Salute to Youth

THE GAZETTE, Grand Forks, B.C., Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1Bwww.grandforksgazette.ca

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Fielding a team with 12 players, head coach Shane Gorman (back centre) and the Grand Forks Pee Wee rep team made it all the way to the provincials in Chetwynd, B.C. and took third place.

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Hard work pays off

for Pee Wee reps

In September, 12 boys stepped up and said that they were pre-pared to work hard, face the chal-lenges and make a Pee Wee rep hockey team.

None of them really knew just how much work it would be.

For seven long months, they have practiced, participated in dryland and fundraising events as well as team-building activities.

They played in scheduled league, tournament and exhibi-tion games.

The boys also maintained school grades, played on school teams and completed other obli-gations, such as household chores and paper routes.

All season the boys completed these activities will little, to no complaints.

They had fun working as a group as well as winning the trip to see the Vancouver Canucks.

However they also gave up the opportunity to participate in family activities and spend time with friends or just have a week-

end off. They began to develop an understanding of just what it takes to make a successful team, not only for themselves but their families as well.

They came to practices and games even when they felt unwell or hurt because they had made a commitment to the team.

As the season progressed, it be-came a commitment to the com-munity of Grand Forks and all their supporters as well.

One of the goals the teams set at the beginning of the season was to attend the Tier 4 Provincials in Chetwynd, B.C.

On March 23, the Grand Forks Pee Wee Rep Bruins achieved that goal and placed third overall at provincials – a fi tting reward for all their dedication throughout the season.

You are a great group of guys. The team was made up of the

following players: Wyatt Bar-wick, Lynden Corley, Tieren Dolan, Evan Gorman, Josh Ham-mett, Kolby Horne, Nate Klassen, Alexei McGill, Jorrin McIver, Chase McKay, Cruz Tasker and Bryden Thomas

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All the practicing and sacrifi ce leads to third-place fi nish at provincials in Chetwynd



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Making learning personalThe B.C. education system has been

one of the fi ve top performing systems in the world.

The Boundary School District has ex-ceeded provincial graduation rates every year for the past fi ve years.

Nevertheless, everyone recognizes that the students entering our schools have a very different childhood experience than children just 10 years ago.

Our children experience the Internet, different entertainment media, video games on demand, social media like Face-book and Twitter, cell phones, ever chang-ing home technology and more families have both parents working or they are single parent homes. The work world they will be facing is equally different.

The System is Strong: Why Innovate?Ours is a strong education system, char-

acterized by success and innovation. However, our experience, our students

and our data suggest that there is a mis-match between the type of education we are providing in B.C. and the world in which we are providing it, particularly at the secondary level. To expand on that:

Our curriculum is too content heavy and requires teachers to move too quickly through too many outcomes. As we mod-ernize instruction and assessment we must explore ways to downsize curriculum. Also, our curriculum does not specifi cally

address the skills of the 21st century, as de-scribed by experts such as Tony Wagner.

There is widespread agreement that what we teach must be relevant and im-portant to learners. This will take changes to not only what we teach, but how we teach it.

What are students looking for:

- Fairness, under-standing, encourage-ment, and recognition.

- Time given to get to know them on a per-sonal level and expla-nations that help them learn.

- Flexibility in as-signments, extended timelines for comple-tion of work, increased relevance, and recog-nition of students’ out-of-school commit-ments.

- Being given choices.- Opportunities for active learning

through experiments, games, projects and group work.

- Novelty and variety in the work they’re asked to do.

- Being challenged.- “What would make school better is if

everyone had their own individual learn-ing program because in a class some peo-ple are smart and some like me aren’t …. I think that would be easier because every

one could work up to their own level and improve at their own rate.”

- “I really enjoy the way teachers make school interesting and fun by doing things out of the ordinary…more hands-on things that would capture student’s attention.”

The Province of B.C. and School District 51 (Bound-ary) has embarked on exploring how to meet these changing needs and maintain the high standard of education for our students.

The concept of “personalized learn-ing” may be the way to meet this chal-lenge.

