How do you make education better in School District #53? Better – what does that mean? Better results – better teaching and better success with students that can be measured might be one concept. An idea doing the rounds is “inquiry time” where teachers and administrators will send the students home early and collaborate in […]
Archives for May 2013
Breakfast fund raiser for Cloe – May 26th
Parents apathetic about new learning concepts
Looking for a meal – osprey by Wayne (the baker) Jones*
*with apologies – just making sure Wayne was awake that early
Do you like statistics?
The debut of Canada’s controversial census replacement survey shows there are more foreign-born people in the country than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century. They’re young, they’re suburban, and they’re mainly from Asia, although Africans are arriving in growing numbers. But the historical comparisons are few and far between in […]
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Local post office in Oliver. Notice the change?
Car dives into orchard near Osoyoos
Time 2:15pm Wednesday 3 miles north of Osoyoos on Highway 97 Police and ambulance attended Car driving southbound veers to the left crossing center line into a orchard. No known reason. No one seriously hurt.
Snowballs
When I first saw the clouds over Baldy I was driving east up McKinney and it really looked like a giant snowball dropped on the hill. But to get the right shot without wires I backed off to the top of Road 4. But alas the dream shot was not there. C’est la vie.