LITERACY WEEK Special readings at SESS and Cawston See page 9
TIMELY DONATION
FINE FARMERS
Legion supplies snowshoe funding See page 3
Cawston home to B.C.’s best farmers See page 8
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Vol.15 Number 5
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Library acquires travel website
Online resource provides up to date info on 175 nations Contributed
Photo by Steve Arstad
Todd Conquergood watches as Savanna Yamamoto and Max Todd, both grade seven students at Similkameen Elementary Secondary School, take part in the YES 2 IT Trades Exploration Day on January 28 in the auto mechanics shop. Students participated in a number of building trades, taking part in workshops hosted by local tradesmen.
The Okanagan Regional Library has acquired Global Road Warrior, an online resource offering country-by-country information on 175 nations and territories. The database features over 6,500 color photos and 1,575 maps. Topics include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture, communications and more. Created by an international team of researchers, cartographers and writers, the database is continually updated. The ORL is proud to offer this rich, colorful content as a free service to library members who are researching cultural information, preparing to travel abroad and to students doing country reports. With Global Road Warrior, you can find accurate world data and become a roving globetrotter without leaving your desk. To grab your boarding pass, visit the library website at www.orl.bc.ca and click on the “Reference and Research”button.
Students get a taste of the building jobs during trades exploration day Students participate in hands on experience with local tradesmen By Steve Arstad news@keremeosreview.com
Similkameen Elementary Secondary School’s auto mechanics shop rang to the sound of hammer blows, lit up to the flash of a welder’s arc and emanated the
solvent fumes of PVC cement on January 28. The shop was host room to the YES 2 IT Trades Exploration Day, an initiative between School District 53, the Industry Training Authority, local trades people and local business. Four Similkameen tradesmen came to the school to demonstrate their trade to students from grades six and seven, who were also given hands on experience. This year’s focus was on building trades, with students receiving instruction from Jessie of Central Fabricators, Jim Murphy from Paradise Climate Control,
Todd Conquergood from Conquergood Electric and Evin Hartfield from Cathedral Ridge Construction. Students received practical training through a series of four workstations that included welding, wiring a simple electrical circuit, PVC pipe construction, and woodworking techniques. Each station allowed the student to complete a part for a finished product, which in this case was a PVC plastic “marshmallow gun”. Four SESS grade six and seven classes participated in the event.