Elementary school students will have a chance to do some fun cross country running despite the job action taken by many teachers. Locally, the school board has arranged for purely recreational runs to take place Monday, Oct. 15 at Sunnybrook Park near Eglinton Ave. E. and Leslie St. The start time is 9:45 a.m. and the approximate end time is 2:30 p.m. As reported by Louise Brown in the Star, these runs will only be open to students in Grades 1 to 8 who did not officially participate in the previously scheduled meets organized by the Toronto District Elementary School Sports Association.. Brown indicates in her story that the board said that students will run as individuals and not as school teams. These event will. be supervised by “board central staff”. Louise Brown.