Personalized Learning Defi ned“Personalized learning” is a learning

experience that is engaging and meaning-ful, where a student’s knowledge, skills and attitudes are enhanced in lasting ways that are relevant to the learner’s current and future contexts.

Personalized learning provides stu-dents with capacity in 21st century skills including:

1. Social, societal and environmental re-sponsibility

2. Critical thinking, problem solving and personal initiative

3. Collaboration across networks and leading by infl uence

4. Agility and adaptability5. Effective oral and written communi-

cation6. Accessing, critically analyzing and

synthesizing information7. Curiosity and imagination8. Awareness of and capacity to em-

brace diversity and multiculturalismPersonalized learning environments en-

sure that students are covering necessary content in subject areas, but with fewer knowledge-level outcomes in recognition of the ability of students to access informa-tion instantly online.

This reduction in required content al-lows for more project-based, interdisci-plinary, inquiry-style learning.

Research and our experience tell us that this type of learning is best facilitated when students can work in small learn-ing communities, where they work with teams of teachers who co-ordinate and facilitate inquiry projects that are co-de-signed with students. Still, for the learn-ing environment to be truly personalized it may be that students will continue to work through core outcomes in areas such as math discretely and lock-step.

The best approach for each learner will be determined by the teacher and student, supported by the parent as possible.

Look for the invitation from the school district to participate in the discussions on personal learning.

MICHAEL STRUKOFFSubmitted

‘Personalized learning’ is a learning experience that is

engaging and meaningful . . .

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Salter a valued addition at library

Jaclyn Salter has been working as a teen volunteer at the Grand Forks library for al-most two years.

She always approaches her shift with a smile on her face and readily does what-ever is asked of her.

Her enthusiasm for books, libraries and people shines in all she does.

Whenever she is asked to contribute to a library event – preparing a snack, set-ting up decorations, playing Xbox Kinect 360 with young patrons – Jaclyn does so willingly.

I have known Jaclyn for a few years and have always been extremely impressed by her level of maturity, her thoughtfulness and her caring attitude towards others and her community.

She attended a program I helped facili-tate called A Girl’s Eye View, and the fol-lowing year she was asked to return as a teen mentor for the younger girls.

Her contribution to the program was outstanding. Jaclyn is also active on GFSS’ student advisory council, the youth PAC, she played for the Kootenay Gold U14 basketball team at the BC Summer Games 2010 and her favourite classes are science and band.

But wait, there’s more! Jaclyn has also had short stories published in Gems of the Okanagan 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions.

Jaclyn is a very civic-minded young woman and I predict we will continue to hear positive things about her in the fu-ture. Jaclyn, you rock!

LIZANNE EASTWOODSubmitted

Jaclyn Salter has been working as a volunteer at the library for two years and her enthusiasm is infectious.

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Perley’s Global CitizensAmerican Senator Alan K. Simpson

went on a tirade recently on Fox News blasting the youth of today.

He essentially said that children are ungrateful these days and are negatively infl uenced by rap music and singled out rappers Snoop Dogg and Eminem.

Perhaps Simpson didn’t hear about Wanda Garrison’s Grade 5-6 class at Per-ley Elementary, who held a St. Patrick’s Day bake sale to benefi t the victims of the recent tragedies in Japan.

“We had been discussing the concept and responsibilities of being a global citi-zen,” Garrison said.

“On March 15, we were doing our daily current events discussion and students

were presenting their homework on what was happening in Japan and one of the stu-dents said that we should do something.”

She asked the class what other students would be interested in doing the sale and pretty soon, all the hands in the class were raised.

Garrison said that it was largely a student initiative as her students wrote a newsletter to parents – asking for their help with baked goods – made posters ad-vertising the sale, made a presentation to every class in the school about the sale and ran the sale as well.

“I was there to supervise and help a little bit with the money,” Garrison said.

The Grade 5-6 teacher said that over $300 was raised at the sale and all the proceeds will be given to the Canadian Red Cross.

KARL YUGazette Editor


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Baking to the ‘Max’Max Nicholson is the person behind Alaythia Cakes and Cupcakes. Only 14-years-old, he also is an honour student at Grand Forks Secondary School and runs his baking business on his own.

