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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 5, 1986 Section Two Atoms Congratulated by Canadian Tire Sponsor for Fine Effort The boys' major Atom Toros went up against Port Perry on Saturday, October 25, at the Darlington Sports Centre. The Toros put up a good fight, however, however, losing 3-0, but still managed to keep a smile on their faces. Team members are: (back left) Coach, Brian Purdy, Gary Adams, Steve Deblois, Ryan Robinson, Mark Bradley, Chad Vanderende, Richard Bateman, Jeff White, Jason Crosbie, and Manager, Don Wilcox. (Front left): Sean Brown, Ryan Ferguson, Jason Hoffman, Doug Parkin, Jeff Murphy, Steve Oke, Collin Taggert, and "Chuck" Carr. Absent: Assistant Coach, Paul Robinson. The boys' major Atom Toros are congratulated on their team efforts and sportsmanship by a representative of their sponsor, Ed Epsega, Canadian Tire Store Manager. Representing the Toros are: (left) Jason Crosbie, assistant captain; captain; Steve Deblois, captain; and Chad Vanderende, assistant captain. f. B.H.S. NEWS 1 Merrilee Brown Ëditor-in-Chief EDITORIAL Commencement Perhaps it may not be a universal custom to hold Commencement Exercises' in October, but certainly it is a Bowmanville High School tradition. Some schools prefer to hold Graduation in the spring as a type of "grand finale" to the graduates' senior year. However, at B.H.S. the Commencement is held in the fall for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it is perhaps the last reunion of the graduating students after they have left their alma mater for the work field, community college or university. university. In June, the students go their separate ways and Commencement may be their only contact. It allows for a kind of "Homecoming" but not in the American sense with football and a Prom, but a chance for the grads to return to the place where they spent four or five years of their lives, to visit family and friends. Also, for the prize winners, the money provides a welcome alleviance of a perhaps perhaps tight financial situation which seems to arise as the fall school term progresses. And for those at University, Commencement provides a welcome break from fall midterm midterm exams. Commencement has been condemned as a long, dull ceremony and perhaps it is for staff and platform guests who are not directly connected with the graduates. But it is certainly more exciting when one accepts one's own diploma and perhaps an award or two. One's applause is heartier when one's friends are accepting accepting their long-overdue awards. One appreciates the value and effort required to receive an award or a diploma more when one has been toiling toiling along with the other graduates. graduates. Those service clubs, corporations corporations and individuals who donate the prizes should be thanked publicly and individu ally but space does not permit. They may rest assured that their money is well spent to reward the long hours of labour required to receive such an award. Hopefully, space will permit the publication publication of the Commencement program because the graduates graduates and prize donors deserve a little notoriety. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, time did not permit the publication of Richard Smith's Valedictory Address but it will be included in next week's column. Drama Club News The halls are alive with the Sound of Music, Tickets are now available at the Box Office at B.H.S. or from Merrilee Brown at 623-2978 for the November 26th-29th production production of "The Sound of Music." Tickets are $5.00 for adults and $4.00 for students and must be purchased soon as there is reserved seating. There is a special promotion for those theatre patrons who wish to see both the Town Drama Club's production of "Dames at Sea" on Nov. 7, 8, 13-15 and the B.H.S. play. Phone Jean Sheridan at 623- 3588 for details. Editorial by Laura Silver Throughout the last year and continuing into this year, I have come to be known in journalistic circles as something something of a literary pessimist. pessimist. My pessimistic articles have included "The Quality of Learning" and "The Expense of Learning" ie; the textbook caper. Incidently, the following following Monday after "The Expense of Learning" I had ,my gr. 12 math book, There's nothing as influential as the press. The world draws conclusions conclusions from what is read in the papers. Lately people have been approaching me in the halls and asking if I could mention this or that, air their