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Revoked: SD offering financial support to help student finish course and meet requirements for 2014/2015 eligibility Continued from Page 1 “She was confused and I was really upset. Alannah was on the verge of tears. We are grateful for the opportunity and the teachers felt bad; they’ve done what they can to support her, but she’s disappointed,” noted Clark who added Alannah hopes to apply to the Jazz Studies program at Capilano in 2015. “I honestly thought it was a joke.” Clark said she contacted School District 71, school trustees and the Ministry of Education, and was told because there was a fixed date with the scholarship, nothing can be done. School District 71 superintendent Sherry Elwood said while she understands the frustration faced by both Alannah and her mother, she explained Alannah withdrew from NIDES in June with the goal to register in a self-designed program. “We agreed to hold her transcript and the credits would be attached to us. She would have then been in a position to graduate through the summer and be eligible for the scholarship,” Elwood explained. “From June
College, with which SD71 has an for a dual credit proWe’re offering to do what arrangement gram. we can … this is a young “We’re offering to do what we can woman we know and support … this is a young woman we know and support and from our perspecand from our perspective, we tive, we didn’t get a chance to assist her, she withdrew in the middle of didn’t get a chance to assist her, she withdrew in the mid- June.” While Alannah is now working on dle of June. completing the one course, Clark said the incident draws attention to the Sherry Elwood lack of support for distributed learning students across the province. until the end of the job action, she was “Alannah was forced to go to an not a NIDES student; she was not a independent school. School District registered student.” 71 could not serve Alannah or any Elwood noted there were other des- student,” she noted. ignated learning schools Clark could “Distributed Learning is part of have registered in, after the first the B.C. government education plan, application failed. but it’s not supported by the governShe said that upon completion of ment. Kids’ needs are not being met. the course, Allanah will be eligible for The degree that Distributed Learning the 2014/2015 school year, and will students were affected by the strike have the opportunity to reapply for in the summer was huge — three the scholarship. months. Most kids at regular schools The school district is offering sup- missed five weeks of school.” port financially for Clark to complete the course through North Island photos@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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Alannah Clark shows her $1,000 scholarship, which is now worthless. Photo Submitted
Cycling task force concludes term
Things are looking up
Submitted The Comox Valley Cycling Task Force, in existence 2006, has concluded its term. The group has accomplished a number of initiatives to improve cycling safety and convenience: supporting a feasibility study that spurred the Rotary RailTrail; initiating Bike to Work Week and Active School Travel Planning; mapping and data collection; and sponsoring Car Free Sunday events, among others.
“A key to the task force’s successes is the cross-agency collaboration,” Area B director and task force chair Jim Gillis states in a letter to local municipalities. The regional district committee of the whole approved a task force recommendation to change the name of the proposed Integrated Transportation Advisory Committee to the Go Smart Comox Valley-Integrated Transportation Committee — to be approved by each participating jurisdiction separately.
Land: Office will be relocated Photo by Erin Haluschak
Workers took construction at the hospital site to another level last week, with the erection of a crane. The $331.7 million, 153-bed hospital coming to the Comox Valley is slated to open in 2017.
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Continued from A1 In 1977, it added the third parcel in an exchange with a developer. SD71 will re-purchase the building and property, which houses the UBID office. The office will be relocated to another location that has yet to
be determined. The UBID is continuing with its second claim against Margot Rutherford, who was its notary public before the sale of the property was finalized in October, 2007.
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