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Thate contributing across the boardWhile Amanda Thate has made headlines for

her music and play with the Grand Forks Sec-ondary (GFSS) senior girls’ basketball team, she has done so much more.

In last-August, with her grandmother, she went to the Dominican Republic to do some charity work with the less fortunate.

“We helped with a group from Pennsyl-vania to build a school down there and my grandma and I also cooked for the work-ers and the best part of it was getting to meet with the locals and see how they lived,” she ex-plains.

“We got to go down to the really poor parts of Santa Domingo and we got to go into their homes and it was really cool.”

She tells a story about a little boy that she met, that hadn’t eaten in three days – his mother didn’t have enough money to buy food – and helping them consisted of telling them to take advantage of their surroundings.

“They were living in the middle of the jungle with all these fruit trees and there are wild chickens going around and all these different kinds of wild animals,” Thate recollects.

“They don’t know how to get their own food, to go cut down some coco-

nuts and it seems that, that’s what they need, a teacher to show them how to do that.”

“If people just go and give them food, they won’t know how to get food in the future.”

She said she saw the boy a few days later and he was energized.

Thate also volunteers as a youth leader at the Gospel Chapel in Grand Forks where she helps

with the local youth group and has also worked as a math tutor at her high school.

“I help tutor kids younger than me but they don’t show up all the time,” she says with a laugh.”

Recently, she won the chance to open for coun-try star Roy Clark in a KBS radio and Grand Forks Credit Union-sponsored contest and she helped the GFSS Wolves take the Kootenay AA championship

and earn a berth at the provincial AA champion-ship in Kamloops.

She received an honourable mention All-Star at the provincials and the team was voted most sportsmanlike.

But Thate also does things to help others too.“Amanda’s been a dream daughter right from

birth but as a mom, you still don’t know what your baby girl is going to grow up to become,” explains mother Monica.

“It’s been wonderful what’s happened in her life and it’s like so many things have come together for her.”

It’s been quite a year so far for Amanda.

Monica Thate (right) is proud of all that daughter Amanda has accom-plished. In the past year, Amanda has done charity work in the Dominican Republic, helped the GFSS senior girls hoops team win and helped with a local youth group.

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KARL YUGazette Editor

It’s been wonderful what’s happened in her life and it’s like

so many things have come together for her

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Like a phoenix racing down a mountain

The Phoenix Mountain Racers are wrapping up what has turned out to be a very successful season.

This year, 24 racers participat-ed in the program, which teaches basic skiing techniques and skills in as many different snow conditions and terrain as possible.

Building on last year’s success, this season went remarkably well for the club.

Coach Andrew McKinlay worked in partnership with Coach Bill Ah-rens throughout the season.

“Both Bill and Andrew have ex-tensive experience in racing and were happy to commit the time and resources and we were so happy to have them,” says President Ken Ma-kortoff.

“They were an integral part of the Racers this year. Obviously, we couldn’t have done it without them.”

The racers hosted a highly suc-cessful race early on in the season and then travelled to Salmo, Red Mountain and Nelson.

The zone fi nals took place at

Summit Lake in early March.While the racers improved im-

mensely over the season, under the careful guidance of McKinlay and Ahrens, the real success story has been the overwhelming support of the community.

“Bron and Sons, Unifab Indus-tries, Roxul Inc, Area D Director Irene Perepolkin and the Grand Forks Legion (Branch #59) all stepped up to the plate in a big way,” says Makortoff.

“It is through their support that this club was fi nally able to buy much needed racing pinnies, med-als and ribbons for race partici-pants, provide ongoing support for our coaches and purchase hoodies for the kids.

“A big thank you to all of you – this just speaks volumes about our community.”

The Phoenix Mountain Racers thank Coach McKinlay, Coach Ah-rens, the Phoenix Mountain staff and of course, their parents who came out to every practice and race to support this Club

For more information on the Phoenix Mountain Racers, contact Jennifer Wetmore at 250 444 7777.

