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LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
THE CARDBOARD CRUISE:
Aubrey Elementary School students Kayla Zivkovic and Vanessa Woo dominate a race during the What Floats Your Boat? Challenge at the Kensington pool last week. The Skills Canada B.C. event put on by the school district challenged students to design, build and race a boat made of cardboard, tape and a few other supplies across a 25-metre swimming pool. For more photos see page 4. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
PRIVATE SCHOOLS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Parent calls out discriminatory practice Preference was given to public school students for volunteer jobs. City will now review how the process works. By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
Burnaby parks and rec doesn’t want to discriminate between public school and private school students when it comes to picking volunteers for summer camp and playground programs.
This despite an email last month from a volunteer coordinator to a Catholic school parent saying the city has a longstanding partnership with the school district that favours public school kids. “We place those students first, then we do our best to place the other applicants,”
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reads the email from John Renko, recreation leader at Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool and Fitness Centre. The parent who got the letter wasn’t impressed. “So I pay taxes, yet we are treated as second class citizens?” he wrote in an email to the NOW. “I would like to know more about this
‘long standing partnership’ and perhaps in what other areas the City of Burnaby is practising active discrimination.” The father, who said he did not want his name used for fear of further discrimination, is a longtime Burnaby resident and taxpayer. His daughter attends Lit-
tle Flower Academy in Vancouver, but she wanted to volunteer closer to home during the summer. Burnaby parks and rec got 322 applications last year for 277 volunteer spots in the city’s summer camp and playground programs, according to city staff, and at least 95 per cent of the
volunteers picked were from the school district. But the city doesn’t actually have a partnership with the school district for filling those spots, according to Burnaby’s assistant director of recreation Craig Collis. When asked about the Continued on page 9
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