Both the public and private school divisions are teaming up to come up with a strategy to deal with paddling in the community.
Paddling is a form of hazing that takes place across the country each year. Grade 10 students who are new to schools, are “welcomed” to high school life with whacks on the backside from a paddle wielded by senior students.
Paddles can be handmade, or as Brooks Composite High School principal Grant Jensen says, a modified goalie stick. Most of the offenses are not taking place during school hours or on school property, rather in the community or often at late night bush parties.
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The official groundbreaking for the Brooks regional arena is scheduled to kick-off at 1 p.m. at the site west of the Silver Sage Community Corral.
The event comes nearly one year to the day after the last groundbreaking was held to announce the fundraising campaign for the new arena project.
Mayor Martin Shields said this groundbreaking event is a part of the original $6 million CAMRIF funding requirement and that it coincided well with last week’s announcement of $3,386 million from Alberta Lottery’s Major Community Facilities Program.
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Members of the County of Newell’s Municipal Planning Commission decided that placing a moratorium on development in the Intermunicipal Development Plan area was not a good idea.
The IMDP are includes the land immediately outside the city boundaries.
Last Tuesday Diane Horvath, county planner, told MPC members that she feels like she is stuck between a “rock and hard place” regarding development questions in the IMDP.
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