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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Students invited to Take a Hike
Program at learning centre combines nature and education BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Being a teenager can be tough, and for some, finishing school may seem an insurmountable task. Enter the Take a Hike Program. For the first time since its inception 13 years ago, the unique Vancouver-based program is extending a hand to students outside the Lower Mainland by choosing School District 20 (SD20) to partner with and build on the educational and adventure-based project. Take a Hike, a program specifically designed to address the learning difficulties, social and emotional needs of at-risk youth, will be offered to students in grades 10 -12 at the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre (formerly Trail Middle School) this September. Education is primary, however the program offers a unique approach to delivering lessons. “This program meets a need,” said Darrel Ganzert, SD20 chair. “Take a Hike is designed to bring selected students back to learning through an exposure to nature, and the challenges and rewards it offers,” he said. Ganzert explained that the group of students, selected on certain criteria, will start the program with day long outdoor experiences, such as hiking in the West Kootenay, and expand the ventures to extended periods of time in the wilderness with teacher and therapist support and supervision. Take a Hike is committed to providing a fulltime therapist and a part-time adventure-based learning specialist who will work with the school district’s teachers and child and youth care workers to provide a holistic learning program. “What the program has found is that the kids who are particularly weak attenders end up wanting to be there. And those moments, spent on week-long camping trips end up being great learning experiences that are positive.” The Take a Hike Program began in the Vancouver school district with a goal to engage at-risk youth with alternative educational opportunities which combine outdoor activities such as hiking and snowshoeing with the development of communication and problem-solving skills. The program will focus on youth aged 15-19, with a purpose to assist students who have been unable to achieve success in mainstream classes to develop the positive behaviours and attributes they need to become healthy, productive citizens.
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Linda Radtke, Kate’s Kitchen manager, was busy filling one of four new freezers the soup kitchen received by donation after a recent Trail Times story detailing how a failed freezer resulted in the local charity losing its $1,000 meat supply.
Kitchen warmed by freezer donations BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
A story in the Trail Times last Thursday, reporting a broken freezer and the loss of $1,000 worth of meat and milk products at Kate’s Kitchen, has brought out the best in the community. The breakdown of a meat freezer at the well-known local charity over the weekend of July 20-21, had the volunteer staff worried about how they would continue serving up lunches for dozens of less fortunate citizens in Trail every weekday. In response to the predicament, four new freezers have been donated to the local Salvation Army soup kitchen along with meat, poultry and fish, and $400 cash to replace the spoiled goods. “The phone started ringing Thursday afternoon from citizens wanting to help,” said Linda Radtke, manager at the Rossland Avenue locale. “It bring tears to my eyes when a community bands together to help
when something like this enough,” said Radtke. happens.” “It makes me proud to “It brings tears Radtke said the broken say that I live in Trail. to my eyes when appliance was one of a People have just been so a community number of freezers used by good to us.” the kitchen that are all of As the saying goes, bands together about the same vintage but there is always one rotten to help when unfortunately was the one apple in the bunch, and in something like that held the food of the this case, it was a person highest value and most damwho dropped off two very this happens.” aged by thawing. old, broken, rusty, filthy LINDA RATKE Each week, at least 200 freezers into the side alley lunches are served out of between Kate’s Kitchen Kate’s Kitchen, and Radtke and volun- and the Rex Hotel on Sunday. teers try their best to include a serving Now, the volunteers at the soup of meat in each meal. kitchen are asking for a Good Samaritan Additionally, each month the to pick them up and bring them to the Salvation Army food bank, located in landfill for proper disposal. the rear of the soup kitchen, supplies Radtke called the regional district at least 400 families in need with food and was told they would dispose of hampers that contain a meat protein, them at no charge but someone needs if available. to transport them to the landfill. On Tuesday, a person brought in a To assist Kate’s Kitchen remove the large turkey, a welcome donation to useless freezers from the alley or to help fill the new freezers. make a donation, contact Radtke at “I cannot thank the community 364-0445.
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