Friday, March 24, 2017
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Brochet School a finalist in Staples Superpower Your School contest BY CAROLYN LAIDLAW Brochet School is one of 100 finalists in the Superpower Your School Contest. They will now wait until April 22, when 10 schools from five different regions of Canada will win $25,000 in new technology from Staples Canada. Grade 1/2 teacher Tiffany McEachern and Grade 4/5 teacher Emily Sheety, who led efforts to enter the school in this contest, said winning the contest would improve students’ educational opportunities. “Students would be ecstatic and appreciative,” McEachern and Sheety told the Nickel Belt News. “We live in a fly-in isolated community so therefore this would provide more opportunities for students to access computers and the Internet providing an equal opportunity for further education as well as preparation for future educational goals.” When it comes to helping the environment, Brochet School has an Earth Club, where students have learned to reuse many items including paper for a variety of projects and conservation of electricity. The school
Nickel Belt News photos courtesy of Brochet School Students in Brochet School’s Earth Club have been making paper out of otherwise discarded paper for the last three years. started recycling and composting, after learning about these practices through Recycle Everywhere and the Frontier School Division. “It has taken over two years to accomplish this. A group of teachers worked together to get the help of outside sources,” said McEachern and Sheety. Fundraising provided materials for
compost and outdoor bins that were built by Archie Halkett while Recycle Everywhere provided the indoor recycling bins and Perimeter Airlines provides transportation of their recyclable material to Thompson, where it is processed at the Thompson Recycling Centre. The school has been fundraising and has written many
letters to receive donations for their programs. “We are extremely happy to reduce the amount of waste contributed by the school,” say McEachern or Sheety. “Our students have become more conscious about what is placed in garbage cans and about the effects of unnecessary waste on the environment.”
Vocational and industrial arts programs get money for new equipment Northern school divisions are getting about $190,000 for vocational and industrial arts program equipment, the provincial government announced in February. The investments, part of $1.5 million in total funding for such new equipment across the province, include $39,488 for R.D. Parker Collegiate’s automotive technology and carpentry programs in Thompson, $115,964 for Frontier Collegiate’s welding and automotive programs and the fashion design program at Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Educational Resource Centre in Norway House, $20,522 for the Hapnot Collegiate Institute’s woodworking and metals programs in Flin Flon,
and $13,474 for the Mary Duncan School’s hairstyling and cosmetology program in The Pas. The funding comes from the Skills Strategy Equipment Enhancement Fund (SSEEF), said Education Minister Ian Wishart in a Feb. 16 press release, and is intended to ensure programming is relevant to current and future labour needs, with an emphasis on supporting high school level programs that can lead to becoming accredited by Apprenticeship Manitoba. “With many of Manitoba’s certified tradespeople retiring in the next decade, businesses throughout our province will be looking for skilled workers,” said Wishart. “These investments
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will enable high school students to train with the same equipment used by industry
and prepare them to work in their chosen field when they graduate.”
Notice of Environment Act Proposal
Recycling and compost bins are placed in the schools where students can easily access them.
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Manitoba Sustainable Development has received a proposal pursuant to The Environment Act regarding the following operation and invites public participation in the review process:
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INCORPORATED COMMUNITY OF NELSON HOUSE – NELSON HOUSE WASTEWATER TREATMENT LAGOON – FILE: 5874.00
Minimum Stay -14 nights Short Term Rates: $119 - $125/Night Long Term Rates (30+): $99 - $104/Night
KGS Group has filed an Environment Act Proposal on behalf of the Manitoba Water Services Board and the Incorporated Community of Nelson House for the construction and operation of a wastewater treatment lagoon serving the community of Nelson House. The facility would be connected with a previously installed wastewater collection system in the community. Currently, wastewater from the community is collected in holding tanks and hauled by truck to the nearby Nisichawaysihk Cree Nation wastewater treatment facility. The proposed facility would be constructed north of the community and east of the northern end of Footprint Lake. Discharges of treated effluent would be made between June 15 and October 31 to a new drain flowing southwest to a creek flowing west out of Footprint Lake. Construction of the facility is proposed for the fall of 2017.
Anyone likely to be affected by the above operation and who wishes to make a representation either for or against the proposal should contact the Department, in writing or by E-mail (bruce.webb@gov.mb.ca), not later than APRIL 24, 2017. Further information is available from the Public Registries located at: Legislative Library, 200 Vaughan St., Winnipeg; Millennium Public Library, 4th Floor, 251 Donald St., Winnipeg; Online Registry: http://www.gov.mb.ca/ sd/eal/registries/index.html or by contacting Bruce Webb, Environmental Engineer.
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Information submitted in response to this proposal is considered public information and will be made available to the proponent and placed on the public registry established in accordance with Section 17 of The Environment Act.
Phase I: Available June 2017 & Phase II: 2018 Starting at $209,900
Environmental Approvals Branch Manitoba Sustainable Development 123 Main Street, Suite 160 Winnipeg MB R3C 1A5 Toll Free: 1-800-282-8069 Fax: (204) 945-5229 Website: www.gov.mb.ca/sd/eal
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