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Page 28, Whitby Free Press, Weckiesday, May 31, 1995' Area students g 9et tirst crack at modified year 'By Mark Reesor Neigboêurhood students wiI1 r the firut chance to register oanew elementary school to be built on thie grounds of Anderson CVI. The neighbourhood is defined in a "draft staff preferred bound- ary» as running ,from Garden Street east to Tickson Road, and from Dundas Street north roughly to Bradley Drive; east of Anerson, Manning Road will be the northern limit. A second registration date will b. open to students outside the area. Principal Jack Smyka,. who stresses the. boundary is just a draft which could change, esti- mates the school will attract about 260 students from the pro- posed area - 160 from Pringle Creek Public School, which cu r- rentlyhanshalf its students i rtàles, and around 100 from .li McFarlane and Dr. Robert Thornton public schools. That would leave some 200 spaces open for students from outside tiie area t I tiie school which wiil have a capacityoi 450. The new school has drawn plenty of attention, despite the. tact construction isn't due te b¶nuntil July and tiie sehool isn t scheduled to open until August, 1996 because of plans for a nodifiedâ sciiool year calen- dar. Sprting a sweater witiitiie sloa 'Modified Sciiool Year Catc The Vision,' Smyka teid about 23 parents at a meeting last week he would prefer te se. ail studonts on a mocied calen- 4ha were attempting te do in crate a population, or te draw a population, that will b. inter- ested in the. modifled sciiool y.ar... "The idea is that if tiiere isn't sufficient inter.st for tiie school te open (solely) as a modified sciiool then tiie traditional track is stili there for us tefMIl the remaig spaces in the sciiool.» Tii. registration sessions will b. for a modifl.d sciiool year only tiiougii, h. notes. <'We'll se. wiat tii. numbers are at that point and if tii. nwnbers are not suflicient te open tiie modifl.d sciiool then w. will go te that (traditionai Zear through a third registration). Smyka str.ss.d tiiat the final decison is up te parents. «'If the. community dictates through its interest in the. sciiool that we have two tracks, we11 have two tracks.» He alopronmisd that parents would b. tii. «driving force» béhind the. school and would ,stablish its mandate; tiiose attending tiien broke inte small groups te work out a consensus for an alternate sciiool year calendar. The groups came up witii variations of a draft 1994/1995 calendar proposed by tiie board which would se. students begin summer holidays the second week in Juiy, go back te sciiool tii. third week of August and take iiolidays the. second and third weeks'of October, the last two weeks in Decomber and the second and third w.eks in March. Smyka has scheduled another meeting for parents and others interested in tiie new school for neit Tuesdàay (June 6), 7 to 9 p.m., at Anderson MV. Another novel aspect of the new school will b. an integrated daycare and family help centre operated by tiie YMCA of Grea- ter Toronto. The. YMCA would put between $300,000 and $400,000 toward capital costs for tiie centre, wiiich would offer a wide variety of services, including parenting akills courses, marriage and fam- ily counselling, literacy trang and off-hours child care andtooI and worksiiare co-ops. Chesea Balzan HENRY ST. H.S. On the. suinmer watch, tiiere are only 12 school days left until our dreamoi of this bountiful season become a rea]ity. The. Henry Street High Sehool graduating class of 1995 clebratedlthie end of tiieir Mhi uciool career at Prom '95. T=nk go to ail thos. involv.d i making riday. night a success. The memorethe grads accumulatod over the. night won'tsoon b. forgotten, .specially since we ail became aware of Mr. Gray's secret dancn talent. Henry Studlents Against Drunk Driving certainly had a hand in ensuring that Henry grads arrived safely on Prom night. The stag.d impaired driving accident in front of the. shool on Thursday openedtiie eys of many students. Also on Thursday, tii. music department iield their last concert of the year. Thi. concert involved the Senior Stage Band, tii. Senior Band, olista Jackie Mclntrye, Becie Palmer, Erika Nicota and Andrea Akers and tii. vocal clase with Jason Caprietta who sang « In the. SOiI of the Nigit.' The outgoing student council negotiated an amnesty for al tiiS. students with detentions on Thursday as a show of goodwiil te the student body at Henry. Coincidentaily, also on Thursday, elections were held for next year's council. The incoming student council wiil be led by president Mark Vanderlip. On Friday, May 19, the boys' basebail t.am finished the regular season by beating Ajax 8-3 and tiien tying them 14-14. Jerzy Aronowicz was the winming pitcher but h. got a lot of help on offense. Blair Hardy had three bits and Brad Newport got bis third grand slam in two games. Tim Imeson iiad a