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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
Bear-proof bin relocated to higher traffic area BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
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(Front to back) Lisa Stewart chairs both the local Parent’s Advisory Committee (PAC) and the district PAC, and took a stand to support School District 20 teachers Monday afternoon. Parents support what’s best for the classroom, said Stewart, who was joined on the line along Highway 3B by Grade 7 Glenmerry Elementary student Alicen Charette and her mom, Erica Charette, and Glenmerry teachers Carolyn Bent (Grade 3) and Denise Mauro, (Grade 5/6).
Parents protest on-going school dispute B.C. students take to social media to plan their own rally BY VALERIE ROSSI AND SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
Greater Trail parents stepped out in support of teachers Monday, rallying for a negotiated deal at various schools in the district. A group joined teachers on the picket lines outside Rossland Summit School, Webster Elementary and Glenmerry Elementary schools holding signs of discontent and support. At J.L. Crowe Secondary School, grandparents and parents of students stopped by to lend their support, and local firemen made rounds with water and sustenance for the picketers. Honks from passing vehicles along the highway could be heard throughout the day, said Crowe teacher Terry Jones. “We really appreciate the support and
I would estimate over 95 per cent of the vehicles going by acknowledge us with a honk and a wave.” Meanwhile, parents were hoping their protest gets a message across to the decision makers.
“I feel the government needs to know that parents not only support teachers but that we want them to start funding education more adequately.” SHANNA TANABE
“I feel the government needs to know that parents not only support teachers but that we want them to start funding education more adequately,” said Rossland parent Shanna Tanabe, who organized the local rallies.
“The current funding is not working and the government needs to make education of our children a priority.” The former executive member of the MacLean Parent Advisory Council is actively involved in her son Jesse’s education, volunteering in the classroom and lunch store occasionally, too. She’s hoping the government will take note that their constituents are not pleased with the current education funding and wants teachers to know that they are not in this alone. Students are also beginning to raise their voices after being caught in the middle of the dispute. More than 10,000 people have RSVP’d to a Facebook event staging a provincewide student walkout in protest of being “caught in the middle” of British Columbia’s ongoing teachers’ dispute. Students say they plan to leave their See PAC, Page 3
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Spring weather signals bear season in the Kootenays and that means that any food scraps, particularly bones and scraps leftover from barbecues, are almost a guaranteed lure for bringing in the bears, famished from a long winter’s rest. The City of Trail is once again joining forces with Natural Control Alternatives Society (NCA) to provide bear-proof bins for people to dispose of bear attractants that they don’t want to have in or near their houses until garbage day. One of the bins will again be located at the city public works yard, in Glenmerry, but the second will be positioned in a new location, at the end of Hazelwood Drive, in Sunningdale, near the city’s pump house. “We decided to change the location of the second bin this year for a number of reasons,” said Andrea Jolly, communications and event coordinator for the city. “The location last year, near the bocce pit at the end of Rossland Avenue, was isolated and it was hard to manage security. We had some incidences of people trying to break in to the bin to steal the toonies. It also gives other residents an opportunity to have the bins near their residences and, yes, there are more bears along the river in Sunningdale than there were near the bocce pits.” The bins will, once again, operate on an honour system where residents are asked to donate $2 in the collection box on the bin for each full-size bag of garbage they deposit. The funds collected will help contribute to the purchase and maintenance costs, as well as the costs for Alpine Disposal and Recycling to empty the containers. “As responsible residents, it’s important we dispose of our garbage properly,” Ernie Millin, NCA organizer, said in a media release. “We share this area with bears and other wildlife; reducing the temptation for bears to visit our neighbourhood is the best way to keep everyone and the bears safe.”
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