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Page 6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 30, 1998 Grand Opening Electronics Plus Radio Shack celebrated its grand re-opening in the Clarington Centre last week. Participating in the festivities arc Jeff Wheeler, Karen Knopf, Ward Two Councillor Jim Schell, Manager Judy Knopf and Jackie Hampsey. Time for a Change at BHS by Jennifer Somerscales Bowmanville High School teachers along with other teachers in the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board, have withdrawn withdrawn their voluntary services. services. They are protesting the school board's interpretation interpretation of the 1250 minutes per week of instruction required in Bill 160. The board has indicated that the 1250 minutes of teaching teaching time would mean one extra class per week. For years, our teachers have been involved in many extra-curricular activities that require protect the quality of programme programme delivery in the classroom and the ability to continue the voluntary activities which form a vital part of the education of our students." Celebration of Achievement The ceremony is a program program to recognize nongraduating nongraduating students who have excelled in academic On Thursday, September 17, Bowmanville High School held its annual undergraduate undergraduate awards ceremony. pursuits. Medallions were given to those who achieved the highest marks in each subject subject and other awards were given to those who achieved an average of 80% or above by the year's end. Mr. Hubbard, Bowmanville High School's principal, stated a memorable moment of the evening was the presentation presentation of awards to Davina Lansing, a grade 10 student student who was honoured with six awards, including English, French, Geography and an award for perfect attendance. The undergraduate ceremony ceremony was sponsored by the Optimist Club and Avery Dennison. much of their own time, Wood Sculptor Visits Club The first regular meeting meeting of the Newcastle Lions Club for the 98/99 year was held on September 23 in the Lions Room at the Newcastle Community Hall. The meeting was called to order at 7 p.m. by President Mike Swaga with 31 members present. After dinner the guest speaker was introduced by Lion Murray Paterson, Robert Holdforth, of Orono, gave a very interesting interesting talk on wood carving. carving. Mr. Holdforth considers considers himself a wood sculptor, sculptor, rather than a wood carver and, after seeing some of his work, many present had to agree with him. Most carvers do the work to please themselves, except when in competitions, competitions, when they have to please the judges, especially especially the judges at the World Championships held in Maryland, U.S.A. every April. Seven world class champions live in Canada, three living in Courtice to Cobourg area. Small grinders as well as carving knives and burning tools are used in the shaping of the birds. Mr. Holdforth worked with steel until 1981, when Newcastle Lions Community Durham. A Camp Chairperson Greenlees Centre of letter from Trillium, Darlene related she XJre started making rocking "horses with wood, later advancing to carving decorative decorative ducks which are a lot more in detail than decoys. Mr. Holdforth proved to be an interesting and worthy worthy speaker. Lion Brenton Rickard thanked the speaker and presented him with a gift. ■ Under correspondence a certificate of appreciation, appreciation, and a card of thanks was received from the Native Cultural and Maple Grove W.I. Topic - Lions Club work with guide dogs. The W.I. met in the C.E. Hall at 8 p.m. on September 14 with Pres. Mrs. J. Kelsey in charge of business. Mrs. S. Found, convenor convenor of citizenship, introduced introduced Jean Graham of Newcastle who works for adoption agency guide dogs. At present her dog is called "Foxy". The volunteer caregiver gets the puppies at 8 to 12 weeks old and has them for 12-14 months for training. training. Dogs are sent back to headquarters in Oakville for final training. The dogs arc assessed at 4, 8, and 12 months at Oakville. The dogs are used for hearing impaired, sight impaired and special needs. There arc 7-10 foster foster families in our area. Jean showed a video on several people who have dogs for several different reasons and how they have helped each person. Jean answered several questions questions and Mrs. Found presented presented her with a plant on behalf of the W.I. Mrs. A. Hall read a poem on the "Seeing Eye Dog" and commented on the motto "The word There were twelve tables of card players at Newtonville Hall on Friday, September 25. Winners of the euchre games were: 1st Ltl Boklerstone with 94 points; 2nd Ingrid Zulauf 91; 3rd Jean O'Neill 79; 4lit Aleck Moffat 79; 5th Frances Cathcart 77 and on would be happy to visit the club and share the dreams of the past season. Another letter form the Durham Regional Advisory Team for Diabetes Services, thanked the Lions for a generous donation. They would be pleased to provide information information at one of our meetings. meetings. Also Canadian Diabetes Association, thanked Canadian Lions in Canada for the ongoing work to eliminate diabetes and its serious complications. complications. Youth Chairman, Mike Carter reported that he had made the presentations at Clarke High School and received a certificate of appreciation for the many years of this club's participation. participation. Lion Peter De Jon g reported Lions International Peace Poster project will be financed by the three Lions Clubs, Courtice, Bowmanville and Newcastle, and Clarington Visual Arts Centre will be administering, administering, with each club being responsible for getting three schools entered. Lion Murray Paterson reported on the Lions Dog Walk-a-thon to be held on October 3. President Mike reported reported that the club had another another successful Bingo Tent at the Durham Central Fair and thanked all the Lions for their participation. Lion Brenton Rickard reported the renovations the Newcastle Community Hall are 75 percent complete and expects the work to be all done by October 10. He also handed out a list of the events that wi,U take place during the week of the Anniversary Festivities which will start on October 21. Among these festivities will be a special dance in the hall on Saturday, October 24, sponsored by the Lions with music and entertainment supplied by Eric Lambier. Period costume costume and special admittance admittance prices will be in place for this event. Please contact Lion George Rickard 987-4966 for further further information. Lion George Rickard also presented the club with a plaque featuring a picture of the white lion that the club sponsored during their trip to the Toronto Zoo last spring. The next regular Lions meeting will take place in the Lions Room on October 14. Guests are welcome, please call Seird DcJong 987-4976 for confirmation. confirmation. including sports, drama and music and dance, student student council, field trips, etc. Over the last few years, our teachers have been hit hard with education cutbacks. cutbacks. They have been asked to maintain the same degree of service, despite a staff reduction of almost 10 percent and their inschool inschool workload escalating escalating by almost 14 percent. Teachers in the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board have all been timetabled to teach one extra class this year. They claim that prep time for four classes out of four periods in one day requires their after school hours, depriving them of time to conduct extra-curricular extra-curricular activities. The only situation the board has created created with these decisions is less one on one time with students and larger classes. Because the teachers have withdrawn their voluntary voluntary services, students, though many support their reasons, are fed up with the lack of extra curricular activities. One student claimed, "The only people hurting are the students." Other students have complained, complained, "School used to be a place to go and have fun, not just a place to learn." Dave Nickle, President of District 14 of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation says: "Our long-term goal is to r FLYERS FLYER PRINTING AND DELIVERY PACKAGE! 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Our W.I. is invited to Solina W.I. on October 14 at 8 p.m. Mary Ann Found commented commented on the Spring Conference for W.I. held at Belleville. Brenda Metcalf commented commented on the display for Orono Fair entitled "Tea Time" for which we received 3rd prize. At the District booth at Orono Fair $300 was realized realized for the project "A Cow for Uganda". Area convention delegates delegates will be Mrs. R. Metcalf and Mrs. H. Prescott will have an article article for the craft table. We are planning a bake sale at the mall on November 13. Our October meeting will be on the 12th, with a "Pampered Chef' party. We are asked to bring toilet toilet articles for Bcthesda House. The meeting closed with the repeating of the collect. Win Brown Press Reporter Newtonville Card Results Gill Percy Clarke 77, Draw winners were Percy Clarke, Lil Boklerstone, Velma Clarke, Marlene Stacey, Doris Joli, Percy Jakeman and Alden Hubbard. 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