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Jill McLennan organizes music for an upcoming concert at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. The congregation is celebrating 150 years in Nanaimo with events throughout the summer.
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dents it draws from Wellington Secondary School. “We’re feeding their mouths, feeding their tummies, feeding their souls in a very subtle way,” Hovestad said. Also on this summer’s agenda is the creation of a gathering space behind the church. A dedication ceremony and laying of the cornerstone of the church constructed in 1930 is scheduled for Aug. 30. The actual anniversary on Nov. 28 will be celebrated at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 256. For more information, including coming events, please visit www. standrewsnanaimo.ca.
With the go-ahead given by Nanaimo school district trustees in late April, district staff are working to get Cedar Secondary School up and running in time for the 2016 school year. The school was being converted to an elementary school as part of the 10-year facilities plan, but the current board reversed that decision. According to the district, steps to implement conversion include the establishment of a school construction committee and a school consolidation working group and ongoing consultation with architect firm KMBR Architects Planners Inc. General instruction rooms can be easily converted back, according to an update provided by Pete Sabo, school district director of planning and operations, at the May 13 business committee meeting. “There’s a number of improvements made to those rooms that are perfectly suitable for secondary,” Sabo said. “We’ve added extra network, extra outlets, mounts and we’re going to get equipment for ceiling projectors, etc., so basically, some of the work just results in upgraded classrooms.” Sabo said the architect had its attention on areas that were presenting challenges, including conversion of rooms back to science labs. “There’s the business ed rooms, which had been made smaller with a collaboration area in between, so we’re looking at models that could see us keeping that configuration or using another room in the school as business, and then technology space, which was three rooms divided into two, and we’re having discussions around what that technology might look like,” he said. Approximately $1 million has been set aside in the school district’s 2015-16 budget for the work. Sabo said a school construction committee meeting is expected to be held in late May or early June.
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ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN dates to 1865. BY CHRIS BUSH THE NEWS BULLETIN
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will host a vintage car and antique show this weekend as part of a series of events scheduled throughout the summer to celebrate the congregation’s 150th anniversary in Nanaimo. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian was established in 1865 by Rev. Robert Jamieson, who held services in Nanaimo’s courthouse until a sanctu-
ary was constructed on Fitzwilliam Street in 1866. Nanaimo’s population was about 600 people then and 19 of them were listed on the Presbyterian communion roll, which included coal and railway developer Robert Dunsmuir. In 1902 a movement started to amalgamate the large number of church denominations under the United Church. “Between 1902 and 1925 this was hugely, hotly debated and our congregation did not become part of that union, which is why we’re the oldest continuing Presbyterian congregation,” said Karen Hovestad,
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