The gleaner, 15 février 2006, mercredi 15 février 2006

[" SPRY: WLI Pity Perhaps Douglas Sproule would only be 25-years-old if he had been born a day later.But instead, this February 28th he will gladly be celebrating his 100th birthday with family and friends.\u201cIm thankful I'm 100.I never thought I would make it because most people don\u2019t,\u201d he says.Sproule has already received congratulation letters from former Prime Minister Paul Martin and Governor General Michaelle Jean.\u201cI'm still walking around.I got a cane though.But I'm looking after the house and I can still cook porridge,\u201d he says with a soft, determined tone in his voice.Sproule\u2019s acuity is still good.Yet he wistfully admits his eyesight, hearing and legs are not as good as they once were in his younger days.However, once he has his European hoe in hand \u201cI can work in the garden all day and I'm all right.But when 1 walk over from the garden it\u2019s harder to get back into the house,\u201d he says, adding \u201cI just need new tires\u201d to replace faltering legs still stubbornly supporting this physi- NER TT 5 pages 1, Tu cally fit man who has no intention of slowing down if he can help it.Being in fine form today may be rooted in how he was raised and lived his life.Sproule was born in 1906.And one of his earliest memories is at the age of four rocking and feeding his younger brother in a cradle in the kitchen.Sproule is the third child in a family of seven.He had one sister and five brothers.In the springtime when he was in elementary school, he can remember getting up at 5 a.m.to work in the fields until his mother put a white sheet out the window to say it was time to come back for breakfast and get ready for school.Living on the second farm on the Lower Concession in Ormstown, he would walk half a mile with his brothers and sister to Tatehurst School, a one- room schoolhouse on Highway 201 across from the Upper Concession.In later years, he walked from the Lower Concession into the village of Ormstown to attend high school at Ormstown Academy.Sproule says he has \u201cnever been seriously sick.\u201d Yet he went through the flu epidemic in 1917, which put his whole family in bed for a week.\u201cThe doctor came in every day to give us pills and my brother hid his under the sheets and he was the first up,\u201d says Sproule, shaking his head.Therefore, he now truly believes \u201cif you think something is helping, I guess it does.\u201d Once out of school, Sproule worked on the home farm for a few years, then drove truck for four years doing deliveries and pick-ups in Montreal and locally for Upton\u2019s General Store during the Depression.He also drove a school bus.Sproule admits, without hesitation, in 1932 he was \u201cdriving a school bus and delivering groceries for a $1.00 a day\u201d when others were working for $0.50 or for just room and board.Sproule eventually married the woman of his dreams in 1940, which was the same year he bought a Lower Concession farm where he still resides with his son.He never remarried.Proudly hc says, \"I married Hilda Bryson, one of the top nurses in the coun- His wife unfortunately died of cancer 39 \u201cGL EANER What a great wag to save! 264-5364 Michel Hohuu Danh Nguyen PHARMACISTS locations te Dette! selve you Open 7 days wn Douglas Sproule will be 100-years-old at the end of February.(Susanne J.Brown photo) [ See Douglas pps] .Chateauguay Valley Regional (CVR), a 39-year old English high school located in Ormstown, is going beyond the \u201cvery strong visual arts program this school has \u201chad for decades\u201d by creating conditions where all students are actively encour- \"aged to learn more by being in a caring environment with enriched support programs and systems, says Principal Patricia Peter.For the second year in a row, students are getting a broad view of music, drama, dance, and the arts in order to be more informed so they can specialize.CVR students \u201care now given a taste of the four domains in Grades 7 and 8 and then they can choose their option courses in nine, ten and eleven,\u201d says performing arts teacher Lynne Harper, noting she has already seen an improvement in the students\u2019 overall desire to learn.\u201cThey are more focused because they knew what to expect,\u201d she says.\u201cThey have positive expectations.They were ready to work and learn and have fun.For all of us, we really want them to enjoy it so they will want to do more : and be more involved here and at home.\u201d The performing arts group has only come together recently, but \u201cit\u2019s already building on the traditions, becoming a part of the story of CVR,\u201d says Peter.Harper, who regularly teaches more A team approach of focusing (Susanne J.Brown photo) than 400 students, has a goal of even more by \u201cputting as many bodies in musical, dramatic, dance, positions as possible.\u201d So while CVR\u2019s artistic teachers are developing students\u2019 vision of what it is to be a musician, an actor, a member of the stage crew, a dancer, \u201cas a principal, I\u2019m looking at all the other skills and personal development opportunities being involved in these kind of learning experience offers,\u201d says Peter.But dealing with teenagers everyday programs and services tailored to the specific nceds of English high school students has been adopted at CVR.| Student by student: GVR continuing to build on its Successes can never be without an incidence and consequences.Therefore, CVR now has a \u201cMediation Station\u201d where students go to deal with behavioral issues that have happened in the halls, outside or in a classroom, say advisors Ainsley Sturton and Elaine Strang.\u201c They come to us and we process what has happened.We reflect on what has gone and try to find a solution.Then we with the teachers or anyone clse has been involved.We deal with ts or sometimes it\u2019s just an emotional issue that has led to a problem.We give the kids a voice,\u201d says Sturton.\u201cBut we also make them accountable for what was done.\u201d \u201cThe whole thing is geared to making the kids succeed; to be a net to move the students forward,\u201d she says.\u201cIt works really well,\u201d says Grade 7 teacher Lynn Harkness.\u201cA lot of kids just come to hang out ged, and say \u2018hi\u2019 at lunchtime,\u201d says Strang.\u201cIt\u2019s a very therapeutic environment.We have seats and sofas and have painted the walls pretty.It\u2019s very conducive to relaxing and decompressing when the kids come in and are stressed.\u201d Extracurricular activities ! 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