three-run home run. which iielped out a lot in the. second gaxne. The boys were undefeated this season. On Wednesday, the team began playoffa with an 8-0 win over G.L. Roberts, seven innings pitched by Jeremy Sciiott. Ken Calway, Aronowicz and Adam Thompeon led tiie offence. The girls' rugby teamn on Wednesday had a 5-0 vin over Pickering. Katie Aguire, Jen Moine and Kara Easton helped Cama Cannon score the. only try of The boyd lacrosse team advances te the LOSSA finals on Thursday witii an 11-8 win over Denis O'Connor. Jim Brown led Hawks with three goals. Wes Suddons, Derek Suddons and Zac Aitken scored two goals each and Ryan Unwin and Rohan Mehta each scored on. goal. Justin Aitken and Eric Henze eacii qualified for OFSAA track and field on Thursday. Aitken will comPete in Kingston in 400-metre and Henze in junior boys' higii juxp. l'd 1k. to wisii good luck te al thos. OAC students who are anxiously waiting for June 15. That wiil b.tii. day that ail university applicants rush home at lunch te check their mail boxes for acceptance letters for next year. Best wisiies and best of luck. Stefanie Antunes ST. CHARLES GARNIER This week's article is filled with lots of great news. Many of our students have been very busy with school outings and activities, and tuis article wiil b. a tribut. te them in recognition of their efforts and devotion. I would frst like te let ail of the. readers know about a little project tuis year's graduates have just recently complet.d. This year's retreat was diffèrent from ail of the. past retreats, and six students along with one very devoted teacher made it al happen. The project involved community involvement, not just your average 'lhelp-the-elderly- lady-across-the-street" type of service. The. project was going to help people in need to complet. their spring cleaning. Eight groups, each made up of five or six graduates, made their way inte people's bouses and hearts. The group interaction was incredible, and it was even fun. Special tiianks te M. Savard, Julie Berry, Nathalie Fournier, Renée Dupuis, Serge Nadeau, Christophe 1hériault and Stéfanie Antunes for making it Ail hen. school group busy making preparations was the, Club Jeunesse du Monde. They made their way te Bathiurst, NBon a 20-hour train ride to, Tepresent our echool et tii. annual Jeunesse du Monde gatii.ring. It was a very rewarding experience for Sonia Morrison Jason Racicot, Andréa Nadeau, Brigitt Bovert, Mélissa Plon, Léetitia Léon and Lynne Lamarche. Last week's grand winner of the Science Olympie was the. "oCanada" egroup wit ~Mélanie Girard as coach. Congratulations to ail the winners, ChantaI. Roy, Sanya Bertrand, Annme Charbonneau, Stéphanie Taillon, Lyndy Martin, Marc-André Bédard, Martin Dupuis, Martin Taillefer and André Tacehino. Recently seven students from our school made it te, the Jeux Franco-Ontariens. The object of these week.nds (a few each year) is te unite ail French secondary students in Ontario in a fun, ganie-filled atmo here. Special thanka te Sépanie Paillé, Andréa Dessurealt, Rolland Lattouf, Roxane Montas, Malika Taghaousi, Marc Chiasson and Nerissa Crichlow. Nerissa Chrichlow brought back two medals, on. for long jump and the other for athletics. She participated i the 100-metre and 200-metre sprint events, long jump, higii jump and a few other spotsinluding soccer and Nerissa is an honour student who flnds the. tinie te, attend ballet clasm three times a week, and she's been doing so for nearly 12 years now. She also spends ber time volunteering at a Scarborough hospital, preparing herself for a career inii, medical field. W. would 1k. te thank Nerissa for represening oeir sciiool at tii. Jeux raco-Ontariens, and we'd like to wish ber weil in ail ber future endeavours. A la prochaine.. Backstage BALLERINAS (from Ieft) Laura Figgens, Andrea Yorke and Meaghan Walker get in somne Iast minute ractice before going on stage in Dr. Robert Thomnton e~ubic School's recent production of 'The Wizard of Oz.' Photo by Mark Reesor, Whitby Free Press Teachers awards handed out by sepa rate board Teaciiers from Whitby Catholic achools were among those wiio rec.ived Educaters' awards at a May 23 ceremony at the Durhamn separate achool board headquar- ters. One teaciier from each Catiio- lic sciiool witiiin tiie Durhamn board r.c.ived an award "in reogitio of their many contri- butions te Catiiolic education acosa tii. region.n Wlhitby sciiool recipients were Gerard Stephenson of Father Leo J. Austin Catholic Secondary School, Ghislain Lambert of Ecole secondaire catholique Saint-Ciiarles-Garnier, Lynda Simpson of St. Marguerite d'You ville, Margaret Leonard of St. Theresa, Mary Jo Dinan of St. Bernard, Susan P.rry of St. Mat- thew tiie Evangelist Theresa Stout of St. John tii. Évangelist and Rse Ambra of St. Paul. The Distinguished Catholic Leader Award was presented te, Breen O'Connor, principal at St. Catherine Of Sina Catholic School.