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Crews work on the facility at the Greater Vernon Athletic Park at Okanagan College Tuesday morning. The more than $8 million project is slated for opening by the end of June.
Students, parents, teachers, staff and taxpayers are being urged to get directly involved in the financial crunch facing the Vernon School District. A public input session on the 2015/16 budget will be held today at the Schubert Centre at 6:30 p.m. “They are the ones impacted the most,” said superintendent Joe Rogers of the need to hear from the community. “We’re here to serve students and the public.” The provincial government requires $437,000 of cuts in non-instructional costs in the 2015/16 school year, rising to $814,000 in 2016/17. A projected decrease in enrolment and increased costs for utilities and Medical Service Plan premiums translates into a $1 million cost reductions by 2016/17. “During the input session, the secretary-treasurer will explain the financial situation for the coming school year and the following school year,” said Rogers. “We will lay out the problem we have. Either we have to cut or increase revenue and with revenue, the only area is charging for busing.” Rogers wouldn’t speculate on what actions may ultimately be taken by the district to balance the books. “There are no good decisions. All of them will be difficult,” he said. For those residents who can’t attend today’s input session, there is an opportunity to provide budget feedback at www.sd22.bc.ca.
Enderby teen survives massive fall ROGER KNOX Morning Star Staff
A young Enderby man is lucky to have survived a 1,600-foot fall off an Alberta mountain while skiing. The incident happened at Goat’s Eye Mountain in Banff National Park outside the ski boundary at Sunshine Village near Banff, at around 12:30 p.m. local time Friday, March 27. According to Grant Statham, visitor safety specialist with Parks Canada for Banff, Yoho and Kootenay National Parks, skiers can ride the Goat’s Eye lift at Sunshine where it’s common, he said, for people to hike above the chair lift to access runs called the South Side Chutes. If a skier hikes a bit further than most people go, said Statham, they end up at the edge of a huge cliff where a rope is in place to
“They fell 500 metres.” — Grant Statham
stop skiers from going any further. “This person took their skis off and proceeded to cross through the rope and walked out to a lip of a cornice (an overhang of snow or ice that accumulates along the crest of the leeward side of mountain ridges) and the cornice broke,” said Statham. The unidentified Enderby man is 18-yearsold. “They fell approximately 500 metres (1,600 feet), a terrible fall,” said Statham. “It’s amazing that they survived this. That’s the remarkable part about this is that they lived.” Unconfirmed reports have the injured
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