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8-Urmio XV wkh I inivs, XX vilncsday, October 25, 1989 Clarke High School News Report A b» ck g round on the Story of the Poppy October 23rd -27th, 1989 Over 110 students returned home to Clarke High School on Friday, October 20 for Commencement. Graduates, guests, award presenters and staff attended a reception in the Library prior to the ceremony. The Clarke Senior Concert Band played to the audience while they awaited the processional. The ceremony itself lasted almost two hours and was highlighted by more awards than ever before. The newest award presented to Richard Erhardt and Andee Vandoleweerd by the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Committee. This is given to the graduate who has achieved the highest average, but is not an Ontario Ontario Scholar. This award will be awarded for the next 25 years climaxing at the 50th year celebration. celebration. Dylan Parker, the Valedictorian presented a cryptic but humourous summation of the five years at Clarke High School tracing their maturation from "geeky" grade nines to mature, worldly wise graduates. He ended his speech by reminding his peers that their years of learning and friendships would live in their hearts forever and thanked all those who had made it possible. Co-op - Now and in the Future The Co-operative Education Department at Clarke High School is continuing its efforts to assist students to find co-op placements which will compliment their studies as well as their interests. The students may earn as many as six co-op credits during their high school careers which will go toward their diploma. One credit involves completing 110 hours of work at the job plus related in-school tasks.' The early weeks of school have been busy ones for co-op staff and students alike. Placements being used used are as diverse as the students themselves, and currently some.of these local training stations include Highway 115 Truck and Auto Repair, The Apple Blossom Shop, The Orono Times, Mangar's Auto Centre and Orono Public School, to mention just a few. The goal, of course, is to match the talents and interests of the'student with the appropriate appropriate business so that the needs of both can be successfully met. The co-op department is attempting attempting to keep abreast of industry's requirements requirements and to 1 inform Clarke students of these needs so they can, in turn, make intelligent career chçices. XVith that objective; in mind, Clarke will be involved in organizing a day for co-op students entitled, "Careers for the 90's," to be held at the Bowmanville Lions' Centre on November 7, 1989. The main thrust of this day will be to provide students with information about careers in the non-traditional areas. This seminar will be attended by all Clarke High School Semester I students as well as Bowmanville High School, Courtice Secondary School and Port Hope High School students and should prove beneficial to all. Peer Counsellor "Profile - Jason Major" If you've seen this character before its either been in the exciting halls of Clarke High School, in the monstrous metropolitan of Orono, or maybe you've seen him wandering wandering about in his part-time job at Armstrong's l.G.A. usually joking around with Heather Hutton. Jason is involved in the Peer Counselling Program at Clarke High School. He is 16 and enjoys water skiing, drawing cartoons and all kinds of sports. He lives with his brother Duane, and fabulous parents Joyce and Russ. Jason says he enjoys Peer Counselling and suggests that others give the program a try. It's a very interesting program and rather fun, too. COMING EVENTS Thursday, October 26, 1989 Parents' Night 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Friday, October 27, 1989 Halloween Dance 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Each November over fourteen million poppies bloom in Canada; Dotting the lapels of half of Canada's population, this symbol of remembrance makes its annual appearance as it has done every year since 1926. Although everybody knows what the poppy means, no one is certain of how it all began; how the poppy became so closely associated with remembrance of the war dead. The association was certainly not new when the poppy was adopted in Canada in 1921. At least a hundred and ten years before that time, a correspondent wrote of how thickly poppies grew over the graves of the dead. He was speaking of the Napoleonic XVar and its campaigns in Flanders. But a Canadian medical officer was chiefly responsible for this association, more so than any other single known factor. John McCrae was a tall, boyish 43-year-old member of the Canadian Canadian Medical Corps from Guelph, Ontario. An artillery veteran of the Boer War, he had the eye of a gunner, gunner, the hand of a surgeon and the soul of a poet when he went into the line at Ypres on April 22, 1915. That was the afternoon the enemy first used poison gas. ■.The first attack failed. So did the next and the next. For 17 days and nights the allies repulsed wave after wave of attackers. ■ During this period, McCrae wrote, "One can see the dead lying there on the front field. And in places where the enemy threw in an attack, they lie very thick on the slopes of the German trenches." Working from a dressing station on the bank of the Yser Canal, r Lt.-Col. McCrae dressed hundreds V: of wounded, never taking off his clothes for the entire 17 days. Sometimes the dead or wounded actually actually rolled down the bank from (Continued page 9) MERVYN B. 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John 983-5082 The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE 1989 Leaf Collection Project LEAVES HAVE BEE^N BANNED AT THE . BROCK WEST LANDFILL SITE Municipalities in t'he Durham Region can no longer dispose of leaves with regular garbage. Therefore, the Durham Region and area municipalities have developed an alternative plan to dispose of the leaves in a compositing site. Leaves must be placed in normal household garbage bags and tied with special tags. The tags will be distributed to all households in the Town of Newcastle the week of October 23,1989. Leaves will be picked up in separate trucks dispatched to collect leaves only. The leaf bags must be identified with the tags provided and they must also be placed at the curb away from your regular garbage. The leaves will be taken to a composting site in the Durham Region,'rather than a landfill site. - . > Special leaf collection days have been designatèd by each area municipality. The Town of Newcastle will collect Iqsaves in accordance with the following schedule: Leaves will be collected in the Town of Newcastle on MONDAYS. OCTOBER 30TH NOVEMBER 6TH NOVEMBER 13TH NOVEMBER 20TH NOVEMBER 27TH Leaves will not be collected prior to the designated days. * We appreciate your co-operation in this program. If you have any questions or you require additional tags, please contact Mrs. Beverly Welsh, Public Works Department, at 623-3379. • Walter A? Evans, P. Eng. Director of Public Works Dates ôf Publication: October 18, 25, 1989 November 1, 1989 P.O. 3909