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SD5 releases draft calendar for 2015-16 TRE VOR CR AWLEY
While not necessarily a big-ticket item, the Southeast Kootenay School District released a draft calendar for the 2015-16 calendar year. The calendar is currently available for public review and there is also potential for changes depending on feedback from district staff, teachers and parents, according to board chair Frank Lento. “The protocol is we have a draft to meet the Minister of Education’s regulations in terms of minutes and hours per year and so on,” said Lento. “So we’ve drafted that and it goes to all our stakeholders. That’s where it is right now, so we’re still looking for input. “We could get input from the teachers’ association, parents, PACs, principals, vice-principals.” In the 2015-16 year, there are 182 days in session, with 176 days of instruction and five non-instruction professional development (pro-D) days.
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A team of local curlers are provincial Masters champions. Pictured above: Gerry Kent, Peter Sweetman, Laddie Pavlis and Ralph Will. The foursome will be off to Whitehorse at the end of March for the Canadian Masters Curling Championships.
Local curlers win B.C. title TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Winning a provincial championship is difficult. Imagine doing it twice in a row. That’s what a curling team with members from Cranbrook and the surrounding region did last week, repeating as Masters champions at a tournament in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. The team, featuring Gerry Kent and Peter Sweetman of Cranbrook, along with Ralph Will of Fernie and Laddie Pavlis of Creston, played a near per-
fect round-robin and came out on top of a wild final to win the gold. With the crown of provincial champion, that means the foursome will represent B.C. at the upcoming Canadian Masters Curling Championship in Whitehorse at the end of March. “Well it’s all great,” said Kent. “It was a strong field and I felt that pretty well every team there could’ve won it, so we felt fortunate to come out on top.” Kicking off the round-robin,
the team took the first two games at scores of 5-2 over Team Danderfer and 9-2 over Team Saboe. The third game was the only real hiccup of the tournament, as the Kootenay team lost 7-1 to Team Rampton. The pivotal day came on Thursday, March 5, when the team beat what Kent called the ‘two best teams’ of the affair. “The key day was when we played Ken Watson and Doug Marshall. I felt like they were our main competition,” Kent
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