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Sgt. Newel is officially named NCO in Charge C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The Kimberley RCMP Detachment finally has a permanent Officer in Charge and he is a familiar face. Chris Newel was promoted to Sgt. last Thursday, and after spending much of the past four and a half years since his arrival in Kimberley as interim NCO In Charge, it’s official. “I’ve been fulfilling the role for some time but I didn’t hold the position,” Newel said. “Now I’ve been officially named and it’s permanent.” It’s a satisfying promotion 27 and a half years into his RCMP career, and interestingly, Newel has had Kimberley on his mind for much of that time. “I came through here in ‘89. I wasn’t in the RCMP then. I went cross-country skiing, had a mocha at the Snow Drift, and I thought, ‘what a great community’.” Kimberley stayed in the back of his mind, Newel says, and when he was asked for preferences for his first assignment, he asked for the East Kootenay. Which he got — not Kimberley but Cranbrook. “When I was in Cran-
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Sgt. Chris Newel, Kimberley RCMP
brook, I spent a lot of time in Kimberley, but I never set foot in the detachment until I came here four years ago.” Kimberley, Newel says, is a great place to raise kids. “It has lots of amenities, and access to good health care not far away, if you need it.” Part of the job that Newel really enjoys is the public relations aspect — getting out in the community and talking to people, and through his involvement in various community organizations and the entire family’s involvement in amateur sports, it’s easy to meet people and get to know them. “I’d be very happy to retire here,” he said. “That’s the family plan.”
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Turner & Adler Productions Summer production is “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at Centre 64 in beautiful Kimberley, BC from August 23-27 at 7:30pm. From the company that brought you “Calamity Jane”, this hilarious musical comedy is presented in a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.” Starring Clara MacLeod, Jelena Jensen, Jerrod Bondy and David Booth, this adult romp is a great way to remember why we bother with love at all! Directed by Tylene Turner, with live music performed by Elizabeth Adler. Tickets are $15 and on sale at the Snowdrift Cafe in the Kimberley Platzl, 250-427-2001.
Rankled by school rankings
Fraser Institute rankings don’t impress SD6 much C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
The Fraser Institute released its annual ranking of secondary schools last week, with Kimberley’s Selkirk Secondary rating a 7.2 out of 10, 65th out of 294 high schools in the province. To put that in context, Golden Secondary, with a similar number of Grade 12 students was 223d out of 294; Invermere was 106th and Fernie was 138th. Mount
Baker in Cranbrook, with about three times as many students in Grade 12, was ranked 120th. The Fraser Institute ranks schools on average exam marks, percentage of exams failed, gender gaps in English and math, graduation rate and more, to give the schools a ranking out of ten. The rankings are quite controversial — opponents say that private schools always come out at the top and you simply can’t compare them to public schools. The methodology is also questioned. Paul Carriere, superintendent of School
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District No. 6, says the rankings mean nothing. “We pay no attention to the Fraser Institute ranking of schools, and we have held this view consistently over time,” he said. “We are in the business of trying to do our very best for each individual student we serve, and in that regard, a ranking of schools is unhelpful and unnecessary. We also agree with the widely held view that the methodology used in the ranking is questionable, and cannot be seen as accurately measuring the quality of a school.”
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