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The Citizen, 2018-05-10, Page 36PAGE 36. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2018. Madill athletes excel at Cambridge's Track Wars 1111111. /%/JII/tw L. Up and over Athletes from F.E. Madill Secondary School were in action at Track Wars in Cambridge at Jacob Hespeler Seecondary School. A number of students marked personal -best runs at the meet. Above, Emma Metcalfe, left, and Yasmin Eddijli clear hurdles at the meet, doing their school and community proud. (Photo submitted) After a long, cold winter, F.E. Madill Secondary School's track and field team finally began its competitive season last week. Nearly 2,000 athletes attended Track Wars at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School in Cambridge, providing a large field of competition for Madill's 31 athletes, who produced promising results. The team accumulated 12 personal best performances by the end of the day while breaking four meet records, four school records and one benchmark. Leading the way in the throw events, Junior Boy Ryan Jacklin, continued to improve on past performances and delight the spectators with his distances and technique. He won all three events he entered: the shot put with a put of 18.33 metres, the discus with a throw of 58.54 metres and the javelin with a throw of 53.11 metres. His winning throws set new meet and school records. Teammate Hannah VanStuvenberg also set a new personal best and meet record with her first -place 34.62 - metre throw in Junior Girls discus. She also won second in javelin (25.14 metres) and third in shot put (10.48 metres). On the track, Junior Girl Brooke Jez ran a tactical 1,500 -metre race and outran the field with her strong finishing kick to the finish line, posting a winning time of 5:08.57. The time breaks the former school record (5:11.09) set by Madeline Yungblut in 2010. The team is gearing up for the next meet, the Huron Perth Invitational, held at St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School next week. NH budget deferred Continued from page 1 Seip was frustrated with the decision and said if council was going to request changes, it should provide a target figure for the board. Director of Finance Donna White explained that without the police budget, the rest of the budget could not be passed and taxation rates could not be set. She also explained that council was testing the limits of time for passing the budget, saying that pre -budget approvals would be necessary as a result of the decision. Council decided to have any changes to the police services budget brought back to the May 22 council meeting to allow the budget as a whole to be passed there. The budget, as it was presented, includes an 18.15 per cent increase in spending over 2017, most of which will be borne by the Wingham ward due to police service increases. Councillor Trevor Seip has notified council that he will be requesting a review of the policing in Blyth and East Wawanosh with a goal of considering expanding the Wingham Police Service. Seip, aware of several ratepayers decrying the idea during recent public meetings about the Wingham Police Service, said he wasn't interested in making Blyth or East Wawanosh residents pay more. Instead, Seip explained he was interested in seeing what level of service could be obtained through taking what Blyth and East Wawanosh pay now, approximately $380,000, and applying that to the Wingham Police Service which is in the midst of personnel expansion. Seip said he knows any increase in price would not be accepted, but said he thought ratepayers may be interested in keeping their police service dollars local. He said this way, council could consider funnelling that $380,000 to locally -employed police officers instead of paying the province. 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