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ALII Il l 11 IIM I l , I M I l il 1 IL II I l il Ii OronoWeekly Times, Wednesday, October 14, 1998 7 gd~j Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and cgciwtaClarington Catholic District School Board Board plan'regarding Iost makemup-time SCHOOL COUNCIL Kirby Centennial bas an active School Council. The meetings are open to every- one in the community. Some people participate when they can, whsle others are able to attend regularly. Everyone is welcome. Our next meeteing wi]l be held on Monday, October l9th at 7:00 p.m. in our library. During this meeting our electio ns for the 1998/99 year will be held. the number of examination days from five to three for semester one only. (Note: formal scheduled examinations would apply mainly to OAC credit courses) These recommendations will be submitted to the Ministry of Education as the Board plan. Further updates will be provided as new infor- mation is available. Thank You. Nancy Sharpe Manager of Communications and Freedom of Information/ Protection of Privacy The School Council is an advisoroy body which pro- vides input to the school on many school related Issues. Any parent/guardian with a child attending the school may be nominated to the commnittee either at this meet- ing or by requesting a nomi- nation form from the school office. (Note only those nomii- nees who accept either on the form, by phone, or in person may stand for counicil). ,V vte4wa(5 Kirby Public School News B Arthur Black GETTING TO THE SEAT 0F THE PROBLEM The poor babies. The boomers, I mean. You 've heard about the latest affliction to strike our energetic, upward- ly-mobile Yupoid brethren? The ones who buy the $2,000 magnesium-alioy, 27-speed ail- terrain bicycles? After which they don their spandex racing shorts, their gortex windbreak- ers, their super-polymer hel- mets and their fingeriess, gen- uine deerskin riding gioves, their space-age, tinted racing sunglasses -- they pop their customized-Reebok bicycle shoes into their imported Italian toe clips, start pumping like donkeymen up the side of the nearest mountain -- and what do they get for their trou- ble? Numb Crotch. It's officiai. Doctors are reporting a huge increase in cycling patients complaining that they are suffering from ' pins and, needies' where no one would want to feel 'pins and needies. Worse, some maie cyclists are compiaining of iowered s ex drives - even impotence. It doesn't take a neurosur- geon to figure out the problem. Hundreds of tholisands of bicy- cle riders are perching their sensitive bits on a tiny strip of leather (laughablyý called 'the saddle') and ieaving them there, to absorb ail their upper body weight as they bumpover rough terrain, sometimes for hours at a time. A visitor from another solar system woid take one look at the average bike rider and say: "that's a stupid arrangement you've got there -- putting al that weight on your bum". The visitor wouid be right. From a heaith perspective, the 1Back-to-Work legisiation requires that the Board devel- op a plan to show, how lost instructional days during the recent labour dispute could be made-up. At a special Board meeting held on Wednesday, October 7, 1998, the Trusteesý dis- cussed the results of the stu- dent and parent question- naire regarding lost make-up time. The Trustees approved the following 'recommended actions for submission to the Ministryof Education and Training: a) Rescheduling the semesters to balance the year and recover some of the lost time.- Semester One: September 8, 1998 -Februaryl11, 1999 - 88 instructional days - 111. 5 hours per credit course Semester Two: February 12, 1999 -June 30, 1999 - 91 instructional days - 115.3 hours per credit course (Note: minimum Ministry requirement = 110 hours -per credit) b) Revising student assess- ment practices and reducing cyclist will ride five kilometers faster once lie trades in his old bike for a recumbent. In fact, the world actually had recum- bent bicycles a haîf century ago. It was their excessive speed that got them in trouble. They consistently whipped the spokes off conventional racing bikes.* Accordingly, they were banned from the racing circuit back in the 1930's. It makes sense that they'd be speedy when you think about it, because there's virtu- ally no wind resistance. Riding downhull -on a normal bike, you feel the wind buffeting your face, your torso -- even your legs. 1 On a recumbent you're .. .beneath ail that. So how corne we don't see more recumbents out on the streets? Weil, they're pricey. They start at about 1500 bucks Canadian. Plus they stili look kind of goofy. Theway baggy pants didi five years ago. But goofy or not, recum- benàts are an idea whose time has'come. Afier ail, those baby boomers aren't just spending mon ey -- they'.re also aging. Their anklesand wrists and lower sacroiliacs aren't what they used to be. Pedaling a recumbent could add years to their cycling life. Plus they'd get lots more wear out of those spandex shorts, gortex windbreakers and fingerless deerskin gloves. average bîcycle-riding position makes v ery litile sense. And it doesn't have to be that way., There is a three-syi- labie solution to the Numb Bum problem: it's pronounced re-cum -bent. Recumbent bicycles. They're longer than conven- tionai bikes, and iower. The rider doesn't so much sit on them as in them, with his feet out in front and his hands on handlebars that corne out at the lips -- sometimes even from underneath the seat. Sure, they look funny. But so do ordinary bicycles -7 we're just used to the latter. And pedaiing a recumbent is a whole different experience -7 it's actually pleasant. One rider calîs the recumbent "a deck chair you can pedai". The faci that the pedals- are out in front of you gives your knees a break. And the lower handiebars miean no more nerve-dlead wrists or tingliig fingers, because the arms realiy bear no weighitat ahl. Ah, but it's in the saddle area that the recumnbent bike reaiiy leaves conventional two- wheeiers behind. No more bony strip of leather to piague your nether regions. The recumbent bike has a ful-sling- seat free of knobs and protru- sions. It really is like sittîng ini a poolside canivas deck chair. Slow, thougli -- riglit? 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