Come celebrate BC Rivers Day in Trail!
Trail residents will be coming together Sept. 29 for a festival-like event to clean up the Columbia. BC Rivers Day is celebrated province-wide, and the City of Champions is sponsoring a Shoreline Cleanup to help local people get involved with being good stewards of their waterways. City Councillor Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson,...
BC Education Minister speaks to back-to-school
This week more than half a million B.C. children are back in the classroom to continue their education journeys. While our youngest students are experiencing their very first day of school and Grade 12s are looking forward to the next phase in their lives, the first week back is a special time when everyone shares in the...
Selkirk College celebrates 2013 Scope winners
Selkirk College’s Standing Committee on Professional Excellence (SCOPE) congratulates the recipients of the 2013 awards. The purpose of the SCOPE Awards is to recognize and promote both long-term and innovative professional excellence. Faculty and staff are nominated for the awards by students and peers, and this year,...
Support staff strike may disrupt back-to-school season
West Kootenay public school students may be gearing up for a new year of classes, but the support staff who work within those schools are bracing themselves for a potential strike, according to Castlegar's Cherryl MacLeod. MacLeod works as an education assistant as well as serving as president of CUPE Local 1285, representing...
Support available to hire a student: CBT’s popular School Works Program continues this fall
Businesses and organizations around the Basin can once again get support to hire students through the School Works Program of Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). Applications are available at www.cbt.org/schoolworks starting Aug. 14, and are assessed on a first-come, first-served basis. The program provides a wage subsidy of up to ...
Keep Your Kids Learning with Selkirk College's Outstanding Summer Camp Programs
Boundary kids can keep their wits sharp and their curiosity revved up at Selkirk College’s annual Summer Camp program offered in Grand Forks, Christina Lake and Midway. The first few camps have come and gone but there’s still more scheduled, so it’s not too late to register your budding artist, drama maniac or mad scientist....
Selkirk Nursing Student Wins UVIC Award of Distinction
Selkirk College nursing graduate Kara Sundberg recently won the University of Victoria (UVic) Faculty of Human and Social Development Award of Distinction for the highest grade point average (GPA) of all graduates in the faculty. Kara’s GPA was not only the highest in her nursing program, it was the highest in the faculty, ...
Kootenay Lake Superintendent Jeff Jones calls 2013 Fraser Institute’s School Report Card 'A Ridiculous Exercise'
By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily LV Rogers High School made it into the top 100 schools in the province in the Fraser Institute’s annual 2013 school report card. The Nelson secondary school was ranked 98 out of 284 schools province-wide by the Vancouver right wing think tank. This is actually down from the five year average...
LVR Valedictorian Liam Long encourages classmates to first make mistakes, then learn from them en route to a successful life after high school
LVR Senior Liam Long delivered a passionate speech during the Cap and Gown Ceremony at the 2013 Graduation Ceremony. Liam was gracious enough to allow The Nelson Daily to publish his speech in its entirety. Good evening to our administrators, teachers, friends, family and, most importantly, the LV Rogers graduating class ...
Hundreds line Nelson streets to salute the LVR Class of 2013
For once it didn't rain. Nelsonites that didn't get a chance to attend any or the L.V. Rogers High School Graduation functions during the weekend at the NDCC Arena got a chance to see the students front and center through the streets of Nelson at the annual Cavalcade. Saturday afternoon, with a Nelson Police Department escort,...
