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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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It’s not easy being green Volunteers haul 11 tons of garbage out of the Ladysmith wilderness John McKinley THE CHRONICLE
Ladysmith proudly bills itself as being one of B.C.’s greenest communities. But you’d have a hard time convincing about 100 volunteers of that fact this weekend. Those volunteers spent six or eight hours Saturday in the backwoods around Ladysmith gathering more than 11 tons of garbage dumped off local logging roads. Four of those tons were collected off Peerless Road, meaning the culprits drove past the town’s waste transfer centre on their way to do their dirty deeds. Dave Judson, volunteer co-ordinator of the event for the Ladysmith Sportsmen’s Club, was shaking his head at the irony. “We’ve won awards for being green,” Judson said. “It’s like we’re sweeping the dirt under the carpet. A third of what we picked up was right past our brand-new dump facility.” Illegal backwoods dumping is nothing new. Unfortunately, the issue seems to be growing. The club used to host the volunteer clean-up every second year, but ramped it up to yearly four years ago. The past four years, clean-up crews have pulled out about seven tons. This year, the total grew by a third. “Seventy-five percent of what we picked up is totally recyclable,” Judson said. See Better hours, page 4
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Ladysmith Secondary School student Owen Murphy helps stick it to principal Steve Thompson at the school Thursday. Thompson helped support the Grad class during their car show by allowing himself to be duct-taped to the school wall at a cost of 50 cents per piece of tape. The event raised about $200 for grad. JOHN MCKINLEY
Resurrection looms for Cedar High
Re-opening of high school on the table for 2016, buses to Ladysmith possible for this fall John McKinley THE CHRONICLE
The Cedar to Ladysmith school experiment appears poised to follow a path blazed in 1972 and ‘73 when Ladysmith students had to finish their high school at Nanaimo District Secondary. That experiment was a short one. On Wednesday, district 68 school trust-
ees recommended re-opening Cedar as a Grade 8-12 secondary school in time for the 2016/17 school year. The board still needs to formally ratify the recommendation, but because the same nine people will be voting, a resurrected Cedar Secondary seems virtually a done deal. Trustees Jamie Brennan, Bill Robinson and Tania Brzovic voted against the motion. “I think it is likely to be approved,” school
board chairman Steve Rae said. “The board has decided that it’s the best thing for the community to have the school open.” “For myself, having gone through this process, one of the biggest themes I came across for myself is ... it seems like the southeast part of the School District 68 has been disadvantaged by the school closure,” trustee Natasha Bob said. See New programs, page 3
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