Debut of Wranglers new mascot at Little Britches parade A14 MAY 14, 2014
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100 Mile House planning surrounds resident visions
Fraser Basin Council partnership program. District planner Joanne The District of 100 Mile Doddridge says the local House is inviting local resi- project has been dubbed dents to provide their input Miles Ahead – 100 Mile for a local sustainability House Sustainability Plan. plan. It involves gathering pubComments and ideas for lic input and ideas on how to how the community might sustain the community, from best evolve will then its economy and help form a longindustry to clean term strategy for 100 water and senior’s Mile House. needs, she explains. Mayor Mitch “We have been Campsall encouraglooking to do es residents to think an Integrated ahead about what C ommunity they see as their Sustainability Plan Mitch future needs, and Campsall (ICSP) for a long then get involved in time. And, Fraser the planning process. Basin Council offers a pro“This is a great chance gram where they will help to envision what a prosper- fund an ICSP plan for very ous, vibrant and sustainable small rural communities.” 100 Mile House looks like to The District will be colyou. Think 50 years ahead – lecting comments from local what kind of shared future residents, mostly those withdo we want for our com- in the municipality, but also munity?” some in its fringe communiThe process will be facili- ties, Doddridge adds. tated with the District “An ICSP is a big, overby Smart Planning for arching vision of what we all Communities (SPC), a Continued on A5 Carole Rooney Free Press
Chris Nickless photo
Hunter Atkinson, 6, showed both patience and determination when Quicksilver passed by to pose for the photographer on May 11. It was Hunter’s first Wild & Wooly Spring Schooling Show, which is put on by the 100 Mile & District Outriders Club.
South End schools status quo for events Carole Rooney Free Press
In the wake of cancelled recesses in 20 school districts across the province, South Cariboo schools remain virtually unaffected during the current job action. Cariboo-Chilcotin Teachers Association president Murray Helmer says it is pretty much “status quo” for schools in the south end of School District #27 (SD27). Recess time is adequately supervised under a
Teacher's union: field trips, recess, sports games a go
Labour Relations Board ruling that teachers must help with this when administration would otherwise need to travel more than 45 minutes to do so. Helmer notes teachers are assisting in watching over students during recess at 100 Mile House, Horse Lake and Mile 108 elementary schools. Meanwhile, Forest Grove, Bridge Lake and Lac la Hache elementary schools are small enough for
the principal to handle recess supervision, he adds. No field trips are happening anywhere, including in the South End, unless they were planned before the current job action. SD27 superintendent Mark Thiessen says this is because teachers are not submitting paperwork to principals as part of Stage 1 of job action. “Because of this, no new field trips that haven’t been approved already [prior to April 23] will be able to take place until this withdrawal of services has been lifted.” Continued on A7