in
other parts of the world. The generosity and compassion
of our students continue to impress me, and I would like
to congratulate them for their involvement in these two
activities.
JEFF
REABURN
PRINCIPAL'S
MESSAGE
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HD HS remembers
Remembrance Day services were held Nov. I I at South Huron
District High School. Mary Thompson and LindaWebber formed part
of the colour guard while at right Legion member Jack Brintnell
spoke to students and staff on the sacrifices that have been made and
(photos/Pat Bolen)
TOWNSHIP OF LUCAN BIDDULPH
PUBLIC MEETING
OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT
SURPLUS DWELLINGS
DATE/TIME: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 7, 2005
LOCATION: Lucan Community Centre (Leprechaun Hall) - 263 Main Street, Lucan, Ontario
PURPOSE: To consider a proposed Amendment to the Township
of Lucan Biddulph Official Plan
The purpose of the amendment is to amend the policies of the Township of Lucan Biddulph Official
Plan to permit the creation of residential lots for the purposes of disposing dwellings considered
surplus to the needs of a farm.
The creation of lots for the disposing of surplus farm dwellings is permitted by the Provincial Policy
Statement (PPS). While the merger of abutting farm parcels under the same ownership is not required,
no new dwellings may be erected on the lands remaining in the future.
The creation of lots for the purposes of disposing surplus farm dwellings is also permitted by the
County of Middlesex Official Plan. A pending amendment to the County Official Plan, if ultimately
adopted and brought into effect, would result in the adoption of a policy being no more restrictive than
the PPS with regard to surplus farm dwellings. In the interim, a consolidation of abutting parcels must
be taking place to maintain conformity with the County Plan.
While there is no `cut-off' date of construction specified in either the PPS or County of Middlesex
Official Plan for establishing whether a dwelling potentially qualifies as a surplus farm dwelling,
specifying a date of construction or, alternatively, the minimum number of years that the dwelling has
had to be in existence, is being considered for inclusion in the amendment.
In the Township of Lucan Biddulph Official Plan, the creation of lots to dispose surplus farm dwellings
would, if approved, be the only basis under which a residential lot could be created in areas designated
`Agricultural'. The proposed amendment potentially affects all lands designated `Agricultural' and, as
such, a key map is not provided.
ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make a written or verbal representation either in
support of, or in opposition to, the proposed amendment. IF A PERSON OR PUBLIC BODY that files
an appeal of a decision of the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Lucan Biddulph in respect
of the proposed official plan amendment does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make
written submissions to the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Lucan Biddulph before the
proposed official plan amendment is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of
the appeal. If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed official plan amendment, you must
make a written request to the Township of Lucan Biddulph. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the
proposed amendment is available between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the Municipal Office or from the
Municipal Planner, Mr. Ted Halwa, at (519) 963-1028 (London, Ontario).
DATED AT LUCAN THIS 16TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2005.
Ron Reymer
RON REYMER
CLERK
TOWNSHIP OF LUCAN BIDDULPH
P.O. BOX 190
LUCAN, ONTARIO
NOM 2J0
Telephone: (519) 227-4491
Fax: (519) 227-4998
E-mail rreymer@lucanbiddulph.on.ca