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Your Classified Connection / Vol. 25 No. 20 May 16, 2014
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n Paxton Butcher gets her groove on with Megan Rolin, Orissa Miller and Marina Durhan during Five Alarm Funk’s Salty Street Fest performance Saturday evening at Marine Park. The concert was part of an initiative to enhance the activites of the Salty Dog bike race, which was held the following day. That event has approximately 700 participants, and a large number of those come from out of town.
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Event comes to Haney Heritage Park. Plus South Shuswap A8 Sports A16
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Community gathers for Gratitude month. Plus Boating death A18 What’s On A20
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Board proceeds with planned cuts By Chelsea Grainger OBSERVER STAFF
The School District #83 Board of Education proceeded with a revised preliminary budget on May 13 for the coming school year that will involve reductions to a number of educational services. The reductions are being made in order to accommodate a $1.8 million deficit the district is facing. “Many hours have been spent making these difficult decisions,” said Bobbi Johnson, board chair. “We take this decision to heart.” A decrease in enrolment that is expected to continue to decline, resulted in staffing and sup-
ply reductions that saved $620,000, but the district was left with a remaining $1.2 million to be cut from school district operations. The budget cuts will blanket a vast area of district programs such as reductions to the music program to save $20,000, cuts to deaf and hard of hearing programs to save $20,000, special education teachers’ reductions to save $40,000 and cuts to counselling staff to save $50,000. Holly Overgaard, trustee for the North Shuswap, said that rather than eliminating programs all together, the board is making reductions with the hope they can rebuild these programs in the future. Other reductions will be made to speech and language pathologists, the adult education pro-
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gram and gifted student programs. Jennifer Henrie, who has a son who struggles with a language impairment, made a speech to the board asking them to reconsider making cuts to speech and language pathologists. “Speech and language pathologists should not be cut; spending money on SLPs in the school is not a wasted endeavour or an elective,” said Henrie. “It’s core, it’s essential.” Another substantial cut being made will be the change in elementary and middle school teacher/ librarian staffing ratios to match those at the secondary school level. This will result in the loss of
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