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R-O student Tyler Harbers elected UCDSB trustee
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RE/MAX CORNWALL REALTY INC. Collard, who is heading off to the University of Calgary to study international relations in the fall, said her experience as student trustee has helped her see her true capabilities. ing the group next year. “I’m excited to work with the school board too,”said Harbers, who attended a recent board meeting to meet the board members and senior team. “It was an eye-opener,” he said. “But it was less intimidating than I thought it would be. It was interesting to see how everything works.” Harbers praised Collard for her work as the student trustee this school year. “I think she has done a great job,” he said. “I hope to continue with the great work that she’s doing.” “I want to share students’ opinions and ideas with the board. I want to help get the student voice heard.”
Rothwell-Osnabruck School student Tyler Harbers has been elected as the 2013-14 student trustee for the Upper Canada Dis- trict School Board. The Grade 11 student, who begins his term in August, says he became interested in the role after speaking to the current student trustee, Sydney Collard, who attends Glen- garry District High School. “I spoke to her at a Link Crew event, and it got me interested,” said the Ingleside high- school student. Harbers is a member of the UCDSB’s Stu- dent Senate, a leadership group for elected senior students throughout the board. He said he loves being a part of the Senate, and looks forward to coming back and lead-
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Re-enactment drives home dangers of impaired driving Emergency responders prepare to transport a mock accident victim after strapping her to a back board during a simulated two-car collision caused by an impaired driver during Safe Grad 2013 Thursday morning at the Cornwall Civic Complex.
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before explaining why the emotional im- pact of the event is so important. “That is the impact we’re trying to make here. It’s for the kids. It’s for their future,” he stressed. He also showed a ray of optimism in the wake of the doom and gloom scenario act- ed out with raw emotion by student actors, either dying or seriously injured, demon- strated just moments earlier. “I think the trend is changing,” he said. But there is a new trend that worries him that could be just as deadly as impaired driving -- that is dis- tracted driving. In the era of constant connectivity, more and more young drivers are hitting the road with their cell phones and all their incumbent dis- tractions in hand. What worries Cassidy is that while drink- ing and driving is primarily nocturnal ac- tivity, distracted drivers are on the road all day long reading and sending text mes- sages and checking their social network apps from the moment they leave their driveway until they get home. Cassidy said great strides have been made to reduce deaths and injuries due to impaired driving, but a Safe Grad event in 10 years time could very well be focusing on distracted driving instead. “It needs to become a social ‘no-no’,” he emphasized.
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of the re-enactment that ended with a gut-wrenching poem Death of an Innocent written from the perspective of a teen lying on the pavement taking her last breaths af- ter being stuck by an impaired driver. An emotional Cassidy told the hundreds of students attending the Safe Grad 2013 event at the Cornwall Civic Complex Thurs- day morning that he still thinks of his adult daughters when he hears the poem, de- spite the fact he has been co-ordinating the sobering event for almost a decade. Speaking to The Journal after the heart- wrenching culmination of the demonstra- tion, Cassidy, tears still welled up in his eyes, needed a minute to regain his composure
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