PAGE 32. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1985. WHITBY FREE PRESS Anderson, Henry Street, Denis O'Connor HIGH SCHOOL NEWS WEEK D'OC Assembly Recognizes Achievement of Honor Students Other awards were This actii By VERONICA FILO given for highest stan- the grad Denis O'Connor H.S. ding in individual course and Yet another student studies and bursaries with a assembly was held last were presented to Novembeî week in the auditorium deserving students. Practise gymnasium of Denis Congratulations ail! Christmas O'Connor. The occasion The Student Council begun. Ai this time was the Junior Executive introduced welcome Awards Presentations. ail the teachers ta the Tuesday During this event, last entire student body ai- the musi year's grade nine honor ter the Thanksgiving perience students (those who Mass. It %as a good tant. Its a achieved an average of thing that Josie Christmas 80 percent or more) Peschisolido, student The girl were presented with council president, was team finis school crests by John being light-hearted at a tourn Vesters, one of our Vice when she intraduced the nybrook F Principals. The student "golden oldies" on ta last Ss with the highest staff; she could have thirty tes average was Rachelle found a few "experien- over Onta VanDenBoom (92.5 per- ced" teachers waiting to in this ev cent). speak to her for in- had a teri Likewise, last year's sinuating something ning three grade 10 honor students about the reiined con- games ar were presented with naissance of teaching! other two. certificates by Joseph The end of October a great fir: Cooper, Superintendant saw the beginning of the the help of Education. Sonya grade 12 Genesis 2 coaches, Park had her grade's program wicb will run and Mr. W highest average (91.1 every Monday nigt for The jun percent) six consecutive weeks. cer team p Andedrson Penny Slaving for a LESLEE WILLS tasticl Hundreds of Anderson C.v.î. ideas surfaced and penny for your many were executed ghts, or should it be successfully. Some ai les, dimes and the ideas included ters? Anderson holding car washes, I. has just com- bake sales, and railles d another suc- for records, jelly beans ful "Penny Drive" and sweatshirts. Car- k which ran from nations were alsu suld 7 to Oct. 15. for a small fee. Alsa e students ofa ured during the V.I. pulled together week were balloon-a- aisemone tbrugb grams, and a "courier" aise money through srie aigwn rent events nrac- a a grade nine rai- ies, games and con-fe got te onor s for The United tbrowing a cream pie in to help needy tbe Vice Principal's ilies in the Durham face! Tbis only goes ta ion Area. prove tbat botb staff and ch homeroom class students at Anderson asked by the An- caaperatcd tabelp aut in on Student Council this goad cause. devise new, in- Altbougb it was already sting and exciting October, ane ai thc s to collect funds for seniar bomcroams. worthy cause. brougbt back a taste ai e rtsponsh was fan- summer by sclling vity is part of e 12 religion id will conclude retreat in r. e for the s choir has Il students are to join us on afternoons in c room. Ex- isn't impor- ll in aid of the spirit. s field hockey hed its season ament at Sun- 'ark in Toron- turday. Over ms from all rio competed ent. Our girls ific day, win- e out of five nd tying the The girls had st season with p of their Miss Flynn helan. ior boys soc- laced third in their regular season play after beating Port Perry High School 11-1. In the first of the final games, they went on to close in overtime 6-4 against Dunbarton High School. The senior boys soccer team also defeated Port Perry 9-1 and ended their season in second place. In their first finals matchup against Courtice High School, the guys also won by a score of 5-4. Keep up the great playing, guys. The last week has seen a lot of girls basketball action. The juniors are now un- defeated in six starts, recently defeating Pickering, McLaughlin, and Ajax. The new uniforms seem to be en- couraging the ladies and, with two more regular season games, they are hoping to main- tain their standings. Unfortunately, the midgets are not doing as well as their "big sisters" but they have won one out of three games against the same teams. The season is not over yet - so, they do have a few more chan- ces to catch up. Next week will bring news of our second school dance, our first school hockey team, and whatever other in- teresting news develops. New School and lab to be built by province By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff A new elementary school and four science lab renovations for Whitby were included in the capital forecast by the Durham Board of Education Monday night. The board approved a capital forecast which included the Paramount School, to be built behind Anderson Collegiate, south of Manning Rd., and science lab renovations for Anderson Collegiate. Chairman Ruth Lafarga said the board is asking the province for over $3 million in 1986 to build Paramount, which means the building should begin in 1987. The science labs which had to be deferred from this year will be funded locally for $600,000. The board will also ask for provincial fun- ding for a school in Port Perry and one in Pickering plus a General Purpose room at Beaverton, one at Kedron and 40 portable classrooms. After receiving per- mission from the Ministry of Education, the board, Monday night, approved a six- classroom relocatable addition to Lord Elgin in Ajax and fire safety renovations to Uxbridge Public School. Henry Street Iligh School will play host, Nov. 15, to special education teachers from the Durham Elementary Teacher's Association for Professional Develop- ment Day while An- derson Collegiate wili host secondary school teachers of business and social sciences. Baskin & Robbins' ice cream. This was, by far, the most successful event of the week, with practically everyone in the school turning up in line to purchase a scoop of the mouth-watering flavors for just 50 cents a cone. Some students really got into the spirit of the Penny Drive by allowing themselves to be "bought" as slaves. The slaves had to carry out certain orders put forth by their "masters" including cleaning garbage off