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N E W S P A P E R THE DANCE THAT COULD NOT BE STOPPED:
More than 300 people attended the inaugural community heritage picnic at the Royal Westminster Regiment armoury on Sunday. The Royal Lancers’ quadrille dances with members of the May Queen suites were one of the day’s highlights. Community members organized the event after city council cut the dances from the annual May Day banquet.
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Teachers’ union takes bite out of plan Proposal to ensure that NewWest students get at least 20 minutes to eat lunch draws concerns from union president By Cornelia Naylor
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A proposed policy aimed at giving New Westminster students more time to eat isn’t getting much support from the local teachers’ union. “I don’t know if it needs a board motion
to be micromanaging the number of minutes that kids eat in the day,” New Westminster Teachers’ Union president Grant Osborne told the Record. “I’m not trying to minimize the issue, but we’ve got a lot of issues that we’re dealing with, and if now a hard-worked staff is going to be commissioned to go study this and then report to
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