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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Free Vol. 8 • Issue 21
Shambhala Hall set for The LineUp’s debut See Pages 22-23
Bear shot in Fairview See Page 5
L.V. Rogers registration: ‘It’s been chaos’
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A glimpse of collector vehicles during the Nelson Road Kings’ parade on Friday. In the lead, a yellow 1948 Willys Overland Jeepster with Dave Stevens driving and passengers Ryan and Jake St. Thomas, followed by a brilliant red Metropolitan and a Renault R8. Tamara Hynd photos
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TAMARA HYND Nelson Star he Nelson Road Kings 13th annual Queen City Cruise began Friday night with a parade, bringing an air of nostalgia to the Heritage City. On Saturday Baker St. was lined with classic beauties fully waxed and sporting polished chrome. From antique fire trucks to jeeps to muscle cars and everything in between, the impressive car show demonstrated the old adage they don’t make ‘em like they used to. After Saturday’s Poker Run from Nelson to Six Mile, the event concluded with the Rooftop Shaker at the Hume Hotel. Nelson Road Kings president Jack Chambers said they were “very happy” with this year’s successful show. The weather
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couldn’t have been any better and there were 388 registered cars along with 15 to 20 unregistered. “Having 400 cars in our show is an amazing accomplishment for our club,” said Chambers. An emotional moment oc-
curred during the trophy presentations when one winner broke down as she was announced as a winner. Chambers explained the winning car was built in memory of the woman’s son who passed away a few years ago. See more photos page 15.
WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star Senior Kootenay Lake school district staff skipped an emergency meeting at L.V. Rogers Monday night, angering parents, teachers and staff who are concerned about scheduling “gridlock” that has left many high school students without the classes they need going into the new school year. “It’s been chaos,” principal Tim Huttemann told the approximately 80 people gathered in the school cafeteria. “We’ve combined and chopped, and we’ve stretched our resources as far as we can. I’m not sure what else we can do.” And though community members have been voicing concerns about the staffing situation at L.V. Rogers since May — district staff met with the parent advisory council at the beginning of the summer — there hasn’t yet been a solution offered, and in the meantime students’ timetables are a mess. Currently there are 179 pending requests for scheduling changes, only a fraction of which have been addressed. A number of Grade 9 students have been left without electives, while Grade 12s have been
turned away from mandatory classes such as English 12 due to space. “Virtually every class is full with at least 30 students,” parent advisory council chair Sheri Walsh told the Star. “Many kids can’t get into the courses they selected in April, some of which they need for graduation. There are waiting lists for most if not all of the full classes. On Tuesday morning there was a lineup of kids all the way down the hall to get in to see one of the two counsellors; some students, including my daughter in Grade 11, spent the entire morning in the office waiting.” Part of the problem can be explained by the school’s new scheduling system, which didn’t work as planned and proved to be “inefficient.” Staff have been scrambling to come up with useful data so they can tweak the timetable accordingly, but progress has been slow. Unfortunately, this creates a frustrating scenario: while the scheduling issues need to be addressed in the next “crucial” few days, school officials won’t have the number of students and funding amounts for the year finalized until Sept. 30. Continued on page 3
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