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Pap SECTION THE HERALD Drcembrr IS riders mostl good Elsie sa She was no angel herself Checking the oil jtut one check school bus driver Ellie Smith mail I before beginning her routes She alio check the but and light in good working condition If anything fort wrong on the road Mrs Smith can radio In for a mechanic and an extra boa Herald photo by ByANIPEDERlAN Herald Staff Writer Sometimes the noiae be hind the driver bad but Elate Smith thinks it depends on what kind of a day the a having If the a not feeling to start with the noise of boisterous school children merely aggravate her mood Mrs Smith is a school bus driver for George town a and this Is ninth year driving children to class Three times a day she rumbles out of long driveway in Nerval Hom ings she takes youngsters Williams Centenn ial and George Kennedy public schools At noon she takes and Kennedy a kindergarten pupils home And in he afternoon she takes St Francis of Aislsi Centennial and Kennedy students borne The routes take her about three hours a day With staggered hours for school day begi and dismissals Mrs Smith is able to deliver children and from several local schools Some of them are mouthy but they re most Mrs Smlthsaid I was no angel so I can t complain Kids are kids PULLOVER It only rarely she has to yell she said If child are misbehaving she pulls the bus over to the side of the road and stops We don t have enough seats at the front Kirs Smith laughed She puts to keep a better eye on them giving them occasional glances in her mirror If a student causes trouble principals lake over If things im prove the student taken off the bus route and baa to fend for getting to school and back Sometimes if you re buddybuddy with them and develop a relation ship they walk all over you Mrs Smith said Nevertheless at the end of each year despite scold ings and front row seats the children bring candy flowers and lilt presents for their bus driver The rules on the bus forbid smoking shouting walking around and throw things Mrs Smith said However students are allowed to talk to each other We bear a lot of stories about home we can t re peat Mrs Smith laugh ed The kids come up with a lot about what happens at borne SAME DRIVER Raised in near the Public School now called the community centra Mrs Smllh used to take the bus herself to get to high school In George town Now her two teen age children take the bus to the same high school riding with the same driv er who used to take their mom to school Once you get to the third generauoo then you quit my driver trainer said Mrs Smith laugh ed Once a kindergarten pu pil fell fast asleep on Bin Smith a bus While the rest of the rac ed off to class this little tyke cuddled as cosily as he could on the vinyl bus seat and slept away the afternoon When Mrs Smith came to get ready for afternoon run the little boy came crying and rubbing the sleep out of his eyes to the bus door Thank God he didn t wake up before Mrs Smith said I learned my lesson I check my load at the end of each route THREE YEARS Trained by Mrs Smith had only en an automatic Plymouth before taking over the controls of the school bus Her Class B licence has to be renewed every three years After you forget the length of the vehicle It easy she said No from driving your had an accident but says winter ice and fog make for difficult driving Ions You think you know the road but In the fog you learn that you really don I Mrs Smith said Last January a bad snowstorm stranded on the Ninth Line with a busload of children The board of education closed schools early In an effort to avoid toe storm but while the children were being driven home the storm broke With the help of a police Continued on page Be tellers CORRECTION In the flyer CHRISTMAS SPARKLERS SALE December 16 18 on Page 12 the descnption and price for the LLOYDS DELUXE and LLOYDS COM PACT STEREO SYSTEMS should be transposed We regret any Inconvenience this might have caused our customers SENIOR CITIZENS Tour 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