complaint, complaint, etc, Some students suggest I write an article on the amount of homework given in a certain subject, whilst some suggest printing quotations from selected teachers. Actually, if I really get stuck... I notice the effect my work produces from time to time. When I hand in an article, my editors gloat and rub their hands together. Their faces say, "I wonder what kind of trouble Laura can gel over this one (article)." I don't Intentionally create trouble (well maybe once or twice, I think It's extremely important for the public to know what is going on in the school environment. environment. Almost every week we have a special event, or at least an activity not common to your average week at school. Last we had a representative representative from Western University University in to talk to potential Western goers and this week we've had a representative from Trent University. If you are not thinking about university university right now, something you might want to think about is a cultural, three month exchange exchange program. The exchange is offered through the Ontario Ministry of Education and is open to all high school students, over the age of sixteen, with an accepted accepted average. Exchanges are offered to Quebec, France, Germany and Italy. Certain restrictions and/ or requirements requirements apply to each country or province. The benefits include include learning or improving a language other than your own, experiencing the culture of another area, and the exchange exchange presents an opportune ity to travel in what I feel is the best way possible. For more information on the various various three month exchanges, see Student Services. -h:M I hope I'm not creating any trouble... Sportsline by Geoff Vandermolen Hello, and welcome to another week of sportsline. Lots to report on, so let's get started. Starting off we have cross country competition. Our team travelled to LOSSA and DYSSA this past week where they were very successful. After LOSSA, three boys qualified for DYSSA by finishing finishing high in the standings. In the 5 km midget boys run, Richard McCheyne placed a respectable 16 in a field of 58 while in 8 km senior event Dan Moriarity and David Ryan placed 6th and 25th respectively. respectively. The same week at DYSSA Dan Moriarity finished 7th. Congratulations to all runners. In football action this past week our Redmen suffered another loss, this time at the hands of Eastdale Collegiate of Oshawa. Their record now stands at 2 wins, 4 losses and 1 tie. Keep on working, guys. Our girls' basketball teams, midget and junior, also saw action this week when they both played Courtice. In the midget game, there was really no contest as the final score, was 34-14 in our favour. Congratulations Congratulations to Tammy Wright who scored 14 points. In a hard-fought junior battle our team pulled out a narrow 42-41 win, led by Lisa McLeod who contributed 16 points. Senior volleyball action saw our team play Anderson and Central, both from Oshawa. Against Anderson our team won l of 2 games and against Central we won both games. Thank you once again and I hope to see you all again next week. Editorial by Laura Silver A Hypothetical Possibility What if I were to say that Bowmanville High School was going to have guests next week? I'll bet you'd like to know who the guests are. Suppose I said that the guests would be visitors from the Soviet Union. IIow would you react to that? Would you still be interested interested in listening to our visitors? In discussing their present culture? Or would you, say, immediately phone all your acquaintances acquaintances and prepare to stage a protest? As we've all heard, members of a certain community west of here decided decided to handle the situation situation by means of a protest. I say "handle the situation" only because some of the members of the community made a problem out of it. Really, there wasn't a situation situation to begin with -- people created the problem. So wlml if they were Russians? CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC NOTICE TO ITS CITIZENS Appointments to Boards and Committees Applications will be received by the undersigned In writing until Monday, December 8th, 1986, from any eligible person who would like to be considered for appointment or reappointment reappointment to any of the following local boards and committees, of the Town of Newcastle. