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FORESTRY DIRECTOR ALLAN RETIRING The 24-year district employee has decided to retire
THURSDAY, FEB. 28, 2013
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Push to fill trad school begins BY JASON ROESSLE Mission Record
Some Mission parents are ramping up their efforts to ensure enough new students register March 12 for the proposed traditional school. A public information meeting at Fraserview Elementary School Tuesday night concluded with about 40 parents making plans on how
to get the word out about the new program of choice being offered this September providing a minimum of 75 new kids sign up — defined as any child that isn’t already enrolled in a local school, except those who already have a spot in upcoming kindergarten classes. Several parents volunteered to spread the word throughout their networks, and to accompany trustees to certain key public locations with informational pamphlets.
There will also be a final public meeting March 11 at 7 p.m. at Fraserview. Mission Public Schools wants to start with a kindergarten to Grade 4 model which would allow the program to grow as the initial registrants climb through the grades. To make it a kindergarten to Grade 7 program See FINAL Page 3
GOVERNMENTS CHALLENGED Rosemarie Surakka, mother of the late Lisa Dudley, will be in court this week. PAGE 3
A bomb threat was made at Mission Secondary School Tuesday morning. After RCMP searched the building, it was found to be a hoax.
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Bomb threat prompts MSS evacuation BY JASON ROESSLE Mission Record
Local RCMP found no bomb at Mission Secondary School after hours of searching. The school’s students and staff were evacuated after a message was scrawled on a bathroom mirror stating a bomb would go off at 1:45 p.m.
Two RCMP dogs went through the school and turned up nothing, according to school principal Jim Pearce. However, only a few people were allowed back in the school Tuesday, and only to retrieve car keys, etc., he said. School was open Wednesday, Pearce confirmed. According to school superin-
tendent Bill Fletcher and MSS’ middle school vice-principal Dave Cyr, after the message was found in a girls’ washroom, the RCMP were called and the students were dismissed for lunch five minutes early. The Grade 7 and 8 students were kept on school grounds, but far away from the building, and were supervised by staff.
The Grade 9-12 students were free to leave the property, said Cyr. MSS’ current enrolment is about 1,100 students. Once school was officially let out for the day in the early afternoon, parents were able to pick up their children from the Leisure Centre. This site also served as the school bus pick-up.
SCULPTURE UNVEILED Mission artist Dean Lauze was commissioned to create a bronze fallen firefighter monument. PAGE 5
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