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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 12,2001 PAGE 5 Youth dance this Friday NEWCASTLE - Youths aged 10 to 14 can dance the night away in Newcastle this Friday at a dance to be held in the Newcastle Community Hall. The dance, sponsored by the Newcastle and District Chamber of Commerce, will run from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is $5 and drinks and snacks will be available for 75 cents. For more information call Connie at 905-983-5139. ANDREW IWANOWSKI/ Statesman pliolo t, • -j- 0' V Swimming lineup will be history COURTICE - Residents lined up around the Courtice Community Complex parking lot recently to ensure a spot for swimming lesson registration this fall. Some showed up as early as 5 a.itt. with sleeping bags to hold their place for the popular programs. But scenes like this will soon be a thing of the past. The municipality is changing to a phone- in registration system for the winter 2002 season. School boards field busing questions from parents Public board l will take another look at : transportation : policy [v BY JENNIFER STONE [*; / AND LANCE ANDERSON gV Stuff Writers Phone lines at area school t j board offices were constantly up last week with calls $ from parents, wondering why [js their child had to walk so far r to a bus stop, or why some ^weren't picked up at all. |5; : ' Joel Sloggett, transporta- lition manager with the Peter- £ borough Victoria Northumberland Northumberland and Clarington ^•Catholic District School ^iBoard, says he and the other > two employees in his office have been fielding an average •"of 1Ô0 phone queries a day £ since the beginning of the r school year. i Though the Catholic f board's transportation^policy hasn't changed since 1995, •- Mr. Sloggett says some par- « ents are confused by the fact : walking distance is dependent Ï on grade level. Junior kinder- C garten to Grade 3 students must walk to class if they live within one kilometre of their school. Students in Grades 4 through 8 arc required to walk if they live within 1.6 kilometres kilometres of school. "We've had a couple of calls from elementary school parents who thought their kids were on a bus... because of a misunderstanding with distance," distance," says Mr. Sloggett. Other parents have called, complaining about the distance distance their child is required to walk either to school or to the bus stop. But, says Mr. Sloggett, "we can't stop in front of every driveway... If there's a legitimate safety issue, we're going to take that into account." The only change to the Catholic board's policy is at the secondary level, where students are now required to walk 3.2 kilometres, up from 2.4 kilometres. But that change hasn't garnered a great deal of attention, since most school communities were well aware of it prior,to school - starting, Mr. Sloggett Mÿs. ' l vV ' - ... Phone queries on transportation transportation issues were also flooding into both the local public school board office and to area trustees. In the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board's case, there is a change, in that the board is strictly adhering to its transportation transportation policy, something it had been somewhat lax in doing in years past. And that means some students arc walking farther to bus slops, or not being allowed to be picked up or dropped off at a babysitter's home, if it is not on the same bus route as the child's home address. "My first call came Tuesday Tuesday morning at 7 a.m.," says Clarington trustee Bob Will- sher, KPR chairman. "Certainly "Certainly the transportation department department had been inundated by calls. It's been busy." Under the board's policy, students in junior and senior kindergarten are required to walk up to one kilometre, while those in Grades 1 through 8 walk up to 1.6 kilometres. kilometres. 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Sat. 9:30am - 5:00om . \ 'A f" Clarington This Week ' Efje Catmbtatt Statesman All your Clarington news Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays I Board looks at school boundaries *'• COURTICE - Courtice parents ►'will have a better idea of where their (.'children will attend classes next year J'by the end of September. J The Kawartha Pine Ridge .District •, School Board is expected to vote September 27 on boundaries for a I;; new public elementary school, set to {-■ open next fall near Prestonvale Road, |)isin; the community's west end. [J- The recommended boundaries, £ which still have to be vetted through Aboard administration, were devel- "tpped by a committee of parents, school council representatives, principals principals and area trustees, and a public meeting on the matter was held in May. "Most people said they could, live with the changes," • says Clarington trustee Nancy Coffin, of the recommended recommended catchment area for the yet- unnamed 653-student, dual-track French immersion and English school. The recommended boundaries cover the area roughly bound by Farewell Creek to the north, Townline Townline Road South to the west, Prestonvale Prestonvale Road to the east, and Hwy. 401 to the south. The committee also recommends recommends moving the French immersion immersion program in Courtice, currently located at Lydia Trull and Courtice South Elementary School, to the new school. VIimBON The Pickering Markets METRO EAST TRADE CENTRE ...Never a dull moment! Visit Canada's Largest Indoor Flea & Antique Market! (flranb Opening Lots of Fun Events 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Join us for a (loonie) iP'J T'YrVi - /Y LÏ > i .IJjCLJ r ~T T7 r /.CT Donations go to 10a,m,-6 p.m' Because fine wine begins with the best grape juices Make Real Wine With Real Juice! 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