Times Advocate, 1994-02-16, Page 12Page 12 Times -Advocate, February 16, 1994
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An environmentally -friendly balloon release was part of a celebration Monday of the 100th
day of the school year at McCurdy Public School. A hundred students released 100 balloon in
the school gym, each with a valentine to be delivered to a student when it retums to earth.
The event also included 100 cupcakes baked by parents of the students for a pre -lunch snack.
New dressing rooms. washrooms
Board draws up long list of
wishes to upgrade Zurich arena
ZURICH - The Zurich Arena's
budget for 1994 will be $500 less
than last year's. The recreation
hoard is projecting a deficit of
Exeter
youth
planning
30 -hour
famine
EXETER - Next week 90
students from South Huron
District High School as well
as a group from the Exeter
Christian Reformed Church
will be taking part in World
Vision's 30 -hour Famine.
For the past few weeks the
groups have been busy col-
lecti,rg donations and spon-
sors for their famine which
begins next Friday.
1 -or SU hours the partici-
pants will go without food as
a symbol of the hunger felt
by people around the world.
They will only he permitted
drinks such as fruit juice, wa-
ter and pop.
Students at the high school
will start their famine just af-
ter lunch. To make sure they
don't snack during the 30
hours, the South Huron stu-
dents will be spending the
night together in the school
gym.
The time together will also
help the students keep their
mind off food.
Jeffrey Orman, a teacher in-
volved with the program said
activities such as skating and
volleyball have been set up
for the students.
"The activities won't he too
vigorous," he said.
There will also be videos,
board games and, of course, a
lot of socializing.
Last September, 25 South
Huron students participated
in a similar program orga-
nized by student Kevin Bend-
er. That program raised more
than S I ,(XX).
Bender and Orman expect
to far exceed lasts year's fig-
ures.
Money raised through the
famine will go towards pro-
jects such as tree planting in
Ethiopia in an attempt to re-
verse the effects of the
drought that killed thousands
of people in the mid-1980s.
The annual event began in
1972 with a group of Canadi-
ans. The idea has caught on
with World Vision organiza-
tions in Great Britain, Hortg
Kong, Southern Africa, Sin-
gapore, Germany, the United
States and Australia. More
than 500,000 take pan in the
program and raise more than
S10 million.
More than 100,000 Canadi-
an's are expected to take part
this year.
529,453 - the amount which will be
paid by village taxes.
Councillor Marg Deichert-
Holmes presented the community
centre board's report to council
Thursday evening, and also re-
ferred to a wish list for the arena.
She said the board's lengthy list
of improvements they would like to
see made to the centre includes
painting the inside of the arena and
its steel trusses, new hand -dryers
for the women's washroom, a
bigger fridge for the kitchen, a new
kicker board for the ice surface,
and a sink in the upstairs room.
Also on the list is an $1 1,000 pro-
ject to extend safety class all
around the ice surface, and add a
time clock with penalty minutes,
which could cost from $2,000 to
$10,000.
Another project Deichert-Holmes
said the board discussed was an ad-
dition to the building to accommo-
date new dressing rooms and public
washrooms with an outside access.
"It's a big wish list....A little bit at
a time and whatever we get money
for," agreed councillor Barb Jef-
frey.
The board has cost estimates for
some of the items, and is looking
for estimates on the others.
March Break only one
week for neighbouring
school boards
CLINTON - While students with
the Huron County Board of Educa-
tion and the London and Middlesex
County Roman Catholic School
Board enjoy an extended March
Break, from March 14-25, that's
not the case for two neighbouring
school hoards.
The Middlesex County Board of
Education decided to stick with the
one week break, March 14-18, and
trustees with the Perth County
Board of Education agreed on Feb-
ruary I, to do the same.
Although the Perth board has
been negotiating with the Huron
County board in an attempt to set
up a common school calendar, trus-
tees felt extending the break was a
decision that required a survey of
parents first.
The extended break is in response
to the provincial Social Contract.
Bluewater Secondary School is
not affected by the changes.
Snowmobile patrols
result in more charges
EXETER - The OPP are continu-
ing their patrols of local trails. stop-
ping snowmobilers to check for val-
id insurance and registrations.
During the past week, the Exeter
OPP report laying four charges un-
der the Motorized Snow Vehicle
Act, including operating on a pro-
hibited highway, riding without a
helmet, failing to have a proper per-
mit, and failing to display registra-
tion numbers.
Another male snowmobiler was
stepped and issued a I2 -hour license
suspension for registering a warning
on a roadside alcohol screening de-
vice.
Friday evening, South Huron Dis-
trict High School held a Valentine's
dance. The OPP checked some ve-
hicles in the parking lot, seized
some liquor, and laid one charge un-
der the Liquor Licence Act. How-
ever, police report the event other-
wise went well without further
incidents.
Tipping fees unchanged
HENSALL - Some businesses in
the village have commented to
council that it is unfair tipping fees
are based on sze rather than weight
of garbage. ('-
Reeve Cecil Pepper and Works
superintendent John Baker said
they have been approached by busi-
ness owners regarding this issue.
Both were told by some business
owners the present system is unfair
to businesses that can't compost
their garbage as tightly as others.
But Councillor Jeff Reaburn said
the point of the tipping fee was to
cut down on the amount of waste
going to the dump because there is
little space left at the present site.
"Ten cubic metres of styrofoam
takes up just as much room as 10
cubic metre of stones," he said.
Council agreed that weight isn't a
factor in the dumping problem.
Reeve wants no increase
HENSALL - Important budget
decisions are just around the corner
for both provincial and municipal
governments and Reeve Cecil Pep-
per would like to see Hensall hold
its budget at a zero increase.
"The county is trying to come in
at zero and I would like to sec us
hold _the line on the budget for at
least another year," he said.
And while council will target a
zero increase, nothing is firm until
number crunching is completed in
' early Spring.
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