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VOL. 32 Number 39
EDITORIAL
FALL FAIR
Pray that you might get a freedom of information request in a P timely manner.
The Rock Creek and Boundary Fair announce the winners of the lamb carcass class. P
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Students, teachers back in school
Wing Night
Wednesday 5 - 8 pm
Poker
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Karaoke
Saturday, Sept. 27 8:30 pm
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PAT KELLY
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Boundary Creek Times Reporter
11,471 pizzas SOLD as of Sept. 21, 2014
Sunday Brunch 11 am - 2 pm
(Above) BCSS students board the busses at the end of the first day of the new school year.
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(Left) Bus driver Kim Goertzen welcomes students onto his bus on the first day of the 2014-2015 school year.
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It is challenging to keep in touch with and service the nearly 200 members of the regional chamber spread across the Boundary. To be recognized for doing it well is pretty sweet. That’s exactly what happened at the B.C. Chamber Executive Gala Dinner on Sept. 13 in New Westminster. The British Columbia Chamber Executives organization, made up of directors from chambers of commerce from across the province,
was founded in 1981 to promote and deliver professional development to the executives of chambers of commerce throughout the province and this year they chose to award the 2014 Communications Award for Chambers with under 200 members to the Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce (BCRCC). Black Press sponsored the award. At the dinner to accept the award was • See CHAMBER AWARD page A9
Students were finally back to the books on Monday as a negotiated settlement to the summer-long strike was reached last week. As is usual on the first day of the school year, Monday was a half-day. This provides an opportunity to conduct enrolment counts and adjust classes and staffing levels. A notice from Superintendent Kevin Argue on the School District 51 (Boundary) website last Thursday said the Ministry of Education has confirmed there are no plans to extend or add instructional days this year. The notice went on to identify the impact of Ministry decisions for the Boundary school district as: • No changes are being made to school calendars including holiday periods. • Report card timelines and parent-teacher interview dates may be adjusted. If this is the case your school will notify you. • Elementary schools will be contacting the parents of Kindergarten students with information about the plan for the ‘gradual entry’ of these students. • Secondary schools will be adjusting the dates for the end of the first and the beginning of the second semesters to balance instructional time and to align with the new examination dates in February 2015. “Further updates will be provided as new information is available,” Argue wrote. “In the meantime, please continue to consult the SD51 and school websites as well as Facebook pages.”
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