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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Feb 14 1979 9 Robert Little Speech is topic of winning entry A speech entitled The Trouble with Making Speeches was a prize winner for Brad the Robert Little pub lic speaking competition Friday morning Although Brad described shaking knees and a dry throat among the symp toms he experiences when asked to make a speech he delivered a speech full of confidence by Janet It was obvious that today was Valentines Day at Acton High as many students and teachers carried along with heir books long stemmed red roses People within the school who had purchased red roses last week from a student association member had the roses delivered to that special someone today Last the Acton High Rcdmcn played an outstanding game defeating Assumption High School John Vuk Hob and Martin Osso played a great game scoring many or he points The outstanding defense player was Dave Williamson On Saturday he travelled to Stay r and continued to play exceptionally well defeating basketball and humour The five finalists were chosen from grade dents Speaker one Melanie Bray gave an informa live speech dealing with kangaroos and their unusual lifestyles Laura Leslie spoke about Robert Little for principal Allen Laura recalled for teachers and students teams from and St ay nor and capturing the tourna mint championship Congratulations to the for once again bringing home the gold for Acton High Mrs Marion Mathews a member of the Cafeteria staff Acton High left lust Friday Mrs Mathews began working at the High School cafeteria when it opened in September It was great having Mrs Mathews with us and best of luck her in the future The Valentine dance for will be this day February 10 The music will be provided by a local disc jockey The cost is with a stud card Doors open at so come out and have a good time many of the kind and thoughtful ways of the principal She spoke about his life and his work in the school until his recent death Kathy Lawrence kept her fellow classmates laughing when she recounted the antics of her crazy cat Tricks Even though he kitten is a mere seven months said she had plenty of materials for her two to three minute speech Warren Blain delivered an interesting speech on airplanes giving special attention to the Concord Warren referred to the airplane as the best kind of transportation and said he gathered most of his information from books and personal knowledge He flew to England in a Concord during the past Bum Teachers Mr Ciglen Mrs and Mrs announced they had a very difficult lime choosing the win ner The students were marked on the delivery of heir speech content over all impression and he handling of questions posed by he judges Brad will represent Robert Little In the junior division of he North Helton public speaking contest Robert Little will be the this year Public speaking winner Tim Pollen will be representing Speyside public school he North Helton public speaking competition on February Tim gave a speech on his Hungarian dog en titled My Honorable mention went to Martha Armstrong who spake on food ad ditives Vice principal Hick Coe said it was a very close contest almost a tie The nine speakers who com peted in the competition were mode up of grade five and six students Judges for the compel were school board Belly teacher Anne Armstrong and secretary Irene Murphy Tim will go lo Robert Little for the North 4H club talks clothes by Heather Dublin South Club is deahnf with access The meeting was held at Cathy Brewes house south of Acton The meeting was opened with the Pledge and new books were handed Members discussed the financial situation Teresa explained lo new members how money Is earned Twenty five cents will be brought to the meetings every week lo go to the clubs Mrs read the introduction Teresa went through our Accessories Board fills vacancies Board Education confirmed twe appointments to Acton and area schools during Thursday meeting at Burlington Larry Georgetown was ap pointed acting element school principal at Robert and side schools Richard Coe was also appointed principal assistant at Speyside Both appointments ore for the balance of the school year Mr Ciglen replaces Hazen Allen who died earlier this year the Final Touch book and explained the assignment pages Members discussed the different possibilities of accessories they could make Senior girls 16 years of age or over are responsible for two and the junior members are only responsible for one Members also cussed the different colors that they prefer to wear The color choices was orange violet blue yellow red and green Most of girls picked blue The word accessory simply means an at tractive extra An example of this is a lie A well dressed girl picks her accessories with care regarding her style and color of dress Provincials competition Other contestants in the competition were Lisa Doug Richardson Nancy Rand Julie Nipper Heather Johnston Peter Kucchlcr and Tim Walker by Tim Pollen and Honny Yesterday a special assembly was held for the contestants in the public speaking contest The winner Tim Pollen will represent Speyside in another speaking contest later on The other contestants were Doug Richardson Nancy Hand Julie Nipper Peter Kuechler Heather Johnston Martha Armstrong Lisa and Tim Walker also did very well They were judged by Mrs Murphy Mrs Fisher and Mrs Armstrong on ex press ion originality overall Impression and questions and discussion On Monday we had a professional develop ment day and Ihe teach worked at various Workshops in Acton and Milton We asked some of teachers what work shops they had taken Mr Coe told us that he and Mrs Eaton took Disco dancing for the core program in the morning and in the after noon films and Language Arts investigated CENTRE invest a hil and run ace involving a car which left he scene and a portable classroom at Rock wood Cenlennial School The accident which look place Ihe weekend of February 34 was rep orted the following Monday Damage to the class room Is estimated to be 0RANGEVILLE RACEWAY HARNESS RACING Post Time Thursday Evening Sunday Afternoon Trla Exactor Wafpring Air Conditioned Carpet and Speoakts Instattors On Sinrt RICHMOND CORONET VENTURE OZITE CALLAWAY ARMSTRONG and GAF Lakeview Centre Leishman park by Shirley Van 111 and Shelley Wong The seed campaign which our school was involved in ended last week The results were not as successful as we had hoped but fort unatcly we were able to sell over A good pat on the back for those who did go out and sell some seeds for our school The class sold the largest amount was They received a pizza party for their forts Coming in second was with close be hind them tor third place Last Thursday the girls basketball team played EC DrurymMU ton The McKenzleSmith girls defeated E Drury by a score of 12 The girls played a good first half and maintained their lead throughout the second half On that same day the boys team Centennial to a basketball game though they were de feated they played a fine game Mr Mashlnter has chosen both for the operetta Pond They will be rehearsing for the next several weeks The badminton club is running smoothly The playoff games have al ready started Today there is a Valentine dance at our school It will be held after school until Continued from Page purposes and are surplus to the needs of the neigh borhood with respect to open space standards in both the current Acton Official Plan and the emerging consolidated official plan policies under review by the plan board Councillor Mike Arm strong said he agreed with Mr Payne that to go through another hearing would be a waste of time and money He suggested sending the entire matter back lo the recreation department We either have to repeal it or send it back to the OMB he said Councillor George said he found it regrettable there was a name attached to the park He explained that many people may be hesitant to change it when it was named after J Leishman and sen timent stood in the way 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