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Groups wrangle for arena use
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CUDDLING CUTE LITTLE LAMBS
Carole Rooney
contention. Many riders at the meeting said they Tempers were flar- don’t want to join or ing and emotions were form a group, and also high when the 100 demanded they be Mile Agriplex Society granted arena rental met with the 100 Mile use by the hour. & District Outriders “That’s what we’re Club and individual disputing here,” said equestrians at the Outriders vice-presiSouth Cariboo Rec. dent Ron Szigety. Centre on March 4. “That means no Voices were individual in raised and critithe commucisms hurled nity can come over the issue at in and ride hand – how the – and that is horse enthusi‘wrong’.” asts can access Agriplex and ride in the director Peter old Stan Halcro Reid explained PETER Arena – and in addiREID in a manner to tion to floor the satisfaction of both g r o o m i n g / m a n u r e parties. cleanup costs and rearAgriplex Society entrance snow removal director John for horse trailers, a volMcCarvill chaired unteer member of the the meeting and tried society had to be on vigorously – if unsuc- site at all times it is cessfully – to keep in use because of the the meeting on track rental agreements. toward a solution rathNumerous riders er than digressing into spoke out about the past disputes and his- current $300 daily tory. fee for horse use Many of the horse rental, stating this owners said they have is inordinately high. been “blocked out” Many didn’t see why for several years from they couldn’t be handusing the arena for ed a key and left to equestrian use. handle the grooming The Agriplex on their own. Society’s recent move The Outriders, in to exclude individuals particular, said at least from arena use in the one point in a letlease agreement with ter Reid had sent to the Cariboo Regional the SCJC before the District (CRD), which CRD lease change was approved by the was approved in midSouth Cariboo Joint February – that at “an Committee (SCJC), earlier work party to Continued on A3 was a major point of Free Press
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Three-year-old Clarke Harvey was in awe when four little lambs visited Our Place Pre-School and Child Care Center in 100 Mile House. The children helped bottle-feeding the orphaned lambs, cuddled and played with them until it was time for them to go back to the ranch. Look for calves and lambs on the ranchers’ fields as this is lambing and calving season all over the Cariboo.
GROW courses continue Effective Jan. 1, 2015, the B.C. Liberal government has ceased paying tuition for adult upgrading students who are not considered low-income. As a result, public post-secondary institutions may begin to charge fees for these programs. According to the Ministry of Advanced Education, the decision to allow institutions to charge tuition for adult upgrading programs was necessary to
“ensure sustainability” of postsecondary programs. In 100 Mile House, The GROW Program principal Michael Franklin says fees will apply to basic education upgrades for some adult students due to the loss of funding. GROW students in the current program have had about 70 per cent of program costs covered by provincial funding, he notes. “After May 1, graduated adults
who want to upgrade ... will have to pay. It looks like it’s going to be about $280 a course.” Low-income students will continue to receive full support through subsidies, and there will still be no cost for Dogwood graduation courses, he says. Franklin adds he does not expect this fee change to affect enrolment much for the local program. Continued on A5