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Mairs Memorial Eden Haythornthwaite places flowers at the grave of Joseph Mairs, a coal miner and trade unionist who died 100 years ago, just shy of his 22nd birthday. The Joseph Mairs Memorial Committee hosted the 12th annual Joseph Mairs Memorial Sunday, Jan. 19 in Ladysmith, and this year’s event included a panel discussion with young people about “The Next 100 Years.” LINDSAY CHUNG
SD68 sets meeting for Feb. 6 in Ladysmith The school board will hold a special meeting to deal solely with the future of schools in the Ladysmith zone Ross Armour THE CHRONICLE
The Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools Board of Education (School District 68) has announced it will hold a special meeting in Ladysmith in early February solely relating to the future of Ladysmith schools. The meeting will take place Thursday, Feb. 6 at Ladysmith Secondary School at 6 p.m. “The board has particularly scheduled that meeting in February for Ladysmith so that people in Ladysmith will be able to attend,” said SD68 director of communications Donna Reimer. Although a regular school
board meeting is scheduled for With Cedar Community Sec- put on for the students there we respond to them and we later this month on Wednesday, ondary set to close this June, to now attend Chase River El- have just completed that proJan. 29, Ladysmith school re- more than half of the soon-to- ementary. cess …” said Reimer. “I believe configuration will not be on the be disarrayed students there The report perceives that four they have an opportunity to reagenda. have chosen to attend LSS new bus routes would need to spond to what we have filed.” “Our January meeting will be rather than John Barsby Com- be created for busing to John Steve Rae, spokesman for held in Nanaimo [at the school munity School in Nanaimo. Barsby and LSS and would cost Save Cedar Schools, said the board headquarters],” said ReThe school board originally over $850,000 initially. closure process didn’t include imer. “It’s a regular meeting so stated that buses from Cedar In other Cedar-related proper consultation. we will have other business would not be put on but then school news, Cedar Second- “The whole thing is a rush,” on the agenda that night. The requested a report following ary School’s fate could be de- he said. “All we’ve ever asked, Ladysmith schools topic will the popularity of a move to cided in the courtroom, not the all the Snuneymuxw has ever be spoken to at the February Ladysmith. boardroom. asked, is to take a step back, meeting.” That report came at the Jan. The high school’s impend- sit down, go through all the Despite the Ladysmith schools 8 regular meeting from trustee ing closure will go before the different options, see what the debate set to be all-quiet at the TerryLynn Saunders, who is set courts, as SD68 submitted its costing is on each of them and January meeting, one thing that to put forward a motion regard- response on Wednesday, Jan. involve the community.” will be discussed that night is ing busing Jan. 29. 15 after the Snuneymuxw First A hearing is expected in early the prospect of busing from Saunders outlined that when Nation filed for a judicial re- March. Cedar to Ladysmith Secondary South Wellington Elementary view. — with files from Karl School (LSS). closed last year, buses were “They file theirs first and then Yu and Greg Sakaki
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