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I me nver wan W iîve again. But when that bus rollewd into the parking lot of Whitby Senior Public School Iast Thur- sday evening, they knew that it was ail over, ex- cept for the mnemories they will carry for the rest of their lives. Some 42 grade 7 students from the Gar- den St. schooi, two of By COUNCILLOR JOE BUGELLI Chafrman Administrative Commlttee It seems to me that since I have taken over as chairman of the admnisMtrative cornmittee, it has become a bee-hive of activity. Not being one to take, undue credit, I should point out that the reason for this is that many controversial issues, some of which have been under review for two years and more, and flot dealt with by my predecessors, are now surfacing at the same tume. However, being one that enjoys healthy dialogue between eiected of- ficiais and those whom they represent, I accept the challenge of dealing with these so-cailed "hot-pota- toe" issues. Some, like the home occupation bylaw and the sign bylaw have received a lot of media attention and therefore, generated considerabie interest and debate. There is no question that nobody likes to be over-governed and that, there is a certain mistrust in government at ail levels. It is human nature that Some, like the home occupation bylaw and the sign byiaw have received a lot of media attention and therefore, generated considerable interest and -de- bate. There is no question that nobody likes to be over-governed and that there is a certain mistrust of governent of ail levels. It is human nature that causes those interested in day-to-day affairs to search for motives when legislation is proposed. Politicians, on the other hand, are flot much differ- ent. They, too, albeit for other reasons, like politicai feasibihity or personal popularity, sometimes tend to shy away from legisiation proposed to address the concerns that they themselves expressed initial- ly. So oft-times it becomes frustrating and counter- productive to have- staff spend hundreds of hours thousands of taxpayers dollars in preparing reports only to be be kilied or put on the back burner. We are eiected to make decisions, and being hu- man, we are bound to make some wrong ones. The only people who do not. make mistakes are those who make no decisions. The best that we can hope for is that we make far more good ones than bad ones, and the good ones have long -and iasting bene- fits and the bad ones only short terni repercussions. zit wil be wise for us to remember that no man wil leave his footprints on the sands of tume if ail he does is sit in his cabana. 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They were in the Quebec National Assembly building last Tuesday morning near the Chamber itself when a lone man, wearing a Canadian Armed For- ces uniform, burst into that province's seat of government and fired his' submachine gun killing three people and injuring 13 others. The teachers and students were' on the school's annual four-day "enrichnient excur- sion" to Quebec aàs part of the grade 7 French course. They were about to begin their tour of the National Assembly when the shots rang out. According to Trudy Deacon and Sharon Davis-Dove, the two teachers in charge of the expedition, at first no one realized, that what they heard was gunfire. "We thought it might have been construc- tion, " Deacon said. One of the students, Karen Boggs, hikened it to "somebody, ham- mering or something .... somebody thought it was that. " After realizing what had. happened, Deacon and Davis-Dove im- mediately led the children from the hallway where they were to an adjoining room where they closed ail the doors and win- dows and told their charges to sit on the floor and be quiet. It was not long after this that' the local party actually saw the man later identified as Denis Lortie run past them brandishing his weapon. "He was runnîng lown the hallway, through the foyer and up the stairs," Deacon told the Free Press iast F'riday morning. "We saw this guy in an army suit running Iown the hailway," was 10W Karen Boggs Iescribed it. "He came running through the iallway .... he came ýretty coise tri us .... he CONT'DON1pG-ý -. 14 Our Customn Cover Sale ailows you to uphoîster any of Barrymore's 200 f rame styles ln the fabrlc of your choice. You may choose a Barrymore.fabric or use one of your own. 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