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Wednesday, June 6 • 2012
Vol. 4 • Issue 97
Neptunes host first meet of the season See Page 15
The splendor of June
Gluns photo show opens at Nelson Public Library Page 11-17
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Class valedictorian Mikaiya Austin agrees it’s hard to imagine leaving high school, but said the school gave her a good idea of what she might want to do with the rest of her life. “You get so many options to try different things, between your classes and extracurricular activities,”
The next steps in the future of the vacant Civic Theatre is now in the hands of Nelson City staff and council. The deadline for the request for proposal was May 31 and city manager Kevin Cormack confirmed that in addition to the proposal from the Downtown Athletic Club, the city has only received one other proposal from the Nelson Civic Theatre Society. “It was a very democratic process on the part of the 16 people that we
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1-800-979-7999 L.V. Rogers secondary school students Taryn Scarff, Matthew MacDonald, Mikaiya Austin, Adam Wheeldon and Olivia Gerzey get ready to celebrate graduation this weekend. Sam Van Schie photo SAM VAN SCHIE Nelson Star Reporter
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After four years walking the same halls and taking classes with the same people, graduating students at L.V. Rogers are nearing the end of their high school years. This weekend the Class of 2012 will celebrate their accomplishment with a formal graduation ceremony
on Friday and opportunities to show off their finest suits and gowns with the grand march, cavalcade and prom on Saturday. “It’s going to be tough saying goodbye to this school and all the teachers and our coaches,” said Taryn Scarff, co-president of the grad planning committee. “There’s a lot I’m going to miss.” This year’s grads were the
first cohort to start Grade 9 at LVR, as a result of Trafalgar changing from a junior high school to a middle school. Meaning they’ve spent longer at LVR than any of the graduating classes before them. “You get really attached,” Scarff said. “Some of our teachers followed us here from Trafalgar, so we’ve known them since Grade 7.”
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