PHOENIX MOUNTAIN RACERSSubmitted

Speed racersThis year, 24 racers took part in the Phoenix Mountain Racers program. They had the chance to learn basic skiing techniques and try out a number of different snow conditions and terrain. Building on last year’s success, this season went remarkably well for the club.

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Phoenix Mountain Racers wrap up a very successful season



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Some of the West Kootenay Advertiser carriers: Kieran, .Phoenix, Lizzy and Jacob (L to R on bench) with Ian and Josh (L to R back row). Despite the weather, these children ensure that newspapers reach the doorsteps of people in Grand Forks.

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Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat . . .

In this day and age it is said that the norm for young people seems to be sitting in front of a TV play-ing games or watching something that will not bet-ter them.

I’m not sure who it is that says this, but we here at the Gazette certainly do not think that way.

We employ 19 young boys and girls in our group of Advertiser de-livery people and I must say that they, for the most part, do a pretty good job.

As the saying goes, “Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor cold” or something like that, will keep the papers from being delivered.

For most of our carriers this is their fi rst job.

They are learning life-long skills such as responsibility, diligence and how to interact with the pub-lic, accepting direction and prop-erly relaying information back to the offi ce.

I have had the privilege of over-seeing them for several years and I believe that if all of us took the ex-ecution of our jobs as seriously as they do, there would be no prover-bial “pink slips.”

Once in a while there is an “oops,” as they are learning, but they make no excuses, they say, “OK lets fi x it,” and off they go.

As some-one who is directionally chal lenged, even with GPS, I know that it is not

easy to read maps and many of our homes do not have the address numbers on them.

It can be diffi cult for a new carrier to not miss someone who would like a paper or perhaps de-liver to someone who chose not to receive it.

In conclusion, I would like to thank all the Joe and Jill Publics for your patience and friendly smiles. To our carriers a big THUMBS up for a job well done.

DARLAINEA REDLACKGazette Staff

They are learning life-long skills such as responsibility, diligence and how to interact

with the public

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Kootenay AA championsFor the fi rst time in over 30 years, the Grand Forks Secondary School senior girls bas-ketball team punched a ticket to the AA provincial championships, held in Kamloops earlier in March. They earned the berth by taking the Kootenay AA girls title, defeating the David Thompson Lakers from Invermere by a fi nal of 67-40.

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A salute to all those who are singing soprano

What can be more positive than shar-ing your love of music with an adoring audience? The celebrated youth vocal en-semble Sopranos & Co. gives youth 13 to18 years old the opportunity to develop foun-dational skills and singing experience as performing artists.

Directed by Joan Thompson, a choral di-rector of 31 years, with a doctorate in music education from UBC, this group has won enthusiastic acclaim from fans in the Koo-

tenay Boundary region and critical acclaim at Provincial Music Festival in 2005.

The Sopranos & Co specializes in a cap-pella music drawn from a spectrum of styles – madrigals, folk songs, African free-dom songs, gospel and pop ballads.

This year – learning songs of the ‘60s – they again join the Grand Forks Choral Society concert April 30 and May 1 in “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

We are so happy to have them part of our shows and I think they should be sa-luted for their dedication to the process of getting “show ready.”

NANCY GILLMORSubmitted


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The goal of Girl’s Eye View is to provide a safe space for girls to speak up.SUBMITTED PHOTO

I am girl, hear me speak

The Girl’s Eye View Program was de-veloped with support from The Safer Boundary Initiative.

The goal of the program is to provide a safe space for girls to speak up and speak out about issues that affect them.

This year, the program is running in the West Boundary in a variety of venues. It’s been a great year so far for Girls Eye View with a wide variety of sessions.

1) Heather Radford was the Fashion Director from the Yellow Door Boutique in Greenwood and the girls had an amazing evening of trying on outfi ts and discussing the appropriate way to dress and how the fashion industry can be harmful to your self-esteem.

2) Off to George Delisle’s woodlot to learn about sustainable forestry practices, how a tree grows, spacing, pros and cons

of clear cutting and about tree rings.3) Julie Damore spent the evening with

the girls. They discussed growing up and what that looks like through the pre-teen years.

