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Weather forecast for Thursday, May 30, 2019
Today – Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 20. UV index 6 or high.
Tonight – Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers this evening. Clearing near midnight. Low 12.
New Chatham school named
The Board of Trustees have endorsed the name selected by the community for the new north Chatham elementary school, currently under construction on McNaughton Avenue, West in Chatham.
“We are pleased to endorse St. Angela Merici Catholic School as the name of the new school,” says John Van Heck, Chair of the Board. “It is fitting choice, which honours the Ursuline Sisters, who brought Catholic education to Chatham in 1860 and have done so much through the years to support it.”
The name was selected as the one most valued by the community through a 19
day Thoughtexchange online consultation, which resulted in 346 participants
suggesting 227 names and rating the suggestions of others 17,792 times.
The multiple suggestions of St. Angela Merici emerged as the clear choice.
Sister Angela was an Italian educator, who founded an organization which later became the Ursuline Order.
The Ursulines spread throughout Europe and North America and it was the Ursuline Sisters who eventually brought Catholic education to Chatham, with the arrival from France of Mother Xavier in 1860.
The selection was forwarded to the Office of the Bishop for his blessing. Bishop Fabbro responded in a letter to the Board, saying the name is an “ excellent choice, given the great history of the Ursuline Sisters in Catholic education in Chatham…”
The Board has also received an email from the Ursuline Sisters, which notes that they are “honoured and humbled” by the name selection.
The North Chatham Catholic Elementary School Transition Committee, which forwarded the results of the community consultation to the Board for endorsement, will now meet in the fall to begin discussions on a team mascot and school colours for St. Angela Merici Catholic School.
Pronunciation Guide: mer-EE-chee
Anderson Law Group Open House on Thursday in downtown Wallaceburg
The Anderson Law Group is inviting the public to an open house on Thursday May 30 at Anderson Law, which is the former location of the Carscallen, Reinhart, Mathany, Maslak, Anderson Law Office.
The open house will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 619 James Street downtown in Wallaceburg.
Drop by for refreshments, see their renovated offices and their commitment to downtown Wallaceburg.
You can also meet lawyers Lindsey Anderson, Jeff Wesley and the entire staff.
WDSS ‘colour run’ postponed until Monday
With rain in the forecast, Wallaceburg District Secondary School has postponed their ‘colour run’ scheduled for Thursday, May 30.
The event will be pushed to Monday, June 3 from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The school’s first ‘Get Your Colour On!’ colour run is for staff and students from Grades 7 to Grade 12.
The event will feature a 3km walk/run.
Following the event there will be be music, from a WDSS student band, in the court yard and a barbecue.
There will also be games on the back campus and basketball courts.
The route will start at the back campus of WDSS, proceed east on Brander Avenue, north on University Avenue, continuing north on Nelson Street, west into Crothers Park, exiting Crothers Park at Forhan Street, south on Forhan Street, east on Jeanne Street, south on Selkirk Street, concluding back at the WDSS back entrance.
Motorists are being reminded by Municipality of Chatham-Kent staff to expect minor delays where walk participants cross roadways along the walk route.
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