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and meet the qualifications associated with the board or committee for which the application Is being submllted. All applications should state the office being applied for and must include full name, address, telephone number, qualifications or experience, and present occupation. BOARDS AND COMMITTEES Museum Boards (Clarke and Bowmanville) Newcastle Community Services Advisory Board Game Commission Livestock Valuers Ponce Viewers Pound Keepers Hospital Board (To bo appointed In Juno 1987) Properly Standards Committee All applications should bo forwarded to the Town Clerk. David W. Oakes, B.A., A.M.C.T., C.M.O., Town Clerk Town of Newcastle 40 Tempérance Slrool Bowmanville, Ontario I.1C3AG Dale of Publication: November !>, 1980. Pile: 35.60,8. Celebrated His First Birthday Five Generations Get Together Five generations of the same family gathered recently at the home of Mrs. Dawn Dennis, Tyrone, pictured here, right rear, with her son Keith Dennis and grandson Billy Dennis of Mississauga. At left is great great grandmother May Smith of Whitby and behind her is great grandmother Marjory Larkin of Scarborough. How would you react if the visitors were from the wonderful wonderful U.S. of A? I suppose I'm rather naive. I thought that now people are more accepting and forgiving than they were forty years ago. Of course I understand that, of the protestors last week, many were survivors or descendants descendants of people who experienced experienced the invasion of Czechoslovakia and/or WW II. Isn't it time that we learn from our past, let go, and then look towards the future future with hope for more communication and„ understanding? understanding? ^ I am ashamed that some Canadians treated our guests so rudely (by throwing throwing eggs). Eugeny Gudakofsky is going to have many comments about Canadians back .in Russia. Hopefully, he]; will recognize recognize that the-, students , at Humberside Collegiate were interested in hearing from his and his fellow delegates. delegates. And I can't help wondering still how a community community such as ours would react to the opportunity to listen to something new and interesting. From what we hear, the protestors were protesting because a) the speakers came from Russia and were Communists, and b) there was no group of Canadian "delegates" to oppose the Soviet delegates during the presentation. Due to my naive nature, I have thought about this event and concluded that I was wrong about people's abilities to accept other people. For me it is a real let-down. Did the protest solve anything? Was it an effective effective way to object? And am I living in dreamland when I say that I don't think the guests would get such a reaction from B.H.S. and Bowmanville? Vincent Massey News Students' Council News By Merrilee Brown On Saturday, many of you probably saw Rick Hansen, Canada's "Man in Motion", wheel through Bowmanville Bowmanville on his fund-raising venture across Canada and the world. B.H.S. got caught up in the spirit too, and decided decided to do their bit for spinal spinal cord research. On Friday, Friday, donations were collected collected in the home rooms and from the staff. On Friday Friday afternoon, Mr. Ilubbs, our new vice-principal, was "taken hostage" by a few "terrorists" and ransomed. The "terrorists" dragged Mr. Ilubbs, his neck in a noose, from class to class to collect the "ransom" which would be given to Rick Hansen Hansen on his wheel through Bowmanville. All in all, over $600 was raised. B.H.S. supports worthy causes but B.H.S. needs your support too. We've initiated initiated our annual fundraising fundraising drive to make money for the B.H.S. Students' Students' Council. B.H.S. administers administers money to the sports programs, yearbook and funds all student activities. activities. Students' Council is powerless without funds. So we're selling citrus fruit - oranges, clementines and grapefruit - in small (10 lb.), medium (20 II).) and large (40 lb.) sizes. Also, "Mug 'o Nuts", that is, porcelain mugs filled with a different variety of nuts, are available available at $5.60 or $10.95 per set of four, You will probably be approached by a B.H.S. student soon or phone your order in by phoning 623- 4416. Happy Hallowe'en - Mrs. Yellowlees is one busy person for the 1986 kindergarten Hallowe'en. Mrs. Yellowlees and her two .classes start off the day with the Vincent Massey parade. When they get back from the parade they have 5 activities. She divides her class into 5 groups. The groups will go from activity to activity. The ones they are doing this year are 1) bobbing for apples, 2) musical pumpkins, pumpkins, 3) feed the hungry ghost, 4) bowling over the ghost, and 5) bean bag toss into the jack-o-lantern. Their costumes are usually what ever they are interested in; Rainbow Brite, He Man, or sometimes they just'dress like witches,. ghosts, .pirates .and. angels. .