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Members of the Lambton OPP Canine Unit were looking for drugs while searching a farmer’s pasture on Oil Heritage Line just outside of Petrolia recently. OPP o cials got a p about drugs in the area May 10 and sent in the unit but came up without any evidence. Heather Wright Photo
Shakespeare out of Grade 11 English
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board did a pilot project and the response was great.
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“We really liked it. Principals talked about it with their council and parents and the parents were very supportive.”
However Sherman says the content won’t be from 300 years ago in England, it will be indigenous topics.
“It’s not just a good thing to do, it’s the right thing to do as a school board,” says Mark Sherman with the Lambton Kent District School Board.
Sherman says the parents were happy their children didn’t have to learn about Shakespeare again and could learn something with Canadian cultural signi cance.
Residential schools will be discussed in the course.
The superintendent of secondary schools is excited about giving indigenous writings a more prominent place in the Grade 11 English course.
The works of Shakespeare will continue to be taught in Grade 10.
Sherman says a lot of students see things in the media and want to know more and this
is a good way to generate meaningful discussion.
The course, which used to focus on Shakespeare, will study indigenous books.
Ten of 12 high schools in Lambton-Kent already teach the new curriculum. The nal two will begin teaching the course in September.
In the past year, Sherman says many other boards in the province have become interested in Lambton-Kent’s curriculum.
The idea is not new.
“We took it, developed it, spruced it up, provided training, received funding, bought fresh resources, and provided teacher training.”
The mandatory English course will still meet all of the original goals of the Shakespeare-based course including reading,
The board also offers a native- focused Grade 9 art course, a Grade 11 native studies course and a Grade 12 course on global perspectives of indigenous culture.
He says two schools in the
Warwick to get grant help from private company
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well. The municipalities direct the company to nd money for priority projects and the company gets a percentage of the grant if they land it. For example if the township would get a $100,000 grant, Fair Tax would get $25,000.
the municipality is looking at a number of projects in the next few months, including
a downtown revitalization project, so the timing is important.
Warwick Township hopes using a private company will help it nd provincial and federal grants to improve the municipality.
He adds the municipality would continue to work with Lambton County which assists municipalities to nd grant money also. And he says the municipality wouldn’t use the service for every application it makes for funding.
Council approved a contract with Fair Tax Funding and Taxation Experts Monday
to help the municipality nd more grants. The company has been in business in Canada 25 years and says it has found $1 billion in grants for its clients. It’s just starting out in Ontario and has recently approached Petrolia about signing up as
For larger grants the per- centage goes down, with the company getting about $212,000 for a $1.5 million grant.
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They also write the grant applications and le the paperwork after the grants have been completed.
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Mayor Todd Case liked the idea. “With grants, it is such a small pie... you need every advantage you can get.”
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