The Citizen, 2007-04-12, Page 28Over the winter months EastWawanosh students wishing to learnor play the game of chess have hadthe opportunity to do so in the schoollibrary during nutritional breaks.
Several students participated in the
Huron County youth chess
tournament in Goderich Friday,
March 30. The tournament was
sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus and there were several
schools competing. Participating
were: Grade 3, Amelia Pletch, Brett
Jarvis; Grade 4, Cassandra Carter,
Lindsay Shiell; Grade 5, Gabrielle
Carter; Grade 6, Luke Klages, RyanShiell, Wes Thompson, Jason Meier;Grade 7, Tyler Hallahan, AustinSchiestel, Trevor Raynard, WilliamHaines; Grade 8, Josh Wesselink.
The Grades 3/4 and 4/5 classes
will be off to the Huron Perth
Agriculture and Water Festival in
Seaforth on Thursday, April 12.
The Huron Perth Agriculture and
Water Festival helps students to
learn about agriculture and water.
Students participating in this full-
day event will spend half a day in
each of the water and agriculturally-
focused activities. Water activitieswill deal with the wise use,conservation and protection of ourwater resources. Agriculturalactivities profile various aspects of
field crop, livestock production and
farm safety.
Students will participate in an
hour-long workshop April 16 in
which they will learn to play drums
and hear a message that discourages
bullying. There will be three
presentations throughout the day for
the various age groups. This
workshop is being paid for through
an Arts grant received from theprovince and school fundraisingactivities.Once again, it’s time to encouragestudents to turn off the screens and
get active. During the week of April
23 to April 27, the Huron County
Health Unit and Take Heart Huron
are challenging students and their
families to turn off their televisions,
video games, and computers for five
days, except for use with homework.
Again this year, the challenge has
been extended to school staff.
The kindergarten classes will be
celebrating the warmer weather witha Spring Grandparent’s Tea Party onTuesday,April 24 from 2 - 2:45 p.m.and Wednesday, April 24 from 2 -2:45 p.m.
The Shannon Thunderbird
workshop is being presented at
Hullett Central Public School on
Thursday, April 26 at 9:30 a.m.
Grade 6 students from East
Wawanosh and Blyth will be
travelling to Hullett Central Public
School to see Thunderbird. She is an
Aboriginal artist from the west-coast
Tsimshian Nation.
The tabling of a motion at the
March 19 North Huron council
meeting raised some questions for
councillor Greg McClinchey.
At that meeting a mandate for the
Blyth arena board had been
presented for council approval.
McClinchey had developed the
mandate which stated that the board
would meet on an on-going and
regular basis to review and critique
the operations of the Blyth arena as
well as the peripheral grounds and
facilities.
The board would make
recommendations to council that
would improve operations and
would help focus and foster
community support on projects of
interest.
Some councillors questioned
whether the arena board was
comfortable with the mandate, and
had concerns about approving the
mandate without that assurance.
McClinchey was absent from that
meeting.
At the April session, however,
McClinchey was able to provide a
chronology that indicated the board
and council had information that the
mandate was coming and that the
board had seen it.
“I’m curious as to what council’s
hoping for me to take back to the
board about this.”
McClinchey explained that the
issue came up Feb. 13 as a result of
a discussion at a meeting of the
board. Between that time and Feb.
19 there were a number of
discussions regarding the topic. “I
raised the issue with council that
night.”
March 12, he said a draft reading
was prepared for counci. March 14
he met with staff to discuss it and
the proposal was distributed March
15.
McClinchey said there had been
response within days from the
recreation director and councillor
Archie MacGowan that “we were
heading in the right direction.”
Councillor Murray Nesbitt, who
had previously been the council
representative on the board told
McClinchey that council had held
back because they didn’t want to
take action without knowing the
board’s feeling.
McClinchey said that he had
circulated information to council
stating that the board did know
about the mandate.
Nesbitt also wondered if the board
was interested in having their
responsibilities extended to the
grounds and outdoor facilities.
McClinchey explained that the
idea had stemmed from a desire to
focus attention on things that
promote the community and include
all stakeholders.
Using the Threshers as an example
he said that user groups have not
ever been part of the board and it
was the hope that this would now
change.
Also, he said that without a clear
mandate, as in the past, the board
had been somewhat confused as to
what exactly their role was.
“As I understand it there is no
mandate. This is an attempt to
get something down on paper.
Other groups have been invited
to participate so the idea is to
expand.”
Clerk-administrator Kriss Snell
agreed. “I think as staff we
are looking for input from
non-traditional users. As the
facility evolves it will hopefully
have 356 day a year use. Hopefully
this will increase communication
flow.”
McClinchey asked council to
either approve the mandate or make
substantive changes. A motion was
made for the former.
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Council approves new mandate for arena board
East Wawanosh students learn, and play, chess
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