TUESDAY JUNE 23, 2015
End Of Days For Grade 12’s Wild Ways Mount Baker Secondary School celebrates graduation this week. See inside for our special Grad Supplement | Page 7
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279 students turn the page at graduation TRE VOR CR AWLEY
After 13 years in the provincial education system, high school students will be turning the page and opening a new chapter in their lives when they graduate from Mount Baker Secondary School on Thursday. While most of the 279 graduates will be sitting in Western Financial Place, waiting for their chance to cross the stage and receive their diplomas, there will be a
few others up at the podium as part of the ceremonies. Thomas Stambulic will represent his classmates as the valedictorian, while Mitchell Graw and Matthew Struthers will tag-team as the Historians. As the student with the highest GPA in the 2015 class, Stambulic was automatically nominated as the class Valedictorian.
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CP investigated for parking train without hand brakes near Revelstoke RE VELSTOKE TIMES RE VIE W
CP Rail is being investigated for allegedly leaving a train parked east of Revelstoke without proper brakes being applied, the CBC is reporting. The report is based on a search warrant filed in a Calgary court. According to the CBC, Transport Canada investigators raided CP Rail’s headquarters in Calgary in May as part of an investigation into the alleged failure to apply hand brakes on a train carrying dangerous goods, including oil. The CBC article says the incident occurred the night of
Feb. 14–15, when CP Rail running trades employees were about to go on strike. It says superintendent Mark Jackson ordered the conductor and engineer to leave the train parked at Greeley, 10 kilometres east and uphill of Revelstoke, without the hand brakes applied. The train was later moved without incident. No charges have been laid. The allegations, if proven true, could result in a multi-million dollar fine. Read full story at: www. cbc.ca/news/canada/cptrain-left-without-handbrakes-above-b-c-town-warrant-1.3118752
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New for Sam Steele Days — Chautauqua presented by Miss Melodie’s School for Fine Young Ladies. Miss Melodie (front, centre), invited Sam Steele Festival-goers into the Studio Stage Door for an afternoon of Chautauqua — a combination revival, classroom, music hall and vaudeville — featuring recitations, edifications, songs and poems, skits and an endless supply of pie! Make mental note to attend Miss Melodie’s School For Fine Young Ladies’ Chautauqua during Sam Steele Days 2016. Miss Melodie and her colleagues are pictured above. From bottom left, up the stairs: Miss Marie, Miss Chelsea, Miss Carly, Miss Yohanna. Middle: Miss Melodie, Miss Jenny. From bottom right Miss Derissa, Miss Danica, Miss Lindsey, Miss Elizabeth, Miss Marge.
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