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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
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FALL HEALTH FAIR RETURNS SATURDAY Annual event raises awareness about healthy living
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Spartan swim
NATURE INSPIRES NEW ART EXHIBIT
Jaxson Wilkins completes another length, while working out with the Hope chapter of the Spartans Swim Club last week at the Dan Sharrers Aquatic Centre. For more on the club, see page A11.
Poetic Realism takes over back room gallery in November
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BARRY STEWART THE STANDARD
TOY FAMILY HONOURED AT UBC Seminar room named after Hope business leaders
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For the first time in history, a building in the Fraser-Cascade school district is being named after a trustee. The Jim Sinclair Maintenance Centre on Seventh Avenue pays tribute to the Hope resident’s 30 years as board member. “It’s a great honour and I am very humbled,” said Sinclair. “You don’t expect these kind of things. You don’t get a thank you very often since schools are always a hot spot for parents.” The building has been Sinclair’s dream since the amalgamation of the Agassiz and Hope school districts in 1997. However, it’s taken more than a decade for the district to secure
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funding to bring the project to O’Mahony. fruition. “Our event will allow people to The 5,850 square feet (543.48 tour the facility and have a bite to square metres) facility adjacent eat and meet with Jim, our trustees to the district adminand staff,” said secretaryistrative office replaces treasurer Natalie Lowethe existing 50-year-old Zucchet. “The board structure located near and staff are very proud the Gardner GM dealerof the new maintenance ship. The building has shop … which is named outdoor stalls for bus for a person that I beparking, and will be used lieve most of the comfor quick repairs and inmunity knows and every spections. There is also a one would agree deserves JIM SINCLAIR maintenance shop, and the honour for his long offices for operations and standing support of pubtechnology support staff. lic education.” A grand opening ceremony for Sinclair moved to Hope in 1973 the building will be held on Nov. and started the HUB International 5 at 4 p.m. Several local dignitar- insurance office on Wallace Street. ies will be in attendance, includ- He also served as Rotary Club ing Chilliwack-Hope MLA Gwen member for 36 years and was re-
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sponsible for the Student of the Month program. As a parent of three daughters in the local school district, he saw opportunities for change which eventually motivated him to run for a seat on the board. Sinclair was first elected as a trustee in 1981. Over the years, he was very involved with First Nations education and improving the learning conditions for these students. Working with students and getting to know teachers was also a priority. “I really felt attached to the kids,” said Sinclair. “I enjoyed the politics of (the job) and trying to work together to get things done. I was doing something that I really enjoyed - seeing young people get what they need to learn.”
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