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Daycare agenda item met with unruly support KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
They came with signs, children and their voices and they filled the public gallery to overflowing at Monday night’s council meeting. More than 70 early childhood educators, advocates, parents and their children descended on city hall to encourage city council to endorse a plan for $10 a day child care. While council didn’t go so far as to endorse the plan in its entirety, councillors did support the concept in principle and that seemed to satisfy the crowd which let out a cheer following the vote. After a couple of attempts by council to nail down what it was trying to say, councillors in the end voted to endorse in principle $10 a day child care by sending an endorsement in principle letter from mayor and council expressing how it will benContinued on Pg. 3
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Timberline Secondary Grade 12 student Brooke Drazic, left, interviews Rosina Saunders as part of the school’s Writes of Passage project at Berwick by the Sea Thursday.
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An overflowing gallery urged council to support daycare.
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he ghosts of the past are being stirred up at the Berwick by the Sea retirement community. So who better to
capture them than ghostwriters? Students from Timberline Secondary School’s English 12 have been gathering stories from residents in a series of visits to Berwick in a project dubbed Writes of Passage. The students, working
in teams of writers, artists, editors and book designers, will turn the recollections of the resident seniors into first-person “memoirs” to be published in a book that will be donated to the Berwick by the Sea library next month.
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“We’ve been talking with them and taking notes, of any story they want to be told,” Timberline student Halle Weyler said. “We’re taking these stories and making them our own.”
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