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Students face suspension if immunization records not kept up to date
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WHITNEY NEILSON PARENTS ACROSS WATERLOO REGION are being warned by the public health department to get their children’s immunization records up to date or face seeing them suspended from school on Apr. 6. More than 10,000 students were sent suspension notices last week and in late 2015. Parents have three weeks to update their records with public health, get them immunized, or provide legal documentation which allows them to be exempted. Linda Black, manager of Vaccine Preventable Diseases for the region’s public health department, says for over a decade the region has enforced the Immunization of School Pupils Act. “Last year we did not go to full suspension and there were various reasons, one of which, the act was updated to align better with the publicly funded schedule, so three new vaccines were added. In addition to that we implemented a new information system, in which there were thousands of duplicates that had to be resolved across the province. We couldn’t rely on the accuracy of the data we had until we resolved the duplicates, therefore we couldn’t go
Elmira now faces the Stratford Cullitons with series opening Friday; Game 2 at WMC Sunday Klayton Hoelscher scores in the Sugar Kings’ 4-1 Game 5 win over the Guelph Hurricanes on Mar. 12, clinching the series and moving on to the semi-finals versus Stratford starting on Friday. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
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THE ELMIRA SUGAR KINGS are one step closer in defending the Cherrey Cup, after defeating the Guelph Hurricanes on Saturday, clinching the best-of-seven series in five games. The Kings move on to
play the Cullitons in the semi-finals starting Friday in Stratford. On Mar. 9 on home ice for Game 4, the Kings edged the Canes 2-1. Zac Cameron scored at 12:38 in the first, assisted by Kalob Witzell. Captain Rob Kohli added one of his own, helped by Witzell and Ty Biles.
“We played pretty sound I thought. I don’t think there were a lot of scoring chances, our d-zone was pretty good,” said head coach Ty Canal. “I thought we were able to get going pretty well that game and the second period we were on our heels
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