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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF
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SELKIRK COLLEGE
BREWING UP BORSCHT
Trail campus gets funding for healthcare programs ed for the program by the Ministry of Advanced Education will help to Over $300,000 of government fulfill our mandate to ensure that funding will help create more students have access to the educahealth-care student spaces at Selkirk tion and training they need, closer College’s Trail campus this year. to home.” The Ministry of Advanced The link between Trail and the Education announced Tuesday it health-care industry is an important is providing one-time funding to and obvious one, said Graeme. help train health-care profession“One of our principal partners als in the East and West Kootenay in workforce development is the regions. health authority. And there’s a lot of The Trail campus is slated to that going on in Trail. receive over $175,000 to fund 18 “Selkirk College is committed to student spaces in the health-care supporting our employers to meet assistant program for their workforce needs, the 2012-13 year. and the health sector is “It gives us a bit Selkirk College a critical partner in this more capacity to work.” president Angus respond to the Graeme said the fundAlthough Graeme ing is great news for was very appreciative community.” the Trail campus. of the funding, he said ANGUS GRAEME “It gives us a bit more the one-time commitcapacity to respond to ments would not solve the community,” he all the college’s fiscal said. concerns. “These resources from the min“This is all really helpful but I’ll istry will allow us to do an addition- continue to advocate for continuing al intake of the home-care assistants funding.” in January,” Graeme explained. Graeme was in Trail on Tuesday “Now we’ll be able to graduate two to welcome students into the new classes this year.” school year. The Trail campus will also While the Nelson and Castlegar receive over $135,000 from the campuses have seen numbers stagJustice Institute of B.C. for 15 part- nate over the last couple of years, time student spaces this year to sup- Trail continues to attract a healthy port the B.C. Ambulance Service’s number of students. paramedic recruitment and staffing “Trail has always been very good needs. at supporting new and returning “We have worked with the Justice learners,” said Graeme, adding the Institute of B.C. (JIBC) for a number numbers are up in Trail again this of years to make sure, when it is year. needed, that local paramedic trainHe credited the programs and ing is available,” said Graeme. the teachers in Trail as well as the He added the funding would also student response. enable students to enter into that “We do adult basic education health-care field without having to here a continuing education and travel to Vancouver for studies. that’s always well subscribed here.” “The JIBC has a mandate to proThe ministry also announced that vide training for justice and public the College of the Rockies campuses safety professionals across the prov- in Creston and Invermere would be ince,” said Jack McGee, president of receiving over $230,000 in one-time the JIBC in a press release. funding for 16 health-care assistant “The additional funding provid- student spaces in each campus.
BY GUY BERTRAND Times Staff
TIMOTHY SCHAFER PHOTO
Mary Gay adds the dill as a finishing touch to a massive pot of borscht at Kate’s Kitchen in the Salvation Army building on Rossland Avenue. She had been at the process of making borscht— which she does once per month—for three hours in a true Russian doukhobor style, with her husband, Butch, and Maureen Brown.
Many old issues remain for new school year BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
New school year, same old story. Teachers are now preparing to head back into the courtroom even as they begin preparing lesson plans in the first week of school, less than two months after
the province’s teachers broke a year-long labour dispute with a new contract. However, Kootenay Columbia Teachers Union president Andy Davidoff said many of the key issues relating to last year’s labour dispute—such as class siz-
es—have largely gone unresolved. “The courts can’t do anything about it, which is something we’re challenging as well,” he said Tuesday on the first day of classes for many SD20 students. “Our contract is up at the end of next
June and we’re going to see what happens with other public service selections in the province.” In 2001 the government stripped the teachers collective agreement’s language in what courts ruled an
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