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A reminder of kindergarten registration next month has School District 20's board of education talking shop. Trustee Gordon Smith said it's time to be proactive when it comes to attracting future students to the district now that there are more choices in the area, referencing Rossland's larger Francophone school (l’École des Sept-Sommets) and its new independent school, Seven Summits Centre For Learning. “How are we driving kindergarten registration?” he asked at a regular school board meeting Monday night. “I'm using that word very deliberately because I think that public education has to realize that the way that the educational practice is evolving . . . is to turn it into a competitive parent choice domain.” School District 20's end of September enrolment numbers were about 100 students less than projected last spring, Greg Luterbach superintendent of schools shared. He attributed this shortfall to fewer kindergarten students than projected, families sending their children to the French school now that admission rules loosened and the new independent school in Rossland. The initial projection for kindergarten students for next school year sits at 278 students but after registration, held Feb. 17 to 21, adjustments will be made based on early trends.
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Shauntelle Harding looks over one of several rescue horses her family has welcomed at their ranch in Oasis.
Every year is Year of the Horse for local riding stable BY ART HARRISON
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The use of technology as a teaching tool in the classroom has School District 20 looking across the desk. Outdated teacher computers will be replaced with an anticipated 260 new laptops, a purchase made possible from vacating the former school board office. The board of education decided Monday to use $192,000 from its capital budget that sits tight from the recent move and $91,000 from its existing technology operating budget. “If our teachers are going to use technology to educate our children, they better have technology themselves that they can use to do the work that's required,” said trustee Jen Carter.
Just when you thought the celebrating was over and the New Year’s resolutions could be forgotten for another 12 months, it's time to kick up the festivities again. While many of us were sleeping last night another page of the calendar turned over, the Chinese calendar that is. As of midnight we ushered out the Year of the Snake and welcomed in the Year of the Horse. The Chinese new year falls between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20 each year, this year falling on Jan. 31. It starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later, culminating with the Lantern Festival. While many will have donned silly hats and popped corks on Jan. 1, welcoming 2014, going by the Chinese calendar this is the year 4712.
According to the Chinese zodiac, those born in the Year of the Horse are energetic, bright, warm-hearted, intelligent, and able. Similar to the zodiac followed by many in Western culture, Chinese zodiac time cycles are sectioned into 12 divisions except rather than months named after constellations in the sky, the Chinese recognize years associated with animals. Shauntelle Harding, of Harding Heights Ranch, has her own take on the traits of horses, and, glancing over at one of the 15 equine examples her family trains and cares for on their property in Oasis, she smiles and relates her experience. “I see in them their intelligence, their ability to forgive, they're genuine, intuitive, loving, strong,” Harding said. See RANCH, Page 3
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