express on line – www.expressnews.ca May 15, 2002 EXPRESS Page 3 RDCK meeting selected highlights April 27 Delegations: We’ve Moved! • Rotary Club of Nelson, request for grant in aid of Inge welcomes you to her $4,000 and free use of the Civic Field for RV’s during NEW LOCATION the “Building Better Bridges” conference. The club and to Celebrate her received a $250 grant in aid and will rent the field. Bylaws: 1st Anniversary! • an equipment Reserve Fund / capital projects bylaw Beginning in May (#1544) for Nelson emergency communications • a similar bylaw for New Denver (#1545) for emergency No Choice communications. Men’s Hair Salon • Ymir Water Service will pay for application for a Now at Canada/BC Infrastructure Program Grant for drilling a 711Vernon St. test well to investigate water quality and flows. Letters: Next to the • A letter will be sent to the Transportation Minister about Civic Centre ferry fees to be charged after May 15, asking the Province to share taxes from Crown lands with local Nelson Becker, publisher of the Express accepted the Ma 505-1100 government toward ferry costs. Murray prize for Express Overviews • A letter was received from the Glade Ferry Committee asking for financial assistance. Express wins journalism Expenditures: award for community service Invitation for Proposals • RDCK and RDKB will award a contract worth by Charles Jeanes Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) $743,830 to two firms for the work on emergency com- The Express has won a journalism prize from the BC and is seeking a Community Co-ordinator for the deliv- munications, the E9-1-1 and Fire Dispatch System. Yukon Community Newspapers Association (BCYNA). ery of the Skills Development Employment Benefit Grants in aid of: Sponsored by Alcan, the “Ma Murray Award” is for com- (SDEB) in the East and West Kootenays. SDEB is • $5,000 to the Glade Ferry to allow ferry operations to munity betterment by newspapers with circulation over the intervention assisting unemployed Citizens, and continue without user fees until June 15 10,000, recognizing the social contribution of Express • $650 to the Kootenay Radio Cooperative CJLY 93.5 those legally entitled to work in Canada, to become Overview features last year. skill ready for opportunities in today’s labour mar- FM for signal expansion Nelson Becker, said he felt honoured and humbled to be • a grant to pay for 550 pins for attendees at the June 2002 recognized by his peers in the association. ket. The Community Co-ordinator finalizes recom- Rotary conference, “Building Better Bridges.” “The Express is committed to this community and to pro- mendations from our network of Employment • a BC Hydro grant in aid of $2,000 to the JB Fletcher viding information on all sides of an issue to help people in Assistance Services (EAS) contractors for clients to Store Museum in Ainsworth and another of $2,000 to their decision-making process, whether it be about our hos- turn their plans to realities. The Community Co- Sandon Historical Society pital, leisure facilities, urban development or community ordinator will have strong financial skills as well as Requests for grants-in-aid: festivals”, said Becker. Counselling expertise. Organizations providing • from LV Rogers Secondary School in Nelson for the BCNYA is an association of 99 newspapers across BC skill training to EI clients would not be appropriate Concert Band to travel to Calgary May 15 to 19 and the Yukon with the goal of maintaining high quality in as a Community Co-ordinator. If your organization • from Amy Ferguson Institute for the Nelson Summer news reporting and community involvement. The Ma is interested in examining this opportunity in the Songfest, August 16 to 31. Murray Awards are named after a pioneering journalist • from Tourism Rockies for a project, the BC Rockies East or West Kootenays, or both areas, please call famous for her activism in Lillooet, who died at the age of either (250) 352-3155 loc. 168 or (250) 489-4101 Circle Tours Map. 90 a few years ago. loc. 223. Deadline for applications: June 7th, 2002. No school closures by Charles Jeanes School District eight (SD #8) will close no schools in m Human Resources Development Canada Canada September to save costs, says school board chair Penny Tees, but might have to in subsequent years. “We are not anticipating any school closures for this coming year [2002-03] in the school district,” said Tees. SATURDAY SALE But the closure of schools after the 2002-03 year is “not out of the question,” Tees said after a Board meeting April 23. One Day Only! “There are empty classrooms all over the District.” Sat, May 18, 9 am - 3 pm Trustee Norm McCarvell said that public meetings held Chicken $ 23 in Nelson and Creston have shown him that underfunding worries parents and students who want programs main- tained. “We are hearing, ‘keep programs like band, fine Anne McEwen, a Grade 12 student at LVR, is the Nelson win- Wings arts, French immersion, Russian, and shop,’ ” said ner of the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Association’s McCarvell. “As much as we can, we will do that -- but we essay contest on the importance of community newspapers. are facing declining enrollments. Since I became a Trustee Her essay will go on to compete at the provincial level. [four years ago] we have lost between 700 and 800 students Anne hopes to attend either Carleton University (Journalism) or 4kg case the University of Calgary (Communications). Pursuing journal- Split No Tip IQF and we will lose about 300 in September.” Public board meetings are slated in Nelson and Creston ism studies, Anne says, “helps me get more involved in my community and network with those around me... Journalism ~ in May for more input on the budget. SD #8 offices can be $ 50 8 Hamburger reached at 352-6681 for information. offers a means to go out there and be active in public life.” COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS BASIN Business Support to Independent Businesses Patties case Helping in the Columbia Basin 4 oz 2.27 kg Edm Mts People Achieve Employment in the computing field is one of the fastest growing occupations. Sound interesting? How about adding a co-operative education for- PROGRAM ~====~ Deep Dutch Brownies $ I 1750 mat? 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