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TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2013
‘Province insulted school boards’ BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The provincial government insulted school boards and the people who elected them in seeking a deal for the province’s teachers, said the president of the Alberta School Boards Associa-
tion on Monday. In a speech to 335 delegates representing 59 school boards on Monday, Jacquie Hansen said the province did a disservice to Albertans and violated the trust of local boards. The ASBA is meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer. “After building a strong relationship
with school boards and acknowledging the value of local decision making, this government violated our trust and, in doing so, certainly compromised any respect that existed,” she said. The ASBA had been involved in the bargaining process to get a new deal for teachers for more than two years, but were left out of the final negotia-
tions. The Alberta Teachers Association, which had earlier walked away from the tripartite talks, ended up negotiating a deal directly with the government.
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Get over it!
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
From the left, Montana Miller of Bentley, Sallon Wilness of Hunting Hills, Rachel Hyink of Bentley and Jordin Gurski of Hunting Hills and the other girls clear the first hurdle at the Lindsay Thurber Track on Monday. Lina Koller from École Camille J. Lerouge was first in the event followed by Hunting Hills High School’s Jordin Gurski and third was Bentley’s Rachel Hyink. Grade 9 students from Red Deer, Bentley and Stettler competed in the meet.
Purple martins share secrets BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF
Some purple martins have made their way back to Central Alberta after a winter down south, and for the first time they are coming back with information to
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Students pitch to premier BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE ect for the Council of Education Facility Planners International competition into more than ideas on paper. “Since we presented at the Pacific Northwest Regional (competition) level, people were talking that our project could become a reality if we had the right backing behind it. So we kind of want to go about doing that. We’re not as focused on the actual physical project. We just want some of our concepts to be in place,” said Webber after the special presentation at Eastview Middle School in front of about 80 people.
share about their time away. Last year, researchers from York University came to the Ellis Bird Farm northeast of Red Deer and attached geolocator “backpacks” onto 22 of the birds. The one-gram device records
daily flight levels, with researchers later able to determine daily approximate positions based on times of local sunrises and sunsets along the migratory trail.
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Four Eastview Middle School students who recently took first place in an international School of the Future Design Competition pitched their ideas to an important audience closer to home on Monday that included Premier Alison Redford. Also on hand were Minister of Education Jeff Johnson and Minister of Infrastructure Wayne Drysdale. “I wasn’t sure everyone was going to come and we got the ministers and the premier. It was a bit nerve-racking, but I think we did well,” said Grade 8 student Cole Webber with the winning team. The students hope to turn their proj-
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York University researcher Kevin Fraser attaches a light level geolocator to a purple martin male.
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More than six months after St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe publicly announced its openness to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, not much has changed. C1
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