Pagw28, WhItby Fr0 ree s, Wednosday, June 16, 1994 Funds awarded for new sohool beside ACVI STUDENTS AND STAFF crowded into the gvm at Meaclowcrest Public Sohool in frooklin recently to say goodbye to retiring principal Ralph Rowe, shown wth wite Doreen. Photo by Mark Reemo, Whltby Fmo Press Thle province will contribute $2 .6 million toward the $4.2- million cost of a new public elementary school to be built beside Anderson CVI. The school, as y et unnained, will b. located where the por- tables are now situated at Anderson. It has not yet been announced when construction will begin. The portables will not b. needed once the new Sinclair Secondary School opens on Taun- ton Road in the faîL. The province's contribution in- cludes $350,000 for a child car. centre. Durham Centre MPP Drum- mond White announced the fund- ing last Friday, following Thurs- day's announcement that the Ontario government would pro- vide $620 million in capital fund- ing for school boards through obOntario. The Anderson public school was one of the board's priority projeets, and that approval as given for the top five on the priority liet for Durham as a whole. "Ifs5 been a long time since we got our firat five priorities," said Durham Board of Education chair Patty Bowman. «Across the system, this means 1,400 new pupil space, said the board's acting director Clarence Prins. 'This is the first time in a long tinie that the new saces will match the growth in t e system. rm glad t he NDP government recognized that in spite of the recession, the kida keep on com- ing.» The new classrocoms "can only be a real help to my members and the stufents they teach,» says Jeifer Cormier, president of the turham Ontario-Women's Teachers. As a resuit of the new school in Whitby, there will be bounday changes at Pringle Creek Public School. The changes will b. announced later. iLucie Rochette ST, CHARLES GARNIER Well, foks, this is it. Itfs the end of the. year and this is my last school news. It's time to move on. foThe end of school is always sad frmany people, because friends go away to college or university or move away. No matter what, though, people always manage te keep in touch and fiends are neyer forgotten. A few things have happened in the past couple of weeks. 1%e students of Ecole secondaire catholique Saint- Charles-Garnier have elected a new student council. Congratulations te, Lenny Corrigan, our prime minister; Vincent Dessureault, deputy prime miinister; Natalie Fournier, minister of finance; Julie Berry, minister of publicity; Rachel Hubert, minister of culture; Joel H.upp, minister of sports; and Daniel Grondin,, minister of recreational activities. 1'm sure this new student council will do as great a job as the last one. Since it is the end of the school year, many people are scraînbling te complete last minute assignments and study'for (gulp) finals. Yes, folks, once aai it is that time of year. The official schedules were handed out last wyek, and final exains start on !ïhursday, June 16. Good luck to everyone. The grads are also getting anxious, because two major. events are approaching: the prom, June 24 and graduation, Jupe 27. Everybody is looldng forward to those two days. Since this is my last school news, Id like to take this opportunity to thank the whole staff at Saint-Charles-Garnier. This year' OAC class is the. last le poneer" class in the. echool. We've been attending Saint-Charles-Garnier sfince it opened in 1987, and the. years we've spent have certainly been memorable. I'd also like to wish my fellow students a wonderful summer vacation, and best of luck in the years to corne. Thank you to aIl the people who took the time to, read this coluznn every week. It was a pleasure to write, and I appreiate the support. Well, I gotta fly (for the last time). Au revoir, mes amis. Take care. Shiner shines silver at Can. science event An Ormniston Public School student won a silver award at the. Canada-wide Science Fair held recently at the University of Guelph. Andrew Shiner, a Grade 8 By Nancy Coter, head ibrary resource SINCLAIR SECONDARY SCHOOL The end of June is a new beginning. Moving day is this Friday and in less than il weeks the staff of Sinclair Secondary wll be ready to welcome you for tours and a barbecue. Students are encouraged te start planning for their debut at Sinclair, sporting school colours of navy green, red and gold. School spirit spotters will b. on the look-out to reward them with Sinclair stuif. Sinclair staff, al 54 of us, will gather next week for a three-day institut. te continue preparations for the next school year, Sinclair's firet. With every first there is an unusual amount of excitement -- and this first will b. shared bv so many of us. As dificuit as it is for sturdents te leave behind the memoies and friendships at their present schools, the moments and opportunities awaiting them at Sinclair will soon I this void. Thi s week, we want te, introduce the Schoolhouse Playcare which will be up and running out of Sinclair Secondary for September. Schoolhouse Playcare Centre of Durham is a non-profit organization which operates a number of child care centres in Durham Board of Education echools. Newly constructed schools are mandated te include child car. facilities. The child care program operates five days a week between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. accommodating ages six weeks to five years. A variety of programs and activities are offered, geared te enhance children's development in gross and fine moter skills, congnitive idlîs, language and communication elîs and self-help sIlls. To know more about Schoolhouse Playcare centres and the programs offered cali 576-4600 ext. 339 or 343. Until next week, last time from the Lang Tower, sincere Sinclair thanks te tthe plant department for sharing facilities with us. Next week we're truly Sinclair Secondai-y. student who hid earned top honours at the Durham Region Science Fair, was second aznong 26 students in the intermediate engineering technology class at the Canadian event. Hie project was computer-con- trolled moving lights. Chad Houghton and Geof Houghton (flot related), OAO stu- dents at Anderson CMI, earned honourable mention in Guelph for 'International Pollution," their biology project. Stephen Dorepaal of Whitby, a Grade 8 student at Dr. S§J. Phillips Public School in Osh- awa, also earned honourable mention for his engineering pro- jectY'Which multigrade cil works Also competing at the Canada- wide event was Erin MacKenzie, a Grade 8 student at Dr. Robert Thornton Public School. Her biology project, 'Gerbil Genetie,' was the fourth selected from 250 at Durham's fair to go on to the Canadian finals. 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