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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Times Advocate, 2008-03-26, Page 66 Times–Advocate Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Opinion Forum News Caring students —As part of the Huron -Perth Catholic District School board's Community of Caring program, during the month of February students and staff of Precious Blood declared February caring month at the school. During February the members of the Caring Team issued two challenges to the student body.The first was for students at Precious Blood to commit 1,000 random acts of caring and kindness and the second was to raise 10, 000 pennies for those who could not care for themselves. Each time a student was "caught caring" the students were given an award. In addition, the penny collection was successful as students brought in pennies for those in need surpassing the original goal of 10,000 pennies for the missions. (photo/Pat Bolen) Eric Campbell, Legion support hospital Car raffle — Eric Campbell Ford and the Exeter Legion are proud to help the South Huron Hospital Foundation in its ongoing fundraising.They recognize the importance of the hospital to the community and support the continuous needs of the hospital.The Foundation provides funds for equipment to maintain and improve the quality of care for our community. Pictured above left are Dan Denomme, Bart Devries, Eric Campbell, Bob Gehan, Jim Russell, Len Fleet and Steve Campbell.The Legion has announced the beginning of a car raffle for a 2007 Mustang convertible.The final draw date will be at Canada Day festivities July 1 at South Huron Rec Centre. Keep an eye out for the Legion members who will be selling lucky tickets throughout the next three months. The South Huron Hospital Foundation Capital Campaign recognizes the following gener- ous donations: Leader • Usborne Hibbert Insurance —Exeter • Exeter Lions Club — Exeter and area • Huron Apothecary, Ernie and Helen Miatello — Exeter Builder • Keller Roofing, the Keller family — Exeter • Cheryl Masson and Dave Reid — Exeter • Parrish and Heimbecker Ltd. — South Huron and area Friend • Canadian Tire Store — Exeter • Lioness Club of Grand Bend and area • Emmanuel Baptist Church of South Huron • Cam Ivey and family — Grand Bend and area Supporter • The Bogart family — Exeter • Arnold and Marion Cann — Exeter • Bruce Perry and Margaret MacPherson — Exeter • Bill and Louise Pincombe — Exeter • Jim and Diane Becker — Exeter • Andrew and Marion Dougall — Exeter • In memory of Ray Hodgson — Exeter • John and Dorothy Taylor — Exeter Contributor • In Memory of Bernice Ford — Exeter • Marie Tiernan and family — Exeter • Ronald and Esther Mawson — Exeter • Murray and Carol Finlayson — Exeter • John and Dorothy Taylor — Exeter • Mobile Home Express, the Haines family — Exeter Provider • Mike and Jodi Rader — Exeter • Flora Doerr — Exeter • Al and Millie Hoggarth — Exeter • Lossy Fuller — Exeter • Bev and Burdene Morgan — Exeter • In memory of Francis Fletcher — Exeter Principal's message EXETER — Congratulations to Mr. Soldan, Mr. Dougall and the Panther boys' hockey team, who won the WOSSAA championship last week and are now bound for Ottawa next week to compete at OFSAA, the provincial championships. The Panthers defeated Glencoe Secondary 5-2 and F E Madill 1-0 to advance to the provincial championship tournament. The coaches reported that the boys represented us very well both on and off the ice, and I know the students and staff will be wishing them well and following their progress closely at OFSAA. Congratulations also to Mr. Moore, Mr. Weston, Ms. Milner and the bands for their excellent performances at the Musicfest Regionals in London. The Wind Ensemble, Intermediate Concert Band and Senior Concert Band all achieved a Silver standard, while the Percussion Ensemble achieved Gold. The Wind Ensemble, Senior Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble have all been invited to participate in Musicfest Nationals in May. The Jazz Band will compete this week as their opportunity was postponed by a snowstorm. I would like to especially recognize the achievement of Carly Schroeder, who has been selected to perform with the National Concert Band, which has students from all across Canada chosen by audition. Carly was chosen from a pool of hundreds of applicants to fill one of only two available spots in her section of the band. This is indeed a great honour and we should all be very proud of Carly. Congratulations Carly on this tremendous achievement. This week we have two significant events: the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) and Parent-Teacher Interviews, both of which happen Thursday. The OSSLT is a huge logistical challenge and requires the use of many staff members and numerous rooms in the school. As a result, we will be altering our schedule Thursday. Students in Grade 10 and those re -writ- ing the literacy test will do so Thursday morning in classrooms on the sec- ond floor. While they are writing the test, Grade 9 students will be engaged in a practice literacy test in classrooms on the first floor. Students in Grade 11 and 12 have been given the opportunity to take one of several certification courses for the morning They signed up for these previously and we have spent considerable time and money organizing these courses on a variety of topics. This certification program is costing us several thousand dollars and so it is critical that students who signed up for certification show up for the course. Because of all these activities, we will not be running any regular classes Thursday morning; however, we will be running the two regu- lar afternoon classes, which will be shortened by only five minutes each to give us time to set up for parent -teacher interviews. All stu- dents are expected to attend the two afternoon classes on Thursday. Parent-Teacher interviews will be held in the cafeteria and small gym from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Interim reports were mailed out last Wednesday and Thursday and hopefully parents will have received them in time to have students set up interviews. A short newsletter accompanied the report and on the bottom was a brief form for arranging interviews. Parents are asked to have their son or daughter take this form to school and arrange interview times with the teachers. Interviews can be arranged on Thursday as well: we will have student secretaries in the front hall and they will have the teachers' interview schedules to assist parents in finding available interview times. JEFF REABU PRINCIPA MESSAGE RN L'S