Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 23 No. 36 Friday, September 7, 2012
Market News
Cleaning Systems for Hardwood & Laminate The Lowest Prices in Town!
FINDLAY’S OF SALMON ARM
250-832-9113 832 Centenoka Park Malll 250
Inside
Salmon Arm
A3 MLA retires
Tricks on film
Abbott decides against running in 2013. Plus South Shuswap A8,9 Sports A22-24
#Brock Ramsay
performs a frontside nosegrind for skateboard videographer Travis Ferguson’s video camera Saturday afternoon at Blackburn Park.
Chase
A19 Super skills Firefighters keep pace with big departments. Plus Fishing derby A20 Team Chase A21
Flyers $ Askew’s $ Buckerfields* $ Canadian Tire* $ Chase Sears $ Coopers* $ Home Hardware* $ London Drugs $ Peoples Drug Mart* $ Pharmasave* $ Rona $ Safety Mart* $ Safeway $ Save On Foods $ Shoppers Drug Mart $ Walmart* $ Woodfield* $ Wholesale Club *Limited distribution
JAMES MURRAY/MARKET NEWS
School enrolment still in decline By Tracy Hughes MARKET NEWS STAFF
Classes are a little emptier in the North Okanagan-Shuswap School District. With the new year beginning Tuesday, enrolment for 2012/13 is expected to be about 5,952 students in kindergarten to Grade 12. That is down 216 students from last year.
“Our preliminary enrolment figures show we are just below projections at the secondary level, almost bang on at middle school and just above at the elementary grades,” said superintendent Dave Witt on Wednesday. “Unfortunately we expect this trend of declining enrolment to continue for at least another four years.”
A low birth rate is the major influence on enrolment, but there are other factors. “When a family leaves the region, they are off to Alberta to find work,” said Witt, adding that local economic conditions have created significant challenges for some local families. The largest decrease in students is anticipated in the secondary
INSURANCE BROKERS & CONSULTANTS Auto • Home Owners • Tenants • Business • Boat • Farm • Travel Insurance
$5,000,000 Liability What liability limit do you carry on your vehicle? A second of distraction could cause you to be at fault in a crash that causes permanent disability or injury to your passengers or to someone else. Talk to us about increasing your liability to $5,000,000. Salmon Arm: 250-832-2143 or 250-832-2134 • Piccadilly Mall: 250-832-7900 • Sorrento: 250-675-2020 • Sicamous: 250-836-3600
schools. Currently there are about 625 students graduating each year, but only 400 new kindergarten students coming in. A better understanding of enrolment will develop over the next few weeks and the number of students directly impacts the district’s funding from the provincial governSee Extra-curricular on page A2