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Thursday, April 11, 2013
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Gold Trail finishes conversations Gold Trail kicked off their Community Conversations last week in Ashcroft, ending Thursday night, April 11, in Cache Creek. The Ashcroft meeting on Apr. 2 was well attended by about 50 members of the public, and about half as many Gold Trail staff members and employees. For an hour, staff explained the District’s fiances, the challenges they faced with the special requirements for local children, declining enrolment and the District’s aging school facilities. After the presentations, the public were asked four questions. The first was “What was new information for you?” The special requirements for the children and the age of the schools surprised many people there. Superintendent Teresa Downs explained how over 50 per cent of kindergarten students in the District were classed as “vulnerable” in at least one of five areas of health and social deSee SCHOOLS on p. 10
A quilt of our own Members of the local quilt guild presented a replica of the quilt made for Bifuka in 2004 to the Village of Ashcroft this week to hang in the Village Office. (Above) With Mayor Andy Anderson are guild members Joyce Deering, Pat Brown, Barney Crags and Jeanne Joss. For more information, see Council Briefs on p. 3
Ashcroft corrects addresses Ashcroft Council is working towards standardizing all of its street addresses so that emergency responders from outside the community can find houses faster. “We working with TNRD to establish proper boundaries and a proper grid,” administrator Michelle Allen told Council at the Apr. 8 Council meeting. In over 50 years of assigning house numbers around the community, a number of anomolies have appeared. “We have a few places we’re
working on,” she said, pointing out two or three areas that have duplicate house numbers and one street where the houses on one side are numbered in sequence. “We’re aiming for July 1 to have them all identified,” she said. Then staff will write to them and work with them to correct the mistaken house numbers. Council approved a motion to standardize street numbers so that all streets with a numerical name will have the name as a number.
Desert Bells Handbell Choir conductor Carmen Ranta and members Ray Shindell and Kirk Watson polish their new set of handbells. More on p, 6
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