LETTER: School district moving forward with next steps in school reconfiguration
We would like to begin by expressing our most sincere thank you to everyone who participat-ed in the four district redesign public forums. The Board was seeking input on a middle school model concept for the Boundary that would see schools reconfigured to a K-5, 6-8 and a 9-12 model. We were fortunate to be able to be posing...
School District looks ahead to another positive five years
After experiencing five years of positive results, School District 51, the provincial government and local aboriginal leaders signed a second aboriginal enhancement agreement during a special ceremony, Wednesday, June 27. The first agreement, which was signed five years ago, was so successful that the school district saw an...
Unique international opportunity for Selkirk College
“Sino-Canadian Selkirk College of Taiyuan Normal University”: this sign rests on the side of a building at Taiyuan Normal University (TNU) in Taiyuan, China. The three-year English diploma program housed in this building represents a unique collaboration between TNU and Selkirk College in British Columbia. TNU develops and...
Yellow fish swimming down our streets
More than 140 storm drains are just that much more important to Grand Forks now they have a symbolic yellow fish painted alongside them. The yellow fish and the words “Rainwater Only” were painted by Grade 4 and 5 Hutton Elementary School students along with the help of their teacher, Amy Perry, on Wednesday, June 20. The ...
Grand Forks teachers take to the streets once more
In a last hurrah before the end of the school year, 15 Grand Forks teachers took to Central Avenue in Grand Forks to continue their protest on Bill 22, Thursday, June 21. After school, the group walked their homemade signs down Central Avenue from the union office across from the Aquatic Centre to the intersection in front ...
Science camps open for youth this summer
Science camps offering a fun, interactive learning environment with some basic electricity, chemistry, physics, and biology will be running this summer in Grand Forks and Christina Lake. The three camps, running through Selkirk College, are for youth ages six - 12 years-of-age. Camps are three days in duration with two taking...
Fight the bite! Take precautions to avoid West Nile virus
Interior Health is reminding residents to take extra precautions against mosquito bites this summer. West Nile virus, a disease that is spread from infected birds to humans through mosquito bites, has been present in B.C. since 2009. West Nile virus (WNv) was first detected in B.C. in the South Okanagan during the summer of...
EDUCATION: Board hears from Christina Lake parents
Christina Lake parents made up a large part of the delegations before the School District 51 board of trustees meeting on Tuesday, June 12. They emphasized their displeasure at the proposed middle school plan that would drop enrollment at their elementary school by over 30 students. Along with some voices against the proposed...
GFSS 2012 Grads say a fond farewell
The 81 graduates of the Grand Forks Secondary School bid a fond farewell to their childhood and gazed excitedly into a promising future during the commencement ceremonies, Saturday, June 16. The Grand Forks Arena was packed with family, friends and well wishers as the excited and dazzlingly dressed students paraded on to...
US: Grieving father struggles to pay dead son’s student loans
By Marian Wang in ProPublica. A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling. "They would say, 'We don't care what happened with your son, you have to pay us,'" recalled Reynoso, a gardener from Palmdale, Calif. Reynoso's son, Freddy, had been...
