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Page THE HERALD Wednesday May 1991 School News St Francis of Assisi students experience life It was great I learned a lot and how to think of things ferently It was fun and I learned how to be fit and how to use ideas more Jeff Martin discovers the challenges faced by wheelchair users as he is pushed through a doorway by Sandy Carreiro as part of an study done at Georgetown Marketplace by St Francis students THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Halton Hills I lis Box HALTON HILLS Georgetown 5G2 873 COURTESY NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING WARD 3 MOUNTAINVIEW ROAD RIVER Council lor the Town of Halton Hills will conduct a Public Meeting to examine and discuss a proposed amendment to the Georgetown Zoning By law Amend ment No 88 146 to permit 162 stacked townhouses in phase of a con dominium development project reffered to as The subdivision property is located between Mountainview Road and Maple Avenue and lies north of the Rail Line The property is described as Lot RP 182 and Part of Lot 18 Concession 10 Georgetown Further information is available in the Planning Department ALL INTERESTED CITIZENS ARE WELCOME Time Date Monday May 1991 Location Council Chambers Hills Civic CENTRE 1 Hills Drive Halton Hills Georgetown File no D07law 24CDM88008 I want to do it again next year I liked the older ktds a real lot When kids come home with comments like these you know they re teaming and liking it That s just what has been hap pening at St Francis of School During the course of a normal school year enrichment op are provided on a regular basis for select groups of gifted children and on a more irregular basis for others At St Francis however staff and Principal McCarthy believe that all children are gifted in some way and that enrichment should be a part of daily learning The special talents each child has don always show up in academic subjects But their tistic verbal technical and democratic gifts are just as lm for their individual development and for society s benefit It s important to give our students the chance to enrich those areas of their lives too In order to promote the idea of the daily enrichment of children s lives St Francis adopted an aggressive program for two weeks spanning Education Week Every child chose two areas of interest from a range presented by staff who planned extraor dinary activities speakers and outings Children spent five days in each multi age group being challenged and stretched It s a wonderful professional experience for our teachers In putting together and ting their programs for mixed groups of kids from Grade one Grade eight they are in fact in servicing themselves Its a lot of hard work but they re willing to do it again next year said McCarthy Milne is an educational assistant who works with a multi handicapped girl whom she feels benefitted from the St Francis experience I seen real involvement because she has seen the different levels of work Rather than seeing just one grade level and perhaps feel intimidated she was eager to participate Some of the electives the children chose from were The Handicapped Art and Artists History Fitness Health Care Portugese Culture Technology and Environmental Concerns Kelly Herbert a Tour Coordinator at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital and the Bennett Health Care Centre nts out some of the in of an ray machine to St Francis of school students from Grades 8 during a re cent tour of the hospital facilities The tour was part of the school special Education Week program Photosubmitted Pucks Pool Patio If we havent got it WELL GET IT A o eW IF YOU CANT COME SEE US CALL AND WELL COME SEE YOU FREE Free Delivery Service Saturday Mornings Kalian Hills Area lOCO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT RECYCLE Bring back your plastic palls and we will give you SO to 00 otl your next purchase OPEN Monday Wednesday Thursday and Friday 10 Saturday AFTER HOURS PLEASE PHONE AND LEAVE A MESSAGE