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Volume 1, Issue 12
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Students plant at Hillman Marsh Page 9
LDSS shows their support for Anti-Bullying Day
Armstrong making name as opera singer Page 10
Wednesday, April 14 was heralded as Pink Shirt Day throughout the Greater Essex County District School Board and more than 300 students from Leamington District Secondary School showed their support by donning pink. The pink shirts symbolically express their contempt for bullies. Pink Shirt Day is a grassroots movement that has spread throughout North America since students at a Nova Scotia high school wore pink to support a bullying victim who had been tomented merely because he wore a pink shirt to school. The incident happened only three years ago in 2007. At LDSS a group of 24 students make up the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Team. Team members wear their pink t-shirts at lunch in the hallways and monitor for any bullying activities which are reported to staff. The group works closely with the B-RAD (Bullying, Relationships and Drugs) program through the Leamington Police Service. (Sun Photo)
Cormorant cull to begin this week on Middle Island Parks Canada entering third year of five-year plan By Sheila McBrayne
Wheatley Harbour delisted as Area of Concern. Page 5
The number of cormorants on Middle Island has decreased, but the population still must be cut by 75 per cent to sustain and maintain the ecosystem of the island. At the peak of the double-crested cormorant infiltration in 2002 there were approximately 6,000 nests occupying Middle Island. That number has dropped off and in 2008 when Parks Canada entered into its five-year Middle Island Conservation Plan the number of cormorants was at about 3,880 nests. Parks Canada is now entering the third year of its plan, which has seen the numbers drop slightly, to about 3,800, but the goal is to cull the cormorants down to 600-1,100 nests. “The plan is to reduce the number of nesting cormorants, not to eliminate them,” said Marian Stranak, Superintendant
of Pelee National Park. To protect the Species at Risk on the island, such as the Lake Erie watersnake, monarch butterfly, Kentucky coffee tree, wild hyacinth, blue ash and red mulberry, the nest numbers must be reduced. Culling of adult nesting cormorants is expected to begin this week, depending on the weather. The double-breasted cormorant is a relatively large, migratory water(Continued on Page 2)