Ceremony continues
Contrary to rumours circulating town, there will be a cap and gown ceremony at Brooks Secondary School for graduating students this year.
Kathy Rothwell, Brooks principal, confirmed the cap and gown ceremony will go forward as it would any other year. Teachers are not helping with graduation ceremonies this year as part of their withdrawal of extracurricular activity. However, administration, parents and volunteers are pitching in to make graduation ceremonies as normal as possible for students.
Report cards will also be issued as they normally would be. Teachers voted to withdraw from extracurricular activity on April 20 on the same day BC Labour Relations Board ordered them to complete report cards.
Treaty report
A report prepared for federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan makes a number of recommendations to accelerate treaty negotiations in BC.
The report, by former Campbell River Mayor James Lornie, states treaty making must be a government-wide priority of the federal government if there is to be success.
Lornie recommends developing an exit strategy for first nations wanting to step away from negotiations. Other recommendations address fisheries issues, aboriginal revenue policies and cost-sharing arrangements.
Setting it straight
An Edgehill Elementary School student was misidentified in a photo caption in last week’s Peak. The young boy in the picture was Donavin Lloyd.
