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VOL. 33, NO, 37

Enrolment is up siightly, :

‘over last year for students
‘enrolled. in School District
lo. 9, superintendent John
lolden sais Wednesday. :
: At the end of last year's
| term: there’ were °2,774
; Students enrolled: Now there

. are 2,810, Holden said.

f

School trusteps dre now eligible

| for indemnities of up to $4,000 per vear
"+ (up from $2,000 last year) but just how
: much of that School District No. 9
! trustees will receive will not be decided

! until the next-meeting of the board.
In 1979 trustees for this district

; received the ii it iti

“ CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SEPTEMBER 3, 1980.

. School might'not beso bad ofter all. This grade one student at Castlegar.Primary ~

seemed to enjoy greeting.h

.. _ Although 790 showed up
at: Stanley Humphries Secon-_
dary Schoo! on, Wednesday,
Holden said they expected a
total of 841. ;
Seven: hundred ‘and
seventy-four students were.
‘enrolled at SHSS in June. :
Kinnaird Junior, Secon-:

Under an ‘amendment to the
Schsol Act chairmon will now be
eligible for an additional 50 per cent of
the basic indemnity and vice-chairman
are eligible for an additional 25 percent
(maximum), °° 0 Fs

All amounts are maximums, thus

* Chairman and vice-chairman were paid
‘on a-par with the trustees, super-
i intendent John Holden said Tuesday.

individual boards of schoo) trustees will
.. determine for themselves .the actual
amounts within the prescribed limits,
Education Minister Brian Smith said.

| Maninjuredin
~- CPRail-accident' ~~

A-Nelson man: is, in» Vancouver
General Hospital in stable’ condition
after his:left hand was severed as a

* pesult of an accident Tuesday morning.

Danny Letain, 23, a trainman with

CPRail for four years, was apparently
riding. on top of a box car and fell ‘off
. while’ the train was switching on
CanCel property“at Castlegar.
A CPRail superintendent said ‘little
other information kas been released.

=

“dary School had 412 students.
_ on’ Monday,:93 of which are
‘in grade 7. Last year's total

was 402. ; ;

“And in the élementary
schools there are 1,557 this
year.” :
But this -.trend “is :not
reflected in the rest of the

er teacher in the morning
and finally settling in for a days work.

‘year. ° 1
Teaching staff: on the -

. : |
province.:An' estimated total
of 504,500 students
throughout. the province
enrolled on T hat

(left) unloading her new books (centre)

Hess than last year, Gre

_ working in the province.

i Minister

The o
i dthar®

» 7
figure is 7,200 lower than last

whole has been cutback as
well. 27,300 teachers, 435

‘Trustee stipends undetermined

there would be a number of
“new. and innovative”,
educational .

brought in this f

Three Sections (A; B & C)

- Accompanying the many
Ministry | of Education
‘curriculum changes: at: all
grade levels this year will be ~
major efforts to see that they
are implemented effectively
in the classroom. During the
summer a senior official from
almost every school. district

a inar

career. pre
to provide: more;

vocational training to secon-
dary school students whi
want it, and to integrate 'that

spon-
‘sored by the ministry's
program implementation
ranch. to study implemen-.
tation tecrolguer and the in-
I of all clas: n

training with fc {I p post. -

The i for
been unchanged sinca 1974. Unlike

municipalities, which pay an additional ©

amount to their mayors, school dis-
tricts have never before been able to
reward their chairman and vice-chair-
men for extra duties. 5 pi
Smith said that in general trus-
tees’ indemnities are far below those of
aldermen. i
Smith announced last May he was
prepared to recommend the indem-
nities increase but added he wanted

has -

from the. inti
as to whether ‘the amount should bo
stipulated or set by formula,
A B.C. School Trustees Associ-
ation survey showed:.most school
boards voted ‘strongly in favor of

- having guidelines established if an

amount was not stipulated.

‘The minister told the BCSTA in
May “I have a great deal of opportunity
to know how great. is the contribution
of ‘school. trustees . ... The respon-
sibilities of trustees are very heavy.”

_ Clearing slopes
_. OMe more time

Even though an easier solution
may exist, ski club volunteers will once
again have to cut away the alder

bushes that plague the ‘slopes of Red

Mountain.

The solution is a glyphosphate
herbicide known as Roundup, but it
won't be.used at Red Mountain until

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with

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from 18°. to 20° wil
lows of 7°,

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occasional
Daytime highs will be
overnight

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One Man's Opinion .
Pattern. .........

Plan of the Week .
BS Shi

granted.

from various agencies is

Roundup has been used safely for

years by farmers but the application to -

alder and willow in the Lardeau district
has been delayed. :
* The herbicide has been tested in a
“small area of the slopes, but ski club
president Ron Ross said application to
the ski runs has been postponed
indefinitely “to give thé area more
time to the

ing to save

Pooeks
prevont

P the ex

until the end of the year of a
pilot project examining the’
use of CHOICES, a-com-
puterized program to assist
in vocational guidance and
career exploration; and the
introduction‘ ofa pilot project
to explore the use of micro-
computers as lear-
ning/teaching aids. ne :

Other September
changes include ‘the intro-
duction of the secondary core
curriculum in French ina
limited number of areas. with
sufficient francophone popu-

' materials

‘see the implementation of
.three- completely. revised

teachers in.the process. He
ts odd: to. the i

in’ elementary:

English September will also

rograms at the secondary:

avert French ‘as ‘a. second.

language (grades ‘8-12

physical’: education (8-11

and music (8-12). 58
More-on page AZ

RCMP kept busy
over long weekend

The Labor Day weekend proved ry
busy one ior the iocai ROMP who-
d 71 A

Istions, the implementation
ofa pletely r d Fren-
ch- as- a- second- language
curriculum in all secondary

ant: ‘,

weekend -brings about 28. complaints, :
with holiday weekends higher but not:
quite as high as the current one, stated:
‘aaiok h

and the pr ion of
new curriculum material and.

. teacher resource books,

notably in elementary
English language arts and
secondary French, but also ia
physical education ‘and
music. ‘ :
While total enrolment is
expected to be down by
about 7,200, there will be a

. probably increase of 900 in

elementary enrolment.

and safety of the herbicide. .

. “The investigation will be done in
cooperation with the West Kootenay
Health Unit and the City of Rossland,”
Ross continued. “Should the investi-
gation yield positive results, the
earliest application would be during
the spring of 1981.”

Red. Mountain has been plaged
yearly with alder bushes covering the
skiruns and delaying the start of every
ski season. i

dary pupils will drop in
numbers by more than 8,000,
for the most part in large ur-
ban areas.
The elementary increase
will be accompanied by a
projected increase of about
35 in the number of elemen-
tar Ss d

Pezzin’s team a
challenges on Saturday.

The Penticton Knights, under the
direction of former Rebel hockey coach
Mark Pezzin, will be battling a new.
Vernon hockey team at the Regional
Recreation Complex at 8 p.m. Satur.
day. oa

Some local hockey players such as
Morey Gare from Nelson and
Campese from Trail will be playing for
Penticton.

The Knights are a Junior A hockey
team. It was tl t the
Castl

Y S. Y
teachers will decline by
about 470.

Rebels would play however.
they were “not given enough notice to
get organized,” a spokesman said.