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At one North Vancouver elementary school, 215 empty chairs were placed on the playing field with cedar sprigs on the seats, at another, students arranged 215 orange ribbons.
District administrator Brad Baker became emotional while recounting the stories on Wednesday, but each of the area’s 33 schools, like many around B.C., found ways to honour the 215 children discovered buried in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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“We’re noticing two pathways right now in schools,” Baker said. “One is obviously honouring the tragedy of the 215 kids who were found at Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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It took two days of questioning in the legislature before she finally hinted on Wednesday that she “thinks” the society that runs the program might get funded. But the background to the B.C. School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program story makes you wonder where she’s been for the past few months while the government ghosted the society. Eating local is a motherhood issue by now. Everybody favours it. Same goes for feeding kids healthy food. So feeding kids healthy local food is as motherhood and (B.C.) apple pie as you can get. Why the big mystery now about continuing the few million dollars granted every year to a society that does exactly that all over B.C.?
It took two days of questioning in the legislature before she finally hinted on Wednesday that she “thinks” the society that runs the program might get funded. But the background to the B.C. School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program story makes you wonder where she’s been for the past few months while the government ghosted the society. Eating local is a motherhood issue by now. Everybody favours it. Same goes for feeding kids healthy food. So feeding kids healthy local food is as motherhood and (B.C.) apple pie as you can get. Why the big mystery now about continuing the few million dollars granted every year to a society that does exactly that all over B.C.?