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Archives for 2014
Notice
Break-In At OK Falls Business
Early Tuesday a business in OK Falls was broken into and several thousand dollars of copper along with brass fittings (as shown above) were stolen. Anyone with information on the person/s responsible for this crime are asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or www.sostips.ca for other Anonymous methods of passing along information. Should […]
School District speaks out
An open letter to our Communities from the Okanagan Similkameen Board of Education The Board of Education, School District No. 53 (Okanagan Similkameen), is extremely saddened by the current state of negotiations between the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA). The impact of the current stalemate […]
Big BC unions pledge $8 million to support* teachers
A group of unions in British Columbia have offered the BC Teachers’ Federation $8 million in interest-free loans as the current education dispute drags on. B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) Hospital Employee’s Union (HEU), United Steelworkers (USW), Cope 378, Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of B.C. (FPSE), Health […]
Photographer Jack Morrison
Sunshine on my shoulder
Good morning The sun through the high school trees. Such an empty place after so much hard work and heart ache! We have the children laughing, playing and learning the ups and downs of growing up … Such a pleasure to hear Renatta Hext’s theatrical, loving, but stern voice teaching the preschoolers of Oliver’s future. […]
What can you do? – apply pressure on someone
“Shocked by indifference of many parents about teacher’s strike” The above made up from a longer statement seen on a Vancouver media outlet this morning. I think the statement can be attributed to concerned parents, teachers etc. that are waiting for the balloon to pop. I have been urging parents and teachers to write ODN […]