​Congratulations to all the members of the Cross Country Team. They practiced twice a week for 5 weeks, competed in 3 mini-meets at Clinton Park and came out to a rescheduled final meet at Trout Lake. At every practice and meet the students supported and cheered for each other and demonstrated qualities of respect and fair play. Thank you to all the family members who ran with the team at practices, helped with ribbons at Clinton Park and drove students to events. It was a pleasure to coach this team!
by Mrs. O'Neill and Mrs. Burke

My name is Alex Chesney and I am the Food & Garden Coordinator at the Hastings Community Center. I wanted to reach out to you and hopefully connect your school's students and families with our programming. We offer a variety of food, nutrition, and gardening workshops at the community center, and would love to have you join us!  

Tuesday October 24th from 10am until Noon we have a workshop featuring a discussion and hands-on cooking demonstration for Healthy Lunches for Kids. Here's the registration link.

We also have a variety of other workshops coming up this fall. Here are a few more links, just in case you are interested! 

• Saturday November 4th - Youth Vegetarianism
• Saturday November 21st - Shopping the Flyers
• Saturday December 9th - Food Gifts 
• Tuesday December 12 - Eating Mindfully over the Holidays

Most of these workshops are being facilitated by extremely knowledgeable, fun, and engaging Registered Dietitians, who will be available to answer any of your food and nutrition-related questions! The small class-size of these workshops makes for an excellent chance for discussion and learning.

You can also register for these workshops in person or via the phone.
Please don't hesitate to reach out should you have any questions or concerns!
Looking forward to hearing from you,

PAC is hosting a gear swap after school on Nov. 8/9 from 2 pm until 3 pm.  Bring your reasonable condition outgrown winter gear for take away and/or exchange starting Friday November 3rd- Drop items off in the cardboard boxes inside the back door.

If possible just bring them on the day.

​Typical items include: out grown mitts, jackets, ski pants, long underwear, skates, skis. You may also bring items like toboggans etc provided they are in reasonable working order.

​If large items are not collected we ask that you take them home for recycling, all other items will be donated. 

November 8 and 9 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Under the covered area of the AR Lord School playground.

We are also looking for volunteers.  Please sign up.

As discussed at the AR Lord PAC Meeting October 18 the PAC Executive has proposed modifications to the PAC Constitution and Bylaws.  The purpose of the amendment is to allow for greater flexibility during in-between meetings by allowing for expenditures up to $100 upon vote by email of the PAC Executive and attendants of the previous PAC meeting.

Additional ammendments to inform enforce the fiscal year and to state the financial purpose of the PAC to raise money to further the PACs goals.

The full ammended bylaws and constitution follows and will be voted upon on the next PAC General Meeting dated: November 15, 2017 at 6:30pm.  This serves as notice of the proposed ammendment.  

Original constitution and bylaws can be found here.

Changes:
Section 8
4.   All money spent above and beyond the predetermined amount of $100.00 will first be presented to and voted on by the executive and then approved by a majority at a general meeting.
5.   Any expenditure of $100.00 or less that must be made in between general meetings shall be presented to all the voting members in attendance at the previous general meeting by e-mail.  A majority vote will signify approval of the expense
9.   The financial year of the Council will be September 1 to August 31.
10. Power to Raise Money - The Council may raise and spend money to further its purposes.