■<: ... ■■î.jj by Craig Rickard Every year at Hallow'en Mrs, Avery has great Hallowe'en Hallowe'en activities for her class. The centres include reading, spelling, writing, art, DRAMA CLUB NEWS By Merrilee Brown The halls 1 are alive with the sound of music. Tickets are selling fast for B.H.S.'s production of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's famous musical "The Sound of Music", on Nov. 26 - 29. Tick ets are available at B.H.S. by phoning 623-4416. There is a special promotion promotion in conjunction with the Town Drama Club and their production of "Dames at Sea" on Nov. 7,8,13,14 and 15. When you buy tickets for both plays you get a one dollar dollar discount. Phone Jean Sheridan at 623-3588 for details. details. Last Tuesday, the Von Trapp children with Maria and the Captain went to Trinity United Church to perform at the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Fur Fashion Show. Their rendition of "Do Re Me" was certainly well-received judging from the number of tickets we've sold to Beta Sigma Phi members. So, mark down the Nov. 26 - 29 dates and get your tickets tickets now! and math. The students go to six centres each day which takes up three quarters of their school day. So far they have been doing centres for three days. Students are also busy writing poems for a class poetry book. They all share poems and activities with each other. They are very excited about the centres. As one child said, "These centres are awesome." by Hannah Whately Harrier News - On Tuesday, October 28, 1986, there was a harrier meet at Enniskillen. Vincent Massey, Enniskillen, Hampton, Lockhart, Lord Elgin, Central, Maple Grove and Kirby were eight of the Hi. My name is Wayde. I was one year old on November 2,1986. My Mommy and Daddy are Dale and Julie Knapp of Bowmanville. Grandparents are Allan and Ruth Wray of Bowmanville, and Clifford and Marjorie Knapp of Pontypool. schools that went to the meet. Five Vincent Massey boys were in the top 10. Their places were - Sean Brown, 1st, Leon Coates 4th, Craig Rickard 5th, Rob Alehin 7th, and Andrew Allaire 10th. In girls harrier Jessica Barrie came 3rd and was the only Vincent Massey girl in the top ten for girls. Congratulations Vincent Massey! by Rob Alehin Grades 4, 5 and 6 went to Cobourg on Monday, the 23rd of October to see the Inuit Festival. We went there by bus. It took us about 35 minutes minutes to get there. Some of the interesting things we saw were demonstrations of Kayak building and some art by an Inuit woman named Ruth. She drew her pictures with pencil crayons. In the afternoon we saw a performance performance by the Inuits. Two ladies did throat singing. They also showed us some of their cultural cultural music. In our classrooms we are doing projects on the Inuits • Which range from a radio broadcast by Craig Rickard Rickard and Shawn Barclay to mobiles, dolls, models and a poem by Sean Brown. The trip was educational and fun. by Sara Oke SPORTSLINE By Geoff Vandermolen Welcome back, everyone, for another week of sports news in and about B.H.S. Congratulations arc in order for all members of the junior football team as they won their first playoff game by a score of 26 - 20 over Henry Street of Whitby -- waytogoguysüICccpitup! Our girls' basketball teams also saw action this week, as our midget team hosted St. Stephen's and our juniors played the senior girls from Cartwright. Both teams were victorious as the midgets won by a score of 73 -12, and the juniors won 63-47. Congratulations and keep up the good work! In senior boys' volleyball, our team met up with a highly rated senior team from O'Neill, our team played superbly as they surprisingly surprisingly took three out of the four games played. If they continue to play with such excellence maybe they'll find themselves humping their way into a championship. Keep it up! Well, once again, thank you for reading and I hope you continue to read about, not only the sports, Inti all of the B.H.S. news. £ \ r MÊËB ÊB ÊÊ ÊÊ WÊ j -T-" - - - - ' " Buy any of the following new Stihl chain saws: Until November 29, 1986 Stihl 011 AVEQ, 024 Super, 028 Wood Boss, 028 Super, 034 AVEQ, 038 Magnum, 038 Farm Boss and 056 Magnum. 76", 18" and 21" bars only. 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