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Holiday
Collection
Schedule
The Bluewater Recycling Association and all its
staff would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year. During the holiday season,
we postpone the regular collection of waste and
recyclables in order to allow our staff to savour this
joyous holiday season with their family and friends
As a result, there will be no collection on Tuesday,
December 25 and Tuesday, January 1. However
there will be an altemate collection on Saturday,
December 29 for communities missed on the above
dates except residents of the rural Elma Ward
which will be collected on Saturday, December 22.
There will be regular collection on Wednesday,
December 26, except for Goderich, Seaforth, and
Blyth. Their regular collection
schedule will resume on Wednesday,
January 2.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
We would also like to remind you
that wrapping paper is not recyclable.
Should you have any questions,
please feel free to contact us at
1-800-265-9799.
News
Schenk is new chair of public board
By Stew Slater
Special to The Expositor
Wendy Anderson was so
confident there wasn't a
serious challenge to her
position as chair of the Avon
Maitland District School
Board that she didn't write
any farewell comments.
But now that she has been
replaced, she says "I can't
tell you how relieved I feel."
Colleen Schenk,
meanwhile, thought only a
few weeks ago that she
would be in a hospital bed
while her fellow trustees
decided on key board
positions, and too busy with
her career to devote any
more time to school board
affairs.
But fate intervened and,
Tuesday, Dec. 5, the
Wingham resident earned a
slim 5-4 victory over
Anderson to become the
board's new chair.
Anderson and Schenk were
the only two names on the
ballot for chair, after a third
nominee, Listowel's Don
Brillinger, declined to have
his name stand.
"It would have been nice to
say some of the remarks that
a retiring chair often gets to
say," Anderson said.
"Without meaning to sound
like I'm blowing my own
horn, I've carried a fairly
heavy load for the past three
years and I would have liked
to make some comments
about that."
Rod Brown defeated
fellow Stratford trustee Meg
Westley for the position of
vice -chair, with Anderson
declining to let her name
stand for that vote.
Speaking following the
meeting, Schenk said she
originally had minor surgery
scheduled for the Dec. 4
meeting. But it was moved
ahead unexpectedly, and the
mother of two university -
aged children and one high
school -aged daughter has
recovered well.
In addition, her. own job
was recently cut back to
occasional status, suddenly
leaving her with much more
time to tackle school board
issues.
The north Huron trustee
was first elected to the
former Huron County board
in 1995, and has served as an
Avon Maitland committee
chair and vice -chair, as well
as several years as the
board's representative on the
Ontario Public School
Boards Association
(OPSBA). In September, she
was elected OPSBA regional
vice-president.
With the board moving
directly from the election of
chair into a regular board
meeting, Schenk made an
obvious attempt to set herself
apart from the formal style of
her predecessor.
In a prepared statement,
she admitted her "job will not
be easy in these turbulent
times," then invited other
trustees to approach her
about any concerns.
She called trustees by their
first names -- as opposed to
Anderson's more formal
"trustee Schenk" -- and urged
parents and students to get
involved by writing letters to
their MPPs or other
government officials about
such issues as the provincial
funding formula or special
education needs.
And she allowed the
meeting to step far outside
traditional procedure by
obliging a request by
Seaforth Public school
council chair Lisa Campbell,
to lead down the hall of
SDHS to what Campbell
described as a potential
"school -within -a -school"
with its own entrance and
suitable classroom space.
Speaking following the
meeting, Anderson agreed
that the current round of
potential school closures will
make things difficult for
Schenk.
"She's going to face a very
tough time in the next few
months," the outgoing chair
said.
Asked if the change would
allow her to express her own
opinions more freely, she
stated emphatically,
"absolutely."
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