Grand Forks Gazette, August 27, 2014

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Warbirds soar over fly-in A pair of military training planes stopped in at the Grand Forks Airport for the appreciation day and airport fly-in on Saturday. Before departing for Oliver, the Nanchang CJ-6 (green) and Harvard (yellow) Warbirds did a couple of fly bys for the appreciative crowd on hand. For more on the airport fly-in go to page A15.

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Mobile abattoir passes inspection sell it anywhere in B.C. because it’s a government inspected abattoir.” Anderson said that although the unit is a “mobile” abattoir, he doesn’t expect it to be moving around anytime soon. “We don’t have a truck to pull it,” he said. “To move it somewhere you’d also need a docking station wherever you put it.” Anderson said it’s quite expensive to build a docking station. “By the time you get the gravel pad down, the potable water, the power set up, it

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The Grand Forks and Boundary Agriculture Society’s mobile abattoir unit has passed the first test. Dave Anderson, one of the abattoir project managers, told the Gazette that the abattoir committee has been working to get the mobile abattoir into working shape. “When I heard they had this thing on the ground but it wasn’t running we formed this committee with the ag society to get it going and that’s what we’ve been working on,” said Anderson. Anderson said the committee received CRAIG LINDSAY a loan from Community Futures to get the Grand Forks Gazette project up and running. “On July 14-16, we did a successful run With school set to start in of poultry slaughter with the inspectors,” less than a week and no end to he said. “We killed 475 birds and we’re the teacher strike/lock-out, it now certified to process poultry.” appears the start of school will Anderson said because the abattoir had be delayed. never been run before they needed two inNorm Sabourin, Boundary spectors from the Ministry of Agriculture Teachers’ Association chair, on hand. told the Gazette that teachers “We’d already inspected and tested all will be back picketing at area the equipment and made sure everything schools starting on Aug. 26. was running,” he said. “We started killing “The main message we want and processing them. We got all the paper- to get across is that we want the work done so now we’re certified to do government to go to mediation other people’s poultry. We’re allowed to this week,” said Sabourin, who

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was attending BCTF meetings in Kamloops when he spoke. “We are confident if they agree to come motivated to get schools open next week—we can get a deal done. Our union leadership and our bargaining team is prepared for mediation.” In a press release, Teresa Rezansoff, SD51 (Boundary) board chair, stated on behalf of the school board: “The SD51 Board of Education understands that our entire community wants our schools open on Sept. 2. Trustees also understand the serious and crit-

ical impact that the current labour dispute between the BCTF and the BC Public School Employer ’s Association is having on our children. We are actively advocating for a negotiated settlement to the dispute in time for school start up on Sept. 2. “We are hopeful that BCPSEA and the BCTF will resume negotiations and that mediator Vince Ready will work with the parties to help bring about a resolution prior to the beginning of school. The needs of our students must be placed first.”

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works into a few thousand bucks. Nobody wants to do that. Right now we’ve got it in one spot and we’ll probably be there for the next year as we figure out if it’ll be feasible to operate.” Anderson said the ag society is currently in the infancy stages with the abattoir. “We’re certified for chickens,” he said. “We’ve got two other local ranchers who we’ll do this fall.” Anderson said they hope to do a test run in

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