THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015
Volume 41, Issue 12
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Minimum wage to be tied to inflation ..... page 2
STAR/JOURNAL photo: Jill Hayward
High court to decide right to pot cookies ..... page 3
Ladies night a huge success for Anti Violence fundraiser ..... page 8
North Thompson Valley invites the world ..... page 10
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Saturday’s wind storm takes out building Wind gusts of up to 90km per hour last Saturday proved to be too much for this large hay and equipment barn on Agate Bay Road. Other damage in the area included numerous reports of trees down and some across power lines. A downed power line on the Yellowhead Highway just north of Barriere caused a three hour highway closure, while another power outage in the Barriere area due to a downed or blown transformer, had residents without power from approximately 12 noon to midnight. The Bear radio station in Barriere reports their radio mast was blown over Saturday afternoon, which put the station off air until emergency repairs could erect a temporary tower, returning them to the air late Sunday morning. As of press time Tuesday, residents continued to report on damaged roofs, campers blown over and plenty of clean up to do from tree branches and blowing debris.
Science Fair judges over 80 entries By Dawn McCormick On Wednesday, March 11, at the invitation of Barriere Elementary, several people from the community came together to judge the annual Barriere Elementary School Science Fair. The judges were made up of community leaders, retired science teachers and local volunteers who were given the task of judging over 80 Science Fair entries from kindergarten through grade 7. The judges were asked to meet in the morning at the library in the school, and upon arrival were given coffee and scones to enjoy while the principal Gordon Cumming gave the judges an overview of the judging forms, how to score each entry and how to interview the students. Exhibits and experiments ranged from creating electricity using a bicycle and a battery; strength of bridges or structures using spaghetti, popsicle sticks, or Legos; growing crystals from substances like sugar and salt; how to produce biogases from different substances as well as flammable and non-flammable uses of those biogas produced; and conductivity of electricity using potatoes; just to name a few. Judging took place in the gymnasium, and was based on originality of the experiment, content, how well organized the presentation was, the science journal or log kept by the student as the experiment progressed, oral presentation by the students and their knowledge of the material. Each entry had a presentation board that showed the hypothesis;
Submitted photo: Dawn McCormick
This biogas chemistry experiment being judged by Gai Conan was constructed by Tyson Schilling. Schilling’s entry was the highest scored experiment in the Barriere Elementary School’s Science Fair, receiving a score of 99 out of a possible 100. details of the experiment such as materials used, how the experiment progressed and safety procedures; what the conclusions were; and how the student arrived at that conclusion. ...continued on page 9
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