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December 5, 2019 Vol. 19, No. 48

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Family math night at LPS T

by Wilma Kenny

his sounds like…fun?? It was not only fun, but an up-roaring success, last Wednesday night (November 27) at Loughborough Public School in Sydenham, when the library filled with parents and children from kindergarten to grade 3 enthusiastically playing a variety of card and board games. It all began with the idea of primary teacher Sharon Isbell, to help teach math Joanne Ankers and her Granddaughter Allie playing a numbers game at Family Math Night and number skills through the use of games. When parents. Isbell briefly described some of the with homework, and may have picked up a she approached the Sydenham Lions Club basic skills: number recognition; counting few ideas for Christmas presents. for a donation of $100 and received three Several of the local Lions were also presmore efficiently; learning simple math shorttimes that amount, she was able to buy a lot cuts; sharpening memory; that could be ent: Lion Joanne Ankers, herself a retired of games, both modern and old familiar ones learned and strengthened by playing games teacher, said she was surprised and pleased like Yahtzee and Snakes and Ladders. when several people, both adults and chilinvolving numbers. At 6pm, the library was full of tables, each A few times during the evening, everyone dren, thanked her as a Lions representative, with a couple of games, and a few minutes changed tables, moving on to new games. for helping making this event possible. later the room filled with parents and chilIt was a happy, raucous, delightful eveParents learned how playing games could dren. The children already were familiar with be a way to have fun helping their children ning. the games and keen to teach them to their

Sydenham resident concerned after finding a bullet hole in his basement wall by Jeff Green yan Vowles lives on Morgan Drive, in a newer subdivision in Sydenham, not far from Sydenham High School, with his wife Maegan Leavitt and their young children. The family moved into their new home 5 years ago and say they love living in Sydenham. But they don’t love what happened a couple of weeks ago. Sometime between Saturday, November 16th and Thursday, November 30, someone shot at their house. “I went into my basement on Thursday and noticed a small hole in the wall. When I went to look at it, I saw that there was something on the floor next to the hole. I thought it was a bug but when I picked it up, I realised that it was a bullet. I went outside and saw that the bullet hit the house and made it through the siding and all the other house material all the way to the basement,” said Ryan Vowles. Vowles said that he had been in the basement on Saturday afternoon, and if the hole had been there at that time he would have seen it. Vowles added that the yard behind the house ends at some swampy and wooded land, which is likely where the bullet came from. “It is pretty alarming to realise that someone fired a rifle towards our house,” he said. “My wife is home a lot now, as she is on ma-

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ternity leave, and she spends a lot of time playing with the kids in the yard near where the shot must have come from. The kids’ bedrooms are upstairs from the bullet hole as well, so that makes us even more concerned.”

He said that he has contacted both the Frontenac detachment of the OPP and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry about what happened. Investigators from both have come out to his house and they have launched investigations.

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Fees for community use of schools prescribed by province, LDSB says by Jeff Green delegation from the North Frontenac Little Theatre came to Central Frontenac Council last month to complain about the new fees they, and other community groups, must pay to use Granite Ridge Education Centre (GREC). They received a sympathetic response from council. When contacted this week about the matter, the Limestone District School Board (LDSB) has once again pointed out that the fees are based on a cost recovery model that is prescribed by the Ministry of Education. Jane Douglas, Communications Officer with the LDSB, said that the fees charged on school day afternoons and evenings before 10pm, when custodian crews are working whether or not the school is being used by community, are based on the extra cleaning that is required. “There are still extra costs even if the custodian would be there anyway. Rooms need extra cleaning, and there are material costs.

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‘Tis the Season

Here at the News, we’re gearing up for the production of our annual Christmas issue. ATTENTION READERS: Please send us your stories, poems, memories, crafts, and favourite recipes of Christmas. ATTENTION CLERGY: Please let us know the dates and the times of your Christmas services and any special events at your churches. ATTENTION YOUNG ARTISTS: Our annual Christmas art contest is open to all elementary school-aged children. The winning entries will be published on the front pages of our December 21st issue. Entries must be original artwork, 8½”x11”, done in pencil crayons (no markers) on white paper, and must be clearly marked with the child’s name, age, grade, and school.Please mail submissions to: P.O. Box 229, Sharbot Lake, ON. K0H 2P0, or deliver to our office at 1095 Garrett Street in Sharbot Lake. Please send us your submissions,information and art contest entries by Thursday, December 12.

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