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Increased enrolment could be among the benefits from an International Baccalaureate program the Nanaimo school district is seeking to implement. Parents requested the primary years program from the Switzerland-based non-profit educational foundation, which has a goal to create curriculum that engages students aged three to 12 years. A presentation to the education committee earlier this week suggested the program increased student numbers in other B.C. schools, such as West Bay Elementary in West Vancouver. “There’s a component of the parent group who understands the IB program and maybe have seen it in other places and so I think that there has been a group of parents who have been looking to see this program be developed in our school district,” said Robyn Gray, school district assistant superintendent. “We only have a French immersion option and we have a regular public school option and this would just be a third option. I think it increases options for our parent groups,” she said. A steering committee is in the midst of preparing a pre-implementation plan for accreditation, according to Gray. “It requires basically a threeto four-year program to actually develop it to get actually accredited as an IB school,” Gray said. See ‘PROGRAM’ /6
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GABRIOLA ISLAND allows tourist accommodation and secondary suites on Agricultural Land Reserve. BY TAMARA CUNNINGHAM THE NEWS BULLETIN
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Tali Campbell, left, Samantha Bishop and Sarah Lumley, of the Nanaimo Youth Action Committee, join Nanaimo city councillor Jerry Hong for a practice run on a slip-andslide on the city hall front lawn Tuesday. Hong is working with the youth organization to create a water slide-themed Heritage Days parade float promoting the Slide the City event proposed for July. For more on Heritage Days, please see pages 18-19.
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Gabriola farmers can now offer secondary suites and tourist accommodation in the Agricultural Land Reserve. New changes have been made to Gabriola Island’s Official Community Plan to give a boost to local farmers and food production, as well as protect streams and limit car use. The latest amendments are considered to be progressive and the most significant since the vision for Gabriola was first adopted in 1997, according to Courtney Simpson, regional planning manager for Islands Trust’s northern office. The most innovative for Gabriola is allowing secondary suites and tourist accommodations on farm properties, she says. There are more than 5,000 hectares of ALR across Gabriola and the new policy is aimed at helping farmers and providing accommodation on site for seasonal workers and people doing work exchanges. Residents have outlined difficulties to farming in the community, including lack of a labour pool and affordable housing for farm labour, a community profile shows. “Farmers are struggling all over the place ... and certainly on Gabriola and I think that this is a change that respects the scale of development on Gabriola, the scale of farming, the rural character but still provides an economic opportunity for farmers so they can keep farming,” Simpson said. Heather Nicholas, Gabriola Island local trustee, calls the new policy a win-win with agricultural, economic and tourism benefits.
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