The Times Advocate, 2005-11-30, Page 1010
Exeter Times–Advocate
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Market analysis and weather trends highlight of meeting
By Nina Van Lieshout
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — About 20 farmers attended the
Borland Farm Service 2006 Winter
Information Meeting Nov. 24.
Four guest speakers spoke to the crowd.
Owner of Good Crop Services Ltd. Don Good
was the highlighted speaker for the day.
He has owned his business for 25 years in
New Hamburg and brought some insight
about market analysis and weather trends to
his audience.
Good made predictions based on research
done over the past 14 years.
"I go to about two or three seminars a year.
It's all about cycles. Like Newton's law, what
goes up must come back to start off," says
Good.
Good thinks the technicals and fundamen-
tals of how the market reacts to cycles is
interesting.
He made some research -based predictions
at the meeting.
Good says the U.S stock market will make a
high between February and March of 2006,
but will crash in October 2007.
He says the snow we received last week will
be the most snow we see all December and
also says although we will see more snow it
will melt quickly. He also explained
December will be warmer than normal.
If there are three frosts with no rain there
will be a dry spell in the summer. This is all a
part of the cycle according to Good.
Good speaks six to seven times a year to
different groups in various towns.
Good will be in Hensall around the end of
March or beginning of April, making his pre-
dictions for 2006.
Board prepared for tragic events
By Stew Slater
SPECIAL TO THE T -A
SEAFORTH
— There are
some tragic sit-
uations — the
worst-case sce-
narios we pray
never happen,
such as shoot-
ings — for
which it's virtu-
ally impossible
for a school
community to
completely pre-
pare.
But according
to Zurich Public
School principal
Betty Beer, a
veteran leader
of the Avon
Maitland
District School
Board's Tragic
Event Response
Support Team
(TERST), the
board is ade-
quately pre-
pared for other
difficult events
which are
known to hap-
pen from time
to time in
Huron and
Perth counties.
"It used to be
that there were
two times per
year when I
could almost be
assured that
(TERST team
members)
would be get-
ting a call,"
Beer told
trustees during
a regular meet-
ing Nov. 22.
After citing
Easter and the
high school
"prom" season
as ominous
times, she
added, "thank-
fully, that's not
always as true
as it used to
be."
Beer
described the
workings of the
TERST team to
trustees, draw-
ing on her 15
years of experi-
ence in tragic
events
response,
stretching back
to the time
when she was a
member of the
former Huron
County school
boards group.
She explained
there are two
types of events
which may trig-
ger TERST
involvement:
something
which directly
affects all stu-
dents in a
school; and
something
which may only
directly affect a
few students.
In the first
case, Avon
Maitland policy
dictates TERST
leaders must be
contacted, with
a response — if
any — worked
out from there.
In the second
case, it's up to
the discretion
of the school
principal to
make the call,
but TERST
team members
are available if
needed.
Often, a rela-
tively inexperi-
enced principal
might need
assistance. Beer
described a
recent"aggres-
sive situation"
in which the
principal didn't
feel qualified to
suspend a stu-
dent, but the
TERST leader
was able —
because she's
also a principal
with a certain
level of authori-
ty — "to step
into that situa-
tion and
respond."
TERST team
members are
all board
employees, with
none specifical-
ly trained in
tragic event
response. But
the team does
boast expertise
in such areas as
nursing, suicide
intervention,
guidance, first
aid, dealing
with the media
and supporting
students with
special needs.
"We're not
doctors but we
do recognize
the signs of a
child who is
experiencing
trauma," Beer
said.
Such expertise
can make it
easier for
TERST team
members to call
for the assis-
tance of various
community ser-
vice providers,
including the
Children's Aid
Society, the
OPP, the
District Health
Units, Victims
Services or
local hospitals.
Depending on
each team
member's area
of expertise,
they may be
called to
respond to a
particular type
of event.
"Some don't
see a tragic
event in the
space of the
year; others
may see many,"
said Beer.
But even for
teachers and
principals, she
added, "I don't
think any of us
will get through
a career with-
out a tragic
event happen-
ing in our
classroom."
Trustees
Jenny Versteeg
and Colleen
Schenk won-
dered about
TERST activi-
ties during two
specific times of
the year: on
anniversaries of
past tragic
events, and
when tragic
events happen
during the sum-
mer, when
classes are on
hiatus.
Beer respond-
ed that the
team is aware
of the signifi-
cance of these
times, and
works with the
school commu-
nity to try and
gauge whether
or not a
response should
be undertaken,
either on the
anniversary
date or at the
resumption of
classes.
Owner of Good Crop Services Ltd. and guest speaker at the Borland
Farm Service 2006 Winter Information Meeting Don Good speaks to
about 20 farmers on market analysis and weather trends Nov. 24. Good
made predictions based on research done over the past 14 years.
(photo/Nina Van Lieshout.)
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