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8 – June 24, 2010 The Review-Mirror CDSBEWO passes balanced budget School Board of Eastern Ontario’s Board Trustees has approved an operating budget The Catholic District of of $157.5 million and a capi- tal budget of $17 million for the 2010-2011 school year. Trustees approved the budget at their June 15 meeting. "I extend my thanks to Amazing Race teams had to feed a team mate a full jar of baby food while blindfold- ed. It was a memorable stop for the racers. United Way photo Amazing Race raises close to $22,000 The 2010 Amazing Race was a huge success, raising almost $22,000.00 for the United Way of Leeds and Grenville June 12. A total of 36 teams of two, the most ever for the local race, wound its way from Gananoque through North Leeds and Athens, before ending up at the finish line in Brockville. Teams started by travel- ling throughout Gan- anoque to compete in a variety of challenges. including parring some holes at a mini put and bowling at Delaney Bowl. Teams then went on to Lansdowne were they had to make a bracelets at the Leeds & Thousand Islands Municipal Centre, and then find letters to make a word in a smoke filled room at the new Fire Department. Lyndhurst was next, where teams had a water challenge and an obstacle course at Kendrick's Park to complete before they could move onto the Delta Fairgrounds. There, teams had to dribble a soccer ball around the track while being tied to their partner (three legged), then went to the Delta Mill where they would have a number of questions to answer based on information found in the Mill itself. The next stop was at the Forfar Dairy where teams had to eat things they wouldn't normally eat, like a blue cheese milkshake, and very hot, very spicy red pepper jelly on a cracker. Moving on to Portland, one team member would be on land trying to find Fast Freddie's while the Perth Road man drowns A Perth Road man drowned in Buck Lake last week. Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police were called by a lake resident June 16 just before 9 a.m. after they heard a male in distress calling for help. They went out onto Buck Lake and brought the victim and his boat to shore and emergency ser- vices contacted. Gerald Patterson, 67 of Perth Road Village, was transported to Kingston General Hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced dead. other partner would be on a boat to Cow Island where they would have to find a strawberry hidden somewhere on the island. The two clues added together told the racers to head to Tackaberry’s near Athens. From there, teams went to Centre 76 where teams had to complete 10 tasks before they could move on. Brockville was the final stop, where challenges. included putting a puzzle of and the United States together The race finished around 4:20 pm at Kelsey's. 1st Place was Karen Thomas Stephanie Koekkoek, 2nd Place was Chris Hall and Fraser Hardy, and 3rd Place was Becki MacDon- ald & Christa Monds. the Executive Council and the Finance Department for your efforts. We have had an exceptional school year, and I would like to convey my gratitude to all the wonderful people involved for making it so successful,” Board Chair, Ronald Eamer said in a press release. The Board has received $16.5 million in capital funding for major addi- tions to two secondary schools in Kemptville and Russell. The cost of the projects is funded through theMin- istry of Education’s Ener- gy Efficiency Renovation and Retrofit of Existing Schools program and will eliminate 31 portables that are currently on site at the schools. The Board has also received $3.4 million in multi-year funding to improve energy efficiency within schools. The fund- ing will result in the instal- lation of small equipment designed to improve the Board's ability to monitor, control and reduce energy use in schools and strengthen multi-year energy management plans. The replacement, renewal and installation of energy efficient building compo- nents such as HVAC sys- tems, boilers and windows Special event Strawberry Theme Sunday Market June 27th 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Wendy’s Country Market. Multiple vendors on site ...Fresh strawberry topped waffles ...Strawberry theme food samples ...Music by Bear the Tinker Spend time with local farmers selling their produce. Take a drive in the country Hwy 15 to Morton to Briar Hill Road to 408 Furtune Line Road 613-928-2477 is also included. The Additional budget also includes provisions to implement full-day, every day junior and senior Kindergarten programs in September of 2010 at 20 CDSBEO schools. The 2010-2011 finan- cial estimates allow the Board to continue to remain compliant with the provincially mandated pri- mary class size plan and will also allow the Board to reduce class sizes in grades 4 to 8. funding allows for an increase of ten minutes in elementary teacher preparation time and a reduction in elemen- tary supervisory time to 80 minutes per week. There is also increased support for enhanced learning oppor- tunities for elementary teachers. At the Secondary level, funding is provided to sup- port a locally developed strategy to expand sec- ondary programming. Retirement Sale Chalet Studio 11 Drummond St., Newboro Thurs. to Sun. 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