| Lunchtime tradition ceases in Burl. City
BURLINGTON CITY � Some students at Burlington City High School are accustomed to leaving school grounds during lunch period to head home or to a fast food restaurant. But this year, the school district has decided to keep all students confined to the cafeteria. Business Administrator Craig Wilkie said the decision was made after the state Supreme Court ruled in June that schools could be held responsible for student safety after students leave school grounds. The case, Jerkins v. Anderson, involved a third-grader from Pleasantville, Atlantic County. In 2001, an elementary school dismissed its students early at 1:30 p.m. The third-grader, Joseph Jerkins, left school unattended and several hours later was hit by a car and paralyzed. The student and his parents filed a complaint against the Pleasantville Board of Education and the school principal.
Workshop on safe food practice today
Staff Reporter
THE Communicable Disease Control Section of National Health Authority�s Department of Preventive Health will host a safe food practice workshop today.
The exercise aims to develop a national food quality and safety system in Qatar at par with international standards.
The Ministry of Municipality and Agriculture Affairs, Qatar National Hotels Company (QNHC), and major hotels and food and beverages establishments outside QNHC are among the participants.
Qatar Airways and civil aviation catering, Qatar Petroleum, fast food chains, schools and labour camp caterers, and Qatar Foundation and its affiliated teaching and training centres are also among the attendees.
�This workshop is intended as a brainstorming session for executive and manager level decision makers to establish a focus group and an action plan to ensure implementation of the guidelines and recommendations,� an official said.
Explorers of fire science
The explorers have arrived in Fountain Hills. But they are not mapping territory. These explorers, young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21, are mapping their future as firefighters and EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians). They are the Fountain Hills Fire Fighter Explorers. Founded in the early 1900s through Boy Scouts of America, the program was originally intended for life experiences for male youths and has morphed into a program that now offers young men and women the opportunity to "try out" fields such as fire fighting, law enforcement and culinary careers. The Explorer program was started in Fountain Hills in 1996 when Fred Roof, then chief, and Scott LaGreca, then deputy chief, had a strong desire to start an Explorer post.
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