FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 2013
OUTDOOR ED
CONCERT
Students build outdoor classroom.
Ron Sexsmith plays the Key City on Monday.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
The pot petition
Look for Sensible BC at Oktoberfest this Saturday C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
The Sensible BC Campaign has until December 5, 2013 to gather enough signatures to force a province-wide referendum on the decriminalization of marijuana. The petition calls on the BC government to pass the Sensible Policing Act, which will stop police from searching or arresting otherwise law-abiding citizens for possession of marijuana. In order to get a referendum in September 2014, ten per cent of voters in every riding must sign the petition. The only petition to ever make it to the referendum stage is the HST petition. Sensible BC volunteers want theirs to be the next one. Heading up the campaign in Kimberley is Ashley Taylor. She says the hunt for signatures is doing well. “Things are going great,” she said. “It’s been very very busy! We have been signing up new canvassers throughout the district, but could always use more. We are feeling very confident though — things are looking good.
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The Kimberley Dynamiters are in the pink this month. The team has donned pink sweaters in support of those dealing with breast cancer. The jerseys will be auctioned off at month’s end. Keep an eye on the Dynamiters’ website for details.
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BY THE NUMBERS
Enrolment numbers stay flat in Kimberley C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
School District 6 staff are busy finalizing the report of enrolment numbers that will be submitted to the Ministry of Education based on numbers as of September 30. However, preliminary reports show that although enrolment continues to decline, that decline is slowing. “We are still declining as a District but the
students projected to be graduating, with 77 entering kindergarten. While those numbers are down from 10 years ago when graduating classes were over 100 students, they are also up in terms of how many are entering Kindergarten. There are also two large classes following this year’s Grade 12s. There are 96 Grade 11 students this year and 112 Grade 10s. Kimberley is projected to have 1,085 students in the various schools this year or
trend is flattening significantly, and appears to be pretty much flat in Kimberley,” said School District 6 Superintendent Paul Carriere. A good number to look at is the difference between students graduating Grade 12 and entering Kindergarten. For the past ten years or so that number has shown many more students graduating than beginning school. In Kimberley for this year, there are 79
1013.8 Full Time Equivalent students. That’s down only three students from last year and up 15 from 2010-2011. There are 332 students in the two elementary schools, 294 at McKim and 436 at Selkirk. The Windermere Zone is down 18 students with 1,090 FTE students and Golden is down 16.5 with 860 FTE students. District wide, that’s 2,965 students, down 38.4 from the previous year.
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