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SERVING MISSION SINCE 1908
Changes all about choices
WILD WINDS
Combined secondary opens doors to students on Tuesday Frank Bucholtz Mission Record
The biggest change in Mission schools in years officially gets underway on Tuesday, when the reconfigured middle and secondary schools welcome students back. Mission Secondary will become the district’s lone senior secondary school, with Heritage Park and Hatzic becoming middle schools. MSS will be home to about 1,250 Grade 10 to 12 students. As middle schools, Heritage Park will have 725 Grade 7 to 9 students, and Hatzic at 800. Elementary schools will now be responsible for educating kindergarten to Grade 6 students. While the shift to a middle and senior secondary education model was controversial with some parents and students, Mission Secondary principal Jim Pearce said the end result will offer students more choices and provide them with enhanced opportunities – both in high school and beyond. “This will give kids more opportunity for learning, with a personalized learning approach,” he said. Pearce said a key reason for reconfiguration was locating enough students at one school to offer them significantly more choices. “We will have at least 12 new courses,” he said. “These were not offered last year in the district.” Among them will be 3D design gaming, animation and robotics – all courses designed to capture student interest in technology, and offer future opportunities. There will also be food service courses. MSS has a new cafeteria with a Red Seal chef, and a restaurant and coffee shop. These facilities are part of the learning experience, and students will learn valuable skills in food preparation and serving. There will also be more specialized courses, such as business law – something that has not been available before.
Gardener Sandie Zdunich rakes up fallen branches at Fraser River Heritage Park on Monday morning, after Saturday’s windstorm that toppled trees and cut power to thousands of Mission residents. FRANK BUCHOLTZ Mission Record
Still tallying damage Frank Bucholtz Mission Record
Mission public works officials are still counting the damage from Saturday’s powerful windstorm which downed trees and led to many Mission residents losing power — some for several days. The widespread power outages were still being sorted out Monday morning, and a few residents remained without power on Tuesday, 72 hours after the storm struck.
As of 11 a.m. Monday, there were 28 separate outages in Mission remaining to be fixed. They affected about 1,000 BC Hydro customers. Many of the remaining outages were in rural areas of the District of Mission, and there were still a few scattered small outages in areas in Fraser Valley Regional District to the east. However, power remained out on Monday at a commercial area on Lougheed Highway. Hydro said that at the peak on Saturday, 13,446 Continued on A5
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