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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014
VOL 117 NO. 18
Fall fair saved from cancellation
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Grand Forks Secondary School player Kaden Dolan gets a boost up from teammate Sebastien Sullivan during a line-out during Friday’s 22-0 win over Selkirk Secondary from Kimberley. The game was part of a play-day event held at GFSS featuring teams from throughout the East and West Kootenays. See story page 22. Craig Lindsay photo
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Local schools will not see any changes to recess as of yet with last week’s teacher job action. Teachers throughout the province are in stage one of job action, which limits supervision outside of regularly scheduled classes and contact with administrators. While some districts in the province have cancelled recess, School District 51 (SD51) principals and other administrators will fill in with supervision at elementary schools in Grand Forks and Christina Lake. “At this time in the district, recess had not been cancelled,” said Kevin Argue, SD51 superintendent. “It’s something we’ll continue to review but at this time we have not cancelled it. Principals are filling in for the teacher supervision in all our schools. Some of our excluded staff, staff that work out of the board office and are non-union, are filling in and supporting a place where the principal alone may not be able
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to fill in all the requirements for supervision in order to be a safe situation.” Argue himself was performing supervision at Perley Elementary in Grand Forks on Wednesday (April 23). He added that principals and other administration will be filling in for morning and after school supervision as needed. “Lunch time there are no teachers doing supervision anyway so we don’t need to fill in there,” said Argue. Extracurricular activities such as sports are not affected by phase one job action. Field trips are also unaffected at this time, said Argue. “The other big thing that’s not happening right now is professional learning (such as) non-instructional days (and meetings with the staff),” he said. “The principal would still give the opportunity for those meetings to come but the (word from the) strike action would say that the teachers can’t come to something where the principal is at a meeting.”
It’s been a roller coast week for the Grand Forks and District Fall Fair society. On Thursday, a tearful Kelly McIver, secretary/treasurer, and husband Jason McIver, president, came to the Gazette and announced the fall fair was cancelled due to a lack of volunteers. However, a last minute rescue from the River Valley Community Church with volunteers has saved the fair and it’s on again. “One of the members (of the church) approached Pastor Gabe and said, ‘The fall fair isn’t happening this year. They don’t have enough volunteers,’ and the pastor said, ‘Wow. No. Let’s do it.’ So he contacted me on Saturday and said they would get the congregation and help us do it,” said Kelly McIver. “It’s just fabulous. We’re very happy. I just can’t say enough about the River Valley Church.” The fall fair will be on from Aug. 22-24 at Dick Bartlett Park. McIver said the church members will be helping in many different capacities throughout the weekend with set up and with events. She does add that they would still love to have other volunteers step up. “We’d love to have as many people as we can get,” said McIver. “There’s lots to do. More people means shorter shifts.” Despite cancelling, McIver said they were able to re-book all the events and acts. “Everybody’s back!” she said. Highlights for the fair include musical entertainers Undercover on Friday night, rising country star Lisa Nicole on Saturday night, and an Alan Jackson impersonator called Almost Alan. “We also have Uncle Chris the Clown coming and a magician scientist coming from Vancouver,” said McIver. “We’ve got zucchini races and Survivor. We’re working with the ATV club. They’d like to be a part of it. We’ve got RC (remote control) racing going on this year which is new.” There will be lots of fun events for both children and adults, said McIver. “We’ll have the 4H club with dog agility, a petting zoo, exotic reptiles show, and a mechanical bull.” Anyone wanting to get involved as a volunteer with the fair can contact Jenny at grandforksfallfair@gmail.com.
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