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Turbine bylaws on the way
CHSS students raise over $5,000 for Movember
Hurting his achy, breaky heart
Blyth’s Kathryn Chalmers was one of the lucky people who
bid $260 to cut off the year-long mullett of Josh Rhynard as
part of Central Huron Secondary School’s Movember
shave-off auction assembly last week. (Denny Scott photo)
After a month (or, in some cases, a
year) of growing beards, mustaches
and ponytails, students from Central
Huron Secondary School cut it all
off for charity during a special
assembly last Friday.
As part of the third annual
Movember celebration, and fourth
annual shave-off event, students put
their hair, both on their heads and
faces, on the line to be shaved,
trimmed or have whipped cream
thrown at last week.
Organizer and teacher Shane
Taylor said the event was well
attended and 20 students put their
locks on the line for the event. He
said that, beyond that, more than 100
students were involved in the
assembly including people having
pies thrown at them, being shaved
and some girls getting some fairly
long ponytails being cut off.
The involvement didn’t stop there,
however, as Taylor explained the
majority of the students participated
in bidding to shave people or win
prizes in one way or another.
“I would say, as most [students
who bid] were in groups of 10 at
least, we had more than half the
school participating, up to possibly
three-quarters,” Taylor told The
Citizen.
As far as finances were concerned,
Taylor said the students involved
hoped to match last year’s
contribution of approximately
$4,000. However, the money raised
far exceeded that number, raising
more than $5,000 for Movember, a
campaign to promote awareness and
raise funds to fight health problems
afflicting men, most predominantly
prostate cancer.
Individuals and groups of
Movember growers were auctioned
off and the winner of each auction
got to choose who they shaved.
Josh Rhynard, who was sporting a
1980s-style mullett, brought in the
top dollar, with several bidders
putting up $260 to get to lop off his
luxurious locks.
Ashley Campbell, who sold off the
rights to chop off her ponytail, raised
$240 and six teachers from the
school, who were auctioned off as a
group, also went for $240. Jason
Bernard also auctioned off his beard
for $240.
Many of the students who got
involved did so because they just
wanted to help out, however some
students as well as some staff got
involved because they know people
who are fighting or have fought
prostate cancer and wanted to
participate on their behalf.
Taylor was assisted by local radio
personality J Stevens from 94.5 The
Bull.
The pair, with the help of a
slideshow, showed how many people
are affected by prostate cancer
including how many will face a
diagnosis each year and how many
will face it in their life.
According to documentation from
the Movember charity, one in seven
men will develop prostate cancer and
it will claim the life of one in 28. In
2013 alone, 3,900 men will die from
prostate cancer and 23,600 new
cases will be discovered.
The key piece of information
from the presentation, however,
according to Stevens, was that most
of those deaths were preventable at
some stage.
If detected early, prostate cancer
has a 95 per cent survival rate, Taylor
explained.
Stevens also pointed out that
Canada is the leading country in
raising money for the event despite
having the third most participants.
The United States and the United
Kingdom both have more
participants, however, since
Movember’s inception nearly a
decade ago, Canadians have raised
$28 million to the United Kingdom’s
$19.7 million and the United States’
$21.8 million.
Much of the money raised at
Central Huron Secondary School’s
event was done through the
auctioning off of gifts and baskets
from local businesses and
individuals, including tickets to a
Buffalo Sabres home game donated
by NHL linesman and Seaforth
native Scott Driscoll.
After just under four hours of
debate in a closed-to-the-public
session, Huron East Council has
directed staff to authorize four
agreements with two wind turbine
groups.
Council held a special session on
Tuesday, Nov. 28 to discuss the
agreements with St. Columban
Energy Limited and Varna Wind
Inc., eventually approving a road
user agreement and a community
fund agreement with each company,
for a total of four agreements.
Upon coming out of closed
session at 10:56 p.m., council passed
a motion, which was moved by
Councillor Les Falconer and
seconded by Councillor Frank
Stretton, directing municipal staff to
draft bylaws and authorize the
agreements.
In an interview with The Citizen
after the meeting, Chief
Administrative Officer Brad Knight
said he planned to bring all four
agreements to council for
consideration at the Tuesday, Dec. 3
regular meeting of council.
Also at the meeting, during its
brief open-to-the-public session,
council authorized transfer
agreements with the County of
Huron for three boundary bridges on
Perth Road 172.
The county is beginning the
process of downloading 12
boundary bridges to Huron East,
Knight said, and the aforementioned
bridges are the first three with actual
agreements in place.
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Man of the hour
Teacher and Movember shave-off organizer Shane Taylor took to the microphone as an
auctioneer for Central Huron Secondary School’s annual shave-off auction last week. Shown
preparing to shave and be shaved are volunteers Jenny, Brittany and Kimmy from the Majestic
Salon and Spa and, front, Kevin “Blackbeard” Stortz wearing his shades. (Denny Scott photo)
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen