The Similkameen Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Taylor, Dave]
issued: 2024-05-16
issued: 1949-02-25
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note: I J ^ BilR?*S^ £ Your | $ Community I Paper J -*-fc*-k-k-k-k-tt-*-tt-K-K-KV-K-*-K-*-»-K-fc-* THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR ********************** | The Voice | of the I Valley l Forty-Ninth Year; No. 6. PRINCETON, B.C., FRIDAY; 25th I EBRUARY, 194->. 5c per Copy; $2.00 per Year And Now ; \ wvvuvwwwwwwwww EDUCATION And AH That ■« Pgr^CETON SPLIT ON SCHOOL BSl'E: PROTEST TO VICTORIA • P.T.A. Goes After Board And Principal After P.T.A. Sanitation Expert O.K.'s Site ——I f N the throes of an incorporation wrangle, Pjjinceton is split anejw over schools. The board plans, to build a $300,000 addition. There is dispute over the site. The Parent-Teachers' Association disagrees with the plans. A representative disagrees with the board. The P.T.A. has asked the Provincial Education Department for an investigation. The principal has challenged the P.T.A. — and been sat on. Now we probably willbe. Meanwhile a sanitation expert has said the site is o.k. that way, with provisions. Here is your dutiful analysis,-^ but if you don't enjoy this sort The Way Out * of thing moeie ;than we do, we hate to have to urge your dutiful reading of it. Bored With The Board §§§ On 10th January, at the reg ular monthly P.T.A. meeting, the school site was discussed and a committee was appointed to in vestlgate. On 11th January this committee wrote the school ooard, asking to meet th© board and discuss the matter. The comma.tee says it has not yet received a reply. Mrs. E. MacDonald, who was a member of that ooimirnittee', is] £ilsp an elected' representative for the school district; she is not however, one of the five trustees, I Five trustees are elected by the' representatives (who have been, elected by the ratepayers). There :s some public doubt as to the purpose of these representatives,! and their (continuing powers, after they have elected the five trustees from thei r own number. | n was of course a simple pro The looal interpretation seems, fesslonai finding, made in hs to be that the authority lies…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), The Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1935-08-29), The Similkameen Star (1935-09-05 to 1939-12-28). Pages may be missing and/or misnumbered.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton (B.C.)
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0443517
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Princeton : Star Printing & Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
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