4) The girls met at Parkview Manor and started the evening out by holding inter-views with the residence at the home. Af-terwards we had a great meal and made bracelets. Cathy Martinoff from the “Cats Out” Pandora Style Beads, joined us for this activity.

Heather Radford from the Yellow Door also donated beads for this event. Thank you to the Kettle River Lions Club, Re-gional District Area E and the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy.

Your generous sponsorships are greatly appreciated. I would also like to thank Carol Mitchell for working with the girls. For more information, please call Deborah Baker Literacy Outreach Coordinator for the West Boundary – 250-445-2207

DEBORAH BAKERSubmitted


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Check out what’s up at the public library

The library is a happening place for youth in our community

If you haven’t been in the library lately you are missing out on some exciting new additions.

We now have an area designated for teens with funky, cool and comfortable new furniture and an exciting display of young adult novels.

Our graphic novel/manga collection is growing rapidly and our DVD collec-tion has some great new documentaries highlighting social and environmental is-sues.

We have lots of new audio books in the Playaway format and a mini MP3 player you just need to plug your earbuds into.

Keep your eye out for our soon-to-be circulating e-book readers and learn how to download e-books from the library’s website.

We are looking for input from teens about programs you want to see at your library.

Currently we have a Jane Austen book club for teens; we read the book, watch the movie and eat pizza.

We also have a new Xbox-360 Ki-nect and it is available, if you have

an idea for a program – a games and movie night, or maybe a dance off.

Come and see the programming librar-ian and tell us what you would like to do, it’s your library.

If you are looking for a chance to volunteer in your community and earn some community service hours for your graduation portfolio, the library is a great place to do that.

It’s calm, quiet and you have a chance to really check out our collection.

Don’t see what you are looking for? We welcome your feedback and input, help be a part of creating a young adult collection that rocks.

Barbara Adler, slam poet extraordi-naire, will be appearing at the Grand Forks Library for one night only!

Thursday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m. Bar-bara will be regaling us with her hilarious stories accompanied by it with the accor-dion.

She is part of a couple of bands in Van-couver – The Fugitives and Fang.

She is fantastic and wants to hear what you have to share.

The event will also be an open-mic night. Bring your songs, stories or jokes – anything goes!

Come on in and check out your library, we defi nitely aren’t old-school anymore.

LIZANNE EASTWOODSubmitted


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Beautiful game for Boundary

There is a new groundhog in the Boundary these days.

From now on we will all know that spring has arrived when hundreds of children and youth from Christina Lake to Rock Creek shed their skis and hockey sticks and take to the local fi elds to partici-pate in “the beautiful game.”

That’s right, this April, 267 kids mak-ing up 31 teams throughout the region will get to play in an organized league with trained coaches, trained referees, and real uniforms.

That translates into over 6,000 kid hours playing soccer and a whole lot of time away from X-Box!

The real story behind the Boundary Youth Soccer Association (BYSA) has been the interest and the support of the community.

In particular, earlier this month, 47 coaches stepped forward to participate in up to 20 hours of coach’s training with a professional coach from the BC Soccer As-sociation. With this training, coaches have been empowered to run fun and effective practices, support players through every stage of their soccer development and create a culture of fun, skill development and opportunity so that every child in the Boundary is able to experience the joy of this wonderful team sport.

For more information about the BYSA including fee subsidies, please see www.boundaryyouthsoccer.com.

CARA LEE MALANGESubmitted

From left: Brad Pickering, Jeff Olsen (back), Cody Olsen, Tyson and Darcy Tiller are excited to be part of the Boundary Youth Soccer Association. KARL YU PHOTO


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Governor’s choiceLaurel Strukoff, pictured here with SD51 school board Chair Teresa Rezansoff, was the 2010 winner of the Governor General’s Academic Medal for Grand Forks Secondary School – the award is handed out in recognition for outstanding scholastic achievement. Strukoff is currently attending UBC Okanagan where she is in the pre-pharmacy pro-gram and will continue her studies in pharmacy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Ad designersGrade 5-6 classes from John A. Hutton (top left) and Dr. D.A. Perley (right) and the Grade 4-5 class from Christina Lake Elementary (bottom left) helped design the ads for this supplement.

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