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Students walk out ‘We are not your leverage,’ NWSS students chant BY NIKI HOPE REPORTER
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Students at New Westminster Secondary School joined their counterparts across the Lower Mainland, walking out of school Wednesday morning to show their frustration with the ongoing labour strife between the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government. Approximately 35 students gathered at the high school, near the corner of Eighth Street and Eighth Avenue, chanting, “We are not your leverage.” “We are out here in support of students,” said Freddie Young, a Grade 12 student who has been accepted to UBC. “We feel both the BCTF and the government are equally detrimental to students.” Young acknowledged there are problems in the education system, but said they need to be resolved without impacting students’ education. “It’s not that I’m against the BCTF. I think both of them don’t look out for students,” Young told The Record during the morning protest. A Surrey student initiated provincewide walkouts through social media to protest the labour dispute. Thousands of students signed on to participate in the walkout, but at NWSS the response was minimal. Considering the size of the school – about 2,000 students – a small margin turned up to take part, though more were expected to join the rally after the school’s first block. NWSS principal Phil Cookson said those who did miss school to attend the walkout would be marked absent from class that day, but would receive no other discipline. He applauded the students for becoming “politically aware,” but didn’t like that they were missing school. “I don’t think this is a good thing because they’ve missed so much school,” he said. ◗Walkout Page 10
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Play time: Royal City Farmers Market operations manager Melissa Maltais, accompanied by her nine-week-old son Logan, is introducing a mini-farmers’ market feature to the market, where little ones can “sell and barter” with play fruits and vegetables. It’s just one of the new additions to the summer season, which started yesterday at Tipperary Park.
Market is a growing event BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
Royal City Farmers Market is ripe for change as it enters its seventh summer season. The first summer market of the 2014 season was yesterday from 3 to 7 p.m. in Tipperary Park. The family-friendly market includes gourmet prepared foods, entertainment, crafts from local artisans, and locally grown food and produce. “I really want folks to come and meet the farmers, meet the small scale producer,” said Melissa Maltais, the market’s operations manager. “I think that’s what the difference of shopping local at your
farmers’ market is, because the face of those products and those vegetables are right there. You look at farmers’ hands – they are caked with dirt, they have worked hard. They were up at four in the morning to pick those cucumbers and strawberries.” This year’s summer market will feature 14 different farms, including some newcomers. “We have a few more organic farms coming, which is very exciting for us,” Maltais said. “Farmers are something that are not as easy to get as people would assume for farmers’ markets because there are quite a few in the Lower Mainland. It’s a bit of a competition to see which markets
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get the best farmers. I think we have done a very good job this year of getting some really good farmers on board, as well as our returning farmers that we know and love. It’s going to be a nice mix of new faces and familiar faces.” Earlier this year, the Royal City Farmers Market surveyed its shoppers to see what they thought was missing from the market. More organics, variety and seating were among the requests. “We have a few different vendors, a few different food trucks coming this year. We have got quite a few who cater to gluten-free and vegan diets. We are trying to
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