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October 7, 2009 the Valley Voice 1 October 7, 2009 The Valley Voice 1 Volume 18, Number 20 October 7, 2009 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, Kaslo & South Slocan. Published bi-weekly. “Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the Arrow Lakes, Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys.” Jewett Elementary School saved from re-configuration by Jan McMurray classes: a K-2 and a 3-5. to be closed for four days, and took out has instituted ‘funding protection.’ This “The pressure is going the wrong Jewett Elementary School in The other option was to transfer the hydro and telephone service as well. means that school districts get the same way when parents from Jewett have to Meadow Creekwill not be re-configured some or all JVH students from the Jewett Parents said their grade 4/5 children were amount of funding as the year before, figure this out and not the Province,” this year. catchment area back to Jewett. too young to be separated from them in even if enrolment is declining. However, said a parent. Principal Dan Miles assured the People at the meeting clearly this type of scenario. costs rise every year – salaries go up, Trustee Mayers-McKenzie Jewett School community of this the favoured this second option. However, The added time for the children on fuel goes up, etc. – so the same amount responded that many people in the day after a very emotional meeting at the policy dictates that parents must the bus was also mentioned. One woman of money as last year still means that province are feeling the same way. school. At the meeting, held Thursday, voluntarily send their kids back to said that the grade 6 children who are school districts must make cuts this year. After the meeting, board chair Bill September 24, parents and community Jewett. An attempt to find out whether bused from Jewett to JVH now are “Tell the government you cannot Maslechko told the Valley Voice that he members made it very clear to school parents would be willing to send their exhausted, and often fall sleep in class. do what they are asking you to do,” felt there was some hope in the suggestion district board and staff members that kids back to Jewett, or whether parents in Several people also spoke about said Becky Blair from the teachers’ of trimming several items in the school they are totally opposed to their grade 4/5 the Meadow Creek area would be willing the importance of Jewett School to the association. district budget to find $100,000. children being bused to JV Humphries to send their kids to Kaslo, had been community’s well-being. Without at least in Kaslo. unsuccessful. A note had gone home a K-5 school, it would be very difficult Lack of abattoir wouldn’t help farmers The board listened to comments with the kids, but parents did not receive to attract young families to the area. Two by Katrine Campbell $40 per lamb or pig, and $100 per cow. from the community with sympathetic it. It was pointed out that children are businesses sent in letters that were read Not having an abattoir nearby does Their regular price for cattle is $150/ ears. They then made the decision to not reliable carriers of important notes. aloud, and both said they needed young not mean farmers could continue killing head, but Anderson says he shot, bled ask staff to look for other solutions to Parents found out on Monday families in the community to keep them livestock and selling the meat, as they and moved the carcasses into the truck to the problem, and to re-convene as soon morning that this issue was on the agenda in employees. were before meat inspection regulations reduce the cost for this time only. as possible to consider the alternatives. for Tuesday night’s school board meeting It was also pointed out that just one were brought in by the province. “I ate that to make sure it would The problem, Superintendent Pat in Nelson. A group of parents went to the teacher at Jewett would be very hard on The Valley Voice was contacted by work,” he says. Anderson added a $5 Dooley explained, was that at the end Tuesday night meeting and convinced the teacher. a Slocan Valley man who believed that, or $10 charge for hauling the SRM of the second week of school, the school the board to hold a special meeting on People lobbied for JVH students to had a mobile abattoir not been brought (specified risk material, i.e. tissue district discovered that there were 20 Thursday evening at Jewett. transfer to Jewett, particularly those that in, he would still be able to legally sell that can harbour BSE) to the disposal more students at JV Humphries than they On Thursday evening, it was are in the Jewett catchment area. Others beef at the farm gate. The long-time site at Ootischenia, but that amount had projected last spring. Also, a family obvious that parents and community asked if savings could be realized if the farmer, who asked that his name not be “was probably half the actual cost” for with two children was soon to be moving members had worked very hard over bus was brought back – it used to be kept used, said “The farmers don’t want the transport and disposal fees. to Kaslo. This would put the number of the three days since they had heard about near Argenta, but it now runs 50 miles abattoir…if it hadn’t been brought in, we Although Anderson planned to students in the JVH grade 4 class over the the problem to come up with alternate a day with no children. Someone asked could carry on as usual.” bring in the mobile once a month, he class size limit – and this can’t be done solutions, and to articulate the flaws with if they had looked at Redfish School, However, the regulations are quite has changed his plans after the one- without the teacher’s consent. the plan to send their grade 4/5s to JVH. which is slightly closer to Kaslo than clear; a licence is required. week shakedown. He found that he was In this situation, the board faces Although they tried very hard to Meadow Creek, and the road is better. “Everyone in BC who slaughters so busy he had to shut down his retail having to find approximately $100,000 keep the emotion out of it, there were Someone else asked if the board could animals to sell the meat must have a operation. to hire another teacher at JVH – and they many tears shed in the room that night. find the $100,000 by trimming a small licence (Class A, B or C) from BC Centre A Slocan man who transported the have a very tight budget. To avoid hiring Parents let the board know that the amount from several school district for Disease Control,” says Ministry of animals for farmers who couldn’t do another teacher, they were looking at short notice was not appreciated, and budget items. The community even Healthy Living and Sport spokesman it themselves plans to build a docking either shuffling students from Jewett to pointed out that the board’s policy on offered to fundraise the $100,000 needed Matt Silver. A Class C licence is station on his property. Because of this, JVH, or from JVH to Jewett. school closure was to allow for adequate to hire a teacher at JVH. transitional, to allow meat producers to the abattoir might not be back in the In shuffling students from Jewett to public consultation. People wanted to know why the work towards becoming fully licenced; valley until the spring. JVH, they would create a second grade A point that came up again and again Province was not coming up with the getting one requires a construction plan From Anderson’s point of view, the 4 class at JVH by transferring the grade was that the road between Meadow money for an extra teacher if one was for an upgrade to facilities to enable an venture was a huge success. 4/5 students and a teacher from Jewett. Creek and Kaslo is treacherous, and needed. Monica Schulte, school district inspector to supervise the slaughter. “The support from local people who This would leave Jewett with one K-3 road closures are fairly common. Last treasurer, explained that the Province ‘John’ said that his objections were want to buy is incredible. I even sold two class. Currently, Jewett School has two winter, a huge avalanche caused the road used to do this, but now the government based on a number of real issues, not lambs I had kept for myself – they were merely as a reaction to more government gone before I had a chance to say ‘no’. regulation. He cited the cost of trucking Everyone is telling everyone else that animals to the docking site, the cost of fresh local meat is available. Everyone slaughter, and stress to the animals. wants the meat in the worst way.” “I’ve always done it myself in a Although prices vary from week to very humane manner. I don’t want to week, Anderson said the BC Rail price stress my cattle out” by putting them on on hanging beef last week was $1.79/ a truck for the first time in their lives. pound. He sells the local beef for an “They know as soon as they get there. average of $3.15 a pound. They smell the blood.” “I brought in three feeders of my John says the costs are going through own in the spring for $1 a pound.
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