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School district dips into surplus
Sports fields need repairs
“I wanted people to know the person that he was. He was the kind of guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
Ken Leung
BY CORNELIA NAYOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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he Chilliwack school board will get its first look at next year’s 2013-14 operating budget Tuesday. The proposed financial plan, which totals $123,619,241, will dip into the district’s accumulated surplus to the tune of $909,103, compared to $3.2 million last year. This year’s deficit figure includes a $194,000 operating deficit as well as $500,000 that will go to completing the district’s $2.5 million technology plan launched in 2009 and another $215,000 in restricted surplus money that will be used for the district’s Keeping Kids in School program for aboriginal students. The plan would leave the district’s restricted surplus (money that must be used for specific purposes like aboriginal education) at just under $4 million and its unrestricted reserve fund at $694,103, for a total accumulated surplus of about $4.7 million. The proposed budget features $125,000 in new spending to address recommendations in the district’s special education review, including an extra educational psychologist. The preliminary figures also call for $260,000 more to be spent on businessservices,including$180,000 for three extra custodians and custodial supplies for the new Chilliwack secondary that will open its doors in September. ◗ Tuesday’s school board meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the school board office (8430 Cessna Dr.). To see the proposed 2013-14 school district budget, visit www.sd33.bc.ca and look for the May 28 agenda under the Board of Education menu.
Drainage issues close new fields BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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Lawrence Leung, 26, was killed while trying to protect his girlfriend, police say.
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Died ‘honourably’
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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he brother of a Chilliwack man killed last week in a tiny Alberta hamlet said his brother died “honourably” while trying to protect those close to him. Twenty-six-year-old Tak Tai Lawrence Leung, who went by the name Lawrence, died May 18 after being stabbed early that morning at a house party in Gleichen, Alta. His brother Ken told the Times his brother was “at the wrong place at the wrong time.” Lawrence was stabbed while trying to protect his girlfriend from two other women early in the
Murdered Chilliwack man was protecting girlfriend, police say
morning of May 18, police say. Mounties say the two women tried to assault Leung’s girlfriend. When Leung intervened, he was stabbed and suffered serious wounds, from which he died. The Leung brothers grew up in Chilliwack.
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he sports fields at the Chilliwack school district’s $46.4 million pair of brand new schools need fixing. “At one point we had ducks swimming in the middle of the field,” Rosedale traditional community school principal Helen Plummer told the Times. “As funny as that is, when you’re standing there looking at your brand new field going, ‘Really?’ there’s a problem.” Since the new kindergarten-toGrade 9 school opened last January, students there have had only limited use of the fields, and next month they will be shut down altogether for work that could take until next spring. Drainage and unevenness caused by settling are the problem, Plummer said, and they’ve been obvious since before the school even opened. “Everybody knew: the contractors, our district team. Everybody knew that the fields were an issue,” she said. Fields at Yarrow elementary, Chilliwack’s newest school, will also be shut down next month to address drainage issues.
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