BC Jobs Start Here job fair makes stop Thursday at Castlegar's Selkirk College
The BC Jobs Start Here job fair will be in Castlegar at Selkirk College on Thursday to connect job seekers with employers and share information on job opportunities, career trends, skills training and more. Exhibitors at the fair will include employers from a variety of sectors, post-secondary institutions, industry associations, training authorities, as well as […]
In Winter Wonder time mittens are a must—and a magnifying glass, too
It’s Winter Wonder time! Primary students all over the snowy Columbia Basin are learning about how plants and animals adapt to winter. Kids take a magical journey to discover the natural world in winter through these walking field trips, which occur in and around their schoolyards and neighbourhoods. Exploring snow crystals...
Taxes and the potential for a Rossland-SD20 partnership
Staff have calculated the tax implications for four scenarios in which Rossland funds School District No. 20 (SD20) as part of a larger deal to secure K-12 schooling in Rossland. The SD20 board recently voted against K-12 schooling in Rossland, and will likely give third reading to a resolution for K-9 at RSS with the closure...
Official word on the death of a Castlegar teacher yesterday
Superintendent of School Division 20 (SD 20) Greg Luterbach, has released a statement regarding the untimely death of a teacher yesterday morning at Twin Rivers Elementary. “We suffered a tragedy at Twin Rivers Elementary School Tuesday. Brian Rigby, a teacher in our district since the mid-’90s, died suddenly and unexpectedly. “In addition to our grief […]
Neighbourhood of Learning Committee releases capacity report: Enrolments affect Trail schools
In the public presentation given to the citizens of Rossland on January 15th by the board and staff of SD20, superintendent Greg Luterbach showed several slides with enrolment projections to 2029/30. These are numbers every parent in the south end of SD20 should be aware of, and yet most haven’t seen them. For years, the […]
COMMENT: School closures and the ‘cult of efficiency’
In light of the current fiscal crisis and resultant school closures and reconfigurations being contemplated by our Board of Education to balance its budget we believe it is appropriate to revisit some of Murray Dobbin’s thoughts in his article about School Closures and the “Cult of Efficiency” written in 2008 when he was the...
ANALYSIS: Budge the Budget—DemocracySTORM returns!
Back over Christmas, I eagerly unwrapped the gift of enormously diverse input given by respondents to December's DemocracySTORM survey. Now we’re in the second, more exciting phase of the storm—we’re asking you to vote on your favourite Budge the Budget ideas. You need not have participated to jump in right now and vote, so...
DemocracySTORM: Big ideas YOU wanted council to hear about the budget
Below are 58 categories into which I put people’s responses to the question, What key points should council consider before passing the budget? Separate articles address the questions: What should Rossland spend MORE money on? What should Rossland spend LESS money on? And we also address concerns people have raised about ...
DemocracySTORM: What YOU thought Rossland should spend LESS money on
Below are 50 categories into which I put people’s responses to the question, What should Rossland spend LESS money on? Separate articles address the questions: What should Rossland spend MORE money on? What other key points should council consider before passing the budget? And we also address concerns people have raised about...
DemocracySTORM: What YOU thought Rossland should spend MORE money on
Below are 49 categories into which I put people’s responses to the question, What should Rossland spend MORE money on? Separate articles address the questions: What should Rossland spend LESS money on? What other key points should council consider before passing the budget? And we also address concerns people have raised about...
