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The Citizen, 1994-11-09, Page 26PAGE 26. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9,1994. Blyth PS news Students to attend Remembrance Day service HALLOWEEN On Monday the children enjoyed a costume parade and the Primary students had a short dance and party afterwards. The students of Blyth Public School would like to thank all those who donated to their UNICEF boxes. A total of $230 was collected. REMEMBRANCE DAY Blyth students have been busy all week preparing poems, essays and posters for the Legion contests. Students will be participating at the Memorial Hall Remembrance Day Swiss girl enjoys Grey school Continued from page 25 small and had no river or bush like we have. Their subjects included math, reading, spelling, science, music, phys. ed, religion, home, ec., and French starting at Grade 5. At Christmas they had a two week holiday, one week holiday for Easter, a one week holiday in October, and a five week holiday in the summer. On Wednesday they went to church at 7 a.m. for religion classes for kids and then a bus came to take them to their regular classes at 8 a.m. and on Sundays they had church with their whole family. Debora likes Grey Central where she is in Mrs. Whitmore's 5/6 class. She misses her pals in Switzerland but is happy with her friends here at Grey. By Jessica Van Loo On Oct. 31, Mr. Braun's Grade 7 and 8 class planned a Halloween party for Grey students. They organized fun games such as a bean bag toss, haunted house, sponge toss, pin the stem on the pumpkin, dodge ball, egg roll, and scavenger hunt. Kindergarten to Grade 4 costumes were judged by the students' council. After recess Grades 5 and 8 held a dance in the gym. Everyone had a great time. By John Schedler With Jurassic Park and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs already released and in millions of homes the only other movie which might possibly sell in big numbers for the rest of the year is The Flintstones **1/2 (MCA/Universal - $22.95 or less). Reportedly the work of 32 writers, this high concept live action version of the perennially popular cartoon series is over produced and yabba- dabba dull. John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell are fine as the Flintstones and Rubbles, but the story and special effects are nothing really spectacular considering the amount of time and money spent. (Rated PG) Despite all the fanfare just before it opened in theatres this past spring, City Slicker II: The Legend of Curly's Gold *** (Columbia/Tristar) failed at the box office. The sequel to the popular 1991 hit isn't particularly original with the story (written by Billy Crystal) sending the boys back to the wide open spaces in search of buried gold, but I for one found these characters worth two hours of my time. The cast includes Billy Crystal, Daniel Stem, John Lovitz and Jack Palance as Curly's nasty twin brother. (Rated PG-13) I don't really know what to make of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues ** (Alliance), a bizarre Lesbian western about a woman with very large thumbs starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt and directed by Gun Van Sant. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I prefer the western of John Ford. (Rated R) In the ciassic movie department is Open City **** (Kino/CHV), an amazing film that has been acclaimed as "Europe's first post-war masterpiece". Winning the Best Picture Award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, Open City was shot in 1945 by director Roberto Rossellini (using out of date fi.'m stock) on the streets of Rome during the first weeks of the Allied liberation. Balancing warm humour and terrifying violence, the film stars Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi as an impoverished woman and a parish priest who both feel the brutality of the Nazis. Open City is one of those acclaimed films I have heard about, but have never seen, until now. This version from Kino is mastered from of pristine 35mm archive print and I highly recommend it. (Not rated - with easy to read English sub-titles). Among the week's other new and unpreviewed releases is Brainscan (Columbia/Tristar) starring Edward Furlong (Terminator 2) as a lonely teenager whose CD-ROM game leads him to the ultimate experience in terror. (Rated R) The big budget mini-series Texas (Worldvision), has its world premier on home video before being broadcast later this year. Based on the epic novel by James A. Michener, Texas recounts the early history of the state and the fight for independence from Mexico. (Not rated) Joe Pesci stars in With Honors (Warner) as a homeless man who teaches four privileged Harvard students some important lessons in life. (Rated PG-13) I video IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY... J.Fl.'S GAS BAR & TAKE OUT LTD. Brussels 887-6951 NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK The Flintstones, City Slickers 2, Little Big League. Black Beauty, Guarding Tess, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Cowboy Way, Nightmare Before Christmas, Bad Girls, Surviving the Game, Naked Gun 33 1/3, 3 Ninjas Kick Back, Threesome, The Crow, 8 Seconds, Blue Chips, D-2 Mighty Ducks, Schindler's List Children’s Movies 99c Regular Movies $1.49 New Releases $2.49 service. GRADE 2/3 Monday was a busy day as we celebrated Halloween in Grade 2/3. The children had fun parading in their costumes, dancing to Hallo­ ween music, playing a variety of games and snacking on pumpkin muffins and carrot and celery sticks. With Tuesday being the first day of November, we started talking about "Now That Days Are Getting Colder." We made puzzles, plasticine pictures, made a big book about the theme and read related stories. Next week we will be talking about dinosaurs. We will be doing this for the remainder of the month. This past Thursday the dental hygienist came for a classroom visit. She discussed proper care and brushing of our teeth. GRADE 5/6 By Jackie Falconer This week we won the prize for the best door in the door decorating contest. We had a party Halloween afternoon. We had games and snacks. They were good! We are busy putting out news stories on the computers. We are doing a lot of neat things in art. This week we are making trees from India ink on a blue and white and black wash. PEACEMAKERS By Leanne Haggitt Greg Cullen, Chauncey Brown, Julie Ritchie and I went to a leadership program for our school on Oct. 19. It was great. We do a lot of hard work to prepare for it. Things we did do to get ready are made a tape, prepared a skit, got traders such as pencils, pens, pads of paper and book markers. I got picked up at 7:55 by Mrs. Cronin. We picked up two more people and we were off. I was so excited I sat in the front and talked to Mrs. Cronin. We arrived in Orillia about 11:15 so we stopped for lunch at McDonalds. We met some people that were going to the camp. The boys were playing in Happy Land and got kicked out of Happy Land. Then we headed to Lake Couchiching. Well, we got there and found out we weren't in the same cabin. We were upset but we made a lot of friends. It was a little too much all those conferences. It was a great experience. I would love to go again! Thanks everyone, especially Mrs. Cronin. 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