Intro from School Council Co-chair
Greetings! My name is John Richmond - Kevin Robinson and I are the new co-chairs of the Fern School Council. We were elected (well, no one else ran!) at the November Council meeting.
I have two daughters at Fern - Maya in SK (Mrs. Nitsis) and Michaela in grade 6 (Ms. Basu).
My partner - Paula Larrondo (Ward 7 alternate rep) - and I live at 128 Pearson. We are both social workers at St. Joe's and have lived in the neighbourhood since September 2006. Prior to that we lived in Etobicoke. We have been active in the public education system for more than 5 years. We were founding members of Etobicoke Parents for Public Education and we are members of the Toronto Parent Network.
Kevin and I took over the council from Lisa Dooher - who did a wonderful job and has been very helpful in the transition (thanks Lisa!).
One of the main issues in the transition has been communication. Lisa, myself, Kevin and Amy have all been working on this. Amy Stein (our Treasurer) and parent Roy Schulze have (with considerable effort) put this communication system in place for us.
I am very happy we finally have something up and running and I encourage everyone to make use of this system to share information. I plan to post regular updates - so stay tuned!
Please feel free to contact me directly. My telephone is 416-532-9870. My email is smarty_panz@yahoo.com. I'm often around the school as well - at least two or three days/week at pick-up time.
Cheers,
John Richmond
I have two daughters at Fern - Maya in SK (Mrs. Nitsis) and Michaela in grade 6 (Ms. Basu).
My partner - Paula Larrondo (Ward 7 alternate rep) - and I live at 128 Pearson. We are both social workers at St. Joe's and have lived in the neighbourhood since September 2006. Prior to that we lived in Etobicoke. We have been active in the public education system for more than 5 years. We were founding members of Etobicoke Parents for Public Education and we are members of the Toronto Parent Network.
Kevin and I took over the council from Lisa Dooher - who did a wonderful job and has been very helpful in the transition (thanks Lisa!).
One of the main issues in the transition has been communication. Lisa, myself, Kevin and Amy have all been working on this. Amy Stein (our Treasurer) and parent Roy Schulze have (with considerable effort) put this communication system in place for us.
I am very happy we finally have something up and running and I encourage everyone to make use of this system to share information. I plan to post regular updates - so stay tuned!
Please feel free to contact me directly. My telephone is 416-532-9870. My email is smarty_panz@yahoo.com. I'm often around the school as well - at least two or three days/week at pick-up time.
Cheers,
John Richmond
