| Haggerty, MacKenzie star for McGill lacrosse
Unlike high school, when they played lacrosse during the spring season, Teagan Haggerty of Salem and Whitney MacKenzie of Hamilton have gotten used to playing their college lacrosse in the fall, due to the fact that spring comes so late in Canada.
Nevertheless, Haggerty and MacKenzie are coming off of outstanding seasons for McGill University in Montreal this past season.
Haggerty, a junior captain and goaltender, was selected as a Second Team All-Star for the Ontario University Athletic League. A third-year math major, she helped the Martlets finish the year 7-6-3, qualify for the playoffs and made 19 saves in a tough 7-5 loss to Western Ontario University in the playoff quarterfinals.
MacKenzie, who transferred into McGill from William Smith College in New York, contributed to the Martlets' offense as an attack wing.
Maine bridge on list
The bridge was closed in October 2006, because of safety concerns that arose from cracks in the bridge's support beams. “We closed the bridge over a year ago because the condition was such that we didn't feel it was safe any longer," said Gerald Kusnierek, chairman of Maine Township. .
Gillette case expected to set precedent for pension trials - Headed to ...
Jamaica's Appeal Court's ruling that scores of former workers of Gillette Caribbean are entitled to a share of a $42 million surplus in the company's pension scheme is heading for the Privy Council for final resolution. Initially, the funds were earmarked for sharing between the firm and the two employees still on the payroll when the scheme was discontinued in 2001. Appeal judges on Monday gave conditional leave for lawyers representing Vivion Scully and Morven Richardson, who argue that they should be the only beneficiaries, apart from Gillette, to proceed to London with the case, whose outcome, lawyers say, could be influential on other pending pension cases here. Changing interpretation "There are a number of pension cases in the pipeline, turning on the interpretation of the rules governing the scheme," one senior lawyer explained on Monday after the appeal judges gave attorney Wentworth Charles the green light for the final appeal.
The times they are a changin
Before this summer of political change, few voters could name most of the opposition parties now vying for their votes, let alone name their chiefs. Come September 7, voters will not only need to know their names, but will have probably had to have looked into their electoral platforms to see whether they offer more than reviving the tradition of the tarboush or the building of an Arab Nuclear City. More importantly, theyll have to decide which candidates seem capable of turning their promises into realities. .
S.C. or else for Thompson
The issue that he hears about most on the campaign trail is illegal immigration. But voters also are concerned about a variety of other issues, such as the war in Iraq, radical Islam, health care, the nuclear threat posed by Iran and the political turmoil in Pakistan, he said. Wherever he goes, his message is the same - that he is the only candidate who has fought consistently for the issues that matter to conservatives, things such as national security, tax cuts, balanced budgets and gun owners' rights. "I've been fighting for these things for a long time," Thompson said. The other Republican candidates "have had to adapt their positions, bring them up to date, shall we say. Where they have been in times past, I have not." Judging from the size and enthusiasm of the crowds that show up at his events, Thompson is convinced that his message is getting through.
Deborah Carter
We even have a new full-time HSA support person in each high school. It's crazy. Watch the BoE wrestle with setting the academic calendar sometime, as they try to accommodate everyone while entire months are pre-empted by the state for their tests. I've said it before: I signed on to be a teacher, not a test prep technician. The more experience I have in the field of education, the less satisfied I am with traditional tests as a means to measure what students have learned. It isn't just because of my own personal observation, although every year shows me more about how differently each child learns; we also have increasingly more information about the way the human brain functions. Tests have their place. In Latin, I need to know how much vocabulary a student has memorized, and tests are an easy way to find out.
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