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Evan Macdonald new auto teacher This weeks featured tea Is Evan the auto mechanics teacher at Acton High School He Is originally from Toronto and now lives In Hlllsburgh Mr Macdonald worked for nine years with a M dealership in Toronto a year In Muskoka with G M and then went to O C in Tor Have you ever tried to draw your feet with the wrong hand That was one of the challenges the First Acton Guides had last week Altera few games and challenges a company in council was held Karen Steckley showed some pictures and mementos from Doe Lake and told the onto to study before teaching at Georgetown High School Mr Macdonald is very 1m pressed with the facilities at the new high school and feels they will be a great asset to students In Acton He Is Interested in hunting and fishing and spends much of his spare time at his cot tage in Muskoka Guides about the camp The meeting ended with some skits based on theGuide Laws and a very short This week Wed the girls will be choosing their patrols and temporary patrol leaders will be appointed Elections for permanent will be held later this month At high school The Acton Free Press Wednesday Oct B7 Four trips planned by new travel club Travel Is an experience which broadens your aware ness and helps you to become more tolerant of cultures which differ from your own These words help to ex press the feelings of Miss Spencer teacher adviior for the newly formed travel club at Acton High School Miss Spencer would like to form a club which can offer students the chance to travel at affordable prices club has members at the present time and is planning four trips this school The first trip is to Quebec for one weekend in February The trip will allow students to visit the annual Winter Carnival and to do some sightseeing in Quebec City Two trips will be available in March The trip to France on which two students went last year involves living with a French family attending school and sightseeing in Pons The other trip is to Greece for 11 days The tour Is organ by Canada Greece Educational and Cultural Tours Limited and will in elude a five day stay in Athens as well as other famous and beautiful Greek cities The fourth trip is a bl lingual exchange between Ontario and Quebec It in volves one month two weeks in Quebec and two In Ontario The student lives with a family and takes part in everyday activities as well as organized fun days This program Is designed so that students might develop a better understanding of the rench and English speaking people of Canada The club has started their fund raising campaign selling garbage bags and offering to do odd jobs for people in the community They also plan to sell baked goods at the monthly high school dances With a dedicated teacher adviser like Miss Spencer and interested students this club will be going places by Chrli Carole Lav ell Today Is the annual opening of middle school It a special night for the school because of the gen people Euch as Mr Bert Mr Julian Heed and Mayor Tom Hill Present ations will be made by Mr Pat McKeniie and Mrs Beer formerly Mrs Smith There will be remarks from Mr S Lavender and Mr Dawk Ins The master of cere monies will be Mr Tom Wat son The Acton Y s men will also be making a present An outstanding field hockey play was seen by Drys- dale Kelly White Michelle Noble Sue Kinal and Anita Although it was a tie game dom play There was a game against Stewarttown on Tuesday In Girls Inter House Euro pean handball the red team defeated the brown team and blue defeated green team Mrs Boycott has been working hard with the girls volleyball team She had a hard decision on Friday to pick girls for the team The girls arc Yvonne Kodak Nancy Allan Shirley Van Phillips Michelle Noble Sue Kinal Michelle Scott Teresa Dunn Jordan Manna Lon and Kelly White LOTO CANADA TICKET EVAN is the new auto mechanics teacher at the high school He lives in by Victoria Rodriguez It was a busy week at Bennett and here are our highlights We proud to say that M Z Bennett won prizes in the Acton Fall Fair The prizes were delivered last week The Pro Musica String Quartet from Hamilton Musicians Guild played for half an hour to grades one two three and the special primary class The mstru ments they played in the concert were violins viola and the cello The concert was entertaining The two grade four classes visited on Thursday They hiked the morning and had a film in the afternoon which led to meeting an owl named Oscar They had an enjoyable outing though at first they were it would rain but Mother Nature was on their side and it They also had oodles of Tun besides learning a great deal by playing games and going on a wagon ride Our principal attended the annual Principals Con at Lodge in Huntsville Mr Murphy is taking care of crosscountry running at lunchtime and after school They run one mile and a third They are training for the cross country com petitions at the region meet In house league the Canadians severely beat the Expos in soccer Better luck next time Expos The news just keeps piling Up at I Bennett so there will be a lot more new hap penings to read about next week by Our secretary is Mrs and Susan McDonald Lenizky On September St Sports teams have already Joseph school made history been formed and practices as the first Catholic school in after school Mrs Scott Acton There are students Robert Little school from kindergarten to grade supervises cross country and PAT won thud prize in the color category of the Free Press photo contest lot the ill fair A icllcction of the flash on the mirrored the child appeal to he surrounded b a halo Library offered for group On Wednesday Sctpember teams C and girls played a soccer game It was a good game and all players were good sports Team C won the game There will be a meeting on October 12 for the cross country runners On the grade one and two pupils went to see the Hamilton Philharmonic concert at School grade three class went to the same concert when it came to Acton Everyone enjoyed the bind Grade three has been going swimming at the Acton pool Soon grades our and five will be going All winners from the Acton all entries have their prize money from the office eight We have five teachers Mrs Maronese Mrs Mrs Graham Mr McGeragle Mr and Mr Briggs also our Exit plan for fires By Larry Brassard Safely You toss and turn in bed and suddenly if you re lucky you wake up You smell smoke Quick what do you do Your first thought get the kids out But what if you can t make it to their room because of the thick choking smoke Do you get yourself out and hope and pray that the kids gel or are you and your family prepared for just such a situation Advanced planning is the key to the prevention of just such a tragedy Chances are most people including you I know what to do if a fire were to strike your home Children however are all too often the victims of fires and for this reason the Halton Hills Fire Department Is offering operation EDITH at the town s two public libraries The name Edith is short for Exit Drills In The Home The program will be held in the Georgetown Library at 10 a on Oct and later that day at 1 30 m in the Acton Library The children will be shown the importance of the exit drills and be encouraged to draw their own escape plan The children will be asked to return the following Satur day Oct 15 with their completed plans and upon completion will be awarded Junior Firefighter Cards and a Fire Prevention Crest The Important thing here how ever is learning If our children know what to do then we can assure ourselves of their protection against fire and its inevitable tragedy Teachers stolen A woman wallet contain inJ cash plus credit cards was stolen from the staff room in School last week The woman a teacher had left the wallet in the room Docs jour community require iihIiomsui or fii meetings ind Hilton Hills til r m ili kins miinm service on col lettiirs ik f where sou illi Hills the if tell ire ihll fin eh I off rs outdoor ire i ihss east Hi be locked ibks or dtspl the Is iliti it son Km m with In room lible mil kitchen facilities ind room AH of our school supplies arc in by this time and dents are prepared for another year of school track and field teams Mr McGeragle supervises our volleyball team and alio the soccer league with Ihc help of Mr On October children will be participating In the firsl school mass at St Joseph Church Father will be conducting the mass at a m Between and students take the bus to school Robert Little school shares their library and gym with us as well as the yard during the school breaks We will be having a meeting shortly to see which students would like to volun leer as safety or blue patrol Hit idult lihnrv limited p fur a displ i iIkiiiI J se Hurt in Georgetown ird It library me idull il film projectors ml en mis in iv it IhDiI It to 1 lu in inn wht oilier in lie inc loiktd I hen is no for in the 111 Hi cm in rail in films el from our l Ml plus iddition il ml such 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