cafeteria tables, cleaning lockers, and transporting books from class to class. Prizes were awarded to a junior and a senior homeroom that collec- ted the most funds. The junior winner was 10G, which washed cars Friday during lunch hour, and the senior winner was 13A, which sold ice cream. All in all, the Penny Drive of '85 appeared to be the most successful drive yet, raising over $2,000. Everyone at An- derson contributed generously, and should be commended on a fine effort. Wednesday, Oct. 16 the Anderson girls basketball team hosted rivals from Henry Street High School. Both the midget and junior girls teams lost, unfor- tunately but by very close scores. However, both games were ex- citing and jam packed, the outcome only decided in the final minutes. Lack of Special Ed Busing Draws Ire of Candidates By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff When special education classes were withdrawn from E.A. Fairman in September, so were their buses which French immer- sion students had shared, leaving those students to find their own transportation. At the all-candidates meeting, Oct. 22, in- cumbents Brown and Buchanan wanted to review the situation, and if it could be down economically they would support busing of French Immersion students to E.A. Fair- man. Tom Anderson said the lack of busing for French Immersion students discriminated against families with both husband and wife working. Michael Knell said French Immersion was a program, and if students were bused to other programs, why not French Immersion, too? Ruth Lafarga, Oshawa trustee and chairman of the board of education, responded that French Immersion was an optional program and parents had been told at the out- set they would be responsible for tran- sportation. Knell said if the board could budget $400,000 to send high school studen- ts to a French high school in Toronto (Etienne Brule) the board could spend money to provide busing at home. Seven of the eight candidates for the three trustee seats on the board of education at- tended the all- candidates meeting sponsored by Durham Home and School, Durham Elementary Teacher's Association, and the University Women's Club. They were Tom An- derson, Pat Bowman, incumbents Ian Brown and John Buchanan, Michael Knell, Jerry Moskaluk, and Ted Shiner. Larry Kinnear was absent due to laryngitis. Asked if he would support the inclusion of special education and gifted classes in a Fren- ch immersion program, Moskaluk said he didn't know if the program was large enough to warrant it. Craig to run for trustee Lyn Craig, a 26-year resident of Whitby and mother of three, has an- nounced her candidacy for the office of trustee in Ward three for the Durham Regional School Board. Craig, who is presen- tly pursuing university courses, has 11 years experience as a teacher in Durham. "I believe that children are our most valuable resour- ce," she said, "and that their education today is our hope for the future." "We must consider the needs of the children first and other factors later." Craig's priorities in- clude facilities upgrading, class size guidelines, curriculum and text books, parent involvement and much co-op programing at the secondary level. Such issues as total separate school funding, French Immersion and junior kindergarten Craig feels need more "discussion and under- standing". By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff Peel, York, and Durham boards of education have, together, in excess of 600 portables, according to one questioner at the all-candidates meeting, Oct. 22, who wanted to know if Durham would fund building without provincial funding. Ruth Lafarga, Oshawa trustee and chairman of the board, said because of the critical funding situation with accom- modation the board needed to look at alter- nate forms of funding, possibly by the use of debentures, but not by raising the mill rate because the province would get out of their responsibility. Incumbent, John Buchanan pointed out that even with the money the ministry must still give per- mission to build, and he saw no hope of getting Are you a high school student who's ever con- sidered studying abroad? Then the ASSE International "Out- bound" student Ex- change Program might be for you. Affiliated with the Swedish and Finnish ministries of education, ASSE International is a non-profit organization that tries to bring students and carefully screend sponsoring families together. Students 15 to 18 years of age are selected on the basis of good academic standing, ex- cellent character references and a genuine desire to ex- perience life with a volunteer European host family. "This is a unique op- portunity for qualified money while the ministry was con- sidering extending fun- ding to separate schools. Michael Knell suggested the board petition the ministry of education to allow it to charge a lot levy, which would be added to the cost of new homes, and would then be used toward new schools for the children from those homes. Ted Shiner threw the question back to the audience, "How badly do you want a school in your neighborhood?" He said besides trustees, parents have to work for it too, by writing, visiting, and "bugging" the local MP. Tom Anderson said if the means were there (through debentures) and the need were there, Queen's Park would ap- prove. He advocated a new school at Pringle Creek and Rossland Road. students to spend an academie year or six week summer holiday in Europe," says Don Alton, Durham region's ASSE representative. Alton adds that three students from Durham - - including Scott Hoer- man and Lisa Ward of Whitby - went abroad through the Outbound program this year. Both Whitby students have been in Germany since July. Most Western European countries are included in the program but Alton says that England is already filled up for next year's program. There are stili spaces available in Switzerland, however. Further information and application forms can be obtained by calling Alton at 728-4694. What about the portables? Drivers Good Cause By A thoui nick] quar C.V.] plete cessf week Oct. Th A.C. to n diffe tivit test Way fam Reg Ea was ders to tere idea. this Th Program sends Students abroad