A brief celebration By Chuck Morris
Mission Statement: To provide support and recognition to our members who work in partnership with leaders in education in the province of British Columbia.
Mission Statement: To provide support and recognition to our members who work in partnership with leaders in education in the province of British Columbia.
CHARTING OUR COURSE
41st Annual Facilities Conference & Trade Show Agenda June 6 - 10, 2005 Penticton Trade & Convention Center Penticton, British Columbia
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This is Strawberry Vale School, first opened to students in 1893, in Victoria, B.C. The building has been moved and refurbished several times, yet even today, it is open for student sessions. Its current role is as a pre-school facility. The photo was supplied by SPOA past-president Glenn Miller, of Victoria.
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INSIDE: SOLARWALL SYSTEMS MAKING SCHOOLS’ FUTURES BRIGHT
Last fall, we passed a milestone.
DEL Communications Inc. was a great
information package within the pages
For the most part, it went unnoticed
choice to produce Ops Talk as the com-
of the spring issue. That has worked
as time marched by and most of us
pany possesses years of experience
well, allowing everyone to have the
focused on other things, such as the
publishing magazines for a variety of
information in front of them when the
changes and pressures in our daily lives.
associations across the country. David,
magazines arrived at their workplaces.
We shouldn’t have been distracted!
Katrina, Dayna, Donna and others at
If you have an idea about a topic or
Back in the fall of 2004, our very first is-
DEL have continued to do a great job
believe Ops Talk should have stories on
sue of Ops Talk came out. The Novem-
with advertising sales, content and lay-
a particular subject, contact Bob Hardy
ber 2014 fall issue marked the 10th anni-
out. Kudos to S.G. Bennett Marketing
or Molly or your executive. Remember,
versary of the magazine. It became the
Services for art and layout design.
someone else might have the same
association’s flagship early on as each
Over the years, the magazine went
idea or question, so you could be help-
issue reflected what we do, showed
through a couple of changes, including
ing out several of your peers by taking
products which our vendors market and
maximizing content and layout, which
the initiative.
included many editorials.
made for a more attractive publication.
At 10 years old, Ops Talk is about to
Ops Talk reaches all of our members,
One time, while we were collecting
embark on the next leg of its journey.
including schools and the Ministry of
photographs of facilities and equip-
Let’s increase the magazine’s success by
Education. I used to make sure the staff
ment, the magazine displayed a cover
continuing to put the magazine in the
room in the facilities department had a
that showed off various parts of this
right place. Show it off, talk about it and
copy, as well as in staff rooms in schools
great province, depicting landscape
contribute to it.
so other people could read it, too.
scenes and old buildings.
Happy anniversary, Ops Talk! Let’s
From day one, the magazine has
A few years ago, the association de-
proved itself to be a good product.
cided to insert the annual conference
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Covering all aspects of educational facilities and operations.
Ops Talk Spring 2013
Schools require unique, rugged roofing solutions. Cover photo courtesy of The Garland Company, Inc.
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