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Mock emergency planned at LDSS May 5 On Saturday May 5 there will be a realistic scheduled emergency exercise at Leamington District Secondary School involving the Essex County Ontario Provincial Police, Greater Essex County District School Board, Leamington Fire Department, EMS, and various other observers. The exercise is scheduled to commence at 8:30 a.m. and will conclude later in the morning at approximately 11:30 a.m. This is a realistic exercise, and neighbours and school communities have been notified. “It is an ‘active shooter’ scenario and will involve a full mock emergency at the school to, as best we can, test our emergency responses. This will be very visual, with 18 students and four staff participating. An OPP officer will be playing the bad guy - firing blank ammunition - for as realistic an effect as possible,” stated Scott Scantlebury, Communications Manager GECDSB, in a news release. Exercise Safe School II is the first major evaluation following a critical review of existing protocols and assumptions regarding response to a major schoolbased emergency undertaken by the Ontario Provincial Police, the Greater Essex County District School Board, Essex-Windsor EMS and the Leamington Fire Service.
Music teacher Nancy Armstrong describes the plight of the blue whale to a Grade 5/6 class at Ruthven Public School in front of a 75-foot-long model whale made of greenhouse plastic. (SUN Photo)
Whale of a time to celebrate Earth Day By Bryan Jessop
Students at Ruthven Public School had a whale of a time celebrating Earth Day. On Monday, April 23 and Tuesday, April 24, music teacher Nancy Armstrong brought her 75-foot long inflatable whale into the school’s gymnasium as part of a demonstration describing the physical features, behaviour and tribulations of the world’s biggest animals. The two-day presentation included class-by-class tours of the whale both inside and outside - for all grades. The whale is the fifth that Armstrong has built since 1995 and measures 10 feet in width, 20 feet in diametre and eight feet high. It was built with assistance from her son Brendan Armstrong and his friend Tiffany Kay. The creation is made of greenhouse plastic and was assembled using hot glue. Armstrong got the idea of designing a whale after seeing a similar Canadian Wildlife Federation display in 1994. After being granted permission from the CWF, Armstrong built an 86 foot-long version — the average length of a blue whale — taking 24 hours to assemble.
Her first whale was built to present during a Leamington United Church music camp. The newest whale is 11 feet shorter in order for it to fit into the church. It took only four hours to build. After other Ruthven Public School staff members heard of the whale, stored in Armstrong’s basement, they asked its owner if she would be interested in presenting it to the students. “I thought it was a great idea,” Armstrong said. “What a learning experience for the kids to get a feel what the world’s largest animal would look like in person.” Prior to an introduction to the whale in the gymnasium, students entered and exited Armstrong’s creation through its tale flukes. The whale inflates in five minutes using two typical household floor fans. Armstrong noted that 20 people could stand on the tongue of a blue whale, which has a brain the size of a Volkswagen. Since whaling began near the turn of the 20th century, 95 per cent of the planet’s blue whale population has been eliminated.
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